Local bites biographer Rachael Oehring—the self-tagged picky eater— is cooking up a project for her book Gagging Towards Bethlehem. Her recipe? A cross-continental effort to hatch a fresh palate for provisions, where she’ll meet with culinary crackerjacks and get to the root of food sourcing and production…and how we stomach it. And with a nod … Continue reading
A few slushy happy hours before her 8:30 downtown derision, Handlers handing Hancocks at Quail Ridge books for her Chelsea Chelsea Bang BANG tour booksigning. Fri-July 30, 5p, Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh.
Dubbed “the closest thing the literary world has these days to a rock star,” he’s also the closest thing Raleigh has to a rock star. Well, him, and Evan Rachel Wood. So, dress your family in corduroy and denim and get your ass over to see sardonic scribe David Sedaris make words at Memorial Auditorium … Continue reading
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” and then it was time to solve “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Join a flamboyant Victorian musical troupe as they stage their reimagining of Dickens’ final unfinished novel-turned-whodunit-musical, where you pick the ending. July 22-24, 7:30pm, July 25, 2pm. $10-$15. Center for Dramatic … Continue reading
