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How Carol Peppe Hewitt and Slow Money NC are raising funds for farmers, one loan at a time

May 29 at Flyleaf Books — Farming has many joys, but steady cash flow is not one of them. Slow Money NC's innovative lending system has helped arrange 80 loans to nearly 40 borrowers in North Carolina, including many names you'll recognize.

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Scenes from Moral Monday at the General Assembly: June 3 should be the biggest yet

As the marchers say: "Show me what democracy looks like / This is what democracy looks like."

DVD+Digital: Ex-cons, Viagra jokes and <i>Stand Up Guys</i>

DVD+Digital: Ex-cons, Viagra jokes and Stand Up Guys

Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin team up as aging wiseguys on one last caper.

War and NASCAR: America-F&#$-Yeah

NASCAR honors great American war hero/criminal Oliver North with its prestigious Stonewall Jackson Award

Birds and Arrows, but no cello (tonight at Casbah)

Cellist Josh Starmer is departing folk-rock trio Birds and Arrows, while husband-wife Pete and Andrea Connolly plan collaborations with other local musicians this summer.

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Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective

Major Handy

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The Homosexuals

Theater of the American South

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The Comedy of Errors

NC Poetry Society Reading

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One Place: Paul Kwilecki & Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, GA

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May 22, 2013
Vol 30, No 21

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Parents and environmental activists concerned about sewage sludge fields near schools

Sewage sludge, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment process, is used as agricultural fertilizer across North Carolina. Activists say exposure causes headaches, nausea, respiratory problems, lesions and more.

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Them Iowa boys mean business in <i>At Any Price</i>

Them Iowa boys mean business in At Any Price

Opens Friday at the Chelsea
Director Ramin Bahrani's stark farmland drama chronicles one family's moral decay among the amber waves of grain.

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Finesse Mitchell got a taste of <i>Saturday Night</i>

Finesse Mitchell got a taste of Saturday Night

Thursday-Sunday at Goodnights Comedy Club
"I am one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud, make-you-cry, make-you-pee-a-little-bit stand-up comics out there, and I can't wait for everybody to know it."

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The week in music: May 22-29, 2013

10&2: a dozen gigs for your consideration
Integrity; Dege Legg, Anders & Kendall; Rotten Sound; Major Handy; Sons of Tonatiuh; Black Tusk; Vandaveer; John Howie Jr & the Rosewood Bluff; Baobab, Sumner James; Jon Lindsay; Bad Veins; Krewella

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Carolina Crossroads Chef James Clark specializes in obscure fish

Clark has established a reputation for seeking out lesser-known but equally delicious and sustainable varieties that fishermen pull from the waters of the Carolina coast.

by Jill Warren Lucas

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May 29 at Flyleaf Books — Farming has many joys, but steady cash flow is not one of them. Slow Money NC's innovative lending system has helped arrange 80 loans to nearly 40 borrowers in North Carolina, including many names you'll recognize.

Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin team up as aging wiseguys on one last caper.

Friday — The Old Ceremony will play the second anniversary of Haw River Ballroom, reconnecting two great ideas—a ballroom in the country and a rock band with a dozen members—that have become unpredictable successes.

Friday at Lincoln Theatre — The dudes of New Orleans doom rock quintet Down have lived the hardscrabble lifestyle long enough to warrant the "super-" tag, and their past is essential to the success of their music.

North Carolina has dropped to 48th among the 50 states plus the District of Columbia in terms of our per-student support for K–12 public schools.

At Any Price opens Friday at the Chelsea — Ramin Bahrani, a Winston-Salem native, has charted an unlikely path to making a film with Zac Efron in the cornfields of Iowa.

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Sewage sludge, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment process, is used as agricultural fertilizer across North Carolina. Activists say exposure causes headaches, nausea, respiratory problems, lesions and more.

Opens Friday at the Chelsea Director Ramin Bahrani's stark farmland drama chronicles one family's moral decay among the amber waves of grain.

Thursday-Sunday at Goodnights Comedy Club "I am one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud, make-you-cry, make-you-pee-a-little-bit stand-up comics out there, and I can't wait for everybody to know it."

10&2: a dozen gigs for your consideration Integrity; Dege Legg, Anders & Kendall; Rotten Sound; Major Handy; Sons of Tonatiuh; Black Tusk; Vandaveer; John Howie Jr & the Rosewood Bluff; Baobab, Sumner James; Jon Lindsay; Bad Veins; Krewella

Clark has established a reputation for seeking out lesser-known but equally delicious and sustainable varieties that fishermen pull from the waters of the Carolina coast.

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Opens Friday at the Chelsea
Director Ramin Bahrani's stark farmland drama chronicles one family's moral decay among the amber waves of grain.

Thursday-Sunday at Goodnights Comedy Club
"I am one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud, make-you-cry, make-you-pee-a-little-bit stand-up comics out there, and I can't wait for everybody to know it."

10&2: a dozen gigs for your consideration
Integrity; Dege Legg, Anders & Kendall; Rotten Sound; Major Handy; Sons of Tonatiuh; Black Tusk; Vandaveer; John Howie Jr & the Rosewood Bluff; Baobab, Sumner James; Jon Lindsay; Bad Veins; Krewella