Arts & Culture

Novelist Zelda Lockhart’s Characters Have Deep Generational Wounds. But the Work Doesn’t Stop There.
Lockhart’s new novel, “Trinity” follows three generations of a Black American family, from the late 1920s through today, as they fight to unravel the pain of their past.

“A Haunting in Venice” Is a Halloween Movie for Grownups
Set in postwar Europe, Kenneth Branagh’s latest has no gore, no bloodied teenagers. Instead, we get crumbling Italian palazzos, fleeting apparitions, and some surprisingly sophisticated themes.

Ella West Gallery Is Carrying On the Legacy of Black Wall Street
“I don’t want people to have to wait to become ancestors to be respectfully compensated,” gallery owner Linda Shropshire says.

2023 Fall Arts Preview: Ten Triangle Exhibitions to See
King Nobuyoshi Godwin, Luis Rey Velasco, inflatable art, and more.

2023 Fall Arts Preview: What Triangle Theater to See
From “A Case for the Existence of God” and “Misery” to “Funny Girl ” and “100% the Triangle.”

The ArtsCenter Finds New Ground at Its New Home—And Fortuitously Leaves Its Former Digs to an Emerging Theater Company
The $4 million, 17,000-square-foot new space sits one block off the intersection of Main and Weaver Streets in downtown Carrboro.

At Magpie and Crow, New Generations Come to Play Old Games
The newest shop to open on Wait Avenue in Wake Forest is a place for people to just hang out—a “geeky, nerdy YMCA.”

A Durham Exhibition Looks at Recent History Through the Eyes of Teenagers—And the Duffer Brothers
The pandemic has been a scary time for teenagers. “Stranger Times” gives them a space to talk about it.

It’s Not Just Paper: How an Old-School Supply Store Evolves to Meet Community Needs
As local supply company Brame celebrates 100 years of business, its lone retail outlet, Durham’s Not Just Paper, weathers Amazon and a changing economic landscape.

Full Frame Documentary Festival to Return to Downtown Durham
News of the festival’s revival comes just a day after Duke leadership announced that Center for Documentary Studies director Opeyemi Olukemi had resigned.

Stadium 10, Northgate Mall’s Cinematic Holdout, Closes for Good
The Durham movie theater bustled in the late aughts and kept life quietly thrumming in the shopping center, long after the retail outlets around it went dark.

“We Got to Return to the Swamp”: Derrick Beasley in Conversation with Pierce Freelon
Beasley’s solo exhibition, “Surviving the Burn,” is on display at NorthStar Church of the Arts through Friday, September 15.

“Theater Camp” Is Cheerfully Audacious
Rickety, funny, and dizzy with affection, the indie comedy is an ode to that most noble of high school cliques: The theater kids.

On Storms and Stories
What draws us to write about hurricanes?

Poet Ross White Finds Beauty By Looking at Things a Little Bit Sideways
When Durham poet, teacher, and small press executive director Ross White looked Michelangelo’s David in the eyes—virtually, at least—a poem broke open for him.

Glitter, Glamour, and Stepping Out Onto Raleigh Burlesque’s Pink Carpet As Conservatives Aggressively Roll Back Rights
“As soon as you’re done, you’re like: ‘I just did that’ You know what I’m saying? And then all you want to do is to keep doing it.”
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