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Moving Midway, Godfrey Cheshire’s documentary about a North Carolina “plantation in transit,” opened Friday at the Rialto.

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sparkCon started last night at Tir Na Nog.  Today we have exciting events.This year’s sparkCon is a mature, streamlined set of events that will showcase local talent and bring our city’s best minds together.  Tonight’s Fashion Show in Moore Square is a can’t miss event. 

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“Get on with thy bad self,” Sir Walter Raleigh exhorted me from a street side banner, sporting shades that appeared to have been pilfered from Bootsy Collins’ nightstand. Sounded good to me. Friday morning, downtown was abuzz with preparations before the start of Raleigh Rips His Knickers Off aka Raleigh Wide Open, an unfortunate sobriquet mindful of a seventies porn flick. After all the shouting, and despite the grand expenditure and hoopla surrounding the wide-openness of the Convention Center, Raleigh still remains the beloved minuscule wet spot described by Barney Fife: “The big city, Andy, go go go, folks readin’ magazines, eatin’ peaches.”

Raleigh Wide Open III on Petrblt.

The American professional premiere of David Edgar’s Prisoner’s Dilemma begins the 2008-2009 season at Burning Coal Theatre tonight. The play is directed by Jerome Davis, Burning Coal’s Artistic Director and concentrates on the period of time between the fall of the Berlin Wall and September 11th, 2001. How fitting that it makes its US premiere, seven years later on September 11th, 2008.

During rehearsals Wednesday night, I sat down with both Davis and Edgar, who explained the history of the play and its current incarnation which explores the “ethics of torture”.