No one knows how many North Carolinians live in extreme poverty, but it's estimated to be between 700,000 and 1 million. What we do know is that although the number is increasing, the poor remain almost invisible to many of us.
The results of Tuesday's election might solidify the sense of otherness with which I view my state and country. But my patriotism to my city has never been stronger.
Through May 27 at the Theater of the American South Festival in Wilson — Danny Mullen has clearly done the necessary research for this solo biographical show on the famed mid-century jazz trumpeter, vocalist and international ambassador of goodwill.
Foodie, a new short film written by Durham resident Eryk Pruitt, is a 29-minute dark comedy-horror flick which explores an obsessive, underground sect of foodies who dine on humans in the most gourmet and trendy of manners.
Deford appears Monday at Quail Ridge Books — Frank Deford is one of America's greatest sportswriters, and although his new memoir, Over Time, probably isn't the place to discover why, it's an engaging, raffish ramble through his 50 years in the peculiar business of writing about sports.
Roughly 50 deadly strikes using drones occurred during George W. Bush's eight years in office. By contrast, in the three-plus years of the Obama presidency, there have been close to 300, and those strikes have killed as many as 3,000 people.
Whenever the film starts to feel a little dated, like we're watching people with a bygone manner of behavior in a period-piece fishbowl, director Terence Davies ties his characters' emotional distress to lingering trauma from the war.
Through May 27 at the Theater of the American South Festival in Wilson Blanche DuBois looks like a million bucks in this muscular production of A Streetcar Named Desire.