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Music Briefs
Raleigh's venue woes continue: Nine days before the capital city's music mainstay, Kings Barcade, closes its doors, Bickett Gallery announced Friday it will be ending its five-year run in Five Points on May 20.
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Music Feature
At their two-guitar, double-drummer peak, The Cherry Valence could remind even the most jaded why live rock 'n' roll can't be beat.
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Record Review
Digital revolution be damned, there's no use listening to Bazaar Bazaar, the debut from Birds of Avalon, on your computer: That is, unless your hard drive is hooked up to some big, wood-grain cabinet speakers.
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Music Feature
Kings opened July 7, 1999. On April 7, 2007, they'll throw their last night-time rock show with plenty of rock.
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Reading
For Michael Ryan, Wednesday, April 4, is a big day. The Fuquay-Varina resident, who's been illustrating comics professionally for a decade, is poised to get his biggest book yet with Runaways #25, which comes out from Marvel today.
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Arts Feature
Fans of the Durham Bulls would probably rather forget 2006. Not only did the team limp to a 64-78 record, it was plagued by the embarrassingly public peccadilloes of the Bulls' three biggest stars, Elijah Dukes, B. J. Upton and Delmon Young.
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Visual Art
When Harrison Haynes returned to North Carolina after living in New York City, ubiquitous elements such as kudzu and corroded cars began to creep into his art.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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$20 Dinners
When Chef Tom Havrish isn't cooking up a storm of savory small plates and entrées at The Grape at Cameron Village in Raleigh, he's working in his home music studio, writing songs and mixing sound.
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Film Review
To the news that Lasse Hallström's The Hoax dramatizes the famous scandal associated with the name Clifford Irving, many prospective viewers are bound to respond, "Clifford who?"
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calendar
Our film calendar with times, special showings and brief reviews!
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North Carolina
For many years, the Governor's Advocacy Council on Persons With Disabilities has lacked the independence necessary to protect North Carolina's most vulnerable citizens.
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Q&A
Matthew Potter is a junior in political science and a student senator at N.C. State University. He is also president of the NCSU chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
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Durham County
Durham County Superior Court is a solemn and gloomy place, where people alleged to be society's most serious offenders are tried for egregious crimes.
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News Feature
When a farmer raises pigs for market, bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. A gargantuan hog costs more to slaughter, and the carcass is hard to manage on the assembly line.
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Durham County
The passing of state Sen. Jeanne Lucas last month left her seat vacant.
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News Feature
When 10 million hogs poop—and they poop a lot (four times the human rate)—where does it go?
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News Feature
That the world's largest hog processing plant is located in the tiny Bladen County town of Tar Heel, 80 miles southeast of Raleigh, is not by accident.
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News Feature
Bundy Lane's family has farmed for several generations, raising hogs and cattle near Gates, a small town in northeastern North Carolina not far from the Great Dismal Swamp.
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News Feature
Past the rusted remains of a gas station, past the granite headstones in the Stancil Cemetery, past the freshly tilled cotton fields near Saratoga in Wilson County, former hog farmer Don Webb drives his battered Ford pickup truck to a ditch and stops.
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Front Porch
Frau Jung was our landlady and downstairs neighbor during the several months in 2001 that we lived in Germany.
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Editorial
We're supposed to get all excited about these big-ticket projects that are going to bring back our cities' downtowns—the $221 million (and rising) convention center in Raleigh and the $44 million performing arts center in Durham (it's too soon to start calculating the cost overruns yet).
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Living Green
Hot water is expensive, accounting for 13 percent of home energy usage.
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The Independent article entitled "Great expectations" (March 7, 2007) was enlightening. However, the thorough discussion of the plight of autistic or in other ways "special" children prompts several observations.
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Religious Left
When he was installed as bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh last year, Catholic progressives wondered what kind of ally they might have in Bishop Michael Burbidge.
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
A pair of 4-day passes to the nationally renowned film festival—April 12-15, 2007!
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8 Days a Week
The Color of Olives; Casablanca
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Spotlight
The sad state of the record industry usually comes with talk of pop superstars and the difference between going gold instead of platinum.
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Spotlight
Peeping Tom has been billed as the closest Mike Patton has come to making pop music since he was a teenager singing "Epic" in Faith No More.
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Spotlight
If Hunter MacDermut has to be put under a microscope, he'd rather it be beneath warm stage lights, not the bright fluorescence of this frighteningly clean kitchen.
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Spotlight
People have heard the legends that Pilot Mountain has the footprints of Noah somewhere on its peak, and that Daniel Boone used the mountain's distinctive knob as a landmark.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Kid Koala at the Arts Center; Gregg K, Beloved Binge and The Gates of Beauty at the Cave; more
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Heroes & Zeros
The Rev. William Barber III, president of the N.C. State Chapter of the NAACP, continues to be one of the most effective grassroots leaders in the state.
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Zork Asks
We've tweaked our radio frequencies, per your suggestion. So that new ad by the N.C. Association of Realtors is coming through loud and clear—the one about "Stop the Home Tax."
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8 Days a Week
The Drawer Boy; The Tempest
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8 Days a Week
Grindhouse; First Friday
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8 Days a Week
Kickin' Grass; "World of Wheels"; Doggie Easter Egg Hunt
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8 Days a Week
Renaissance Faire; Antibalas; Easter Sunrise Service
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8 Days a Week
Daniel Tosh
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8 Days a Week
Fazal Sheikh; My Country, My Country
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8 Days a Week
Nicholas Kristof; Lacuna Coil, Shadows Fall
