JAD ABUMRAD Sunday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. $27–$57 Carolina Theatre 309 W. Morgan St., Durham 919-560-3030 www.carolinatheatre.org Talking to Jad Abumrad on the phone is like listening to him on the radio, but with more cursingespecially if your officemates are crinkling bags and sharpening pencils in the background, creating weird ambient music around his voice. […]
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The INDY’s guide to Halloween
“Misquoth the Raven” In this paper you are holding, something ghastly is unfolding, graveyard plots, macabre shops and local horror on the screen Glenn McDonald tries ghost-busting; our Zack Smith needs time adjusting to a store that’s très disgusting (and surveys the spook house scene). Colin Warren-Hicks intones a haunting tale of Durm cuisine think […]
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Books feature: Poetry publisher Ross White of Durham’s Bull City Press steps into the spotlight with his own book
ROSS WHITE West End Poetry Festival opening reception Friday, Oct. 17, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Free Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. 919-942-7373www.flyleafbooks.com Ross White runs Bull City Press out of a modest townhouse in the Penrith neighborhood of Durham, where he lives with his wife, a black cat named Mr. Spock and […]
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Durham’s Horse & Buggy Press Combines the Oldest and Latest Printing Techniques in Unique Books
For a long time, letterpress printing was just about the only game in town. Invented in the mid-15th century by Johannes Gutenberg, whose “Gutenberg Bible” was the first major Western book to be mechanically printed, it involved using ink-coated movable typeindividual metal letterforms, cast in reverse and set in a frameto print on paper fed […]
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A step-by-step guide to letterpress with Dave Wofford
1. Today, Dave Wofford is letterpress printing debossed titles on the offset-printed covers for a forthcoming book called Phototourist from Carrboro imprint Daniel 13. Wofford designed the title on a computer and sent a digital file to Boxcar Press, a plate-maker in Syracuse, who returned it in the form of a photopolymer plate. After peeling […]
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Durham’s 401 Arts is for sale
401 Arts, the arts-focused development on Foster Street in Durham’s Central Park District, is currently home to tenants such as Bull City Arts Collaborative, Piedmont Restaurant and DaisyCakes bakery and café. Rumors that real estate development company Scientific Properties has put 401 Arts on the market have been circulating for some time. Today, Scientific Properties […]
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Art review: The late works of the great Joan Miró come to the Nasher
Miró: The Experience of Seeing The Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr., Durham 919-684-5135 www.nasher.duke.edu Through Feb. 22 Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One of the most enduring abstract artists of the 20th century, the Catalan Spanish painter and sculptor described the relationship between the heavens and his sparse […]
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PhotoVision probes 175 years of photographic developments and anxieties
PHOTOVISION: SELECTIONS FROM A DECADE OF COLLECTING Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill 919-966-5736 www.ackland.org Through Jan. 4 First a piece of glass he coated / With collodion, and plunged it / In a bath of lunar caustic / Carefully dissolved in water / There he left it certain minutes. This is […]
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John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van longlisted for National Book Award
Success was a long time in coming to John Darnielle as a musician. Before his folk-rock project The Mountain Goats started edging toward household name (or at least major cult) status, he spent the 1990s releasing lo-fi cassettes and records for a small group of dedicated fans. But it looks like literary success will prove […]
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Wolf in White Van plumbs the dark side of fantasy games
WOLF IN WHITE VAN by John Darnielle Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 207 pp. John Darnielle is drawn to the perspectives of misfits and outcasts in his songs as The Mountain Goats. He is also a fan of heavy metal, writing a critical text on it and formerly blogging about it. Metal is intricately connected to […]
