For those who know Elizabeth George only from her Inspector Lynley novels or the BBC adaptations that air on PBS, you might be in for a shock when you see her at her upcoming appearances at McIntyre’s Fine Books and at Quail Ridge Books & Music. Though the novels are set in England and feature […]
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Caldecott winner David Wiesner bends kids’ brains with Mr. Wuffles!
If you don’t know the name David Wiesner, ask your kids about “the book where the frogs fly around on lily pads” (Tuesday) or “the one where the Three Little Pigs break out of their story and go exploring” (The Three Pigs). Wiesner, who appears at Quail Ridge Books on Tuesday, Oct.15, has become one […]
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A novice attempts to understand Cats at new NC Theatre production
Curtis Brown Grizabella (Jennifer Shrader) confronts kitty mortality in “Cats.” CATS YMMV NC Theatre Through Oct. 13 When I was a kid, my parents used to read me T.S. Eliot’s poems from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats; as a teen, I owned a best-of-Andrew Lloyd Webber CD before I got into more Sondheim-y composers. […]
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Wake County startups deliver produce to your door
It’s 6:45 on a cool September morning, and in a family garage in North Raleigh, a group of stay-at-home moms sort through hundreds of boxes labeled “EAT YOUR VEGGIES!” from the back of a mover’s truck. The boxes contain plenty of produce aisle mainstaysapples and eggplantsplus offbeat fare, such as tiny personal-size watermelons, hydroponic lettuce […]
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19th-century emo in Raleigh Little Theatre’s Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening Raleigh Little Theatre Through Oct. 27 It can be an uncomfortable experience to see actual teens crooning the sexually charged tunes of Spring Awakening, but isn’t that the point of the show? The enduring following of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s reworking of Frank Wedekind’s play might come from its willingness to admit […]
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Justice Theater Project’s valid One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Justice Theater Project Clare Hall, St. Francis of Assisi Through Sept. 22 Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has remained a mainstay of literature, and even more well-known is the Oscar-winning 1975 film directed by Milos Forman with its towering performances by Jack Nicholson as the anarchic […]
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He is Legend: Richard Matheson’s “The Last Man on Earth” Screens at the Carolina Theatre
Wikipedia Commons“The Last Man on Earth” Movie Poster There’s few authors who have been as influential as Richard Matheson — and yet, unless you’re a hardcore fan of science fiction/fantasy/horror, you might not know his name. Yet the author and screenwriter, who passed away in June at the ripe old age of 87, not only […]
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The Dark is Rising author Susan Cooper on Harry Potter and studying with Lewis and Tolkien
Tsar Fedorsky Susan Cooper Susan Cooper was doing children’s fantasy novels long before they took over seemingly all of fiction, and her famed five-book sequence The Dark is Rising has remained in print for more than four decades, with two of the book in the sequence receiving a Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor, the highest […]
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Turning leaves: a guide to this fall’s reading
This fall’s literary calendar is full. Hillsborough mainstays Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus make the rounds with new books. Gurganus’ Local Souls drops Sept. 23, while Smith’s Guests on Earth, a novel inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald’s stay in an Asheville mental hospital, comes out in October. Another ubiquitous figure will be Wilton Barnhardt, who just […]
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“I’m not John Updike, and I never will be”: Richard Kadrey has Kill City Blues
Photo via Harper CollinsRichard Kadrey With titles such as Aloha From Hell and Kill the Dead, it’s clear that Richard Kadrey’s “Sandman Slim” novels are not for the faint of heart, something that should be equally clear from just looking at the author. If the photo’s not enough of a clue, Kadrey might be the […]
