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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Indies Arts Awards
When you do something you love, you make it look easy. But love can be hard work.
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Indies Arts Awards
They met on the dance floor. Gülden Özen had been taking tango lessons "with a ballroom instructor who claimed to teach Argentine tango."
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Indies Arts Awards
Tucked away on a side street near Raleigh's Five Points neighborhood, the cinderblock-and-glass building barely stands out from the light-grade industrial buildings around it.
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Indies Arts Awards
This summer the North Carolina Central University Art Museum is installing long-overdue track lighting in its galleries, which have heretofore relied on fluorescent tubes as the only available light source.
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Indies Arts Awards
After college, Bob Pence moved to Wilmington and formed a trio with a high school friend and a local drummer with a metronome tattooed on his arm.
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Indies Arts Awards
Zach Ward, founder of Carrboro's DSI Comedy Theater, may be the hardest-working man in show business.
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Indies Arts Awards
When it comes to music, Grady doesn't forget a thing. During a two-hour conversation about the best bands he's seen in the Triangle since he arrived in Raleigh in 1992, the names, dates and memories pour out quickly.
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Film Review
Hollywood has never done justice to Philip K. Dick, but it's not for lack of talent.
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Orange County
Almost every weekday from January to June, Dennis Wade left the Orange Correctional Center prison gates in Hillsborough to work at Mama Dip's Restaurant in Chapel Hill.
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Letters to the Editor
Yellow journalism "is a pejorative reference to journalism that features scandal-mongering sensationalism ... or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists."
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The Monitor
With media consolidation back on the FCC's agenda, more than 400 people attend an unofficial commission hearing in Asheville.
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Exile on Jones Street
Hot on the heels of passage of a rather popular state budget, both the House and Senate got to things still undone while hurtling toward a departure from Dodge maybe as soon as the end of this week.
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Editorial
Lots of people are making note this month of the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower's dream of an American autobahn, the interstate highway system.
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First Person
Several times over the years, the Rev. W.W. Finlator called me after he had read something I had written.
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Front Porch
When President Bush comes to town, people have to change plans, quickly.
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Front Porch
Sitting at the Players Retreat talking with a bud of mine, a regular old hippie Freemason.
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Music Feature
Whalen looks perfectly at ease on the sunny back patio of Cup A Joe, not too far from her Efland farm.
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Music Feature
Sometimes trends catch up to musicians, not the other way around.
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Music Feature
There's a saying about certain volatile regions that sums up Ozomatli's versatility: If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.
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Fashion
I must have ordered something recently from a big-box conglomerate that owns teen fashion shops, because lately my mailbox is full of catalogs geared exclusively toward teenagers who are six feet tall and weigh 115 pounds.
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Dance
It's a rubric of criticism: On some level, each work of art functions as a communicative act, an attempt by an artist to express something to those who experience it.
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Theater
Perhaps director Jay O'Berski merely wanted to give us a taste of the actual hardships historical dissidents incurred; a fresh new twist on the theater of cruelty.
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Sudoku Solution
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A weekly adventure by Kevin Dixon
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By Paul Friedrich
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MUSIC: Get Out
Some of the Above, Billy Joe Shaver, Amy Loftus, Nevermind, Brown Mountain Lights, Huey Lewis & The News
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Best Bets
Talib Kweli at the Cat's Cradle; Rock & Shop Market in Raleigh; both hands theater at Manbites Dog and 10x10 Festival at the ArtsCenter; Ronald K. Brown at ADF; Sarah Borges at The Pour House; Scott Eagle's Falling Man series at Tyndall Galleries
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Citizen
Dear Mayor Meeker & Raleigh City Councilors: You'll be pleased to learn that I am contemplating a great improvement of our property at 202 E. Park Drive.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
The Eastern Music Festival continues, offering daily opportunities to enjoy live music.
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Wine Beat
Think white wine is for wimps? Whether a beginner or long time enthusiast, do you knowingly smile at the adage that states: "The first duty of a wine is to be red?"
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Spotlight
In 2004, Rolling Stone--Cleo-like clairvoyants capable of charting the topography of music’s future, for sure--ranked Jolie Holland in a class of four female singer-songwriters capable of coveting "The Next Norah" crown.
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8 Days a Week
Ozomatli at the N.C. Museum of Art
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Spotlight
Almost three albums into his own career, Columbia Records' hip-haircut poster boy Pete Yorn still makes moves on the mantles of his idols.
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8 Days a Week
Comedian Lewis Black in Cary; Casablanca at Koka Booth; author Rebecca Lee reads at the Regulator
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8 Days a Week
STAMMER! at Artspace; Actors Comedy Lab's Moonlight and Magnolias at NCSU
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Spotlight
It's almost insulting to suggest that experimentation is new to metal.
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8 Days a Week
Brokeback Mountain at the N.C. Museum of Art; Hoop It Up at the RBC Center; The Rock & Shop Market at Tir Na Nog
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Spotlight
Steve Howell has toned it down a bit since his days playing breakneck honky-tonk in the late '90s with Chip Robinson in the Backsliders.
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8 Days a Week
Local political activist Diana Koenning analyzes George Lakoff's Essential Guide for Progressives at Quail Ridge Books
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8 Days a Week
ADF's International Choreographers Commissioning Project at Duke
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Lynyrd Skynyrd, 3 Doors Down and Shooter Jennings at Alltel; Guster and Fruit Bats at Koka Booth
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The Instruments and Bibis Ellison at Local 506
