Well, the fifth time was the charm. After standing the Triangle up four times on concert dates since 2005, Aretha Franklin finally showed up, holding forth Thursday night at the Durham Performing Arts Center.
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Live music in Durham has ebbed and flowed over the years, but it's been on a definite upswing the past year and a half - and Motorco Music Hall, a 500-or-so-capacity club near the old Durham Bulls baseball park, is one of the key players.
Modified: 02/10/12 10:32:52 AM
Scotty McCreery, the reigning "American Idol" from Garner, has received a double dose of good news - he now has a second gold single, and he's up for a second country music award.
Modified: 02/10/12 11:47:27 AM
As far as local excitement, Sunday's Grammy Awards will have to go a long way to top last year - when Durham's Merge Records unexpectedly snatched last-minute victory from the jaws of defeat by winning the album-of-the-year grand prize (for Arcade Fire).
Modified: 02/10/12 10:26:44 AMMovie Review: As he nears 60, Denzel Washington has begun to carve out a niche as the grumpy or morally compromised foil to young, gravitas-seeking white actors.
Modified: 02/10/12 10:15:16 AM
It's late Friday afternoon, and Tony Rock is in Shreveport, La. It's the first stop on the Royal Comedy Tour, a stand-up comedy roadshow that has him sharing the stage with seasoned heavy hitters Earthquake, Sommore, Bruce Bruce and Mark Curry.
Modified: 02/10/12 10:21:27 AMRestaurant Review: If corporations are people, as Mitt Romney has famously proposed, then I'm pretty sure I've discovered a business that has suffered from a multiple personality disorder for the past 10 years.
Modified: 02/09/12 06:04:48 PMMovie Review: Cast and crew err on the side of silly in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," the amusingly childish sequel to that unlikely 2008 hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth." They've rendered Jules Verne's novel into a jokey lark, with broad, corny wisecracks, comic sidekicks and everybody riffing on the ginormous lizards, humungous spiders and the like.
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The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival continues this weekend with Sketch Week, featuring performances from more than a dozen comedy groups both homegrown and imported.
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Fishbone was arguably the finest live band to emerge from Los Angeles' mid-'80s punk-rock scene. Every time the punk-funkateers took the stage, there was a palpable sense of danger and unpredictability.
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On music fans' list of bands that shoulda been bigger than they were, Fishbone ranks high.
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Wire More
Tommy Hilfiger told the story of a young cadet's military and sport lifestyle in his fall men's collection that debuted Friday during New York Fashion Week.
Modified: 02/10/12 11:49:29 PMBooks More
In her books, Durham author Sharon Ewell Foster paints a compelling portrait of the slave Nat Turner as a freedom fighter who led the 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, Va., inflicting the deadliest blow to slave owners in the young nation's history.
Modified: 02/08/12 06:15:20 PMDining More
If corporations are people, as Mitt Romney has famously proposed, then I'm pretty sure I've discovered a business that has suffered from a multiple personality disorder for the past 10 years.
Modified: 02/09/12 06:04:48 PMMusic More
Well, the fifth time was the charm. After standing the Triangle up four times on concert dates since 2005, Aretha Franklin finally showed up, holding forth Thursday night at the Durham Performing Arts Center.
Modified: 02/10/12 09:06:54 PMNightlife More
Live music in Durham has ebbed and flowed over the years, but it's been on a definite upswing the past year and a half - and Motorco Music Hall, a 500-or-so-capacity club near the old Durham Bulls baseball park, is one of the key players.
Modified: 02/10/12 10:32:52 AMArts More
The Justice Theater Project's " Molly Daughter," opening tonight, explores how the wives and daughters of Irish coal miners in 1870s Pennsylvania managed after a coal town boss executed 20 men for protesting his exploitations.
Modified: 02/08/12 05:30:11 PMTV/Movies More
As he nears 60, Denzel Washington has begun to carve out a niche as the grumpy or morally compromised foil to young, gravitas-seeking white actors.
Modified: 02/10/12 10:15:16 AMGaming More
Here's the great thing about the much-hyped, massively multiplayer online (MMO) game "Star Wars: The Old Republic" (PC; $49.99+$14.99/mo; Rated T): It never really feels like an MMO, at least not in the way we've been trained to think about MMOs.
Modified: 02/08/12 05:00:26 PMContact the N&O features staff
Carole Tanzer Miller, features editor
(919) 829-8901
Adrienne Johnson Martin,
assistant features editor (919) 829-4751
Features main number: (919) 829-4520
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