There’s a thirst for musicals these days, a return to song and dance that’s smitten movie theaters and local stages alike. Maybe it’s a return to form, maybe it never left at all–cases have and can be made for both. Whatever the attraction, Andrea and Paul Ferguson felt it in 1996, when they staged a […]
Brian Millikin
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Bar none
Incarcerated. It’s a roadblock of a word, reverberating like the padlock pound of prison bars slamming closed. But you can look at bars two ways: at the solid steel barriers or at the free space in between. A group at the N.C. Women’s Prison in Raleigh are emphatically seizing the latter. The Women’s Prison Writing […]
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In ballin’
If you’re a hardcore baller then you’ve already heard of AND 1, the street ball sensation that lets basketball talents from playgrounds nationwide have a shot at the spotlight. But Raleigh gets a wake-up call when the AND 1 Mix Tape Tour (pictured right) lands at the RBC Center Aug. 7, part of a nationwide […]
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Countdown to 23 HOURS
Maybe you haven’t heard about the resurgence of Raleigh–the music and art scene comeback kid. If you haven’t, you will. From Aug. 8 through Sept. 14 at Raleigh’s Bickett Gallery, a vast array of local musicians, artists, filmmakers and writers are coming together for an event called 23 HOURS. Their goal is to blast the […]
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A house surrounded
You can’t miss it. Pass by the Campus Drive construction site of the Duke University Museum of Art (see “Work of Art,” p. 20), and you’ll see a red-brick home close to the corner of Anderson Street. The stately manor stands out, and not for its colonial elegance. It’s surrounded by orange dirt swaths, crusted […]
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In lovin’
If you, too, are looking for love in all the wrong places, help is on the way. Em & Lo (pictured below), dating advice columnists the country’s in love with, make a stop in Raleigh, Tuesday, Aug. 12. Known to friends as Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey, the affair is a provocative one–the duo’s column […]
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A collection of epic proportions
Ancient Egyptian papyrus archives. Florentine artifacts covering four centuries of Italian history. Comic books. Which of these does not belong? At Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, they all do. Of course, it’s the comic books, with their superhero acrobatics and crisply campy Stan Lee dialogue, that would seem a strange fit […]
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In new discoveries
One of Durham’s best-kept art secrets is going public. SeeSaw Studio, an after-school design and business center for motivated teens, throws its Second Annual Open House on Thursday, July 24 from 5-7 p.m. A nonprofit founded in 1998, SeeSaw admits local artists age 14 to 21–with a focus on minority groups–and helps develop them creatively, […]
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In the galleries
Durham’s no stranger to the industrial burns of factory closings and urban decay, but a new exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies, What Helps Dodge Helps You, brings a similar Philadelphia tale to visceral life. Philly’s integral Dodge Steel Castings factory closed in 1986, ravaging the local economy and landscape alike, and celebrated photographer […]
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Who buys CDs anymore?
Your local independent record store is in danger. Weakening sales, the proliferation of digital downloads and the general apathy of the local record-shopping public are squeezing the fragile industry toward a breaking point. The gradual downturn has already claimed a Triangle victim: Durham’s Radio Free Records will close its doors for good on July 31. […]