The look

Nick Gomez delivers an agreeably overheated comedy with Drowning Mona, and Chen Kaige's The Emperor and the Assassin evokes psychological and historic upheavals via a rich vision of royal intrigues.

• by Godfrey Cheshire

Keeping Close Counsel

A Chatham County dispute has battered-women's advocates worried about a legal backlash.

• by Barbara Solow
• Tags: News Feature, abuse, domestic violence, battered women

Extreme schools

How can two schools--one in Raleigh, one in Durham--be so radically and sadly different?

• by Susie Wilde

What it's worth

• by Bob Geary

Cookie crisis

• by Kirk Dickerson

Get on board

• by Richard Franck

Porch Quote

Disgusted

Letters to the Editor

• by Walter Bennett

WickedScene

Out went the rack of lamb and in came hip-hop when a hot new club transformed the upscale Raleigh eatery WickedSmile.

• by Karen A. Mann

A double life

Remember the score to Ben Hur? The N.C. Symphony's Raleigh Classical Series spotlights works by the man who wrote it, Miklos Rozsa.

• by Joe Kahn and Elizabeth Kahn

Rising up

Decades of song and praise are summed up in a new book and a new CD celebrating local gospel music.

• by David Potorti

A museum blooms

The turn of the millennium marks changes and growth at the North Carolina Museum of Art.

• by Kate Dobbs Ariail

Charming interpreter

In his solo show One Noble Journey, actor and writer Mike Wiley makes Bill Clinton look like a wallflower.

• by V.C. Rogers

In concert

And Still She'll Rise?

Can Venita Peyton rise again in Southeast Raleigh?

• by Afefe L. Tyehimba

Hi Mom! Film Festival

Rumble Seat

• by Dan Neil

In readings

In horror

Backtalk Quote

• by Walter Bennett

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