Doug Marlette is at it again. In a play on the “What Would Jesus Drive” SUV controversy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist angered Muslims across the world by asking the pointed question, “What would Mohammed drive?” over a drawing of an Islamic man in a truck carrying a nuclear missile. The cartoon didn’t quite state […]
Todd Morman
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Loners in a Crowd
There’s a concrete box at the end of the alley next to Raleigh’s Basement Studios. Tonight, it’s filled with sweating, bouncing people whose ears are being slammed repeatedly by the music ricocheting off the bare walls. The ringing will last for days, but the crowd doesn’t seem to mind. Neither do The Loners. The punk […]
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Joys of the Spillover Effect
Avant-garde jazz lovers across the Triangle surely have only one thing on their minds this week: Thank God for the town of Winston-Salem. The Triangle’s jazz community, like the area’s other music scenes, often benefits from shows scheduled in nearby places, as well as not-so-nearby places like Atlanta and Washington, D.C. But ArtsIgnite Festival 2002, […]
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Serious comics
There’s a scene in journalist Joe Sacco’s new book, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995, in which a Muslim schoolteacher-turned-soldier looks up at the sky as he’s defending his hometown of Gorazde from Serb attack. After three and a half years of bombings, snipers, rape and butchery on a scale that hadn’t […]
