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Wilson’s Whirligig Festival back for another year
WILSON, N.C. (WNCT) — Wilson’s Whirligig Festival is back for its 21st year! On November 7, from 10 am to 5 pm, and November 8, from 12 pm to 5 pm, Wilson’s Whirligig Park will host about 40 food vendors and family-friendly activities. Visitors can participate in the Whirli-Kidz Zone, Color Circus, art contests and […]
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'No place like home' Smiles and Frowns Playhouse returns to 'Oz' and stages reunion for 40th anniversary
It’s hard to believe that two decades have passed since Brea Glosson starred as Dorothy in Smiles and Frowns Playhouse’s 20th anniversary production of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Since that time, she has appeared on the college stage, moved to New York to pursue a theatrical career, and written and performed in a one-woman show. But next week, she will come back to where she started in Ayden’s Doug Mitchell Memorial Theater. After all, there’s no place like home. Smiles and Frowns will celebrate its 40th anniversary next week with a return to Oz. “The Wizard of Oz” was the first play performed when the children’s theater group organized in 1986. Over the years, the yellow brick road has become a familiar path, one that Smiles and Frowns has gone down for its 20th and 30th anniversaries as well. For Glosson and other former playhouse actors, it’s a road that leads to their first theatrical home. “I’ll be there in November,” Glosson said in a telephone interview from her home in Brooklyn, New York, where she works as an actor, a playwright, a teacher and a drama therapist. “I have my flight booked and my rental car rented.” Following
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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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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