Unheimlich and de gustibus non disputandum est
It’s a funny thing about books, how sometimes we love them and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes I will love a book, but another person will not love it at all.
It’s a funny thing about books, how sometimes we love them and sometimes we don’t. Sometimes I will love a book, but another person will not love it at all.
Longtime Charlotte resident Jimmy Sheldon-Dean is presenting “Trouble and Together,” a salute to some of the composers and artists that have been his musical influences over the years in a free show at the Flynn Space just days after the eclipse, April 12 and 13.
My mother’s mother died in the 1980s and I really wish I had listened better when she told me things about her life. I loved her so much, and I definitely paid attention when she spoke to me. I mean, I didn’t ignore her, but I have forgotten a lot of details as, it seems, have my sisters.
Mrs. Price brought treats to school like Russian fudge. “If we were good,” Justine the narrator explains, “she said, there’d be more treats, because good things happened to good people.
Years ago, when my daughter was about 8 years old, a small group of friends and I gathered one winter afternoon at Village Wine and Coffee in Shelburne, where (some of you might remember this) there was — situated on the counter
“In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. There are Johnny-jump-ups and spring beauties and little bluets.
It’s raining again and I just ran around my house gathering up all the books I’ve read in the past few months that I have not yet written about in this column. I turned up: seven.
The Clemmons Family Farm is releasing Joy in Motion!, a free tutorial video series for teachers.
Carpenter brings sculpture skills from D.C. to Charlotte.
So many books, so little time. And it seems this summer I have read a plethora of super good ones.
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I’m sitting in my kitchen listening to the gentle snoring of my pug and looking out over a very green field (watered well by recent rains), Mount Philo rising in the distance through a gauze-like veil of what they say is smoke wafted down from Canada. It is hot. But beautiful.
If something like a music concert is good, it’s worth paying for, right? And those who go to the concert should be the ones who pay, right? Well, maybe.
The 36th Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour opens this Saturday, July 1, in Greensboro
I know this is a “books and reading” column, but I want to take a bit of a different tack for a moment and recommend two plays I just saw on a recent trip to New York City.
Music at Radio Bean in Burlington featured six international artists.
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Although the Shelburne Museum has been focused on a new building to house Native American art for four years,…
“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death,” wrote William S. Burroughs.
The word theater has a long history, deriving from the ancient Greek word “theasthai,” which means to behold.