Hopscotch VII Hits Raleigh This Weekend

Rap battles, twisted roots, and arcane pursuits abound at this year’s festival.

Twisted Roots: Bands that Fly Away with Their Folk Influences

Lavender Country’s protest is going strong, while Adia Victoria, Joan Shelley, and more carve out their own niches.

Blips, Blasts, and Beats: The Electronic Side of Hopscotch

You won’t find any big-name EDM DJs—but what you will hear is way better.

Weird or Weirder? The Changing Tides of Hopscotch’s Avant-Garde

A point-counterpoint on the festival’s experimentally minded bookings have changed over the years.

Your Crash Course in the Hot Topics and New Directions of the Third Hopscotch Design Festival

The festival compresses its footprint and moves to overlap more with Hopscotch Music, among other shifts.

Durham Public Schools Takes Small Steps Forward Where Giant Leaps Are Needed

The school district sets out to reduce suspensions and improve graduation rates

Meet the New PAC That Will Be Clogging Your TV with Anti-Josh Stein Ads This Fall

Carolinians for Freedom, a front group set up by the Republican Attorneys General Association, has little to do with Carolina.

Why Are Companies That Blasted HB 2 Supporting the Politicians Behind It?

After HB 2 passed, several companies that signed a letter denouncing it got out their checkbooks

Duke Divinity Students Offer Death Row Inmates a Chance to Tell Their Stories

Life Lines is an audio journal that records messages from the condemned

Boulted Bread’s Levain Achieves Old-World Perfection in Raleigh

Boulted was recently named one of America’s best new bakeries by Bon Appétit.

Koumi’s Fish Sauce Wings Soar Above the Usual Hibachi Fare

Koumi might look like a fast food joint from outside, but its food tells a different story.

On the Banks of the Haw, Author Belle Boggs Charts a Course from Childlessness to Motherhood

Boggs celebrates the release of The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

This American Life Host Ira Glass Remixes His Radio Saga Onstage at DPAC

The “NPR voice” of his generation shares seven things he’s learned on Saturday, Sept. 10.

Southern Accent Opens a Pandora’s Box of Regional Identity at the Nasher Museum of Art

The life-changing exhibit deeply explores the many facets of Southern identity through contemporary art.

Clyde Edgerton, Painter? A Noted North Carolina Novelist Gets Visual with Photographer John Rosenthal.

Edgerton reveals a mostly secret passion for painting in a new exhibit, Paintings, Photographs, Friendship, at FRANK Gallery.

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