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The Election Page
Voters in Wake, Orange and Chatham counties are electing members to a board most of them likely have never heard of.
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Food Feature
Fall is about over. I've vacuumed the car, purged the closets, dropped bags of pre-owned luxury items (junk) at Goodwill, and defrosted the freezer. My ducks are in a row.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Theater
Say that a group of survivors who have witnessed, the consequences of globalization and ethnic strife upon the rural regions of a distant country have been gathered together and flown to our land.
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Reading
Reading a Doug Marlette novel is rather like falling into an apperceptive dreamland, where everything is not merely recognizable but remembered, and every character is a doppelganger of someone you've known or seen.
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Arts Feature
The Sex Police are back in the Triangle! But, sadly, it's not the glorious 1990s funk/rock band but a morals brigade of a more literal kind, one with a willingness to entertain voices calling for state censorship.
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Visual Art
It has been only 30 years since the official end of China's Cultural Revolution, but in that short span, a generation of a new kind of soldier has emerged.
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Visual Art
Compare and contrast is the modus operandi of the Ackland Art Museum's Depth of Field: Expanding Perspectives in 20th Century and Contemporary Photography.
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Latin Beat
John Santos and his quintet rolled quietly into Duke's Nelson Music Room on Yom Kippur.
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Music Feature
Barry Poss is an unlikely curator of Americana. Poss was born in Brantford, Ontario, a small Canadian city where his exposure to roots music was, at best, limited.
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Music Feature
Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective is a classy package. The set comes in a tidy little box that resembles a dignified Whitman Sampler.
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Film Review
The U.S. vs John Lennon, a documentary by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, opened nationally a couple of months ago to reviews that seemed quick to nitpick over its supposed faults—suspiciously quick, I'm tempted to say.
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Slide Shows
The pride of Eau Claire settles in Raleigh, changes its approach and its name
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Wake County
It was only when the Environmental Quality storage facility exploded last month that many Apex residents discovered they were living near a dangerous place.
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News Feature
On the main residential campus of TROSA, where North Carolina's substance abusers go to turn their lives around, four felons and recovering addicts sit at the head of a 25-foot boardroom table and discuss their voting rights—or perceived lack thereof.
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Editorial
You know President Bush is pulling out all the stops when he warns that "the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses."
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Exile on Jones Street
Sometime soon, Gov. Mike Easley is expected to appoint Dan Blue, who was chosen by House District 33 Democrats to stand in for the late Bernard Allen, the man who took Blue's seat when the longtime Wake representative left office to run for U.S. Senate in 2002.
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Front Porch
On Nov. 7, 2000, I went to bed nauseous, despondent and jittery. On Nov. 8, I woke up feeling worse.
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Front Porch
Students of English as a foreign language are often overwhelmed by the semantic possibilities of the verb "to get."
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Bob Burtman
The invitation to attend a recent service at Durham's Liberty Baptist Church noted nothing special about the program beyond the plan to honor a group of judicial leaders for their work.
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Sudoku Solution
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Spotlight
Excepting the extreme D.I.Y. ethos, it's Dischord's slow and steady stylistic shifts that have kept things so interesting.
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Spotlight
The author of Cold Mountain and the new Thirteen Moons has two Triangle readings this week.
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Spotlight
The Derailers vocalist Brian Hofeldt once described his band's sound as a mix of Buck Owens and the Beatles. But, since cofounder and former vocalist Tony Villanueva left two years ago, the sound has changed slightly.
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Best Bets
A Nightlight weekender; Journalism hero Stetson Kennedy at Exploris; Thad Cockrell & more at The Pour House; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? at Manbites Dog; Carolina Outreach Foundation Benefit Concert; Watts-Hillandale 4th Annual Art Walk
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Spotlight
Rupert Murdoch, Smiling Tom, MySpace: Could it be that social networking Web sites are to blame for the state of modern hardcore?
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Spotlight
Barely five minutes into the conversation, Ladyhawk guitarist Darcy Hancock has buried himself deep into the inexhaustible topic: "So, what's your definition of Southern rock, then?"
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Spotlight
It's not going to happen. I've been trying for four days to get a few phone minutes with Susan Tedeschi as she and her band embark on a co-headlining tour with her husband, Allman Brothers member Derek Trucks, and his own blues-rocking Derek Trucks Band.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Rodney Crowell, Will Kimbrough, Minton Sparks, Elizabeth Cook at The ArtsCenter; Grayson Capps & Deke Dickerson at Hideaway BBQ, and more...
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
Thanksgiving's early this year, and November's always a busy month, so there's lots to do.
- by Classical Voice of North Carolina
