INDY’s 2024 Reader Survey is here! Please answer a few quick questions that will help us better understand how you use the INDY and how we can continue to improve. Take the 2024 Reader Survey here. Hi! Happy weekend. It’s that ambiently in-between stage of late April that’s neither fully spring nor summer fully summer, […]
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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Field Guide: Visions From Dreamville
Thanks to our sponsor: Hope for Teens is Wake County’s ONLY organization dedicated to the LGBTQ+ Youth. Hope for Teens is hosting the 2nd Annual Queer Prom for all LGBTQ+ High School Students and their allies to include awards, dancing, and performances! Join us on June 1st. Hi! Happy weekend. Two of the Triangle’s big culture […]
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Field Guide: Naomi Dix’s new queer nightclub and bar
Hi! Happy weekend. And happy post-solar-eclipse week. Were you able to watch it? Here in North Carolina, in my backyard’s path of non-totality, I was transfixed—not just by the tiny red/black disc but by the way the earth’s mood seemed to shift; full of tenebrous light and nervy shadows. But it’s useless to try and […]
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Field Guide: Dreaming of Dreamville, Full Frame picks, and more
Thanks to our sponsor: The Nasher Museum is proud to present María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold. The exhibition spans nearly four decades of the artist’s work in photography, installation, video, painting and performance. Her practice embraces the eye of the artist as a tool for witnessing the world with beauty, care and empathy. Admission is free! Hi! Happy weekend. If you feel an electrical frequency in the air, this weekend, it might have something to […]
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Redstart Foods Will Open a Dining and Retail Space in North Durham
Matt Northup and his wife and business partner, the artist Jordan Grace Owens, are expanding their business with Redstart Takeaway, a dining and retail space in North Durham.
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This Summer, Music in the Gardens Reads From the Country Soul Songbook
The popular Sarah P. Duke Gardens concert series is back May 29-June 26 with a trailblazing local partner.
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Full Frame Festival Announces 2024 Programming
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.
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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.
