On Thursday, the downtown Durham festival released its full slate of programming for the sprawling April 4-7 event. It includes 50 titles, 35 features, and 15 short films from 22 countries.
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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Bull City Summit’s Discontents
New festival Bull City Summit seemed like it might draw big crowds to downtown Durham. But some small business partners say the founder’s promises didn’t add up. Now he’s facing charges of fraud.
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A New Documentary Tells the Story of a Chapel Hill Hate Crime
“36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime” shines light on the 2015 murder of three Muslim American students—and the effort to designate that massacre as a hate crime.
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After a Controversy-Filled Two Years in an Iconic Geer Street Space, Pioneers Durham Will Close Its Doors
A downtown Durham saga drew to a close on Tuesday when Pioneers Durham announced that it is shuttering.
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Sam’s Bottle Shop to Shutter In February
Owner John Boy Jr. says that he’s ready to retire. Customers, meanwhile, have until February 11 to buy a craft beer—and then pour one out—for the family-owned specialty shop.
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David Menconi on Rounder Records and the State of American Roots Music
Menconi’s new book on the history of the storied music label, is both an intimate look at founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, and Bill Nowlin and an expansive look at American roots music, such as we’ve come to know it
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Reasons to Love the Triangle
Looking back on 2023 and another year of culture coverage in the Triangle.
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Building Community and Sharing Skills In a Really, Really Free Way
The North Durham Mutual Aid group’s fourth-annual Really Really Free Market on Saturday, October 28, is a chance to “share instead of donate.”
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Local Classical Music Station Reverses Decision Not to Air Opera With “Adult Themes”
Following national pushback, WCPE announced today that it will air the Metropolitan Opera’s full 2023-24 season.
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“I Don’t Like to Know the End”: Talking With the Writer Rebecca Bengal
In “Strange Hours,” Rebecca Bengal’s capacious new essay collection out from Aperture, time acts as a framing device for 17 pieces about the lives of some of the past century’s most iconic photographers.
