Tarantino’s Yellow Speedo ★★★ Little Green Pig at Manbites Dog Theater Through June 7 May was a big month for Durham’s Monica Byrne. On May 20, Crown Publishing Group issued her speculative fiction novel The Girl in the Road, which came armed with big-time blurbs by the likes of Neil Gaiman. (See our review.) Just […]
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Durm: Best city on urth
There’s no “ha” in Durm. That’s because living here is serious business, unlike in Cpel Hill or Rleig. It’s not just an American Tobacco lifestyleit’s an American Tobacco mission. This is Durm, where new restaurateurs sleep easy in the assurance of glowing New York Times notices each morning. Coming from Durm, a brand new electro-pop […]
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Nero fiddles while Raleigh burns: New poetry and fiction by North Carolina authors
Taken together, two recent books from the Triangle capture poetry at extremesnaturalistic and wrought, feminine and masculine, brimming with airy light and plunging into opaque depths. THE FLYING DAYS (Carolina Wren Press, May 8) by Durham retiree Coyla Barry is part of the local press’ Laureate Series, where manuscripts are selected by N.C. Poets Laureate. […]
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The unbeaten path
Swimming, baseball games, cookouts, relaxing in a hammock with a cold glass of lemonadethese classic summer fun activities never get old, and you certainly don’t need us to tell you about them. That’s why, for this year’s SUMMER GUIDE, we’re digging out some wonders and oddities you’ll find in North Carolina (and slightly beyond) a […]
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DSI Comedy Theater improvises a new Chapel Hill space after losing its lease in Carrboro
Last January, as DSI Comedy Theater founder Zach Ward waded through the organizational details of the NC Comedy Arts Festival (which would go on to soldier through February’s ice storms), an even bigger challenge landed in his lap: DSI was about to be homeless. Ward says he was notified mid-January that Carrboro’s Carr Mill Mall […]
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The Pull List: Afterlife with Archie
Afterlife with Archie No. 4 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Francesco Francavilla Archie Comics As an elevator pitch, it must have sounded unthinkable: “It’s Archie meets The Walking Dead!” That’s just a hair less outrageous than, say, Care Bears meets The Killing. (Okay, that actually might rule.) Our carrot-topped klutz has had some unusual crossovers before—remember […]
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Accidental jihads and camouflage curtains: New fiction, nonfiction and poetry by local authors
Editor’s note: To highlight our state’s vibrant literary scene, this recurring column considers new books from or about North Carolina. Email the INDY’s arts editor at [email protected] to submit books for coverage. I used to think “buddyrow” was just something cute my uncle called me. But then I found it cataloged in TALKIN’ TAR HEEL: […]
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Sex and scatology, cadavers and ghosts: the indecorous enthusiasms of author Mary Roach
MARY ROACH The Carolina Theatre $5–$22 April 13, 7 p.m. Carolina Theatre A one-word tease, a suspenseful colon and a splashy reveal: With minor variations, that’s pop science writer Mary Roach‘s winning formula for titling her best-selling books. From Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers to last year’s […]
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2014 Poetry Issue: Introducing the winners of the 20th annual INDY Poetry Contest
Poetry is hard. There’s an immense history of form, meter and voice to contend with. You have to say so much by saying so little. Every word countswhich means that every word is a chance to go wrong. Carrying a thought or feeling from the first line to the last without dropping it is like […]
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Theater review: LEO (The Anti-Gravity Show)
LEO (The Anti-Gravity Show) ★★★★ NCSU Center Stage at Titmus Theatre Through March 23 It’s one of those ingeniously simple concepts. Build an open-sided room, laid on its side so that a light bulb “hangs” perpendicular to the left wall. On an adjacent video screen, rotate the live action 90 degrees to the right, so […]
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