Farm to Fork‘s annual picnic pairs many of the area’s best farmers and chefs for unique, collaborative bite-size dishes. This year, it’s set for June 3 on the grounds of Fearrington Village in Pittsboro. The celebration of local food, considered by Bon Appetit to be “the country’s best all-you-can-eat feast,” brings together dozens of chefs, […]
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Raleigh’s March for Our Lives Draws Ten Thousand Demanding Gun Reform
As hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of demonstrators called for gun reform at March for Our Lives events across the country and the world today, a huge crowd marched through downtown Raleigh to add their voices to the cause. According to Faisal Khan, one of the event’s organizers, about ten thousand enthusiastic protesters marched […]
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Where Did All Those Flowers in Raleigh Trash Cans Come From? Find Out in NCMA’s Art in Bloom
March 22-March 25 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Various times, $13-$18 www.ncartmuseum.org Over the past several days, vast floral arrangements began appearing in trash cans across Raleigh, turning eyesores into exuberant works of art. They were part of the North Carolina Museum of Art’s pop-up campaign for the fourth-annual Art in Bloom, an exhibit […]
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Documentary Food Evolution Is an Unusually Measured Look at the Polarizing GMO Debate
Thursday, March 22 Meredith College’s Jones Auditorium, Raleigh 6 p.m., free www.meredith.edu For all the films that rightly persecute the food industry for disregarding environmental and ethical issues in the name of profit, there are not many that consider the dangerous assumptions activists might ensnare themselves in if their ideology begins to overtake the scientific […]
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Owners of Old Havana Are Back with COPA, America’s First Farm-to-Table Cuban Restaurant
COPA, the nation’s first farm-to-table Cuban restaurant, opens its doors in downtown Durham this Friday, March 23. Co-owners Roberto Copa Matos and Elizabeth Turnbull, who previously operated the now-closed Old Havana Sandwich Shop in Durham, are back with a new venture that is highly inspired by nineteenth-century Cuban recipes, including many that have been all […]
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Orange County Commissioners Back Plan to Target Confederate Flags Without Actually Targeting Confederate Flags
The Orange County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously last night to push forward with an amendment to its unified development ordinance that would limit the size of flags and flagpoles across the county, although the measure must still go before a public hearing before being enacted. The move came after a “Southern heritage” organization known […]
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Five Fun (and Maybe a Little Drunk) Ways to Spend Your St. Patrick’s Day
There’s an almost overwhelming number of parties and events happening across the Triangle on St. Patrick’s Day—and even more so this year, as the holiday fortuitously falls on a Saturday, so no one has to worry about going to work hung over the next morning. Which means: Revelry will abound. Green beer will flow. Drunk […]
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Celebrating its Eighty-Fifth Anniversary, American Dance Festival Presents More Than Fifty Performances this Season
The American Dance Festival recently unveiled the schedule for its eighty-fifth anniversary, which features fifty-three performances across seven Durham venues from June 14 through July 21. This year, women choreographers take center stage in two featured programs: Wondrous Women, with solo performances by Michelle Dorrance and Rhapsody James, and Footprints, a concert featuring work by […]
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PlayMakers Repertory Company Announces an Eclectic New Season Focused on Realigning Power Dynamics
PlayMakers Repertory Company just released a packed lineup of plays it will be putting on this year, including six diverse main-stage acts and three supplemental plays across the 2018–19 season. Producing artistic director Vivienne Benesch told UNC Media that her team selected a wide scope of plays to perform this year, but that despite their […]
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Full Frame’s 2018 Lineup Dives Into the Complexities of the Criminal Justice System
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival just released its full lineup for 2018, and it appears this year’s list will be as groundbreaking as ever. Durham’s annual festival will include screenings of thirty-two feature films and ten shorts from across the world on April 5–8, which will be shown at Carolina Theatre and other venues […]