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The Durham County Sheriff’s Office recently installed video monitors in the jail’s lobby to offer a safer alternative to moving inmates around the jail for visits, and to give inmates more visitation opportunities. Critics, however, contend that video visitation is a thinly veiled move to eliminate in-person visits altogether and profit from incarceration by eventually charging visitors to use the service.
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North Carolina’s House Bill 909 rolls back provisions requiring Duke Energy to purchase renewable energy projects, like solar, from independent producers at the avoided cost rate. Proponents say the bill will promote conservation by reducing the demand for fossil fuels, but critics argue that the legislation will actually limit the state’s solar infrastructure.
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Matt Douglas, a Raleigh musician, became known in the Triangle area for his saxophone work with the Chris Boerner Quartet and his own band, The Proclivities. Douglas is now playing with two instrumental jazz bands known as The Hot at Nights, and the Mountain Goats. The Hot at Night has a new record, Three Kids, features music influenced by local musicians and diverse musical styles.
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Raleigh-based artist, David McConnell, has a new work of art called Infinity Hundred, which stems from varied creative sources including music, mixed media, and a food forest. McConnell incorporated sustainably farmed foods into his art to supplement his income and to improve his son’s asthma. The art project has inspired McConnell to pursue permaculture on a larger level, aspires to teach people about sustainable practices.
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Artist Luke Demarest has a new solo exhibit at Durham’s Carrack Modern Art called, Aibohphobia and the Reifer’s Schadenfreude. Demarest uses 3-D printing and other mediums to test the boundaries of language, the borders between human and machine, and the interaction of design and chance.
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Black Mama’s Day Bail Out was a national action to free black mothers who were in jail on bonds they could not afford to pay. Mothers released from the Durham County Detention Facility were celebrated at Hillside Park on Mother’s Day. Social activists at the event are calling for reform of North Carolina’s racially biased ransom demands.
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Moogfest, in its second year in Durham, features a protest stage and other progressive themes. The music festival promises a space where artistic expression can be channeled to incite action for social justice. At the same time, Moogfest is eager to be a beacon for the affluent, tech-minded entrepreneurs flooding Durham's rapidly expanding start-up community.
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The second year of Durham’s Moogfest focuses on grassroots musical activism, and features music-related forms of social protest. The festival opens with Moor Mother, an experimental music project led by Camae Ayewa. A self-described Afrofuturist, she uses music and lyrics to fight against oppression.
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Amos Gaynes experienced an unexpected spiritual awakening in the middle of a field outside Asheville in 1999. At Durham’s Moogfest, Gaynes will speak about musical technology and ritual in twenty-first-century shamanistic practice. As Gaynes explains it, a well-planned dance party can be akin to a shamanistic ritual, with potential benefits to mind, body, and spirit.
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Beginning half a century ago, Laurie Spiegel and Suzanne Ciani laid early foundations for electronic music. In the Triangle, a resurgence of interest in their work has run parallel with the renewed interest in old synthesizers. They will be featured at this year’s Moogfest in Durham.
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Baba Chuck Davis, who built a global dance legacy in Durham, passed away at age eighty on Mother's Day. Davis immersed himself in the cultures and art forms of Western Africa, and brought them back to teach and stage in the United States. He is known for performances by his African American Dance Ensemble, and DanceAfrica, an annual festival he created to showcase the dance and music of the African diaspora.
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Durham resident Wendy Miranda Fernandez was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March while seeking a stay of a final order of deportation. Fernandez fled violence in El Salvador, also known as the murder capital of the world. With an uncertain future, Fernandez has been kept from marrying her fiancé, is unreachable by phone, and her whereabouts are unknown.
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More than thirty years after its publication, Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, has a new episodic adaptation. The adaptation was filmed primarily in Durham, and includes a significant scene in front of Duke Chapel’s iconic bell tower. The film has stirred much controversy, raising serious questions about society, power, and politics.
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Shannon Healy is the owner of the Durham bar, Alley Twenty Six. The bar was recently expanded to include a new food program called “farm-to-sip.” The program offers unique pairings of cocktails and snacks in an upscale environment.
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Cecilia Polanco runs the So Good Pupusas food truck in Durham, catering pupusas and other Salvadoran dishes. Earlier this year, Polanco began a scholarship program to help undocumented immigrants pay for school tuition. She also hopes to use her business to create a mechanism for community members to sell their food out of the truck and make a living.
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