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Music Feature
When the muse is elusive, the artist has to be mobile, like a moth chasing down a flash of light.
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Music Feature
When Jason Fagg first played a church with his acoustic duo The Water Callers, he says he feared he would "burst into flames."
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Live Review
Last Friday at UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall, pianist Peter Serkin brought memory and the past into the present to thread together works ranging from the 15th to the 21st century.
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Music Briefs
This will mark the sixth consecutive year that Jon Shain (Flyin' Mice, WAKE, Jon Shain Trio) has hosted the Pre-Turkey Day Jam and invited some other home-standing musicians to join him in spreading Thanksgiving Eve joy while benefiting Raleigh's Helping Hand Mission.
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Arts Feature
It wasn't just that the November temperatures in Wilmington were in the 80s—although they were—and that this seaside town's charms include careworn Queen Anne houses and spectral Spanish moss that adorn the dimly lit streets—although they're there.
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Theater
Mental note for future touring shows: When a production's playbill says "New Casting in Major Roles," is it a boast—or a disclaimer?
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Food Chain
I loved treasure hunts as a child. It wasn't even reaching the final treasure that was the thrill, it was savoring each step of the way.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Review
By happy happenstance, I encountered Casino Royale, the new—and sensationally successful—James Bond film on Election Day...
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Chatham County
The controversy over district voting fractured Chatham County by ideology and geography, politics and race.
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Orange County
The UNC Board of Governors last week approved its first budget request drafted under President Erskine Bowles.
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News Feature
Try as we might to live in the present, few of us avoid looking ahead to the upcoming weekend, our next vacation, or the end of an odious election campaign mounted by Vernon Robinson.
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Wake County
If you listened closely last week in Raleigh, you could hear them pounding the last nails into the coffin of the conservative movement that controlled and confused Wake County politics for the last 12 years.
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Orange County
"Can we offer you a Democratic ballot?" asked a party volunteer who was marinating in the rain outside a Carrboro polling place.
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Front Porch
Standing in front of a classroom at the UNC Law School was a short man in a Bob Marley T-shirt.
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Front Porch
"He can't come to the phone right now. He's grading the driveway." I never should have opened that e-mail.
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Exile on Jones Street
At 20,000 feet, the level at which the national media generally view us, the political landscape of North Carolina has shifted ever so slightly in the form of Heath Shuler's win over Charles Taylor and the turnover of one congressional seat.
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Thanks for a great article ("Denied the vote," by Mosi Secret, Nov. 1).
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Editorial
Alison Aucoin hated that phrase the first time she heard it. "It sounded like Mr. Rogers does emergency management," she says.
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Sudoku Solution
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By Paul Friedrich
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During the e-mail exchange with Brandon Herndon, vocalist and guitarist for Twilighter, we played a prediction game of sorts—a chancy proposition, perhaps, with a band that's as unpredictable as this Chapel Hill five-piece.
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to the Carolina Rollergirls bout vs. Providence Roller Derby
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to ZigZagLive with The Twilight Singers featuring Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, The Stars of Track and Field, Jeff Klein
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to see Dashboard Confessional with Brand New
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
Given the competing events this week, listeners could suffer overload before Thanksgiving.
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Best Bets
Theater performances at UNC-CH; Bickett Gallery to honor Johnny Cash exibit and legacy; John Zorn at Duke's Page Auditorium; Wake County Public Library Book Sale; Raleigh Christmas Parade; Museum of Life & Science Table Top Kapla Block Contest
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Spotlight
Material girls and boys may recall that Madonna adopted the moniker of Dita Parlo for her 1992 picture book Sex, and the title song on the accompanying Erotica album is sung in the voice of a character named Dita.
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Citizen
All eyes in Raleigh are on Dix Hill, our topic a week ago, and the question of how much of it to save as a great urban park.
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Spotlight
Meet the woman who left-wing polemicist Alexander Cockburn called "the only Democrat I've seen in recent times to display any of the qualities one might hope for in a Democratic presidential nominee."
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Spotlight
"There are a thousand different ways to sound sinister," Joanna Newsom confides.
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Spotlight
If Leicester, England's Volcano the Bear were called anything less pyro-power oriented, verbs like raze, splinter and consume would apply.
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Spotlight
"You used to love me/ A drunkard running wild in the streets/ C'mon baby, what else would you have me be?"
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OPINION: Peter Eichenberger
What do I make of this "dramatic" polar shift of the politik? I remain expectant and hopeful. But as any differences in the "parties" are incremental, illusory and contextual, I remain realistic, tempered. We'll see.
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Spotlight
When Joe Chambers walks on stage for N.C. Central's Fall Concert series this Friday, the trailblazing drummer will notch another scheduling coup for the program.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Zach Galifiankis at Explorers Club and Cat's Cradle; Racel Ries and Anais Mitchell at The Cave; IV Thieves at Local 506 and more...
