It’s the 13th year for the N.C. Comedy Arts Festival, and you can guess how festival executive producer Zach Ward feels about having his pride and joy alive and kicking for so long. “I know it has become the theme this year’lucky 13’but I feel extremely lucky to be able to welcome so many old […]
Craig D. Lindsey
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April Richardson on gender and sexuality in comedy, and working for Chelsea Handler
April Richardson N.C. Comedy Arts Festival DSI Comedy Theater Feb. 1, 7 p.m. Feb. 2, 9 p.m. April Richardson owes the people of the Triangle one. The Atlanta-born, Los Angeles-based standup comic was supposed to be a performer at last year’s N.C. Comedy Arts Festival. Unfortunately, she couldn’t make it. “It was just a scheduling […]
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Punk journalist Legs McNeil and his new journey
Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain Rebus Works 301-2 Kinsey St., Raleigh Jan. 26, 7 p.m. $5 It’s surprising to hear Legs McNeil‘s voice when you get him on the phone. This is the man who was covering New York’s punk scene in the ’70s as writer and co-founder of Punk Magazine, a job that involved […]
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Marc Maron’s podcast of comic talk therapy
Marc Maron Jan. 10-12 Goodnights Comedy Club Comedian Marc Maron‘s garage, located in his Los Angeles home, has sort of become the spot for various men and women in the comedy community to hang out and riff. This is where Maron records his podcast, WTF with Marc Maron. Thanks to the success of this Internet […]
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David Chase’s feature debut, the nostalgic Not Fade Away
Not Fade Away opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: For David Chase, the writer and director of Not Fade Away, rock ‘n’ roll music has a seductive yet combustible allure. It’s a thing that can build and destroy relationships with equal, effortless fervor. It can hypnotize some while alienating others. It’s the greatest thing […]
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Don’t pigeonhole comic multitasker Hannibal Buress
Hannibal Buress Wednesday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m. Lincoln Theatre Hannibal Buress doesn’t exude hip-hop swagger. The comedian and Chicago native acts more like one of your stoner friends than a thugged-out, blinged-out MC. And yet, the man has recently contributed bars to a couple of hip-hop tracks, which you can find on his Tumblr blog. […]
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Kathleen Madigan and Cedric the Entertainer discuss their trade
Kathleen Madigan Friday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m. Carolina Theatre Cedric the Entertainer Saturday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.Durham Performing Arts Center “All I want to do is tell jokes.” In that sardonic, working-class tone that fans of her comedy know so well, Kathleen Madigan declares this during a recent phone interview. For the past couple of […]
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Laughing in the wilderness with Small Town Funny
Small Town Funny Anniversary Show The ArtsCenter Saturday, Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m. $5 This week, comedians John Sideris and Michelle Maclay will be celebrating a year of informing people that being a Triangle-based comedian can be a pain in the ass. With few comedy clubs, local upstarts perform in bars and cafes. However, sparse audiences […]
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Christopher Walken ends career in Late Quartet
A Late Quartet opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: There appears to be this new trend going on in movies right now: films where Christopher Walken plays the sane, rational voice of reason while everyone else goes batshit-crazy around him. In Seven Psychopaths, he shockingly played the least psychotic of the […]
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Adventures on Fried Chicken Boulevard
I hope I’m not the first black person to admit I have a love/hate relationship with fried chicken. For the urban (read: Rick Ross-listening-to) community, battered, deep-fried pieces of poultry flesh is a go-to delicacy, as African-American as sweet potato pie. Sadly, fried chicken, like watermelons, which I never really understood since I’m not a […]