- Issue Archive for
- Feb 1-7, 2006
- Vol. 23, No. 5
Food
B. Christopher's
Chapel Hill
Arts
Book Shorts
We've got some catching up to do, so you'll see books from fall 2005 in this inaugural Bookshorts, a place for short reviews of books by N.C. authors.
Music
Reloaded
N.C. State's WKNC is on the beam--at 25,000 watts.
Films in Carrboro, new music site in Raleigh
Music Film Series in Carrboro
New music Web site in Raleigh
Music Awards Voting booming
Everybody Loves Raymond
Film
Jealousy factory
Now playing at the Galaxy Cinema
Cackalackydance
While other competitors have come and gone, Slamdance has persevered as the primary Sundance alternative and a necessary second-guesser to the tastes of the Sundance programmers.
News
Firing up the faithful
The Rev. William J. Barber II, new head of the state NAACP, wants to lure young people, organize from the bottom up, and make the civil rights organization a powerhouse once again. If he can do for the state what he’s done in Goldsboro, he has a chance.
Morgan backs planning board members' loans
Chatham County commissioner Bunkey Morgan says it has nothing to do with politics, but critics say it’s unethical. The 2006 campaign begins.
More nukes for Wake County power plant?
Progress Energy plans two new reactors, but watchdogs howl over the facility's safety record--and more evidence of security woes.
Too mixed up
Audit questions private money at N.C. Museum of Art
Raleigh activist gets 90-day sentence
School of the Americas protest
Columns
Dreams deferred
Even as the legacy of those early activists is celebrated, it is evident yet today that around North Carolina there is plenty still to struggle against.
Big-budget action download
Is filesharing hurting Hollywood? UNC economist Koleman Strumpf says no
From Wisco to Northca
This is the true story of six Midwesterners who decided to rent a house south of the Mason-Dixon and start their 20-something lives in the hills of North Carolina.
Racial vestiges
Rushing, my head bowed down, my shoulders curled in and my mind full, I barely noticed the man I passed on the sidewalk.
Ye Olde Archives
The legends return
Red Clay Rambler's first show back on stage
Get Out
Music worth leaving the house for
State of the Union
On the WUNC-FM program The State of Things on Tuesday, I was asked what President Bush should say in his State of the Union Address. Not what he would say. So use your imagination.
