Thursday, March 29 Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh 7 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com Miracles happen, but part of what makes them miracles is that we don’t know how or why. Our concepts of faith, religion, or a just and balanced universe may help us deal with uncertainty, but they also say something about how we see ourselves. […]
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The Carolina Theatre’s FantasticRealm Film Festival Brings Back the Cheesy 3-D of the Eighties
FANTASTICREALM THE CAROLINA THEATRE, DURHAM Various times, $10 www.carolinatheatre.org It’s going to be like a French door-slamming farce for hardcore genre-film fans in the Triangle this weekend. With NC Comicon’s Oak City show going on in Raleigh (see page 10) and the FantasticRealm film series happening at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, split-second scheduling and […]
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Movie Review: Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time Builds a Bold, Chaotic Bridge Between the Twelve-Year-Olds of the Sixties and Today
A Wrinkle in Time★★★ Opening Friday, March 9 Before the screening of A Wrinkle in Time I attended, the women on either side of me were musing about how the Madeleine L’Engle book was their favorite when they were twelve. The film is a bold, messy adaptation of the classic novel, but for a new […]
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A Friend of Madeleine L’Engle on How the A Wrinkle in Time Author Might Have Felt About the Upcoming Film
Over eggs Benedict at Durham’s Guglhupf Bakery, former Duke writing teacher Christina Askounis is trying to describe her decades-long association with the author behind some of the strangest, most beloved children’s fantasies ever. “It wasn’t quite a friendship, but more than an acquaintance,” Askounis says. “A mentor, in some ways. Whatever you want to call […]
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Thirty Years After Full House, Bob Saget Still Balances the Wholesome and the Blue
Bob Saget Thursday, Nov. 30, 8 p.m., $27–$68 Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh Thirty years ago, comedian Bob Saget took on a role that he’s still known for, the literally squeaky-clean single father Danny Tanner on the family sitcom Full House. At age sixty-one, Saget, who comes to Raleigh courtesy of Bob Nocek presents tomorrow, is […]
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Denise Kiernan’s The Last Castle Puts Detailed Human Faces in the Windows of Asheville’s Historic Biltmore Estate
DENISE KIERNAN: THE LAST CASTLE Saturday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m. McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro Monday, Oct. 9, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop, Durham www.denisekiernan.com Denise Kiernan was in high school the first time she set foot in Asheville’s Biltmore Estate, an ornate historic house turned tourist attraction […]
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Raleigh Supercon’s Debut Proved the Oak City Is Upholding Its Rep as One of America’s Geekiest Places
Raleigh Supercon Friday, July 14–Sunday, July 16 Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh It may not approach the 130,000-plus crowd that recently invaded San Diego for the annual Comic-Con International (“SDCC” to those on social media), but the recent debut of Raleigh Supercon offered ample evidence that the Oak City is upholding its reputation as one of […]
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The Bookshop Brought Many Rare and First Editions—and Two Famous Cats—to Franklin Street for Thirty-Two Years
“Books. Cats. Life is Good,” reads the standing sign outside The Bookshop in Chapel Hill. Sadly, that won’t be true for much longer. The Bookshop, a Franklin Street staple since it opened in 1985, announced in January that it would close its doors for good in July. Tomorrow will be the last day of its […]
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N.C.-Based Filmmaker Patrick Read Johnson, One of the First People to See Early Star Wars Footage, Relives the Magic Four Decades Later in 5-25-77
5-25-77 Thursday, July 13, 7:30 p.m., $10 North Hills Stadium 14, Raleigh [Tickets] The wheels of Hollywood turn slowly, and the term “development hell” is regularly thrown around to explain why a project hasn’t become a finished film. But Patrick Read Johnson, a faculty member at the North Carolina School of the Arts, waited an […]
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Animazement, Raleigh’s Japanese Pop-Culture Convention, Happily Overwhelms Us With the Number of Unknown Wonders Still Waiting to Be Discovered
“I don’t know why I didn’t think that existed, but I didn’t think that existed,” I overheard someone say as I sat with a few friends at the Raleigh Convention Center, noshing on little snack cakes imported from Japan. At Animazement, the anime convention held annually in Raleigh since the late nineties, this statement could […]
