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Now Serving
Glasshalfull (in the former Trading Post space at 106 S. Greensboro St.) is downtown Carrboro's new wine bar, wine shop and kitchen
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Food Chain
There's a subtle punk-rock feel to Maximillians Grill in Cary. I know, Joey Ramone is turning over in his grave, but it's true.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
By almost all accounts, Full Frame's 10th anniversary was a smashing success.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
This year, the festival's programming discussions looked past the headaches of copyright law in conventional film distribution toward the wild frontier of video on the Web.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, April 20 through Thursday, April 26 except where noted.
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Film Review
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's follow-up to Shaun of the Dead is another hilarious demonstration of the Spaced troupe's neo-Pythonesque Brit wit.
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North Carolina
Pork barrel politics, as integral to lawmaking as blood is to sausage, took on new meaning last Thursday.
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National
Born less than a half a century after slavery was abolished, the 93-year-old Franklin has lived a good life, though he would—and does—say it this way: "I've made a good life for myself."
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Orange County
A member of Orange County's Animal Services Advisory Board is calling for the removal of a member of the subcommittee studying whether the county should limit or ban the practice of chaining dogs.
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National
When the Duke lacrosse case was over, the defendants thanked their families, who paid large legal bills, and wondered aloud: What happens if a prosecutor like Mike Nifong comes after you and you're not rich?
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a major culprit in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, ranking fourth in the nation in increases of global warming pollution from 1990-2004. That somber report, released last week by Environment North Carolina, underscores the importance of clean energy legislation winding through the state house—including a trip through a little-known working group whose meetings are largely a mystery.
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Editorial
The exchange of information—and the lack thereof—is a subplot throughout the news, and throughout our pages, this week.
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Suffering does not get any worse than if you are the one being slaughtered. —Beth Levine
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Living Green
Local citizens' groups and business owners will give presentations on organic agriculture, solar energy, biofuels, green building and water protection.
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Front Porch
I teach high school, so I'm used to students not following directions, whether by choice or by chance.
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Music Feature
The 8088 Collective allows any band to create a Web profile and post their music free of charge.
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Record Review
Chapel Hill five-piece *SONS doesn't try to hide the fact that they live for guitars.
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Music Briefs
Three Duke bands would square off against three UNC ones to find out who a couple of random dudes, working for a free burrito each, liked best. Our opinion would confer cash prizes and bragging rights to the winners.
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Arts Feature
Judging solely by the increased media attention, people are finally starting to confront the implications of a damaged planet.
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Theater
It's hard not to be fatalistic about the death penalty. Yes, that is a disgraceful pun. I only wish there were a lot less truth in it.
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Arts Feature
"Rather than banning Wikipedia, why not make studying what it does and does not do part of the research-and-methods portion of our courses?" Duke professor Cathy Davidson writes.
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Sudoku Solution
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There's something really awesome that's starting to happen in the Triangle. People all over are taking their art seriously, and the best part is that they're doing it together. We wanted to set up a show with all of our friends, so we asked a ton of people to play. We didn't expect them all to say yes, but since everyone is so rad, they did. It's going to be an amazing circus of a day, with music from all over the map.
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Giveaways
A pair of 4-day passes to the Spring event—April 19-22, 2007
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to the April 22 bout
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Spotlight
If there's a positive quality uniting the great-to-horrible expanse of Stephen Stills' collected songbook, it's probably that Stills—a Dallas-born Southern man who moved to New York after he dropped out of college—is as unapologetic as they come.
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Citizen
Thursday night, Congressman Brad Miller was at Pullen Baptist Church in Raleigh talking about Darfur.
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Currincy
Noise is, by its definition, a pejorative term.
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OPINION: Peter Eichenberger
My new obsession takes me far afield: cable ferries.
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MUSIC: Get Out
The Flaming Lips and Stardeath at Disco Rodeo; The Wigg Report, Beloved Binge and The Ex-Members at 305 South; more
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8 Days a Week
New Works Festival at Duke; "The Soul in the Machine" at NCSU
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Spotlight
McKibben's latest book, Deep Economy, is a challenge to one of the philosophical underpinnings of economic theory, namely, that more—more goods, more growth—is better.
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Heroes & Zeros
We received a nomination for Gary Kueber, a physician turned historical preservationist and urban planner, who is doing great things on his blog, Endangered Durham.
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Spotlight
"Hey, what do you say we go out in a hurricane, set up a tent, drink some Wild Turkey, and watch zydeco music 'til 2 in the morning?" asked Jambase's Paul Kerr to open his review of the inaugural Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival back in 2003.
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8 Days a Week
Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival begins; Richard Bacchus' new band
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Spotlight
Dante had nothing on Chapel Hill's Hell. Or at least he didn't have as much fun in the circles of his own Inferno.
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8 Days a Week
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; iO South Improv Invitational; dance events
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8 Days a Week
The Carolina Breakdown; Durham Earth Day
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8 Days a Week
Tarbox Ramblers; 18 to 81: Women's Voices United in Song
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8 Days a Week
Because We're Still Here (and Moving)
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8 Days a Week
Wolfmother; Dido and Aeneas
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8 Days a Week
Godzilla; High School: The Musical
