“The big taboo, the big secret, is that it feels good. It doesn’t hurt you. It’s not like damnation is waiting for you. It dramatized what I went through in my twenties: coming out as an atheist, and then losing my mind.”
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 inFestivals
Durham’s Art Of Cool Announces September Lineup For Its Sixth-Annual Festival
Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jill Scott will headline the Art of Cool festival September 27–29.
Posted inCulture
The Double Shift Documents Working Motherhood Without Sentimentality
“Being a working mother intersects with public policy and healthcare and politics and gender roles, but there’s very little journalism about it.”
Posted inMusic
2019 NC Music Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
On Thursday, Merle Watson, 9th Wonder, Mitch Easter, Big Daddy Kane, and Elizabeth Cotten were announced as the 2019 NC Music Hall of Fame inductees.
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Groove In The Garden Announces 2019 Festival Lineup
The homegrown music festival will return to Raleigh on Saturday, September 21.
Posted inFilm & Television
Good Sex Isn’t Easy. Dr. Ruth Is Still Here to Help.
The new documentary “Ask Dr. Ruth” demonstrates that the legendary sex therapist’s guidance is as funny, poignant, and essential as ever.
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Listen to The Mountain Goats’ New Album, In League With Dragons, Out Today From Merge Records
Durham’s very own genre-bending wizards have a new release.
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Moogfest: Astra Taylor Spans Ancient Greece and Modern Raleigh to Ask, “What Is Democracy?”
“We talk a lot about voice in this society, but people need power. I can tell my stories until the cows come home, but if there’s not actual structural change, then what’s the point, if I’m just shouting into the void?”
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The Raconteurs’ National Headlining Tour Comes to Raleigh in September
The Detroit rock supergroup has a new record, Help Us Stranger, due out in June.
Posted inTheater
Couldn’t Get into Hamilton at DPAC Last Fall? Start Saving Now for a Second Shot.
DPAC announced the return of the smash musical today.