The thing we really love about fashion is how egalitarian it is. If that sounds counterintuitive, it’s because we don’t mean capital-F fashion, with its emphasis on luxury, expense, and exclusivity. We mean the fashion that everyone who wears clotheswhich is to say, everyoneexpresses every day, whether they craft their own garments, assemble chic looks […]
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You Do You: The INDY’s Super Fabulous Interactive Dress-Up Doll Extravaganza
To download full versions of this doll and its prospective clothing, click here & here . What to wear, what to wear? It’s a vexed question that precedes many a day or night out. We consider it our solemn duty to make sure you don’t miss your Uber, which is why we’ve assembled this paper-doll […]
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Students at Apex Friendship High School Celebrate Their Unsung Heroes
Tracey Wooten, a teacher at Apex Friendship High School, gave her students an assignment to annotate a series of articles about the nature of heroism. She also had them read excerpts of The Epic of Gilgamesh and Oedipus the King. Armed with insight on the heroic, the students were then asked to interview someone they […]
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It’s Time to Stop Laughing Off Poor White Men’s Malignancy—And Their Humanity
I think we could already feel it on Tuesday afternoon, even as we kept reassuring one another that we had it in the bagthe rising dread of an intuition that something we’d deemed too horrible and absurd to happen was about to happen, as when a dark logic suddenly twists a dream into a nightmare. […]
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In Fake It Till You Make It, Tommy Noonan and Compagnie Marie Lenfant Find Unstable Common Ground in the Masks of Politicians
Tommy Noonan & Cie. Marie Lenfant: Fake It Till You Make It Saturday, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. & Sunday, Oct. 16, 5 p.m., $15 Living Arts Collective, Durham It’s hard to pinpoint exactly who is saying what in my conversation with Tommy Noonan and Murielle Elizéon of Saxapahaw’s Culture Mill and three members of France’s […]
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A Tale of Two Galleries: Raleigh’s Lump and Flanders to Merge
In a lot of ways, Bill Thelen and Kelly McChesney’s stories as gallery directors couldn’t be more different. But they have been subtly bending toward each other for years, which culminates in the merger of the two galleries under one name and director, functionally by the end of this year and officially in February. Thelen […]
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Hidden Gems: The INDY’s Fall Guide to Arts & Culture
We hardly need to tell you to go see the Broadway smash Fun Home when it comes to DPAC this fallbut we will anyway, just briefly (see our stage picks, starting on p. 25). Still, for our annual Fall Guide to arts and culture, we didn’t want to waste a lot of our ink and […]
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New Yorker Staffer Lauren Collins’s Linguistic Love Story in When in French
LAUREN COLLINS: WHEN IN FRENCH Thursday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m. free Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh After growing up in Wilmington, North Carolina, Lauren Collins went on to become one of The New Yorker‘s best staff writers. Readers of the magazine recently enjoyed an excerpt from her delightful new book, When in French, which is part […]
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Your Crash Course in the Hot Topics and New Directions of the Third Hopscotch Design Festival
HOPSCOTCH DESIGN FESTIVAL Thursday, Sept. 8–Friday, Sept. 9, $80–$225 Various venues, Raleigh Let’s face it, the Hopscotch Design Festival can be confusing. The music festival has had six years to establish itself, but the design festival has had just twoplus, a music festival is, you know, a thing? Hopscotch Design adopted the original’s downtown-venue-hopping approach […]
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Back to the Future with Milemarker, Chapel Hill’s Inimitable Post-Hardcore Heroes
MILEMARKER Saturday, August 27, 9:30 p.m., $12 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro It’s only natural that Milemarker was one of the first bands to break out of Chapel Hill in the Internet erathough “natural” might be an odd word to link with a band so obsessed with the artificial, the mechanical, and the post-human. Technology […]
