A writer remembers his late father through a shared love of basketball, from the scuffed courts of Durham YMCAs to the hallowed stands of the Dean Dome.
Samuel Feldblum
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What a 1985 Insurgency Can Teach Us About Durham’s Mayoral Race
A young candidate runs for mayor of Durham, taking on older incumbents and promising a new direction: it’s a common scenario, and one that thirty-three-year-old musician Pierce Freelon hopes echoes earlier iterations. Later this fall, Freelonwho has been endorsed by Run for Something, a group that encourages millennials to run for officelooks to become Durham’s […]
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Luke Demarest’s 3-D-Printed Computer Language Whispers of Faith, Doubt, and Other Deeply Human Affairs
LUKE DEMAREST: AIBOHPHOBIA AND THE REIFIER’S SCHADENFREUDE Thursday, May 11, 6–9 p.m., free The Carrack Modern Art, Durham www.thecarrack.org If you’re reading this, then you are at the end of a long string of translations. A thought passed through keystrokes to become encoded in binary, traveling through airborne waves and buried cables before being reassembled […]
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Can Republican-Sponsored Redistricting Reform Save North Carolina’s Democracy?
It’s hardly news that North Carolina’s legislative and congressional districts are horribly twisted. Last year, two separate panels of federal judges ruled that the districtsdrawn by Republicans after they claimed power in 2010were in violation of the Equal Protection Clause, as they unconstitutionally packed minority voters to dilute the power of their vote. In February […]
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Hank Willis Thomas Brings His Quest for Truth to the Grand Opening of NCMA’s New Park
HANK WILLIS THOMAS LECTURE Thursday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m., free Nasher Museum of Art, Durham NCMA PARK CELEBRATION Sunday, Nov. 6, 1 p.m.–dark, freeNorth Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh When the North Carolina Museum of Art lets the public into its new park on Sunday, after a two-year-long renovation, two speech-bubble-shaped benches by the conceptual […]
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Tom Ross: The Man and His New Mission
In a stunning move last January, the University of North Carolina’s increasingly conservative board of governors requested Tom Ross’s resignation as system president. The board insisted the popular Ross had “served with distinction” and done an “exemplary” job since he was hired in 2010. It provided no reason for his dismissal beyond the need for […]