It started almost two years ago as simple math: New full-time job plus lengthy commute equals too little time for reading, my favorite thing. Thus I began a relationship with audiobooks that grew from a matter of necessity to a near-obsession. Before, I never gave them a thought except on road trips, when music, marking […]
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Think you know M.C. Escher? Reconsider the dorm-poster mainstay’s optical illusions at the North Carolina Museum of Art
THE WORLDS OF M.C. ESCHER: NATURE, SCIENCE, AND IMAGINATION LEONARDO DA VINCI’S CODEX LEICESTER AND THE CREATIVE MIND Through Jan. 17 $12–$18 (ticketed together) North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh 919-839-6262 www.ncartmuseum.org When we spoke with Nasher Museum of Art director Sarah Schroth for the museum’s 10th anniversary, she noted that, […]
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Did an NC Pride official assault a Black Lives Matter marcher in the Pride Parade?
It is not okay for North Carolina Pride to violently silence LGBTQ people of color,” the letter begins. Titled “Not My Pride: An Open Letter to NC Pride from the Black Queer Woman You Assaulted,” the letter appeared Sept. 30 on the website of 28-year-old musician and activist Laila Nur, who lives in Durham. Nur […]
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Theater review: A dreamlike, spiky and star-studded Antigone at Carolina Performing Arts
Antigone★★★★ Friday, Oct. 9, 2015 Carolina Performing Arts at Memorial Hall When Juliette Binoche insists the new production of Sophocles’ Antigone she stars in is really about Kreon, it sounds like the kind of counterintuitive reading actors use to freshen up classic works that seem to have run out of things to say. This 2,500-year-old […]
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The Nasher turns 10: How Duke’s obscure campus museum grew into a world-class mirror for Durham
NASHER10 UNPLUGGED: DOWNTOWN DURHAM BLOCK PARTY Saturday, Oct. 10, 3–8 p.m., free Downtown Durham YMCA 218 W. Morgan St., Durham 919-684-5135 www.nasher.duke.edu Twenty years ago, talking about the Triangle’s art scene would have been like talking about its great public transit system or its plentiful vegetarian restaurantsmore aspirational than accurate. A lot has changed. The […]
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Durham’s new boutique hotels are selling the past. What do they say about the present?
At the front desk of The Durham Hotel, a man in an undersize three-piece suit with a ringmaster’s mustache wants to know where I got my shirt. It’s a thin cotton button-down, navy blue, patterned with small white petals. I had changed out of a tattered Misfits T-shirt, hoping to blend in like a Ming […]
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Felicia Robinson never let cerebral palsy stop her from expressing herself through art and advocacy
FELICIA ROBINSON: NO LIMITS SPECTRE Arts 1004 Morning Glory Ave, Durham 919-213-1441 www.spectrearts.org Through Sept. 13 It’s hard enough to get a show on the Durham circuit when you can physically access all of the galleries. But that’s just one more obstacle Felicia Robinson has overcome in her 60-year journey to her first solo exhibit, […]
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Can Hopscotch Design Festival pop the tech-conference bubble?
HOPSCOTCH DESIGN FESTIVAL Sept. 9 and 10, $175 (students $80) Various venues, Raleigh www.hopscotchdesignfest.com For the Hopscotch Design Festival, a big step toward growth was to get smaller. Not that it has less to offer this year than in its debut last fall. It packs more than 30 presenters into the two days leading to […]
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Fall Guide: Editor’s picks for the best theater and dance
If you could see only one regional theater or dance show this fall, what would it be? It’s a tough choice, but one I feel confident making: The nod goes to Carolina Performing Arts’ ANTIGONE (Oct. 9 and 10, Memorial Hall, www.carolinaperformingarts.org). In a markedly bold 2015–16 CPA season, it barely edges out SHARA WORDEN‘s […]
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Pumpkin Spice Everything: The INDY Fall Guide to arts and culture
Our Editors’ Fall Picks Must-see art exhibitsBest theater and danceMost stimulating readingsTop concerts and festivals You know fall is in the air when a certain squash-based seasoning starts filling up store shelves. While some autumn indicators are as consistent as the seasons, the Triangle’s arts scene is less predictable than the leaves. In our Fall […]
