On a recent Saturday at the Carrboro farmers' market, people are gathered around the Chapel Hill Creamery table despite the 45-degree weather.
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Two new shows continue at Lee Hansley Gallery, Two: one a Joe Cox exhibition to raise money to restore a landmark work of public art at N.C. State University, and the other a memorial honoring UNC-Chapel Hill art professor Robert Barnard, who died Feb. 5.
Modified: 03/19/10 03:37:14 PMThose who follow professional baseball find all sorts of unanswerable questions to debate. Tim Wendel, who has written about baseball for decades, decided to figure out which pitcher threw the highest velocity fastball ever.
Modified: 03/19/10 01:14:51 PMEarlier this month DPAC announced it had landed "Billy Elliot" for its third season. On Friday, the rest of the shows were announced:
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For its 77th season, the American Dance Festival will build six weeks of performances around the question "What is Dance Theater?" Many of the choreographers represented are known for working in theater and dance.
Modified: 03/19/10 03:37:10 PMThe Girl Who Chased the Moon
Modified: 03/19/10 01:14:34 PMThe Durham Performing Arts Center on Friday announced its 2010-11 season, adding six musicals to its previously announced season highlight, "Billy Elliot the Musical."
Modified: 03/19/10 10:32:27 PMThe former probation officer from Robeson County arrested on drugs and weapon charges Thursday is now also accused of having a sexual relationship with a man on probation, authorities say.
Modified: 03/19/10 09:12:13 PMThe First Amendment comes up for a hearing today by the Durham City Council.
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Making a stage musical from Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie" books has great possibilities, especially with an Emmy, Tony and Oscar-winning creative team and a star from the TV series.
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Theater Review: In the theater, the simplest means often produce the greatest effect. That precept is demonstrated with riveting results in Declan Feenan's "Limbo," a one-act monologue being staged in its U.S.
Modified: 03/16/10 06:00:49 AMAt the beginning of Lionel Shriver's dazzling new novel, Shep Knacker is about to put into action his long-standing plan of leaving his current, unsatisfactory life in New York and moving to a tropical East African island for what he calls "The Afterlife," with his wife and their teenage son.
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Three Gorges Dam in China, spanning the Yangtze River, is an engineering marvel. Mostly completed by the end of 2008, it is the largest electricity-generating plant in the world, praised for its ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Janet Maslin loves Ron Rash, and so do I.
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So two violinists and a composer walk into a bar.
Modified: 03/19/10 01:19:49 PMThe latest way publishers are promoting their books is through online videos, every bit as entertaining as movie trailers. Check out "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls" by Steve Hockensmith on YouTube. The book is out Tuesday.
Modified: 03/19/10 01:39:35 PMThursday night's N.C. Symphony concert in Memorial Hall was entirely mainstream: Bach, Mendelssohn and Schumann. But guest conductor Timothy Myers' youthful verve made the familiar pieces seem fresh and alive.
Modified: 03/19/10 10:07:10 PMMelissa Gilbert returns to the world of Laura Ingalls Wilder as Ma in the national tour of "Little House on the Prairie, The Musical" for Broadway Series South in Memorial Auditorium.
Modified: 03/19/10 07:04:13 AMA story Wednesday in Life, etc. incorrectly stated the time of Sarah Addison Allen's reading at Barnes & Noble, 760 S.E. Maynard Road, Cary. The event will be at 4 p.m. Saturday.
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Asheville writer Sarah Addison Allen describes her writing as "Southern fried magical realism."
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