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Pianist Dmitri Shteinberg Performs For "Music That Matters"
Dmitri Shteinberg is a Russian-born pianist who began his musical training in Moscow.
Winston-Salem Theater Showcases The Art Of The Cat Video
The Internet Cat Video Festival begins Friday night at a/perture Cinema in Winston-Salem.
A Banished Family Fights Its Demons In A Puritanical Age
Half a drama about religious hysteria and half a horror film about isolation, The Witch follows a family struggling to identify the source of an evil that seems to plague them.
Family Drama Meets Existential Horror In 'The Humans'
On its surface, the play sounds pretty ordinary: A young woman and her boyfriend have her family over for Thanksgiving dinner. Then things start to get weird.
Italian Prime Minister Botches His Attempt To Read Borges
Matteo Renzi was visiting Argentina and thought he would read a poem by the country's most famous literary icon. He thought wrong: The poem he picked was emphatically not by Jorge Luis Borges.
No Place Like Home For Ruby Slipper Fringe
A new, all-female festival is being launched in the Triad. The idea behind it began with conversation between dancer Cara Hagan and actress Amy Da Luz.
The Strange And Intoxicating 'Embrace Of The Serpent'
This Colombian nominee for the Oscar for best foreign-language film is loosely based on the journals of two real explorers and creates a story in which they spend decades seeking a sacred plant.
A Father And Son Among Tumbling Tumbleweeds Of The Familiar
Donald and Kiefer Sutherland appear together in a Western with little to offer beyond the usual formulas.
Under Apartheid, Trevor Noah's Mom Taught Him To Face Injustice With Humor
The Daily Show host grew up biracial in South Africa; his mother was jailed for having a relationship with his father. But she always turned to humor before anger, Noah says — a trait he's inherited.