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Music Feature
Onion Head Monster artist Paul Friedrich and Olympic Ass Kickin' Team bassist Jack Cornell will film the Chicas during a two-night stand at The Pour House this weekend.
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Record Review
One question keeps bubbling up during the first half of Tift Merritt's Austin City Limits performance: Was the crowd given a mid-grade animal tranquilizer before she started playing?
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Song of the Week
On old guitars, cheap guitars and Happy Days
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Our guide to this week's shows
Ghostface, Devil Doll, Calico Haunts, Dinosaur Jr, Thrice, more
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Record Review
Dream Merchant 2 delivers mostly what it means to: 9th's unflinching soul-sample and snare approach, and—for better and worse—a wide net of supporting players.
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Record Review
This DVD is a great time capsule, and you'll never tire debating whether singer/guitarist Michael Rank's locks are closer to Dave Pirner or Skid Row-era Sebastian Bach.
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Record Review
Ferguson's voice is as stirring an instrument as the six-string he wields so capably, able to proffer a low rumbling basso as well as a cleaner baritone purr.
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Record Review
Durham's Juan Huevos makes hip hop in the classic street journalism sense: That is, the 10 tracks on MC People Magazine detail familiar episodes in his life and among his scene with wit, candor and a dose of braggadocio.
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Citizen Awards
Committee to Save the Lakewood Y, Haw River Assembly, El Futuro, Stop Torture Now, Al McSurely
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Citizen Awards
The Committee to Save the Lakewood Y, composed of hundreds of Y members and neighborhood residents, took up the torch not for a building but for what the landmark represents.
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Citizen Awards
In early 1982, paddle enthusiasts Lynn Featherstone and Chuck Brady joined forces with environmental attorney John Runkle to craft an innovative nonprofit organization designed to preserve and protect the Haw River and Jordan Lake.
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Citizen Awards
In the past three months alone, El Futuro has served 123 new patients and logged more than 750 visits to their Siler City and Carrboro offices, where staff members treat everything from immigration-related trauma and depression to sexual addiction and alcoholism.
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Citizen Awards
Torture. By the United States of America. It's an idea most people won't even consider.
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Citizen Awards
Civil rights lawyer and activist Al McSurely has long been a white man among blacks, and that's how he likes it: He often uses the word "we" when talking about African Americans.
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Arts Feature
In late 1996, Robert "Ricky" Weiss answered an advertisement placed by J. Ward Purrington in Dance magazine, seeking a person of vision to start a new ballet company—in Raleigh, N.C.
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Reading
It's become a cherished ritual in reality-based America during the Bush years: Grabbing hold of a copy of The New York Times, turning to the op-ed page, and enjoying the latest blistering attack on the administration offered by Paul Krugman.
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Visual Art
At the age of 3, Jimmie Lee Sudduth began painting with mud. By the time he had grown up, he claimed he could identify it in 36 shades.
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Now Serving
Plus: Rita's Ices opens in Morrisville; Sugarland coming to Chapel Hill
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Nov. 22 through Friday, Nov. 30.This week, most new films are opening Wednesday, Nov. 21. Check with theaters for additional listings.
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Film Review
Both films show their estimable directors at the top of their respective games, and each features a performance by an actor that seems headed for a likely, and well deserved, Oscar nomination.
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Film Review
To both its credit and detriment, Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There is an utter cinematic manifestation of its subject—elusive and surreal, yet strangely calculated and manipulative.
- by Neil Morris and Zack Smith
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North Carolina
If you're looking for weapons of destruction, try a few back yards in Butner.
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Durham County
Muhammad Aslam Khan, deputy chief of mission at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D.C., and M. Humayun Kabir, the Bangladeshi ambassador to the United States, were the keynote speakers at an all-day conference at NCCU.
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Front Porch
We have button heat, too, but it's the living room woodstove that centers all family life from November 'til March.
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Editorial
I like to fight. Not with fisticuffs—although as a kid I often boxed with my brother—but for a cause.
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Letters to the Editor
Why does making a movie about inconsistency or a movie about misplaced masculinity make that movie automatically bad? —Graham Culbertson
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Living Green
Instead of tossing these mighty tomes in the trash or stashing them in the desk, either place them in your curbside recycling bin or take them to a year-round recycling facility.
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First Person
In conjunction with his obvious lack of arms, his signature jumpsuit, bare feet and slicked-back hair made Marty quite a character to behold.
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Sudoku Solution
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Interactive Crossword
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Giveaways
Win tickets to the Zig Zag Live Tour!! See Dinosaur Jr and others at The Lincoln Theater.
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
The Most Delicious Ever!
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8 Days a Week
The Muppet Movie at Colony Theatre;
No Country For Old Men, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and I'm Not There at theaters Trianglewide
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Spotlight
Erik Hinds calls the music he improvises alone under the name Killick "Appalachian Trance Metal," three words so full of internal conflict one could assume he's being coy.
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Edwards Watch
If elected, Edwards says, he'll give Congress six months to enact universal health care, effective July 20, 2009.
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Spotlight
Not only is the quartet coalescing here, but it's also mining better material and mastering the sequence.
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8 Days a Week
Triangle Vegetarian Society's Vegan Thanksgiving at Parizäde
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8 Days a Week
Buy Nothing Day at Internationalist Books; Fashion Show 2007 at Cat's Cradle
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8 Days a Week
Carolina Design Craftsmen Show at the State Fairgrounds
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8 Days a Week
Love As Laughter at Local 506; Cinderella at Memorial Auditorium
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8 Days a Week
Guitar Hero Night at Local 506;
Hammer No More The Fingers, Dead Confederate at The Cave; Barry Jacobs at Regulator Bookshop
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8 Days a Week
Erie Choir at Local 506; Brett Webb-Mitchell at McIntyre's Fine Books
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8 Days a Week
The Little Prince at Playmakers Repertory Company; Sundowner, Chuck Ragan at Cat's Cradle; "What Is Choice?" at Quail Ridge Books & Music
