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 […]
Brian Howe
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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 […]
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Durham Independent Dance Artists reveals its second season of local indie dance
After an impressive 2014–15 debut season that significantly raised the profile of local independent dance, Durham Independent Dance Artists returns with an exciting lineup for 2015–16. Running from October to May, the nine shows include six premieres, seven artists not previously seen on DIDA stages and, for the first time, an international guest. DIDA bundles […]
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Sean Jackson chucks North Carolina into the dustbin in dystopian novel Haw
SEAN JACKSON: HAW Saturday, Aug. 29, 5 p.m., free So & So Books 704 N. Person St., Raleigh 919-426-9502 www.facebook.com/soandsobooks North Carolina is a wasteland. In the countryside, extreme pollution threatens the social order. The cities are not much better: Raleigh clings to the edge of oblivion. In the shadows of towers, people sell dead […]
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Seeing isn’t always believing in the new exhibit at Durham’s 21c Museum Hotel
SEEING NOW Opening Thursday, Aug. 13 21c Museum Hotel 111 Corcoran St., Durham 919-956-6700 www.21cmuseumhotels.com/durham A visual art exhibit about “seeing” sounds redundant. But Seeing Now, which opens this week at Durham’s 21c Museum Hotel, underscores how much more there is to the act of looking than rods and cones reacting to light. The 21c […]
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North Carolina actor Anthony Reynolds on his role in the Fantastic Four reboot
TV and film actor Anthony Reynolds, who grew up in Cary and now lives in Wilmington, is happily typecast as a stone-faced military dude. His forte, as he describes it, is “cowboys, cops and killers.” After a small role as a helicopter pilot in Iron Man 3, he expands his superhero-movie résumé in director Josh […]
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Performance review: Drowning, arson and other enchanting dangers in the debut Trust the Bus
Trust the Bus Private residence of Mary Harwood and Lori Oshrain, Orange County 8:15, Saturday, Aug. 1 A cheer goes up on the Blue Bird bus as it pulls away from the Saxapahaw General Store. It’s almost dusk. Families with kids in dripping swimsuits wave from the roadside when the bus rolls by, as if […]
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Hopscotch Design Festival reveals initial speaker lineup
A smaller-scale offshoot of the Hopscotch Music Festival, the Hopscotch Design Festival brings the same walkabout experience to the world of engineering and entrepreneurship, spotlighting people who are designing the near-future. The festival has just announced the initial speaker lineup you’ll see when it returns Sept. 9–10. In its inaugural run last September, Hopscotch Design […]
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After changes in leadership and location, Culture Mill road tests mobile performance series Trust the Bus
TRUST THE BUS Saturdays in August, 8:15 p.m. Saxapahaw General Store 1735 Saxapahaw-Bethlehem Church Road www.culturemill.org Did you know there was a bus line between Carrboro and Saxapahaw? A 44-seat Blue Bird, dingy white with cerulean trim, ran the route one day a week from May to July, before and after each Saturdays in Saxapahaw […]
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Movie review: Ant-Man clears the bar by lowering the stakes
Ant-Man ★★★★ Now playing So you planted your lore in World War II and then hurled it outward, filling a universe with superheroes, aliens and gods. You steadily pumped up the stakes, from a man saving himself (Iron Man) to a man saving the world (Captain America: The First Avenger) to a team saving the […]
