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Carrboro sues Duke Energy over delayed transition away from fossil fuels, greenwashing

| December 4

Entertainment

Starting Block, a showcase of incubator teams, performed at DSI Comedy on Tuesday night at the new Franklin Street location.

DSI Comedy moves into more room to perform on Franklin Street

By Tess Boyle | May 14

With a fresh start and a new downtown location, Dirty South Comedy Theater can now be more active and publicly accessible.

UNC graduate directs PBS’s ‘A Chef ’s Life’

By Liz Bell | April 22

Most people would not expect to find butter bean hummus on a Southern menu, but one UNC graduate is attempting to put a new spin on the image of the ...

Movie Review: Le Week-End

By Drew Goins | April 21

“There’s more to love than loving or being loved.” So says Nick (Jim Broadbent) to his wife Meg (Lindsay Duncan) as they stand over the Paris grave ...

Movie Review: Railway Man

By Avery Thompson | April 21

“The Railway Man” is an impressive and poignant tour de force surrounding the life events of Eric Lomax, who must wrestle with the emotional ramifications ...

Movie Review: Bears

By Schyler Martin | April 21

“They say the first year of parenting is the hardest,” narrator John C. Reilly says in the opening scene of “Bears.” Half of all bear cubs perish ...

New-school Carolina blues band TURCHI come home

By Kristina Kokkonos | April 21

With graduation fast approaching, some seniors might be struggling to figure out what to do afterward. Imagine receiving your degree and immediately leaving ...

First Art of Cool festival in Durham hopes to engage residents in local, international jazz

By Stephanie Zimmerman | April 21

The Art of Cool Festival, an inaugural event in Durham, is bringing performances from local jazz combos, student musicians and internationally renowned ...

Q&A with Joe Casey of Protomartyr

By Stephanie Zimmerman | April 15

Protomartyr is a punk rock band based in Detroit.

Movie Review: Draft Day

By Jeremy Wile | April 13

“Draft Day” is the epitome of everything football. It brings the National Football League to the big screen in the most appealing way.

Movie Review: Oculus

By Schyler Martin | April 13

“Oculus” is a fresh, unique take on the horror genre that relies on smart writing, strong acting, impressive storytelling and the bending of reality ...

Q&A with The New Yorker music critic Alex Ross

By Allison Hussey | April 3

Alex Ross is a music critic for The New Yorker, whose latest major undertaking is a book on the cultural legacy of German composer Richard Wagner. ...

Cat's Cradle nurtures Carolina growth

By Margaret Gilmore | April 3

Throughout the past 40 years, Cat’s Cradle has hosted some of the biggest names in music. While the number of national tours that come through the Cradle ...

Movie Review: Grand Piano

By Schyler Martin | March 29

With a gorgeous musical score, a compelling lead performance from Elijah Wood and a premise that's just strange enough to work, "Grand Piano" is a tense, ...

Movie Review: Noah

By Jeremy Wile | March 29

Taking on only pieces of the original story, “Noah” brings a new spin on the classic Bible tale.

Todd Barry - 25th Anniversary In Comedy Show - The Bell House, Brooklyn - December 19, 2012

Q&A with comedian Todd Barry

By Drew Goins | March 29

Todd Barry, a comedian based in New York, has under his belt three specials on Comedy Central, various tours and countless television guest spots. ...

Phuzz Phest music festival helps sharpen arts scene

By Kristina Kokkonos | March 29

The City of the Arts will be celebrating its namesake this weekend. Phuzz Phest, an annual music festival in Winston-Salem, begins tomorrow. Its third ...

3 writers to host joint reading at Flyleaf Books

By Jessica Zambrano | March 25

A group of colleagues will come together tonight at Flyleaf Books to talk about the varied routes they took on the way to becoming writers.

UNC alumnus writes about unexpected kinship in latest novel

By Chinelo Umerah | March 24

When two people — both fighting to escape their desperate histories — cross paths at a used car parking lot, an unexpected kinship grows between them. ...

Movie Review: Muppets Most Wanted

By Jeremy Wile | March 23

Is it sad when the short before a movie is just as funny, if not more, than the film itself? Well, this is the case with “Muppets Most Wanted.”

Movie Review: Gloria

By Drew Goins | March 23

Gloria Cumplido, the 58-year-old Santiago divorcée around whom director Sebastián Lelio centers his Spanish-language film “Gloria,” is ...