Cox’s film, “New Men,” screens at VAE Raleigh this week.
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.
Where to Eat and Drink This Week
Where to grab a bagel, pop in for an Ashley Christensen lunch slice, or sit down for a Sunday-style supper with Scott Crawford during the week of December 11–17, 2019.
The Durham Restaurant Community Rallies around Esau Escobedo, a Local Cook Who Lost His Young Daughter to Muscular Hypotonia
On November 11, the Escobedo family lost their daughter, Ariana, just eight days short of her first birthday.
You and I and Mountain Man and Everyone We Know
2019 has been an incredible year for song covers. This is good news for broken brains.
Pitmaster Matthew Register Shares His Delta Tamales Recipe
To kick off the December holidays, Matthew Register will stop by High Horse on December 3 for a pop-up tamale and cocktail bar.
Born on NPR, Reared at The Regulator, Allan Gurganus’s “A Fool for Christmas” Finally Sees Print
Durham letterpress printer Horse & Buggy Press and Duke University partnered to produce a book of Gurganus’s nativity story, committing an oral tradition to print at long last.
Rhiannon Giddens Delivers a Powerful Remembrance of the Wilmington Massacre of 1898
The musical performance is the latest in Come Hear NC’s intimate live recording sessions series, “In the Water.”
Jacob Tobia’s Memoir “Sissy” to Be Adapted by Showtime
The series, tentatively titled “Sissy,” will follow Tobi Gibran, a non-binary student who leaves North Carolina to pursue their dreams in New York City.
Where to Eat and Drink This Week
The best culinary events for the week of Nov. 27–Dec. 3.
Let’s All Go to the Movies, Nov. 22 Edition
It’s your Friday cinema rundown, with starred reviews and blurbs on movies to see (or avoid) in Triangle theaters this weekend.

