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Jul 11, 17 •
87 Views • ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE BOTTOM, Theater • Gwenyfar Rohler • No Comments
Opera House Theatre Company made me very happy with anticipation when they announced “Camelot” by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe would grace Thalian Hall. As the title suggests, it is an adaptation of the Arthurian legend, specifically T.H. White’s...
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Jul 11, 17 •
94 Views • ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE BOTTOM, Theater • Gwenyfar Rohler • 1 Comment
Thalian Association, North Carolina’s Official Community Theatre, has teamed up with the USS North Carolina Battleship to present Thomas Heggen and Josh Logan’s “Mister Roberts” on the fantail. A generation of writers who served in WWII and began...
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Jul 11, 17 •
74 Views • ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE BOTTOM, Film • Anghus • No Comments
The summer movie season is so frequently a cesspool of franchise films that feel about as fresh as a forgotten gym locker unearthed on the last week of school. Finding something original or inspired is often a fool’s errand. Fortunately, this fool went to...
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Jul 11, 17 •
102 Views • ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE SIDEBAR, Film • James McCrea • No Comments
“Explore your town,” an offscreen narrator suggests, as a car zips past an array of shops on Front Street. “Plan a quick getaway.” The voice continues as the endless pastoral green of Interstate 40 floods the screen before showing images of the beach,...
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Jul 11, 17 •
80 Views • ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE MAIN, Music • Shannon Rae Gentry • No Comments
“Bonded by isolation and house-party debauchery,” the young guns of The Nude Party formed their band the way we all enter this world: nothing but birthday suits and wide eyes for the future. The five-piece set of friends met as App State freshmen in...
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Jul 11, 17 •
100 Views • FEATURE BOTTOM, NEWS & VIEWS, Op-Ed, Views • Mark Basquill • 3 Comments
“WTF, dude!” I shouted on the first day of the long holiday weekend as I slipped sideways past a scowling cyclist in a flaming orange jersey. “Is orange the new yellow?” It’s Tour de France month. Maybe the speedster fantasized he was blasting past...
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Jul 11, 17 •
73 Views • FEATURE MAIN, News, NEWS & VIEWS • John Wolfe • 1 Comment
“What I’ve seen over and over again in my work as an environmentalist is environmental injustice,” Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp Burdette explained. “Whether it’s where we put landfills, or hazardous material incinerators, or build factory farms or...
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Jul 11, 17 •
63 Views • FEATURE SIDEBAR, Live Local, NEWS & VIEWS • Gwenyfar Rohler • No Comments
“You know, Chris Rock has a bit about how ATMs should have some sort of warning on them when you try to withdraw money at like 4 in the morning—like, ‘Do you really want to do this?’ Because there is nothing good that you are spending money on at that...
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Jul 5, 17 •
77 Views • Art, ARTSY SMARTSY, FEATURE MAIN • Emily Truss • No Comments
Matthew Leavell's 'Imagine' metal works can be seen at Airlie Gardens now through September...
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Jun 27, 17 •
161 Views • FEATURE MAIN, GRUB & GUZZLE, Restaurant Reviews • Rosa Bianca • No Comments
Deliciousness awaits by the spoonful...
