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Music Feature
Mac McCaughan's band proper puts out its third album in a year
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Music Feature
"Hey, what's up?" says the familiar voice at the other end of the Yep Roc Records hotline in Haw River. "This is Chuck D, Public Enemy No. 1."
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Music Feature
Does it excite James Baker that the little club he formed with Michael Dever and Ed Meese in the Reagan White House gets memorialized by indie kids in Carolina?
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Arts Feature
The North Carolina Museum of Art's new Monet exhibition can best be described as the museum's "big O."
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Theater
Suppose, for just a moment, that you had to fill three plays into three slots at the start of a theater season.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Review
Marie Antoinette is a creamy French pastry of a film: sweet and lovely to look at, but not very filling.
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Film Review
The prologue to Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers contains a seemingly benign, table-setting edict: "The right picture can win or lose a war."
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Wake County
The former president and chief financial officer of Kane Realty Corp., Clifford A. "Mickey" Clark, has been indicted on federal charges stemming from the embezzlement of more than $1 million from the Raleigh development company behind North Hills and several other prominent Triangle projects.
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Orange County
In life, Eli Merritt would have never shared a table with William Richardson Davie and Cornelia Phillips Spencer.
- by Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
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Wake County
When Environmental Quality's hazmat facility burst into flames Oct. 5, Jimmy Sauls and his wife were two blocks away, watching TV in the Apex house they've called home for 22 years.
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News Feature
Orange County citizens will decide whether to combine district voting with their current at-large system and add two commissioners to the board.
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Derek Jennings
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Editorial
It was refreshing this month to see the payoff when The News & Observer put the time and resources into an investigation of paramount public interest.
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Front Porch
Two things happened last week: The weather turned and our rural electric company took down a pair of dead oak trees along a right of way.
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Exile on Jones Street
The big story out of last week's UNC Board of Governors meeting was the approval of a new tuition strategy.
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Front Porch
I thought I was healthy. Then I turned on the television and was battered by two consecutive commercials for prescription drugs.
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Hal Crowther has hit the nail on the head so precisely so many times, he must be ready for a new hammer.
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to ZigZagLive with Hank Williams III and Psyopus
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Best Bets
Amy Sedaris reads from her latest book; The Melvins at Cat's Cradle; Broken Fader Cartel's Audible, Visible: A Night of Electronic Music and Art; Stacy Mitchell reads from Big Box Swindle
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
Fans of new music have a lot to savor this week.
- by Classical Voice of North Carolina
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Spotlight
The Prestige tries to make the point that it's better not to know the truths behind an illusion, and does so by making these truths weird and confusing.
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Spotlight
"I come from a family of storytellers," says Peter Case by phone, stealing a few minutes just before soundcheck in Hamilton, Ontario.
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OPINION: A Fan's View
James Moore Tatum, one of the premier college football coaches of his time, took a pay cut to return to his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. That, of course, made the signing even more of a coup.
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Spotlight
When you talk to Wayne "The Train" Hancock about his music, you'd better get it right.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Mondo Topless, Jimmy and the Teasers and Pulpit Red at The Cave; McCoy Tyner Trio at Duke University's Page Auditorium and more...
