Savages opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: The hyper-violent, soul-suckingly awful Savages was clearly assembled by a committee charged with synthesizing the hippest films about crime and Mexico of the last generation. Let’s start with the two white guys (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) in the Southwest who have a superior […]
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American Dance Festival unveils a new permanent teaching space
One hears that important business gets done at Rotary luncheons, but it’s hard to top the accomplishment at 721 Broad St. this week, a mere eight months after Jodee Nimerichter, director of the American Dance Festival, and a local developer had a chance conversation at a Rotary function. Now, after more than three decades of […]
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Area documentarians tell true mountain tales in second Professor Diablo’s True Revue
Professor Diablo’s True Revue Casbah June 26, 8 p.m. There was a time when the federal government undertook great projects that aimed to better the lives of its citizens, from the campaign to eradicate polio and the establishment of the Social Security Administration to the race to put a man on the moon. But those […]
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Mumblecore princess Greta Gerwig’s latest, Lola Versus, is a misfire
Lola Versus opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Last week saw the arrival of Hysteria, a comic celebration of the invention of the vibrator. Although the film was mostly told from a male point of view, it nonetheless linked the invention of that useful device to women’s empowerment. In the only […]
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Remarkably insipid Hysteria recounts the invention of the vibrator
Hysteria opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Midway through Hysteria, a comedy set among the highly fictionalized people of Victorian London who were involved with the invention of the female vibrator, my viewing companion turned and said: “You know what’s wrong with this movie? It assumes everyone back then was stupid.” […]
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Town of Cary: We expect to have new seating open in time for Galaxy game
David FellerathBrian Shriver, far left, will need to continue his strong form against the Galaxy. At rear, the new north stand under construction. 4:40 p.m. UPDATE: Triangle Offense contacted David Vaught, director of operations for the Carolina RailHawks. The “current allotment” has been sold, Vaught said, but the team expects 1,500 additional seats for the […]
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A charismatic leader in Sound of My Voice
Sound of My Voice opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: I dislike stars. Not the celestial bodies, and not, for the most part, movie actors, but the stars that serve as a shorthand guide for readers of film reviews. There’s a reason we include them, but at the same time, star […]
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An Algerian immigrant teaches Canadian children in Monsieur Lazhar
Monsieur Lazhar Monsieur Lazhar opens with a Michael Haneke-like tableau: a wide shot of a Montreal schoolyard with children playing at recess. Everything seems normal, but something is terribly amiss. After an enigmatic exchange between a couple of kids, one of them, a boy named Simon, goes inside the school to perform his assigned classroom […]
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Waiting for the Pirate Party while Bob Mould, David Cross help raise $18,000 for Coalition to Protect NC Families
Photo by Kirk RossMac McCaughan and Jim Wilbur at the Haw River Ballroom When I arrived at the Haw River Ballroom Sunday night for a concert benefit to fight Amendment 1, all that remained of Saturday’s river celebration, the annual Haw River Festival, was a collection of multicolored fabric streamers that hung, Christo-like, from the […]
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Raleigh Ensemble Players files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection
Photo by Adam David KissickTwo actors in DOG SEES GOD: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, produced by REP in June 2011 Raleigh Ensemble Players (REP), the 30-year old theater company in downtown Raleigh, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. This afternoon, the company sent an email to members of the area theater community confirming […]