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Where is the line between entertainment and art? This was the question that came up in my conversations with Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat, two experimental filmmakers and professors at UNC-Chapel Hill who are organizing the Cosmic Rays Film Festival.
Durham’s own Carolina Theatre is well-known in the community for its special film programming, including their Retro Film Series, the NC Gay + Lesbian Film Festival and the upcoming Anime-Magic Film Series, to name a (small) few.
Tuesday night, the Durham Co-op Market hosted the first of a series of film screening events. Visitors saw a short film called “Ugly & Wild: Learning to Love N.C. Fish.”
Entering The Carrack last week, it would have been difficult for even the most experienced of gallery-goers to withhold amazement.
The first thing you notice about Dan Bejar, lead singer and songwriter of Destroyer, is that he doesn’t look at the crowd very much when performing live.
Recess section editors Jessica Williams and Christy Kuesel embarked on a food-filled journey throughout the Raleigh-Durham area for Triangle Restaurant Week.
Discarded objects fascinate Calvin Brett. He started exploring art seriously as a painter, but soon realized painting wasn’t his preferred form of expression.
When one thinks of the word “anime,” a few things often come to mind.
For its latest installation, the Power Plant Gallery, located on the American Tobacco Campus, consists of a darkened brick room.
‘Tis the season again — if you wander into any shopping mall or city center, you may notice hordes of holiday shoppers clutching their Starbucks hot chocolates and marveling at gingerbread-scented candles.
Walter Benjamin, the famed literary and cultural critic, once called “The Arcades Project” — his seminal, fragmentary study of 19th-century Paris — “the theatre of all my struggles and all my ideas.”
Girls inherit wisdom about themselves at a young age, and some of that wisdom is undoubtedly meant to save us the time and energy of trying and failing.
“Yes, I’m going to be saying some stuff. So some of you might be getting your feelings hurt. I’m sorry, that’s just reality.”
A decade ago, a Phoenix band by the scandalous name of Andrew Jackson Jihad released their second full-length album “People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World.”
On Sunday morning, straw blanketed the ground upon which 15 identical blue yoga mats lay in a circle at Hux Family Farm, waiting for the participants of goat yoga to claim their space.
The “Stoned and Starving” New York post-punk band Parquet Courts have a knack for astute observations and biting witticisms (“Ya know, Socrates died in a f---in’ gutter”) coupled with nods to the past via instrumental eccentricities.
As Durham settles into November, an ensuing buzz of excitement suffuses through the self-proclaimed “geek” community — as with winter, North Carolina Comicon: Bull City is coming.
To those who call Columbus, Ind. home, the sight of tourists clustered in packs, mulling around the streets, is not uncommon.
Wet. That’s what best describes the third annual Barktoberfest held Sunday at Durham Central Park.
When the lights dim and a drag queen takes the stage, she is, for that moment, utterly free — to be herself, free of societal pressure to conform to the gender binary’s norms.
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