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In honor of Triangle Restaurant Week, in which local restaurants entice diners with prix fixe lunch and dinner menus, Recess interviewed one of the area’s most ardent food promoters, Johanna Kramer. author of 2012’s The Food Lover’s Guide to Raleigh, Durham, & Chapel Hill, Kramer sat down with Recess staff writer Cord Peters at The Federal to discuss the Triangle’s reputation as an emerging food mecca.
Scale and Coin—a business-oriented organization with close ties to the recently dissolved Duke chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity—is now a recognized student organization.
On Friday, Motorco Music Hall will host a benefit concert for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society that showcases many of the Triangle’s most esteemed music groups. The concert is a rare opportunity to view a cross-section of the local music scene as well as some of the bands who have grown to national importance.
Claiming that Durham “doesn’t have much to offer” can be a self-fulfilling prophecy if you only extend yourself to the bars on Main Street. But the city, which can at times feel disconnected from Duke, houses a number of establishments that students can take advantage of. The revival of downtown Durham continues with a new wave of openings at Five Points, the intersection of Chapel Hill Street, Morris Street and Main Street. Three local businesses—Bullseye Bicycle, The Cupcake Bar and Pizzeria Toro—located in the 102 Morris building, are helping to reinvigorate the area.
Liberal Arts, at first glance another charming love story, examines difficult topics of sentimentality and the reality of life. Writer/director/actor Josh Radnor crafted a well-written screenplay with relatable and well-acted characters. Jesse Fisher (Radnor), now thirteen years removed from college, returns to his alma mater for the retirement reception of his beloved professor, Peter Hoberg (Richard Jenkins). He is reinvigorated by his memories of the unlimited opportunity offered by the college experience. He falls for Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a sophomore at the unnamed college, and is forced to grapple with the complexities of their sixteen-year age difference.
Situated in the slums of southern Dallas, Killer Joe thrills viewers with dark humor and intense, realistic violence and sexuality, unlike anything I have ever seen before. Chris (Emile Hirsch) is a young, Texan drug dealer, who has become caught up in debt with the wrong people. With the threat of death hanging over his head if he doesn’t pay up, he devises a plan to murder his evil mother and collect her life insurance. He, along with his father Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), hires professional killer Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a Dallas detective. Unable to pay the initial contract fee, Joe negotiates to hold Chris’s sister, Dottie (Juno Temple), as a sexual retainer until the life insurance is collected.
You can look at Matt Pandamiglio (Mike Birbiglia) life in two ways. He’s a fledgling comedian who’s doing well; he’s got a great girlfriend with whom he’s in love, and his sleeping disorder is nothing to worry about. Or, he’s a terrible comedian who struggles to find gigs, he can’t come up with more than 15 minutes of material, his relationship is going stale and he has a rare and extremely dangerous sleeping disorder induced by recent stress and bad sleeping habits. In this wickedly hilarious yet terribly dismal semi-autobiographical film, Matt is afraid to acknowledge the harsh truths of his life.
In Robot & Frank, the best movie I have seen this year, Frank (Frank Langella) is an elderly ex-cat burglar tending toward senility and resisting technological advancements in a well-crafted near future. His son Hunter (James Marsden), detached from his father, dumps a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard and motion-acted by Rachel Ma) to stabilize his health and ameliorate his memory. The movie effectively comments on global themes– the denial of aging and the disappointment of relationships.
