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Romney and the politics of envy
Republicans in general and Mitt Romney in particular have fallen back on a single, simple "insight" to explain the traction of wealth distribution as a galvanizing political issue: envy.
News
Charter schools don't necessarily provide a better education
Charter schools under the microscope (Part 1/3)
As North Carolina plunges headlong into the charter school business, it's hard to tell whether any of the serious issues that surround charter schools will matter much in the application process.
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Arts
Dead Man's Cell Phone is the right show in the wrong room
Through Feb. 5 at Raleigh Little Theatre
For the most, this Dead Man's Cell Phone has a perfectly good signal. What it mainly needs is to figure out how to invite an audience to pick up and answer it.
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Music
Did Jeff Mangum make his most inspired music after Neutral Milk Hotel was over?
Sold-out performance Monday at Memorial Hall
Jeff Mangum's voice is filling rooms again, or at least one part of it is.
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Film
Sadness and stultification in Albert Nobbs
Opens Friday
Glenn Close plays Albert Nobbs, a nonentity with a traumatic, largely suppressed past who has survived for three decades dressing and working as a man.
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Food
Blend Cafe; Cafe Helios; Tyler's Raleigh; DPAC BBQ
Blend Cafe at Golden Belt now open; Helios hosts special brunch with Counter Culture (Feb. 5); rare-beer tasting event at the newest Tyler's Taproom (Feb. 4); DPAC hosts showdown between Memphis and N.C. barbecues (Jan. 26)
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