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$20 Dinners
Not only did Chef Phil Evans, while a youngster, help his family grow enough backyard vegetables to feed its four members, he also learned to cook them at his mother's knee.
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Now Serving
Vote for Durham in Food & Wine's contest
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Film Review
Look—this is a two-hour and 20-minute Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg film based on a toy line of robots.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, July 6, through Thursday, July 12, except where noted.
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The Count
3,583 U.S. troops killed
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News Feature
I don't want the unearned esteem any longer. I was an obedient fool. I don't need esteem. I need forgiveness.
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North Carolina
"Not much has happened," says Irving Joyner, an N.C. Central University law professor who has observed the process. "The bills have basically been languishing."
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News Feature
On this July Fourth I am embarrassed—as a veteran and a U.S. citizen—by my nation's military behavior in our shrinking world, and I also feel guilty about how little I do about that embarrassment.
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News Feature
The Bush administration is a cadaver decomposing on America's doorstep—yet no one will take responsibility for it, no one will give it a decent burial, no one even has the courage to step over it and try to get on with a nation's decent business.
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Durham County
First, the bad news: Durham ranks well above—sometimes double—the national average in amount of greenhouse gases generated per person.
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News Feature
Local writers reflect on patriotism, freedom and what it means to be an American.
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Q&A
In spite of the Durham Housing Authority's ambitious Hope VI project, East Durham continues to struggle with drugs, gang violence and blight.
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News Feature
On this Independence Day I owe no person my unquestioning loyalty, I pay no obeisance, I reserve the right to judge all things for myself.
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Front Porch
If you feel disheartened about our society, look around your community.
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Living Green
It's not only your love that overfloweth at your wedding or commitment ceremony, but the garbage bins, too.
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Editorial
Be moved, be outraged, be glad there's a free press. And let us know what you think.
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Our government and business leaders show a bias in favor of industrial agriculture in assessing health threats. —Roland McReynolds
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Music Briefs
It wasn't too long ago that the chances of survival for the Eastern Music Festival looked dim.
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Music Feature
Here—during this most paramount of American holidays—we profile two local musicians whose recent addition to the Triangle has added new questions, sounds and ideas, and another, whose progressive bent on an old form proves that molds are meant to be re-imagined.
- by Grayson Currin and Chris Toenes
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Fashion
We outfit our models with signs, physically taking a stance on such issues as corrosion of the environment, the chronic debting of private and public economies, and the general militarization and hostile territorialization of our world.
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Dance
Whatever the cause or intent, the present version of Eiko & Koma's dark classic can be only said to contain a few selected grains of the original's truth.
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Reading
Rumble, who now lives in Greensboro, writes cerebrally slaphappy poems full of bopping word repetitions and irrepressible yet self-conscious wordplay.
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On the Boards
Long Leaf Opera's summer festival concluded last Sunday in UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall with a standing ovation for Elizabeth Grayson's performance in the Southern premiere of At the Statue of Venus.
- by Sarah Lupton and Byron Woods
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Sudoku Solution
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MUSIC: Get Out
Inflowential, Sean Boog & Nervous Reck, Kooley High, Lazarso, DJ Ill Digitz at Downtown Event Center; Erie Choir at Broad Street Café more
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Citizen
Call me sentimental, but I still believe in an America where good people can run for office and sometimes even win.
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Spotlight
What better way to hook would-be conservationists than music, right?
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8 Days a Week
Evil Wiener Weiner Roast
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Zork Asks
We love fireworks. So we were looking forward to seeing some on your Independence Day, July 2. What happened?
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Heroes & Zeros
"I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me," Elizabeth Edwards said at a news conference. "I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage."
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Spotlight
Each Fiery Furnaces album sounds like the work of a different band or, at the very least, a band that's getting progressively less concerned with the conventions of pop music every time it enters a studio.
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Spotlight
Miles Rabun, 8, and William Rabun, 6, write about the enriching and exciting nature activities that their grandmother, an environmental specialist, made possible for them in her expansive backyard.
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8 Days a Week
The Ciompi Quartet; Duke Young Writers Camp
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8 Days a Week
Iraq in Fragments; Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos; ADF's Dancing for the Camera
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8 Days a Week
Jaws Marathon; Ian McLagan & the Bump Band
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8 Days a Week
ADF Argentine Festival Part II
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8 Days a Week
Insight Meditation Practice Group
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8 Days a Week
Lucero; Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
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8 Days a Week
Kate Blackwell; The Elephant Man
