The Real Best of the Triangle 2002

A cage match, slap down, tag team effort to bring you what's best in the region.

• by The Editors

Readers' Choice 2002

Readers' responses on our Real Best of the Triangle ballot.

• by The Editors

Split Decision

A sudden name change and rumors of a new venue dogged this y ear's DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival in Durham.

• by David Fellerath

Pros and Tyros

Chapel Hill’s precocious Hi Mom! Film Festival enters a new era with the appearance of famed documentarian Albert Maysles.

• by David Fellerath

Front and center

• by Jennifer Strom

New menu

Real family values

• by Angie Carlson

Porch Quote

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

Rock Solid

After an eight-year hiatus, L.A. rockers Concrete Blonde return with a new disc, Group Therapy, and a tour.

• by Liz Holm

BK Baby

After getting through the buzz-band phenomena with his ’90s “grunge” group, Ben Kweller has a splendid new disc. His biggest fans? Other musicians.

• by Angie Carlson

Glorious Voices

Renowned female vocal quartet Anonymous 4 will immortalize classical deities in their upcoming performance.

• by Byron Woods

Dark Road

Three souls navigate Burning Coal Theatre’s The Road to Mecca by night; Plays Well With Others offers a theatrical eulogy for the self-absorbed.

• by Byron Woods

Scissors and Paste

Dancer Tiffany Rhynard bows out with Running with Scissors; clueless parents, kids and ushers unravel Woven at the ArtsCenter.

• by Byron Woods

Step Right Up

With The Five Cent Fallen Colossus, an artist with Chapel Hill roots exposes the underbelly of the North Carolina State Fair.

• by Nathan Lupo

Trotline

The money behind a mega-development in Chatham County.

In visual art

Movie Spotlight

Beijing Bicycle

In jazz

In photography

In clubs

A&E Spotlight

Faces of Afghanistan

Scene & Heard

A local indie music store dies and more in our regular music column.

• by Angie Carlson

In music and laffs

Music Spotlight

Guided By Voices with the Bloodthirsty Lovers

In lit