On the phone about her appearance at Meredith College on March 8, Jodi Picoult is friendly, bubbly and frequently laughing. There’s no indication of the misery and tragedy visited upon the characters in her best-selling novels, including My Sister’s Keeper, Handle With Care and her latest, House Rules, which hit bookstores on Tuesday. Picoult’s novels […]
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Jodi Picoult discusses Asperger syndrome and her new novel, House Rules
On the phone about her appearance at Meredith College on March 8, Jodi Picoult is friendly, bubbly and frequently laughing. There’s no indication of the misery and tragedy visited upon the characters in her best-selling novels, including My Sister’s Keeper, Handle With Care and her latest, House Rules, which hit bookstores on Tuesday. Picoult’s novels […]
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N.C. Theatre’s The Full Monty
The Full Monty N.C. Theatre at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Through March 7 Popular culture has a sort of carousel-like relationship to real life; it starts off as relevant, slowly fades into the past, then comes around to become relevant again. Such is the case of the 2000 musical version of The Full Monty, the adaptation […]
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The Winter’s Tale at Peace College moves from bleak to pastoral, and in pajamas, too
THE WINTER’S TALE Peace College Through Feb. 27; www.peace.edu The Winter’s Tale is one of William Shakespeare’s last and less-performed plays, and it’s easy to see why. It’s literally half tragedy and half comedy, with a dark, vengeance-filled first opening act that gives way to a second act filled with songs and romantic misunderstandings; the […]
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An interview with Larry Flynt about free speech
The pornographer and First Amendment champion Larry Flynt will speak to students on the UNC campus tonight, Thursday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Student Union. Free tickets are still available at the Student Union box office. Flynt’s public image received a major positive makeover when he was portrayed by […]
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Nevermore curates the latest in cinematic horror, along with a few classics
Nevermore Film Festival Carolina Theatre Feb. 19-21 If you’re sick of Saw sequels and are wondering if there are even any horror films left to be remade, take refuge this weekend at the Carolina Theatre’s Nevermore Film Festival. With its combination of all-new features, shorts and classic horror films, it’s a reminder of what the […]
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Theatre in the Park’s Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell
Don’t Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell Theatre in the Park Through Feb. 21 After seven decades, the 1939 film of Gone With the Wind remains the highest-grossing film of all time after adjusting for inflation (yes, even bigger than Avatar). The adaptation of this sprawling work from page to film is a monumental story in […]
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Raleigh Little Theatre’s Veronica’s Room
Veronica’s Room Raleigh Little Theatre Through Feb. 28 The biggest mistake made in Raleigh Little Theatre’s production of Ira Levin’s Veronica’s Room is the intermission. The good stuff’s all in the second act and starts almost immediately after the curtain goes up, but the first act is mostly lighthearted exposition. Levin himself wrote that the […]
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The Late Show’s Eddie Brill brings his actand his knowledgeto N.C. Comedy Arts Festival
Independent Weekly: What are you going to be doing at the N.C. Comedy Arts Festival? Eddie Brill: Well, for me, I’m willing to help any way I can, both as a standup comedian and as a booker on the Letterman show. I’m going to perform, and look at the comedians, possibly for Letterman or for […]
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Jim Rugg discusses Afrodisiac
Jim Rugg Saturday, Feb. 6, 5-9 p.m. Chapel Hill Comics The ’70s are back: Those who missed the blaxploitation pastiche Black Dynamite have a second shot at some quality retro action when writer-artist Jim Rugg visits Chapel Hill Comics this week to promote his new graphic novel Afrodisiac. The 96-page hardcover was recently released by […]
