Ihis year, the nation seemed to shatter and swarm into new configurations on a daily basis. The Triangle’s arts and culture world was no exception. In January, the INDY started the year with quite a bang when Scott Crawford, the chef-owner of Raleigh restaurant Crawford and Son, refused to sell our restaurant critic, Emma Laperruque, […]
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From Intergenerational Traumas of Race and Gender, Murielle Elizéon Extracts Universal Catharsis in Brown
MURIELLE ELIZÉON: BROWN Closed Monday, Dec. 4 Monkey Bottom Collaborative, Durham www.culturemill.org Six years ago, Murielle Elizéon reconnected with her father just in time to watch him die. For the first seventeen years of her life, she hadn’t known him at all. For twenty-five more, she’d seen him only a few times. In their final […]
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Instead of Compromising with White Supremacy, the Afrofuturist Youth Center Blackspace Is a Visionary Alternative
Everything was white,” Pierce Freelon says. He’s talking about the original walls in Blackspace Durham, but he could also be describing why he founded the Afrofuturist youth centerfirst in Chapel Hill, now expanded into the American Underground start-up hub. Tarish Pipkins, aka the visionary puppeteer Jeghetto, was a key player in the informal think tank […]
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The Chelsea, Chapel Hill’s Last Old School Art Cinema, Might Close at Year’s End
Though the Chelsea Theater is a Chapel Hill institution, it has never made a big deal about itself. Tucked away in the Timberlyne strip mall, almost literally in the shadow of the Regal multiplex, the little-art-house-that-could has discreetly held its ground in a volatile cinema market for almost thirty years. So it’s no surprise that […]
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The Chelsea Theater, the Last Old-School Art Cinema Standing in Chapel Hill, Might Close at the End of the Year
Though the Chelsea Theater is a Chapel Hill institution, it has never made a big deal about itself. Tucked away in the Timberlyne strip mall, almost literally in the shadow of the Regal multiplex, the little-art-house-that-could has discreetly held its ground in a volatile cinema market for almost thirty years. So it’s no surprise that […]
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In The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster’s Creator Coolly Proffers More Profoundly Upsetting Things You Can’t Look Away From
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Opening Friday, Nov. 3 There’s a certain type of movie in which chaotic strangers crash into an orderly family unit and unleash havoc. Recent specimens include Rachel Weisz vehicle Complete Unknown and Darren Aronofsky’s mother!. Further back, there was Funny Games by Michael Haneke, the director who Greek auteur […]
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Now That’s What We Call Aughties!
Peak nineties nostalgia is just about over, settling into the ambient perma-state of eighties nostalgia, and aughties nostalgia is bearing down on us. Reallynineties kids are pushing thirty now, obsolete as trendsetters go. Y2K babies are about to take the reins of industry, which they will cram full of things they’re nostalgic for, while the […]
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The Style Issue: Art, History, Civil Rights, Tech, Nostalgia, Innovation—Clothes Connect It All
They say that beauty is only skin-deep, which is true. But stylethe way we own, inhabit, and express our natural endowmentsgoes all the way down to the core. And it’s not just the core of ourselves, but that of our entire collective history and society. In the INDY‘s second-annual Style Issue, we’re pushing beyond what […]
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Thirteen Screams: Fill Your Nights with Haunts and Frights on the Triangle’s Cursed Culture Scene This Week
GEORGE JENNE: YOU’VE REACHED THE OFFICE OF STUART ULLMAN (Through Nov. 4, Lump, Raleigh, www.lumpprojects.org) Of all the cinematic spaces one might dream of entering, is any more frightening and enticing than The Shining‘s Overlook Hotel? At Lump, you can live the nightmare: the centerpiece of George Jenne’s solo exhibit is a precise re-creation of […]
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Theater Review: For an Early-Nineties Kid, The Little Mermaid Musical Is Virtually Review-Proof
The Little Mermaid ★★★ (if you aren’t nostalgic for the movie) | ALL THE STARS!!! (if you are) Through Sunday, Oct. 22 Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham “The Mermaid Affair.” That’s what my companion and I, just a pair of thirty-eighters, codenamed (with mock-mock embarrassment) our excursion to DPAC to bask in the stage musical […]
