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It’s Wednesday, September 4.
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Good morning, readers.
The morning air has gone from unbearably sticky to downright crisp in the span of a few days, which, according to that 12-season calendar Discover Durham tweeted a few years ago, likely means we’ve made it past “Hell’s Front Porch” and are now experiencing “False Fall.”
Actual Fall is yet to come. Here today, though—and to get you excited for it—is the INDY’s Fall Arts issue, online and in print.
The issue contains roundups of new local dance works, plays, and visual arts exhibitions as well as a collection of features and artist Q&As:
- from reporter Chase Pellegrini de Paur, a conversation with Thomas Sayre, the sculptor behind the giant sunflower poles coming to Dix Park;
- from contributor Jordan Lawrence, a look at how Hopscotch’s curatorial blend is faring 14 years in;
- and from arts & culture editor Sarah Edwards, a pre-Hopscotch Q&A with the North Carolina musician Indigo De Souza, a rundown on a new community arts space, and a sneak peek at Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham musical, which opens this month at Duke’s Reynolds Theater.
“Here we are getting a joyful musical version of the story, right here in Durham,” Edwards writes of Shelton’s production. “It feels like it means something.”
Have a good Wednesday.
—Lena
Durham
Voices: Does Durham Public Schools have an overarching policy governing students’ use of technology in the classroom? It doesn’t seem like it.
Wake
Raleigh mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin isn’t running for reelection after two terms in office. How will her legacy hold up?
Raleigh is exploring bringing a Major League Baseball team to the city. If it did, where would a stadium go?
Orange
After the system-wide crackdown on diversity initiatives, some UNC professors feel left in the dark.
North Carolina
Six former employees of Greensboro porn stores say gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was a regular in the 90s and early 2000s. Robinson denies it.
Today’s weather
Mostly cloudy with a high of 79 degrees.
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