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Music Briefs
PHS have just released Fugitive Glue, the first of three limited-edition EPs they plan to unveil by Christmas through their own Pants on Fire imprint.
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Music Feature
Scott Williams, Justin Gray and Kevin Collins—three-fourths of Raleigh's Double Negative—and Cross Laws guitarist and Sorry State Records owner Daniel Lupton met at my apartment Sunday last week.
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Record Review
The Wonderful and Frightening World of Double Negative is like a mangled eight-armed beast buried in the dust of a cartoon brawl.
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Record Review
Cross Laws self-released its first 7-inch, 45rpm record March 20. By March 22, it was sold out.
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Music Feature
A yowl from Kelly Reid, WKNC's music director, punches the air: "Raleigh, are you ready to rock?" she screams, standing center stage inside Tir Na Nog, the cavernous Irish-style pub that's become a Moore Square staple.
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Dance
At least 16 works will be revisited during the next seven weeks (in addition to nine U.S. and four world premieres) as the ADF begins a two-year celebration of 30 years in North Carolina.
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Theater
For those unfamiliar with the term, "historicity" isn't some easy synonym or corruption of the word "history"; not "truthiness" set a century or so back. It's the concept that our notion of history itself is built on at least one quite vulnerable principle.
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Visual Art
There is a Kabalistic notion that at the moment of one's death, all one's days come together at the locus of the soul.
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Arts Feature
With the arrival of the Carolina RailHawks, the latest expansion franchise in the USL-1 league, the Triangle now has a team that is professional soccer's equivalent of the AAA Durham Bulls baseball club.
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On the Boards
The Full Monty is full of the locker-room humor, dirty dance moves and nudity that fueled the film, and in that brassy realm the play is a major success.
- by Kathy Justice and Kate Dobbs Ariail
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Dance
The rundown on this ADF season's artists
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Now Serving
Think your kid could use some table manners?
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Film Beat
Entering the sophomore year of its phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the erstwhile North Carolina Jewish Film Festival, the Triangle Jewish Film Festival has high cause for optimism.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, June 8 through Thursday, June 14 except where noted.
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Q&A
McGee—advocacy director and lobbyist for El Pueblo, a statewide, Raleigh-based group supporting Latinos—says the Latino community is also conflicted about the immigration reform bill.
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Wake County
Toby Parcel, dean of NCSU's CHASS, says a proposal to the conservative John W. Pope Foundation asked for $1,885,000 over five years, posted anonymously to a blog, is the real thing.
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North Carolina
The state legislature is considering a bill that would severely restrict the ability of local governments to provide broadband Internet access.
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The Count
3,495 U.S. troops killed
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Front Porch
Mid-May, beautiful weather, and it's my second week back in Durham, home from college. It's amazing how much you change—and forget—in four years.
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Editorial
This started with a simple question: Why should I pay the City of Durham $51.48 a year to pick up my trash, recycling and yard waste—as proposed by the city's garbage honchos—when I'm already paying property taxes?
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I am incredulous that Stern and the Independent presented this article as "investigative" reporting. —Shannon Julian
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Living Green
Will those high-rise condos in downtown Raleigh offer a view of the beach by 2050?
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Cool off Spanish Style!
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Giveaways
A pair of tickets to the Carolina Rollergirls vs. Dominion Derby Girls bout—Saturday, June 9 at historic Dorton Arena
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Spotlight
Comprised of 18 petites romances de quartiers (little neighborhood romances), Paris, Je T'Aime employs a dazzling international array of writers, directors and actors that reflects the diversity of modern France.
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8 Days a Week
Blithe Spirit; The Nothing Noise
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Currincy
Listening consecutively to the first two albums from Brooklyn rapper El-P is a marathon: 27 tracks, two hours, 100 notable rhythmic shifts, enough words to line a meaty libretto.
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Citizen
There is a big difference between ending the occupation in Iraq and saying you want to end it when, in fact, you don't.
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Heroes & Zeros
Following through on the voters' mandate last fall, the Chatham County Commissioners unanimously agreed to stop most residential development in the county.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Triangle Reggae Splash at Lincoln Theatre; Legendary Shack*Shakers at Local 506; Uncle Earl at Hideaway BBQ; more
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Spotlight
Will Allison's new novel traces the story of a broken family who succumb to personal weaknesses that inhibit them from reuniting, despite their intentions.
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8 Days a Week
Carolina Chocolate Drops; Comedian Josh Blue
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8 Days a Week
Lavendar Diamond, Entrance; Global Playground
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8 Days a Week
The Fucking Champs, Birds of Avalon; Raleigh Ringers; N.C. Symphony
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8 Days a Week
Dance Day; Long Leaf Opera Under the Stars
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8 Days a Week
Rebecca Stott; Attack of the 50 Foot Reels
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8 Days a Week
African American Dance Ensemble; The Stills
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8 Days a Week
Los Straitjackets, Big Sandy
