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Music Feature
Murder made beautiful? If it sounds morbid, consider the cultural significance of those stories, which—like ancient mythology—exist as a way to explain things we cannot or chose not to readily understand.
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Latin Beat
Nearly 3,000 people turned up at La Ley's anniversary party to see six transnational bands from both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border.
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Music Briefs
Kronos Quartet's new piece, Mavericks/Monk, premieres Saturday at Duke's celebration of Thelonious Monk's 90th birthday.
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Song of the Week
"Subconsciousness been splayed on cankered brains," shouts a swaggered Jared Swilley for the opening line of "Cold Hands," the second U.K. single off Good Bad, Not Evil.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Do Make Say Think; Augustana; Bull Durham Blues Festival; Max Indian; John McLaughlin; Elvis Costello
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Record Review
After the gentle, hazy drift of its debut, The Beautiful World, it's strange and thrilling to hear Regina Hexaphone exchange their exquisiteness for greater muscularity.
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Music Feature
Lucky for us: We get two new bands in the bargain. Lucky for them: Almost a year after DeYarmond Edison broke up, large independent labels recently offered Megafaun and Bon Iver record deals on the same day.
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Record Review
Hundred Air explores lush, loose space so well here, much like Nada Surf has done for its last three records.
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Music Feature
Maybe it all comes down to this, the last line in a poem titled "Understanding Al Green" by Adrian Matejka: "The point is Al Green hums better than most people dream."
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Fall Guide
As the leaves and temperatures fall, the spotlight turns to live events on campuses; plus, our writers survey autumn arts highlights.
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Fall Guide
Interim director Aaron Greenwald has reinvented the Duke Performances wheel in his first year.
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Fall Guide
UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University are both attempting to broaden their performance horizons with their fall programs, with events designed to raise the profiles of both campuses.
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Fall Guide
Salvation for this year's closing quarter of live music comes in some unlikely forms, at least in two Triangle vertices.
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Fall Guide
New work by local and visiting troupes
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Fall Guide
Facing walls in galleries and museums this fall
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Fall Guide
Four Pulitzer Prize winners and a National Book Award winner visit the Triangle
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Fall Guide
Out of many to miss, a few to look out for
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Fall Guide
New prints of Janus classics at NCMA
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Fashion
Why can't art simply be the process and not about the end result—the jackpot of a masterpiece?
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Theater
By the time Shehadeh writes, "And then, one day, our respite came to an end when I woke up to the sound of tanks," his estrangement from legal structures and Palestinian and Israeli governments have made him virtually useless to his brother, Samer, when his house is occupied by Israeli troops.
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On the Boards
For the vast majority of us who weren't around to witness Williams' all-too-brief career, Petty's show—with its carefully constructed honky tonk atmosphere—is a startling and convincing substitute for the real thing.
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Now Serving
New restaurants and happenings
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Film Review
The absence of sustained indignation justifies yet another movie on perhaps the defining issue of our generation.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, Sept. 14 through Thursday, Sept. 20 except where noted.
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Film Review
Filmmakers Cathryn Davis Zommer and Neeley House follow the course of Black Mountain's inception and cathartic history by interweaving interview footage of about 20 former students and faculty with archival footage and still photographs.
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North Carolina
Dozens of dogs have died of thirst, exposure or disease at a Hendersonville no-kill animal shelter, All Creatures Great and Small, according to affidavits from former employees and volunteers.
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Wake County
The man who handled finances for the real estate company behind Raleigh's North Hills mall has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for siphoning more than $1 million for his own use.
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News Feature
A commuter rail line, plus electrified streetcar lines, plus rail line spurs would equal almost 240 miles of commuter rail (plus 56 miles of streetcars) at a rough cost of $6.1 billion to $8.2 billion.
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Living Green
Raleigh is the 23rd municipality in North Carolina to be named a "Cool City" by the Sierra Club.
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Letters to the Editor
Perhaps your readers, when ready to find a four-legged soulmate, can give a loving pet a wonderful life. —Mike Phillips
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Editorial
During Petraeus' testimony, several protesters were escorted out after being angrily chided by Ike Skelton, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee: "This is intolerable. We will not allow it."
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Front Porch
You may have never thought you'd see "God Bless America" and "God bless Osama bin Laden" in the same sentence, but there is a poetic justice here.
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Bob Burtman
Largely forgotten is one of the chief purposes of incentives programs that, at least back in the day, was cited by state officials to warrant them initially: to attract business to poor communities with high unemployment rates.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
The perfect soup for fall
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Heroes & Zeros
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Spotlight
For all the name-calling and, admittedly, the album's flaws, Drowned is the most important record in the Liars' canon, at least as far as inner-band evolution goes.
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Edwards Watch
John Edwards must win Iowa to have a chance at the Democratic presidential nomination. But he's not the only Democrat with a catapult-out-of-Iowa strategy.
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Spotlight
The film simply and effectively lays out the ways in which mankind's meddling helped lead to the Katrina disaster.
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Wine Beat
I love answering reader mail, and it pinches me in the nicest way to know that people care enough to write.
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Spotlight
Askounis' science-fiction novel The Dream of the Stone is poised to become a hit—14 years after it was originally published.
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8 Days a Week
When the Bulbul Stopped Singing at Playmakers Rep; Hang It Out to Dry at UNC
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Spotlight
As predictable and staged as alt.country has become of late (Stonesy riff, anyone?), Ex Tempore stands out for its fresh-squeezed sensibility and imaginative blends.
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8 Days a Week
Janiva Magness at Blue Bayou Club; Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Common Ground Theatre
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8 Days a Week
Tinsley Ellis at Hideaway BBQ; Hatchetfest at Hell
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Spotlight
As McGee pulls away from Florida en route to his set at the month-long Washington, D.C., experimental festival Sonic Circuits, he'll begin recording sounds that intrigue him.
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8 Days a Week
Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team & The T's at The Pour House; Bugfest at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences; Whole Foods Town Hall Meeting in Raleigh
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8 Days a Week
Yarn at Sadlack's; Amanda Lamb at Quail Ridge Books; Burning Coal's Hamlet
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8 Days a Week
Peelander-Z at Local 506
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8 Days a Week
"Joys and Hazards of Working as a Writer in Russia Today" at UNC
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8 Days a Week
L.D. Russell at the Regulator Bookshop
