The second edition of the series begins Sunday, January 13, with a performance from Chicago’s Makaya McCraven.
Grayson Haver Currin
Bio: Grayson Haver Currin was the music editor of INDY Week and the co-director of Hopscotch Music Festival.Twitter: http://twitter.com/currincy
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With the Rosebuds, Ivan Howard Inspired a Generation of Triangle Musicians. So Where Did He Go?
HOWARD IVANS Friday, Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m., $12 Cat’s Cradle Back Room, Carrboro www.catscradle.com Ivan Howard grins when he talks about crossing over Kanye West. Early in October 2014, Howardthe cofounder of longtime Raleigh pop favorites The Rosebuds and a native of city suburb Fuquay-Varinawas about to wrap up weeknight band practice for an annual […]
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Download Your Own Poster: Welcome to Raleigh, Y’all
Welcome to Raleigh, Y’all and Welcome to Durham, Y’all are campaigns by the new Raleigh nonprofit Come Out & Show Them. Using yard signs, stickers, and large-scale murals that welcome visitors and residents alike to Raleigh and Durham using seventeen languages and our favorite all-inclusive contraction, Come Out & Show Them hopes to spark conversations […]
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Download Your Own Poster: Welcome to Durham, Y’all
Welcome to Raleigh, Y’all and Welcome to Durham, Y’all are campaigns by the new Raleigh nonprofit Come Out & Show Them. Using yard signs, stickers, and large-scale murals that welcome visitors and residents alike to Raleigh and Durham using seventeen languages and our favorite all-inclusive contraction, Come Out & Show Them hopes to spark conversations […]
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HB 2 Has One Silver Lining: Activism
The permit arrived just in time. For forty-eight hours, my wife, Tina, and I had exchanged fevered emails about the speaking schedule of Governor Pat McCrory with Logan Smith, a zealous staffer at the equality-advocating nonprofit Progress NC. Days earlier, Logan and the rest of Progress NC caught wind of our plan to launch a […]
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At the Eno River Festival, North Carolinians Fight for Their Own Backyard
SATURDAY, JULY 2 & MONDAY, JULY 4 FESTIVAL FOR THE ENO WEST POINT ON THE ENO, DURHAM 10 A.M., $11–$35 In April, the thirty-seventh Festival for the Eno suffered a major blow to its lineup before the roster could even be announced. Ani DiFranco, the activist and singer who new Eno organizers had tapped to […]
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Interview: Scott Avett Talks The Avett Brothers’ True Sadness, Not Becoming a Farmer, And Not Making a Statement on HB 2
On a Thursday afternoon, Scott Avett and I are talking about professional wrestling and stock car racing. A day later, I tell him, I’m going to visit his hometown of Concord, North Carolina, to watch my first-ever wrestling match in the Cabarrus Arena, a glorified high school gymnasium that holds 3,000 fans. Avett assures me […]
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In Raleigh, Foundation Takes a Different Approach to Brandy Milk Punch
Foundation 213 Fayetteville St., Raleigh Zack Thomas knew he would need to get inventive. When building the spring menu for Foundation, the brick-lined cave cut into a shotgun space beneath Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, he dreamed of brandy milk punch, that sweet and smooth New Orleans classic where the milk masks the strong bite of the […]
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Morgan Street Meltdown: Hadley’s Is for Sale After Less Than Four Months in Business
Easy come, easy go? In January, longtime downtown Raleigh restaurant and bar The Borough shocked regulars with the news that it would close in early February after a decade as a Morgan Street hotspot. Owner Liz Masnik yielded the space to Hadley’s, a sandwich shop and cocktail spot. For Hadley’s, the turnaround time was a […]
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Aesop Rock’s Great The Impossible Kid Explores Getting Old, Even If That’s Not Cool
Aesop Rock Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Wednesday, June 29, 9 p.m., $20 www.catscradle.com Aesop Rock does not pretend to be young. Rather, he seems to revel in getting old. On The Impossible Kid, the seventh and arguably best album of his two-decade career, the rapper with the long-weaponized voice and enviably expansive vocabulary confronts his advancing […]