Cipher Escape 250 Dominion Dr., Suite 101 Morrisville 919-378-9362 Admission $25 per person www.cipherescape.com We know the solution has something to do with the dogs, lighthouses and books with symbols ciphered on their edges. We know our escape is hidden among the tchotchkes on the shelves, the photos on the windowless walls, the strongboxes and […]
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The high-volume, high-sincerity Christian noise of Clang Quartet
Acid Mothers Temple With Clang Quartet and ST-37 Sunday, May 10, 9 p.m. | $10–$12 | The Pour House, 224 S. Blount St., Raleigh 919-821-1120 | www.the-pour-house.com Savage Weekend With Clang Quartet, Rat Bastard, Humanbeast and 80 moreFriday, May 8, 4:30 p.m.–2:30 a.m.; Saturday, May 9, 4 p.m.–2:30 a.m. | Nightlight405 1/2 W. Rosemary St., […]
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2015 INDY Poetry Contest: Meet the winners and read their poems
Winners Reading Tuesday, May 19 7 p.m. So & So Books 704 N. Person St., Raleigh 919-426-9502 www.facebook.com/soandsobooks Poetry is movement, however paradoxical this may seem for a form that either sits on a page, inert, or is performed by people standing still before a microphone. Yet it is defined by motion—of thought and feeling […]
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With foam and felt, a local puppeteer tries to make a mainstream career and a case for cannabis
WHERE TO FIND CHAPPELL’S PUPPETS Kidz Newz: www.youtu.be/aJ1yWVv0frI The Green Report: www.youtu.be/mzdQx9oPivg Chappell Puppet Productions: www.chappellpuppets.weebly.com 420 Fest at the Maywood in Raleigh: www.themaywoodraleigh.com The puppeteer enters the TV studio carrying two bulging trash bags and murmuring hellos. He steps onto a slightly elevated set and upends the bags, spilling four unabashedly Jim Henson-inspired puppets […]
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Interview: Barney Frank discusses his new memoir of a life in progressive politics
Barney Frank NCSU Hunt Library Auditorium Monday, April 13, 7 p.m. Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is known primarily for three things: Being the first openly gay member of the House of Representatives, co-sponsoring the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act after the 2008 financial crisis, and wielding a candid, sometimes lacerating sense […]
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Full Frame: Marshall Curry and other documentary filmmakers fight for our trust
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Thursday, April 9–Sunday, April 12 919-687-4100 www.fullframefest.org Documentary filmmakers hold our stories in their hands. Whether we are their subjects or their audience, our relationship to documentarians is defined by one deceptively simple concept: trust. Do we trust that they will tell our stories fairly, or will they go for […]
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Bibliofile: Breaking bad in North Carolina, the gory history of cardiology and other matters of the heart
The average person gets 2.5 billion heartbeats in a lifetime. What will you do with yours? The question palpitates in several new books from North Carolina that offer different angles on the mysteries of the most paradoxical organthe mechanical pump of the body that also houses the ethereal chambers of the soul. “Hope and faith […]
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As a power couple leaves the Triangle, two arts institutions face new questions
PlayMakers Artistic Director Joseph Haj is leaving the Chapel Hill theater company to direct the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, starting in July (read Byron Woods for more). As Minnesota Public Radio recently reported, “Haj plans to move to the Twin Cities later this year with his wife and 14-year-old daughter.” If you know who Haj […]
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Interview: David Koechner’s not an asshole, but he plays one on TV
DAVID KOECHNER Thursday, Feb. 26–Saturday, Feb. 28 8 p.m. Thurs., 7:30 and 10 p.m. Fri.–Sat., $20–$33 Goodnights Comedy Club 861 W. Morgan St., Raleigh 919-828-5233 www.goodnightscomedy.com David Koechner starts talking the instant I pick up the phone. “Brian, I’m calling on behalf of Raleigh,” he proclaims with an air of pomp. “All of Raleigh. I […]
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Joseph Haj is leaving PlayMakers—and North Carolina
Joseph Haj is leaving PlayMakers Repertory Company to become Artistic Director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, starting in July. Haj has been Producing Artistic Director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s professional theater company since 2006, presiding over Shakespeare and Sondheim as well as helping establish a more adventurous second-stage series, PRC2. “We are enormously grateful […]
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