Less than one week after the resignation of Carolina Theatre CEO Bob Nocek, the company’s chief operating officer, Aaron Bare, resigned this afternoon after a nine-year tenure at the arts center. Bare announced the resignation through an email shared with undisclosed recipients. “Effective immediately, I am resigning my position as Chief Operating Officer for the […]
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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Alternative lender Merchant Cash USA names Raleigh as America’s top food-truck spot. LOL.
Merchant Cash USA—an alternative lender with 1,234 Facebook “likes” as of this morning and, as best I can tell, no credentials in the food-and-beverage industry at all—has named Raleigh, North Carolina, as the top spot for food trucks in America, just ahead of Portland, San Antonio, Washington, D.C. and, well, everywhere else in the country. […]
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Sharing the gray space with Secret Boyfriend’s Memory Care Unit and Blursome’s Age
In the past, Raleigh’s Blursome and Carrboro’s Secret Boyfriend have had little in common. Yes, they are both monikers for individual electronic musiciansBlursome for the young producer Lara Wehbie, Secret Boyfriend for likely the area’s most devoted experimental impresario, Ryan Martin. And both acts have proven vital to their respective scenes, with Blursome becoming a […]
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How UNC professor Lee Weisert turns 10,000 tiny bubbles into hours of sound.
Granular Wall Saturday, Jan. 30, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, 1–4 p.m. free Morehead Planetarium 250 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill 919-962-1236 Perhaps we looked ridiculous, standing there on a Sunday afternoon in an art museum, pushing the black cups of headphones fast and firm against our ears and staring, like children in a […]
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Trawling the Triangle for the best vegetarian sushi
-GUIDE TO SUSHI- An enthusiast’s guide to suhi in the Triangle The couple that keeps the Triangle’s kaitensushi—or sushi conveyor belt—spinning at Kurama Trawling the Triangle for the best vegetarian sushi Five Triangle chefs share their secrets for sushi at home What beer to drink—and what beer to avoid—with sushi Masatoshi Tsujimura looks across the […]
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On Crow the Dawn, two older pickers—Jon Shain and Joe Newberry—try new tricks
Jon Shain & Joe Newberry Friday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m. $13 Plan B 5504 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Durham 919-493-7526 The blues guitarist Jon Shain is contemplating the ways in which the seven songs he wrote with the old-time banjo player Joe Newberry altered his musical approach. Those tuneswritten for their collaborative debut as a duo, […]
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An enthusiast’s guide to sushi in the Triangle
I don’t remember the taste of the first sushi I ever ate, but I certainly remember the circumstances. I was in college and perpetually poor but in search of a place for a date that might make my budget appear bigger than it was. “What about two-for-one sushi?” a friend proposed, as if I understood […]
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Tomorrow, share your memories of the Cameron Village Underground for a book about its history
In recent years, interest in The Subway—a network of clubs, restaurants and shops that once thrived beneath what remains Cameron Village—has spiked, inspiring a series of tributes (and lame send-offs) to the memories of that once-thriving space. Though she certainly wasn’t the first to explore that bygone era online, Candid Slice editor Heather Leahwood helped […]
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No, WTVD, restaurants aren’t closing because of changing Raleigh ordinances
Last night, Raleigh television station WTVD 11 published a story lamenting the rash of restaurant-and-bar closings in downtown Raleigh of late. Fair enough—I’ll miss The Borough, too. But reporter Anna Laurel—with help from the story’s only quoted source, Shop Local Raleigh director Jennifer Martin—stepped beyond mere eulogy to suggest that these closures stem from new […]
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Watch and listen: The Hot at Nights’ cover of Sylvan Esso’s “Uncatena” is beautiful
Cool It, the five-song EP from Raleigh instrumental trio The Hot at Nights, is wonderful and one of my favorite local sets of the admittedly young year. Collecting the trio’s reappraisals of familiar tunes by some of the area’s more popular acts, including Bowerbirds and Delta Rae, Cool It suggests a jazz-rooted take on those […]