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  • Issue Archive for
  • Sep 19-26, 2007
  • Vol. 24, No. 38

News

  • Carol Ellison
  • Q&A

    • Carol Ellison

    "I'm impressed by what Chapel Hill's doing because they're really in control of their own fate."
    • by Fiona Morgan
  • Soon to be gone
  • Durham County

    • Soon to be gone

    Photos of places in the East End Connector's path

Columns

  • Editorial

    • Pride and prejudice

    As recently as 20 years ago, such a public celebration was dangerous, and even today the declaration of sexual orientation is fraught with risk—although only for the hated, not the hateful.
    • by Lisa Sorg
  • Letters to the Editor

    • Thanks for animal issues coverage

    "Those who care about animals need to get organized and have their voices heard. We need statewide legislation to stop the holocaust." —Stewart David
  • Global warming, baby
  • Front Porch

    • Global warming, baby

    For kids growing up now, through this new cycle of seasons, there is no "used to be cooler" or "when it snowed a lot."
    • by John Valentine
  • Estranged from nature
  • Living Green

    • Estranged from nature

    It's "Take a Child Outside Week" at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences.
    • by Lisa Sorg

Elections

  • Our Endorsements

    • Coming Wednesday, Sept. 26...

    In print and online—our endorsements for:

    • Durham Council
    • Cary Council & Mayor
    • Raleigh Council & Park Bonds
    • Wake County Board of Education & Bonds

Music

  • <i>The</i> Guide to the Week's Concerts
  • Our guide to this week's shows

    • The Guide to the Week's Concerts

    Peter Case, Magnolia Electric Co., Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, The Sea and Cake, The Love Language, Al Green
  • Music Briefs

    • Bull Durham Blues Festival

    Around 23,000 people attended the 20th annual festival over three days.
    • by Grayson Currin
  • Alina Simone's <i>Placelessness</i>
  • Music Feature

    • Alina Simone's Placelessness

    Much like Simone's peripatetic life, Placelessness reinforces the idea that—in a mobile society—we can travel with an array of related identities, like changes of clothes in a knapsack.

Arts

  • Spark Con gears up for a second year
  • Arts Feature

    • Spark Con gears up for a second year

    Imagine that Raleigh is the buzzing center of culture in the South, a place that carries the one-word cachet of "Austin" or "Portland" or "Seattle."
    • by Zack Smith
  • Deconstructing Burning Coal's <i>Hamlet</i>
  • Theater

    • Deconstructing Burning Coal's Hamlet

    Whenever directors truly intend to make their own mark on a classic of the theater, we should expect them to do several things.
    • by Byron Woods
  • <i>Godspeed: Racing Is My Religion</i>
  • Reading

    • Godspeed: Racing Is My Religion

    It's religiously tautological: The only way to get into NASCAR is to let NASCAR into you; racecar spelled backward is racecar.
    • by Adam Sobsey
  • <i>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</i>; <i>Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes</i>
  • On the Boards

    • Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes

    The play takes place in Hedwig's dressing room, where she serenades the theater audience with songs about her life, love and heartbreak as she waits to take the stage at a rock concert.
    • by Kathy Justice and Megan Stein

Film

  • <i>In the Valley of Elah</i>
  • Film Review

    • In the Valley of Elah

    What if all the dangerous pathologies were not on the other side of the globe?
    • by Godfrey Cheshire
  • <i>Eastern Promises</i>
  • Film Review

    • Eastern Promises

    The yuletide setting is no coincidence, for this is Cronenberg's Nativity story and as such is one of his most subversive works.
    • by Neil Morris

Food

  • Now Serving

    • Eating (and drinking) for good causes

    Our area's farmers, chefs, restaurants and wine sellers are pitching in. All we need to do is buy tickets, show up and chow down.
    • by Claire Cusick

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

  • Ginger Cake
  • Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads

    • Ginger Cake

    Fresh ginger makes it AMAZING!

Ye Olde Archives

  • Tennessee Jed
  • Spotlight

    • Tennessee Jed

    Acoustica trades up genres with each song, moving from bluegrass to modern country and even pushing into psychedelic rock. But there's a defining country feel throughout.
  • Edwards Watch

    • Balancing left and center

    "Lord knows, we need a Democrat in the White House, but that's not enough," Edwards keeps saying. "I don't just want to replace a corporate Republican with a corporate Democrat."
    • by Bob Geary
  • Arts Briefs

    • Carolina Theatre hosts anti-gay performance

    On Saturday, Sept. 22, You're Not the Only One hits the boards. According to its producer, APOC Ministries, it deals with "testimonies from people who have overcome drug addition, homosexuality, suicide attempts and abuse."
    • by Zack Smith
  • Spark Con 2007
  • Spotlight

    • Spark Con 2007

    Eight venues scattered outward from the new Convention Center house an eclectic lineup.
    • by Chris Toenes
  • Thursday, September 20
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Thursday, September 20

    James L. Peacock at the Regulator Bookshop; Red Collar and The Bleeding Hearts at Tir Na Nog for Spark Con
  • Friday, September 21
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Friday, September 21

    Benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at Cat's Cradle; Third Friday Durham; Rachel Gathercole at McIntyre's Fine Books
  • Saturday, September 22
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Saturday, September 22

    Memphis the Band at Blue Bayou Club; The Old Ceremony at Cat's Cradle; Art-On-The-Move in Raleigh
  • Sunday, September 23
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Sunday, September 23

    Annual Blues BBQ at Berkeley Cafe; Andrew Bomback at Market Street Books; Chatterley and Bach at Somerhill Gallery
  • Monday, September 24
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Monday, September 24

    Yeasayer and Shapes & Sizes at Duke Coffeehouse; Charlie Savage at Quail Ridge Books
  • Tuesday, September 25
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Tuesday, September 25

    Killer of Sheep at Duke's Screen Society; Median CD release at The Pour House
  • Wednesday, September 26
  • 8 Days a Week

    • Wednesday, September 26

    Stephen Grey and Ariel Dorfman at Duke; Voices of Sudan at Internationalist Books

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