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TODAY'S NEWS
The Rosebuds announce fourth full-length, Life Like
Raleigh duo The Rosebuds announces the tracklist and unveils the cover art for Life Like, its fourth full-length album on Merge Records. by Grayson Currin
N.C. colleges can admit illegal immigrants, Homeland Security tells AG
AG's office reverses call on barring undocumented students from N.C. community colleges by Matt Saldaña
North Carolina
Public meeting is the last on disease lab
Buying the farm
While federal officials and NBAF proponents emphasize the risk of an accident is "extremely low," the lab would be run by Homeland Security, the under-staffed, ill-prepared government agency with a documented track record of financial and managerial incompetence. by Lisa Sorg
Realtors rankled over political spending by Bob Geary
McKinney blazes N.C. trail with incendiary speech by Matt Saldaña
Raleigh news & politics
The Election Page
Campaign finance: A mid-year snapshot of Triangle races
There are 15 weeks until the November election, and candidates across the Triangle are balancing their campaign checkbooks. by Bob Geary, Fiona Morgan and Matt Saldaña
Peripheral Visions
Banking on it
by V.C. Rogers
"Security" at Lake Hartwell Dam in Georgia by Jeremy M. Lange
Outbound by Katy Flinn
A fitting tribute
The people's think tank
Musings, reflections and general gossip for those more inclined to say Durham-Raleigh
In Durham, erection can be depended upon
Land use, architecture, history and sustainable development in Durham
Much zippier than Olde Raleigh
Progressive perspectives on Orange County
An online magazine in the reality-based community
NC Policy Watch's blog
Reporting environmental news and views from N.C.'s capital city
If I Were You
The surprising art of power lunching in the Triangle
Business in North Carolina gets done a little differently. by Jane Hobson Snyder
Peach Day at the N.C. Farmers' Market by Claire Cusick
Feature/ Review
Bad marriages and squabbling siblings in four new films
Will Ferrell uses lazy shock humor in Step Brothers; marriage problems in Brick Lane, The Last Mistress and Tuya's Marriage by Neil Morris, Laura Boyes and David Fellerath
Film times & brief film reviews
Slide Show
The Avett Brothers ascend 
Selected photographs from the road by Derek Anderson
Carolina RailHawks vs. Rayados de Monterrey by Noreen Fagan
Feature
The Avett Brothers ascend
The Concord trio rose from obscurity to balance on the brink of fame
Over the last eight years, The Avett Brothers have played and soon outgrown nearly every tier of venue: a Mexican restaurant in Greenville, The Cave in Chapel Hill, Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, The Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte. by Grayson Currin
Avett Brothers track list
by Grayson Currin
Sunfold and Annuals by Spencer Griffith
The guide to the week's concerts
Light Pollution's "Hand Crushes the Wheel"
by Grayson Currin
BoyZone, Clang Quartet, Jeff Rehnlund and Relay for Death
by Brian Howe
Tonight, rock anthologist Jeff Jarema on WXYC by Rick Cornell
Music news, reviews & previews
Casual Observer
Death by sex in Three in the Attic
Revisiting a bawdy comedy shot 41 years ago in Chapel Hill
Times have changed since Three in the Attic was filmed; the extra ingredient in the "magic" brownies available for guests are walnuts, and the only smoke I smell in the wet night air is tobacco. by Zack Smith
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McKinney says "If in fact there is a program to deny black people in this country from selecting their…
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