originally published on eMusic.com
Norah Jones has always had a certain cool maturity. She’s spent the ten years since her debut wooing audiences into submission with her soft, soulful vocals and gentle piano trills. So you can imagine the shock when she threatens to kill someone on “Miriam,” a track from her new record Little Broken Hearts.
Bain Water Treatment Plant, Raleigh, NC (c) November, 2011
originally published in The Indy Weekly (01/2012)
“Skeptics, seekers and believers” seems like the kind of text you’d find spray-painted on the side of some pharmacy or flop house for maximum snark. But it was almost the tag line for The Gathering Church, a local worship group that has grown from the Sunday afternoon dreams of a core few to a dedicated assembly of believers meeting in the gym of Creekside Elementary School in Durham.
(c) 2011
11/2011
(Source: vimeo.com)
originally published in The Indy Weekly (08/2011)
Momentarily just another little girl from Kentwood, La., Britney Spears has grown with her public persona—from Star Search champ and Mouseketeer to a pop princess with a closet full of arguably awkward skeletons. She’s now a household name, a top (and kind of embarrassing) search term on Google, and on this Monday night, the topic of a lively conversation at Rudino’s, a cavernous chain sports bar and grill just off Raleigh’s Wade Avenue.
originally published on PasteMagazine.com
It’s not uncommon when listening to Holly Golightly to have a little déjà vu. Sometimes you wonder if you’re listening to B-sides from scratched-up 78s you found in a trunk in your grandpa’s basement. Sometimes you wonder if you’re listening to tracks off old Brokeoffs records.
Scythian @ MerleFest 2011
Interview with Julie Moggan, Director of “Guilty Pleasures,” at Full Frame 2011.
many more interviews with other filmmakers @ vimeo.com/indyweek
