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Photo by Matthew Dols
Out of the Darkness
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Published: November 19, 2009
Week Out
November 19 to 21
TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC:
Look up this weekend when you're downtown. Led by faculty member Norman Coates, UNCSA lighting design students will present the latest work of the Winston-Salem Light Project. Last year, students lit up the façade of the Millennium Center. This year, the multimedia public-art exhibit will focus on depletion of the world's resources and being green, using the brick sides of the Pepper Building, 101 W. Third St.. The show will run in cycles between 7 and 11 p.m. each day.
November 20 to 23
OUT OF THE DARKNESS:
Based on interviews with Holocaust survivors, research and reflection, choreographer Karola Luettringhaus and the Alban Elved Dance Company come to Salem College with their performance of "Inerita." These performances are part of the group's two-week residency at Salem. Shows are at 7 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center,
Tickets are $12. Call 917-5493 for more information.
Holocaust-survivor Margot Lobree will give a free talk at 3 p.m. on Sunday in Salem's Drama Workshop.
Week In
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CROSSOVERS:
It's fun when famous characters cross paths. Batman/Doc Savage Special, from DC Comics ($4.99), has the stalwart Savage, a hero of 1930s pulp novels, venturing into Gotham City to take on the mysterious Batman. It's the beginning of a storyline that will also continue in 2010. And The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, from Titan Books ($9.95 each), is a series of novels reprinting stories in which Holmes and Watson run into Harry Houdini, Martians, Professor Challenger from The Lost World, and more. Four novels were released this week, one (The War of the Worlds) by the late North Carolina writer Manly Wade Wellman and his son, Wade Wellman.
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DEAD AIM:
One of this holiday season's most eagerly anticipated video game titles, Left 4 Dead 2, hit stores this week for PC and Xbox 360. The game is a first-person shooter with cooperative play options, and boasts elaborate and often gruesome graphics earning the game an M for Mature rating. It is a sequel to the award-winning 2008 hit Left 4 Dead, is set after a zombie apocalypse, with players taking the roles of some of the few humans left uninfected as they fight their way across the Southeast in five campaigns, including an amusement park, a mall, a bayou, and ending up -- if they make it that far -- in New Orleans.
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