PARTICLE FALLS Friday, March 24–Sunday, April 23, after sundown, free 14 East Hargett Street, Raleigh www.particlefallsral.org On a blustery night last February, twenty-five intangible artworks popped up on the Carrboro-Chapel Hill border. The public exhibit Shimmer: The Art of Light presented light art in myriad forms. Britt Flood roamed with a handheld projector to demonstrate […]
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Catch the Disappearing Frogs Project at FRANK Gallery This Weekend Before It Disappears
The Disappearing Frogs ProjectThrough Saturday, March 4 Frank Gallery, Chapel Hill The last mass extinction to hit Earth annihilated the dinosaurs. Sixty-five million years later, the human species—not a volcanic eruption, an ice age or asteroid—has instigated the planet’s sixth mass extinction. With 32 percent of the world’s frog population currently listed as endangered or […]
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Panorama Captures Life in Our State Through a Lens of Intimate Reality, Not Drive-By Nostalgia
PANORAMA: NORTH CAROLINA Through Feb. 12, free North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh www.ncartmuseum.org On a lettuce farm in the hills of North Carolina, a groggy boy stood on a chair. His father, John Rosenthal, had woken him early to take his photo in the morning fog. The boy stretched his arms out wide and […]
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Live: No BS! Brass Band Cuts Up in Carrboro
No BS! Brass Band Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Friday, November 11, 2016 If I had looked away for another second, I probably would’ve missed it. From a raised balcony in Cat’s Cradle’s Back Room, I watched the No BS! Brass Band coolly take the stage. The band’s leader, Reggie Pace, hopped up from within […]
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Moogfest Announces Joint Pass with Art of Cool for 2017 Festivals
Moogfest and Art of Cool Festival have had a patchy past, marred early this year by the City of Durham prioritizing funding for the tech-heavy, Asheville-based Moogfest over the Durham-grown Art of Cool Festival. While Art of Cool eventually got more money, it seemed as though the city was putting Moogfest’s promise of out-of-town over […]
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The Daily Show Co-Creator Lizz Winstead Leads a Hilarious Charge for Reproductive Rights
LADY PARTS JUSTICE LEAGUE Thursday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $15–$20 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Lady Parts Justice League banded together to tackle reproductive rights through comedy and digital media. The group’s often NSFW jokes aim to “laugh politicians out of office.” Not all politicians, thoughjust the Pat McCrory kind. Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of The Daily […]
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Ne-Yo Stops by The Ritz Tuesday for a Free Get Out the Vote Concert
It’s fitting that the man who released a record called Year of the Gentleman would stump for Hilary Clinton over a candidate who is definitely not a gentleman. To get his point across—and to help get out the vote—Ne-Yo will throw a free concert in Raleigh at The Ritz Tuesday night. You can nab tickets […]
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Elizabeth Matheson Provides a Glimpse of Modern Cuba at Craven Allen Gallery
Since the U.S. loosened American travel restrictions to Cuba, boutique hotels, Wi-Fi hot spots, and restaurants have popped up in Havana. Tourists flock to the country in hopes of getting there before the arrival of McDonald’s or KFC. But the Americanization of Cuba is not a concern for North Carolinian photographer Elizabeth Matheson. “The Cubans […]
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The Greenbox Project Brings Reusable To-Go Boxes to Durham Restaurants
Six days a week, Durham sends trucks to the Sampson County Landfill, an hour and forty-five minutes away. Since the Durham landfill filled up a few years ago, it’s been one of the only viable options for trash disposal. Every month, half a ton of that waste comes from your favorite restaurants’ to-go boxes. But […]
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Two Food Trucks Earn Sustainable Certification by Community Group Don’t Waste Durham
As Durham’s restaurant scene continues to flourish, so do its food trucks. But with that comes buckets and buckets of waste. The mobility of food trucks encourages the use of disposable materials—plates, napkins, plastic cutlery—that often end up in landfills. Don’t Waste Durham, a community organization focused on reducing consumer waste, is working to combat […]