Pippin – Through Sunday, times vary – Broadway’s four-time Tony award-winning musical production takes over the Durham Performing Arts Center’s stage for eight shows over six days. Packed with creative choreography and uplifting songs from the composer of Wicked, this new production – directed by Diane Paulus and featuring the acrobatics of Les 7 Doigts […]
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You may have noticed a difference in the menu at G2B Restaurant & Brewery. You may also have caught on to the fact that it’s now revised almost every day. “We cook very spontaneously,” says Executive Chef Travis Robinson, who started at G2B in November. “It’s pretty much whatever is available. I don’t pre-plan menus.
Step into the lobby of Bar Virgile on a Saturday, and you’ll likely be met by some spillover from the bar. It’s a hot night for downtown’s new cocktail locale. The space is cozy at 41 seats, but the wait staff is attentive and will help you find a nook to fill, whether it’s in
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Pesto pasta in a gondola in Venice. A pretzel at Oktoberfest. A beer at the Running of the Bulls in Spain. Pizza at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Doughnuts on the Great Wall of China. To the Niemann sisters, it’s all @foodintheair. The Instagram account founded in summer 2013 by Carolyn, Meg, Patty and Charlotte
The opening night of the Broadway musical Pippin at the Durham Performing Arts Center ended with a cast party at Tyler’s Taproom inside the American Tobacco Campus. The actors mingled with members of DPAC’s President’s Club as well as stagehands and DPAC staff while enjoying light appetizers and drinks. Take a look through our pics
Bike Month Kick-Off – Thursday, 5:30-7pm – Speakers, giveaways and a family-friendly ride down the Tobacco Trail. Sponsored by GoSmart, Bike Durham and Durham BPAC. American Tobacco Campus, 318 Blackwell St.; Free Eric Wilson – Thursday, 7pm – In his new book, part memoir, part cultural analysis, Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, the
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The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls – Thursday-Saturday, 8:15pm, and Sunday, 2pm – The play by Meg Miroshnik makes its regional premiere under direction of Jules Odendahl-James. The story follows Annie, who is off to visit her mother’s Russian homeland and claim a mysterious birthright and where she must face witches, bears and darker forces.
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Durham Magazine and Chapel Hill Magazine hosted our second annual Taste festival, a four-day celebration of the area’s best food and drink. This carefully curated lineup of events focuses on bringing culinary and beverage experts together with their devoted diners, creating a space where guests can mingle with their favorite chef, brewer, bartender, farmer, distiller
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The Dawn of Peace: Surrender at Bennett Place, 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War – Through Sunday, 10am – Commemoration of one of the final major events of the American Civil War on the actual site of the Bennett Farm, where Major General William T. Sherman and General Joseph E. Johnston met on April
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Runners and walkers have already raised more than $100,000 for nonprofit organizations following the completion of the Great Human Race in March, but you can still support the organizations that participated – fundraising remains open until May 1. “Many of the nonprofits were hit hard with the February weather that impacted what is traditionally the
