Out & About
Seldom Scene – Thursday, 6-9pm – Take an urban approach to bluegrass with this Bethesda-based band at the American Tobacco Campus! The Back Porch Music on the Lawn concert series is the perfect place for a peaceful picnic with your family, friends and/or pup. Enjoy the opening performance from Cicadia […]
‘The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence’ Exhibition Opening Event – Thursday, 5:30-9:00pm – Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University opens a new exhibit – the first of its kind in the United States – dedicated to the works of Carlo Dolci, an important 17th-century Italian painter of […]
Acoustic Syndicate — Thursday, 6pm — As a part of the Back Porch Music on the Lawn series at American Tobacco Campus, roots revival band Acoustic Syndicate performs for free. Bring a blanket and your favorite four-legged friend. Food, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Pop into any one […]
North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival (NCGLFF) — Thursday–Sunday — NCGLFF is the second largest gay, lesbian and transgender film festival in the Southeast and features a diverse array of shorts, documentaries and feature films. Come out to The Carolina Theatre for entertaining and sophisticated films and filmmaking – […]
Baseball and Brews – Thursday, 5pm – Transportation, food, beer, a ticket to the Durham Bulls game and a tour of Bull Durham Beer Co. is included in this deal. Meet at Beer Study for food and a flight before heading over to the game. Tour the Bull Durham brewery during […]
“Being a member of the Pediatric Family Advisory Council (PFAC) at Duke is a club no one wants to be in, yet you are the only [people] who understand,” Carrie Tuttle explains. PFAC was started at Duke to place more emphasis on patient family-centered care, a movement in medicine to […]
‘Native Soil’ – Thursday, 6-8pm – An opening reception will be held for Shane Charles Smith’s latest exhibit at The Carrack. Smith is a conceptual artist who utilizes the natural fluid state of combined soft and hard substances like wax, oil and unfired clay along with the solid materials of copper, cement […]
Walking into Stuart Albright‘s classroom at Jordan High School, the first thing you notice are the book jackets covering the wall. This is not surprising, given that Stuart is an English and writing teacher. Up close, the book jackets – from “Officer Love’s Jurisdiction” to “Lyrical Gold” to “Sing Me […]
‘Big Fish’ – Thursday, 7-9pm – The Nasher Museum at Duke University presents the beloved movie as part of its ongoing film series. In this film, directed by Tim Burton and adapted from the best-selling novel written by Hillsborough-based author Daniel Wallace, you’ll discover that Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. […]
Noticeably absent from the lobby of Unscripted Durham: a front desk. “We wanted to focus on getting rid of that barrier that separates the guest from the employee in order to really make it a personal interaction,” says Brian Hansen, Unscripted’s general manager. “You walk into the hotel through either […]
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