How Andrea Reusing prepares a turkey, how Sam Jones uses leftovers, and more from chefs around the Triangle.
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Edwards is culture editor of the INDY, covering cultural institutions and the arts in the Triangle. She joined the staff in 2019 and assumed her current role in 2020.
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Talking with Nate DiMeo About “The Memory Palace: True Stories of the Past”
Ahead of a book tour stop at Duke University, the host of popular podcast “The Memory Palace” chats about storytelling, butter sculptures, and how learning about the past can crack open greater possibilities for the present.
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Field Guide: Remembering the Local Musicians We Lost This Year
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. As we inch toward the end of the year, I’ve been looking back on 2024’s culture coverage throughlines. There’s a lot of reporting to be proud of and thankful for; one theme, though, that has been a tragic throughline—and one that bears further emphasis—is that the […]
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Field Guide: Maya Freelon’s “Whippersnappers” is a must-see
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy Friday. Hope you’re holding up okay. This weekend, I’m taking my dog to the beach for the first time, which is a wonderfully straightforward thing to look forward to. (Dog: Ocean: Sand: Zoomies). I’ll report back. Housekeeping: The Best of the Best Triangle Readers Poll is live! […]
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At Historic Stagville, Maya Freelon Uses a Delicate Medium to Draw Out History’s True Colors
“Whippersnappers,” Maya Freelon’s moving new exhibition at Historic Stagville, reimagines the lives of enslaved children, lending shape and texture to their legacies.
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Field Guide: Highlights from community reporting this year
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. I’ve received several email newsletters this week with the subject line: “What’s Next?” They are referencing the election of Donald Trump and offer an intimidating precedent, one I won’t try to match here. I don’t know what comes next. I’ve had a tab with an INDY […]
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A Beautiful New Arts Space Opens Outside Chapel Hill
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. It’s political purgatory weekend, aka four days until the election. As ever: Please vote! And please give our comprehensive election package a read to catch up on the lead-up to November 5. We will also have a live blog up that begins when the polls open […]
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Just Outside Chapel Hill, a Capacious Space for Creatives
The photographer Phyllis B. Dooney had long dreamed of a space where artists could find studio space, a darkroom, and community. PHOTO FARM catches the light just right.
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Field Guide: Rhiannon Giddens Brings a New Festival to Durham
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. As you may have heard, Rhiannon Giddens is bringing Biscuits & Banjos, a new festival with an old history, to downtown Durham in April. The three-day festival will reunite The Carolina Chocolate Drops—CCD member Dom Flemmons teased the reunion recently (!) with a photo of the […]
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“Trump Really Supercharged It”: Bill Adair On How Political Lying Got So Bad (and Why Republicans Do It More)
Talking with Bill Adair about his new book “Beyond the Big Lie,” how misinformation became mainstream, and how we can correct course.
