The Rev. returns

Billy C. Wirtz, who never fails to make satire boogie

• by Tony Madejczyk

It's never too cold for ice cream

• by Sharon Kebschull Barrett

The best of 2004

Our critics dissect the year that so recently passed

Music

• by Grayson Currin

Theater

• by Byron Woods

Dance

• by Byron Woods

Visual Art

• by Doug Stuber

Books

• by John Valentine

Film

• by Godfrey Cheshire

Film

• by David Fellerath

Welcome to Durham

• by Richard Hart

Peripheral Visions

• by V.C. Rogers

Queer nation

• by Barbara Solow

Mr. Limbaugh's America

• by Alvin Wang

Join us on the Porch

Thank dog

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

And Then There Was Rock

• by Kevin Dixon

Neil Morris' Top 10 Films of 2004

• by Neil Morris

in mathemagiclandings

The drug that never killed anyone

• by Peter Eichenberger

Long wait not quite finished

Velvet's new album is ready for the world, if not the record store

• by Chris Parker

in nixonia

in tributes to the king

in screen gems

Desert Island Discs

Johnny Dzubak of Leadfoot

in punking out

King me

An encore for Elvis

• by Grant Britt

Forbert's endurance test

ArtsCenter inaugurates another American Roots series

• by Rick Cornell

Get Out

Music worth leaving the house to hear this week

Homebrew

• by Chris Parker

Compassion on the cheap

The founder of Raleigh-based Stop Hunger Now says U.S. can do better in South Asia and the world

• by Patrick O'Neill

Black Monday at The Herald-Sun

• by Fiona Morgan

Act Now

The social activist's calendar