You have to crack a few nuts to put together a ballet of this scale. A million-dollar corporate grant from Raleigh-based Progress Energy doesn’t hurt either. Besides rehearsing the dancers and musicians, you’ve got advertising strategies, budget balancing, and a demanding pre-production schedule to deal with–for the set alone. And this is no ordinary set: […]
Todd Fjelsted
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Slice of Life
Raised in New Orleanswhere art, music and cuisine still hold sway over trends, private clubs and strip mallsGrover Williamson approached things a bit differently than many business owners in the Triangle. In September of 1989, he signed the lease on a roomy warehouse in downtown Raleigh and by the following St. Patrick’s Day, the doors […]
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Pop and Circumstance
For several years, the first Friday of the month in downtown Raleigh has meant evening sidewalks filled with art-seeking gallerygoers straight off the heels of fine dining in the city’s expanding restaurant and bar scenes. Initially, the open-late galleries and artists’ studios were centralized around Raleigh’s Moore Square area, with city-funded organizations like Artspace handling […]
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Shouts and Whispers
In his recent series of photos, on view at the Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, Doug Deneen breaks new ground, at least in relation to his previous work– photographed collages, mostly composed of sharp color studies of semi-abstract objects—and eschews his trademark still-lifes for images of the natural world captured in quiet moments of light […]
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The New Guard
The Triangle’s varied visual art scene has grown in leaps and bounds in the last few years, and is now harvesting a crop of newcomers and celebrated talents, each adding their studied flavors to the aesthetic stew. As an example of the diversity and progressive themes we’ll get a taste of this fall, take notice […]
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Sign Age
Walking into The Sting-Ray Room, a nightclub on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, you’re immediately met with assorted kitschy ’70s and ’80s pop culture motifs, playfully and expertly merged, which set the stage for an intrinsically sensual environment. But the most telling aspect of The Stingray Room, much like its unofficial counterparts, Vertigo Diner and Humble […]