The Speech We Need to Hear

If North Carolina's elections weren't decided by big money, here's what a candidate for governor just might be telling us.

• by Chris Fitzsimon
• Tags: News Feature, elections, governors, special interests

Work in Progress

East Timor enters the reconstruction era.

• by John Sayles
• Tags: News Feature, Indonesia

Hal Crowther: Why I'm not a Libertarian

The author's no libertarian because he's not good enough, and neither are you.

• by Hal Crowther

To the bedside manner born

• by Luli Gray

A pole for peace

• by Patrick O'Neill

No pain in vain

• by Carol Wills

Heavy metal hamlet

The Triangle's hard-rock heart beats on at Wilson's annual Metalfest.

• by Brian O'Neill

Those jazz things

Jazz maverick Charlie Hunter will share his eight-string sound at the ArtsCenter this week.

• by Roberta Penn

Letters to the world

What happened when photographer Wendy Ewald allowed Durham schoolchildren to share their visions.

• by Leigh Anne Couch

Monty Pythons from Yobsville

In telling the Sex Pistol's "real" story, The Filth and the Fury misses the magic of the myth.

• by Godfrey Cheshire

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• by Dan Neil

Outside the Box

Environmentalists see no merit in an "excellence" bill backed by business groups.

• by Barbara Solow

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