Born Digital CAM Raleigh Through April 30 Cognitive psychology is a booming field, which doesn’t always make it a useful one. On one hand, it cranks out a lot of schlock books that you see executive wannabes reading at airport gates about how to manipulate people into buying things they don’t need. But many of […]
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N.C. Symphony goes multidisciplinary to explore identity issues with a musical lens
“Dvořák and America” includes a full week of concerts and talks, running through Sunday, Feb. 19. The N.C. Symphony performs the piece itself Thursday, Feb. 16, at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill and Friday, Feb. 17, in Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh. For complete details, see the N.C. Symphony’s website. If you were asked to […]
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Kudzu, moonshine and more at the Strange Beauty Film Festival
Strange Beauty Film Festival Feb. 16–18 Manbites Dog Theater Intense, short-form documentaries. Bizarre and optically overwhelming animation. Meditative and visionary filmworks that connect back to the earliest cinematic traditions, or to no known traditions at all. We know what to expect of Durham’s homegrown Strange Beauty Film Festival, now in its third year. Husband-and-wife team […]
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After a life of newspaper deadlines, MJ Sharp turned to slow photography
Light Cache: Photographs by MJ Sharp Craven Allen Gallery Closes Feb. 11 Say the word “click” out loud. It’s only one syllable, but its sound has a beginning, middle and end. There’s a duration, albeit brief, before its harsh, terminal consonants. Despite that fact, photographs are commonly thought of as moments of frozen time. The […]
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What the negative saw: M.J. Sharp’s long-exposure photographs at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery
Say the word “click” out loud. It’s only one syllable, but its sound has a beginning, middle and end. There’s a duration, albeit brief, before its harsh, terminal consonants. Despite that fact, photographs are commonly thought of as moments of frozen time. The camera’s click doesn’t elapse, it just occurs. “Ladybanks Rose Ring” (2004), Durham, […]
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A bracing new vision of America’s Depression years at the Center for Documentary Studies
Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland Center for Documentary Studies Through July 23 When I think about the Great Depression, a pair of images comes to mind. I see the hard stare into space of the farmwoman in Dorothea Lange’s photograph “Migrant Mother,” a child slumped on each of her shoulders. And I […]
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After All-Star break, Canes look to the future
Before you click away elsewhere, take a quick look at the Carolina Hurricanes’ roster. And, as you read it, refresh the page a few times. Chances are fair that it might change before your eyes. The trade deadline approacheth. Photo by Peggy BooneTuomo Ruutu, seen here in a December game versus Buffalo, might not be […]
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The bright episodes of Chapel Hill poet Alan Shapiro’s debut novel, Broadway Baby
Broadway Baby By Alan Shapiro Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 258 pp., $13.95 Alan Shapiro appears at Flyleaf in Chapel Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and McIntyre’s in Pittsboro on Thursday, Jan. 26. On Tuesday, Feb. 7, he appears at the Regulator Bookshop in Durham. See Related Events below. How do you read a novel? […]
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A production of Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles makes a case for opera’s relevance
The North Carolina Opera presents Les Enfants Terribles Jan. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. and Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $26–$84. When the composer Philip Glass walked down the steps outside of New York’s Lincoln Center to talk with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators last month, he created one of his best performances. […]
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Samson’s first career goal can’t save Canes
RBC CENTER, RALEIGH—Jussi Jokinen fished the puck out of the net. With a flick of Jerome Samson’s wrist, the two-dollar disk had instantly become the most valuable object in the rink. Stepping over vanquished Flyers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, Jokinen delivered the puck to Samson who, called up from the Charlotte Checkers Monday night, had just […]