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In any given month, when making odds for the movies you want to see, it can often be useful to just look at the cast lists. Certain actors are known for only selecting the best and most interesting film projects. It’s not a foolproof method—good actors make bad movies sometimes—but it’s a fun way to choose.
Buttigieg, Cooper Break Ground on Raleigh-to-Richmond High Speed Rail Line
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Gov. Roy Cooper broke ground Monday on a new high-speed rail line that will link Raleigh to Richmond, marking the project’s first phase, which includes constructing a bridge to carry Durant Road over a railroad line.
Forty Years of Smooth Ballpark Baritone: An Evening With the Voice of the Durham Bulls
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. “Good evening Bulls fans, and welcome to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.”. The smooth baritone belongs to Tony Riggsbee, calling out from the announcer’s box on a recent Thursday night. He has covered the team—first as a sportscaster and later as the Bulls’ announcer—for more than 40 years, always in a steady style that is “very, very different from what’s now the predominant style of PA.”
‘Stronger familias:’ A Q&A With Luke Smith, Founder and Executive Director of El Futuro
A local nonprofit that provides mental health services to Latino communities will receive nearly half a million dollars in funding over the next two years from Alliance Health, the managed care organization (MCO) that serves uninsured residents and Medicaid recipients in the Triangle. The funding will go toward expanding El...
In Raleigh, Biden Blasts Trump as a Threat to Democracy, Seeks to Quell Age Concerns
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. In his first major public appearance after Thursday night’s presidential debate in Atlanta, a fiery and animated President Joe Biden addressed a loud and enthusiastic crowd on Friday at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. In a speech interrupted repeatedly...
What to See in Triangle Galleries and Museums this Summer
As the summer days grow longer and hotter, few things are more tempting than finding an activity that involves air conditioning—mercifully, new and ongoing exhibits at art museums across the Triangle offer enriching, colorful ways to beat the heat. Here are a few of the many local exhibitions ongoing...
The INDY’s Summer 2024 Reading Issue
It’s the season of vacation reads, of frothy paperbacks by the Eno and overambitious nonfiction tomes weighing down tote bags. The Triangle has no shortage of talented writers, and we’ve been hoping to do a special reading issue for some time now—what better time than summer?. As...
Joanna Pearson’s “Bright and Tender Dark” Traces the Long Aftershocks of a College Campus Murder
Much has changed in Chapel Hill and its centerpiece public university, over the years, but it can still feel frozen in time. Cresting Franklin Street on my way to meet the writer Joanna Pearson, one recent morning, I spot an older woman kneeling by a row of sorority houses, trimming rose bushes; a block or so away, students with backpacks slung low over Carolina blue T-shirts mill in front of Sutton’s Drug Store. Farther still down the road, a man with dreads bound up in a red bandana crosses the street to Carrburritos.
Downtown Raleigh’s LGBT-Owned Libations 317 and The Green Monkey Foster Community in a Growing City
Two small business owners who grew up in rural North Carolina have taken similar journeys that led them to open businesses in downtown Raleigh in recent years. Both emphasize creating inclusive spaces that provide a sense of community for all, including the LGBTQ community. “I wanted a space for people...
Across the Triangle, Silent Book Clubs Offer Structure and Community for Readers
On a recent evening in Durham, on the second floor of Letters Bookshop, the room is hushed. Two people sit reading; neither is talking or reading the same book, but they are there together—sort of. It’s the second Tuesday of the month, one of the two evenings that Letters...
Talking With Triangular Comics & Zines Creator Patrick Holt
Patrick Holt is a lifelong lover of comics. In 2011, Holt started a job as a library assistant at the Durham County Library, where he reconnected with his passion for the medium through a colleague, Amy Godfrey. Together, the pair established the Durham Comics Fest, an annual celebration of comics, graphic novels, and the community of comics readers and creators behind them.
Following Budget Win, the Durham Association of Educators Gears Up for Fight for “Meet-and-Confer” Policy
The mass of red-shirt wearers inside the Durham County meeting hall was abuzz with excitement. Symone Kiddoo, president of the Durham Association of Educators (DAE) teachers union, ushered members into the long wooden pews that faced the front of the hall where county staff and the board of county commissioners waited to deliberate over the 2024–25 fiscal year budget one final time.
“Everywhere the Drowned” Is a Wrenching Story of Survival
Stephanie Clare Smith: Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination | UNC Press, January 2024. I have at least one thing in common with North Carolina–based writer Stephanie Clare Smith: we share a fascination with Harry Houdini, the great magician, escape artist—and keeper of secrets. “Harry Houdini said that his audience never saw the hours of torturous self-training it took to overcome fear and master the illusion,” Smith writes in her new memoir. “They saw only the miraculous way he held it together.”
Mesha Maren’s “Shae” Is a Poignant Appalachian Coming-of-Age Story
Fear, identity, love, and addiction are some of the visceral elements readers will explore in Mesha Maren’s novel Shae, published last month by Algonquin, in which the namesake narrator experiences a teen pregnancy with a trans partner. If that plot sounds unique, the novel’s strength is rooted in its...
In Diane Oliver’s Short Story Collection, “Neighbors,” a Luminous North Carolina Literary Voice Shines Through
The tragedy is obvious. Twenty-two-year-old Diane Oliver, from Charlotte, educated at the North Carolina Women’s College (UNC-Greensboro), a prodigious talent at the famed University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, killed in a motorcycle accident in 1966, just days before her graduation. Her posthumous short-story collection, Neighbors and Other Stories,...
Eighty Years Ago, NCCU and Duke’s Basketball Teams Faced Off In a Groundbreaking Secret Game
In 1944, 20 years before the height of the civil rights movement, an all-Black basketball team from the North Carolina College for Negroes—now known as North Carolina Central University, or NCCU—and an all-white team of Duke University medical school students put their lives on the line to meet at the NCCU gym for a clash of the titans.
Effort to Save a Historic Water Tower Put Lead in Chatham County Town’s Soil
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. Pitted with rust, an empty water tower looms over this old mill village. In its short shadow rests an...
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