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Music Briefs
The Durham venue quest continues: Aside from the occasional acoustic show, Chaz's Bull City Records is withdrawing almost completely from the show business.
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Music Feature
In improvised music, Michael Zerang is one of the best. Since the late '70s, Zerang has been central to the development of his native Chicago's fecund experimental music scene, both as a musician and facilitator.
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Record Review
The Window & Back Around
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Arts Preview
We tend to remember magic. It's a good thing we do: As an antidote for cold days, friendless winds and iron skies, the memory of it can warm the soul as well as any soup.
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Arts Preview
- 2007 spring arts preview, by Neil Morris, Byron Woods, Megan Stein, Iesha Brown, Grayson Currin
- The best films of 2006, by Godfrey Cheshire, Neil Morris, Laura Boyes, Zack Smith
- The best theater of 2006, by Byron Woods
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Arts Preview
Did 2006 feel to you like one of the most significant movie years in recent history?
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Arts Feature
Impressionist art? Of course. Impressionist music? You bet. Impressionist dance? No—not till now.
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Fashion
In late 2005, Durham resident and graduate student Capri Rose launched a home-based business that would fund her research and allow her to continue to stay in her pajamas until mid-afternoon. Thus, Capri Rose Sleepwear was born.
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Visual Art
Bickett Gallery's Winter Group Show, which closes this weekend, brings together 11 artists and an abundance of media.
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Film Review
For all of Zhang Yimou's well-earned accolades, a debate simmers among many in the Chinese film elite over the proper perspective to be given the acclaimed director.
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calendar
A city-by-city list of movie times this week, with brief reviews of what's playing on silver screens around the Triangle
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North Carolina
With the image of Saddam Hussein's hanging fresh in the public mind, the House Select Committee on Capital Punishment met in Raleigh last week to hear testimony about whether our state, too, should continue to execute murderers, and if so, which ones.
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Editorial
There's plenty of blame to pass around in the Duke lacrosse case...
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Front Porch
I awoke Sunday morning still without a plan for New Year's Eve. I told my wife, Ellen, that my only requirements were that it not involve a crowd and that we do something intentional rather than falling asleep on the couch watching Dick Clark.
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Exile on Jones Street
One suspects that as of this writing, State Superintendent of Education June Atkinson and her public affairs staff are huddled somewhere writing a response to a recent Winston-Salem Journal editorial that says her duties are so light, she "goes to work every day, maintaining her trademark cheerful and positive attitude about life, while the deputy state superintendent of public instruction runs the department."
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Front Porch
Remember November and the first week or two following the election? Were you drunk with success, giddy with anticipation, flush with victory?
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Brian D. Voyce refers to examples of how the United States vigorously enforced patent protections for U.S. citizens protecting U.S. patents in the late 1800s (Backtalk, Dec. 20, 2006).
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First Person
Let me tell you a secret. There's a lot of grumbling right now within Durham's black community.
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Sudoku Solution
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There's an element to our music that's constantly building tension and maybe a little bit of anxiety and a cramming of words into small spaces. The influence for that isn't necessarily an artist like Ludacris or Dylan, but a life spent playing a lot of video games.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Colossus, Serpents, (Lone Wolf & Cub) at the Reservoir; Ssourge of the Sea and Petticoat at Wetlands and more...
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Best Bets
Cat's Cradle's intro to local music; Carolina Ballet's Monet Impressions; Jill Conner Browne; Valentino Achak Deng; MLK Jr. Day celebrations; Ghost & Spice's Silence by the Masters
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Citizen
Without doubt, I am a public-participation whore. Give me a seat at the table—any table, as long as it's not in another room—and a generous supply of blue, red and yellow stickies, and I'm a happy citizen, ready to make my opinions known...
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Wine Beat
Every so often I'm reminded of the silliness of the State of North Carolina being in the liquor business. They can't advertise.
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Spotlight
McCloud is best known for his seminal works Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics. His latest book, Making Comics, completes the trilogy.
