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Now Serving
Killer tomatoes
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Food Chain
The menu on each truck is simple: tacos, quesadillas and tortas. Each is available with a choice of five fillings: carne asada, lengua, barbacoa, carnitas and al pastor.
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Film Review
Hairspray has been progressively sanitized, naughty but innocent, a po-mo pastiche decked out in teased hair and fluffy petticoats, acknowledging that the past isn't quite as rosy as we remember.
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Movie times are good from Friday, July 20 through Thursday, July 26 except where noted.
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North Carolina
Realtors have put more than $500,000 behind a statewide advertising campaign and are threatening to use their political clout in future elections against lawmakers who vote for the land transfer tax.
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News Feature
"I'm for Obama and Hillary!" she exclaims. Then she turns back to me and adds: "And I like Edwards too!"
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The Count
3,618 U.S. troops killed
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Orange County
Orange County residents could have at least a year to comply with new dog tethering laws under recommendations by a citizens' committee that has been studying the issue since January.
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Q&A
In 12 out of 16 Southern states, at least 25 percent of the adult population is obese.
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News Feature
She's been his closest adviser and, by many accounts, a strongly progressive one.
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I do hope that the article encouraged those in the Triangle to venture out and educate themselves on this issue. —Anderson Wiltshire
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Editorial
This is the time of year, in the odd-numbered years, anyway, that local political campaigns get off the ground.
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Living Green
Local nonprofit and community groups can receive free leaf mulch and compost from Durham's Department of Solid Waste Management.
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Front Porch
At 4:30 a.m., I looked across the parking lot at the figures huddled in canvas chairs. I swore I'd never do this. I was about to queue up to buy a video game.
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Music Feature
"The whole reason I formed a band was to release a seven-inch," says Goldberg, laughing. "I didn't think beyond that."
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Latin Beat
Eddie Palmieri Trio; Roberto Roena and Chino Nuñez; Live Latin events
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Live Review
As if they had heard the complaints even before playing the set, though, Slint closed with new material as a sleight-of-hand.
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Music Feature
Above a graceful piano, Essie Jain sings gently, her loping, subdued British-expatriate voice confiding in measured breaths.
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Visual Art
The tension between the individual self and the collective unit seems to fuel this show, framing the idea of family as a wily alchemy, a chaotic mix of love, fate, genetics and chance.
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Arts Feature
Talking with Bob could be like walking through a minefield—one careless cliché and boom!—but those who did it regularly learned to write good English.
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Casual Observer
We only want to flirt with danger, that's all; we don't want to take it home.
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Dance
In the theater it's sometimes called "characterization by costume." It is anything but a professional compliment.
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On the Boards
Besides the strength of the score, there are a few saving graces in this production, including Carrie A. Johnson's performance as Florence and some interesting set design.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Make a Fresh Squash & Okra Medley!
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Spotlight
The rock 'n' roll camp for young girls is getting ready to start its fourth summer.
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Zork Asks
We caught this program coming from your Public Broadcasting System the other night—what a hoot! Or was it?
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Spotlight
Let's suffice it to say the Times wouldn't have written about "Guitar Heroines, Make That Heroes, in Indie Rock."
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8 Days a Week
2001: A Space Odyssey; Past/Forward at ADF
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Spotlight
Big Business is one menacing bough on one of rock 'n' roll's more venerable family trees, the one that connects the Melvins with Karp and several very heavy fruits in between.
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Citizen
Raleigh Wide Open was fabulous a year ago—70,000 folks downtown to celebrate the reopening of Fayetteville Street, remember? Amazing. So why not repeat it, which Raleigh will do Saturday with a bigger, if not better, RWO 2.
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Heroes & Zeros
Former Surgeon General Carmona said he was instructed to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Bishop Allen at Local 506; The Box Social at The Cave; Ten Penny at Blend; The Detroit Cobras at Cat's Cradle; more
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8 Days a Week
Genghis Tron and Ed Gein; The Stonewater Rapture
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8 Days a Week
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Dynamite Brothers
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8 Days a Week
Steep Canyon Rangers; Raleigh Wide Open 2; Skywatching with Morehead Planetarium
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8 Days a Week
Brunch at the Nasher Museum Cafe; Briarpatch
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8 Days a Week
Bishop Allen
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8 Days a Week
Creative Living Art Exhibit
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8 Days a Week
Adam Rust's This is My Home; Tennis & the Mennonites and Creeping Weeds
