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Squonk Opera performs Friday on City Plaza in Raleigh as part of Artsplosure.

There’s a festival fit for everyone this weekend in the Triangle

There will be art on the streets of Raleigh, hip hop in Durham, a Hogg celebration in Hillsborough and an agriculture-themed event at the State Fairgrounds. Plus, you can tour some backyard chicken coops.

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The best theater picks, May 17

Carolina Ballet takes on an acting challenge with "Giselle."
WAKE COUNTY

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation makes rare public appearance in Raleigh

The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, the document that Abraham Lincoln used to give the Civil War new purpose, goes on display Wednesday at the N.C. Museum of History, where it will be on view for a month.
WAKE COUNTY

Outspoken Baptist editor and minister R.G. Puckett dies at 80

R.G. “Gene” Puckett, the longtime editor of the North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder newspaper, died Sunday. He was a critic of the conservative movement in the Baptist church.
ARTS & CULTURE

Raleigh Little Theatre director Haskell Fitz-Simons dies of cancer

Haskell Fitz-Simons, longtime artistic director at Raleigh Little Theatre, died Sunday at age 64. He is remembered as a multi-talented member of the North Carolina thespian community.
ARTS & CULTURE

Carolina Ballet presents a precise, realistic 'Giselle'

Artistic Director Robert Weiss waited 15 years to stage a demanding ballet that turns dancers into precision actors. "Giselle," opening Thursday, is unique among the classic 19th-century story ballets in its believable love story.
ARTS & CULTURE

Exhibit: 'Art in Clay: Masterworks of NC Earthenware'

The NC Museum of History will host a pottery exhibit assembled by Old Salem Museum & Gardens.
ARTS & CULTURE

Asides: News of Triangle arts, in brief

A new season for NC Theatre and Broadway Series South; the Emancipation Proclamation comes to Raleigh; an interactive dinosaur exhibit and more.
ARTS & CULTURE

The best theater picks, May 10

Learn about Walt Whitman’s life and work at the Carrboro ArtsCenter.
ENTERTAINMENT

NC Opera succeeds with grand opera ‘Aida’

N.C. Opera’s production of “Aida” reaches new heights in its third season.
ARTS & CULTURE

'Drowsy Chaperone' is the musical for those who hate musicals

Raleigh natives Clay Aiken and Beth Leavel plan a joyous homecoming in N.C. Theatre's "The Drowsy Chaperone."