Naturally, the open letter that independent bookstores across the state sent to the governor’s office and circulated online late last week begins by quoting a book. The petitioners use Ray Oldenburg’s assertion that “third places … are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the grassroots of democracy” to frame their argument for the […]
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Want More? Fill Your Calendar With Geek This Week
If GeekCraft Expo, Oak City Comicon, the East Coast Game Conference, and Ernest Cline aren’t enough for yougeez, you are very hard to please! But fear not: there is plenty more exciting geek stuff on deck. Add these five to your calendar and stretch Ultimate Geekend to infinity and beyond. The Carolina Theatre will screen […]
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Welcome to Geek Week
GEEKCRAFT EXPO Durham Armory, Durham Sunday, April 17, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., free I have a confession: I am a geek. But it’s no big deal. In some way, you probably are, too. You might not guess it just from looking at me. I don’t wear geek-themed clothes, and I’m more easily found at art galleries […]
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Full Frame: The Newsploitation Industry Made Anthony Weiner a Punch Line, But the Joke’s on Us
Weiner ★★★★ Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham Thursday, April 7, 2016 Look, I’m sorry, but there’s no other way to say it: Everyone at Full Frame last night seemed very excited about Weiner, and all the delicious innuendo it unleashed. For example, when I said I was looking for Weiner, one usher at the […]
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Four Full Frame Films Highlight the Heteronormative Pressures LGBTQ People Face Around the World
Recently, Full Frame released a statement against House Bill 2, the discriminatory legislation barring transgender people from using the public restroom that matches their gender identity. “We are proud to be a part of the documentary community, providing a safe space for myriad perspectives in an effort to cultivate empathy,” the statement read in part. […]
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A Hundred World-Class Drawings Plus Thirty-Nine Impressionist Landscapes Equals a Great Day at NCMA
MARKS OF GENIUS & AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Through June 19, $6–$12 (members and children free) Last Saturday, the North Carolina Museum of Art opened a very small but charming free show, Island Boy, featuring Barbara Cooney’s illustrations for her children’s book of the same name, a self-described “hymn to Maine.” […]
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Apocalypse How? Carrboro’s Phil Torres on Nanobots, Biotech, A.I., and Other Onrushing Threats to Our Species
The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us About the Apocalypse By Phil Torres (Pitchstone Publishing, 288 pp.) Humanity has long been obsessed with the end of the world. All of the major religions are built on eschatological bedrock; parsing the apocalypse as an act of God befitted a world threatened mainly by natural disasters. […]
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Durham’s Best (OK, Only) Rare Tuba Museum Opens to the Public
V&E SIMONETTI HISTORIC TUBA COLLECTION GRAND OPENING Saturday, March 5, 2–5 p.m., free www.simonettitubacollection.com You’re in a cage of liquid gold and flashing silver, shot through with mossy greens, deep vermilions, mottled ochres and pewtersseemingly every increment of yellow and gray and brown. Circles hover everywhere, in the forms of bells and loops, as brass […]
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Morrisville’s Daniel Way, Longtime Writer of Deadpool Comics, Thinks the Movie Will Hit the Mark
You might have caught a Super Bowl ad where Ryan Reynolds, dressed up like Spider-Man gone luchador, cracks wise while punting a ninja’s head and hurling a sword at a motorcycle. In Deadpool, opening this Friday, he’s reprising his supporting role from 2009 stinker X-Men Origins: Wolverine and taking another stab at headlining a superhero […]
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Carolina Theatre CEO Bob Nocek resigns
The Carolina Theatre of Durham announced today that President and CEO Bob Nocek is stepping down immediately. His departure comes after the discovery last December that the city-owned theater, thought to be profitable, had run up $800,000 in debt since July 2013, creating a total deficit of more than $1 million. Nocek, who took the […]
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