“It’s an honest story about a relationship, and I think of it as a sociological study… It really is about the influence of culture,” author Nancy Poling said of her newest book, “Before It Was Legal: A Black-White Marriage (1945-1987).”
The Retro Film Series continues at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham from July to December. The series will celebrate its 20th birthday next year and includes RetroFantasma, RetroClassics, RetroTreasures and RetroAmore—four sections in which anyone in their mid-30s to early-40s will find the fancy of his or her youth.
This fall the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh will feature five new free exhibitions, two of which have already opened.
This June marks the fourth annual Artists Convening for the Southern Documentary Fund, a Triangle-based nonprofit that advances documentary projects made in or about the American South.
When the organizers of Moogfest announced in February that the music, art and technology festival would feature a “Protest Stage” dedicated to resisting the current wave of inequality in both North Carolina and the United States (specifically: HB2, President Trump’s travel ban), many were delighted.
If you live in a city that hosts an annual music festival, you’re probably used to the obtrusive changes often wrought by a festival’s sprawl: blocked-off roads, flocks of visitors and unremitting noise.
The Carrack is an exhibition and event space in downtown Durham. In June 2011, founders Laura Ritchie and John Wendelbo created the space with the intention of revitalizing the Durham arts community by providing an exhibition and gathering space for local artists.
On Moogfest’s third day in Durham, Flying Lotus joined comedian Hannibal Buress and DJ Tony Trimm for a conversation about the producer’s creative process and multi-faceted career.
“One doesn’t hear much talk of synthesizers here,” the electronic music pioneer Robert Moog said of western North Carolina, shortly after moving there in 1977.
Two weeks ago, more than 10,000 people poured into Durham during a four-day stretch to partake in Full Frame Documentary Film Festival’s 20th annual celebration of documentary filmmaking.
Filmed over the span of 10 years, “Quest” is an intimate portrait of the Rainey family as they deal with both the trivialities and tribulations that their life in North Philadelphia has to offer.
The way the crowd was singing along, you would never guess that Hippo Campus had just released their first full-length album less than a month ago.
The first thing anyone mentioned was the hat. To be fair, it was a bold statement hat. There was nothing cute about it.
Dance never came easily for Tony Johnson. Let me rephrase. Tony Johnson has always had the talent.
For many Duke students, Ninth Street is an off-campus haven. Home to Harris Teeter, various apartment complexes and popular restaurants such as Burger Bach and Happy + Hale, it’s a thriving mecca of food and commerce conveniently situated right at the nexus between East and West Campus.
In the latest addition to Duke Performances’ artist-in-residence series, hip-hop artist and activist Talib Kweli spent the last week in Durham holding conversations with Duke professors and Durham community members before playing two sold-out shows at Motorco Music Hall. The residency began Wednesday with a public conversation between Kweli and resident professor Patrick Douthit, better known as the producer 9th Wonder, which was sponsored by Duke’s Forum for Scholars and Publics.
Kirby: I didn't really have time to think about what to expect at Marc Maron's comedy show because I was too busy stuffing Pompieri into my mouth as you and I did our eleventh-hour power walk.
My high school, situated in the heart of Cary, N.C., regarded itself as the last bastion of the American high school experience.
We live in an era of walls. On the news we see walls conjured by ideologies and walls placed around our words, walls that defined our history and walls that some promise will do the same for our future.
Danielle Purifoy, a Ph.D. candidate in the Nicholas School of the Environment, wants you to know that, under the painful exterior of cyclical poverty, there is beauty.
