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Eli Chen/WUNCThe Hopscotch Festival returns to Raleigh for its 15th anniversary this week, featuring My Morning Jacket, Earl Sweatshirt and many local and national acts. In this illustrated guide, WUNC's music reporter Brian Burns, a regular at Hopscotch since it started in 2010, takes us through how he gets the most out one of the Triangle's most beloved events. -
Jacquelyn Martin/APJohn Hutton starts each portrait with an egg-shaped frame, adding facial features, hair, and shoulders in a four-step process. Hutton's technique is detailed in his new book, "How to Draw the Presidents & First Ladies," published by the White House Historical Association. He believes anyone can learn to draw by following patterns.
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The online bookstore is run entirely by the volunteers at Friends of the Durham Library, a nonprofit that has worked with the library since at least the 1980s, Shayne Goodrum, FODL's former president, said. -
Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. -
North Carolina alt-country indie rock band Wednesday is an exemplar in evocative songwriting. On Sept. 19, they will release their sixth and most ambitious full-length, "Bleeds." -
A message posted on CAM Raleigh's website says it's navigating a changing financial landscape in which the cost of running a museum is outpacing traditional support. -
Leoneda Inge talks to Fayetteville native J. Harrison Ghee about their theatre roots, Broadway career and the 2025 DPAC Rising Star Awards. -
Leoneda Inge hosts an Arts & Culture encore hour, featuring Visit NC's Scott Peacock, Ella West Gallery founder Linda Shropshire and three artists featured in her latest exhibition and Carolina Ballet's Margaret Severin Hansen. -
Durham-based visual artist Raj Bunnag, a self-described “political printmaker,” creates works with a strong perspective about history and the presence of white supremacy in our society. That hasn’t posed an issue with showing his work at galleries until this year, when he had two exhibitions canceled, including at the North Carolina Museum of Art. -
The NorthStar Church of the Arts in Durham, along with scores of other arts organizations across the country, was notified in early May that it would lose federal funding. In the last week, the organization launched an emergency campaign to raise the money it needs to keep hosting free community programming. -
Jeff Tiberii and Leoneda Inge chat with writer and comedian Landon Bryant about his new book, Bless Your Heart: A Field Guide to All Things Southern.
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Anthony Daniels of "Dedicated Men of Zion" and his daughter KeAmber Daniels of "Faith & Harmony" talk to co-host Leoneda Inge about the joys of singing sacred music with their children, parents, and cousins.
