With the Comedy World’s Toxic Culture on National Notice, Mettlesome is a New...
One of the first events Mettlesome staged was almost rained out. The show, in honor of local comedian Paula Pazderka, took place in Ashley Melzer and Jack Reitz's Durham garage, where they hung black...
View ArticleMeet the Winners of the 2017 Indies Arts Awards
It's been about three hundred and twenty days since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States, but boy, it feels like a whole lot longer. Every day brings a seemingly infinite...
View ArticleWe'll Have a Crystal Ball: Glimpse What's Coming to the INDY's Pages and...
In this tiny lull between 2017 and 2018 shows, we're whetting our appetites for the bounty coming our way this year. Here's a sneak peek at what you'll see in the INDY and on local stages each weekand...
View ArticlePart Two of Our Early Look at the Bounty Spilling onto the INDY’s Pages and...
Last week, we ran down dozens of things we're looking forward to seeing in early 2018. Now, let's sprint through the remainder of the year in theater, dance, comedy, and artbearing in mind that only...
View ArticleInstant Best-Seller The Woman in the Window Is Much More Than Gone Girl with...
It's one of those publishing-world stories journalists just can't resist: a first-time novelist writing under a pseudonym sparks a bidding war with his au courant psychological crime thriller and winds...
View ArticleThe Podcast 1st Gens, By and About First-Generation Americans, Expands the...
When Perrine DeShield and Skye Wilson launched their 1st Gens podcast in January 2017, the timing was apt but coincidental. While planning it, they had no idea of the added relevance their storytelling...
View ArticleAs a New Art and Community Space Run by and Focused on People of Color,...
Michelle Gonzalez-Green's elbows are covered with paint and she can't stop smiling.
View ArticleHow a Humble Chatham County Phytosaur Crawled into History Before the Mighty...
If you visit the Hall of Vertebrate Origins at the American Museum of Natural History, you'll find a mounted skeleton of Rutiodon carolinensis, a member of the superficially crocodile-like order...
View ArticleHow a Blue Devil Statue that Was Raising Hell in Small-Town Mississippi...
Some vocal critics, informed by religious convictions, did not want a lifelike devil to become the face of their community.
View ArticleAn Old Tobacco Complex Turned Arts Hub Evolves as the Carrack Appoints a New...
The Carrack Modern Art and SPECTRE Arts are separate entities, but fate seems intent on linking them.
View ArticleModern Masters: The American Dance Festival Doesn’t Just Trace the Shape of...
The American Dance Festival is dedicated to modern dance. But this pat statement belies a complex and fluid state of affairs. In a tenure than spans nine decades, the last four of them spent drawing...
View ArticleIn The Long Dance, Two Journalists Reporting on a Cold Murder Case in Durham...
I met Drew Adamek in a Chapel Hill bar. He'd emailed me after reading a piece of mine in the INDY, where he was also a contributor at the time. He said he thought I'd be a good collaborator for an idea...
View ArticleSPARKcon Is Saved! But Why Did It Need to Be?
SPARKcon's crisis is overat least for now. Raleigh's annual open-source arts festival, founded in 2006 and run by arts nonprofit VAE Raleigh for the last eight years, will fill downtown with a wide...
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