Talking with Kathryn Hunter-Williams, chair of the Department of Dramatic Art at UNC-Chapel Hill and a contributor to a new book on North Carolina playwright Paul Green.
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“Everywhere the Undrowned” Is a Wrenching Story of Survival
In 1973, Raleigh writer Stephanie Clare Smith, then 14, was abducted, raped at knifepoint, and let down by the adults in her life. Her poetic new memoir reckons with the aftermath.
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A New Documentary Shines Light on Jazz Singer Carol Sloane’s Turbulent North Carolina Years
“Raleigh, North Carolina,” Sloane recalls telling a talent agent. “They don’t have jazz down there, do they?”
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‘The Last First Kiss’ Traces the Contours of Lost Love, Faulty Memory, and Last Chances
Walter Bennett’s second novel takes place as a hurricane, and a first love, close in.
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Chapel Hill Public Library Reopens and Takes a Look toward the Future
“When a community is grappling with something,” library director Susan Brown says, “the library should be the place where we can come together and talk about it.”
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Chapel Hill Playwright Paul Green’s Drama Has a Long, Complicated History. Now It’s Time for a New Act.
In the Outer Banks, a new season tries to find the heart of Paul Green’s North Carolina play, “The Lost Colony.”
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I Spent a Risky Summer Counting Humans, but Human Connection Was What Counted
The things I carried on my rounds: my government-issued iPhone, my census I.D., my census briefcase, various bits of paperwork, and my white cotton mask.
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The Sun magazine’s Sy Safransky muses on life’s brevity before dawn in Many Alarm Clocks
Sy Safransky Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books & Music 3522 Wade Ave., Raleigh 919-828-1588 www.quailridgebooks.com When I lived in Washington, D.C., I knew only one thing about Chapel Hill. It was where The Sun magazine was published. Wherever I sat in my girlfriend Sally’s apartment, a back issue of The Sun was […]
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Catching up with John Woodard of Chapel Hill landmark Sutton’s Drug Store
Hollie knows that I need cream for my coffee and that I don’t need syrup for my pancakes. “We haven’t seen you in a while,” she says. It’s been about a month. It seems I’m now a regular at Sutton’s food counter, and that I was missed. After the morning rush, owner John Woodard is […]
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Halloween memories
“Halloween is my favorite holiday. I was Edgar Allen Poe a couple of years ago. I love taking on a character. I grew up on an isolated farm about 10 miles outside of Gainesville, Florida. There was no trick-or-treating out there at all. But I would show up in some room in the house, dressed […]