Outside of Loaf, a bakery in downtown Durham, passersby stop to observe a brass and steel sculptural rendition of the business’s wheat stalk logo surrounded by metal silhouettes of people in its...
The first time I heard of Edward Albee’s 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was in my 11th grade American Literature class.
Music writing can be illuminating and incisive, or it can be obnoxious and pretentiously in-jokey, or it can just be dumb. But it’s usually pretty self-serious: it exists because someone privileged...
Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole released a new album in September. It’s called Cole World: A Sideline Story. It’s damn good, people like it. The title is tight and catchy, too. (Never...
Fayetteville, North Carolina rapper J. Cole released a new album in September.
Music writing can be illuminating and incisive, or it can be obnoxious and pretentiously in-jokey, or it can just be dumb.
I normally enjoy doing background research for Recess stories.
In a way, CAM Raleigh (Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh) resembles a split-level house.
“Time has not been kind to old movies,” explains film historian Rene Tabard about halfway through Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s new 3D family film, at which point the director himself steps in to take up...
Tonight, the Duke Coffeehouse need not pay its busboys: DJ/rupture will be turning the tables.
True story: Two or three weeks ago, I was walking through the Sanford parking lot on a Saturday.
For whatever else it may be, Take Care is most of all a contrivance.
Mystery writer and North Carolina native Margaret Maron is the author of 26 novels and two series and the winner of several major American awards for mysteries, including the Edgar and Agatha Awards.
The elegantly dressed man appears from the shadows and examines his massive gift, wrapped in concealing cloth and a wide scarlet ribbon.
As the credits rolled and I left the theater, a nearby viewer loudly exclaimed that he had been fooled, and that he hadn’t taken J. Edgar to be “no love movie.”
In an age where comedy has become an increasingly nuanced mockery of real life, Adam Sandler and the folks at Happy Madison remain committed to good old-fashioned slapstick humor.
Donald Glover must be the most versatile entertainer in the world today. As Donald Glover, he is a stand-up comedian, former writer for “30 Rock,” star of the show “Community,” GAP model and head...
