The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival recently announced a headliner switch for shows at the Carolina Theatre in Durham. Two of the festival’s headliners are slated to take center stage at the Carolina Theatre on Feb. 8 and 10.
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will present its annual Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, concurrently with its Festival of Afro-Surrealist Films, beginning this month.
The Broadway season at the Durham Performing Arts Center includes several more shows this spring, making the second half of the 2012-13 the busiest.
The Carolina Theatre’s spring music schedule features a lineup heavy on jazz and traditional American music.
Tar Heel Soundfest, a new, multi-genre music festival, will have its inaugural run Jan. 12 at three Chapel Hill clubs – Local 506, Night Light and The Cave. Organizers Josh Zaslow and Bruce Stevens envision a festival that, according to their press materials, “cuts across genres for the best in all types of music,” and focuses primarily on local musicians.
This spring, art in the Triangle is a fascinating assortment of themes that consider ideas about time, love, the magic of electronics and installations by Wangechi Mutu, to name just a few. In her first major solo exhibition in the United States, the star show will be the Nasher’s presentation of Mutu, a Kenyan-American, internationally renowned, with exhibitions from Canada to London to Paris. Her concerns are the violence visited upon women, especially black women in the contemporary world. She also tackles issues pertaining to globalization through her Afro-futurist lens. Mutu is a major artist; having her art here is a coup for the Nasher and the Triangle.
Exercise can help narrow the gap between what you are and what you can be. Make fitness a regular part of your schedule this new year of 2013. The key is to be consistent and try to get some type of exercise into each of your days. Make it a habit. As the saying goes, “Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.”
Aldersgate United Methodist Church, 1320 Umstead Road, Durham, will have an Epiphany Ring Handbell Festival at 7 p.m. Sunday. The third annual Epiphany festival features eight to 10 handbell ensembles from the Triangle.
The new year just began and the holiday season voted most likely to add pounds is over. If you have done well, and are the same weight you were the day before Thanksgiving: Congratulations!
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I love brownie mix. I also generally fear and loath most other types of pre-fab, chemically enhanced food from a box. But I must confess to you a dirty little secret.
Q. I heard that a man with Crohn’s disease got relief from diarrhea by eating coconut. My husband had been having diarrhea almost every day since 2004. We never knew what caused it, and the gastro doctor could not cure it.
The Durham County Library will present the following programs beginning in January as part of its ongoing Humanities Program Series. All programs are free and open to the public.