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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week, plus Mother's Day reservations
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Dance
As Robbie Robertson might say, take a picture of this: Choreographer Robin Harris, a tall, thin, somewhat gaunt-looking woman, is standing alone, a few feet from the end of a wooden pier.
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Arts Feature
Every Argentinian is proud of the tango. Yet, it's a commonly held belief that Argentina's black minority is so small as to have played no major role in tango's development.
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Fashion
When asking our mothers for fashion advice, we run the risk of making them think we want all of their old clothes--they dressed us for so long that it's probably only natural for them to want to continue to do so.
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Music Feature
When Washington, D.C.'s Orthrelm played at the Wetlands Dance Hall in February, their guitar-based, prog-rock brutalism seemed quaint compared to the local opening act, a collaboration between Boyzone's Ryan Martin and Chuck Johnson (aka Pykrete).
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Film Review
What makes a great artist? What makes Tom Cruise so expensive?
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North Carolina
The battle lines are drawn, and a showdown is looming that pits a bunch of rural North Carolinians against the U.S. Navy. A win for the Navy could spell environmental disaster for one of the state's most pristine wildlife preserves.
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North Carolina
When a Gates County jury concluded in 1995 that Jerry Wayne Conner should be executed for a double murder, one of the jurors who voted for death was Gates County Index news editor Helene Knight.
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National
James Bryce, in his landmark commentary The American Commonwealth, wrote that impeachment "is like a one-hundred ton gun which needs complex machinery to bring it into position.
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Chatham County
Last week, while Chatham County voters streamed to polling places to wrestle control of their county's future away from real estate profiteers, developer Holland Gaines sold a million dollars' worth of land.
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News Feature
Traditionally, political stories like this one start with an anecdote. An illustrative example, that is, that sets the stage for the BIG IDEA. This story, for example, is about how the progressive cause is advancing thanks to BLOGS.
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Front Porch
Even by the yardstick of American consumer culture, Mother’s Day has got to be one of our stranger holidays.
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Front Porch
Sadlack’s Heroes, the beer-music-sandwich institution on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, started as Baxley’s, a simple sandwich wagon back in the ’40s that was dragged in and assembled for former soldiers flocking to N.C. State on the heels of World War II.
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Letters to the Editor
It was with pleasure that I ditched my car last weekend and hopped on the biodiesel shuttle to the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival.
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Letters to the Editor
Thank you for your thorough coverage of Chatham County politics ("High noon in Chatham," April 26).
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Sudoku Solution
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When Sames' guitarists Zeno Gill and Marc Faris are asked for some back-of-baseball-card-style tidbits about each other and their bandmates, this is what we learn.
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Best Bets
Sarah Dessen at Fearrington Village; Wootini to hold show featuring local artists; Art Brut to perform at Cat's Cradle; Justin Roberts to perform at the ArtsCenter; Band Together N.C. to hold benefit concert for Boys & Girls Club
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MUSIC: Get Out
Dirty Johnny & The Makebelieves; Cartel, Hits the Lights; The Greencards; and more...
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
A look at classical concerts and events in the Triangle
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8 Days a Week
Blood on the Wall, Psychic Ills; Write On!
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Spotlight
For those who've only seen the travel brochures--the sailboats on Mission Bay, the hang-gliders at Torrey Pines, the Windansea surfers--it can be jarring to learn that sunny San Diego is home to some of the darkest bands in the indie rock scene.
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Wine Beat
For those of you who never enter a wine shop, the endless rows of popular brands in your supermarket's aisle can be a real crapshoot.
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8 Days a Week
The Beastie Boys
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Spotlight
Johnny Winter's music has been known to move listeners to tears. But when he talks, it affects people to the opposite end.
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Arts Briefs
Mellarme Chamber Players calling it quits; Arts North Carolina's annual advocacy day; Carrboro Film Festival
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8 Days a Week
Thad Cockrell & Roman Candle; Haw River Festival
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Ivan Neville's Dumpsta Phunck; The Free School of New Orleans; Carolina Rollergirls
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The Essex Green
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Eric Amling; Will Blythe
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What the World Eats; Old Time Relijun
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Can Joann; Urinetown
