And other local summer music festivals you may want to scope.
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.
Posted inFood & Drink
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.”
Posted inArt
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.’”
Posted inBooks
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.”
Posted inMusic
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.
Posted inFood & Drink
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.
Posted inMusic
Triangle First: On “Fear of Flying,” Dissimilar South Tracks the Nuances of Romantic Dissolution
“I want you, but I won’t see this through,” Carter Hodge sings with unflinching honesty, in a new song premiering on the INDY today.
Posted inMusic
Triangle First: The Sound of Nightblooms’ Almost-Classic-Rock
“Heart to Heart,” premiering on the INDY Week today, is one of the first songs from Sam Logan’s new project.
Posted inMusic
Triangle First: Django Haskins Isn’t “Afraid of Love”
Haskins’ duet with Skylar Gudasz has the romantic, reassuring feel of a song you’d encounter in a Gene Kelly movie.
Posted inMusic
On Her Sophomore Album ‘Dream Rooms,’ Kate Rhudy Goes Her Own Way
The new album is a bittersweet slant toward the sweetness that romance can offer, even when fraught. It sounds, in other words, a lot like love.