Part 1 of Adams Apples will screen Saturday, June 16, 2 p.m. at the N.C. Museum of Art‘s East Building Auditorium. Tickets are free. This Saturday, the N.C. Museum of Art will give audiences a taste of what the film industries in Nigeria and Ghanaalso known, respectively, as Nollywood and Gollywoodhave to offer. There will […]
Craig D. Lindsey
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It’s wrestling, but is it art? Food trucks and smackdowns tonight in Raleigh
Shonna GreenwellA superstar from the late ’90s Southern Championship Wrestling scene There’s art to be found in men beating the crap out of each other. There is also wholesome, family entertainment located there too. Just ask Rebus Works owner Shonna Greenwell. Today, the men of local wrestling outfit GOUGE Wrestling will be smashing and bashing […]
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A Colorado dog goes missing in Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion
Darling Companion opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: Sometimes, a dog just has to get the hell away from people. That’s the message, perhaps unintended, I got after viewing Darling Companionor, as I like to call it, Old White People Problems. The escapee’s name is Freeway, a scrappy mutt found on […]
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God Bless America, Bobcat Goldthwait’s violent new satire
Photo courtesy of Magnet ReleasingTara Lynne Barr and Joel Murray GOD BLESS AMERICA* * starsOpens Friday at Colony Theatres Screechy-voiced comedian-turned-dark-comedy auteur Bobcat Goldthwait once again attempts to mix the extreme with the profound in his new, bullet-ridden satire God Bless America. He casts Joel Murray (Bill’s brother and Goldthwait’s co-star in that long-lost ’80s […]
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Liberating Rastafarianism in Marley
Marley opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: As far as documentaries on the late, reggae-singing revolutionary Bob Marley go (and I’ve seen a couple in my time), Marley is definitely the most comprehensivealmost exhaustingly so. Running at two hours and 24 minutes, the film almost refuses to leave the screen until […]
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Large turnout at CAM Raleigh as Redress Raleigh promotes eco-fashion
Photo by Leigh Moose/ Side Yard Studios PhotographyTwo models show off JulieApple Handbags. By 8 p.m. or so, the Contemporary Art Museum in downtown Raleigh was fully stocked with spectators last Friday evening. They were all in attendance not for art, but for fashion. On this night, Redress Raleigh took over the museum for its […]
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A Texas export, Blue Bell Ice Cream arrives in the Triangle
Correction: The original version of this story stated that Blue Bell was only recently available in North Carolina; it has been sold in Charlotte and Greensboro for several years. Blue Bell just recently arrived in the Triangle. One Tuesday afternoon, I got a ring from a friend telling me that I wasn’t gonna believe what […]
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Local nightclubs and bars are increasingly opening their doors to budding standup acts
Recurring standup comedy events Cure for the Mondays, every Monday at 8:30 p.m., Tir Na Nog, Raleigh The Dangling Loafer, third Fridays at 8 p.m., Morning Times, Raleigh Bulltown Comedy Series, third Tuesdays at 8 p.m., Casbah, Durham Meta Mondays Open Mic, every Monday at 8 p.m., The Tavern, Durham Funny Business Live, first and […]
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Ross McElwee talks his latest film, his Full Frame program and his son
When it was announced that filmmaker and previous Full Frame Career Award recipient Ross McElwee (Sherman’s March) would curate this year’s “Family Affairs” thematic program on Saturday, many McElwee admirers must have exclaimed “Of course!” If there is a documentary filmmaker who knows how to merge family matters into his films, it’s Charlotte’s McElwee. In […]
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African Diaspora Film Festival seeks perspective on hip-hop
Screenings For more info, visit the African Disapora Film Festival website or call 919-515-5210. All screenings are free and are held at Campus Cinema in the Witherspoon Student Center. Monday, April 2, 7-9:30 p.m.: Juice Tuesday, April 10, 7-9:30 p.m.: Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Monday, April 16, 7-10:15 p.m.: Sarabah and Say My […]