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Art Review: Truth to Power, Pleiades Gallery’s Annual Social Justice Show, Aptly Starts With a Cry of Pain

Truth to Power 4Through Sunday, Aug. 7 Pleiades Gallery, Durham Before you even enter downtown Durham’s Pleiades Gallery, you’re met by the face of a black man in anguish. “Rage,” which peers out of the front windows of the gallery, is by Durham’s Clarence Mayo Jr. It depicts the pained, scrunched face of a shouting […]

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Fearing Cultural Appropriation, Our Writer Discovers a Reverent Home for Japanese Archery in North Carolina

Pop stars flaunting kimonos and traditional headdresses, overpriced bowls of ramen in hipster restaurants, tattoos of misspelled Japanese charactersall of this hits close to home for me. Growing up in a country where I was ridiculed for what I ate and my slender eyes, I grew increasingly defensive about anyone interpreting my culture. I felt […]

Posted inFood & Drink

“Spread the Word of Cider”: Mattie Beason Talks About Shutting Down Six Plates to Make Room for Black Twig Cider House

Matthew Beason is at it again—and this time, he’s bringing cider. The Bull City native is working with longtime partner John Eisensmith to rebrand the successful Six Plates restaurant as Black Twig Cider House, named for the Tar Heel apples often used to make cider. After eight years, Six Plates will serve its final plates […]

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