Alex + Ada No. 4 by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn Image Comics In the first issue of Alex + Ada, Alex comes home from a surprise birthday party to find a large crate in his living room. He opens it and discovers a beautiful young woman standing inside, motionless as a mannequin. Reading from […]
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The elusive Aaron Belz, lauded poet, public misanthrope and private seeker
Aaron Belz reads from Glitter Bomb Mystery Brewing Company 437 Dimmocks Mill Road, Suite 41, Hillsborough Saturday, March 8 at 7 p.m. Aaron Belz does not add up. Everything about him misleads. Start with his poetry. John Ashbery praised his second book, Lovely, Raspberry, as “bright, friendly, surprising.” Influential poetry critic Marjorie Perloff hails Glitter […]
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Savage Weekend festival announces 2014 dates and lineup
For the past three years, Ryan Martin—the musician behind Secret Boyfriend and the proprietor of outsider music label Hot Releases—has curated the Savage Weekend festival at Nightlight, which brings together a downright irresponsible number of noise, electronic and unclassifiable experimental acts to play sequential 15-minute sets over the course of two weird, sweaty, exhilarating days. […]
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What is Psychoacoustics Research & Development?
Last Thursday night, the unclassifiable instrumental band Malt Swagger, who were active around the Triangle in the late ’90s and early ’00s before quietly fading away, played at The Pinhook. But that blast from the past had nothing on a mysterious opening act, a dance-y indie punk band called Psychoacoustics Research & Development. Their web […]
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The Pull List: Daredevil
Daredevil No. 36 by Mark Waid and Chris SamneeMarvel Look, I like superhero comics, but let’s be real—a lot of them are mediocre at best and sheer garbage at worst. It’s too easy for the big publishers to rely on the strength of franchises rather than storytelling. It’s almost as if Marvel knows I’ll buy […]
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Passion and pleasure at the Carolina Ballet
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Carolina Ballet @ Fletcher Opera Theater Saturdays and Sundays through March 2 carolinaballet.com Last weekend, as the Carolina Ballet danced Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, one in particular was on everybody’s mind. Because of the wintry weather, the company had canceled its dress rehearsal and its opening night, though it hardly showed in the […]
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The Pull List: Trillium
Trillium No. 6 by Jeff Lemire Vertigo Traditionally, mainstream comics are made by assembly line. This guy writes the story and that guy draws the pencil art. Another inks it in, while two more add color and text. It’s a practical consideration for companies managing a lot of monthly books, but it’s also what makes […]
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Julianna Barwick opens her solitary music to collaboration
Julianna Barwick with Vasillus Friday, Feb. 14, 8 p.m., $10 The Carrack Modern Art Julianna Barwick is driving her father’s van from Tulsa to Indianapolis to begin a tour. After spending a few days with her family, she’s alone again. This is a familiar feeling for Barwick, a singer who uses a looping device to […]
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The NC Symphony appoints Will Robin as its first Scholar-in-Residence
The North Carolina Symphony is better known for the skill of its musicians and its robust public outreach than for adventurous programming. But that stands to change with the 2014/15 season, which mixes a notable amount of new work from young composers with the time-tested repertory. For its program “Russian Spectacular,” which includes classic works […]
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The Pull List: Mind MGMT
Mind MGMT #18 by Matt Kindt Dark Horse Comics Imagine if every paranoid fantasy of remote surveillance, dangerous psyops and government mind-control was real—it doesn’t feel like much of a stretch from our current vantage, does it?—and embodied in a CIA-like organization, all wrapped in a deft literary puzzle-box. You have just imagined Mind MGMT. […]
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