Saturday, Dec. 24 9 p.m., $10 The Pour House, Raleigh www.thepourhousemusichall.com Normally, at around four in the afternoon, a cozy stone house at the Tucker Street and Boylan Avenue intersection in Raleigh becomes a hive of happy activity as kids clamber in with instruments in tow. The sounds of scales and warm-ups usually drift through […]
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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N.C. Opera’s Adventurousness Changes Minds—Yours About the Art Form and the Opera World’s About Raleigh
North Carolina Opera is not your grandparents’ opera company. Last year, the institution kicked off its season with Approaching Ali, a one-act opera about the boxer born Cassius Clay that was as light on its feet as its main subject. The current season opened with a different sort of heavyweight: Wagner’s formidable Das Rheingold, which […]
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San Francisco Symphony Cancels Chapel Hill Appearance Over HB 2
Even with the recent good news that Pat McCrory has agreed to leave the Governor’s Mansion voluntarily, the discriminatory HB 2 law that he and his cronies passed in secret continues to inflict damage on the state. Yesterday afternoon, Carolina Performing Arts announced that the San Francisco Symphony had notified the institution that it was […]
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Photo Journal: The Day the KKK Marched Down East Franklin Street
In June 1987, a day after he graduated high school, Michael Galinsky took a camera with a telephoto lens and a bunch of film to document a Ku Klux Klan rally in Chapel Hill. Until recently, these photographs could be relegated to a regrettable past. A video installation combining Galinsky’s photos with interviews from the […]
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Shop Till You Drop With Some of Our Favorite Local Retailers and Brands
LOCAL RETAIL THE ART OF STYLE They mean what they say at The Art of Style: the look is chic, cosmopolitan, and modern, with a monochromatic palette that would please even the most fashion-forward urban dwellers. The store carries men’s and women’s clothes by a slate of distinctive designer brandsfamiliar names like Kenneth Cole along […]
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Live: Sloan Feels Good, Does It at the Cradle Back Room
Sloan Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Wednesday, November 16, 2016 When my dad was in college, he attended some of Vladimir Nabokov’s lectures, and his most concentrated nugget of wisdom from that experience has always stuck with me. He told me the great man of letters told his students that when reading a novel for […]
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Durham Central Park Passes First Hurdle to Nabbing Free Music Series
A bunch of free music might be headed Durham’s way this summer—but to get there, you’ve got to vote for it. Durham Central Park stands to increase its free concert offerings if it can win a grant for which it is currently competing. The group has already completed the first round in its application for […]
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Shameless: Forgotten Boy Band One More Wish Reunites to Exploit HB 2-Based Cancellations
The one upside to all this HB 2 nonsense is the way people from across the spectrum have come together—a process that has made strange bedfellows of PayPal, the NCAA, and Cirque du Soleil. That show of unity began in April with an artist boycott that went national with Bruce Springsteen and came to include […]
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For Thirty Years, Cult Hero Syd Straw Has Stood Strong on the Cusp of Fame
SYD STRAW Monday, September 26, 8 p.m., $15 Slim’s, Raleigh Tuesday, September 27, 8 p.m., $15The Cave, Chapel Hill Syd Straw is sitting in her truck outside her home in the tiny town of Weston, Vermont. Born in Hollywood with the performing bug, the singer says she yearned for the country life at a mere […]
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Come Out and Show Them, an All-Star Anti-HB 2 Benefit, Set to Light Up Raleigh
Wow, just when you thought the last big festival was over and things had settled down a bit music-fest-wise, here comes another one, and it’s big. Come Out and Show Them is a large-scale anti-HB 2 benefit that will involve thirty-two musical acts at five venues in Raleigh on October 7 and 8. It brings […]