Celebrate World Refugee Day with Dub Addis at Durham Central Park on Sunday
Today is World Refugee Day. This weekend, gather for live performances, speeches, and family-friendly activities in celebration of Durham’s refugee and immigrant population.
Friday Night Bites: Wonderpuff Turns One, Hello Kitty Cafe Truck Rolls into Raleigh, and MILPA / CRAVINGS Opens Tonight
Welcome to Friday Night Bites, your weekly roundup of local food and drink news and events. Have a tip for us? Email [email protected]. NEWS Wonderpuff Turns One, Seeks FundingRaleigh artisanal cotton candy company Wonderpuff is celebrating one year in business. Wife-husband team Jackie and Rem Morin have earned a loyal following for their colorful and…
Tom Whiteside Spins a Fantasia Around Sophia Loren in Movies in the Park’s “Crazy Italian Night”
Friday, May 25 The Leaf at Durham Central Park, Durham 9 p.m., donations accepted, www.durhamcentralpark.org If the Center for Documentary Studies’ Audio Under the Stars series is an emerging hallmark of Durham summers, then Durham Cinematheque’s Movies in the Park is a well-established one. To kick off his tenth season of showing vintage film oddities…
City Manager: Batalá Durham Can Rehearse at Durham Central Park Monday Night
In an email to Durham City Council member Charlie Reece yesterday, city manager Tom Bonfield said that Batalá Durham would be allowed to rehearse at Durham Central Park Monday without receiving a citation or being shut down by the police. The samba-reggae percussion ensemble had received permission from Durham Central Park to practice on Monday…
Batalá Durham Held Another Rehearsal at Central Park. The Cops Were Called.
On Monday evening, the community-oriented samba-reggae percussion ensemble Batalá Durham once again held its weekly rehearsal at Durham Central Park. And once again, there was a noise complaint, and the cops showed up. As the INDY reported last week, complaints from one resident of Liberty Warehouse Apartments have resulted in the Durham Police Department shutting…
Liberty Warehouse Apartment Residents Chime In to Support Batalá Durham
While Liberty Warehouse Apartments may not have offered any official comment on its tension with Batalá Durham, several residents have. As it turns out, many of them are in favor of Batalá Durham’s Central Park practices, and blame a single unidentified resident for all of the trouble. Chatter began on Wednesday in the comments section…
More Durham Central Park Coverage
Durham Central Park Issues Statement About the Batalá Durham and Liberty Warehouse Apartments Noise Complaints
Last night, Durham Central Park issued a statement in response to the story we ran yesterday about a conflict between the community percussion ensemble Batalá Durham and residents from Liberty Warehouse Apartments. The park is the central location of the problem between the two groups. With the park’s permission, Batalá Durham has been using the…
Batalá Durham’s Central Park Standoff with Liberty Warehouse Residents Is Gentrification in Motion
You can hear Batalá Durham long before you see it. Its tide of layered beats and enthusiastic shouts emanates from Durham Central Park, where the city has permitted the ensemble to rehearse on warm Monday nights since last summer. But some local residents would prefer that Batalá be neither seen nor heard in Durham Central…
Too Many Zooz Wrestles With a Quickly Growing Career Far Beyond Its Busking Beginnings
TOO MANY ZOOZ Friday, June 30, 6 p.m., free Durham Central Park, Durham www.durhamcentralpark.org They honed their craft underground, bouncing their self-described “brasshouse” music off the tunnel walls of the New York City subway. But the scruffy trio Too Many Zooz isn’t your usual bunch of buskers. Crackling with energy and frantically corralling jazz, EDM,…
Theater Review: Durham Newcomer Addled Muse Fire Theater Has Cirque Chops. Now It’s Time to Build on the Theater Side.
Addled Muse Fire Theater: Purgatoire★★★ Saturday, April 15 Durham Central Park, Durham Theater begets theater, dance begets dance. After a group of artists honing their craft coalesce around a director, choreographer, or company, they branch out to start practices of their own. The same is true of cirque and flow arts; a brief online search…
Durham Central Park Passes First Hurdle to Nabbing Free Music Series
A bunch of free music might be headed Durham’s way this summer—but to get there, you’ve got to vote for it. Durham Central Park stands to increase its free concert offerings if it can win a grant for which it is currently competing. The group has already completed the first round in its application for…
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