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TRIANGLEDOWNTOWNERMAGAZINE — ISSUE 98 3. Full Frame Festival Brings Top Filmmakers to the Triangle 6. Triangle Dining: Blue Mango 9. From the Publisher Mailing Address: PO Box 27603 | Raleigh, NC 27611 10. We ♥ Food Trucks!: Kokyu BBQ Truck Office: 402 Glenwood Avenue | Raleigh, NC 27603 11. Local History: Come Sit at our Campfire—Storytelling www.WeLoveDowntown.com at the Museum of Durham History Please call to schedule an office appointment 12. Casual Dining: Garland 919.828.8000 16. Trianglebiz.org: Guerrilla Citizenship in Raleigh Advertising and General office inquiries: 19. Trianglebiz.org: Start-up Founder’s Path to Popup is a www.WeLoveDowntown.com/contactus Microcosm of RTP Tech History press releases: 20. @Art: Local Gallery News [email protected] 22. Uncorked: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Chardonnay — — — — 23. Triangle Book Club: Chase from Triangle Author Jill Knapp Publisher & Co-founder Crash Gregg 24. 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Suda Thao Distribution Manager Blair Aitken 2006 to current online at www.WeLoveDowntown.com — — — — Answer to crossword puzzle on page 27 The Triangle Downtowner Magazine is a local monthly print magazine dedicated to coverage of the Triangle area. ON THE COVER: During his presidency, John F. Kennedy recorded more than 260 hours of telephone calls, dictated letters, and Current and archived issues of the Downtowner are available at conversations in the Oval Office. This persistently pithy, yet inescapably poignant, short film, “The Silly Bastard Next to the Bed,”— directed by Scott Calonico and in it’s World Premier at Durham’s Full Frame Film Festival—reveals the flip side of a brewing government scandal through two phone recordings made in July 1963. That summer Kennedy was splitting time between his presidential duties www.WeLoveDowntown.com in D.C. and family visits to his pregnant wife and their children in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. As Jacqueline had suffered difficult pregnancies in the past, modest preparations were made so the First Lady could deliver the baby at the only hospital nearby, on Otis © Copyright 2005-2014, Triangle Downtown Magazine. The name, logo, and any Air Force Base. But when a local newspaper covered the story, a simple and tidy hospital ward was converted into a VIP suite decked logo iterations of the Triangle Downtowner, Triangle Downtowner Magazine and the out in fancy furnishings purchased on the government’s dime. We listen in as Kennedy tries to sort out, using some rather salty Downtowner D graphic are a TM of Triangle Downtown Magazine. No part of language, just what went wrong: What was bought? How much was spent? And who was that silly bastard next to the bed? this publication may be reproduced without express written permission. Corner of Hargett & Salisbury Streets open 7 days a week Meet www.decoraleigh.com our fresh new artists decoraleigh.com raleigh local • unique • smart Full Frame Festival Brings Top Filmmakers to the Triangle by Allan Maurer | Photos by Renee Wright e were at one of Durham’s past Full posing for photos, shaking hands, chatting with Frame Documentary Film Festival, fans. It was very classy. Wtraveling from the Carolina Th eater Durham hosts several world-class events every to the Marriot Convention Center as Ken Burns year, including the Full Frame Documentary Film and Michael Moore, each promoting new docs that Festival every April. Along with a handful of others, year, crossed paths. Each quickly acknowledged the such as the American Dance Festival each summer, other and went on their ways, just another moment these events introduced the city to an international in Full Frame’s star-studded history. coterie of fi lmmakers, movie stars and attendees. Another year we sat a few feet away from Martin While you never know who you’ll see at Full Scorsese as he discussed his own work and that of an Frame, the fi lms are the real business at hand. Th e Italian documentarian. Scorsese did excellent docu- main themes change each year, and usually, you can mentaries on Italian fi lms (including Voyage to Italy: spot minor trends as well. Th e 17th annual festival one of my all time favorite fi lm-focused documenta- runs from April 3-6 this year, with Duke Univer- ries), American fi lms, and since then, on Eliz Kazan BBQ lunch where the festival’s winning fi lms are sity as the presenting sponsor. Full Frame encom- and the 140s horror master, Val Lewton, who pro- announced, I forked a mouthful of BBQ and felt a passes a number of downtown Durham locations duced Th e Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie. hand on my shoulder. I turned around and there for its annual event. Th is year’s venues include the Danny DeVito came one year to promote his was DeVito, about up to my sitting shoulder height. historic Carolina Th eatre, the Durham Arts Coun- new production company. At the event’s annual He was walking through the Durham Armory, cil, as well as the Durham Armory, Durham >>> TRIANGLE DOWNTOWNER MAGAZINE | THe Triangle’s PreMier MonTHlY | ISSUE 98 3 Convention Center, Durham Central Park, and James’ most recent documentary on the life Lucy Walker is a British fi lm director who has the new Full Frame Th eater in the Power Plant. Set and career of critic Roger Ebert, “Life Itself,” pre- twice been nominated for an Academy Award. Her within a four-block radius, the intimate festival land- miered to great acclaim at the 2014 Sundance Film Oscar-nominated fi lm Waste Land won the 2010 scape fosters community and conversation between Festival, and we’re very much looking forward to Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Audience fi lmmakers, fi lm professionals and the public. seeing it at Full Frame. Award. Her other feature documentaries include Th e Full Frame Tribute will celebrate the work Th e Crash Reel, Countdown to Zero, Blindsight, and of award-winning fi lmmaker Steve James, best Devil’s Playground. She has also directed several known for his basketball doc, Hoop Dreams. Th e short documentaries, including Th e Lion’s Mouth 2014 Th ematic Program will look at the role of the Opens, which recently premiered at the 2014 Sun- subject in documentary fi lm through a series of dance Film Festival, as well as the Oscar-nom- fi lms curated by esteemed fi lmmaker Lucy Walker. inated Th e Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom. Her Hoop Dreams was the winner of every major fi lms have been nominated for seven Emmys, an critic’s prize including a Peabody and Robert F. Independent Spirit Award, a Gotham Award, and Filmmaker Michael Moore Kennedy Journalism Award. James’ other fi lms have won over 0 other fi lm awards. Filmmaker and actor include Stevie, which won IDFA’s grand jury prize; Danny Devito A complete list of fi lms in this year’s Festival the acclaimed miniseries Th e New Americans; along with a short description of each can be found Tribeca Grand Prize-winner Th e War Tapes, which on our website at www.downtownernews.com. James produced and edited; and At the Death House More info on events and a complete schedule can Door, which won numerous festival awards. be found at www.fullframefest.org. He also did “No Crossover: Th e Trial of Allen Iverson,” produced for ESPN’s Peabody-winning Allan Maurer is a much-published freelance writer, editor and blogger published in national magazines from Playboy 30 for 30 series; and Th e Interrupters, which won an Martin Scorsese introduc- to Modern Maturity. He’s a former editor of North Caro- Emmy, Independent Spirit Award, and the DuPont ing the work of a classic lina Magazine, Triangle Tech Journal, and a co-publisher Journalism Award, among numerous others. Filmmaker Ken Burns Italian documentary maker of the North Carolina fi lm blog, http://ncfl ix.blogspot.com. mitchstavern.com 4 TRIANGLE DOWNTOWNER MAGAZINE | THe Triangle’s PreMier MonTHlY | ISSUE 98 If you’re not a fan on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram... ...then these are just a few of the great photos you’ve been missing from our wonderful contributing photographers: Randy Bryant, Bill Reaves, Thomas M. Way, Russ Billo, and Crash Gregg. 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