It’s Friday night, and I’ve driven from Raleigh to the Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill to watch a 40-year-old sex comedy projected onto a bed sheet from a bootleg DVD on the rain-slicked lawn. “Are you in for a treat or what?” shouts Preservation Society of Chapel Hill Executive Director Ernest Dollar, who’s introducing […]
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Raleigh Little Theatre’s Ozma of Oz
Ozma of Oz: A Tale of Time Raleigh Little Theatre Through July 27 Raleigh Little Theatre’s Teens on Stage production of Ozma of Oz: A Tale of Time is a lovely piece of all-ages entertainment. Loosely adapted from one of the many sequels L. Frank Baum wrote for The Wizard of Oz by family playwright […]
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10 by 10 in the Triangle at The ArtsCenter
10 by 10 in the Triangle The ArtsCenter of Carrboro Through July 20 The ArtsCenter’s seventh annual 10 by 10 in the Triangle festival is “the year of high-risk behavior,” according to the program notes. A more accurate description of the theme linking the 10 10-minute plays is “two people have a conversation where they […]
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N.C. Theatre’s Peter Pan
Peter Pan N.C. Theatre, Memorial Auditorium at Progress Energy Center Through July 20 Can a generation of kids raised on Pirates of the Caribbean‘s Captain Jack Sparrow still appreciate Captain Hook? Well, they might, at least as he’s played by Ira David Wood III in the N.C. Theatre’s production of Peter Pan. As Hook, Wood […]
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Bill for state’s burgeoning video game industry gutted in legislature
My friend Steven Allison recently left his job to become a game master for the online role-playing game Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures at the Durham office of Norwegian game developer Funcom. He works third shift, playing the game and monitoring bugs for eight hours, then drives home and heads straight back to his XBox […]
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Sarah Dessen, young adult before it was cool
Sarah Dessen was worried when her agent told her that her first book, That Summer, was a “young-adult novel.” At the time, there was little to bridge the gap between children’s and adult fiction beyond such series books as Sweet Valley High, and Dessen feared her teen-focused novel would be shelved with such kiddie staples […]
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The Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago
The Duck Variations and Sexual Perversity in Chicago Ghost & Spice Theatre at Common Ground Theatre Through April 19 Why have David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations been paired together so often? On the surface, the two one-act plays bear little resemblance, save for their use of blackouts as scene transitions. […]
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Will Ferrell goes for the hole
Starring in such “Frat Pack” films as Old School and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has immortalized Will Ferrell’s name on campuses across the country, and on Friday, Feb. 22, the actor and comedian proved he knows his audience well. In the next-to-last show of a seven-week tour promoting his new film Semi-Pro and […]
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Warren Rochelle’s Harvest of Changelings
North Carolina is better known for tales of ghosts in the hills than fairies and magic. But that didn’t stop fantasy and science fiction novelist Warren Rochelle from setting his latest book, Harvest of Changelings ($24.95, Golden Gryphon Press), against the backdrop of the Triangle. Changelings concerns a Garner man who sires a child with […]
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Riverkeeper film fest returns, urgently
With global warming and water shortages keeping the environment on our minds, the ecologically focused films featured in the 2008 Riverkeeper Film Festival seem especially relevant. The Riverkeeper Film Festival, which started in 2005, serves as a fundraiser for the Neuse River Foundation, which works to maintain, restore and education people about the Neuse River. […]
