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The Election Page
North Carolina's 2002 reforms to judicial campaign financing were supposed to reduce the power of private donors in judges' races, including limiting the role of donations from lawyers and others who have business in front of the courts.
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The Election Page
Where to get the voter registration form; Election deadlines and dates
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Record Review
Call it sensitization: On Quilt Noise, the debut album from Chapel Hill's Tennis & the Mennonites, frontman Jerstin Crosby delivers 18 songs almost universally about his world gone wrong.
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Music Feature
The Rolling Stones are always labeled as the best rock ’n’ roll band in the world. But there was another English band that should have held that title.
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Music Feature
When I told a friend I was going to interview Django Reinhardt, she was understandably confused, especially considering that the Belgian jazz guitar legend died half a century ago.
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Music Feature
Goth is dead. Long live goth. Goth music and its encapsulating culture--from The Cure fans that never returned to straight rock to fetish fanciers--have always romanticized death, usually with a coy grin.
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Arts Feature
There are several obstacles you must overcome in order to give yourself a fair reading of Charles Frazier's new novel, Thirteen Moons.
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Arts Feature
Lately, restoration has become a very loud buzzword for Triangle residents.
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Theater
When a show's this unsuccessful, I'm usually not back the second night to buy a copy of the soundtrack.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Food Feature
Michael Pollan is the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Penguin Press, 2006). It's a compelling read, full of fascinating details and worrisome overviews of the lengthy food chains that ensnare us.
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Film Review
It's remarkable how an initially inflammatory premise can quickly seem perfectly normal.
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Film Beat
The term "executive producer" is most often associated with the likes of Michael Mann and Jerry Bruckheimer, men who package scripts with actors and directors.
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North Carolina
On the morning of Sept. 12, a headline blared from the front page of The News & Observer: "Gases heat seas, stoke storms, scientists say."
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Wake County
MySpace has helped musicians reach their fans, political activists spread the word and made average people feel popular. Now, it's being used to teach--but not without controversy.
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News Feature
The myth of Robin Hood is an ancient myth of universal appeal, one that must predate by many centuries the quasi-historical English bandit of the 12th century whose exploits were as familiar to my childhood as the miracles of Jesus Christ.
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Visiting Little Rock, Ark., recently, I happened to be fortunate enough to receive an upgrade from the standard boring four-door midsize car to a Ford Mustang.
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Editorial
There's a flap brewing between the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau and the city's spirited downtown arts community over a new branding campaign for the city that features a colorful, five-pointed star and the slogan "Durham: Where great things happen."
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Exile on Jones Street
Change. That's the word Democratic Party chair Jerry Meek says he hears most when he talks to voters in North Carolina.
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Front Porch
After 29 years of playing music, 40-year-old Dexter Romweber is still a man on fire, and his musical fire has not burnt out.
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Front Porch
I don't need a calendar; I've got a dogwood tree.
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Sudoku Solution
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A weekly adventure by Kevin Dixon
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The Independent Weekly recently caught up with Shirlette Ammons—vocalist, bassist and published poet—to talk about the band she fronts, Mosadi Music, as well as some other topics.
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Giveaways
A pair of 4-day passes to the Fall Event
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Spotlight
He was the small face peering out from behind the B-3. But as the keyboardist for the Small Faces and the Faces, Ian McLagan made some big noise.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
Diligent listeners can arrange to hear most of the wonderful concerts on the schedules this week, though there is a little crunch on Sunday afternoon and a bigger one Tuesday night.
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Spotlight
Noise music may never be easy to listen to, but at least it's more accessible when it has a beat.
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Zinestream
Here's how magazines start: "We were having a rare lavatory chat about how rare conversations are in the bathroom. From there, the idea rolled on to a literary publication dealing with bathrooms, distributed exclusively in them."
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MUSIC: Get Out
Everything you saw in the paper, plus more...
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Best Bets
The Cherry Orchard at Manbites Dog Theater; Nina Nastasia at Local 506; Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour; Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival; First Friday Artwalk
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Spotlight
"I'm not allowed in Canada. I got a DUI when I was 17."
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Spotlight
Bill Callahan isn't the sort of songwriter that says he's maturing, growing or blooming. He's getting older.
