Durham In Changing Light By John Zager Backroad Exposures Press 112 pages Zager will give a talk and sign books this Friday, Aug. 19, at 6 p.m. at the downtown photography gallery Through This Lens, which also hosts an exhibition of Zager’s Durham work. Zager reprises his talk the next evening, Aug. 20, with a […]
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The first Durham Pun Championship thrills—and disgusts—the crowd
My mind had gone completely blank. Zip. Bupkis. I could not recall the name of a single state in the union. Only an image of the mapsans place nameswhirled in my mind’s eye. Finally, I managed a weak retort. But it was ostensibly over for me, just a few seconds shy of the Final Four. […]
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John Wendelbo’s vision of public art
It’s a little over a month ago and I’m loitering in an empty, second-floor storefront on Parrish Street in downtown Durham by a loose stack of toe molding and a swept-together pile of plaster dust, waiting for a lease to be signed. Not by me, but by sculptor and artist John Wendelboa name that you […]
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Writers, quit your garrets! Readers, rise from your couches! The Hinge Literary Center launches tonight.
There’s a tendency these days to know writers across the continent or the world while the novelist or poet next door remains anonymous. The Hinge Literary Center hopes to remedy this. A new literary endeavor aimed at connecting local literary communities through classes and events, the Hinge launches itself with a night of readings and […]
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Thin ice melts in Hotlanta: Thrashers move to Winnipeg
The Atlanta Thrashers have finally stopped thrashing. Image copyright Fire Wagon Hoceky.Goaltender Kari Lehtonen looks into the future of the Atlanta Thrashers during a 2007 game. The Thrashers were sold to a Winnipeg group on Tuesday, ending 11 futile years of hockey in the Peachtree state. After 11 largely pointless years skating before a bewildered […]
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Pulping Dixie: Poet Kay Byer and the complexity of race in the South
Any writing about race relations in the South will have its limitations. One’s experiences are never comprehensive. One’s skin color and background are hardly choices. In an important way, any individual book, essay, article, or poem about racism and the South aspires primarily to contribute to the totality of literature on the subject, rather than […]
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Thirteen North Carolina artists explore feminine identity and image at NCMA
Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women N.C. Museum of Art Through Nov. 27 The documentary impulse is always present in representational art. Sometimes this impulse limits an artist’s expressive range as she resists abstraction in favor of pictorial clarity. This is not the case, however, throughout Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, a conceptually powerful group exhibition […]
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Two shows at the Ackland recapitulate more than a century of European history
Romantic Dreams, Rude Awakenings: Northern European Prints and Drawings 1840–1940 De-Natured: German Art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger Ackland Art Museum Through July 10 As you pass through the doorway between two new exhibitions at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum, you might mutter Theodor Adorno’s 1951 edict, “Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” under […]
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Years in the works, Raleigh’s Contemporary Art Museum opens
The Independent Weekly Gallery Years ago, during the time that CAM’s backers were beginning to raise funds, the Independent Weekly made a gift with the understanding that a gallery would be named after the paper. “It’s a wonderful space,” says Indy publisher Sioux Watson. “It’s all open, but downstairs there’s one gallery, that’s the Independent […]
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Jeff Skinner nominated for Calder Trophy as best rookie
After a season of firsts for the Hurricanes franchise this season, Jeff Skinner may yet add another: rookie of the year. File photo by Peggy BooneThe Year of Jeff Skinner continues with a nomination for the Calder Trophy as league’s best rookie, to be awarded June 22 in Las Vegas. The gifted forward, still a […]