A Rite Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and SITI Company Jan. 25–26, 8 p.m. Memorial Hall, UNC campus Carolina Performing Arts Some of the most memorable art hits at just the right moment to express the full complexity of a great changeover. The Rite of Spring, with Igor Stravinsky’s score, Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography and […]
Chris Vitiello
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NC Opera brings Wagner to the Triangle for the first time
North Carolina Opera presents the work of Richard Wagner in Meymandi Concert Hall Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. Tickets are $34.25–$94.75. Time doesn’t necessarily beget progress. We tend to believe that, as the years pass, our technologies will grow, accelerate and become more spectacular. As the 20th century dawned, the Wright Brothers got an […]
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Canes look rusty in season-opening loss to Panthers
FSN CAROLINAS (TV)—We waited through a four-month lockout for this? The Carolina Hurricanes opened the shortened 2013 season with a whimper, surrendering four first-period goals in a 5-1 loss to the Florida Panthers. Mercifully, this was Florida’s home opener, so Canes fans didn’t have to pay for tickets to see their team’s meager display. Photo […]
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Melting ice becomes musical fascination in “Cryoacoustic Orb”
Jonathon Kirk and Lee Weisert’s “Cryoacoustic Orb: A Sound Installation” occurs at Ackland Art Museum Sunday, Jan. 20, 1–5 p.m. The performance is free. You too were once an underwater microphone. We all were, listening to the sounds of the outside world while suspended in amniotic fluid, moving within a dark womb. As adults, water […]
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The Canes take the ice for a shortened season
Opening night at Florida Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. FSN South Home opener versus Tampa Bay Jan. 22, 7 p.m. PNC Arena It was 75 degrees Sunday afternoon, but 1,000 people in Raleigh had goosebumps. Caniacs in long-sleeved jerseys filed into PNC Arena to welcome the Carolina Hurricanes back to the ice. The team held its […]
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Leave ’em wanting more: Deborah Cox sparkles, briefly, in Jekyll and Hyde at DPAC
Photo by Charles BennionConstantine Maroulis and Deborah Cox Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical* * 1/2 starsDurham Performing Arts CenterThrough Jan. 13Tickets $35-$95 If you’re not a Deborah Cox fan, you’ll probably become one if you see Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical at the Durham Performing Arts Center this week. The Grammy-nominated R&B star pushes the […]
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Alec Soth’s enthralling photographic journey down the Mississippi
Wanderlust: Photographs by Alec Soth North Carolina Museum of Art Through June 30 The French term flâneur (literally “one who strolls”) originally applied to shiftless dandies who could wander Parisian streets all day at leisure. However, Walter Benjamin and other cultural theorists flipped the term in the 20th century. Precisely because he lacked a specific […]
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Caniacs rejoice! Hockey’s back!
RALEIGH—Caniacs will be smiling today. After 113 days, the National Hockey League lockout is over. Photo by Rob RoweCam Ward and the Carolina Hurricanes will return to the ice now that the lockout is over. Sunday brought that happy news as well as an unfamiliar sight to PNC Arena. Men in red and black uniforms, […]
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Angel Otero’s New Works at CAM Raleigh shows an artist on the verge of renown
Angel Otero: New Works CAM Raleigh Through Feb. 4 Frankly, my guard was up for Angel Otero: New Works at CAM Raleigh. At first glance, I took Otero’s paintings for a generic imitation of Abstract Expressionism. But the New York-based artist turns out to be neither strictly abstract nor strictly expressionist. In fact, his paintings […]
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Last chance to see “Season of Japan” at the Ackland
CHAPEL HILL—The word “ambivalence” is usually used to express an emotionless, uncaring state or a kind of personal isolationism. But the term really describes the conflicted state of holding two contrary points of view. Not only can ambivalence be highly expressive, but it’s also the impulse behind any thorough critique. Merrill C. Berman Collection.Shigeo Fukuda, […]