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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 Beat
Much ink is spilled every year reciting the ills of Oscar, and much of the criticism is deserved.
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North Carolina
The first thing, the Rev. William Barber said, is "to say with consistency and clarity what the problems are that face our people."
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North Carolina
The furor over the death penalty continued last week with SB 89, introduced by state Sen. Ellie Kinnaird (D-Orange), which would form a 15-member legislative study committee to review North Carolina's lethal injection procedure.
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North Carolina
Three by gun, one by knife: Four women were murdered in domestic violence incidents in just the first two weeks of 2007. At that rate, the number of domestic violence homicides in the state this year will be the highest since 2004, when 81 people were killed, according to statistics compiled by the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
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North Carolina
House Speaker Joe Hackey gave out gavels this week to nine Triangle lawmakers who will chair or co-chair 11 House committees.
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Editorial
We held off accepting online comments for a while, fearful they'd become nasty and need constant monitoring. But that hasn't been the case.
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"Fundamentalists fight mandatory HPV vaccine" (Exile on Jones Street, Kirk Ross, Feb. 7) follows familiar logic: If "fundamentalists" oppose mandatory HPV vaccination, then mandatory HPV vaccination must be a good thing. If only it were that simple.
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Exile on Jones Street
Hey, guess what? Our lottery sucks and isn't bringing in nearly what's been promised all these years. Lottery officials promised to make it not suck soon by—I'm not making this up—holding a raffle.
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Front Porch
As they set about chatting us up, I finally looked at the couple and realized these folks were homeless.
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Record Review
There's a tremendous amount of conflict at the core of David Karsten Daniels' Fat Cat Records debut, Sharp Teeth.
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Music Briefs
That's the question that's been on the minds of a few thousand Raleigh residents since the middle of last week, when word began to spread that Kings—the epicenter of the Raleigh music scene—would be ending its seven-year run downtown in April.
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Music Feature
Raleigh's Old Hat Records is headquartered in a refurbished blacksmith shop that dates back to the 1920s, an ideal spot for the musical rescue and restoration work from that era that label founder Marshall Wyatt performs.
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Music Feature
This house is cold, and there's only one space heater in this room. It's angled between a keyboard stand and a drum set, sitting a foot from the corner of a mattress on the floor.
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Music Feature
We reach back into the Bu Hanan catalogue
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Fashion
This spring, many designers are blending romantic elegance with a historical reference to all things David Bowie and Adam Ant.
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Reading
The next time you feel tongue-tied, pick up Robert Alden Rubin's Love Poetry Out Loud—a fresh collection of 100 love poems from two years ago to 10 centuries ago.
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Theater
The sharpness in director Deb Royals' voice on the telephone call from North Carolina conveys the stress she's under at the moment.
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Sudoku Solution
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Citizen
About this time in the last presidential campaign cycle, a year before the '04 Iowa cau-cuses and New Hampshire primary, I remember hearing then-U.S. Sen. John Edwards speak in Raleigh—and con-cluding that his candidacy was issue-free.
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OPINION: Peter Eichenberger
Today in North Carolina, Google gets $260 million in tax breaks and mental care gets $90 million a year, or $50.43 per person. Get out of your car and look. The results live in the street.
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Best Bets
The Great Game and Two Trains Running; The Light in the Piazza; Celtic Concert Series; Two benefits at Cat's Cradle; Half-Cocked; Project Linus
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Wine Beat
These are the best wines in the world, just as true believers proclaim Eastern Carolina barbecue the best pork in the world, and true Russian vodka without competition.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Scott Miller at Hideaway BBQ; Randy Whitt and Lactose Quervo at The Cave; Kevin Devine and Jennifer O'Connor at Local 506; more...
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Spotlight
Peter Holsapple is responsible for the best power pop song ever to come out of North Carolina.
