Apex fire: The rush to wait and see

The frenzy surrounding the Apex chemical fire provided as much excitement as the smoke and flames.

• by Bob Burtman

California cracks down on Raleigh entrepreneur

Real estate entrepreneur James Webb may have left Raleigh for new ventures in Florida, but the trail of disenchanted investors he's left across the country finally has authorities closing in from the Triangle to California.

• by Jennifer Strom

On Army harassment, Israeli environmentalism

When she spoke on the phone with her daughter, Sara Rich tried to keep her wits about her.

• by Patrick O'Neill

The experts speak

• by V.C. Rogers

Sea food

A couple of hundred yards off Bogue Banks, dolphins--airborne at times--were working their way down the coast. Farther out, a trawler worked the channels near the inlet.

• by Kirk Ross

Food unprocessed

It's a cliché to say that the modern kitchen has ruined our connection to the food we eat, but ideas become clichés for a reason.

• by Maura McLaughlin

Under construction

• by D.L. Anderson

No bull

Well, I asked for it. With downtown creative types annoyed about the marketing slogan developed by the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau ("Durham: Where Great Things Happen"), I asked readers last week to suggest some of their own.

• by Richard Hart

No accountability at Raleigh Public Utilities

Raleigh Public Utilities was in the news again last month for discharging "increasing amounts of manganese and iron" from its water treatment plant into an unnamed tributary that flows directly into Falls Lake...

• by Dean Naujoks

Say what?

Ordinarily, I wouldn't trash a book I haven't read, but after checking out author/professor Tom Schaller's recent explanation/synopsis of his new political analysis Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, I can tell you that its basic premise is about as off-base as it gets.

• by Kirk Ross

U.S. House District 13 shocker: Robinson using sex to get votes!

Vernon Robinson, the indefatigable yet unsuccessful conservative candidate for public office in North Carolina, is a master of the campaign attack ad.

• by Mosi Secret

Spontaneous chemistry

Nearly 35 years have passed since Chick Corea and Gary Burton retreated to an Oslo studio to record Crystal Silence, their 1972 jazz landmark.

• by Robert Hicks

Big night of locals; "Distopian Dream"; Music art; Radio wars; Year-end hoopla

If you want to see live music on Saturday, Oct. 21, you've got some choices to make.

Local Reviews

Annuals; Jeremy Lev; Dexter Romweber; Puritan Rodeo; Various Artists

Rich detail

When I walk into Za Za Zsu, a boutique at 1918 Perry St. just off Ninth Street in Durham, I realize there are many other things here that I will want to wear.

• by Amelia V.B. Shull

God bless thee, Molly Petree

The 19th century will forever remain at the center of our history, yet, to most people, the period is a mystical realm of nostalgia and romance, as alien as the mountains of the moon.

• by Howard Bahr

Timepieces

Works age strangely in the theater. In the age of protease inhibitors, a script as recent as Lonely Planet, Steven Dietz' memory play about AIDS from 1993, can seem dated.

• by Byron Woods

Cinephile dysfunction

We all know what the last three Martin Scorsese movies have in common: They star Leo DiCaprio.

• by Godfrey Cheshire

Generation JC

After the 2004 election that returned George W. Bush to the White House, untold numbers of shell-shocked Americans, including me, traded a quickie Web gag: a new map of North America that showed the East and West Coasts as being part of "The United States of Canada" and the remaining heartland labeled "Jesusland."

• by David Fellerath

Cinema of desire

Pedro Almodóvar is surely one of the most famous filmmakers in the world, even for those who've never been to the candy-colored, romantically topsy-turvy Madrid we see in his films.

• by David Fellerath

Get playful, get naked, get more

I went scavenging for a beer in my father's fridge the other day and made a shocking discovery. The man had a free-range chicken sitting there, right next to the arugula.

• by Jane Hobson Snyder
• Tags: Dish, Cover Story

Oct. 11 crossword solution

Oct. 11 sudoku solution

Stringy competition

The N.C. Symphony continues its "Postcards" series of new works by N.C. composers with the premiere of the late Roger Hannay's "Triangle Transit."

• by Classical Voice of North Carolina

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds are still cruising—musically and literally.

• by Grant Britt

For the week of October 11 through 18

Built to Spill, Camper Van Beethoven and Helvetia at Cat's Cradle; Village Green, The Purrs at Local 506 and more...

For the week of 10.11~10.17

N.C. Shakespeare Festival; The best three-day span of local live music not linked to a festival; Troika Music Festival; N.C. State Fair; Tim Miller and 1,000 Beds; Femme Fatale Film Series

Time to come out?

Pssst. Are we allowed to enjoy merlot again? Or even to say the word out loud in polite company?

• by Arturo Ciompi

Moving Raleigh's racism off of city property

Raleigh, bless its heart, is being dragged—blinking and stunned—into the light, judging from SparkCon, last month's symposium of artists and business people.

• by Peter Eichenberger

Nearing Grace

Nearing Grace doesn't say anything about hippie parents, alienated youth and 1970s music that isn't done better by Frank Portman's King Dork.

• by Zack Smith