Durham · Chapel Hill · Raleigh · October 25, 2026

A Live Score for a Silent Horror Film

⚡ Quick Hits

🎬 Andy Stack of Wye Oak and two bandmates play a new live score to the 1926 silent horror film "The Magician" at the Carolina Theatre on Wednesday.
⚖️ A Durham jury convicted Miguel Salguero Olivares of murdering UNC student Faith Hedgepeth.
🏈 NC State fired football coach Dave Doeren after 14 years.

🔔 Heads Up

🌤️ Weather: Sunny and dry through Thursday, with highs from 70 to 74, lows from 40 to 50, and patchy fog early Monday. (NWS)
🗳️ Voting: Early voting ends at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at any early voting site in your county, and you can still register and vote the same day. Bring a photo ID, and find your sample ballot in the Voter Search. (NCSBE)

First Up

Fourteen years after Faith Hedgepeth, a 19-year-old UNC sophomore, was beaten to death in her off-campus apartment, a Durham jury convicted Miguel Salguero Olivares on Friday of first-degree murder, rape, sexual offense, and burglary. He was arrested in 2021 after a DWI stop, when prosecutors say the DNA sample he gave matched evidence from the scene. Jurors deliberated for six hours over two days.

📰 Around the Triangle

NC State fired Dave Doeren after 14 years: running backs coach Todd Goebbel takes over for the rest of the season, and a national search starts now. (ABC11)
A four-year-old Durham school is out of room: six modular classrooms are coming to Lyons Farm Elementary in South Durham, but not until 2027-28, and it's already about 60 students over capacity — 647 against 584. (INDY Week)
Durham Housing Authority's redevelopment rolls on: Dillard Street wraps up this year and Liberty Street and the old Oldham Towers site in 2028, while maintenance problems linger elsewhere. (INDY Week)
A state audit flags NCCU spending: employees made $235,764 in purchases that broke university policy from July 2025 through February 2026, including $35,098 in prohibited ones. (The Assembly)
UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC School of the Arts team up: it isn't a merger, but the plan includes shared performances, semester exchanges, and guaranteed UNC admission for qualified UNCSA high school students. (The Assembly)
Orange County broke ground on a crisis care center: the Jamezetta Bedford Crisis Care Center in Hillsborough will pair mental health treatment with a calmer, therapeutic setting. (Chapelboro)

📅 Plan Your Week

💀 Sunday, October 25 (Today)

Recovery: A Tea Dance: The Velvet Hippo, Durham, 4 to 8 p.m. DJs Gay Agenda and Father Disco, mimosa pitchers, no cover. 21+. (Details)
Chapel Hill Día de Muertos: 140 West Franklin plaza, noon to 4 p.m. Art vendors, music, and live performances. Free. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)
Day of the Dead with Revista Latina: City Plaza, downtown Raleigh, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ofrendas, Aztec dance, music, art, and food trucks. Free. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

🎃 Monday, October 26

Halloween Storytime on the Roof: The Durham Hotel, 10:30 a.m. Durham County Library brings spooky stories, songs, and dancing, so come in costume. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

🎸 Tuesday, October 27

Beck: DPAC, 8 p.m. The Ride Lonesome Tour. (Details)
Pumpkin Party on the Patio: Parts & Labor at Motorco, Durham, 6 to 9 p.m. The third annual community pumpkin carving, with pumpkin drinks and a gift card giveaway. Free. (Details)
Christian McBride & Ursa Major: Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke, 7:30 p.m. The 11-time Grammy-winning bassist with four rising players. From $45. (Details)
Hurricanes vs. Bruins: Lenovo Center, Raleigh, 8 p.m. (Details)

🎬 Wednesday, October 28

"The Magician" with a live score: Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7 p.m. Andy Stack (Wye Oak), Kelly Pratt (Beirut), and Tim Mislock premiere their score for Rex Ingram's 1926 silent horror film. (Details)
Family Halloween Party: American Tobacco Campus train car and patio, Durham, 5 to 8 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday. Free pumpkin carving and cement ghost paperweights, from Lutra Cafe and Ment Beverage. 👨‍👩‍👧 (Details)

🧙 Thursday, October 29

UNC Jazz Faculty with Jean Caze: Sharp 9 Gallery, Durham, 7 p.m. $20 to $35. (Details)
Witches Night Out on the Roof: The Durham Hotel, 6 to 10 p.m. DJ Emelcie, themed cocktails, and tarot and aura photo pop-ups. (Details)
FRANK:inFocus Artist Talk and Live Music: FRANK Gallery, Carrboro, 6 to 8 p.m. Photographer Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Foundation talks tintypes, then Carter Minor and Grant Osborne perform. Free. (Details)

Saturday's Halloween lineup, and plenty past it, is already on the calendar.

🍴 Openings & Closings

Makeshift, a fiber-arts makerspace, is open inside ReCity in Durham: bring a project or take a class, with open crafting on a pay-what-you-can model ($15 a day suggested). (INDY Week)
Fertile Ground Food Cooperative broke ground on Garner Road: the community-owned grocery store in Southeast Raleigh grew out of a neighbors' idea in 2011, and its farmers market runs the second and fourth Sundays until the store opens. (ABC11)

💬 Heard Around Town

Someone ran a Durham hot dog rally: 11 hot dogs over 22 miles, with a shout-out to every business that played along. (Thread)
A Chapel Hill expat who left in 1996 still craves Hector's pita burger and asked the hive mind to help rebuild the recipe. (Thread)
A Raleigh reminder that we're still in severe drought came with photos of Lake Wheeler's floating docks sitting on dry land. (Thread)
A single-day police crackdown on and near I-540 in Raleigh caught nearly 140 speeders. (Thread)

🏡 Triangle Pulse

📊 Stat of the brief: Raleigh-Durham has had 29.99 inches of rain so far in 2026, 8.72 below normal and the 19th driest start to a year in 125 years. (NOAA climate records for Raleigh-Durham)

Before You Go

Elizabeth Murray's "Bob," a nearly 11-by-11-foot painting that hung for decades in RTP's Elion-Hitchings building, crashed to the floor when crews stripped the building for demolition. It's restored and now on view at the Nasher — the second-largest painting Murray ever made, lopsided because a studio assistant cut the frame wrong.

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