Eating Animals The Performance Collective At Studio 6, Swain Hall, UNC Campus Nov. 10–19 Tickets are $10 ($5 for students). An abridged version will be performed at Duke’s Brody Theater at 8 p.m Tuesday, Nov. 15. Visit The Performance Collective’s Facebook page for more information. When The Performance Collective presents its new play, Eating Animals, […]
Marc Maximov
Bio: Marc Maximov lives, works and rides his bicycle in Durham.
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Urbanized examines the design of cities: Tonight at Raleigh’s Rialto
urbanizedfilm.comBeijing UrbanizedRialto TheatreMonday, Nov. 77 p.m. Gary Hustwit’s first film, Helvetica (2007), was a surprisingly engaging documentary that made font fanboys of people who didn’t know they could care about the studied minutia of typeface design. He broadened his gaze to industrial design in 2009’s Objectified, which lacked the tight focus of Helvetica, but compensated […]
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Main Street is a cautionary tale, but not the kind it’s intended to be
Main Street opens at the Carolina Theatre this Friday, which is an opportunity to support the newly renovated theater and enjoy seeing the city on the big screen. And perhaps to take a drink every time someone says “hazardous waste.” Main Street the movie is finally coming to Main Street the street. After nearly a […]
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Duke professor Cathy Davidson’s powerful Now You See It
Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn By Cathy Davidson Viking; 352 pages Cathy Davidson appears at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, in the Rare Books Room of Perkins Library on the Duke campus, and 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at the Regulator […]
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Parasite therapy: Rob Dunn’s The Wild Life of Our Bodies
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today By Rob Dunn Harper, 304 pages Cows. E. coli bacteria. Intestinal worms. Corn, rice and wheat. Man-eating tigers. Lice, crabs, fleas, ticks and (shiver) bedbugs. These are some of the living things whose fates have been bound up most […]
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Why you need to eat your worms: Rob Dunn’s Wild Life of Our Bodies, reading tonight at Quail Ridge Books
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites and Partners That Shape Who We Are Todayby Rob DunnHarper, 304 pages Cows. E. coli bacteria. Intestinal worms. Corn, rice and wheat. Man-eating tigers. Lice, crabs, fleas, ticks, and (shiver) bed bugs. These are some of the living things whose fates have been bound up most closely […]
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What happened to Main Street, Colin Firth’s other 2009 indie movie, filmed in Durham?
On Sunday, Colin Firth will be tuxedoed and seated in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, waiting to see whether his peers judge him the best actor of 2010 for The King’s Speech. It was not quite two years ago, in the spring of 2009, that he was shooting a film here in Durham, strolling the […]
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Woodpecker deserves more than cult status; brilliant new film plays one night-only at CDS
On Friday night, WOODPECKER, Alex Karpovsky’s low-key, hilarious “ficumentary,” screens at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham. The screening is part of the Southern Circuit Filmmakers tour, which mostly features documentaries, with the occasional fiction film thrown into the mix. Genre-wise, Woodpecker throws a curve of its own, with a concocted plot about a […]
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A bittersweet homecoming for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANYPresented by Duke Performances@Durham Performing Arts CenterFeb. 4-5 The Durham Performing Arts Center was energized Friday night with the North Carolina homecoming of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Cunningham founded the company in 1953 at Black Mountain College in western North Carolina; he died a year and a half ago, and his […]
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The color purple
I went to high school with Gabrielle Giffords. I didn’t know her, even though she was in my small graduating class. Like the rest of the country, of course, I was transfixed by the news of her shooting in Tucson on Saturday morning. Then the news came of the other casualties: 20 had been wounded, […]