Orange County Arts Commission

United Arts of Wake County, in partnership with the Raleigh Fine Arts Society, recently hosted the second Spoken Word Competition for high school students. On January 7, twelve finalists, including Carrboro High School’s Milagros (“Mili”) Lopez Secena,

PopUp Chorus events are come-one-come-all affairs in which a crowd of singers convene, rehearse, perform and record a couple of songs. The group’s videos then go out over social-media channels, and they’ve attracted favorable attention from many of their cover subjects.

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Phyllis B. Dooney, a visual storyteller, who has worked in photography, film, and audio is the founder of PHOTO FARM—a new, collaborative photography studio in Chapel Hill.

Now 30 years old, Saxsquatch can be cagey about many of his biographical details. But a few details are known. He’s an Orange County native who attended Carrboro High School, although he claims not to have graduated because, “It’s tough for Saxsquatch to be accepted in high school.”

You may think of town meetings as rather staid, dry affairs, but the Carrboro Town Council opens every meeting with a poem, selected by the current Carrboro poet laureate, Liza Wolff-Francis.

Some years back, Woody Platt was at a festival with his former band Steep Canyon Rangers. Somebody was admiring Platt’s guitar – which looked weathered, old and broken-in enough to produce its rich sonic tone – and asked how old it was.