Out & About

Lost Bayou Ramblers Opener: Shamu Garçon – Thursday, 8pm – Help kick off Duke Performance’s 2017/18 season with the Lost Bayou Ramblers at The Pinhook. The Ramblers, a Cajun family band influenced by garage rock and punk, a Grammy nomination as well as a significant role in the film “Beasts […]

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 […]

‘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. […]