Marjorie Brown Pierson grew up in southern Louisiana and has photographed her beloved marshes, which represent a significant amount of her visual artwork. But so, too, does her fine art photography of Bald Head Island, the North Carolina barrier island she first visited four years ago. Now a collection of her Bald Head images has been printed as a coffee table book called “Struck By Nature: Photographs of Bald Head Island.”
Q. I don’t have restless leg syndrome (RLS) or nighttime leg cramps. Rather, I have “restless foot,” sometimes in the right foot, sometimes in the left. I can actually feel the energy building up in my foot when it comes on. After about a minute, the energy is so great I MUST move the affected foot.
While many churches close their doors after Christmas Eve services, Antioch Baptist Church will be open on Christmas Day and host a free Christmas dinner for the community from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. The church at 1415 Holloway St. in Durham started serving a Christmas meal to homeless people in the neighborhood about 10 years ago, said the Rev. Michael Page, pastor of Antioch, and expanded it to anyone in the community who wants to come. They will also give away toiletries and coats.
I do enjoy sauntering through woods and my wife would say I’m a good feeder (a healthy appetite), but my body is far from perfect, for sure.
Like many women, I adore chocolate. So much that Petey keeps a giant Hershey bar in a glass box with a small hammer attached, in case he’s in the line of fire when I experience a chocolate emergency.
The more rational minds among us say the world will not end Friday, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of people from having some fun with the Mayan calendar date that some say marks the end of everything. The organizers of “Apocalesque,” a cabaret and variety show at the Carrboro ArtsCenter Friday, are using the date to celebrate the idea of transformation, the idea not of an ending, but a new beginning.
Cameron Hall’s just about everywhere at Hillside High School.
Two exhibitions, about collectors and their collections, the “Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell” and “The Cone Sisters and Matisse,” are currently at the Nasher Museum of Art. Among the many messages in these exhibitions is that art collectors come in many variations. There are those rich enough to buy the top of the line, like a Monet or Picasso, and those who buy young unknowns trying out new ideas. Some are mature women, like Etta Cone, who bought the developing Matisse, and then there is the teenager Jason Rubell (born 1969).
Since 2001, brothers Davy and Peter Rothbart have been publishing FOUND Magazine, a collection of notes, photos and odds and ends that the Rothbarts, their readers and contributors, find in passing. To celebrate 10 years of publishing, the Rothbarts will bring their anniversary tour to Chapel Hill and Durham this weekend.
Twenty years ago, Concrete Blonde lead singer, songwriter and bass player Johnette Napolitano was the kind of rock star who did what she wanted creatively. Today, she still is and still does.
The Christmas play this year at Sanctuary United Methodist Church at Lakewood aims to reach out to all people the same way the church itself does.