Starfucker with Chrome Sparks, Feelings Cat’s Cradle Friday, Sept. 27, 9 p.m. $15–$18 No single moment can truly be called the watershed usage of the word “fuck” as a band name, but you can at least trace the trend 20 years, when Fuck formed in Oakland, Calif. By naming themselves as such in 1993, the […]
David Klein
Bio: David Klein lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and two sons. His first book, If 6 Was 9 and Other Assorted Number Songs, is available at his website.Link: http://www.if6was9thebook.com/Twitter: http://twitter.com/DKleinandFall
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Between the lines
This past summer, I took on a book project in which I wrote 250-word biographies of 50 eminent women authors. Godwin and Walker and Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros and Joyce Carol OatesI made a song out of it. These biographies would not begin when they entered college. Rather, I planned to use my meager allotment […]
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The prodigal lemur returns
To be fair, I was cordially invited to join my family’s mid-summer vacation into the great American West: The itinerary, crafted months ago by my planning maven of a wife, included stops at a rodeo, a dinosaur museum, an aerial tram, some hiking, some rafting and Yellowstone. That sounded nice, but in the end, the […]
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Eight bands reconvene to celebrate The Brewery, the club they used to call home
A Weekend at The Brewery Friday, July 19 The Accelerators Kick the Future Jeff Hart & the Ghosts of the Old North State Fast Forward Saturday, July 20 Watershed Automatic Slim Slurpeeeee! The Insurgence $10–$12, 8:30 p.m. The Pour House Five years have passed since Kick the Future last played together. But when the band […]
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Guitarist Warren Haynes sheds light on Jerry Garcia the songwriter, with assistance from the N.C. Symphony
Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration featuring Warren Haynes Thursday, June 20 8 p.m., $35–$65 Red Hat Amphitheater Jerry Garcia is many things to many people: master of the exploratory guitar solo; bearded, twinkly-eyed leader of a touring colossus called the Grateful Dead; exceptionally good ice cream flavor. He’s also a matter of public record. Virtually every […]
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Consider the Lobsters
My first dose of jangle was The Beatles’ version of Buddy Holly’s “Words of Love,” featuring the gloriously ringing, almost bagpipey licks of George Harrison’s Gretsch Tennessean. It was on a record called Beatles VI, or “Beatles Vee Eye,” as we pronounced it, and I’ve loved that trebly stuff ever since. The weekend before last, […]
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Novelist Clyde Edgerton offers hard-won tips in Papadaddy’s Book For New Fathers
Papadaddy’s Book For New Fathers: Advice to Dads of All Ages By Clyde Edgerton Little, Brown and Co. 192 pp. McIntyre’s Books Saturday, June 1, 11 a.m. Flyleaf Books Sunday, June 2, 2 p.m. Books for prospective parents become huge sellers partly because they offer practical advice along with a certain type of fear-based reassurance. […]
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Daniel Wallace’s masterful new novel, The Kings and Queens of Roam
The Kings and Queens of Roam Daniel Wallace Touchstone, 288 pp. May 6, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill May 7, 7:30 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh I promise it’s not revealing too much to note that about two-thirds of the way through The Kings and Queens of Roam, the masterful new novel by Daniel […]
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Life idea
Hearing about the death of songwriter and Game Theory bandleader Scott Miller gave me the peculiar twinge of regret I imagine people experience when they learn a loved one has passedthat is, a loved one with whom their last encounter was an argument. Miller and I hadn’t argued. We actually didn’t know each other. Rather, […]
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The start-and-stop journey of Kenny Roby to the best record of his life
Kenny Roby Saturday, April 6 7 p.m. with J. Kutchma 10 p.m. with The Temperance League $8-$10 Kings Barcade In December, Kenny Roby gave one of his first performances in support of his new record, Memories & Birds, which he finally released in April. The first of three acts on a Friday night bill at […]