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Reading

Jim Rugg discusses Afrodisiac

Rugg plans to bring plenty of blaxploitation music to his Chapel Hill Comics signing this Saturday.

By Zack Smith | 3 Feb 2010

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Feature

The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival expands to a month for its 10th anniversary

Dirty South Improv hosts more than 500 rising stars in improvisation, sketch comedy, stand-up and film this month.

By Zack Smith | 3 Feb 2010

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TV

Sister act, take three: The Sarah Silverman Program

Talking comedy and happy family memories with Laura Silverman

By Danny Hooley | 3 Feb 2010

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Casual Observer

A last chance at the past on Beggars & Choosers' final day

In October, burglars emptied the vintage shop's cash register and display cases containing gold and silver jewelry. The financial loss totaled $30,000, but the personal loss was far more devastating.

By Rebekah L. Cowell | 6 Jan 2010

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Lit Local

Terrence Holt dispels the dark spaces in his fiction

Terrence Holt teaches and practices geriatric medicine at UNC. He was late starting as a doctor, entering medical school after he turned 40. To his own surprise, he then resumed another of his youthful vocations: writing.

By Brian Howe | 16 Dec 2009

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Visual Art

New art institute hopes to stoke Raleigh's creative fire

The Raleigh Institute of Contemporary Art marked its grand opening with classes starting this week.

By Rebekah L. Cowell | 27 Jan 2010

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Favorite Things

Mad Men: When a smoke was a smoke and advertising was earnest

Mad Men American Movie Classics Sundays at 10 p.m. I want a black Cadillac with fins like a shark.

By Lisa Sorg | 6 Aug 2008

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Theater

Arthur Miller's WWII-era drama All My Sons at PlayMaker's Rep

All My Sons asks what do you believe in—and how do you go on believing—when the world changes, and the ones who gave you those beliefs have let you down?

By Byron Woods | 3 Feb 2010

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On the Boards

Caleb Calypso and the Midnight Marauders

Local playwright Howard L. Craft's new work explores the lives of U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany with realism and humor.

By Zack Smith | 4 Nov 2009

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Dance

Ex-Pilobolus dancer Gaspard Louis unveils his own company

Exclusive video: Emerging choreographer Gaspard Louis and his dancers make their professional company debut this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Duke University's Reynolds Industries Theater.

By Byron Woods | 2 Dec 2009

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