North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Durham Feb. 6–16 The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival has been around in different configurations for more than a decade. But this year, instead of being a series of weekends, it’s going to follow the model of music and film festivals and go straight through for […]
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The secret life of a great writer
The Invisible Woman Opens Friday The Invisible Woman is the story of the teenage girl for whose charms Charles Dickens broke up his family. This painstaking, respectful film nonetheless shows what issues may arise when people of one era presume to judge the shortcomings of another. Still, fans of 19th-century literature, and Anglophiles in general, […]
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Elizabeth Spencer’s latest collection of stories
Regulator Bookshop Thursday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books Sunday, Jan. 19, 3 p.m. Quail Ridge Books Sunday, Jan. 26, 3 p.m. Starting Over, the sixth and latest collection of stories in the long career of Chapel Hill author Elizabeth Spencer, is a master class in narrative economy. In her eighth decade of publishing, Spencer […]
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The lurid murder that shaped the Beat Generation in Kill Your Darlings
Kill Your Darlings opens Friday Kill Your Darlings is a sensational story, dully told. The setting is New York in 1943–44, on the campus of Columbia University. While the war in Europe was entering its endgame, several young men were becoming friends and developing the sensibility that would define the Beat Generation. The story is […]
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Massive—MASSIVE!!—video boards coming to DBAP
Well, they promised “Wow! factor,” and this is what it looks like. The Durham Bulls announced the details of not one but three video boards that will be among the most visible results of the $19 million stadium upgrade now under way. In May, the city of Durham and the baseball club agreed on a […]
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Parting thoughts on 2013 season as RailHawks prepare for finale against San Antonio
If the leading indicators prove true, then the Carolina RailHawks should end their season tonight with the best overall record of the 2013 NASL spring and fall seasons. They haven’t lost at home all year, and the opponent is the bottom-dwelling San Antonio Scorpions. (I know, to write these thoughts down is to put the […]
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The Act of Killing is a troubling documentary about mass murder
The Act of Killing opens Friday True to its advance notoriety, The Act of Killing features elderly mass murderers reenacting their crimes for the benefit of cameras. Yet, I feel compelled to confess that it took me several days to get through the film, which I had the luxury of watching at home. The crimes, […]
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Women make movies: Austenland and In a World…
Austenland opens Friday In a World… opens Friday One of the constantly bemoaned problems in the filmmaking world is how to get more non-white non-men behind the cameras. It’s equal parts coincidence and trend, but this week sees two indie comedies written, directed and produced by women. What’s more, they take aim at two sacred […]
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New documentary The United States of Football examines our most popular sport’s toll
The United States of Football Showing Saturday, Sept. 7, 1 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m. at Carmike 15 in Raleigh and Carmike Wynnsong in Durham My brief, otherwise forgettable career as a high school football player is dominated by memories of two hits. The first one occurred in practice. I lined up against […]
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Why don’t people go to Durham Bulls playoff games?
Governors’ Cup Playoffs Durham Bulls vs. Indianapolis Indians DBAP Food Truck FestWednesday, Sept. 4, 7:05 p.m. Craft Beer Rodeo Thursday, Sept. 5, 7:05 p.m. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, the Durham Bulls begin postseason play for the sixth time in the last seven seasons. But if the past holds true to form, relatively few people will […]