• Issue Archive for
  • Jun 27 - Jul 4, 2007
  • Vol. 24, No. 26

Food

  • J. Betski's
  • J. Betski's

    Owner and proprietor John Korzekwinski has performed a significant feat here: He's turned the small corner of one of Seaboard Station's renovated warehouses into an Old World mead hall.

Special Issues

  • Rachel: Totally trans
  • Rachel: Totally trans

    Today, at 43, Rachel is the picture of a smart career woman in every respect, albeit the chromosomes will never change.
  • Anderson Wiltshire: On his way
  • Anderson Wiltshire: On his way

    "I'm only adopting male mannerisms insofar as I have to to pass," Wiltshire says. "I have no desire to become this macho, joking, frat-boy type."
  • Karli Rabe: Label jars, not people
  • Karli Rabe: Label jars, not people

    The crux is to be self-confident, she says, because people will accept you if they sense that you accept yourself. Most of them, anyway.
  • Is transgender pain a disorder—or a symptom?

    Reforming "Gender Identity Disorder," the description in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association, remains a debatable issue in the trans community, but the consensus has shifted in recent years.

Film

  • Michael Moore's <i>Sicko</i>
  • Michael Moore's Sicko

    If any movie ever seemed capable of starting a revolution, Michael Moore's Sicko is that film.
  • The tasty morsels of <i>Ratatouille</i>
  • The tasty morsels of Ratatouille

    Assuming the directorial reigns from story creator Jan Pinkava, Brad Bird firmly ensconces himself as Hollywood's animated film laureate.

News

  • Buckhorn flea market fights closure
  • Buckhorn flea market fights closure

    To its patrons and vendors, who are predominantly Hispanic, the Buckhorn Flea Market in Efland provides an opportunity to buy and sell goods and groceries from handmade cowboy boots to homegrown tomatoes.
  • Google fights for muni broadband
  • Google fights for muni broadband

    Google's state policy counsel John Burchett emphasized the company's support for public-private partnerships to deploy technology for economic development.
  • Committee passes energy bill

    Environment North Carolina and the N.C. Public Interest Research Group told the Senate committee last week that the bill contains too many provisions favoring the utilities.

Columns

  • Letters to the Editor

    With so many Ace Hardware stores around, one of them is bound to be close to your McHouse. —Casey Robertson
  • Artistic turn

    There's a shift developing in the Triangle's discussion of the vital role artists and the arts play in the community, and it's about time.
  • Cut the carbon
  • Cut the carbon

    Unless you plan to bike across the Western Hemisphere or swim to Europe or Asia, you'll likely burn fossil fuels on your summer vacation.
  • Raleigh parish mobilizes for immigration policy
  • Raleigh parish mobilizes for immigration policy

    Anti-immigrant sentiment may be rising, but at Raleigh's Catholic Community of St. Francis of Assisi Parish, support for a compassionate immigration policy has left the pews and entered the halls of government.

Music

  • The Ex-Members
  • The Ex-Members

    Sure, there will be more pop jams this summer, but you could throw the Exes up against the lot of 'em all.
  • Barghest
  • Barghest

    Much like that of jazz in the '40s and '50s, collaboration in current experimental music circles translates into peculiar auto-currency.
  • Busy days

    This weekend comprised one of the most remarkable runs local bands are going to register all year

Arts

  • New this week: <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i>; <i>Dinner with Friends</i>
  • New this week: A Streetcar Named Desire; Dinner with Friends

    Which is more absurd, I wonder: Reframing Tennessee Williams' classic as a cross between an inverse Pleasantville and the lurid zombie movie oeuvre? Or placing the mottled concoction square in the middle of Little Green Pig's "German Season"?

Diversions

  • Club Talk

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • ... about Dole's opponent
  • ... about Dole's opponent

    You said Brad Miller was going to run against Elizabeth Dole and he's not. What now?
  • Music worth leaving the house for
  • Music worth leaving the house for

    The Disco Biscuits and Umphrey's McGee at The Lincoln Theatre; The Cadillac Stepbacks at Carolina Inn; As-Is Ensemble and Chris Boerner Quartet at Downtown Event Center; more
  • Palomar
  • Palomar

    Palomar is doing whatever necessary to bypass the live doldrums of indie-pop.
  • S.I.N. Music Group
  • S.I.N. Music Group

    L.E.G.A.C.Y. is a rapper who likes Jim Morrison. He wears studded leather belts in front of sold-out hip-hop crowds. He calls himself a rock star.
  • Thursday, June 28

    The Muse Festival: Assembly!; Chapel Hill Slam Poetry Team
  • Friday, June 29
  • Friday, June 29

    The Loners at Slim's; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago at ADF
  • Saturday, June 30
  • Saturday, June 30

    Southern Culture on the Skids and Talladega Nights; AV Geeks' The Modern Housewife
  • Sunday, July 1
  • Sunday, July 1

    Dinner with Friends; Swing & ballroom dancing
  • Tuesday, July 3
  • Tuesday, July 3

    Tres Chicas at Hideaway BBQ; Weesefest at The Pour House

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