• Issue Archive for
  • Oct 31 - Nov 7, 2007
  • Vol. 24, No. 44

Music

  • The Guide to the Week's Concerts
  • The Guide to the Week's Concerts

    Old Time Relijun, Pat Monahan, Joe Romeo & the Orange County Volunteers, Holly Golightly, Michelle Malone Band
  • A.C. Bushnell
  • A.C. Bushnell

    "It's a very strange feeling to think that you might leave the earth so soon. The world looked really beautiful to me. It was very poignant."
  • Pylon
  • Pylon

    DFA impresario and LCD Soundsystem mainman James Murphy reissued Pylon's Gyrate, effectively stamping them with a hip blessing equaled by few others.

Arts

  • The ghost and Squirrel Nut Zippers
  • The ghost and Squirrel Nut Zippers

    "What's the name of your spook?" I asked, hoping to have guessed correctly. Karen stopped smiling. "Who told you about that?"
  • <i>City of Medicine</i>; <i>Hello Penis: A Man-ifesto</i>
  • City of Medicine; Hello Penis: A Man-ifesto

    At this point, the TV medical drama is one small step from utter ridiculousness, and Transactors Improv Company bravely takes that step.

Food

  • Urban chickens
  • Urban chickens

    Flocks of fewer than 20 hens (no roosters) are permitted in the outskirts of Chapel Hill, and many closer to town are raising smaller flocks without attracting much attention.

Film

  • <i>American Gangster</i>
  • American Gangster

    There were two reasons why this scene stuck in my mind after the film, and neither had anything to do with how spiffy Denzel looks in chinchilla (although he does).

News

  • Vicki Boyer, League of Women Voters
  • Vicki Boyer, League of Women Voters

    "I saw male politicians interacting with this woman. She was the president of the League of Women Voters. They were treating her with deference and respect. I knew that was unusual. I knew that's where I wanted to be when I grew up."
  • Placemaking: New Bern Avenue
  • Placemaking: New Bern Avenue

    "My concern is when I hear people say we need to be inclusive, but what they mean is 100 units of housing, and only 25 are affordable, while everything else is upscale."
  • What's up with the STAC?

    The Special Transit Advisory Commission is still looking at various rail and bus routes that could be developed over the next 30 years.

Columns

  • Elections back talk

    Readers take us to task and/or thanks us for our endorsements
  • Snapshot
  • Snapshot

    My friend is giving me a guilt trip from a thousand miles away and he doesn't even know it.

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • Monster Creature Feature
  • Monster Creature Feature

    In Raleigh, at least, the old-school monster movie host is alive and well in the form of Craig Vance, aka Ormon Grimsby, of Monster Creature Feature on RTN 10.
  • Thursday, November 1
  • Thursday, November 1

    Band of Horses at Lincoln Theatre; Blotter benefit at Blue Bayou Club
  • Friday, November 2
  • Friday, November 2

    Branford Marsalis at Meymandi Concert Hall; The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer at Progress Energy Center; My Lovely Suicides at Manbites Dog Theater
  • Saturday, November 3
  • Saturday, November 3

    Queer Queens of Qomedy at Carolina Theatre; The Bleeding Hearts, The BQs and The Needles at Slim's
  • Sunday, November 4
  • Sunday, November 4

    Orange County Open Studio Tour; Jeffrey Dean Foster, Sara Bell & Kenny Roby at The Pour House
  • Tuesday, November 6
  • Tuesday, November 6

    Frightened Rabbit at Local 506; Peter Thomson at the Regulator Bookshop

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