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SPOTLIGHT: Paperhand Puppet Intervention

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.  

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Freemail: Brice Randall Bickford – “Songstress”

Download “Songstress” from Brice Randall Bickford‘s new self-titled record on Trekky Records.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 8/1-7

 

Here because you can’t be trusted to know where to find the good stuff every night of the week.

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ART NOTES: In the Galleries

American Checkbook......etc by Ron Liberti
At The ArtsCenter this month, Susan Soper’s prints will be on display in the East End Gallery, while Matthew Scott Meyers’ paintings will be exhibited in the Center Gallery. Both exhibits run Aug. 4-31, with opening receptions from 6 to 9 p.m. on Aug. 12.
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.

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Dog Days

Milo
There’s always something bittersweet about August.
Across our town, state and nation, children will return to school to crack open (perhaps not-so) fresh textbooks and dust off their knowledge of multiplication tables and sentence diagrams.

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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.

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A Master Chef’s Guide to Cooking Local

by Vicky Dickson

It took a trip to Italy to make Sheri Castle appreciate her own culinary heritage. The discovery the Chapel Hill cookbook author and cooking teacher made in that country was, she says, a real epiphany:

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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.

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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.

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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

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TASTE OF THE TOWN

Fearrington House
Originally from southwest England, Colin Bedford came to the Fearrington House in 2005 and became its executive chef in 2009.