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Music Feature
"What I want to see is poetry go mainstream," Monica Daye says. "People are tired of hip-hop music, degrading music. People are going to wake up. Hip hop started with poetry. Somewhere in the early '90s that changed."
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Music Feature
Inspired by the Portland Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, local musician Amelia V.B. Shull started the NC Rocks Camp for Girls in Carrboro.
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Music Feature
"The '80s were a wild time. Everything you've read and heard about it was true."
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Casa: Home & Garden
Reinventing old urban spaces in Raleigh and Durham
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Casa: Home & Garden
The North Blount Street historic district contains some of Raleigh's oldest and most historically important homes. A redevelopment plan could turn them back into homes and help transform the district into one of downtown's most upscale neighborhoods.
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Casa: Home & Garden
"This project's really fun," Audra Ladd says, "because we get to look at Durham and ask, 'What are we missing?'"
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Casa: Home & Garden
DesignBox's Aly Khalifa sees the empty warehouses as an opportunity to preserve Raleigh's past: "You can't help but be a citizen and react to this stuff."
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Dance
"Represent" is one of those words that tend to point in several different directions, more or less at the same time.
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On the Boards
In Durham playwright Howard Craft's latest production, the subject of HIV/AIDS in the African-American community serves as a springboard for a discourse about truth, lies and, ultimately, the power of words.
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Visual Art
Using actual-size appliances, small-scale sculpture elements and video and audio presentation, Talenti's alternative kitchen asks big questions.
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Reading
Henry, a haunted, Job-like figure, is the titular "negro magician," but it is part of Wallace's plot-twisting purpose to reveal early on that Henry isn't really black and his magic has died.
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Now Serving
Ferlo's Alimentari; Original Q Shack selling Good Taste cupcakes; La Residence
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, July 27 through Thursday, August 2 except where noted.
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Film Review
"Please, please stop working with Alex Garland!"
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North Carolina
CWIP opponents have argued that the provision couldn't pass as a standalone bill and has to be piggybacked on renewables legislation to succeed.
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North Carolina
Smallpox could be coming to Butner. Or anthrax. Or Rift Valley fever.
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Q&A
Eventually development will catch up with us, and if we haven't designated the resources to protect North Carolina's special places, that will be irreversible.
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Wake County
"I think the real purpose of this fag house is to pass out anal lube. I'm mad that N.C. State was the 17th most unappealing to homos, I believe we should strive to be first."
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North Carolina
These diseases will most likely be at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility proposed for Butner
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North Carolina
The Triangle is home to at least a dozen Biosafety Level 3 labs that test or research infectious diseases.
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Living Green
In 10,000 years, when archaeologists excavate the remnants of late 20th- and 21st-century civilization, they will find a dominant artifact: the plastic bottle.
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Editorial
From the numbers being floated around in editorials in the daily papers, a new federal research lab in Butner sounds like a real economic development boon for North Carolina.
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"People wonder why we have had to purchase radio, TV and ad space to properly communicate our concerns.... Your story is a perfect answer to that question." —Tim Kent
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Pear Cake is Simple with Fresh Pears!
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Spotlight
The deepest emotions rest on the narrow shoulders of the marvelous Abigail Breslin, who energizes the sure-fire sentimentality of the orphaned child's plight.
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Heroes & Zeros
Gov. Mike Easley had the cojones to stand up to the real estate lobby and state lawmakers who oppose a land transfer tax option for counties.
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MUSIC: Get Out
The Comas and Great Northern at Local 506; Magic Babies and Bull City at Slim's; Young Ladies Rock Camp at The Cave; Stan Ridgway at Cat's Cradle; more
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Zork Asks
We were following the debate in your U.S. Senate last week on "transitioning" out of Iraq—the Reed-Levin Amendment—right up to the actual vote. Then you lost us.
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Spotlight
On her third album for Ryko, Kelly Willis covers two rock songs: "Teddy Boys," a characteristically cute number by former Moldy Peach Adam Green, and "Success," an Iggy Pop co-write with David Bowie from Lust for Life.
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Citizen
Hardy Watkins, longtime head of Raleigh's Community Services Department, is puzzled over why, even as Raleigh's population tripled, "civic activism has declined for some reason."
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Spotlight
It's impossible to deny the thrill of the IMAX 3D Harry Potter even if it provides only momentary exhilaration as, for example, we dodge glass shards and sand in the epic battle finale.
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8 Days a Week
Apart from That
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8 Days a Week
Marah; Daniel Wallace
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8 Days a Week
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys; We Be Jammin'
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8 Days a Week
Doc Watson; Girls Rock NC Showcase
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8 Days a Week
Hawaiian Luau Feast & Swing Dance Party; King Lear
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8 Days a Week
The Superpowers
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8 Days a Week
Icons and Angels; Ben Folds & John Mayer
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8 Days a Week
Jesse Lacey & Kevin Devine; Wrongful Executions
