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The Art of Cool began as Durham’s only jazz and soul music festival. To survive, founder Cicely Mitchell has broadened the festival to include hip-hop and a more diverse network of collaborators. This year, Art of Cool reunited with the Beyu Caffe, Durhams go-to jazz dive, making it the festival’s free music stop throughout the weekend.
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The critic Stanley Crouch described jazz as democracy in sound. This is demonstrated by Kamasi Washington and Anderson Paak at this year’s Art of Cool in Durham. The duo reinvigorates jazz by integrating hip-hop, rap, and soulful sounds.
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Terence Blanchard, trumpeter and leader of the quintet E-Collective, isn’t afraid of injecting politics into his music. His latest album, Breathless, explores the meaning of groove, police violence, and community building through music. Blanchard is one of this year’s featured musicians at Art of Cool Festival in Durham.
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The Art of Cool Festival in Durham has added rappers, DJs, and neo-soul singers to the line-up of jazz and hip-hop musicians. Few young working groups are more emblematic of such a mix than The Internet, a Los Angeles-based, Grammy-nominated R&B/soul band. The Internet is based on a shared musical appreciation of the power of hip-hop and the sophistication of jazz.
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Durham chef and restaurateur Scott Howell opened NanaSteak as an attempt to reinvent the steakhouse. If every theater district demands a grand steakhouse, NanaSteak aims not just to deliver it but to remake it in the city's audacious modern image.
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Each season, Mystery Brewery in Hillsborough rotates its beers, offering a fleet of four new flagships every three months. For Mystery’s fourth birthday, owner Erik Myers, created a variety pack of Belgian beers made with yeast sourced from Belgium’s Westmalle Abbey. The beer labels were drawn by Durham artist Jamie B. Wolcott, illustrating the literary characters that lend many Mystery beers their names.
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After House Bill 2, the discriminatory legislation against the LGBTQ community, concert promoters worried that artists would cancel tours to North Carolina. The Shakori Hills Grass Roots Festival issued a statement that disavowed the bill by restating the festival’s purpose. No one cancelled and musicians, such as Brett Dennen, donated money and stage time to local groups supporting transgender rights.
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Beertown, which opens Friday at Raleigh Little Theatre, show how everyday objects capture the essential history and values of a community. Citizens are empowered to open a time capsule and decide which items from the past are still valued or need replaced. The Beertown’s citizens are also its audience members and can fully participate in the debate.
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NC Theatre was apprehensive last Thursday when the lead actor quit its production of Wit the day before opening, and the company had already invited Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Margaret Edson to speak after the performance. Fortunately, the company found Kate Goehring as a replacement, resulting in a strong performance.
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Nice Price Books in Durham is officially closing and will be replaced by the Papa John’s pizza franchise. Nice Price was one of the last survivors selling good, cheap vinyl albums. Despite its closure, the Raleigh branch still runs and it collected the Durham store’s remaining stock.
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The Department of Justice ruled that House Bill 2’s bathroom provision violated the Civil Rights Act and thus put billions of federal dollars at risk. Since then, Governor McCrory and the Department of Justice have sued one another. Now the case is headed to the Supreme Court.
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In 2009, the North Carolina legislature launched SolarBees, a two-million dollar pilot program to test a cheaper water-cleaning alternative in Jordan Lake. Last week, the Department of Environmental Quality abandoned the SolarBees project because data indicated it was completely ineffective. Now the state must get serious about water quality in the lake that provides drinking water to Wake and Chatham counties.
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Downtown Durham is running out of parking spaces. The city plans to implement paid on-street parking throughout downtown by early fall. This does not help people who work downtown though, because there is still not enough parking to accommodate businesses.
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27137
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A heroin epidemic has arisen in North Carolina and across the nation. Associated problems are HIV and hepatitis C spread by the sharing of needles. Now there are needle-exchange programs to protect addicts from infectious diseases and offer support to help them get clean.
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Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for President of the United States. Last week, U.S. Senator Richard Burr and Governor McCrory pledged to support the nominee. But not all Republicans are in favor of Trump.
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