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Amidst the rainbow flags and grey skies, anyone at North Carolina’s annual Pride Festival might have missed it, but there was fame in the crowd, in the form of none other than Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart. The Durham-hating transplant wrote on his blog about the event:
more than a few times i have wished that my [...]
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(Via my friend, via her other friend) Back when Jamie Stewart played a Xiu Xiu show at the Coffeehouse, John Darnielle was in attendance, and it was great. Now, the two Durham denizens are popping up on Flickr, spending summer evenings on swinging benches. Check out the photo here.
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In spite of being the most uncool branch of the Triangle’s most uncool city, Raleigh will be the area and the state’s best-represented city at South by Southwest this year. The Bull City will be sending two of its finer acts to Austin this year, though Des Ark association with Durham is pretty loose given [...]
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The premiere event of the North Carolina film world, Durham’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, has just started selling festival passes. They come at three levels: $500 for 25 films plus priority tickets, and access to all panels and special events, $200 for 20 films and all panels or $100 for 15 films. All prices [...]
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Pitchfork called on some of the most notorious artists in music to assemble their own top 10 lists for 2008. The lists are varied, with some surprising picks. Justin Vernon, an ex-pat of the Triangle, included Raleigh bands Bowerbirds and the Rosebuds plus Vernon’s former DeYarmond Edison bandmates now know as Megafaun from Durham.
But by far [...]
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After Friday’s party to raise funds for the Fullsteam Brewery, future operator and owner of the Durham-based brew pub Sean Lily WIlson blogged about the party. They raised approximately $100,000 at the event. Quoth WIlson:
Our investment finger is rising like a Cialis pill-popper.
For the full story, click here.
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