“When your district-mandated mentor says “personal life,” they mean yer sinnin’: abhorrent fetishes like atheism, queerness, and science.”
Dustin K. Britt
Posted inMusic
Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart Has Kept Pushing Boundaries in Experimental Electronic Music. But Does He Still Hate Durham?
BRICKSIDE music FESTIVAL Saturday, April 7, 2 p.m., $15–$20 Duke Coffeehouse, Durham www.dukecoffeehouse.org Seven years ago, Jamie Stewart, frontman of the noisy, experimental music project Xiu Xiu (pronounced “shoe-shoe”), caused a stir in Durham. In a June 2011 blog post on his website, xiuxiu.org, he called the city a “cigarette burn of a town,” deriding […]
Posted inTheater
Plays About LGBTQ History Are Plentiful in the Triangle. We Need Them All. But Isn’t It Time to Look Ahead?
We know we can get things good, fast, or cheap, but seldom all three at once. Likewise, when it comes to plays with queer themes in the Triangle, it seems we can get them new, relevant, or well-attended. If you want something writ large on season brochures, you need a few decades of distance. I’m […]
