Sam Green & yMusic: The Measure of All Things Duke Reynolds Industries Theatre, Durham Saturday, Nov. 15 Documentarian Sam Green delivered a worthwhile moral at the end of a hybrid film-lecture presentation at Reynolds Industries Theater Saturday night: “No story ever really ends.” Unfortunately this came at the end of his six-minute opening act, a […]
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Eye of the Beholder: Casey Cook’s essential shapes and William H. Mumler’s spirit photography
I recently asked a middle-school class if they preferred sandwiches cut in half diagonally or lengthwise. The classroom erupted in a passionate argument: triangles versus rectangles. Everyone had a vehement preference. Very few students, however, had a practical reason for their opinion. They just liked one shape much more than the other. Triangles are delicious. […]
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Indies Arts Awards: Leah Wilks leads the charge to consolidate the energies and resources of local dancemakers
The home video opens on a family dancing in the living room. It’s Valentine’s Day, and Dad is wearing heart-covered boxers over sweatpants. His four-year-old daughter’s hair is a wild tangle. “He gets down on one knee, ready for me to run at him, to lift me into the air,” remembers Leah Wilks, who was […]
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Indies Arts Awards: The Beat Making Lab teaches hip-hop as a revolutionary tool, at home and abroad
When a project explodes into national prominence and obtains million-dollar grants, maintaining perspective can prove difficulteven if that project fits inside a backpack. When Pierce Freelon, the emcee of Durham jazz-rap group The Beast, and producer Stephen Levitin, better know as the Apple Juice Kid, traveled to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo in […]
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Area improvisers revisit Terry Riley’s landmark In C
Polyorchard presents Terry Riley’s In C Tues., Nov. 4, 9 p.m. $5 Kings 14 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-833-1091 kingsbarcade.com With a little effort, the ambient can become the active. Think of the sounds in the world around you, the sort that fill those easy-listening nature soundtracksa crackling campfire, waves washing onto the beach, a […]
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Eye of the Beholder: Humanity and artifice square off in a safe portraiture show at NCMA and a controversial one at Meredith College
In a way, pictures have only two subjects: us and the world around us. If the rectangle is horizontal, then it’s a landscape. If it’s vertical, then it’s a portrait. Although the scales of their productions couldn’t be more different, two exhibits in Raleigh recapitulate portraiture. The North Carolina Museum of Art offers Small Treasures: […]
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Live: The Bad Plus and Science Fiction
The Bad Plus performs Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014 Baldwin Auditorium, Durham How do you judge a cover song? Do you compare it, moment by moment, to the original? Or do you hear its own merits as a standalone piece of music? By revisiting saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s 1972 album Science Fiction at […]
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In the Click! Festival, shows by a teacher and student shine; plus Latin-American art of erasure at CAM
The CLICK! TRIANGLE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, a month-long shutterbug bacchanalia with more than 35 exhibits and events at 22 arts venues, has arrived (see the full schedule at clicktrianglephoto.org). Because you probably can’t see everything, you’ll have to make some choices. If you’re planning a photo outing, two shows at Raleigh’s Gregg Museum and Durham’s Craven […]
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Rising as he writes, Raleigh’s Joe Newberry embraces his muse
Compton & Newberry Wednesday, Oct. 1, 11 p.m. $25–$75 Tir Na Nog, wideopenbluegrass.com Wednesday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m. $25–$75 Raleigh Convention Center (4th Floor Ballroom) wideopenbluegrass.com Joe Newberry blames his arrival in North Carolina on the failings of a 1973 Mercury Capri. On a cold January day in 1982, the budding banjo player, singer, songwriter […]
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Anonymous 4 at Baldwin Auditorium
ANONYMOUS 4 | SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, DURHAM Baldwin Auditorium 8 p.m., $10-$42 919-660-3356 1336 Campus Dr dukeperformances.duke.edu Farewell tours are bittersweet, but the vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 has been here before. In 2004, the group tried to move on to other pursuits, but it didn’t stick. When they visit Durham this weekend, though, it will […]