Jan. 15–21, 2020
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 inCulture
Carrboro’s ArtsCenter Receives $1.6 Million Grant
Plans are moving along for the ArtCenter’s new location on Jones Ferry Road.
Posted inArt
Photographer Emily Baxter Works in the Gap Between Crime and Conviction
In “We Are All Criminals,” one of her incarceration-related photo series on view at Arcana, Baxter focuses not on who’s been convicted, but who hasn’t.
Posted inBusiness & Economy
“Hillbilly Elegy” Author J.D. Vance’s New Venture Capital Fund to Invest in Triangle Start-Ups
According to an Axios report, J.D. Vance, “a strong proponent of investing in often-overlooked places,” will invest in “Raleigh-Durham.”
Posted inFood & Drink
Chef Michael Lee to Bring M Sushi to Cary in 2021
The second location of M Sushi will open in Fenton in a neighboring space to Scott Crawford’s new steakhouse
Posted inBooks
Submit Your Poems to the Twelfth Annual Nâzım Hikmet Poetry Prize
Submissions for the Cary-based poetry prize are open until January 10, 2020.
Posted inBooks
All the World’s a Cage in Jessica Q. Stark’s “Savage Pageant”
The poetry collection covers a lot of ground—psychogenic disorders, ghosts, a nuclear meltdown—but it centers on Jungleland, a now-defunct zoo for Hollywood show animals.
Posted inBooks
Nightstand: Here’s What Your Local Bookseller Is Reading
This week: William Page from downtown Durham’s Letters Bookshop.
Posted inBooks
Novelist Devi S. Laskar Wins the 2020 Crook’s Corner Book Prize
“The story grabbed me,” Charlies Frazier, the judge for this year’s event, said of the novel. “The subject matter could not have been more of the moment.”