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Music Briefs
The numbers are in, and staffers at N.C. State's student-run radio station, WKNC 88.1, estimate that they raised $1,500 for the station at last weekend's fourth annual Double Barrel Benefit.
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Music Feature
In April 2005, Charles Latham made a trip to New York. That's something folks do all the time. But Latham just didn't just go to New York. He made a pilgrimage.
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Record Review
Social Memory Complex's battle is upHill. That is, their existence is a reflection of what it means to be making rap music in a predominantly indie rock town, a town like Chapel Hill.
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Dish
They don't even remember when it started, but at some point, it became a spreadsheet.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's 10th anniversary is still two months away, but it is not too early to begin reliving its past glory.
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Dish
While a savory meal of fennel, turnip and pistachio may not have been the first Valentine's menu to pop into your mind, it's one with centuries of history behind it.
Plus: Chocolate: A kiss isn't enough anymore
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Arts Feature
For many, mention of the word "improv" brings to mind Who's Line Is It, Anyway?, Drew Carey's long-running yukfest on ABC, which has been practically the sole representative of the art form in the mainstream media.
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Visual Art
The most exciting art exhibit currently on display in downtown Durham is to be found at Branch Gallery.
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Theater
In 1998, Chapel Hill novelist Elizabeth Spencer was facing a tough decision: Who would she allow to adapt her novella The Light in the Piazza into a musical?
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Beat
Rumors were rampant at the Sundance Film Festival on the night of the Hounddog premiere.
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calendar
A city-by-city list of movie times this week, with brief reviews of what's playing on silver screens around the Triangle
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Film Review
Peter O'Toole has campaigned mightily for an Oscar win for Venus, and why shouldn't he?
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North Carolina
Rick Eddins visited a man in prison just to watch him die. "I didn't shed a tear," the former state legislator told his colleagues on the House Select Committee on Capital Punishment.
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Neither UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser nor UNC Health Care CEO William Roper actually addressed any of the substantive issues your Jan. 17 piece, "UNC Inc.," raised ("In response," Jan. 31).
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Exile on Jones Street
North Carolina is considering adding several more vaccinations to the list of what the state will pay for to inoculate poor and indigent children.
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Editorial
Once again, the ethical contortions inherent in the death penalty are on display as all three branches of state government wrestle with contradictions that simply can't be resolved.
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Front Porch
Imagine there's a man who's lived in your community 30 years and has been a plumber, farmer, teacher, father, husband and homebuilder.
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Front Porch
On a cold, dark, windy, winter night, a man stops at an unfamiliar convenience store for a tank of gas. Maybe he could've waited until daylight, maybe not.
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to the 7th annual Dirty South Improv Festival in Carrboro
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MUSIC: Get Out
Hi-Fi Sky, Jeffrey Dean Foster and Lynn Blakey at Local 506; Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Old Ceremony at Cat's Cradle, more...
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Best Bets
Dance Brazil; Dave Rawlings Machine; Hobex; Valentine's Day Jazz Festival at Hayti; Have-a-Heart for Independent Animal Rescue; Our Town
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Citizen
Of late, I've been catching up on episodes of Lost. But not ABC's saga of crash survivors on a strange island.
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Spotlight
Deerhoof doesn't sound much like any other band you'll hear. Crunchy, mercurial guitar lines bob, weave, clank and chime, prog-rock fashion in tight jeans.
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Spotlight
Since settling in North Carolina seven years ago, photographer David Simonton has documented the rustic byways and abandoned spaces of a steadily suburbanizing state.
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Spotlight
Singer Frankie Alexander has been preaching the jazz gospel in and around Durham for more than a quarter-century.
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Spotlight
The Deep South drink houses and juke joints that once emanated the raw blues are all but dead.
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Spotlight
At the dawn of the '70s, Marvin Gaye looked at the hardship and despair in his Detroit and asked a direct question, poignant in its simplicity: "What's going on?"
