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“Every artwork is a self-portrait,” says Yuko Nogami Taylor, an artist at 5 Points Gallery, formerly the Pleiades Gallery. In 5 Points’ exhibition, POSSIBILITIES, the fresh angles with which two artists view their world attest to this particular statement.
For many, including Margaret Sartor, the artist behind “TORN: A Year that Changed Everything,” quarantine was marked by constant anxiety about the events around us and uncertainty about the future.
The Muslims, a Durham-based punk rock band, may have started in “a backyard shed,” according to their Spotify page, but their latest album is an indication that they have bloomed beyond their initial label.
Social activist, priest and attorney Pauli Murray has had a radical impact on modern notions of equality and social justice. Despite this, Durham native Murray is not the household name that Martin Luther King Jr. or Rosa Parks may be. But, the Pauli Murray Center and the new documentary, told in Murray’s own words, are trying to change that.
While most juniors in college spend their summers interning to build up their resumés, Aditya Surana decided to go in another direction: creating his own music festival, Have U Heard Fest.
If you’re looking for something new to satisfy your sweet tooth this fall, Simons Says Dip This certainly has you covered. With 24 dipped cone flavors and endless topping choices, you could go back a hundred times and still have more to try.
Welcome to plant-based cooking. Jill and Jeffrey Dalton of “The Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show” are happy to be your guide.
Artists Ayden Love, Terin J.D. and J. Avery co-own and collectively operate Critter Swamp Tattoo, a Black, trans and queer owned studio with the intention of making the owners’ communities feel welcome and safe in an industry that is predominantly white male dominated
To get a real sense of what the Jambalaya Soul Slam is all about, you have to experience it for yourself.
Education doesn’t have to be a mere step on the ladder to whatever lofty life plans you may have.
Windlift is looking to positively affect not only larger, global community issues, but also the local Durham community in which the company is based.
So, after about a semester of trying to determine which restaurants are safe to go to, a new consideration has been added to the list as of late 2020 — Igloos.
In short, it will be a lavish night to enjoy the sumptuous life of 17th-century elites and feign ignorance of the travails of modern life.
Despite the immense challenges posed by the pandemic and the lack of in-person concerts, Small Town Records’s artists, producers and personnel have continued to do what they love and have a variety of projects slated for the spring semester.
What the Nasher has been able to do this year with staff working from home and a shuttered museum is incredibly impressive. However, it has not been easy.
Authentic tapas, delicious Italian pasta, delicate French cuisine and hefty American burgers: these foods from around the world can be found not far off Duke’s campus in downtown Durham.
Finally, my time had come. I had secured a pint from the underground and highly sought after ice cream operation, Don’t Tell Mother.
Immediately after I walked into the market, I felt that sense of a larger Durham community that has been so elusive to Duke students this semester.
Picture the music video for Katy Perry’s 2010 summer hit “California Girls:” screaming neon colors, swirling rainbow lollipops, giant ice cream dripping with strawberry syrup and pink cotton candy clouds.
While I am indeed a Durham native, I never had the privilege of taking a dance class at Ninth Street Dance and becoming a part of this studio — that is, until this past weekend.