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Hi! Happy weekend.
Hope you are holding up okay.
Last week, I sang the praises of local roots duo Chatham Rabbits, who have a new album out. This week, I must again sing the praises of a local roots duo: Chapel Hill band Watchhouse dropped the surprise news this week that they have a new album coming out in May. The announcement was accompanied by a lovely new song, “All Around You”—you can learn more about the song and forthcoming album here.
In 2021, I spent some time with Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz as they released a new album and changed their name, after a decade of making music, from Mandolin Orange to Watchhouse. You can read that story here. I’ve admired their music, and their ability to delicately capture the zeitgeist, since college—can’t wait for Rituals!
More culture happenings around the Triangle below.
Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz of Watchhouse. Photo by Jillian Clark
elsewhere in the culture section
Prenups! The word has its fair share of baggage, but what if we did talk about money more openly? Earlier this week, Lena Geller attended a panel event at Durham coffee shop perfect lovers (perfectly named for this event), which sought to “reimagine” the contract for couples with more transparency and equity. It’s a fascinating scene report—read it all here.
Here are some picks for things to do this weekend. If you’re the sort for very last minute plans, the Hayti Heritage Center is staging Mike Wiley and Howard L. Craft’s new play, The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely, is tonight, February 28. But even if you can’t go, you can read about the true Durham story of racial violence and how Wiley approached it.
This month’s Incoming! movie recommendations from Glenn McDonald. On the new Roberton Pattinson flick Mickey 17: “Thinky sci-fi films like this, with ambitious filmmakers like Bong Joon-Ho, are a good place to go for a fun-house-mirror perspective on our current circumstances. Science fiction stories are never about the future, not really. They’re all about the here and now. It should be especially interesting to get a non-American POV on this wavelength of bleak, black comedy.”
Speaking of film, Full Frame Documentary Festival just announced its thematic programming. I was curious how the festival’s lineup—which tends to be ambitious and envelope-pushing—would engage with the current moment, with its attendant craven censorship and clampdown on diversity.
I wasn’t disappointed: Its theme, curated by director Yance Ford, is ripe for the moment. You can read more about the theme, and Ford’s picks for it, here.
ICYMI: A new INDY playlist of local music, chatting with owner Lee Robinson about “keeping Raleigh Raleigh,” A Raleigh community fights to keep its library local. Bopping around the Bull City’s jazz scene on a snowy night. Durham mocktails.
— Sarah Edwards —
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