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Music Feature
A nude, imperiously bald Bulgarian in high heels reads poetry. A woman plays a xylophone concealed beneath a voluminous hoopskirt.
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Music Feature
We asked Chatham County Line to pick their five most influential bluegrass records as a band.
- by Rick Cornell and Dave Wilson
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Record Review
(Yep Roc Records)
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Lit Local
In New York publishing circles this spring, the buzz around Margaret Sartor's Miss American Pie was palpable.
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Arts Feature
To take a walk through downtown Durham with artists Sabri Reed and Andrew Barco is to see the city in multiple dimensions of time.
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Theater
It's intended to catch the eye: that massive pane of glass, perfectly centered in the square white wall at back of Matthew Adelson's austere set for Miss Julie.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Review
L'Enfant, the latest trip out to society's margins from the masterly Belgian team of Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, begins, as all their films do, in media res.
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Film Beat
When the Triangle Jewish Film Festival takes place on Sunday, May 21, the giant matzo ball in the room might be the transfiguration of the event itself.
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North Carolina
Thrilled appellate lawyers gave Jerry Wayne Conner the news as he was saying his good-byes. They overcame the state's efforts to block a retest that could prove his guilt--or earn a new trial.
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North Carolina
Recently filed federal court documents offer a glimpse into the tax avoidance machinations of the super-rich.
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National
Telephone and cable companies are trying to create a vertical monopoly. If they succeed, they'll destroy the free market, along with everything else we love about the Internet.
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National
If you're not of a certain age, then you won't remember when college was a bargain or when the G.I. Bill paid your full college costs and threw in a living stipend, too.
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Letters to the Editor
Wayne Uber charged in Back Talk ("Indy full of social elitists," May 3) that the Indy was hiding "aggravating factors" that, when viewed in the overall picture, would justify the execution of Willie Brown.
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Letters to the Editor
I read your article "Growing up on Castlemaine Farm" (May 3). It is a basic point that is being totally missed by the United States Department of Agriculture and large producers.
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Editorial
If you were sitting in the legislature today, what would you do with a couple of billion dollars?
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Front Porch
TO: Triangle employers
SUBJECT: Your role in maintaining North Carolina's young talent base
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Front Porch
I'm about to shut up, but before I do, I need to tell you to shut up. So, shut up! I mean you, you white Jordan High School lacrosse players.
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Sudoku Solution
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Best Bets
Tab Benoit at Blue Bayou Club; Larry Reni Thomas book reading; Artsplosure, with Katharine Whalen; inDecision Theater to hold benefit shows; All-family showcase at Cat's Cradle; Deepa Mehta's Water
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Spotlight
Some people would do anything to see Howlin' Wolf perform. In 1942, Hubert Sumlin was 10.
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Citizen
Here's the thing about polls. Howard Dean was sailing to victory in Iowa, remember? Richard Petty was cruising in his race for Secretary of State. And Rufus Edmisten was so far ahead for governor, Jim Martin should've stayed in his chemistry lab.
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Spotlight
Tangible links exist between Growing and Thrones, two minimal instrumental bands originally hailing from Olympia, Wash.
- by Grayson Currin and Robbie Mackey
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OPINION: A Fan's View
Sidney Lowe, newly named head men's basketball coach at North Carolina State University, finished his formal press conference and circulated amiably among a milling multitude in the program's expensive new practice gym.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
The regular season wanes, and more and more groups present their last offerings of 2005-06.
- by Classical Voice of North Carolina
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Spotlight
Early on a Friday evening, L in Japanese is doing something he's famous for in Chapel Hill. He's hustling.
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Arts Briefs
This year, North Carolina has a surplus of about $2 billion. So it was with optimism that nearly 250 artists and arts administrators from across the state descended on Raleigh last Wednesday to lobby legislators for more funding as part of Arts Day 2006.
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8 Days a Week
The Collection Connection
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MUSIC: Get Out
Yellowman, The Chapin Sisters, Stringfellows, Angie Aparo and more...
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8 Days a Week
Venice is Sinking; Eugene Mirman, Michael Showalter
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8 Days a Week
Retrofantasma; The Evolution of the Nasher
Collection; One by One by Once Upon a Time
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8 Days a Week
Liars; Attack of the 50 Foot Reels
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8 Days a Week
The Haint; The Vibekillers
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8 Days a Week
His Name is Alive; Dr. Bart Ehrman
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8 Days a Week
Truth & Fiction in The Da Vinci Code; John Clauser
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8 Days a Week
Mosadi Music & Organix
