George Packer's The Unwinding is a novelistic nonfiction about how we live now
If you've ever driven through freshly paved suburbia and wondered at the absurdity of two different pharmacies occupying opposite corners, The Unwinding might be for you.
Is the future of the North Carolina film industry actually television?
Arts Feature
"When it's a [TV] series, North Carolina is where you live. When it's a feature film, you come in and then you go." — N.C. Film Office Director Aaron Syrett
The Justice Theater Project's stripped-down Ragtime
Through June 30
Theater
It's Ragtime on a shoestring, but when the shoe fits, it's worth the wearing.
Theatre in the Park's madcap thriller Fuddy Meers
Through June 30
Theater
In this world of intimate strangers, everybody's hiding something.
What impact will coming cuts in state funding have on regional arts organizations?
Arts Feature
"Arts and culture nonprofits generate $125 million in economic activity per year. If I was a legislator, why would I want to cripple an investment returning $15 for every dollar I invest?" — Sherry DeVries, Durham Arts Council
Durham artists and students team up for innovative training program
Through June 26 at Golden Belt
Visual Art
"A lot of that student-mentor dynamic that I expected has fallen away. They're partners, collaborators, co-creators of this work." — Laura Ritchie, Creative Mentorship Program coordinator
The dazzling, perplexing short stories of UNC-Wilmington's Rebecca Lee
Reading
The invisible skin that holds Bobcat's mysterious innards together is a Möbius strip of inside and outside.
The extraordinary legacy of whirligig creator Vollis Simpson
Visual Art
Many outsider artists work in obscurity or suffer from mental illness. Beside them, Simpson fits in a small, other category of what might be called in eastern North Carolina "regular folks." Not only was he recognized in his time, he lived a very normal life.
Walter Mosley on the return of his most famous character in Little Green
Reading
Those who read the last Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins book may be surprised he's back, since he was last seen driving off a cliff. Little Green "is the one and only book I wrote about resurrection," Mosley says.
Popular Events
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God of Carnage @ Kennedy Theatre
- June 19-30
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Mystery Beer Dinner @ Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club
- Wed., June 26, 6 p.m.
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Black Coffee @ NCSU Campus: Thompson Hall
- June 20-30
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Soulstice! @ ArtsCenter
- Fri., June 21, 8 p.m.
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Third Friday (Art Related)
- Fri., June 21, 6-9 p.m.
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