HEATHER HAVRILESKY: ASK POLLY LIVE Monday, July 11, 7 p.m., free Motorco Music Hall, Durham Heather Havrilesky made her name with her critiques of books and TV, but she’s found a new level of success critiquing people’s lives. The former Durhamite comes home on Monday, July 11, for a live version of Ask Polly, the […]
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Sharpen Your Script With UNC Teacher and Veteran Screenwriter Scott Myers
Write Now!Saturday, April 30 The McKimmon Conference & Training Center, Raleigh For aspiring and established screenwriters alike, Scott Myers is an invaluable resource for storytelling tips and film-industry insight. On Saturday, April 30, the UNC instructor joins other Triangle storytellers to dispense advice live. Myers is a presenter at Write Now!, the annual writing conference […]
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The Guild Creator Felicia Day Defeats Sexism and Anxiety to Become Queen of the Geeks
FELICIA DAY Wednesday, April 27, 6 p.m., $20 (book purchase) Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro Felicia Day is humble enough to stress that she’s mainly Internet Famous. “I’ll go into a coffee shop, and maybe one person will recognize me,” she says. “But that one person will be really smart, and we’ll have a great conversation.” But […]
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Movie Review: The Jungle Book Creatively Brings the Essence of Disney’s Animated Classic to Life
The Jungle Book ★★★★ Opening Friday, April 15 As a CGI bear named Baloo in Disney’s new, live-action The Jungle Book, Bill Murray channels the kind of surrogate-big-brother camp counselor that made him famous in Meatballs. He doesn’t try to hit the exact same notes as Phil Harris in the 1967 animated classic, but it’s […]
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Ernest Cline Wrote Two Fun Novels Based on His Love of Video Games and Eighties Trivia. Then Spielberg Came Calling.
ERNEST CLINE Tuesday, April 19, 7 p.m., free Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill Regrettably, Ernest Cline will not be driving his DeLorean when he comes to Flyleaf Books for the paperback release of his 2015 novel, Armada. But he did take the stainless steel, gull-winged car, immortalized as a time machine in Back to the Future, […]
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Prepare to Meet Your Maker at GeekCraft Expo, Where Geek Etsy Comes to Life
GEEKCRAFT EXPO Sunday, April 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., free Durham Armory, Durham If you’re in the market for a hand-crafted candle, garment, lunchbox, or doll, but would prefer if it were emblazoned with a White Walker or a Pokémon, good news: A new craft fair is bringing such specialties, curated by geek connoisseurs and made […]
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Joel McHale’s Snark With Smarts Finds New Outlets After Community and The Soup
JOEL MCHALE Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Friday, April 8, 8 p.m., $35–$55 Joel McHale’s trademark snark with smarts has gotten scarcer recently, after the end of Community, the cult-favorite sitcom he starred in, and The Soup, the E! series where he spent more than a decade mocking other TV shows. But McHale quickly pursued […]
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Remembering Quail Ridge Books Founder Nancy Olson, a Reader’s Best Friend
Like many book-lovers in the Triangle, I felt as though I lost a family member last Sunday. Nancy Olson’s passing at age seventy-five was not a complete surprise to those who knew her. For several years, she’d been battling kidney disease, which played a part in her decision to sell Quail Ridge Books, the independent […]
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Interview: Actress and Poet Amber Tamblyn Surveys Hollywood’s Toll on Women in Dark Sparkler
Amber Tamblyn Wednesday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop You’ve probably seen Amber Tamblyn on TV—as a child actor on General Hospital, on her own show Joan of Arcadia, on the cult cop dramady The Unusuals (with Jeremy Renner), or in supporting roles in House and Two and a Half Men. Or maybe you’ve […]
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Movie review: The Good Dinosaur is a throwback, and not just in the evolutionary sense
The Good Dinosaur ★★★ Opening Wednesday The publicity materials for Disney and Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur focus on the fact that it’s set in a world where an asteroid didn’t hit Earth and dinosaurs continued to evolve. What goes unmentioned is that the premise is an excuse for an old-fashioned children’s adventure story—a “boy and […]