• Issue Archive for
  • Sep 20-26, 2006
  • Vol. 23, No. 38

News

  • Missing the train
  • Missing the train

    We're in Charlotte, driving south out of the downtown (their "uptown") along the route of the Queen City's first light-rail commuter transit line, now under construction.

Columns

  • One good turn . . .

    I wasn't having the greatest morning when I got to Guglhupf at opening time.
  • The power of art

    Jaume Plensa. Georges Rousse. Spark Con. Suddenly, art is on the mind of communities across the Triangle.
  • Some land for tomorrow

    No mosquitoes, no ticks and cool pleasant weather.
  • Bashcroft

    John Ashcroft would soon take the stage. Of course there would be disruptions.

Music

  • Seriously funny
  • Seriously funny

    A washboard hangs on the wall. There's a saw nearby, sitting among vintage amps, a drum set, congas, a piano, a saxophone, a trumpet, a trombone, guitars and ukuleles.
  • Crooked intersection
  • Crooked intersection

    When Eric Bachmann and Barton Carroll last played North Carolina together, they were in Carrboro, standing on the Cat's Cradle stage well after midnight on March 23, 2005.
  • Nathan Davis, 1976-2006
  • Nathan Davis, 1976-2006

    A picture of a smiling man, arms wrapped around his baby girl, stands on a bar table.

Arts

  • When we dead awaken
  • When we dead awaken

    She casts on the water the breadcrumbs that represent the sins of the old year at the end of Tashlik, a Jewish ritual of regrets--then the woman throws herself into the river.

Film

  • Class wars
  • Class wars

    Ever since The Believer, I've believed in Ryan Gosling as a candidate for the next iconic male actor in American movies.
  • Baton Stooge
  • Baton Stooge

    The Scottish poet Roberts Burns wrote, "The best-laid schemes of mice and men/ Often go awry/ And leave us nought but grief and pain/ For promised joy."

Food

Diversions

Ye Olde Archives

  • Mary Gauthier
  • Mary Gauthier

    "Tough question," says Mary Gauthier when asked why so many people forge such strong bonds with her music.
  • Beirut
  • Beirut

    Flipping over columns of tertiary sandstone in the New Mexican desert, you'd never think you'd find an accordion-toting Balkan brass band in the mix.
  • Keola & Moana Beamer
  • Keola & Moana Beamer

    If you think that Don Ho is the voice of Hawaii, Keola Beamer has something to say: "It's like me watching a Tarzan movie and thinking I'm hearing African music," Beamer says of the Hollywood stereotype applied to Hawaiian music.
  • The English Beat

    Mixing ska, politics and punk, the Beat fired up disgruntled youths on both sides of the Atlantic ready to dance to a revolution, and they're ready to do it again.
  • For the week of 9.20~9.26
  • For the week of 9.20~9.26

    Menomena at Kings and Local 506; Michael Shuman to speak at UNC's Student Union and Duke University's Nasher Museum; Indy's Queen of the Triangle pageant at Lincoln Theatre; Carrboro Music Festival
  • Operas and chambers

    The N.C. Symphony returns to Durham's Carolina Theatre with a program of classical favorites at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22, but the big news--for opera lovers, at least--will surely be Capital Opera Raleigh's season opener, Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore.

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