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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Marking its 10th anniversary, the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is more than a diamond in the rough.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
David Allan Coe isn't a racist. At least that's what he says.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
On the telephone from his office in Boston, Ross McElwee sounds excited about being able to attend next week's Full Frame.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
In Banished, the Brown family exhumes their great-grandfather's remains from a cemetery in the all-white town of Pierce City, Mo.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Full Frame documentary capsule reviews
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Film Review
Given that it runs three hours and 11 minutes and comprises two feature-length movies along with an assortment of bogus trailers, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse might be called a cinematic Double Whopper with Cheese, oozing grease, ketchup and a dare to find a better bargain anywhere at the multiplex.
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calendar
Our film calendar with times, special showings and brief reviews.
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North Carolina
After four rounds of voting Monday night, Durham County Democratic Party Chairman Floyd McKissick Jr. won the election for the state senate seat that opened up when Jeanne Lucas died last month.
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Orange County
Alane Koki has a long history of breeding pit bulls in other states and is associated with local kennel owner Tom Garner, a nationally known breeder of pit bulls and a convicted dog fighter.
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Q&A
Interact is a nonprofit that provides services at no cost to victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Wake County.
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Thank you for your in-depth coverage of the human and environmental costs of corporate agriculture as practiced by the American industrial agribusiness complex ("Big pig," by Bob Geary and Lisa Sorg, cover story, April 4).
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Editorial
We're excited that the works of two of our staff artists will be on display this week at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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Living Green
Conserve water now before area lakes and rivers turn to dust.
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Front Porch
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Music Feature
Saturday night, I watched someone try to put a beer bottle inside a trashcan at Kings. As it came to rest, it started sliding again, pushing a dozen other bottles and cans to the floor with it.
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Music Feature
On one tip of Durham's Little Five Points section, sandwiched between a tattoo parlor, churches and storefronts that include a fire hydrant shop, local musicians and activists are trying to seize a moment.
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Music Feature
With Kings and Bickett gone and going, and the stream of new venues opening, we decided to check in to see how some of the Triangle's live music venues are faring.
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Theater
Two creatures sweat in the low light as they desperately wrestle for supremacy. Wordless grunts and cries punctuate the silence of their battle. The advantage changes, and changes again.
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Fashion
Paperhand Puppet Intervention provides a refuge for those, like me, who have long appreciated style but have become more concerned with the intertwined relationship between couture and commerce, and its frequently harmful effects.
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Reading
It's tempting, with Algonquin's posthumous publication, to glamorize Larry Brown. He was beloved of rock musicians and died young like one; and, at least geographically and dipsomaniacally, he was the literary heir of William Faulkner.
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Sudoku Solution
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MUSIC: Get Out
Bibis Ellison, Alina Simone and Secondhand Stories at The Reservoir; King Wilkie at Hideaway BBQ; WUAG CD release party with The Never, Emperor X and Embarrassing Fruits at Local 506; more
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Citizen
There's an arc to the history of meatpacking in America.
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Spotlight
OK, local music trivia time: Which Chapel Hill band contained two members who worked stints in the cafeteria at UNC-Chapel Hill dormitory Granville Towers in the early '90s?
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Wine Beat
In 1987, exceptional Bordeaux reds from the 1950s were available for purchase at what today can only be called insane prices.
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8 Days a Week
The Battle of Algiers; Playmakers Rep's The Illusion
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Spotlight
In a new film from Turkey called Climates, a couple seems exhausted from the opening frames: We see the face of an attractive—but not glamorous—young woman in a tight close-up.
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Zork Asks
Your presidential election process is very confusing to us.
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Spotlight
What became of Generation X? Don't remember? You must be one of them.
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Heroes & Zeros
On April 3, members of the state House voted unanimously to require state Treasurer Richard Moore to divest the state's pension and retirement funds of investments in companies that do business with the Sudanese government.
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Spotlight
When The Grass Cats formed in the late '90s, they never dreamed of competing for attention with people like Sam Bush. But, 10 years later, that's just where the band stands.
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8 Days a Week
The Pillowman at Manbites Dog; Joan Didion; Kaze and the Urban Renaissance Tour
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8 Days a Week
La Boheme; The Bleeding Hearts
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8 Days a Week
The Wild Horses of Shackleford Banks; Transactors Improv Co.; Charlotte Music Awards Urban Showcase
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8 Days a Week
Temples and Tombs at NCMA; Phonograph; Turkish Food Festival
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8 Days a Week
Roger Hoover & The Whiskeyhounds
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8 Days a Week
Art of Sampling; T.S. Eliot's The Four Quartets
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8 Days a Week
Piebald, MC Chris; author Jay McInerney
