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Now Serving
Plus: Six Plates Wine Bar opening and Red Room Thanksgiving-themed cooking class
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Film Beat
"This sign really belongs in a local historical museum," filmmaker Steve Channing says. "Maybe one day somebody will build one."
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calendar
Times are good from Thursday, Nov. 15 through Friday, Nov. 23. Check for special schedules on Thanksgiving, Nov. 22.
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Film Beat
Even if the rowdy crowds on Front Street were more or less oblivious to its presence, a few blocks away the 13th annual Cucalorus Film Festival was under way, bigger and more ambitious than ever.
- by David Fellerath and Kathy Justice
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North Carolina
WakeUP Wake County Vice Chair Stan Norwalk thinks the best chance for the transfer tax now is a coordinated, Trianglewide campaign.
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Chatham County
No matter how sensitive, the earth sensors placed in the desert to detect human footsteps cannot shake the imagination of Latin American immigrants.
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North Carolina
The use of carbon monoxide could be outlawed as a euthanasia method in animal shelters by 2012.
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Durham County
Securing naming rights, worth millions of dollars, is one of many hurdles it faces.
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Q&A
Krugman's new book is an indictment of "movement conservatives"—going back to such seminal figures as William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan—who've ushered in a second Gilded Age of economic inequality in America.
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Durham County
The breakdown on the Durham Performing Arts Center
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Durham County
A timeline for the Durham Performing Arts Center
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First Person
The mother of a murdered man reads a poem about him written by his daughter
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Letters to the Editor
Your editorial decision to print this interview will surely enhance the reputation of your publication for objective reporting. —Thomas Steger
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Editorial
While President Bush memorialized past and present troops last Monday, he threatened to veto a bill laden with millions of dollars for veterans job and rehabilitation programs.
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Front Porch
The only thing missing is rain water.
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Living Green
James Hansen visits Chapel Hill this week to do what the Bush administration had forbidden him to: speak.
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Music Feature
"I'm always trying to conjure the atmosphere and spatial quality that I find when looking at photographs I took as a child."
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Song of the Week
"Our skyline, it ain't very high, but we love it."
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Record Review
When is a CD more than a CD? When it's also a history lesson, a photo archive, a journey from South Carolina's lowcountry to North Carolina's Research Triangle Park.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Michael Hurley, Cass McCombs, Proof, Todd Snider, Keller Williams, more
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Music Briefs
For the first time since last year's Blackbeard's Lost Weekend, Dirty Little Heaters come back to the stage with a different lineup.
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Music Feature
Ever since the press and the public caught wind of Buck 65, aka 35-year-old Richard Jerfry, in the late '90s, his identity—that of a white rapper from Nova Scotia—has been his onus.
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Arts Feature
Durham photographer and writer Alex Harris' new book, The Idea of Cuba, is based on three trips he took to the island in 1998, 2002 and 2003.
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Theater
As problems go, Quenelle and company have clearly identified one that needs more solutions.
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Fashion
Of all the seven deadly sins, it seems vanity gets the worst rap. Just ask Lucifer, Narcissus or Eve.
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On the Boards
Plus My Lovely Suicides; The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- by Kathy Justice and Byron Woods
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Sudoku Solution
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Interactive Crossword
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
A new twist on a Thanksgiving Day classic.
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8 Days a Week
Offside at N.C. State Campus;
Yip Yip and Future Islands at Local 506;
Quinn Dalton and Amy Knox Brown at the Regulator Bookshop
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Wine Beat
I sat down in a wine shop with Georges Bentet to sample six vintages from a Bordeaux Classified Growth estate.
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Spotlight
David Kilgour suffuses '60s psych-folk jangle with a light, atmospheric drone, like a vibrant, pastoral watercolor translated into pop music.
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Edwards Watch
Musically speaking, few songs sound more like slippery politics than Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz."
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Spotlight
Om Shanti Om delivers the glitter and glamour, the comedy and thrills, religion and the supernatural, mother love, high fashion and eye-popping production numbers in proper masala fashion.
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8 Days a Week
Leon Fleisher at Duke Campus; The Wailin' Jennies at Fletcher Theater
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Spotlight
For some bands, fame is just one song away. Some find that song, and others—like Jacksonville-based rock band Nantucket—don't.
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Spotlight
On Tuesday, Durham rapper Jozeemo will release his first nationally distributed album, Cry Now L.A.F. Later, on the Little Brother-associated Hall of Justus label.
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8 Days a Week
La Strada at the N.C. Museum of Art; 5IVE at Through This Lens; The Nighthawks at Blue Bayou Club
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8 Days a Week
American Aquarium and Future Kings of Nowhere at Nightlight; Seussical The Musical at Chapel Hill Community Church; Collector's Gala at Artspace
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8 Days a Week
The Blakes at Local 506; Carrboro Film Festival at Carrboro Century Center; John Brown Quintet at Hayti Heritage Center
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8 Days a Week
Ted Turner at UNC Campus
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8 Days a Week
A Nursery of Patriotism at UNC Campus; Karl Campbell at Quail Ridge Books & Music
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8 Days a Week
Pre-Turkey Day Jam at Cat's Cradle
