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 […]
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How to Go to Brazil without Leaving Durham
The DiVE 5–6 p.m. Thursdays Duke’s Fitzpatrick Center, Durham I’m in São Paulo, Brazil, standing on a dusty path edged with lush green foliage. Excavation tools are scattered around the remains of a campfire. Turning my head in one direction, I can peer down into a sunny valley. In the other, my sight line slams […]
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Parking Woes Drive Proactive Moves for Two Important Raleigh Galleries
ADAM CAVE FINE ART REOPENING PARTY Saturday, August 27, 7–9 p.m., free 2009 Progress Court, Raleigh Adam Cave had been working at Gallery C, one of Raleigh’s oldest galleries, for ten years when he decided to strike out on his own. Cave, a genial dealer who represents national artists, was especially interested in printmaking, a […]
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A Chapel Hill Indie Rocker Turned Mainstream Novelist Changes the Fear of Failure Into Success
ADAM O’FALLON PRICE: THE GRAND TOUR Tuesday, August 9, 7 p.m., free Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill Adam O’Fallon Price left Chapel Hill as the bassist for The Mayflies USA, a power pop band that earned national notices in the late nineties and early aughtsthe uncertain time just after local indie rock’s golden age. Now Price […]
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Horse & Buggy Press Marks Twenty Years of Artisanal Printing in a Page-Turner of an Art Show
20 Years of Horse & Buggy Press (and Friends) Through Aug. 7 CAM Raleigh, Raleigh In most exhibits, you’re not supposed to touch the art. But in this one, it’s practically mandatory. In most exhibits, you’re not supposed to get too comfortable. (After all, art is pain, or at least acute self-consciousness.) But in this […]
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In The Carrack’s Former Digs, Durham Artists Movement Creates a Safe Space for Diverse Voices
DURHAM ARTISTS MOVEMENT 10 a.m.–2 p.m. July 22/noon to 6 p.m. July 23 & 24 111 West Parrish Street, Durham Last Friday, after being closed for the month since The Carrack Modern Art moved out, the loft gallery at 111 West Parrish Street suddenly burst back to life. A banner that read “Queer Development, Decolonize […]
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A Note on the INDY’s New Food Calendar
While The INDY curates calendars brimming with user-submitted listings and editorial copy for music, art, stage, page, and screen, our food calendars have been relegated to a sporadic feature tucked inside our other food coverage, Food to Go, which highlights a few events we’ve heard about. No more. At a time when the Triangle’s food […]
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Get Your First Look Inside Durham Artists Movement’s New Gallery Space Tonight
Durham Artists MovementThird Friday OpeningFriday, July 15, 6–9 p.m.111 West Parrish Street, Durham In June, when we reported on the Carrack Modern Art’s move to Main Street—which took place via parade in July—we learned that the last six months of its Parrish Street lease would be taken over by Durham Artists Movement, a collective seeking […]
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The Triangle Gets an Etsy of Its Own in The Makers Mercantile
With the Internet always at hand, it’s really no problem finding the polka-dotted planter, jasmine-and-hibiscus body butter, or stoneware serving spoon of your dreams. But if you’re someone who likes to shop closer to home for artisanal goods, The Makers Mercantile, a new online shop and blog that launched from Durham recently, might be your […]
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Dance Review: Sara Juli Will Tickle You at Motorco. No, Actually Tickle You.
Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis ★★★★★ Wednesday, June 22–Friday, June 24, 7 & 9 p.m., $20 Motorco Music Hall, Durham You can read our interview this week to catch up on the background of Sara Juli’s Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis, which finishes its three-night stand in ADF at Motorco tonight. Basically, it’s a dance-theater-comedy […]
