Originally, there wasn’t even going to be a movie. The mechanics of Georges Rousse’s trip to Durham were keeping Frank Konhaus and Ellen Cassilly busy enough: bringing the artist over, managing the sites, organizing the small army of volunteers who came out to help, trying to raise enough money to pay for it all. Even […]
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Dan and Lia Perjovschi
• Online extra: More works by Dan Perjovschi Someone has drawn all over the windows of the Nasher. One cartoon taunts incoming Duke freshman with the neologism “Edukeation”; another depicts a parking lot filled with cars outside a building labeled “ecology class.” A third speaks to the changing nature of Durham itself: the word “tabaco” […]
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Carrboro’s Gordon Theisen discusses the power of pessimism
We create our own Web sites despite the Internet’s apparent failure to found a communal-cum-commercial utopia. We actually think that the most recent war could and should be the last. We take out loans for new houses we can’t quite afford with large garages for the new SUVs we can’t quite afford because the payments […]
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Edge city
The Golden Belt Manufacturing Company’s textile factory on East Main Street on the east side of Durham’s downtown has been shut down since 1996, leaving the historic five-building complex boarded up and effectively abandoned for a decade. Now a Durham development company, Scientific Properties, is moving forward with plans to restore and revitalize the site […]
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A night with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
About midway through the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, the ringmistress steps out to the front of the stage to taunt her audience. “You came here to see danger,” she says. “You came because something might happen. You came to see blood.” She’s wearing a short, frilly skirt, high heels and a low-cut, sleeveless top; she has […]
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Ellen Cassilly and Frank Konhaus, leaders of Durham’s spectacular Rousse Project
“It really started out quite innocently,” Frank Konhaus explains. “Ellen and I said, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to bring Georges Rousse here?’” On another day, it could have just been idle talkbut they decided, why not try? By the time it was over Konhaus, a business owner and photography connoisseur, and his wife, architect Ellen […]
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The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
Fourteen years ago Stephanie Monseu and Keith Nelson put together a fire-eating act for late-night cabarets in New York City; now that act has grown into the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, a hybrid mix of vaudeville, burlesque, clowning and high-wire acrobatics that is coming to Raleigh’s Lincoln Theatre this Sunday, June 24. More than 200 performers […]
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Raleigh’s Bickett Gallery to close this weekend
On May 20, Raleigh’s independent arts community, still reeling from the closing of Kings Barcade, will be dealt another blow with the closing of the Bickett Gallery at Five Pointsraising questions about what place will remain for the arts in this rapidly growing city. “Creatively, the gallery has been very successful,” says Molly Miller, Bickett’s […]
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New show at Nasher explores the aesthetics of urban spaces
Street Level March 29-July 29 Nasher Museum of Art, Durham This week, Durham’s Nasher Museum of Art premieres Street Level, an exhibition of contemporary art featuring work from Los Angeles’s Mark Bradford, Miami’s William Cordova and Johannesburg’s Robin Rhode that focuses on images of urban centers and city spaces. It is the first show from […]
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Greenbridge, a visionary project in Chapel Hill, promises to be the state’s greenest building
Tim Toben is worried about sustainability. “We’re going to build our population by 50 percent in the next 10 years,” he says. “Where are these people all going to go? Are we going to keep building these Southern Village developments, or are we going to utilize the city spaces we have? “This is something we […]