Each year as the mercury begins to drop, there’s an excitement in the air around here about the season to come, as the community prepares to welcome fall.
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FAUNA: Chasing fall warblers
by Mary Parker Sonis
Fall has arrived, and it is time for migrating warblers to make their way south for the winter.
by Kirk Ross
If you’re serving a dipping sauce on the side, well, you’re doing it wrong.
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CAUGHT ON FILM
by Margot C. Lester
Easily the scariest film at last year’s Carrboro Film Festival was Michael Sharpe’s DEVILING
by Evan Crouch
In my day job as a beer peddler, I’m frequently asked one question in particular this time of year: What’s your favorite pumpkin beer?
Take a listen along the spectrum of rock, R&B and jazz and you will stumble upon jam-band Jo Gore and The Alternative.
These North Carolina artists will be performing part of their second album, The Herstory of Josephine Gore/Return of the Articulate Kinsman Vol. 1 – to be released Sept. 19 – on Thursday, Sept. 26 at Cat’s Cradle.
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SPOTLIGHT: Radio Golf
A politically and culturally charged comedic drama kicks off Deep Dish Theater’s 12th season. Radio Golf tells the story of Harmond Wilks, a smart and successful man who wants to become the first black mayor of Pittsburgh. The tale takes place in 20th-century America, and many of the drama’s moments speak to the society we currently live in.
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SPOTLIGHT: Full Steam Ahead
Full Steam Ahead: A Benefit Concert for North Carolina Rail-Trails will be held at The ArtsCenter on Saturday, Sept. 8.
This two-part benefit features singing, dancing and must-see local performances along with a silent auction that will make for quite an entertaining evening.
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ART NOTES: In the Galleries
LIGHT Art+Design will host an opening reception for the work of Leigh Suggs on Sept. 7 from 6 to 9 p.m. Suggs’ art, made with paper, thread, fabric, inks, paints and plaster, stems from her childhood captivation with closing her eyes to see the circles and dots that would undulate and pulse in the darkness. The exhibit runs through Oct. 25.
CowParade North Carolina’s three-month exhibition kicked off Aug. 18 with a roundup in Durham in which more than 80 life-sized fiberglass cows hand-painted by local artists came together.
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FAUNA: Wile E.
by Mary Parker Sonis
In 2007, a young male coyote named Adrian entered a Quiznos in Chicago’s Loop district and settled down for a rest by the beverage containers.