It’s a rainy Saturday afternoon in late October, and I’m sitting inside a goat cheese farm’s bed and breakfast near Siler City. Lunch has just ended, and Meredith Hancocka therapist and social worker in her late 20s, who I met yesterdaytells me about the dream she had last night. She and I were onstage singing […]
Megan Stein
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Women’s Rock returns
Fresh college students and tired moms alike will rock out at Chapel Hill’s Celebrity Dairy goat farm and inn for the second annual Women’s Rock Retreat, Oct. 23-25. Over three days, the womenages 21 to 60will meet for the first time, form bands, learn an instrument, write a song (in some cases two), and then […]
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High School Musical 2
High School Musical 2 N.C. Theatre @ Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Through June 21 Wholesomeness gets a vigorous workout in North Carolina Theatre’s High School Musical 2. Those who love the Disney TV movies won’t be disappointed: From the explosive opening number filled with flashy lighting design and set changes, and impressive dance steps, the show’s […]
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Raleigh Little Theatre’s Lend Me a Tenor
Lend Me a Tenor Raleigh Little Theatre Through April 26 This classical music farce opens with an aroused woman convulsing on the couch of a swanky hotel room as she listens to a record of a certain tenor called Tito Merelli. Maggie (Adrienne Morton) climaxes with surprising vigor, recovering as her boyfriend (or fiancé, depending […]
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Justice Theater Project’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me Justice Theater Project @ St. Mary’s School Through March 1 Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me is the most famous of Irish playwright Frank McGuinness’ oeuvre, and the Justice Theater Project’s production showcases clever directing by Carnessa Ottelin and the well-cast, dynamic trio of performers as an American doctor, an Irish […]
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Hot Summer Nights’ The Robber Bridegroom
The Robber Bridegroom Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy, Progress Energy Center Through June 29 Brimming with vivacity, Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy’s The Robber Bridegroom is a solidly crafted, entertaining production that tells the tall tale of Rodney, Miss. in 1795, when fetish-mongering robbers, bodiless heads, sexy ravens and consequence-less murders were the […]
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Carolina’s Funniest Comic competition at DSI
In a low, melodious voice, an aspiring standup comedian performing under the name “DT” expresses his hope that Hillary Clinton’s primary struggle would come to an end soon. But then DT casts his eyes downward to the Carrboro stage in a way that suggests he is preparing a confession. The audience, after a couple hollers […]
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The great human race
In an epigram celebrated by cyclists, H.G. Wells said, “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” So it is that the author of The War of the Worlds would have been utterly tickled by the Alley Cat race in Raleigh May 3, […]
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Getting there from here
If you have a couple of hours to kill and some ambition to spare, traveling via bicycle between cities in the Triangle is a good way to go without burning increasingly precious gas. But you really do need to have time to spareand a spare inner tube wouldn’t hurt, either. A good place to start […]
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School’s out (and the living is easy)
If you’re looking to enjoy cultural events that are freeor practically free, compared the price of gascollege campuses, filled as they are with the spirit of Cup Ramen-eating, food-mooching students, are a good place to start. Beyond that are the inexpensive offerings at museums, parks and elsewhere that seem to bloom every summer, a testament […]