- Issue Archive for
- Apr 25 - May 2, 2007
- Vol. 24, No. 17
Food
New restaurants and happenings
California-based Zen priest, chef, author and yogi Edward Espe Brown will be in Durham this week.
Special Issues
2007 Poetry Issue
Although the material rewards are few—ask Emily Dickinson in the Great Coffeehouse in the Sky how much she earned for her labors—humans from the earliest dawnings of language have sought to make art with words.
Film
Year of the Dog and Avenue Montaigne
There's no feeling like wanting to like a film and not being able to.
Film times & brief film reviews
Movie times are good from Friday, April 27 through Thursday, May 3 except where noted.
News
Kristin Goss
Kristin Goss, professor of political science and public policy at Duke University and author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America, speaks about the issue of gun control in light of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech.
Orange dog panel member quits
A member of Orange County's committee on dog tethering has resigned in the wake of an Indy investigation questioning her residency and her ties to dog fighting.
MEAC: high costs, low turnout
Although the steering committee—more than 20 city, county and business leaders—emphasize the tournament's positive aspects, committee documents show some members are concerned about fund-raising and commitment from the conference.
Columns
A is for arroz
The second-class bus station outside of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico was nothing spectacular: two rows of plastic chairs back to back, a droning TV and a ticket window.
Get reel
Gas-powered mowers emit enough pollution that the EPA is proposing they be equipped with catalytic converters.
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Letters to the Editor
"We the patrons will come ... if you have what we want." —Melissa Thomas
No escape
We are all so ready to put the lacrosse tragedy behind us.
Music
The Rosebuds' Night of the Furies
(Merge Records)
The Rosebuds locks itself at home and emerges with its most extroverted album yet
It's a classic: Dad makes Mom mad. Mom kills Dad. Mom remarries. Son kills Mom and avenges Dad. Son is haunted. Oh, the Greeks and their tragedies.
The Comas
You may remember The Comas as the slightly wobbly, late '90s Chapel Hill band that surrounded stolen alt.country structures and sounds with Pavement-swiped instability.
Snatches of Pink
In an explicit chat room, Michael Rank gets raw on the new Snatches of Pink album.
Arts
Michael Chitwood's poetry of Southern realism and universal mortality
Tar Heel poet Michael Chitwood's subjects are sown in the South, but we can find these people and places anywhere in small-town America.
Bodies ... The Exhibition
Bodies ... The Exhibition has arrived in the Triangle at, of all places, The Streets at Southpoint.
The artist as criminal in The Pillowman; The Parent Project says "Phone home"
Granted: Katurian, the author character at the center of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, freely plays the toady to a couple of apparatchik goons in some totalitarian country's version of homeland security.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Poona the F-Dog; The Illusion
Reviews of three plays showing now
Diversions
Free Stuff & Promos
Lake Eden Arts Festival
A pair of tickets to the Saturday session of the three-day LEAF Spring 2007 in Black Mountain, NC
