Paperhand Puppet Intervention returns for its 12th season with The Serpent’s Egg opening Friday, Aug. 5 at the Forest Theater.
 The show explores the cyclical nature of life, featuring curious babies, fantastical creatures, mythic beasts, graceful goddesses and spellbinding skeletons. Paperhand ventures to illuminate myths and tell personal stories, both with and without words, using the language of archetypes, symbols and dreams. Â
Download “Songstress†from Brice Randall Bickford‘s new self-titled record on Trekky Records.
ART NOTES: In the Galleries

Over at LIGHT Art+Design, the work of mixed-media artist and former UNC art professor Kimowan Metchewais is being shown through Sept. 17. Metchewais’ work includes photography, drawing and found objects, much of which references icons from his Native-American Cree heritage juxtaposed against modern culture.
FAUNA: Bolin Creek Hooligans
by Mary Parker Sonis
Every year in September, we hear the same stories coming out of the Bolin Creek forest. Our beloved ever-present barred owls begin a series of assaults on runners and hikers. Women running at 5:30 a.m. describe attacks on their ponytails and older men show the talon scratches on their bare pates. Nature run amuck.
A Master Chef’s Guide to Cooking Local
THE EATER: Think Cool Thoughts

by Kirk Ross
As I’ve repeated probably all too often over the years, I don’t say the word “hot†until August. This edition of MILL comes out July 28, and since it is the August issue and the filing date for this column was on a 100-degree day with a heat index of 115, let me say without equivocation that it is hot. Really hot.
HOP LINE: Local Ingredients, Local Beer
By Evan Crouch
For food lovers across the Triangle, summer is a special time of year. Along with the heat, humidity and a few mosquitoes, summer brings the prospect of fresh seasonal produce. Go to any nearby farmers’ market and you can’t help but be amazed by the abundance of locally grown fruits and vegetables at our fingertips.
Caught On Film
Filmmaker Spotlight: Philip Brubaker
by Margot C. Lester
“The self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and … Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy.†– Oscar Wilde
Fearrington House
Originally from southwest England, Colin Bedford came to the Fearrington House in 2005 and became its executive chef in 2009.



