Showing posts from: The Arts
Peace Amid Pain
In her new book, cancer survivor Niki Hardy explores how fear and faith can coexist, and how life can be full — even when facing our greatest challenges. By Page Leggett Photographs by Peter Taylor A Charlottean by way of Oxford, England, Niki Hardy was diagnosed with […]
August Books
Notable new releases Compiled by Sally Brewster The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, by Karen Abbott We love great narrative nonfiction, and Abbott is in top form with her epic true crime story […]
Southern Holy Smoke
Matthew Register’s quick rise from roadside to barbecue fame
Full Circle
Orr Ambrose’s fascination with nature and science has shaped the direction of her art.
Family Man
After 15 years at the helm, Theatre Charlotte’s Executive Director Ron Law begins a yearlong farewell. By Page Leggett Photograph by Joe Ciarlante It was early 2013, and Theatre Charlotte was preparing for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee’s three-hour look at one drunken night in […]
July Bookshelf
July Books Notable new releases, compiled by Sally Brewster of Park Road Books The Substitution Order, by Martin Clark Clark has been a good friend to our store for many years, so, honestly, we’d read his grocery list. Fortunately, he keeps turning out great novels that just […]
Snapshot
CPCC’s Tom Hollis gathers key players to create a sizzling summer theater series.
Dream Big
The Mint Museum Randolph celebrates the wild imagination of children’s book author and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi.
Glass in the Garden
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden celebrates its 20th anniversary with a blockbuster exhibit.