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Columnist Josh Shaffer has spent recent weeks chronicling Raleigh’s cult-movie faithful, a family trip through Slovenia and a new documentary about one of the city’s most eccentric neighborhoods. Here are three of his recent columns worth catching up on.
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Fans packed the Rialto Theater in Raleigh on Aug. 28, for a midnight showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” as a tribute to Tim Curry, the British actor who died Aug. 25 and immortalized Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Three generations of devotees turned out — including roughly 100 first-timers marked with a V on their foreheads — for flying hot dogs, water pistols and a candlelight sing along to Curry’s solo “I’m Going Home.” A live costumed cast performed beneath the screen, with managing partner Hayes Permar welcoming the throng.
Shaffer flew to Ljubljana, Slovenia, this month with his family, and returned with a post-vacation comparison of daily life on both sides of the Atlantic. The dispatch catalogs accordion players outnumbering police in Preseren Square, an elderly man who brings his pet emu out nightly, puppets that pop from a clock tower on the hour, and a boat trip on Lake Bled rowed by an 11th-generation descendant of farmers once taxed by a Hapsburg emperor.
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A new 91-minute documentary called “There’s Something About Oakwood” premieres Aug. 15 at the Carolina Theatre of Durham as part of the OutSouth Queer Film Festival. Producer Margaret Maloney and director Kate Gleason spotlight how Raleigh’s most eccentric neighborhood — home to the Awesomettes baton squad, a Samedi Gras parade and King Leonidas — was nearly demolished in the 1970s before being rescued largely by the gay community.
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