Carolina Performing Art’s season kicks off on September 23 with a performance by The Soul Rebels and NC State LIVE celebrates 50 years with a September 18 block party.
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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Ongoing Controversy at Pioneers Church Takes a Turn When the Organization Disaffiliates with Its Denomination
Since November, tension around the hybrid church-slash-business run by pastor Sherei Lopez Jackson has mounted.
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Nasher Museum of Art Receives $1 Million Donation
The donation will go toward making admission to the museum free indefinitely.
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15 Minutes: John Manuel, 72, Author
Manuel is an environmental journalist and the author of several books, including two inspired by local rivers.
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The Eno River Festival Announces Summer 2022 Lineup
And other local summer music festivals you may want to scope.
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Crook’s Corner Teases Its Revival with an Afternoon of Honeysuckle Sorbets
Reopening rumors were further stoked, earlier this month, when a semi-cryptic sign appeared on its door. It read: “HONEYSUCKLE Is Almost In Bloom. You Know What That Means.”
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Durham Artist Ernie Barnes’s ‘Sugar Shack’ Painting Sells for Record $15.3 Million
“I stole it—I would have paid a lot more,” Bill Perkins told the New York Times after the sale, regarding his ‘Sugar Shack’ purchase. “For certain segments of America, it’s more famous than the ‘Mona Lisa.’”
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Raleigh Author Makes a Case for Rewriting the Cultural Scripts Around Motherhood
“We are getting the message that if you mother, it should be the thing that colors everything else in your life. And if you don’t mother, you’re not living in Technicolor.”
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Chapel Hill Guitar Virtuoso Elizabeth Cotten Will Be Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Born in Chapel Hill in 1893, Cotten was a musical trailblazer. Other 2022 inductees include Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon.
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Organizing Employees at a Raleigh Starbucks Face a Disappointing Union Election. They’re Not Giving Up Yet.
The election tally was 7 votes no, 5 yes—with several votes from organizers challenged or not counted. Organizers are challenging the election.
