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Raleigh News & Observer
After 51 years, Durham won't have a CenterFest next year. What we know.
Two months after artists and festival goers gathered in downtown Durham for CenterFest, its hosts have announced the fine arts festival won’t be returning next year. The Durham Arts Council said CenterFest will pause as the council considers the event’s future. September’s celebration marked 51 years since the event was first celebrated in Durham. CenterFest is the state’s oldest outdoor fine arts festival. It draws tens of thousands of people to the city’s downtown Five Points plaza over two days to enjoy over 100 visual art vendors, a parade, kids’ activities, music and other performances and food trucks. “This is a pause, not a farewell,” Katie Wyatt, the council’s executive director, wrote in a statement. “We are taking this opportunity to thoughtfully evaluate the festival’s future, strengthen community partnerships, explore new possibilities, and consider how CenterFest can continue to evolve alongside the community it serves.” Durham Arts Council finances In her statement , Wyatt said the council will invite artists, residents and supporter to help shape CenterFest’s next chapter. They plan to hold a public forum and share updates through its ArtVibes e-newsletter . “We believe deeply in the power of the arts to bring people together. Events like CenterFest
Raleigh News & Observer
Doo-wop legend who sang ‘Money Honey,' other R&B hits, to get NC marker
Clyde McPhatter, a falsetto-voiced pioneer of early rock-and-roll, who launched his highly influential but short career in the churches of Durham, will soon grace an North Carolina historic marker on the streets where he first learned to sing. Born in 1932, McPhatter grew up in a Baptist family in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood, where he sang solos in the choir at his preacher father’s church, Mount Cavalry Baptist, but he soon moved to New York, formed a gospel group based in Harlem — The Mount Lebanon Singers. Like many crooners of his era, McPhatter followed the powerful draw of secular music, and he lent his voice to the early 1950s blend of rhythm and blues. This combination of gospel soulfulness and free-spirited, sexually charged energy led the country into a new rock and roll era. A young Ernie Barnes would recall sneaking into the segregated Durham Armory to get a glimpse of McPhatter with his doo-wop Dominoes, describing the scene he saw on the dance floor, so bold for the era it seemed sinful, but not so audacious he didn’t move along. “What I observed was the no inhibition, no self-consciousness or rigidity, just fluid movement while the music punctuated every
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From Pittsboro’s dance floor to Hawaii: Savannah Fox says farewell to MOSAIC
Pittsboro, NC – Savannah Fox, whose work at MOSAIC at Chatham Park helped turn concert nights into gatherings for grandparents, parents and children, is preparing to move to Hawaii, leaving behind community friendships and a holiday celebration that will carry her musical touch after she leaves North Carolina. In...
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Durham's DPAC Hosts Free Talent Show Starring Performers With and Without Disabilities
Durham's DPAC will open its doors this Sunday for a free talent show spotlighting performers with and without disabilities, as Reality Ministries stages its 17th Annual Talent Show. Doors open at 2 p.m. and the show begins at 3 p.m. on Sunday, with singing, dancing and original art on display throughout the afternoon.
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📻🐾 WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, NC – Historic Art Deco Landmark That Inspired Stranger Things!
Simba and I visited the historic WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, North Carolina, an incredible Art Deco-style radio transmitter station that helped inspire the fictional WSQK radio station in Netflix's Stranger Things! With its rounded corners, streamlined windows, vintage lettering, and towering broadcast antennas, this unusual building looks like something straight out of another era.
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McMyler Set for LPGA Qualifying in Florida
DURHAM, N.C. – Former Duke women's golf standout Emma McMyler is set to compete in the Qualifying Stage of LPGA Q-Series, which will take place Nov. 3-6 at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Venice, Florida. McMyler will be one of 198 golfers competing over 72 holes for a chance to advance to the Final Qualifying Stage Nov. 19-23 at Magnolia Grove Golf Course in Mobile, Alabama. The top 55 golfers and ties at the Qualifying Stage will move on to the Final Qualifying Stage. During her rookie season on the LPGA Tour in 2026, McMyler made 13 starts and...
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This Maze-Like North Carolina Bookstore Has Readers Wandering Its Shelves for Hours
You step inside planning to grab one book, and somehow an entire afternoon slips away. That is the magic of a certain shop tucked into a busy corner of North Carolina, where every turn of the shelves reveals another surprise. It looks like a regular store from the parking lot,...
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This Hollywood Cowboy Built a Whole Wild West Town Down a Quiet North Carolina Back Road
You turn off a sleepy country road in North Carolina, roll down a long driveway, and start wondering if you took a wrong turn. Then a row of weathered wooden storefronts appears, complete with a saloon and a little chapel, like a movie set dropped into the pines. A real...