Archers of Loaf play Cat’s Cradle Friday, Aug. 19, and Saturday, Aug. 20. Electric Owls and Schooner open the first night, with Hammer No More the Fingers and Cobra Horse joining the second bill. Both shows are sold out. In 1995, Archers of Loaf were touring their second album, Vee Vee. It was a time […]
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Ron Liberti gets a career survey in Chapel Hill
20 Years in Print: The Art of Ron Liberti Ackland Museum Store Through Sept. 30 On the evening of July 29, an art show opened in a new Chapel Hill gallery, behind tall windows wrapped around the corner at Franklin and Columbia. It was a casual and unpretentious affair. In the buzzing crowd of well-wishers […]
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UNC professor Bart D. Ehrman asks who really wrote the Bible, and why
Forged By Bart D. Ehrman HarperOne; 307 pp. Bart Ehrman reads at McIntyre’s Fine Books Saturday, April 30, at 11 a.m. The title of UNC religious studies professor Bart D. Ehrman’s latest book to upend conventional wisdom about the Bible is a bit of splashy misdirection. Ehrman does spend ample time arguing that books such […]
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Mount Moriah’s leaders get personal about their exquisite, intimate debut
Mount Moriah plays Cat’s Cradle with Filthybird and The Moaners Friday, April 15, at 9 p.m. The show is free. Horseback, Bellafea, In the Year of the Pig, The Hem of His Garment, Un Deux Trois: The musicians Heather McEntire and Jenks Miller have a deep pedigree in North Carolina. Since 2008, they’ve been working […]
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New literary journal Bull Spec celebrates its first anniversary
Join Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and Bull Spec authors at the Regulator Bookshop to celebrate the launch of the magazine’s fourth issue, on Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 7 p.m. Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is a busy man. The 33-year-old spends his days working as a software engineer for IBM. Upon returning to his Durham apartment, he spends the evening […]
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All Day Records co-owner Ethan Clauset works tirelessly in the wings
Difference makers This year, we decided to approach the Triangle’s year in music with three separate but inevitably related approaches. In this issue, we write about three people or organizations—the rapper Kaze, the record store owner Ethan Clauset and the record label Holidays For Quince—who beat tough odds in order to add something essential to […]
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After five years of research, Minus Sound Research has nearly perfected its formula
See Related Events below Last Saturday afternoon, at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, John Harrison and Maria Albanithe founders of Minus Sound Research, which curates and presents the visual art of local musicians in galleriesappeared cheerfully disheveled. In a simple gray T-shirt, the diminutive Albani looked up from a workbench, pushing dark strands of hair out […]
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Prairie Home confessions: The news from Symphony Lake
Photo by Andrew HarrerGarrison Keillor, with glasses In my car on the way to Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary last Saturday, I tuned my radio to NPR just in time to hear Garrison Keillor say “Lutherans,” followed by riotous laughter. It didn’t really matter what the set-up had been: It was one of many comfortingly […]
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William Gibson’s Zero History
Zero History by William Gibson Penguin; 416 pp. The cover of William Gibson’s latest novel depicts a tunnel vanishing around a bend. The image represents how the author’s perspective has changed over the last 25 years. Gibson, after all, is known for seeing far. He catapulted the term “cyberspace” into the popular lexicon with his […]
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Playing filk and molesting Shakespeare at the ReConStruction sci-fi convention
The North American Science Fiction Convention, or ReConStruction, invaded the Raleigh Convention Center last week. On Saturday, in a cavernous bunker housing tables of books and T-shirts, I overheard inscrutable comments: “Yes, I do have a pair of silk gloves in my genealogy kit, and yes, I do wear them when I handle 17th-century documents.” […]