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Music Briefs
"They call him the Cole Porter of New Orleans for his songwriting genius," writes Billy Vera.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Charlie Louvin; The Surf Seniors; Michael McDonald; Peter Frampton; Great Big Gone/ The Damage Done; Endless Mic; more
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Music Feature
You can hear their love for punk resonating through every rumbling bassline, ripped chord and tendon-popping howl.
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Song of the Week
"To get really inspired, I listen to the radio. Not satellite radio or Internet radio or college radio or public radio. I mean good old American shitty corporate new-rock alternative radio. 'Cause it pisses me off. And when I hear it, I know I could write better songs."
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Music Feature
The band's first full-length,You Forget About Your Heart, was lauded by GQ as "one of 2004's listening pleasures."
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Annual Manual
This time around, we decided to get physical.
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Annual Manual
I'll set the scene for those of you who haven't yet crossed the all-important threshold onto the civilized dance floor...
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Annual Manual
I hereby set out to juxtapose garish celebrity worship and commercial overindulgence with about $40 and a list of Triangle thrift stores in my pocket.
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Annual Manual
Turns out it is possible to have a tasty meal and a refreshing cocktail without breaking the bank.
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Annual Manual
On sporadic Thursday nights when no concert is scheduled, rock star wannabes flock to Local 506 to take the stage themselves and try a hand at Guitar Hero.
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Annual Manual
At today's contest, contenders from 2 to 41 years old tear across the 1,100-foot-long track.
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Annual Manual
Stations out of local universities
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Annual Manual
If you prefer a low-key, blues-jam, have-a-beer-and-conversation music scene, then Durham is your town.
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Annual Manual
No intra-state debate's ferocity comes close to that of the Triangle's rabid battle between its three ACC universities and their fans.
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Annual Manual
Where can you go if you or someone you love is a victim of rape in the Triangle?
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Annual Manual
If Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan have contributed anything to society—anything at all—it has been to personally demonstrate how humiliating and debilitating alcohol consumption can be when taken to the extreme.
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Annual Manual
The earth trades its spin for a massive vibration at night in the land of bar-hopping.
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Annual Manual
My entire body rolled with the undulations of the mattress, bobbing involuntarily in time with the proceedings. Out of the corner of my eye, I glimpsed a leg askew.
- by Alex Henderson and Brett Bumgarner
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Annual Manual
If not for the occasional instructor inspecting progress around the studio, the fact that Aveda is a learning environment might easily have been lost on me.
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Annual Manual
A few basic facts about nuisance laws in the Triangle area
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Annual Manual
Cosmic Cantina, Locopops, more
- by Alex Henderson and Stephen Largen
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Annual Manual
Durham's bar scene is a bit like its breakfast scene: sporadic and hidden, when it's there at all.
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On the Boards
A Shoe for Your Foot offers plenty to get excited about: well-crafted puppets, a humble message, kaleidoscopic live music and Paperhand's everlasting effervescence.
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Lit Local
Without context, sunlight rolling over the fuselage of a banking airplane is beautiful.
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Visual Art
Browning's and Maggio's works speak to the idea of nature as a limitless source to which artists can always return, the originary inspiration.
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Lit Local
The 44-year-old artist passed away from an apparent heart attack Aug. 12, a shock to his many friends and fans.
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Now Serving
Do you like bitter beer? Are you looking for better bitter beer? Have you become embittered because there isn't better bitter beer, here? (OK, I'll stop now.)
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Film Review
I will accept (to a certain level) anything that allows for another regrettably infrequent appearance by Winona Ryder, who in two woefully written vignettes in The Ten manages to act circles around the rest of her castmates.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, August 24 through Thursday, August 30 except where noted.
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Film Review
After shuttering its doors for repairs in early June, Durham's Carolina Theatre reopens in time for the 12th annual edition of the second largest gay and lesbian film festival in the Southeast.
- by Neil Morris and Kathy Justice
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Wake County
Cleaning up PCBs in Little Brier Creek and its streams will cost at least $5 million, while fish from those waterways may not be safe to eat until 2021.
- by Bob Geary and Lisa Sorg
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National
Price says initiating impeachment against Bush or Cheney isn't in "the best interest of our country."
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Q&A
When City Council member Thomas Stith declared his mayoral candidacy in July, we were guaranteed a campaign in which Durham's best and worst would be placed in stark relief.
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Wake County
City Plaza will feature shopping, not art, under the design expected to garner final approval by the city council in early September.
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Editorial
The problem is Dole and those who want cheap goods and cheap labor without caring about those who provide them.
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Living Green
Improve your karma: Adopt-a-Highway.
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Warehousing animals in cages for months or years isn't the solution to the companion animal overpopulation crisis. —Ileana Sisson
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Derek Jennings
My wife and I view the proper raising, nurturing, training and equipping of our children as our God-given responsibility.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Turn ripe pears into a yummy Bourdaloue!
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Heroes & Zeros
Seven members of Ft. Bragg's 82nd Airborne wrote a sobering 1,300-word piece about the Iraq War in the Aug. 19 edition of The New York Times.
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Spotlight
Watson relishes the dusty Bakersfield honky-tonk of the '50s—its finger-picked electric twang, its cantering near-rock rhythms, the straight-forward heartache.
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Wine Beat
This year, the 2005 Charles Shaw Chardonnay was named "Best California Chardonnay" at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition.
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8 Days a Week
A Century of Postcards at UNC-CH
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8 Days a Week
The Wailers at Cat's Cradle; Patty Hurst Shifter at Tir Na Nog
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Spotlight
In dude-centric rock, there are few things more hated than screaming female vocalists.
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8 Days a Week
Cartel at NCSU; Dennis McFarland at the Regulator; The Dodos at Local 506
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8 Days a Week
How I Got That Story at Deep Dish Theater; Justice Theater Project's The Grapes of Wrath
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8 Days a Week
The Carolina Music Festival at Boothe Amphitheatre; Speed-the-Plow at Market Street Books
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8 Days a Week
Chatham Artists' Guild exhibit at Carolina Brewery & Grill Pittsboro
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8 Days a Week
Reform, Reconstruction and Redemption at UNC-CH; Patricia Bryan & Tom Wolf at the Carrboro Cybrary
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8 Days a Week
Dan and Lia Perjovschi with Andrei Codrescu at the Nasher Museum
