Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders Manbites Dog Theater Through Nov. 14 Local playwright Howard L. Craft (A Touch of Sugga) explores a little-observed moment in American culture in his new play Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders, currently enjoying its premiere at Manbites Dog Theater. Set against the backdrop of the fall of the […]
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Hillsborough house of horrors
Who wouldn’t want to live in a house where a strangely indestructible white-masked serial killer began his reign of terror? For many horror fans, Kenny Caperton is living the dream. Caperton is the owner and proprietor of the Myers House North Carolina, a Victorian residence in rural Hillsborough designed to replicate the veneer of the […]
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The hunt for fried October: the food horrors at the N.C. State Fair
It’s the next-to-last night of the North Carolina State Fair, and my friends and I are stalking the fairgrounds in search of deep-fried butter. Everyone we’ve talked with claims that it’s here, but no one’s actually seen it. Since Oprah Winfrey shared the flash-frozen sticks covered in batter with her audience at the Texas State […]
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Michael Chabon (in town this Thursday) discusses children and popular culture
Michael Chabon is the jack-of-all-trades of contemporary literature. His literate, humorous, elegiac books include everything from a Pulitzer Prize winner about comic book creators (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) to an alternate-world mystery in a Jewish free state (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union). Chabon’s making his first trip through the Triangle to promote his […]
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Michael Chabon discusses children and popular culture
Michael Chabon is the jack-of-all-trades of contemporary literature. His literate, humorous, elegiac books include everything from a Pulitzer Prize winner about comic book creators (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) to an alternate-world mystery in a Jewish free state (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union). Chabon’s making his first trip through the Triangle to promote his […]
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Carolina Theatre books Gen X touchstones for Escapism Film Festival
Escapism Film Festival Carolina Theatre Oct. 16-18 One thousand tickets. That’s what the Escapism Film Festival, running this weekend at Durham’s Carolina Theatre, needs to sell if moviegoers want to see it around for another year. Jim Carl, senior director of the Carolina Theatre, is blunt about this. “Basically, this festival, if the attendance isn’t […]
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Altar Boyz is smart silliness
Altar Boyz @ Raleigh Little Theatre Through Oct. 25 Altar Boyz has quite a reputation Off-Broadway. A few years ago, I interviewed a former actor from the show who fondly recalled the loyalty of the “Altarholics” who’d seen the show dozens of times. The production at the Raleigh Little Theatre, which runs through Oct. 25, […]
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Punchbuggy Tour: Teen homosexuality, herpes and other topics fit for comics
PERKINS LIBRARY, DUKE UNIVERSITYThose who maintain that comic books are merely for children would have encountered powerful arguments to the contrary at Duke’s Perkins Library on Tuesday, where a trio of young creators discussed comics covering such topics as teen homosexuality, living with herpes and hooking up with a way-too-young waitress on a business trip. […]
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Dan Aykroyd takes Glenwood South
It’s 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, and I’m on the roof of Solas waiting to see if I’m going to get to drink vodka out of a glass skull with one of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players. After Dan Aykroyd became a superstar for his work on Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters and […]
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Cheap celluloid dates at the Colony Theater’s Cinema Overdrive
How hardcore a cinephile are you? Sure, you occasionally take in an indie film or even head to one of the screenings of older movies throughout the Triangle. But are you prepared for a new series celebrating older films that perhaps only serious film geeks have heard of? The Colony Theater is hoping you are […]
