BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS: WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION Through June 18 The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham www.nasher.duke.edu “Bright colors, imagination, champagne, drawing, taking pictures, teaching, telling stories, process, everyday rituals, style, grace, Rome, Durham, discovery, Hawaiian shirts, a woman in high-heeled shoes, a lack of inhibition, directness, honbesty, individuality, self-confidence, humbleness, and, most of all, […]
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Hannibal Buress Announces Surprise Show at Motorco Tonight
“@Moogfest Is it possible to come through this year and build a synthesizer and film it? DM please,” Hannibal Buress tweeted a few weeks ago. Well, seems like it was possible to come through: as you’ve seen or heard by now, the comedian has been knocking around the Durham music festival doing band intros and […]
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Reuniting Fourteen Durham Families, Black Mama’s Day Bail Out Aims to Reform the State’s Racially Biased Ransom Demands
On Sunday, smoke from a grill wafted sweetly through an open-sided shelter at Hillside Park, where a few dozen people were talking, laughing, and eating. A rented bouncy castle wobbled nearby. Joyous music rattled in tinny speakers. It was like any number of Mother’s Day celebrations taking place across Durham, except for one thing. The […]
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Delivers Oedipal Drama and Spacefaring Mayhem with Knowing Panache
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 Opening Friday, May 5 Guardians of the Galaxy was a clattery rocket zipping around on a tank full of silly, self-aware, spacefaring fun. Hurling likable every-bro Chris Pratt into the midst of an alien super-team alongside a murderous raccoon and a talking tree, the movie was a grand but […]
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Brooks Ann Camper’s Wedding Garb is Custom-Made, But It’s Hardly Customary
BROOKS ANN CAMPER BRIDAL COUTURE 437 Dimmocks Mill Road, #8, Hillsborough 919-732-8207 brooksann.com For almost a century, Hillsborough’s Eno River Mill was a large textile mill with on-site housing for its employees. Today, like much of the Piedmont’s former industrial infrastructure, it’s an artfully preserved commercial development full of businesses both big, like Mystery Brewing […]
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Stumble in the Jungle: Extraordinary Book The Lost City of Z Begets an Ordinary Movie
THE LOST CITY OF Z ½ Opening Friday, April 21 As a huge fan of David Grann’s book about Amazonian exploration in the last days of the British empire, I was worried. Would they CGI a magic mummy into the movie? But it quickly becomes clear that director James Graywith Grann’s collusion as screenwriterhas gone […]
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Full Frame: An Avetts Agnostic Finds Some Faith in May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers★★★★ Saturday, April 8 Carolina Theatre, Durham I’m not particularly a fan of the Avett Brothers, which made me the odd person out in Fletcher Hall last night, judging from the outbursts of mid-screening applause and the fawning post-screening Q-and-A. Through fifteen […]
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Full Frame: 2017 Award Winners Announced
For ticketing details on this afternoon’s encore screenings of the festival’s award winners, visit Full Frame’s website.2017 Award WinnersTHE REVA AND DAVID LOGAN GRAND JURY AWARD Sponsored by The Reva and David Logan Foundation QUEST by Jonathan Olshefski Encore 4 – 4:40 pm, Fletcher Hall Honorable Mention: Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad Encore […]
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Full Frame XX: A Time to Celebrate the Unique Persuasive Power of Documentary Films
Just last weekand this is not an infrequent occurrenceI was moved to tears by a documentary film. The curious thing is that it wasn’t something hefty like Ava DuVernay’s 13th or Kurt Kuenne’s Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. It was, of all things, a fairly soft portrait of Jimmy Buffett […]
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Does Durham’s Recent Cameo in Marvel Comics Reflect a Better Status Quo or a Fleeting Protest Fad? Our Call.
In Artificer, a new, recurring column, the INDY‘s managing arts and culture editor seeks acute angles on broad issues in the performing arts, books, and beyond. In 1990, at the height of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze, Marvel Comics launched a mercilessly demographic-researched series starring a young superhero team called the New Warriors, and […]
