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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Review
I walked out of Hard Candy with very mixed feelings, knowing that, for all of its button-pushing and cringe-making, the movie was unsatisfactory to the point of being reprehensible.
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North Carolina
Using a machine to make sure he was asleep, Central Prison officials lethally injected Willie Brown Jr. last Friday, ending yet another round of international media attention focused on a North Carolina execution.
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News Feature
Mukhtaran Mai was in Chapel Hill last week speaking about violence against women.
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Chatham County
The showdown between big-money development interests and a grassroots coalition is a Wild West version of similar battles all over North Carolina.
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Durham County
Duke has hired a top international PR firm to help get its message across as lacrosse parents and even one of the dancers seek to provide their own spin.
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Hal Crowther
A legendary reporter, who took a crooked president's scalp and was once the torchbearer for every journalist who hoped to make a difference, has become, instead, a symbol of everything that's desperately wrong with the media culture in Washington, D.C.
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Front Porch
We are a nation of Days. April starts with Fool’s Day and ends with Louisiana Purchase Day. This week starts with Earth Day and ends with Arbor Day. Are they trying to tell us something?
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Editorial
- by Kirk Ross and Richard Hart
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Front Porch
I've got a dog named Rufus James. A terrier mix. Showed up Dec. 26, 2004, in my Northeast Georgia lawn. Sat down on my foot. That's how I got him.
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Music Feature
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham will accompany novelist Michael Parker, whose latest novel If You Want Me to Stay features Southern soul music as a supporting character, at the 2006 NC Festival of the Book.
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Latin Beat
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Record Review
Tastes Change
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Dance
A modern dance newcomer learns the ropes at UNC
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Sudoku Solution
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Arts Briefs
Students and instructors at the Lincoln Art Studio are used to getting their hands dirty. With the studio's future uncertain, they're rolling up their sleeves to get the attention of Chapel Hill's leaders.
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8 Days a Week
The Vaz; Be Here to Love Me
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Best Bets
Speakeasy at Tyler's Restaurant and Taproom; Brightleaf Square summer concert series; Upcoming dance concerts; Rob Logic 5-day LSD residency; Islands at Cat's Cradle
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Currincy
Cities is a good record from a good young band with loads of potential. It’s not brilliant, as some Triangle scene advocates hoped, but it’s not bad, as jealous detractors of the Chapel Hill band and its record deal hoped. It’s solid.
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8 Days a Week
Eef Barzelay
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Zinestream
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8 Days a Week
Ann Ross; Dexter's Talk Show
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A&E: designbox
The question of whether you can patent a particular hairstyle came up in a weekly DesignBox creative session. It was posed by a DesignBoxer who was acting as if they were game show host Chuck Woolery, he of the high-volume wraparound slick 'do.
- by Peter D. Aufrichtig, ESQ.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
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8 Days a Week
Play Four Festival
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8 Days a Week
The Life & Writing of Robert C. Ruark; The Drunk Stuntmen
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Richard Goode & The N.C. Symphony; Brad Land & David Gordon Green; Project Mastana
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N.C. Festival of the Book; The Rough South of Larry Brown
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MUSIC: Get Out
Music worth leaving the house for
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Citizen
Last week, I wrote about the Raleigh City Council failing to raise impact fees very much. Wait a minute, you say. Didn't The News & Observer report that Raleigh's fees were going up 72 percent?
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8 Days a Week
Oxford American Benefit; Teddy Geiger
