If you ever doubted that fire was alive, that water could smile, that the very stones could dance, then doubt no more: Paperhand Puppet Intervention, a band of artists, musicians and craftspeople, summons up spectacles of elemental power and disarming sensitivity. Using the ancient technique of puppetry, one of the first forms of theater, as […]
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The Kind of Song I Like
Just your average extraordinary joe, Virginia-born Texan Steve Earle has lived through enough trials and tribulations to make a black cat blanch. Rocking the country music world on its heels, Earle’s first full-length album, 1986’s Guitar Town, swaggered into the No. 1 spot on the country charts like it owned Nashville, while also breaking into […]
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(Re)Designing the System
Clement Mok, the design visionary and creative director behind Apple’s revolutionary Macintosh computer, has been very busy these last 20 or so years. Involved with almost every aspect of both the Internet and its design, Mok has amassed a list of accomplishments, projects and awards that could make your head spin. Now, after the dot-com […]
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Interstellar Overdrive
The practice of amplifying guitars has been around a long time. From its initial development in the 1930s on Hawaiian steel guitars, through a wider acceptance in electrified acoustics in the ’40s, to solid bodies in the ’50s, the various types of electric guitars sounded pretty much the same as their unamplified brethren, only louder. […]
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Tofu to the People
It’s an interesting thing nowadays: in times gone by, you had your folks who just wanted a burger, fries, hold the salad, and gimme some of that A-damn-1 sauce. And you had your vegetarian purists who were all into the sprouts, the hummus, the wheat grass, and if you even considered using the sacred veggie-stuffed-pita-pocket-heatin’ […]
Posted inFilm & Television
Love and Freedom
Director Ang Lee’s sweeping masterpiece, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, takes its title from the meaning of an old Chinese proverb, implying that situations are often not exactly as they seem. In this case, however, the kung fu movie formula is not just other than it seems, it is so much more than it seems. Is […]
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Fire, Food, Sleep. Repeat.
Ahh, winter. Time to put aside the frantic pursuits of summer, the toilsome efforts of the harvest, and sit back and weather the cold, wind, rain and snow in a warm, quiet house. You sit back with a cat on your lap, a dog curled at your feet, and a good book in hand as […]
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Chariots of tire
Demolition Derby. The very name invokes visions of socially challenged Neanderthals behind worthless old cars, pointlessly bashing them to pieces. The cars may be nearly worthless, and they still bash each other, but it’s only pointless until you check it out yourself and begin to understand: “The adrenaline rush that goes up your spine cannot […]
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Put out the trash
A group of us are gathered at the Franklin Street post office in Chapel Hill on a warm afternoon, here to protest the proposed expansion of the Eubanks Road Landfill. It’s not the kind of thing I normally do. I’m like a lot of people who rest on the assumption that Chapel Hill, being a […]
