Art: What to Do with 164 Old Ballet Shoes?
Cary, NC- What do you get when you mix boxes of ballet shoes, a team of artists and a penchant for recycling and re-use? The Ballet Shoe Project. Read more
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Cary Pottery Fires Up in Downtown
Cary, NC – Cary Pottery is firing up downtown. It’s a watershed moment for potter Kenneth Neilsen, but also for downtown Cary and the local arts community. Read more
Cary Photo Journal: Road Trip to Pittsburgh & Ohio
Cary, NC – A couple of weeks ago, our photo intern Brian Speice took a road trip to Pittsburgh and Ohio. We said “bring your camera.”
A Cary Point of View
Of course, people from Cary travel all the time, all over the world. Some of them take pictures. Some, like Brian, are really good photographers.
Which raises the question, do Cary-ites have a particular point of view? Do we see the world a certain way? Is there a “Cary-school?”
Lest you think, dear readers, that we are just gilding the lily, you’ll recall that we’ve done other photo essays by Cary-ites abroad – in Berlin, New York, New Dehli and elsewhere.
Add this one to the Cary Road Journal collection.
Cary Photo Journal: Road Trip to Pittsburgh & Ohio
From photographer Brian Speice:
“Hal, Here are 14 of my favorite pictures from my trip! Other than the first three (traveling pictures) and the last one (shot in Ohio), they were shot around Pittsburgh (where we had the most time to just walk around and do street photography).”
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Photos by Brian Speice. Text by Hal Goodtree.
Concert: Harry Connick Jr. in Cary
Cary, NC – It’s easy to be transported to another place and time with the soulful, toe-tapping, make- your-body-move music Harry Connick Jr. brings to the stage.
Cirque du Soleil Pictures
Cary, NC – It’s kind of cool that Cary has a connection to a Cirque du Soleil performer, Adrienn Banhegyi. She did a jump rope workshop for Cary’s SuperSkipper team last month. Photographer Brooke Meyer followed up with Adrienn during a Cirque du Soleil rehearsal and performance in Raleigh. Read more
Two Great Concerts in One Week
Story and photo by Lindsey Chester.
Cary, NC – This past week, Koka Booth Amphitheartre played host to two of the best concerts you are likely to see here in the Triangle: Passion Pit and The Lumineers. Read more
Cary Author Wins $50,000 Amazon Award
Cary, NC – The votes are in and Amazon customers have chosen Rysa Walker of Cary, N.C. as the Grand Prize winner of the sixth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest for her young adult novel Timebound.
Cary Author Wins $50,000 Amazon Award
Walker’s Timebound was inspired by her love of history and science fiction and explores how the choices we make affect our future.
In the novel, 17-year-old Kate learns that she’s inherited a genetic license to time travel when her grandmother shares a strange blue medallion, an even stranger tale about future historians, and the unshakeable conviction that the fate of half the planet lies in Kate’s hands.
Timebound will be released October 22, 2013 by Skyscape—an imprint of Amazon Children’s Publishing—and Walker will receive a publishing contract with a $50,000 advance. The book is now available for pre-order in print and Kindle formats on Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/abna.
The remaining four category winners, Ken Moraff (General Fiction, It Happened in Wisconsin), Jo Chumas (Mystery/Thriller, The Hidden), Evelyn Pryce (Romance, A Man Above Reproach) and J. Lincoln Fenn (Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, POE), each received publishing contracts from Amazon Publishing with a $15,000 advance. Their books will also be released in print and Kindle formats in the fall and can be pre-ordered on Amazon.
“Rysa’s novel is one of those up-til-dawn reads that you just can’t put down, so it’s no surprise Amazon customers gave her this award,” said Daphne Durham, Editor-in-Chief, Amazon Publishing.
Movie Review: Star Trek “Into Darkness”
Movie review by Robert Geiger for CaryCitizen.
Cary, NC – First off, a little disclaimer. I’ve been a Star Trek fan since the original series aired when I was growing up in the 60-70’s. I’ve seen every episode and movie of every series with all the crews and captains over the years. I’m a child of the “space age” inspired by vision and possibility of humanity reaching for the stars. I was eating in my kitchen watching the first man set foot on the Moon. NASA was news and the space program was our hope for Mankind’s future. Read more
Last Moments of the Galaxy Theater
Cary, NC – CaryCitizen reader David Gill shared with us his photographs of the last moments of the Galaxy Theater in Cary.
End of the Galaxy
The Galaxy Theater, at the corner of Cary Towne Boulevard and S.E. Maynard Road, showed art films and foreign films. But the Galaxy owed many months rent to York Properties and closed their doors in November. York plans to redevelop the site around a Harris Teeter supermarket.
And so, the Galaxy came crashing down in a cloud of dust just over a week ago.
Last Moments
David Gill captured the last moments of the Galaxy. Visit Flickr to see the complete slideshow.
Silent Art Auction Supports Re-Use – This Sunday
Story by Lindsey Chester. Above, excerpt from “Invisible Man” by Salvador Dali.
Cary, NC- Betsy Dassau formed the Cary Creative (ReUse) Center just over a year ago because she saw a need to repurpose what wasn’t really being recycled. With her arts background, her eyes saw art supplies where others saw only trash. Read more