After Local Drag Queen and Business Owner Banned From Instagram, More Questions Than Answers
Club ERA owner Naomi Dix says that her accounts were shut down this week, in the middle of Pride Month, for purportedly violating community standards. The incident highlights the vulnerability of small businesses and creators who rely on Instagram for visibility.
“The Dating Scene Is a Mess”: Filmmaker Anthony L. Williams On Therapy, Raleigh, and Why He Made a Queer Dating Docuseries
Raleigh expat Anthony L. Williams returns to the Oak City this month for a screening of a new docuseries about navigating modern dating.
Character Study: Mama Cookie, Champion for Labor Rights
Durham organizer Bertha Bradley, better known as Mama Cookie, has been front-and-center in the fight for better working conditions across the South.
Durham Poet Arielle Hebert On Writing About Girlhood, Addiction, and the Mixed Magic of Florida
‘Bottom Feeders,’ Hebert’s debut poetry collection, releases this month from Black Lawrence Press.
“Manhood Isn’t Something You Just Stumble Into”: Pierce Freelon Talks New Album ‘Black Boy Glow’
Out June 19, ‘Black Boy Glow’ is another powerful entry into Pierce Freelon’s award-winning children’s music catalog.
Four North Carolina Choreographers Bring Dynamic Works to the American Dance Festival
Courtney Liu, Jabu Graybeal, Tracey Durbin, and Amanda K. Miller’s Made in NC commissions will premiere on June 22.
Ben Fountain’s New Novel Imagines a Political Reality Even More Dangerously Absurd Than the Trump Era
‘Rasputin Swims the Potomac,’ the North Carolina writer’s new political satire, touches down with a pandemic of “weeping sickness,” a mystical professional wrestler, and an American president making a power grab for a third term.
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Incoming! Sapphic Romance, Gaelic Witches, and Vanishing Glaciers
Coming-of-age drama ‘Girls like Girls,’ Adam Scott in an Irish horror film, and more movies coming to local theaters.
A New Downtown Durham Movie Theater. A New Cinema Community To Help Light Up Its Screen.
Organizations like Skin and Bones Theater and Film Durham are working to build a local cinema scene that both reflects and benefits the community around it.
Filmed in Durham, a New Movie About Cosmic Coincidences Has Flown Under the Radar
The Bull City is somewhat of a main character in the indie rom-com ‘Everything & the Universe,’ streaming since last year on Amazon Prime. So why has no one heard of it?
Hearing Jazz and Seeing Art the Fred Joiner Way, With a Poetry Debut 50 Years in the Making
“The Mirror in Our Music,” a new collection by former Carrboro Poet Laureate Fred Joiner, is rich in references to art, music, and collaboration.
In Wide-Ranging New Exhibition of Native American Artists, Ancestral Knowledge Animates the Stories of Today
‘Stories Told By Breath: Native American Voices in North Carolina’ is on display at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design through September 26.
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