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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Arts Feature
It is as though Saving Graces was written by an old friend, and when the book was finished, it was tough to close the cover for wanting to know what would come next.
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Theater
Some people keep dream diaries. Myself, I keep theater and dance reviews. They have more in common than you might at first think.
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Visual Art
Gewgaw: Merriam Webster defines the word as "a showy trifle." Photographer Krysta Einspanier likes to use the word as a synonym for bric-a-brac—her definition being "little things people collect that serve no purpose.
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Music Briefs
The Squirrel Nut Zippers will return to the road for four shows in February with The Old Ceremony in Baltimore, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and at the Cat's Cradle.
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The Year in Music
For four years, I've been fielding two consistent complaints about music in the Triangle. The first is that, aside from the regulars of local bars, no one cares about music in the Triangle, especially outside of the state. The second is that Triangle music—from jazz and rock to hip hop and country—suffers from a systemic lack of edge.
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Music Feature
Mack's of Garner is an old-fashioned TV and appliance shop that's called East Main Street home for more than 40 years.
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The Year in Music
The Triangle was responsible for more than 150 records this year, and we've compiled them all, or at least come close.
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The Year in Music
It's not difficult to imagine the last two years in Triangle music as some sort of conceivably interminable hump. It is difficult, though, to imagine (at least correctly) what's over the crest.
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The Year in Music
Our reviewers sum up the not-so-local scenes
- by Fred Mills, John Schacht and Grant Britt
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The Year in Music
We write about shows in advance a lot in hopes of offering some sort of guide to what the Triangle has to offer each week. Sometimes, we're wrong, and shows we vouched for are total busts.
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The Year in Music
It was a year of changes in booking, labels forming, bands breaking, bands starting and bands on the verge of something major. 2007 might look similar, but probably not.
- by Grayson Currin, Kathy Justice and Robbie Mackey
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Film Review
Mel Gibson, our leading purveyor (and practitioner) of Extreme History, is back with another paean to the ecstasy of agony.
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Film Beat
Art, miracles and other cons as seen through the eyes of nine groundbreaking Latin American filmmakers opens this Friday.
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North Carolina
You have to appreciate the serendipity: On the heels of Duke Energy's announcement that it will cost $3 billion—not $2 billion, as originally projected—to build its two proposed coal-fired power plants, the state is unveiling its renewable energy study
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Wake County
When Toby Parcel, the dean of NCSU's College of Humanities and Social Sciences, read that the conservative John William Pope Foundation and UNC-Chapel Hill were splitsville on that Pope-funded "western cultures curriculum" idea, and that Pope might give its money to "other universities" instead, she did what any fund-raising dean would do, right?
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North Carolina
The abandoned trailers on Lots 166 and 167 at Stony Brook North Mobile Home Park in Raleigh sit as still as empty locust shells.
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Front Porch
The recent stay in the execution of Guy LeGrande gave us anti-death-culture activists a sliver of hope, but the cruel injustice of the case should make all of Raleigh take a moment to think about how LeGrande's case reflects our people's treatment of the mentally ill.
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Front Porch
It was an unseasonably warm November Saturday night in Chapel Hill, and this was one of the motivating phrases knocking around my head as I tooled up and down Franklin Street driving a pedicab.
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Editorial
The scene has become a familiar one for me: The dark, somewhat dank insides of the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, band members on stage tuning and joking around, kids in the audience ready to rock.
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Front Porch
Bitter Moon. Peach Moon. Cold Moon. Long Night Moon. Twelfth Moon. Big Winter Moon. Moon When the Wolves Run Together.
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The Independent's readers—accustomed as we are to celebrating citizen activists—were let down by your indifferent review of Jean-Christian Rostagni's excellent Life on Mars, Part 1: A Photo-Critique of America, exhibit at Through This Lens gallery ("Freedom art," Nov. 22).
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Bob Burtman
By any objective standard, Duke University has been more than generous when it comes to funding the proposed performing arts center in downtown Durham.
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Exile on Jones Street
Touch-screen voting machines suck, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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First Person
My heart hurts. It aches for my nappy-headed compatriots.
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Sudoku Solution
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
Holiday offerings continue to dominate the calendar with at least seven seasonal choral programs this weekend alone, but it's Duke University's Ciompi Quartet that commands our attention.
- by Classical Voice of North Carolina
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Spotlight
Jacques Tati's comedies are divisive, not because they contain sex or violence (they don't), but because some viewers wonder what's supposed to be funny.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin and Can Joann at Local 506; Hackensaw Boys and Packway Handle Band at The Pour House; and more...
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Citizen
There's houses here, and houses there, and they want to stick a 24-hour Wal-Mart Supercenter right in the middle!
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Spotlight
Here's something you don't expect to hear often from a Creole cowboy at 7 a.m., moments before he heads out to his day job tending cattle on his ranch in Eunice, La.: "I'm not really a hip-hop dude at all."
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Best Bets
Hops for Hounds at AniMall; LatinBeat Film Festival at Galaxy; Nutcrackers and holiday performances; Traction's Festivus for the Left of Us; Kings' Great Cover-Up
