Greetings, computer chronicleurs.
Your (allegorical) boy penned a pretty long editor’s note this week—and it just might have sapped all the extra words out of him. Scooped them right up.
Oops!
So pardon the pith, please. These are Prashanth’s Picks, Part III: “The Ice-Picks” (Feb. 14-16).
Friday
8 p.m.: Show your love for a gazillion different Triangle mainstays—Durham-based Mount Moriah, Bombadil and Loamlands; Chapel Hill’s Daniel Bachman; and North Carolina State University’s college radio station WKNC—at the same time, on the final night of WKNC’s 11th Annual Double Barrel Benefit. At Lincoln Theater in Raleigh.
10:30 p.m.: Love Without Borders, a Valentine’s Day party, is being presented (at night) by (who better?) MUNDI (Duke’s international SLG) and SABROSURA (“Duke’s premier Latin dance troupe”), benefits going to Doctors Without Borders (an NGO working in nearly 70 countries to provide medical aid to the needy).
Saturday
2 p.m.: Contributors to the hometown anthology “27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry,” a “literary montage spanning neighborhoods, generations, cultural and racial experiences, and historic eras,” will be reading and chatting at East Regional Library. Something neat to “check out,” as it were.
9 p.m.: Another Party Illegal (party?) at Durham’s Pinhook. Out of prudency, I say no more.
9 p.m.: It’s also the 15th annual “Love Hangover” at King’s Barcade in Raleigh, when “Local luminaries of the music scene come two by two and each duo performs love songs to hold forth on love in all of its many guises: the joy, the pain, the humor, the frustration, the ecstasy, the agony, the list goes on and on, just like love.”
10:30 p.m.: Wrapping up the weekend’s Heritage Film Festival (now only Friday and Saturday, because of the snow), featuring “works of, by and about people of African descent” at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham, is Saturday night’s “Erotic Poetry Slam.” Intriguing pairings all around…
Sunday
2 p.m.: Extraordinary Ventures in Chapel Hill will screen “State of Conflict: North Carolina,” a documentary film about big funders’ impact on our state’s politics. Followed by a panel discussion between former State Senator and Mayor of Carrboro Ellie Kinnaird, NCCU professor Mary Phillips and UNC Law professor Gene Nichol.
3 p.m.: Cary’s 16th annual celebration of African-American heritage this year honors Nelson Mandela and the American civil rights struggle’s links to the anti-apartheid movement. Plus, Duke Musical Director Bradley Simmons and his ensemble will be performing Afro-Cuban and West African music. At the Arts Center in downtown Cary.
6:30 p.m.: DSI Comedy and the UNC-gestated Beat Making Lab are presenting a documentary film along with live comedy and music from guest beat makers at Carrboro’s ArtsCenter. All the stimulation you’ll need on a weekend like this.
9 p.m.: Bleeding Rainbow—“dressed down, feral and unrelenting punk-pop”—and Hunters—“like a keg/key party attended by the Vaselines, early '90s Thurston and Kim, and mid-'00s Matt and Kim” at the Duke Coffeehouse—“generally considered one of the ‘chillest spots’ at Duke.” Oh, yes.
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