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Codey Johnston
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| Erica Eisdorfer, manager of the Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC, and Allie Shay prepare to shelve new books at the Bull's Head Bookshop Tuesday. Eisdorfer has just released her debut novel, "The Wet Nurse's Tale," set in Victorian England. |
'The Wet Nurse's Tale' is first novel by bookshop boss
CHAPEL HILL -- As manager and buyer of Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC Chapel Hill, Erica Eisdorfer spends her workdays surrounded by books. Her office is filled with stacks and stacks of advanced reading copies of books about to be published and hoping to get attention. This summer, her own novel, "The Wet Nurse's Tale," was sent out as a hopeful contestant in the competitive world of books.
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The word, the world at once -- with audio books
I just learned about a Chapel Hill classroom where fifth-graders listen to audios and walk a nature trail daily. If you want to take in the beauty of the world and the word at the same time, here are a few suggestions.
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BOOKS BRIEFS
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'Bookwatch' to feature Howard Lee
Book club to discuss Lee's 'Mockingbird' |
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Actress performs at NCCU
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DURHAM -- What do you get when you mix the cast of a reality television show, a lot of humor and the immediacy of live theatre? The answer may be the sketch comedy show "Where's the Remote?" performed today through Sunday at the University Theatre on the campus of N.C. Central University. |
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Rendezvous with Ra
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DURHAM -- Herman "Sonny" Blount -- better known in Durham, internationally and across the galaxy as Sun Ra -- made his mark as a composer, pianist and bandleader who had a strong influence on modern jazz. Ra also was an entrepreneur, and, variously, a poet, preacher and philosopher. An exhibit opening today at the Durham Art Guild touches on those different aspects of Ra's career. |
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Painter's exhibit features Durham cityscapes
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DURHAM -- As artist Annemarie Gugelmann was hanging her five 6 by 6-foot paintings of Durham at the Durham Arts Council Wednesday afternoon, she was told that one already sold. Before it even hung on the wall for an exhibit that opens tonight. Gugelmann's "New Glimmers of Old Glamour: Painting Durham" features five scenes from around downtown -- Golden Belt, Brightleaf Square, Durham Performing Arts Center, houses on Dunstan Street and the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, which was the one that is already sold. Each costs $2,500. Gugelmann used an acrylic base and then oil paint for the urban images. |
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Clown to make kids laugh at festival
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His name is Jose Vega Santana, but he is known in Puerto Rico and many other countries by his stage name Remi. Considered his country's greatest professional clown, Remi will make his second appearance Saturday at Durham's Fifth Annual Latino Festival. |
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J.J. Lang: Des Ark, Auxes tear down the walls at 506
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Even in an intimate live setting, the inherent wall between performer and audience exists. Sure, live music is all about expression, but when possible, the band won't voice its frustrations or technical difficulties. The stage serves as a physical barrier between the crowd and the musicians, bringing the two close to each other while still keeping a clear-cut line. |
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In 'Picasso and the Allure of Language,' Nasher 'breaks ground'
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DURHAM -- Of her friend artist Pablo Picasso, American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein said he did not seek the company of painters. Stein, in a 1938 book about Picasso, wrote, "His friends in Paris were writers rather than painters, why have painters for friends when he could paint as he could paint." |
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Four Square chef consumed by the restaurant business
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DURHAM -- Fine dining is about more than just food. It's about making people feel special.
That's what Shane Ingram, chef-owner of Four Square Restaurant in Durham, learned by cooking alongside chef Emeril Lagasse. That was in New Orleans in the early 1990s, before Emeril was a household name. And it was also early on Ingram's journey as a chef. Now Ingram co-owns his own restaurant, with his wife Elizabeth Woodhouse, in the century-old Bartlett Mangum House on Chapel Hill Road. |
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Musicians band together for farms
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A new anthology of North Carolina musicians -- among them Squirrel Nut Zippers, Megfaun, Tres Chicas and others -- will raise money for an organization that helps family farms that are facing hardship. |
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