Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s film screens in the festival at The ArtsCenter on Saturday night.
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A Major Figure Made Minor in the Musical Goes Solo in YA History Hamilton and Peggy!
Peggy Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton’s sister-in-law and confidante, is the subject of L.M. Elliot’s new book.
Posted inFilm & Television
From Fact to Fiction and Back Again in N.C. State Grad Robert Greene’s Bisbee ’17
Greene discusses his acclaimed docu-fiction film, in which small-town citizens reenact hundred-year-old sins, before tomorrow’s Alamo Drafthouse screenings.
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Durham Comics Fest 2018
Saturday, June 23 Durham County Library Southwest Regional Branch) 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m., free, www.durhamcomicsfest.org If your budget or tolerance of crowds makes you wary of NC Comicon or Raleigh Supercon, the Durham County Library’s free, relatively intimate annual comics festival is a less intimidating venture into the waters of fandom. The main event is at […]
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Vape Smoke, Rick and Morty Costumes, $10 Chair Rentals, and Some Big TV Reveals at Adult Swim on the Green in Cary
Adult Swim on the Green Sunday, Jun. 3 WakeMed Soccer Park, Cary I’m barely out of my car in the crowded gravel lot at the WakeMed Soccer Park when someone calls out to ask if I want to smoke, and it’s clear he doesn’t mean tobacco. I politely wave him off. It’s going to be […]
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The New Oak City Comedy Festival Takes Over Raleigh Venues for Five Laugh-Filled Days
Tuesday, May 22-Saturday, May 26 Various venues, Raleigh Various times, $10+, www.oakcitycomedyfestival.com Institutions such as Goodnights have made Raleigh a stopping place for many of the finest comedians in the world. Now, the city’s branding itself as a center for comedy with the new Oak City Comedy Festival, which features both local and national voices […]
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Beloved Eighties Board Game Fireball Island Is Coming Back with New Tricks. Durham Got to Try It Out.
Forget Jumanji. If you grew up in the eighties, the greatest adventure game of all time was Fireball Island. On a recent Thursday, I headed to the comics and gaming shop Atomic Empire in Durham to relive those memories. Restoration Games, which specializes in remaking older board-game properties, was there on a tour to promote […]
Posted inFilm & Television
What Will Raleigh’s New Alamo Drafthouse Add to the Triangle’s Bustling Retro-Film Scene?
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE 2116-D, New Bern Avenue, Raleigh 984-444-6620 www.drafthouse.com/raleigh The fierce visage of Zardoz, the floating stone head from the unintentionally hilarious 1974 Sean Connery sci-fi flick of the same name, looms in the corner of a colorful mural on a marquee outside the new Alamo Drafthouse in Raleigh. After its soft opening on April […]
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At NRACT, the Inventive Peter and the Starcatcher Finds Some Fresh Life in the Old Pan Tale
Friday, April 20-Sunday, May 6 North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre, Raleigh 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat./3 p.m. Sun., $17-$20>br> www.nract.org In the absolute morass of Peter Pan-related sequels, prequels, and re-imaginingscall them vampires, robots, aliens, punks, whatever, it’s still about boys who just won’t grow upRick Elice’s adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s […]
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Murder, My Sweet and Gun Crazy, Two Hardboiled Films of the Mid-Twentieth-Century, Meet at the Carolina
Friday, March 30 The Carolina Theater, Durham 7 p.m., $10, www.carolinatheatre.org These are two of the most hardboiled American films of the post-World-War-II era. In Murder, My Sweet, Dick Powell stars as Raymond Chandler’s private eye, Philip Marlowe, at the center of a mystery that, like most of Chandler’s, isn’t particularly easy to follow but […]
