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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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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.
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Rhiannon Giddens Brings New Festival Biscuits & Banjos to Durham
Twenty years after The Carolina Chocolate drops formed in North Carolina, the group will reunite in Durham for Biscuits & Banjos, a three-day celebration of Black roots music.
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Field Guide: Halloween Edition (Corrected Version)
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. Writer’s note: Due to technology issues, an old version of this newsletter sent earlier. Appropriately, it was from Groundhog Day. This is the correct version! There are a couple of scary things happening in the next few weeks—the election, Halloween—but today, I’m going to focus on […]
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Field Guide: Halloween-ish Edition (Corrected Version)
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. Writer’s note: Apologies, an error with Mailchimp sent out an old version of the newsletter (fittingly, from Groundhog Day). This is the correct version. There are a couple of scary things happening in the next few weeks—the election, Halloween—but today, I’m going to focus on the […]
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A Shepard Fairey Mural of Kamala Harris Debuts in Durham
North Carolina is one of five battleground states to land a mural of the vice president. It is the first time that Fairey has made a rendering of a candidate since his iconic 2008 “Hope” image of Barack Obama.
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Field Guide: Sylvan Esso, the Mountain Goats, Avett Brothers and more collaborate on massive benefit album
View This Email In Your Browser Hi! Happy weekend. In the interest of getting my newsletter open rate up, I might’ve made this subject line “The Best $10 You’ll Ever Spend,” but that’s tacky. Nevertheless! I do have an excellent suggestion for something you put a Hamilton toward, this weekend. A hurricane relief benefit compilation […]
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Musicians Pull Together Massive Compilation for Western North Carolina Flood Relief
The 136-track “Cardinals at the Window” release features music from Waxahatchee, R.E.M., Phish, MJ Lenderman, and dozens of other artists. All proceeds will go to on-the-ground mutual aid organizations in Western North Carolina.
