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Now Serving
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) at N.C. State is hosting "Farm-to-Fork: A Celebration of Local Foods and Local Farms" featuring Carlo Petrini, author and founder of Slow Food International
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Movie times are good from Friday, May 18 through Thursday, May 24 except where noted.
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Film Review
If many arthouse films nowadays seem destined to divide audiences into generational camps, the absorbing Canadian drama Away from Her has the welcome effect of bridging the age divide in several senses at once.
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The Count
3,401 U.S. troops killed
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Q&A
Faith in America has launched an advertising campaign to educate Americans about "the misuse of religious teachings to discriminate and isolate gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people."
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North Carolina
Duke Energy has unveiled an energy efficiency plan that, over four years, could generate 1,700 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to two large coal-fired power plants.
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North Carolina
The Neuse River is on this year's Top 10 Most Endangered Rivers list, compiled by the American Rivers Foundation.
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Orange County
Perhaps most crucial about the story of John G. McCormick, lawyer, husband, father, friend, and attorney for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system, is that it was entirely preventable.
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Living Green
Compressed wheat doors, bamboo countertops and recycled building materials on display.
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Front Porch
Goodbye, my Hard Driven Love.
- by Embley Veronica Noechel
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Gallery
With all that has happened to the Duke lacrosse program in the last year, Saturday was a time to accentuate the positive, which came in the form of a blowout 18-3 win over Providence.
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Once these places are lost to "the circling SUVs" and to the fantasy that big is better, no magic will bring them back. —John Luke
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Editorial
The North Carolina State Bar too often lets its members slide.
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Music Feature
The downtown Raleigh renaissance wasn't engineered with Eddie Taylor's anomalous demographic in mind.
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Record Review
Under the aegis of producer Zeno Gill, the North Elementary lineup that frontman John Harrison assembled for Berandals—the band's debut EP on Pox World Empire—is the best, most cohesive outfit yet in the band's revolving-door history.
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Music Briefs
For a moment, it felt like Raleigh had something special, something it had never had before, a place where artists of the outer stripes could finally intersect.
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Music Feature
The vibrations that intrigue Z'EV are the ones that everybody feels, the ones that have a distinct physical effect.
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Record Review
Like the sonically similar Wilco, Durham's Bull City melds the pop cognizance of Alex Chilton, the face-peeling passion of Neil Young and the empirical studio slight-handedness of Jim O'Rourke.
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Casual Observer
The kind of motivational speaker you prayed to materialize in your high school auditorium, Irvine Welsh wanders the tiny stage of Carrboro's Dirty South Improv (DSI) before a hormonal house of mostly 20-somethings who appear to be tweaking.
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Arts Feature
On May 20, Raleigh's independent arts community, still reeling from the closing of Kings Barcade, will be dealt another blow with the closing of the Bickett Gallery at Five Points—raising questions about what place will remain for the arts in this rapidly growing city.
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Lit Local
Guy lived and respects his generation's self-regarding struggle—in order to ferret out and approach the grief, it had to be exhaustively discussed and objectified—and his books are frank but ultimately clement records of it.
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On the Boards
Six black figures writhe their way off the ground. Their simple white masks are on the rear of their heads, giving the eerie illusion that their spines are bending backward.
- by Megan Stein and Kathy Justice
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
In 4 Easy Steps!
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Spotlight
Triangle Blues Society has organized the Chillin' on the Bayou Blues Revue, and the Blue Bayou Club gets every dime.
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Heroes & Zeros
CNN will make its presidential debate footage available to anyone who wants to air, edit or mash it up.
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Citizen
I haven't had the benefit of a law school education, so excuse me if I don't know why the words "Except for year-round schools ..." do not mean except for year-round schools.
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Zork Asks
Aren't you relieved to hear that the authorities in Durham said everything was actually done properly?
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8 Days a Week
Grease
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MUSIC: Get Out
Jon Dee Graham at Hideaway BBQ; Robert Earl Keen at Lincoln Theatre; Asylum Street Spankers at The ArtsCenter; The Nevers at Slim's; more
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Spotlight
Jennifer Herrema doesn't think too much about the expectations that inevitably follow RTX, the Royal Trux offshoot she formed four years ago without her former partner of 13 years, Neil Hagerty.
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8 Days a Week
Winslow Homer: Society and Solitude; Randy Whitt
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8 Days a Week
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth; Contra dancing
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8 Days a Week
Band Together benefit with Son Volt; Youth Noise Network benefit
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8 Days a Week
Artsplosure; Swap-o-Rama Rama
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8 Days a Week
Spider-Man 3 on IMAX
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8 Days a Week
Tony Deifell; Durham Chorale
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8 Days a Week
Backwoods Golden Gigantic
