When 11 local bands gather at Raleigh bar White Collar Crime on Sunday, anyone can walk through the door for free. There’s no cover. But don’t expect many attendees to shirk the suggested donation of $10: The diverse mix of bandsfrom the snarling miscreants of Rocket Cottage and the riff lords of The Trousers to […]
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Holly On Top
Holly Hughes–a self-proclaimed “escape artist” from her conservative hometown of Saginaw, Mich.–has never been one to escape notice. A blonde, pixie-ish W.A.S.P. from the “navy bean capital” itself, she’s also a New York-based lesbian performance artist who will mow you down with her acrobatic speaking style. After getting her start as a playwright and solo […]
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Communal Antidote
Life in the Triangle today pretty much parrots the national creed to “keep moving.” Not only does the annual sloughing off of college students define the local sensibility, but the casual erection of, say, entire developments in a single bound sets a certain rhythm as well. Housing, then, seems pockmarked by the disposable motif: Rent […]
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A Place to Live
If a biographer ever goes harpooning for the story of poet and novelist Eileen Myles, I imagine a critical autopsy of the writer’s grade-school report cards would ensue. Surely there’d be some struggle to find parallels to the present-day Myles: repeated misconduct, inability to sit still, an exasperating refusal to follow directions. Of course, we’d […]
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Freshly Pressed
Amazing, that in 30 years of proliferating MFA programs and professional tracks, a poet now breathes the wholly different air of an insider. This is less a clearly evil fact than it is a myopic one–given much of poetry’s history as outsider art. It’s easy to forget the poet was once less an academic-circuit celebrity […]
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Collective identity
It’s that time of year. No, I’m not talking about Groundhog Day or Valentine’s Day. The Independent Dancemakers’ annual concert, happening this weekend in The Ark at Duke, is a precursor to spring in its own right. Comprised of dancer-choreographers Rebecca Hutchins, Mindy Cervi, Anne Griffiths and Laura Thomasson, this group’s makeup has changed subtly […]