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 […]
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Glen David Gold’s Sunnyside
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold Alfred A. Knopf, 559 pp. Glen David Gold’s first novel, Carter Beats the Devil, was a marvelously over-the-top historical fiction that by the time you were finished with it, had educated you thoroughly in the workings of stage magicians, the Secret Service, the early years of television and much more. […]
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Nathan Rabin’s The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture
The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture By Nathan Rabin Simon & Schuster, 342 pp. As head writer of the The Onion‘s AV Club, Nathan Rabin has become one of the most entertaining and prolific entertainment writers around in recent years. From his film reviews to TV evaluations (his episode-by-episode look […]
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Darwyn Cooke’s Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Hunter Adapted and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke IDW, 144 pp. In the Indy‘s look at the best books from 2008, I named the University of Chicago Press’ reissues of Donald Westlake’s crime books that he wrote as Richard Stark as one of the best of the year; days after that review […]
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The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music N.C. Theatre @ Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Through Aug. 2 The Sound of Music is enduring as a piece of musical theater because it promotes a certain feeling of exuberance. Yes, it’s sentimental, condenses history for storytelling purposes and even rewrites the geography of Austria in the climax (you aren’t getting to […]
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David Sedaris remembers the city of his youth
David Sedaris graduated from Sanderson High School in 1975 and left Raleigh for the bright lights of, among other things, Chicago, New York, menial jobs, unfinished college courses and the Macy’s Santaland. Still, in his remarkably successful career, he has returned time and again to his youth in Raleigh, as a member of a large, […]
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Charley’s Aunt
Charley’s Aunt Theatre in the Park Through June 21 Men wearing women’s clothes is one of the ancient traditions of the theater, as is the confusion that results from it. And once you actually had male characters dressed as womenwell, that opened up a whole new genre of storytelling that continues to this day. The […]
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A dark-tinged take on Cabaret at Raleigh Little Theatre
Cabaret Raleigh Little Theatre Through June 28 Raleigh Little Theatre’s production of Cabaret might be the only RLT production where you can take both your mom and that girl you met at Hot Topic. Haskell Fitz-Simons’ direction of the classic Kander/Ebb musical takes its cues from the darker, more sexualized revival that Sam Mendes helmed […]
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You haven’t met fankids until you’ve been to Animazement
It’s 85 degrees on a sunny Memorial Day weekend, and I’m in an elevator with Princess Zelda and a ninja whose kendo sword’s hilt is bumping into my left nostril. We’re at the Raleigh Convention Center for the 12th Animazement, a festival of Japanese animation, comics, video games and culture. I’m wearing a golf shirt […]
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Side by Side by Sondheim a terrific evening of music
Despite a last-minute thunderstorm that threatened to cancel the production, Raleigh Little Theatre‘s outdoor production of Side by Side by Sondheim was a terrific evening of, pardon the pun, a little night music. The performance, which is repeated May 15 and 16 at 8 p.m., is a bare-bones recreation of almost 30 numbers by one […]
