She was simply looking for a place to sing. Mary Lycan had moved to Palo Alto, Calif., with her husband in 1992 while he pursued an academic fellowship at Stanford. She was “underemployed” that year and had time to pursue her lifelong passion for music when she stumbled upon the Peninsula Women’s Chorus. “When I […]
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John Lambert
Classical music doesn’t exactly make it into the newspaper these days. You’d almost never know that there’s a thriving community of performers in the Triangle playing in orchestras and singing in choirs, performing dance and opera and chamber music. If you want to know what’s playing, Classical Voice of North Carolina is the place to […]
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Designbox
When 10 designers and two dogs put their heads together on a summer afternoon, they can come up with some strange ideas. Like the squiggle on a piece of paper that turns into a design for an urban park. In this small converted warehouse in Raleigh, the members of Designbox are practicing for an upcoming […]
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Student thrown off campus
Clem Slone was on his usual 20-minute bus ride to school last week when something came over him. The news that morning was all about President Bush’s address to troops at Fort Bragg Army base, urging support for the war in Iraq. Listening to Modest Mouse on his headphones, Slone took out a piece of […]
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Grokster goes down, PBS hangs in
What does it mean that the Supreme Court has ruled against the file-sharing networks Grokster and StreamCast? Fears of a big win for Hollywood studio MGM have kept the technology industry on edge since the case was argued in the spring. Last week, the court released its unanimous decision in favor of MGM–but that doesn’t […]
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No place like home
As the American Dance Festival returns to its cramped, though welcoming, home at Duke University, the city of Durham is making plans to build it a new home. Meanwhile, the city’s arts community is reeling over budget cuts and left with many unanswered questions about what a new theater would mean for local performers. A […]
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Rock talk is history on WRDU
If you grew up going to see rock shows at the Pier, Dorton Arena or the old Brewery, then you might remember a radio show called East Coast Live. Host Allan Handelman launched his groundbreaking “rock talk” show on Raleigh’s WQDR-FM in the early ’80s, back when it was the preeminent rock station in the […]
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Geeks at play
“Who here likes ninjas?” Hands shoot up all over the auditorium. “Who here likes high-impact explosions in slow-motion?” Again–who doesn’t? Michael Freenor, lead engineer of the Angry Lawn Gnomes computer game design team, clearly knows his audience. They are fellow students at NC State University who have packed the house to see the unveiling of […]
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‘Turn your back on him’
When Steven Addison moved to Durham three years ago, he thought he’d seen the last of the Rev. Fred Phelps and his followers. Kansas City, Mo., was a frequent stop for Phelps, who has made it his life’s mission to travel around the country with signs that say “God Hates Fags,” picketing the funerals of […]
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The total package
Editor’s Note:This year each Rock ‘n’ Roll Quarterly takes a look at the process of making records, from getting things right in the studio to getting someone to listen to what you’ve done. In this issue we look at an important and often overlooked step in turning a set of recordings into a finished album–figuring […]