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Music Briefs
When David Sardinha closed the doors of Six String Cafe in August 2005, he promised that the club would be back.
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Music Feature
In March, no less a gateway of cultural propriety and acceptability than The New York Times gave perhaps the most thriving music scene in its backyard long-awaited due...
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Latin Beat
This provocation from the man we had all come to see, pianist Larry Harlow, "El Judio Maravilloso," was the final tease.
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Live Review
Gretchen Wilson/Trace Adkins
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Record Review
Randy Whitt; Protean Spook; Mighty Lester
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Summer Guide
No shirt, no shoes, no problem
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Summer Guide
The best things about family summers: no homework and the nights go on forever.
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Summer Guide
Durham's science place has giant bugs and friendly goats--and now, it's got lemurs.
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Summer Guide
If Carolina Piedmont cuisine is famous for anything, it's for pit barbecue, and specifically for the roasting of whole pigs over charcoal and wood fires.
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Summer Guide
Aerosol art, b-boying, deejaying and the history of hip hop are just some of the subjects kids can study this summer at a multicultural arts program in Chapel Hill.
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Summer Guide
If the parade of summer blockbusters doesn't get your heart pounding, consider taking the Bollywood route this summer.
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Summer Guide
Is it too hot for art in the summertime? When it comes to literature, summer is the time to put away the Toni Morrison and pick up the Terry McMillan, so why should the other arts be any different?
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Summer Guide
When the heat cranks up, the sightings start. A white, kind-eyed crane with tribal markings--but two stories tall and with a wingspan well over 50 feet.
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Summer Guide
It's easy to assume having kids is as un-hip as it gets.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Beat
This weekend's big Hollywood movie is directed by Raleigh native Peyton Reed. The Break-Up pairs Jennifer Aniston with Vince Vaughn to tell the story of a couple that has broken up, and their efforts to eradicate one another from their lives.
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Film Review
If there was a golden age in American life, it surely was the two decades between the wars--that is, the Second World War that ended in 1945 and the Vietnam War, which was fatefully escalated in 1965.
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Wake County
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission came to the Triangle last week to discuss its glowing report card for Progress Energy's Shearon Harris nuclear plant--and got an earful from area residents about the plant's safety record and its own oversight process.
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North Carolina
When a pregnant mother is imprisoned in North Carolina, her newborn is usually taken away within hours of birth and passed to a family member or foster parent for rearing.
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Wake County
It hasn't been a barrel of laughs lately at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle of Wake County.
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Letters to the Editor
Yesterday, my 20-year-old daughter picked up the most recent copy of the Independent (May 24) and showed the front cover to me.
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Exile on Jones Street
On Jones Street last week there was a lovely, upbeat atmosphere as the state Senate, on an accelerated timetable that's warp speed compared to years past, brought a budget to the floor in record time.
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First Person
Notice how the sports pages are devoid of articles about political protest at professional sporting events? It's not that protest isn't happening there, it just isn't reported on.
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Front Porch
On a hot sunny day in 1969, one of my four siblings announced that we were going to Florida--the next day.
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Front Porch
"Haven't I seen you somewhere before? Yes! Yes! I have!"
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Editorial
Sometimes newspapers do something that evokes an unexpectedly strong reaction
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Sudoku Solution
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Granted, 2006 isn't even half over yet, but I still don't expect to encounter a better four-strong stretch this year than the one toward the end of Kenny Roby's The Mercy Filter.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
This week, we offer the second in our series of mini-previews of important summer series in the Triangle, conveniently designed for clipping for refrigerator display!
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Spotlight
While Durham's boosters--from the Chamber of Commerce to the artists in their urban studios--see a profitably funky downtown in the future, some local filmmakers aren't playing along.
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8 Days a Week
I Am a Sex Addict; Pit Er Pat
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MUSIC: Durham-Chapel Hill Line
Chaz's Bull City Records store hosts live music; The Spinns break up; "It's Carrboro" video available online
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MUSIC: Get Out
International Drive, North Elementary, The Milagro Saints, Nudity and more...
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Best Bets
Opera Company of North Carolina presents Barber; Flicker film festival series; Birthday party for resurrected Brewery; Art Grows in Durham festival
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Citizen
Here's a good idea, from Progressive Democrats of N.C. PAC leader Pete MacDowell. The ProgDems, who hold a "summit" this weekend in the aptly named town of Browns Summit (near Greensboro), want to run a candidate for lieutenant governor in 2008.
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8 Days a Week
John Hart; Hearts and Daggers
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8 Days a Week
Soul Position; Billie Joe Lamm Memorial Race
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8 Days a Week
Good Night, and Good Luck; Choreo Collective; X-Gen; Nudity, Strange
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8 Days a Week
N.C. Boys Choir; Glass Candy, Chromatics
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Triangle Amateur Robotics Meeting; Hannah Gill
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8 Days a Week
Equality N.C. Lobby Day; The Date with the Beast
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8 Days a Week
Wolfmother
