Justin Tornow and Heather Gordon Reunite With More Multimedia Dance Innovations in No. 19/Modulations
COMPANY: NO. 19/MODULATIONS Wednesday, July 19 & Friday, July 21, 8 p.m., free CCB Plaza, Durham Sunday, July 23 & Monday, July 24, 8 p.m., choose your price 21c Museum Hotel, Durham www.justintornow.com Collaboration is a lauded concept among artists, but it’s a lot trickier to pull off than to talk about. In essence, it…
Earth Works: A Composer and a Poet Mine Precious Ores From Thomas Sayre’s White Gold
…TO ME FROM THE EARTH… Friday, Nov. 10–Sunday, Nov. 13, various times, $20–$50 CAM Raleigh, Raleigh “It’s a really long butterfly effect,” composer D.J. Sparr says of his long history of friendship and collaboration with Shawn and Karen Strittmatter Galvin of New Music Raleigh. It began when Sparr’s wife, Kimberly, played in Pittsburgh youth orchestras…
University Marketplace: Where art thou?
Like most large developments, University Marketplace had a grand vision: 300 apartments and 110,000-plus square feet of retail space, including a gourmet grocer, Poppies, in southwest Durham, near SuperTarget and Sam’s Club. That was in 2008, shortly before the Great Recession tanked the credit markets. And since then, University Marketplace off Shannon Road between U.S.…
University Marketplace: Where art thou?
Like most large developments, University Marketplace had a grand vision: 300 apartments and 110,000-plus square feet of retail space, including a gourmet grocer, Poppies, in southwest Durham, near SuperTarget and Sam’s Club. That was in 2008, shortly before the Great Recession tanked the credit markets. And since then, University Marketplace off Shannon Road between U.S.…
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The Oak City Cycling Project
Oak City Cycling Project from INDY Week on Vimeo. Winners of the 2014 Indy Week Best of the Triangle Award, Oak City Cycling Project in Raleigh is a different kind of bike shop. Not only can they help you purchase a new or used bike, but they will also teach you how to maintain it.…
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MRB4Life: Kentrell Barkley and Mr. Rick’s Ballerz
Kentrell Barkley is more than the 17-year-old high school kid who recently got punched by the Charlotte Hornets’ PJ Hairston during a pickup basketball game at the Durham YMCA. Barkley is featured in this documentary about Mr. Rick’s Ballerz, a basketball team that helps inspire and challenge young men from difficult backgrounds. “All my other…
Roads to nowhere
I spent part of the last two weeks strolling the alleys of Durham. During my journey, a woman offered me tomato plants, a man told me, in Spanish, about his daughters’ success in college and a restaurant worker politely inquired why I was standing behind the downtown eatery with a digital recorder. I wrote about…
Reggie’s Blues
I heard Reggie Best before I saw him. On Monday, Reggie, accompanied by “Grandma,” his acoustic guitar, was singing in a park behind Ninth Street Bakery in downtown Durham. He has a beautiful voice, one that belies his condition: a homeless veteran afflicted with lymphoma of the stomach—the same disease that killed his mother. Reggie…
From the inside: McPherson Hospital
Last week I attended a talk at the Center for Documentary Studies by writer Rachel Andrews and photographer Dara McGrath, who documented the demolition of Ireland’s Maze Prison complex. During the presentation, McGrath noted that he didn’t like photographing people, yet he noted his photos of abandoned spaces are full of people, in that they…
Poetry readings from this year’s poetry contest winners
Notes from Our Chef by Rajeev Rajendran Move fast, stay sharp. If it’s not sharp, it’s not a knife. Be attentive to guests. Be interested, be loving, be generous in all things, to each other and to them. The answer is yes. The work we are doing is sacred. This food has come to us…
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