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Music Feature
Four years ago, it'd be pretty safe to say Andy Herod wasn't in a good spot.
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Latin Beat
Besides a taste for fine pork barbecue, Cuba and Carolina now have another thing in common: charanga.
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Music Briefs
Saturday night's benefit for the Save Darfur Coalition at Cat's Cradle was probably the best five dollars I'll spend all year.
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Summer Guide
Our writers explore the waterways near the Triangle. Plus, a survey of summer outdoor entertainment.
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Summer Guide
No rules. No lifeguard. No swimsuit. You'll want to keep the noise down since you don't know who's around and whether they'll want to run you off.
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Summer Guide
The thunderstorm began as soon as we reached our campsite.
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Summer Guide
Maybe because I tend toward all-or-nothing outdoor adventures with obvious death risks (my last camping trip was glacier-climbing in the Andes in March), I often overlook what's right here at home.
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Summer Guide
When Durham author and environmental advocate John Manuel decided to write a book about canoeing, he had a choice to make: write something that would be sold in bait shops, or write literature.
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Summer Guide
"Get rid of your TV." Eno River naturalist Dave Owen, better known as "Riverdave," explains that you have to make yourself accessible to the night to see its ornaments.
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Summer Guide
How can you survive the sweltering heat from the unforgiving North Carolina sun? What if you've got a few kids to entertain and no gear for boating, fishing or waterskiing? It is for you that water parks were invented.
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Summer Guide
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, from Saxapahaw to Smithfield, from dawn till dusk, there are outdoor events to enjoy this summer.
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Arts Feature
The hiatus is for repairs that will last until early August, with a reopening tentatively scheduled for August 3.
- by Zack Smith and Megan Stein
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Reading
All of the other service branches had allowed African Americans to serve in their ranks, except for the Marine Corps, America's oldest military branch.
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Theater
Manbites Dog Theater has been a mainstay of Durham and Triangle culture through many years of adventurous theater, but rarely has the company brought us a script as beautiful as Naomi Iizuka's At the Vanishing Point, which closes out the company's 20th season.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, June 1 through Thursday, June 7 except where noted.
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Film Review
Judd Apatow is about to become a ubiquitous name in film comedy.
- by Zack Smith, Neil Morris and Kathy Justice
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Q&A
On June 25, David Diaz will become the third director of the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, a city-supported organization with a budget of $900,000 and a charge of "building unique partnerships and collaborations with the public and private sectors to address issues facing downtown Raleigh."
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North Carolina
Back in January, we posited a "progressive prescription" for North Carolina's ills.
- by Bob Geary and Fiona Morgan
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The Count
3,464 U.S. troops killed
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North Carolina
Smithfield Foods tears a page from the Wal-Mart PR playbook with its recent TV ads touting the perks of working at the world's largest hog slaughterhouse.
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Front Porch
Pavlov's dogs salivated at the sound of a bell. My trigger: the tinny tunes cranked out by an ice cream truck.
- by Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
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We attorneys do indeed have a tendency to protect each other, as it is often only our colleagues who understand the pressure. —Betsy J. Wolfenden
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Editorial
Just when it seems like everything's going to hell in a handbasket (or, these days, south on a Segway), something comes up to give us hope.
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Living Green
After the rain come the weeds. If you feel overwhelmed, don't despair—and don't reach for the toxic chemicals.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
It's the season!
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Spotlight
"Come on. I'm 45 years old. I'm grown. People change."
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Zork Asks
Hey, how's the atmospheric pressure down there?
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Spotlight
Every summer for 24 years, 60 young people in Grades 4 through 8 gather at N.C. State University for the Young Writers' Workshop.
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8 Days a Week
Margaret Sartor
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Citizen
In the end, there were no caskets. We didn't need them. They were never the point anyway.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Millstock at Downtown Clayton; Gospel Jubilators at the Saxapahaw Music Series; West Memphis Three Benefit at Downtown Events Center; Thee More Shallows at Local 506; more
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Heroes & Zeros
In a show of political power, N.C. House Speaker Joe Hackney, an Orange County Democrat, tabled a bill that calls for a public vote to add a same-sex marriage ban to the state constitution.
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Spotlight
The return of Woody Sullender, a former Chapel Hill musician and label owner
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8 Days a Week
365 Plays/ 365 Days & The America Play; Chest Pains and Blag'ard
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8 Days a Week
Sage Francis & Buck 65; First Friday
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8 Days a Week
Animal Planet Expo; The Hackensaw Boys; Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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8 Days a Week
The Full Monty; The Cancer Chronicles
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8 Days a Week
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
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8 Days a Week
Charles Ridgway
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8 Days a Week
Melt Banana; Steven Wright
