Friday, November 30, 2012
New Railings in Durham Central Park
special to the Clarion Content
by: Denise Schreiner
If you park in the Measurement, Inc. lot to go to the Durham Farmers Market, you already know there’s a new set of railings on the main stairs with an entry arch at the bottom. It’s a collaboration between Liberty Arts artist, Jackie MacLeod, and Monkey Bottom Gallery owner and artist, Joe Galas.
Turns out there’s an interesting story behind these railings...
Photos courtesy of Jackie MacLeod
For years Dale Evarts and his wife Betsy had brought Dale’s mother, Audrey, to the Farmer’s Market Saturday mornings. Audrey had both a hip and knee replacement, so it was hard for her to navigate the stairs, and every week she would say "It would really be good to have a railing there." And every week Dale would say "Yeah, Mom, someday we’ll have one."
After Audrey died unexpectedly last fall, Dale and his sister began talking about it.
And one Saturday this summer when Dale saw the Durham Central Park booth, he went over and said “You know, those stairs over there need a railing and I would like to support that in memory of my mother.”
As it happens, DCP had wanted to install handrails ever since volunteers had built the three stairways down the hill. They’d already enlisted Jackie and Joe to come up with a design, but had only been able to raise half the cost.
When Dale saw the drawings he knew immediately that Audrey would approve. The reason for his enthusiasm was that for twenty years (1965-1985) Audrey had run Eastgate Hardware Store in Chapel Hill (most unusual for a woman at the time), and the recovered metal components in the design reminded Dale of the old hardware from factories and mills in the area. He wrote a check for the balance on the spot.
Now Audrey’s legacy will become a permanent fixture at DCP.
Photos courtesy of Jackie MacLeod
Photos courtesy of Jackie MacLeod
by: Denise Schreiner
If you park in the Measurement, Inc. lot to go to the Durham Farmers Market, you already know there’s a new set of railings on the main stairs with an entry arch at the bottom. It’s a collaboration between Liberty Arts artist, Jackie MacLeod, and Monkey Bottom Gallery owner and artist, Joe Galas.
Turns out there’s an interesting story behind these railings...
Photos courtesy of Jackie MacLeod
For years Dale Evarts and his wife Betsy had brought Dale’s mother, Audrey, to the Farmer’s Market Saturday mornings. Audrey had both a hip and knee replacement, so it was hard for her to navigate the stairs, and every week she would say "It would really be good to have a railing there." And every week Dale would say "Yeah, Mom, someday we’ll have one."
After Audrey died unexpectedly last fall, Dale and his sister began talking about it.
And one Saturday this summer when Dale saw the Durham Central Park booth, he went over and said “You know, those stairs over there need a railing and I would like to support that in memory of my mother.”
As it happens, DCP had wanted to install handrails ever since volunteers had built the three stairways down the hill. They’d already enlisted Jackie and Joe to come up with a design, but had only been able to raise half the cost.
When Dale saw the drawings he knew immediately that Audrey would approve. The reason for his enthusiasm was that for twenty years (1965-1985) Audrey had run Eastgate Hardware Store in Chapel Hill (most unusual for a woman at the time), and the recovered metal components in the design reminded Dale of the old hardware from factories and mills in the area. He wrote a check for the balance on the spot.
Now Audrey’s legacy will become a permanent fixture at DCP.
Photos courtesy of Jackie MacLeod
Photos courtesy of Jackie MacLeod
Labels: Art, Durham, infrastructure, Pop Culture
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Two Baltimore ladies and Matisse
The Nasher museum is hosting a fantastic show of works from the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition features pieces from Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir, Van Gogh, Pissarro, and Courbet among others.
These works came to Baltimore as the titles alludes through the efforts of two women, sisters, Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone. These two cultural visionaries, according to the Nasher's website...
Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones---Matisse
This week there are two special events in conjunction with the exhibit.
Wednesday, at 6.30pm in the Cameron Village Library, in Raleigh, Juline Chevalier, Curator of Education at the Nasher and Dr. Marianne Wardle Ph.D, Coordinator of Academic Programs at the Nasher, give an "Art with the Experts" talk entitled: “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters.”
Thursday night ticket holders for the exhibit at the Nasher Museum itself, can attend a free wine tasting there at 6pm. Join Noel Sherr, owner of Cave Taureau (The Bull’s Cellar) which opened just last month in downtown Durham, he has personally selected six French wines for the evening.
These works came to Baltimore as the titles alludes through the efforts of two women, sisters, Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone. These two cultural visionaries, according to the Nasher's website...
began buying art directly out of the Parisian studios of avant-garde artists in 1905. At a time when critics disparaged Matisse, and Pablo Picasso was virtually unknown, the Cones followed their passions and amassed one of the world’s greatest art collections.
Striped Robe, Fruit, and Anemones---Matisse
This week there are two special events in conjunction with the exhibit.
Wednesday, at 6.30pm in the Cameron Village Library, in Raleigh, Juline Chevalier, Curator of Education at the Nasher and Dr. Marianne Wardle Ph.D, Coordinator of Academic Programs at the Nasher, give an "Art with the Experts" talk entitled: “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters.”
Thursday night ticket holders for the exhibit at the Nasher Museum itself, can attend a free wine tasting there at 6pm. Join Noel Sherr, owner of Cave Taureau (The Bull’s Cellar) which opened just last month in downtown Durham, he has personally selected six French wines for the evening.
Labels: Art, Duke, Durham, Pop Culture
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Tweets of the Week, late November
We think of these little slices of Twitter as our... Tweets of the week.
Real quotes from real tweeters. We love to peak behind the curtain and into the lives of folks we hardly know. Some of these Tweets are PG-13 or even R. All of them keep it real. If you are easily offended, click here.
All spelling is that of original authors.
money is the reason we exist, everybody knows that it's a fact (kiss-kiss)---RJT
If you can make a difference in the life of just one person, that's pretty pathetic.---AG
Girls are attracted to assholes because in elementary school people used to say "if they're mean to you, they like you"---KD
and on the 4th day satan created acne---WD
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.---GBS
Real quotes from real tweeters. We love to peak behind the curtain and into the lives of folks we hardly know. Some of these Tweets are PG-13 or even R. All of them keep it real. If you are easily offended, click here.
All spelling is that of original authors.
money is the reason we exist, everybody knows that it's a fact (kiss-kiss)---RJT
If you can make a difference in the life of just one person, that's pretty pathetic.---AG
Girls are attracted to assholes because in elementary school people used to say "if they're mean to you, they like you"---KD
and on the 4th day satan created acne---WD
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.---GBS
Labels: Pop Culture, twitter
Friday, November 09, 2012
#FashionDriveBy November 2012 : Damsels in Durham
This Fall, our #FashionDriveBy features role reversals in more ways than one. Modeled by Angela Goldman and Kara Pezzimenti, normally the behind-the-scenes stars responsible for the incredible hairstyle coordination you've seen in the past, and featuring styling and dresses designed by our Creative Director, Cady Childs, we all put our hands in the pot a little differently this time.
First Edition, Cady Childs' line, had its true premiere at the DTown ReFASHIONED show back in July. Her inspiration behind the styling and creations of this shoot were the hauntingly heartbreaking faces, silhouettes, and wardrobes of the silent film stars of the 1920s, their sensual fabrics contrasted with stark, harsh lines, perfect hair waves, and heartshaped lips. Their overly expressive faces showing every action and happening twice as dramatically as we would in film now makes for an air of incidental glam that was best captured in that time, when the actors only had their faces and motions to truly tell the story between quote captions. But instead of implying their sensuality and femininity meant needing a man to come to the rescue, we wanted our damsels to flip the script, and escape from distress on their own accord.
Thanks to The Real Laww for being our DURM styled bandit, HT Jewelry for the accessories, and of course, the eye behind the lens that makes all our visions come together, the photographer, Jessi Blakely of Jessica Arden Photography.
First Edition, Cady Childs' line, had its true premiere at the DTown ReFASHIONED show back in July. Her inspiration behind the styling and creations of this shoot were the hauntingly heartbreaking faces, silhouettes, and wardrobes of the silent film stars of the 1920s, their sensual fabrics contrasted with stark, harsh lines, perfect hair waves, and heartshaped lips. Their overly expressive faces showing every action and happening twice as dramatically as we would in film now makes for an air of incidental glam that was best captured in that time, when the actors only had their faces and motions to truly tell the story between quote captions. But instead of implying their sensuality and femininity meant needing a man to come to the rescue, we wanted our damsels to flip the script, and escape from distress on their own accord.
Thanks to The Real Laww for being our DURM styled bandit, HT Jewelry for the accessories, and of course, the eye behind the lens that makes all our visions come together, the photographer, Jessi Blakely of Jessica Arden Photography.
Angela Goldman modeling, hair by Kara Pezzimenti
Kara Pezzimenti modeling, hair by Angela Goldman
Accessories by Hannah Trogdon of HTJewelry
Labels: Art, Cady Childs columns, Durham, Fashion, Fashion Drive-bys, Pop Culture
Macklemore to rock the Cradle tonight
Can't understand how the Indy Week put out an entire issue without mentioning the biggest musical act coming to town this week. Oh wait, maybe it's cause they're owned by a Portland company that has no idea what's happening in our town...Either that or maybe Grayson Currin doesn't like'em.
Anyway, it is sold out, so maybe that was the thinking. But, trust us, you want to know about Macklemore. The last time a hip-hop artist so instantaneously struck a chord with our editor, was when yours truly borrowed our friend Natasha's truck to run a lunchtime errand in the mid-90's. Put it in gear, pushed in the tape that was hanging halfway out of the cassette deck and suddenly, Lauren Hill, Wyclef, Pras and the Fugees, were "Killing me Softly."
That is pantheon level. But we have no taste for hyperbole. We are keeping it on the real. The other day, your editor tried to calculate how many days after the tragic, all too early, passing of Adam Yauch, we heard about Macklemore. It seemed less than coincidental that as one passed out of our lives, the other appeared.
This is the most sensitive song we have ever heard a hip-hop artist create about homosexuality. It is a must listen. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's entire album, "The Heist" can be heard here. Amazing, A+ quality, grooves.
Anyway, it is sold out, so maybe that was the thinking. But, trust us, you want to know about Macklemore. The last time a hip-hop artist so instantaneously struck a chord with our editor, was when yours truly borrowed our friend Natasha's truck to run a lunchtime errand in the mid-90's. Put it in gear, pushed in the tape that was hanging halfway out of the cassette deck and suddenly, Lauren Hill, Wyclef, Pras and the Fugees, were "Killing me Softly."
That is pantheon level. But we have no taste for hyperbole. We are keeping it on the real. The other day, your editor tried to calculate how many days after the tragic, all too early, passing of Adam Yauch, we heard about Macklemore. It seemed less than coincidental that as one passed out of our lives, the other appeared.
This is the most sensitive song we have ever heard a hip-hop artist create about homosexuality. It is a must listen. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's entire album, "The Heist" can be heard here. Amazing, A+ quality, grooves.
Labels: media, music, Pop Culture, thought
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Durham Arts Council Fundraiser
The Durham Arts Council is holding benefit fundraising night in conjunction with the new Bonefish Grill that is opening out by the Southpoint Mall. The tickets are $35 and 100% of the proceeds benefit the Arts Council.
The Durham Arts Council supports a litany of programs and cultural makers and doers in Durham, from The Scrap Exchange to the Young People's Performing Company, as well as running festivals like Centerfest and the Edible Arts Festival, as well as, Durham's annual Art Walk.
Food and drink for a good cause!
Tickets can be purchased, here.
The Durham Arts Council supports a litany of programs and cultural makers and doers in Durham, from The Scrap Exchange to the Young People's Performing Company, as well as running festivals like Centerfest and the Edible Arts Festival, as well as, Durham's annual Art Walk.
Food and drink for a good cause!
Tickets can be purchased, here.
Labels: Art, Durham, food, Pop Culture
Thursday, October 25, 2012
dTown Oktoberfest
A Halloween Wednesday equals a lot of opportunity to thrown down in advance. For the next several days expect things to be rumbling in the Bull City. As usual, #723 Rigsbee is one of the places where it will be going down. No surprise there. Word is MotorCo is hosting a free, family-friendly event, Dtown Oktoberfest.
Saturday at noon, festivities get under way with the Bulltown Strutters leading a mini-parade. Quaff an icy cold Spaten stein and celebrating living in Durham in late October where the highs may touch 70. This Saturday Munich is looking at highs of 37 degrees Fahrenheit, with a snowy mixture of precipitation.
You can ponder your luck while listening to music from The Little German Band who will be accompanied by traditional German beer hall dancers from 1pm to 4pm. They rock that Oompah party music. Should your belly want to go the classic German route as well, MotorCo will be cooking German bratwurst with all the trimmings, as well as German pretzels.
More of a night crawler? AC Newman (of the New Pornographers) will be performing with the Mynabirds. Doors open at 8PM and the show begins at 9PM, $15 in advance.
Saturday at noon, festivities get under way with the Bulltown Strutters leading a mini-parade. Quaff an icy cold Spaten stein and celebrating living in Durham in late October where the highs may touch 70. This Saturday Munich is looking at highs of 37 degrees Fahrenheit, with a snowy mixture of precipitation.
You can ponder your luck while listening to music from The Little German Band who will be accompanied by traditional German beer hall dancers from 1pm to 4pm. They rock that Oompah party music. Should your belly want to go the classic German route as well, MotorCo will be cooking German bratwurst with all the trimmings, as well as German pretzels.
More of a night crawler? AC Newman (of the New Pornographers) will be performing with the Mynabirds. Doors open at 8PM and the show begins at 9PM, $15 in advance.
Labels: Durham, Pop Culture
Goldenbelt Fall Festival
Halloween on a Wednesday means opportunities to celebrate the Fall holidays for days on end. One fabulous interactive daytime opportunity is this Saturday, Goldenbelt's Fall Festival, from 11am to 3pm.
Among the many forms of entertainment, word is there will be a straw bale maze and pumpkin patch. Dogstar Tattoo is a hosting face painting tent. The Goldenbelt Artists will be doing a pumpkin decorating station. $5 bucks and you can take one home. No word on whether or not the Great Pumpkin will be making an appearance.
It is a super kid-friendly environment. The Durham Fire Department will be there with a 65 foot ladder truck. The Cotton Room is hosting a yummy cookie decorating station. LabourLove Gallery has a Fall craft projects at the table for children. There is even a pet costume contest sponsored Triangle Pet Adoption, good folks who save animals from high kill shelters.
For a nominal fee, our friends at Liberty Arts and one of their glassblowers, George-ann Greth, will help kids blow small orange glass pumpkins. Kids will also have the opportunity to play on the Shodor Foundation’s “Interactivate” site for exploration in science and mathematics.
100% of the $5 suggested donation for the event will be going to the John Avery Boys and Girls Club to help them rebuild after their recent fire.
Among the many forms of entertainment, word is there will be a straw bale maze and pumpkin patch. Dogstar Tattoo is a hosting face painting tent. The Goldenbelt Artists will be doing a pumpkin decorating station. $5 bucks and you can take one home. No word on whether or not the Great Pumpkin will be making an appearance.
It is a super kid-friendly environment. The Durham Fire Department will be there with a 65 foot ladder truck. The Cotton Room is hosting a yummy cookie decorating station. LabourLove Gallery has a Fall craft projects at the table for children. There is even a pet costume contest sponsored Triangle Pet Adoption, good folks who save animals from high kill shelters.
For a nominal fee, our friends at Liberty Arts and one of their glassblowers, George-ann Greth, will help kids blow small orange glass pumpkins. Kids will also have the opportunity to play on the Shodor Foundation’s “Interactivate” site for exploration in science and mathematics.
100% of the $5 suggested donation for the event will be going to the John Avery Boys and Girls Club to help them rebuild after their recent fire.
Labels: Durham, Pop Culture
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Friday Art Walk triumphant
The Clarion Content bopped about town this past Friday evening on the Durham Art Walk.
We started at the Craven-Allen Gallery on Broad Street. It is always a friendly neighborhood place. And it was no surprise to run into several someones we know. One can beam with pride at our local artistic talent in Durham. The 10th Annual Watts-Hillandale Art Walk and the Craven-Allen are showcasing a passel of it over the next month. We got to have good conversations with a couple of talented Durham artists, Corinne Fox and Kathryn DeMarco, whom, if you will forgive us a moment of inside baseball, we are glad is to hear is on the mend.
When we arrived downtown around 6.30pm, it was buzzing.1 The Durham Arts Council hosted the Southeastern College Art Conference Annual Juried Art Exhibition in all three of their galleries. The place was packed with artists and supporters. Jazz music cascaded over the balcony and drinks flowed freely. It was a nice look for Durham, the Clarion Content got to have a number of conversations with out-of-towners, from places like Savannah, about what a hip town Durham was (and in many cases, had become since they were last here).
We hit the "Facade of Aves" exhibit by Gillian Rose Galdy. It was another packed room, shoulder-to-shoulder upstairs, at what many people affectionately refer to as "Dan's Place," but is in fact more formally titled the "Durty Durham Arts Collective." It is the second floor of #305 E. Chapel Hill Street, the mysterious stairwell right next to Through this Lens is the entrance. One of Galdy's works sold while we were there, always exciting. And we traipsed further into the backroom than we ever had before, encountering a conclave of Durham writers including the gifted Chris Vitiello, who's poem we had read on the wall only moments earlier. There was also a fabulous essay about a dog who had bit its own tail off, and yet still loved life, by Sandeep Bala2
From there it was on to The Carrack where the fantastic curator and co-owner, Laura Richie, finally got a day off after their triumphant auction. The works of Steve Silverleaf were on display. Colors lit up the room. A friend of the Clarion Content snapped a picture of the bright, wild, incredibly massive, wall-sized custom installation piece that Silverleaf had made that very week specifically the show. (See below.) The co-owner of The Carrack, John Wendelbo, bent our ear about his plans to continue his dynamic trajectory, marshaling public support for Art in Durham.
Steve Silverleaf's wall size custom installation
The Clarion Content, too, has been doing some thinking about that, who are the patrons of the arts in Durham?
While pondering this question we hopped out to Goldenbelt, the Cordoba Center for the Arts, and its tenants, the Scrap Exchange3 and Liberty-Arts, all clustered in a burgeoning knot of East Durham development that is slowly spreading outward from its core.4
One of the highlights of the evening were the "City Farm" animals of Jonathan Bowling at Liberty-Arts. They included a life-size horse and pig built out of twisted metal. Another magical, or perhaps in light of Halloween, phantasmagorical creature, a huge bug, that was bigger than a dog caught all eyes. And of course, there was the unnamed Bull that was made both in homage to our beloved Major the Bull, and with his co-creater, Mike Waller.5
Liberty Arts glassblower, George-Ann Greth was helping kids blow their own orange glass pumpkins. The warmth of the furnace and the intimacy in the air formed a mystical alchemy which lit up youthful eyes as they watched their pumpkins take shape.
From there the Bull City Connector makes a straight-line to The Federal which we will neither confirm nor deny we followed.
Notes
1There are still places to park if you know where to go, but there won't be for long at this rate. But that's a whole other article... We are planning a series on Durham and development soon.
2We found the name of the author. Now we can only hope we are spelling it correctly.
3There was a thought provoking show in The Scrap Exchange's Green Gallery called of "a small and curious nature" by Tamara Galliano Bagnell. It re-imagined every day objects and the narratives behind them through the work of a mother and the eyes of her young son.
4We heard that the second floor for the Cordoba Center for the Arts has hosted a fashion shoot (not ours) and a music video shoot in recent weeks. We also noticed that Durham Community Media had moved into the Cordoba Center.
5Yes folks, the rumors are true, the low-hangers really do swing. Cojones del toro indeed.
We started at the Craven-Allen Gallery on Broad Street. It is always a friendly neighborhood place. And it was no surprise to run into several someones we know. One can beam with pride at our local artistic talent in Durham. The 10th Annual Watts-Hillandale Art Walk and the Craven-Allen are showcasing a passel of it over the next month. We got to have good conversations with a couple of talented Durham artists, Corinne Fox and Kathryn DeMarco, whom, if you will forgive us a moment of inside baseball, we are glad is to hear is on the mend.
When we arrived downtown around 6.30pm, it was buzzing.1 The Durham Arts Council hosted the Southeastern College Art Conference Annual Juried Art Exhibition in all three of their galleries. The place was packed with artists and supporters. Jazz music cascaded over the balcony and drinks flowed freely. It was a nice look for Durham, the Clarion Content got to have a number of conversations with out-of-towners, from places like Savannah, about what a hip town Durham was (and in many cases, had become since they were last here).
We hit the "Facade of Aves" exhibit by Gillian Rose Galdy. It was another packed room, shoulder-to-shoulder upstairs, at what many people affectionately refer to as "Dan's Place," but is in fact more formally titled the "Durty Durham Arts Collective." It is the second floor of #305 E. Chapel Hill Street, the mysterious stairwell right next to Through this Lens is the entrance. One of Galdy's works sold while we were there, always exciting. And we traipsed further into the backroom than we ever had before, encountering a conclave of Durham writers including the gifted Chris Vitiello, who's poem we had read on the wall only moments earlier. There was also a fabulous essay about a dog who had bit its own tail off, and yet still loved life, by Sandeep Bala2
From there it was on to The Carrack where the fantastic curator and co-owner, Laura Richie, finally got a day off after their triumphant auction. The works of Steve Silverleaf were on display. Colors lit up the room. A friend of the Clarion Content snapped a picture of the bright, wild, incredibly massive, wall-sized custom installation piece that Silverleaf had made that very week specifically the show. (See below.) The co-owner of The Carrack, John Wendelbo, bent our ear about his plans to continue his dynamic trajectory, marshaling public support for Art in Durham.
Steve Silverleaf's wall size custom installation
The Clarion Content, too, has been doing some thinking about that, who are the patrons of the arts in Durham?
While pondering this question we hopped out to Goldenbelt, the Cordoba Center for the Arts, and its tenants, the Scrap Exchange3 and Liberty-Arts, all clustered in a burgeoning knot of East Durham development that is slowly spreading outward from its core.4
One of the highlights of the evening were the "City Farm" animals of Jonathan Bowling at Liberty-Arts. They included a life-size horse and pig built out of twisted metal. Another magical, or perhaps in light of Halloween, phantasmagorical creature, a huge bug, that was bigger than a dog caught all eyes. And of course, there was the unnamed Bull that was made both in homage to our beloved Major the Bull, and with his co-creater, Mike Waller.5
Liberty Arts glassblower, George-Ann Greth was helping kids blow their own orange glass pumpkins. The warmth of the furnace and the intimacy in the air formed a mystical alchemy which lit up youthful eyes as they watched their pumpkins take shape.
From there the Bull City Connector makes a straight-line to The Federal which we will neither confirm nor deny we followed.
Notes
1There are still places to park if you know where to go, but there won't be for long at this rate. But that's a whole other article... We are planning a series on Durham and development soon.
2We found the name of the author. Now we can only hope we are spelling it correctly.
3There was a thought provoking show in The Scrap Exchange's Green Gallery called of "a small and curious nature" by Tamara Galliano Bagnell. It re-imagined every day objects and the narratives behind them through the work of a mother and the eyes of her young son.
4We heard that the second floor for the Cordoba Center for the Arts has hosted a fashion shoot (not ours) and a music video shoot in recent weeks. We also noticed that Durham Community Media had moved into the Cordoba Center.
5Yes folks, the rumors are true, the low-hangers really do swing. Cojones del toro indeed.
Labels: Art, Durham, Pop Culture
Friday, October 19, 2012
Craven Allen hosts Watts-Hillandale 10th Anniversary
The Craven Allen Gallery at 1106.5 Broad Street hosts a celebration of art, opening this Friday for the Watts-Hillandale neighborhood's 10th Anniversary Art Walk, in conjunction with Durham's 3rd Friday Art Walk.
Meredith Emmett's "Icebreaker" oil on canvas
The gallery is located in the historic Watts-Hillandale neighborhood. The art walk takes place November 4th. The art walk will feature more than forty artists in a panoply of mediums.
It also enables folks to get a closer look at the delightful Arts and Crafts style homes that dot the neighborhood, most of them built from the 1910's through the 1940's. Likely some of the fabulous Halloween decorations that line Club Boulevard this year will still be hanging around and about.
If you want a little teaser look at Watts-Hillandale, check out some of the photos of Art Walk years past on the Clarion Content. If you want an in depth look at Watts-Hillandale, follow this link to Open Durham.
Meredith Emmett's "Icebreaker" oil on canvas
The gallery is located in the historic Watts-Hillandale neighborhood. The art walk takes place November 4th. The art walk will feature more than forty artists in a panoply of mediums.
It also enables folks to get a closer look at the delightful Arts and Crafts style homes that dot the neighborhood, most of them built from the 1910's through the 1940's. Likely some of the fabulous Halloween decorations that line Club Boulevard this year will still be hanging around and about.
If you want a little teaser look at Watts-Hillandale, check out some of the photos of Art Walk years past on the Clarion Content. If you want an in depth look at Watts-Hillandale, follow this link to Open Durham.
Labels: Art, Durham, Pop Culture
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Fashion Drive-by: Damsels and the Laww-preview
Fans, the Clarion Content team just shot our latest Fashion Drive-by, Monday, led by photographer Jessi Blakely of Jessica Arden Photography and our Creative Director, Cady Childs. We were fortunate enough to shoot with two fabulous models, Angela Goldman and Kara Pezzimenti, along with a special guest, Durham hip-hop star, The Real Laww.
Jessica Blakely shoots The Real Laww
Photo credit Tom Berhendt
Creative Director, Cady Childs, designed and created the ladies' style, for her clothing line, First Edition, which received such raves at the Durham fashion show, reFASHIONED.
Inspired by old black white movie visions of damsels in distress, but wanting to flip the patriarchal script on its head, the Clarion Content team set out. The spooky late afternoon light was perfect. Halloween and Fall felt right around the corner.
We strove to highlight, as we always do in our Fashion Drive-by's, how ephemeral and constructed the line is between high and low culture, safe and unsafe Durham. We want to take familiar scenes of Durham and re-envision them. We want to use real people as models. We want to shoot them in affordable fashions. We want to surprise you with what you will see, if you take a second look.
The teaser shots are coming soon, all photos were taken either at The Cordoba Center for the Arts in the Goldenbelt Complex or along the Fayetteville Road-Elizabeth Street corridor.
For a second look at some of our previous Fashion Drive-by projects shot on location in the secret gardens of Trinity Park, inside some of our fabulous night spots, in Watts-Hillandale, in Lakewood and on the Bull City Connector, click here. (and scroll down)
Photographer Jessi Blakely of Jessica Arden Photography, Creative Director, Cady Childs and the Clarion Content's Fashion Drive-by prints and framed photographs are for sale here.
They are also currently on display in the Lars Oliver Salon at the West Village, 604 Morgan Street.
Jessica Blakely shoots The Real Laww
Photo credit Tom Berhendt
Creative Director, Cady Childs, designed and created the ladies' style, for her clothing line, First Edition, which received such raves at the Durham fashion show, reFASHIONED.
Inspired by old black white movie visions of damsels in distress, but wanting to flip the patriarchal script on its head, the Clarion Content team set out. The spooky late afternoon light was perfect. Halloween and Fall felt right around the corner.
We strove to highlight, as we always do in our Fashion Drive-by's, how ephemeral and constructed the line is between high and low culture, safe and unsafe Durham. We want to take familiar scenes of Durham and re-envision them. We want to use real people as models. We want to shoot them in affordable fashions. We want to surprise you with what you will see, if you take a second look.
The teaser shots are coming soon, all photos were taken either at The Cordoba Center for the Arts in the Goldenbelt Complex or along the Fayetteville Road-Elizabeth Street corridor.
For a second look at some of our previous Fashion Drive-by projects shot on location in the secret gardens of Trinity Park, inside some of our fabulous night spots, in Watts-Hillandale, in Lakewood and on the Bull City Connector, click here. (and scroll down)
Photographer Jessi Blakely of Jessica Arden Photography, Creative Director, Cady Childs and the Clarion Content's Fashion Drive-by prints and framed photographs are for sale here.
They are also currently on display in the Lars Oliver Salon at the West Village, 604 Morgan Street.
Labels: Art, Durham, Fashion, Fashion Drive-bys, photos, Pop Culture
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
It is all fun and games...
Remember how the teacher used to say that? It is all fun and games until, usually the standard was, "until somebody loses an eye." Nobody ever lost an eye in my elementary school, but the concept was fairly well understood, "Quit f-ing around you damn kids or sh*t is gonna get serious."
This guy should have listened to the teacher, because he did worse than just losing an eye. Edward Archbold of West Palm Beach, Florida, took another one of those elementary school cliche's, "Give it to, Eddie, he'll eat anything..." too far last week and unfortunately died after eating "dozens of roaches and worms" in a four minute bug-eating contest, according to the Miami Herald.
The contest was sponsored by the Ben Siegal Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Floria. Archbold won, but the Broward County Sheriff's Office says before he could leave with his prize, a female Ivory Ball python, he began throwing up and then collapsed. The Sheriff’s Office is awaiting an autopsy report to determine what killed him. The Miami Herald quotes the pet store owner, "it wasn’t the food. Discoid roaches," store owner Siegel said, "are eaten by people all over the world."
The roaches served up at the contest were domestically raised. "They’re clean – raised for exotic pet feed," Siegel said. "We sell expensive animals, and these bugs are perfectly safe." The “Midnight Madness” bug contest had nearly thirty other contestant none of whom were sickened.
Sounds unpleasant nevertheless. Perhaps it was the shock or an allergic reaction? We never watch Fear Factor or its imitators, but this event just symbolizes the trickledown of reality tv culture.
This guy should have listened to the teacher, because he did worse than just losing an eye. Edward Archbold of West Palm Beach, Florida, took another one of those elementary school cliche's, "Give it to, Eddie, he'll eat anything..." too far last week and unfortunately died after eating "dozens of roaches and worms" in a four minute bug-eating contest, according to the Miami Herald.
The contest was sponsored by the Ben Siegal Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Floria. Archbold won, but the Broward County Sheriff's Office says before he could leave with his prize, a female Ivory Ball python, he began throwing up and then collapsed. The Sheriff’s Office is awaiting an autopsy report to determine what killed him. The Miami Herald quotes the pet store owner, "it wasn’t the food. Discoid roaches," store owner Siegel said, "are eaten by people all over the world."
The roaches served up at the contest were domestically raised. "They’re clean – raised for exotic pet feed," Siegel said. "We sell expensive animals, and these bugs are perfectly safe." The “Midnight Madness” bug contest had nearly thirty other contestant none of whom were sickened.
Sounds unpleasant nevertheless. Perhaps it was the shock or an allergic reaction? We never watch Fear Factor or its imitators, but this event just symbolizes the trickledown of reality tv culture.
Labels: Pop Culture, Practical Advice
Liberty Arts new bull and other musings
The Clarion Content hears tell that there is a new bull in town. Liberty Arts artists, Mike Waller and Leah Foushee Waller, were the creators of the original Major the Bull.
Photo sourced from the Flicker Hive Mind.
Major is, of course, stationed in the plaza in front of the "Suntrust" building. We are hoping and campaigning for a name change to the plaza. It makes little sense for the City of Durham to continue to refer to it as "CCB Plaza" in its official literature and on the Convention and Visitors Bureau website. The bank that was CCB no longer exists. The building itself is actually known as the Hill Building. The terminology is dated and confusing. Google CCB and the Wikipedia disambiguation page lists over twenty-seven CCBs.
It is time for a change. The plaza needs to be renamed, "Major the Bull's Plaza" as befits the traditional legacy of our richly cultural city. Surely, we are not going to let the new hoteliers name our downtown Durham plaza.
The new Bull appearing at Liberty Arts this week is a creation of Greenville sculptor, Jonathan Bowling and Liberty Arts's Mike Waller. It is part of larger show by Bowling opening Friday, October 19th, called "City Farm." The bull is already on site and you can pop Liberty Arts space in the Cordoba Center for the Arts at #923 Franklin Street, behind Goldenbelt and just a hop, skip and a jump off of the Bull City Connector's free bus route.
Photo by our pal Jackie MacLoed.
Liberty Arts studio and workshop is an active bustling place. We had a friend tell us the other night, at The Carrack's fabulous Community Color auction, that he had attended one of the glassblowing classes recently and it was "amazing."1 Liberty Arts also offers classes in life casting, metal casting and metal working, too.
The "City Farm" exhibit, which has a free opening reception, Friday night, as part of Durham's 3rd Friday Art Walk, will feature other sculptural animal creations including a life-size horse, a hound, and a pig. And yes the rumors are true, the as yet unnamed bull does have horns even longer than Major's.
Notes
1True story about the glass blowing, but full disclosure, the Clarion Content does do promotional work for Liberty Arts.
Photo sourced from the Flicker Hive Mind.
Major is, of course, stationed in the plaza in front of the "Suntrust" building. We are hoping and campaigning for a name change to the plaza. It makes little sense for the City of Durham to continue to refer to it as "CCB Plaza" in its official literature and on the Convention and Visitors Bureau website. The bank that was CCB no longer exists. The building itself is actually known as the Hill Building. The terminology is dated and confusing. Google CCB and the Wikipedia disambiguation page lists over twenty-seven CCBs.
It is time for a change. The plaza needs to be renamed, "Major the Bull's Plaza" as befits the traditional legacy of our richly cultural city. Surely, we are not going to let the new hoteliers name our downtown Durham plaza.
The new Bull appearing at Liberty Arts this week is a creation of Greenville sculptor, Jonathan Bowling and Liberty Arts's Mike Waller. It is part of larger show by Bowling opening Friday, October 19th, called "City Farm." The bull is already on site and you can pop Liberty Arts space in the Cordoba Center for the Arts at #923 Franklin Street, behind Goldenbelt and just a hop, skip and a jump off of the Bull City Connector's free bus route.
Photo by our pal Jackie MacLoed.
Liberty Arts studio and workshop is an active bustling place. We had a friend tell us the other night, at The Carrack's fabulous Community Color auction, that he had attended one of the glassblowing classes recently and it was "amazing."1 Liberty Arts also offers classes in life casting, metal casting and metal working, too.
The "City Farm" exhibit, which has a free opening reception, Friday night, as part of Durham's 3rd Friday Art Walk, will feature other sculptural animal creations including a life-size horse, a hound, and a pig. And yes the rumors are true, the as yet unnamed bull does have horns even longer than Major's.
Notes
1True story about the glass blowing, but full disclosure, the Clarion Content does do promotional work for Liberty Arts.
Labels: Art, Durham, Pop Culture
Monday, October 15, 2012
Untold Durham
The Clarion Content's editor was lucky enough to be able to attend "Untold Durham" at the Carolina Theater last week, a fascinating presentation about Durham's cultural history by the creator of the amazing website repositories, Endangered Durham and Open Durham, Gary Kueber. Kueber promised "tales of the Bull City as never before..." and he delivered in a rollicking presentation that drew repeated laughter from the nearly sold out Carolina.
Photo credit BWPW photography.
Standing alone on stage and rarely referring to his notes Kueber spoke for more than two hours. He sketched an outline on his first slide that read as follows, "Dawn of Time *** Civil War *** Bull Durham Tobacco *** Duke *** Black Wall Street *** Freeway Destroys Haytai *** Durham Dies *** Food Trucks Arrive."
As this outline would suggest, it wasn't your standard Wikipedia entry style presentation. Kueber dug deeply into Durham's seamy cultural past from the saloons and taverns that started it all, once outnumbering the churches in town four to two, to tobacco, gambling, music, prostitution, dancing, drinking and finally food, revealing the first place where you could get a drive in burger in Durham and a spot where the Brunswick Stew was stirred with a paddle.
Like his Durham websites, his presentation was filled with terrific photos. They were backed with a panoply of audio clips of folks telling bits and pieces of Durham's cultural backstory story. The Clarion Content is hoping to secure an interview with Kueber, so we won't go into all the sordid details of the evening's revelations, but rest assured there were more than a few of them.
Photo credit BWPW photography.
Standing alone on stage and rarely referring to his notes Kueber spoke for more than two hours. He sketched an outline on his first slide that read as follows, "Dawn of Time *** Civil War *** Bull Durham Tobacco *** Duke *** Black Wall Street *** Freeway Destroys Haytai *** Durham Dies *** Food Trucks Arrive."
As this outline would suggest, it wasn't your standard Wikipedia entry style presentation. Kueber dug deeply into Durham's seamy cultural past from the saloons and taverns that started it all, once outnumbering the churches in town four to two, to tobacco, gambling, music, prostitution, dancing, drinking and finally food, revealing the first place where you could get a drive in burger in Durham and a spot where the Brunswick Stew was stirred with a paddle.
Like his Durham websites, his presentation was filled with terrific photos. They were backed with a panoply of audio clips of folks telling bits and pieces of Durham's cultural backstory story. The Clarion Content is hoping to secure an interview with Kueber, so we won't go into all the sordid details of the evening's revelations, but rest assured there were more than a few of them.
Labels: Durham, Pop Culture
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Cemetery gates restored
Liberty Arts, the Durham based sculpture collaborative, and artist Mike Waller have taken on a unique Durham challenge. Waller is restoring two 8-foot high, solid bronze gates from the Washington-Duke Mausoleum in Maplewood Cemetery. The mausoleum was built around 1900, but unfortunately, the massive gates were stolen last fall along with those from two other tombs. They were discovered in a nearby scrap metal yard and recovered shortly afterward.
Waller is playing detective first, trying to figure out what kind of hinges, glass, window frames and fasteners were on the original, a task made more difficult by the lack of photo documentation.
"It’s been an honor to be asked to work on such a magnificent piece of Durham’s heritage," says Mike, "but it was a surprisingly intricate and challenging project".
The gates are being re-installed at Maplewood Cemetery Wednesday, October 10th.
Waller is playing detective first, trying to figure out what kind of hinges, glass, window frames and fasteners were on the original, a task made more difficult by the lack of photo documentation.
"It’s been an honor to be asked to work on such a magnificent piece of Durham’s heritage," says Mike, "but it was a surprisingly intricate and challenging project".
The gates are being re-installed at Maplewood Cemetery Wednesday, October 10th.
Labels: Art, Duke, Durham, Pop Culture
Community Color at The Carrack
The Carrack Modern Art, the wonderful, zero commission, gallery space, that you read about so frequently in these pages having fabulous exhibitions, is holding a week long fundraiser.
According to The Carrack's press release, "Community Color celebrates just that: the colorful community of artists, art-lovers, supporters and visionary individuals in the Durham art community..."
In the past year, The Carrack has hosted twenty-four solo exhibits, ten group exhibits and four open call community shows, plus a huge range of cultural events including film, poetry, music, public readings and more.
The gift that this space and its owner-operators have given our community has immeasurably enriched us all.
Time to give back, Durham.
Their schedule of events for the week is as follows...
On October 5th, from 7pm-10pm... the Opening Reception for Community Color with DJ Mike B
On October 6th, all day, 10am-4pm... Create with the Carrack with live music by Anna Rose Beck, Jay Hammond and Scarlet Virgina
On October 7th, 12pm-5pm... the dtownMARKET will be at The Carrack with live music by Curtis Eller
On October 8th, 8pm... Orangutan Swing and The Carrack co-host "The State of Publishing" at Mercury Studio
On October 9th, at 6pm... The Carrack has booked a group tour of the historic renovations at #106 West Parrish Street
On October 10th, 7pm... The Carrack will host a site-specific dance performance by Alexis Mastromichalis
On October 11th, 7.30pm.... The Carrack will co-host a Poetry Showcase and Open Mic with Dasan Ahanu
On October 12th, 8pm... The Carrack will have live music with Jay Manley
And as a Grand Finale, on October 13th...
The Carrack will hold a "Gala and Art Auction" hosted by New York Times bestselling author and the founder of Duke's Center for Advanced Hindsight, Dan Ariely. Ariely will be hosting a special art auction flavored with his unique brand of behavioral economic insight. 100% of the auction proceeds will go towards funding The Carrack in 2013. The evening includes a fun interactive talk and demonstration on international auction practices.
Tickets available here.
According to The Carrack's press release, "Community Color celebrates just that: the colorful community of artists, art-lovers, supporters and visionary individuals in the Durham art community..."
In the past year, The Carrack has hosted twenty-four solo exhibits, ten group exhibits and four open call community shows, plus a huge range of cultural events including film, poetry, music, public readings and more.
The gift that this space and its owner-operators have given our community has immeasurably enriched us all.
Time to give back, Durham.
Their schedule of events for the week is as follows...
On October 5th, from 7pm-10pm... the Opening Reception for Community Color with DJ Mike B
On October 6th, all day, 10am-4pm... Create with the Carrack with live music by Anna Rose Beck, Jay Hammond and Scarlet Virgina
On October 7th, 12pm-5pm... the dtownMARKET will be at The Carrack with live music by Curtis Eller
On October 8th, 8pm... Orangutan Swing and The Carrack co-host "The State of Publishing" at Mercury Studio
On October 9th, at 6pm... The Carrack has booked a group tour of the historic renovations at #106 West Parrish Street
On October 10th, 7pm... The Carrack will host a site-specific dance performance by Alexis Mastromichalis
On October 11th, 7.30pm.... The Carrack will co-host a Poetry Showcase and Open Mic with Dasan Ahanu
On October 12th, 8pm... The Carrack will have live music with Jay Manley
And as a Grand Finale, on October 13th...
The Carrack will hold a "Gala and Art Auction" hosted by New York Times bestselling author and the founder of Duke's Center for Advanced Hindsight, Dan Ariely. Ariely will be hosting a special art auction flavored with his unique brand of behavioral economic insight. 100% of the auction proceeds will go towards funding The Carrack in 2013. The evening includes a fun interactive talk and demonstration on international auction practices.
Tickets available here.
Labels: Art, Durham, music, Pop Culture
Untold Durham tonight
The Clarion Content is delighted to have the opportunity to cover, "Untold Durham" tonight at the Carolina Theater with one of our fabulous cadre of photogs, BWPW Photography.
The Carolina Theater, circa 1949
Photo courtesy of Endangered Durham, naturally.
We are so excited to hear from the creator of Open Durham and Endangered Durham, Gary Kueber. He is such an amazing resource for our community. If you want to know about Durham's history and you have never visited Open Durham and Endangered Durham, click on these links immediately. There is a treasure trove of information.1
Careful, or like Alice falling down the proverbial rabbit hole, you will end up exploring for days.
These sites are not great just for the content Mr. Kueber posts, they are emblematic of some of the very best qualities of the internet, our collective intelligence. The comments section on many of these posts is priceless, the sharing of memory and story is an archive that has inestimable value for Durham.
So tonight, when Mr. Kueber, sponsored by the good folks at Preservation Durham, says he is going to bring to the table, "tales of the Bull City as never before..." we can only imagine the goodies.
Come one, come all. Tickets available here.
Notes
1This is the first place we turn when looking for photos or background on old school Durham.
The Carolina Theater, circa 1949
Photo courtesy of Endangered Durham, naturally.
We are so excited to hear from the creator of Open Durham and Endangered Durham, Gary Kueber. He is such an amazing resource for our community. If you want to know about Durham's history and you have never visited Open Durham and Endangered Durham, click on these links immediately. There is a treasure trove of information.1
Careful, or like Alice falling down the proverbial rabbit hole, you will end up exploring for days.
These sites are not great just for the content Mr. Kueber posts, they are emblematic of some of the very best qualities of the internet, our collective intelligence. The comments section on many of these posts is priceless, the sharing of memory and story is an archive that has inestimable value for Durham.
So tonight, when Mr. Kueber, sponsored by the good folks at Preservation Durham, says he is going to bring to the table, "tales of the Bull City as never before..." we can only imagine the goodies.
Come one, come all. Tickets available here.
Notes
1This is the first place we turn when looking for photos or background on old school Durham.
Labels: Durham, Pop Culture
Monday, October 08, 2012
The State of Publishing
The Clarion Content is delighted to be able to participate in a roundtable, "The State of Publishing," this evening presented by Design Kompany & Orangutan Swing at 8pm at Mercury Studio, #407-A Mangum Street, inside the downtown loop, catty-corner from City Hall. Tickets are $10.
The Clarion Content's editor, Aaron Mandel, will be sitting on a panel with some of Durham's most distinguished publishing figures and journalists, including Lisa Sorg, editor of the Independent, and Julie Johnson, our favorite beer and spirits columnist anywhere. Of course, Dipika Kohli will be moderating. There will even be distinguished guest panelists from Ireland via the power of the internet.
If you want to ask the Clarion Content what has changed most about publishing in our purview, what has been most dynamic? The short is answer is the internet.
The internet has given a range and a depth to publishing we never anticipated we would see. Guest panelists from Ireland are barely the tip of the iceberg. Having grown up and been weaned to research on The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, the ability to do topical research on the internet today is stunning.1
Notes
1Sure maybe there are no flying cars, but what the Googlierge can find you, it boggles the mind.
The Clarion Content's editor, Aaron Mandel, will be sitting on a panel with some of Durham's most distinguished publishing figures and journalists, including Lisa Sorg, editor of the Independent, and Julie Johnson, our favorite beer and spirits columnist anywhere. Of course, Dipika Kohli will be moderating. There will even be distinguished guest panelists from Ireland via the power of the internet.
If you want to ask the Clarion Content what has changed most about publishing in our purview, what has been most dynamic? The short is answer is the internet.
The internet has given a range and a depth to publishing we never anticipated we would see. Guest panelists from Ireland are barely the tip of the iceberg. Having grown up and been weaned to research on The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, the ability to do topical research on the internet today is stunning.1
Notes
1Sure maybe there are no flying cars, but what the Googlierge can find you, it boggles the mind.
Labels: Durham, media, Pop Culture
Friday, September 28, 2012
Selenotropic at the Carrack Modern Art
"Selenotropic" is opening at the Carrack Modern Art. It is a multifaceted, layered and nuanced agglomeration of reactions to our modern world. It includes paintings, found-object sculpture, video, custom furniture and a live music performance tonight.
Photo credit BWPW photography.
The works flow together with the interconnectedness of our social cultural milleu. Boundaries between the home and the workplace, between the private and the public, between the real and the image have become increasingly permeable in the 21st century.
In "Selenotropic" objects appear to literally be straining to pull themselves off of the canvas into the room. Boundaries are violated, domains are delimited. Creators Chance Murray and Katharine Whalen came together in much the same way, the Venn Diagram of their overlapping worlds found Whalen looking at Murray's paintings in a coffee shop.
Trusting her instincts and following her urges, but not social norms, she reached out to an artist she had not worked with previously. Murray was open and interested. Synchronicity and interdependence followed. The artists discovered that they each possessed an enormous, brown, corduroy-covered dictionary printed in the early 1900’s. The collision of found objects and ephemera with art and music has been at the nexus of their interaction ever since.
The exhibit was very well received over at the new Outsiders Art Gallery Annex. Selenotropic has its opening reception and accompanying musical performance at The Carrack tonight from 6pm-9pm.
Selenotropics are night bloomers. What a great thing to go see after dark.
Photo credit BWPW photography.
The works flow together with the interconnectedness of our social cultural milleu. Boundaries between the home and the workplace, between the private and the public, between the real and the image have become increasingly permeable in the 21st century.
In "Selenotropic" objects appear to literally be straining to pull themselves off of the canvas into the room. Boundaries are violated, domains are delimited. Creators Chance Murray and Katharine Whalen came together in much the same way, the Venn Diagram of their overlapping worlds found Whalen looking at Murray's paintings in a coffee shop.
Trusting her instincts and following her urges, but not social norms, she reached out to an artist she had not worked with previously. Murray was open and interested. Synchronicity and interdependence followed. The artists discovered that they each possessed an enormous, brown, corduroy-covered dictionary printed in the early 1900’s. The collision of found objects and ephemera with art and music has been at the nexus of their interaction ever since.
The exhibit was very well received over at the new Outsiders Art Gallery Annex. Selenotropic has its opening reception and accompanying musical performance at The Carrack tonight from 6pm-9pm.
Selenotropics are night bloomers. What a great thing to go see after dark.
Labels: Art, Durham, music, Pop Culture, thought
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Doggie miracles
Miracles small and large happen every day. Sometimes in the media the tendency is to focus on the negative, the sensationally bad, the awful spectacle.1 Today we bring you one from the opposite side of the proverbial ledger, a dog channeling his inner feline, finding one of his nine lives, landing on his feet.
The Burlington-Bristol Bridge
The story comes to us from Burlington, New Jersey. Brandi the beagle slipped out of her collar and away from owner on an evening walk. Missing for hours, she was spotted by surveillance cameras, all alone and ears flopping, jogging up the Jersey side of the the Burlington-Bristol Bridge about 10.15pm. Vehicles swerve to avoid her. A carload of teens stop. They to try to help the dog, to coax it to go with them. But instead, Brandi bolts and leaps off and over the side of the six story bridge.
But here's the thing, this dog is part cat or it wasn't her day, or something. Because she walked away without a scratch. You see the bridge picture up there, right? Dog went off the side of that and didn't break a bone.
WPVI News reports, "Bridge Commission Police thought Brandi was a goner. "Poor dog," said Sergeant Ray Warmkessel. "She's going to be dead. Then we went down underneath the bridge and here's the dog walking along the beach. I couldn't believe it."
Read the whole story and watch the footage here.
Notes
1The capitalist imperative plays a large role in this coverage slant, in a cycle that flows between eyeballs, ads and revenue.
The Burlington-Bristol Bridge
The story comes to us from Burlington, New Jersey. Brandi the beagle slipped out of her collar and away from owner on an evening walk. Missing for hours, she was spotted by surveillance cameras, all alone and ears flopping, jogging up the Jersey side of the the Burlington-Bristol Bridge about 10.15pm. Vehicles swerve to avoid her. A carload of teens stop. They to try to help the dog, to coax it to go with them. But instead, Brandi bolts and leaps off and over the side of the six story bridge.
But here's the thing, this dog is part cat or it wasn't her day, or something. Because she walked away without a scratch. You see the bridge picture up there, right? Dog went off the side of that and didn't break a bone.
WPVI News reports, "Bridge Commission Police thought Brandi was a goner. "Poor dog," said Sergeant Ray Warmkessel. "She's going to be dead. Then we went down underneath the bridge and here's the dog walking along the beach. I couldn't believe it."
Read the whole story and watch the footage here.
Notes
1The capitalist imperative plays a large role in this coverage slant, in a cycle that flows between eyeballs, ads and revenue.
Labels: cop stories, Pop Culture
