In order for a dance company to keep moving forward after 30 years, it has to balance tromping on the accelerator with checking its mirrors. Urban Bush Women, opening its 30th season with Duke Performances at Reynolds Industries Theater Friday night, might not be hurtling into new territory anymore, but it keeps its mission of […]
Chris Vitiello
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Cellist and singer Shana Tucker balances jazz, soul and Cirque du Soleil
Shana Tucker with The Eric Hirsh Quartet Tues., Jan. 21, 8 p.m., $8–$10 The Pour House Autocorrect nearly cost Shana Tucker her job with the circus. While reading a transcription of her voicemail with Google Voice, the cellist and singer-songwriter found an audition request from Circuit City. But the electronics retailer no longer existed, so […]
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Winter weather brings wins to the Canes
Weird things happen on New Year’s Eve. We all have our stories. I once woke up on a stranger’s lawn in an unfamiliar town in the twilight of the next morning. You just roll with these things. Don’t ask questions; just let it play out.After losing five games in a row, the Carolina Hurricanes found […]
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Playoff hopes dimming, the Canes are ripe for a shake-up
Carolina Hurricanes‘ upcoming home games at PNC Arena: Nashville Predators 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 5 Toronto Maple Leafs 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9 Something can be said for treading water, although it’s what you do right up until you drown. On the verge of the season’s midpoint, the Carolina Hurricanes are gulping mouthfuls of seawater […]
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Canes Report: Oy, Canada
Carolina Hurricanes, 14-13-7, third place in the Metropolitan Division Last week (1-1-2): 12/9: @Vancouver 2, Carolina 0 12/10: @Edmonton 5, Carolina 4 (OT) 12/12: @Calgary 2, Carolina 1 (OT) 12/14: Carolina 3, @Phoenix 1 This week: 12/20 Washington; 12/21 @Tampa Bay; 12/23 Columbus Wins are harder to come by out west. Western Conference teams, for […]
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Canes Report: A Sense of Urgency
Carolina Hurricanes, 13-12-5, second place in the Metropolitan Division Last week (3-1):12/1: Vancouver 3, @Carolina 212/3: Carolina 4, @Washington 112/5: Carolina 5, @Nashville 212/6: @Carolina 5, San Jose 3 This week: 12/9 @Vancouver; 12/10 @Edmonton; 12/12 @Calgary; 12/14 @Phoenix Wait… fourteen goals in three games? Second place in the division? Did someone fact-check all that? […]
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Empathy and ritual in art cakes at UNC
This is the time of year to trot out our rituals. We have to eat a turkey on this certain November Thursday and go shopping before sunrise the day after. Maybe we automatically put a spangled tree or a menorah in our houses. Too many of us try to get to the bottom of a […]
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Surveying the Terrain at CAM Raleigh, with mapmaking as a means of control
Surveying the Terrain CAM Raleigh Through Jan. 13 Maps are the ultimate representational artifacts. Taken as copies of the physical world, we depend upon them to orient ourselves within our environment. But maps are also expressions of fantasy and control in objective guise, representing the cartographer’s particular reality or desire. And in our digital surveillance […]
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Live: John Supko’s “All Souls” hits on all cylinders at CAM Raleigh
John Supko’s “All Souls” with New Music Raleigh, NC Opera and Ashleigh Semkiw Monday, Nov. 25, CAM Raleigh Monday night in Raleigh, composer John Supko’s moving musical collage “All Souls” became a legitimate gesamtkunstwerk, raising the ante for inter-arts performances within Triangle’s expanding scene. The second performance of “All Souls” was a joint presentation of […]
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Chamber music in the genre accelerator
Composer D.J. Sparr, working with New Music Raleigh and North Carolina Opera conductor and musical director Timothy Myers on his debut album 21207, is in the final days of a fundraising campaign for the album’s release. It’s a worthy debut by an emerging composer, as well as another affirmation of Raleigh’s emergence as a legit […]