• Issue Archive for
  • Jun 7-13, 2006
  • Vol. 23, No. 23

Food

Film

  • The last radio show
  • The last radio show

    Accepting an honorary career-achievement Academy Award on this year's Oscar show, Robert Altman revealed that he had undergone a heart transplant not long ago.
  • How smoggy was my valley
  • How smoggy was my valley

    David Jacobson's Down in the Valley begins with seductive compositions that recall the cinema of the 1970s.

News

  • New evidence in Charles Walker murder trial

    Charles "Tony" Walker, who came within hours of being executed by injection in December 2004, has a chance of being released from prison.

Columns

  • We want our #&% TV!
  • We want our #&% TV!

    Lobbyists are capitalizing on consumer passion to push through a complex telecom bill that's full of bad ideas
  • Dear Mr. Pattishall

    I respond to Jonathan Pattishall, who wants men to shut up and start listening to women (Front Porch, May 17).
  • Year-round problems
  • Year-round problems

    As May melts into June, I glance up at the calendar and notice that we've come to the end of another school year. Or have we, in light of the year-round school talk?
  • Trash talk ain't cheap

    Already with the trash talking. The N.C. House got rolling last week on its version of the budget, and right out of the box there was disagreement over a key provision in the Senate budget.
  • Memorial

    I'm not sure whether Robert Brown was a hedgehog or a fox, but I know that he thought about it.
  • Priorities

    Finally, as the suffering continues in Iraq, as the economy falters, the president and the Congress have decided to address the important issue of our time: banning gay marriage.
  • Samaritan

    Leaving work on the N.C. State campus, I saw my homeless doppelganger loping up Hillsborough Street.

Music

  • Burrito supreme
  • Burrito supreme

    From the outside, the place looks like the car dealership it once was.
  • No Future Terror

    The first 12 hours of No Future Festival--stretched last weekend on Friday and Saturday from 8 p.m. to sometime after 2 a.m. at Nightlight--were about a friendly scene...
  • Hammer of the minor deities
  • Hammer of the minor deities

    Myles Heskett can't stop laughing. It's as reasonable a response as any to the past few months of his life.

Arts

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • Country Teasers
  • Country Teasers

    True misanthropes occupy a lonely corner in rock 'n' roll, the strangely smart kid in time-out, always sneering and scratching.
  • For the week of June 7 through 13
  • For the week of June 7 through 13

    Little Feat at Carolina Theater; Django Haskins at Saxaphaw River Mill; Pride & Prejudice outdoor showing; The Wandering Star Project; Happy Birthday Bush
  • Warming up?
  • Warming up?

    Al Gore's film, and Tim Flannery's book, will light a fire under your global complacency
  • This week in classical music

    This week brings some last gasps of the waning season and some enticing summer events.
  • OMG, ur soo indie
  • OMG, ur soo indie

    In hip hop, being underground is its own merit badge.
  • Friday, June 9
  • Friday, June 9

    Reptiles & Amphibians; Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus; Valient Thorr, Black Taj

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