In our recent 28 Reasons We Love the Triangle Right Now feature, we wrote a little rap—a parody of “My Shot”—about our frustration over not knowing when we’ll finally get to see the Broadway smash Hamilton. (We’re so sorry.) Well, rap and you shall receive, we guess: shortly thereafter, the Durham Performing Arts Center announced […]
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A Raleigh Crowd-Funding Campaign Is Raising Money to Help African-American Teens See Black Panther
The buzz around upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Black Panther has been spectacular—not just because it looks like an amazing movie, but also because it represents an overdue but full-throttle pivot in the white-dominated world of superhero movies. The film, which opens February 16, has an African-American director (Ryan Coogler) and a strong African-American cast, […]
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Share Your Love with Strangers in Little Raleigh Radio’s “Listen to Love” Storytelling Project
Maybe you feel like shouting your love from the rooftops, or maybe you’re lamenting having no one to whisper sweet nothings to as Valentine’s Day looms. From now until the big day, you can at least whisper them to a pop-up recording booth at Raleigh restaurant Centro so your friends and family (and utter strangers) […]
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Long-Running Raleigh Gallery Lump to Change Leadership This Month
Kelly McChesney, the director of Lump, has announced that she is stepping down from that position this month to become the public art director at the Office of Raleigh Arts. “I will continue to be an active figure during this time of transition and will support Lump’s goals and vision into the future,” McChesney said […]
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Sick of Facebook Invites? UNC-Chapel Hill Just Launched an App for Tracking Events on Campus.
As a part of the Arts Everywhere initiative to promote widespread participation in the arts, UNC-Chapel Hill launched its new Arts Everywhere app today. Available for iPhone and Android, the app will help users discover, track, and plan attendance for arts events at the university, from dance and theater to exhibits and pop-up shows. The […]
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Five Thousand Tipsy Harry Potter Fans to Brave the Winter Wondermare for Raleigh’s Wizard & Wand Festival
Ice and snow won’t stop an estimated five thousand adult Harry Potter fans from converging on downtown Raleigh this Saturday for Wizard & Wand, according to a press release from the event’s organizers. The children’s-book-themed event is for adults only, because that is where we’re at as a culture, we guess. Drinking-age wizards will swarm […]