—Article by Emilie Menzel In 2017, the world had grown too steady for Sia Yazdanfar. His work was stable, his home in Hillsborough comfortable, and his sense of personal growth stagnant. So he leapt, both feet in. In a quick turn, Sia quit his steady job, packed his life into two suitcases, and moved from… Read More →
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Down on Copperline: Remembering Tim Carless: Renaissance Man and Esteemed Arts Community Member
—Article by David Menconi You can get a good sense of a person’s standing in the world based on who shows up for memorial events after they’re gone. So it is that a veritable all-star team of A-list local artists will play “Tim Carless Among Friends: A Memorial Concert,” Aug. 29 at Cat’s Cradle. The lineup… Read More →
Down on Copperline: Brent Lambert and Carrboro’s Kitchen Mastering
—Article by David Menconi Pretty much by definition, mastering engineers do their work behind the scenes and largely unheralded. That describes Brent Lambert, proprietor of Kitchen Mastering on Brewer Lane in Carrboro, who has quietly built a nationwide reputation over the past 20-plus years for his work with a broad range of local, regional, national and… Read More →
The large-scale textile portraits of Hollis Chatelain
Meet Hillsborough textile artist Hollis Chatelain. She creates large-scale, colorfully saturated textile portraits through a process called textile painting. To create the artworks, she draws out enlarged depictions of scenes that appear to her in monochromatic dreams, frequently using surrealist imagery. She then translates the design onto fabric, dyes the fabric in monochromatic shades, then… Read More →
This Human Way: Carrboro Cartoonist Max Huffman Inks a Wry New Comic Collection
—article by Emilie Menzel In Carrboro cartoonist Max Huffman’s comics, a quick, wry, referential humor bops across the panels. The dialogue’s snarky and glib, the tempo happy to spin you. If set to soundtrack, think “groovy”—George Duke, Lonnie Liston Smith, Tim Maia. More Archie than Foxtrot, more Nancy than Garfield, more the grit of Paul… Read More →