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The Election Page
Superior Court Judge Leon Stanback Jr chose not to rule on the constitutionality of the state's ballot access law, choosing to send the case to trial.
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The Election Page
The year-end campaign finance reports were due Jan. 25, and tracked contributions and expenditures for the last half of the year, including those crucial two weeks before Election Day.
- by Bob Geary, Fiona Morgan and Lisa Sorg
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The Election Page
A panel of three federal judges ruled last week that North Carolina's primary election will occur as scheduled May 6.
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Film Review
Plus: A Full Frame update and remembering Heath Ledger
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Film times are good from Thursday, January 31 through Friday, February 8.
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Film Review
Although it eschews biography in order to follow Carter on an intensive nationwide book tour, Demme's chronicle touches on numerous aspects of a life that arguably has been as extraordinarily influential and beneficent since his presidency as during it.
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Now Serving
Restaurants throughout the Triangle host special events for the holiday
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North Carolina
Wake County residents will have an opportunity to comment on the federal National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, proposed for a site just five miles north of Falls Lake, Raleigh's primary source of drinking water.
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National
Almost five years after Iyad Hindi passed the test to become a U. S. citizen, he's still waiting to be "cleared" by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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News Feature
The official North Carolina emergency drought plan has the beauty of simplicity, if not feasibility. If the faucets in Durham, Raleigh or any city in North Carolina start to spit out non-potable water, this is what we'll do: Buy bottled water.
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Durham County
Gloria Vaca, former executive director of Durham Companions, says an 18-year-old employee of the organization asked her to intervene after Chaney allegedly made sexual advances to her in 1991.
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News Feature
A more likely—and costly—scenario is pumping recycled water to University Lake, vigorously treating it, and then using it for drinking water.
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Wake County
The plan includes a 3,000-seat movie theater, up to 350 apartments, a five-story hotel, 50,000 square feet of office space and an 180,000-square-foot big-box store with grocery.
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News Feature
"If we want to be a leader, if we want to be a 'green city,' which we fall well short of being, we'd better start to walk the walk as well as talk the talk," says councilman Thomas Crowder.
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News Feature
For the North Carolina state legislature to consider in 2008
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Letters to the Editor
New research continues to confirm that high-fructose corn syrup is safe and no different from other common sweeteners like sugar and honey. —Audrae Erickson
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Do you feel lucky, punk?
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Editorial
It is interesting how the universities are communicating with city officials—their fellow power elite—but also with average citizens who will be affected, for better or for worse.
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Music Feature
Sam McGuire, organizer of WKNC's Double Barrel benefit, would lose his show because he wasn't a full-time student. But station administrators weren't going to let that happen.
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Album of the Month
One of the best introductory EPs released in the Triangle this decade, the eponymous Wood Ear gathers six tracks from Durham songwriter Nate Tarr recorded nearly two years ago.
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Music Briefs
Dawson appeared at Chaz's Bull City Records, Schoolkids Records, Bull City Headquarters; Megafaun, I Was Totally Destroying It, Red Collar performed at Local 506
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Record Review
Though the writing is generally sharp, the sentiments get a little monochromatic over the course of the album.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Omar, Bang Camaro, Stella by Starlight, High on Fire, Agent Orange, more
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Song of the Week
Eric Roehrig on bars, Pogues and songs in elementary school
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Music Feature
Passion and showmanship and, oh yeah, heavenly voices blending and circling and complementing like friends finishing each other's sentences made the Dixie Hummingbirds legendary.
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Record Review
Mann and company's debut EP Hellride doles out live-wire guitar skuzz and spirited post-hardcore too frayed to resemble late-era Kudzu, a machine that became streamlined and efficient.
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Music Feature
Tim Holland is a no-bullshit realist, and he isn't that fond of our cultural trajectory.
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Arts Feature
Despite—or, according to Ted Hobgood, due to—Jeff Hardy's local tie, the big man upstairs (McMahon, that is) made the call that Orton would be the night's WWE World Champion.
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On the Boards
Despite some shortcomings, it's still Sweeney Todd, and you'll (probably) still be glad you saw it; Europe Central is overtly, audaciously ambitious in its scope.
- by Megan Stein and Byron Woods
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Visual Art
At present, the gallery feels rather like a print clearing house. By using modular partitions—or simply limiting the exhibition to one artist—Through This Lens could have more successfully fashioned a space suitable for the absorption of image and idea.
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Sudoku Solution
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Interactive Crossword
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Giveaways
We are giving away a pair of tickets each weekend to Company Carolina’s production of Sweeney Todd!!
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Giveaways
Win tickets to the Carolina Ballet's Cabaret performance. Choose your evening, Thurs. Feb. 7th - Sun. Feb. 10th.
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8 Days a Week
The Whigs, The Sammies, Bull City at Local 506; Rita Mae Brown's The Purrfect Murder at McIntyre's Fine Books
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8 Days a Week
Inherit the Wind and Murphey School Theater Grand Opening at Burning Coal Theatre
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8 Days a Week
Jason Craighead and Tricia McKellar's Microcosm/ Macrocosm at Miriam Preston Block Gallery, Avery C. Upchurch Government Complex; Nina Nastasia at Local 506; Michael Rank & Marc E. Smith with Bringerer at The Cave
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8 Days a Week
Toni Morrison at the Jubilee for Reynolds Price at Duke Chapel; Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball at Chatham Mills; FrequNC Records Night at Nightlight; African American Dance Ensemble at Stewart Theatre, N.C. State campus; Pink Floyd The Wall at Colony Theatre
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8 Days a Week
Winter Hikes at Eno River State Park
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8 Days a Week
Mowgli, Midnite Sun at Local 506
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8 Days a Week
"The Life and Times of James 'Thunder' Early" at Center for Documentary Studies; Knocked Up at Griffith Theater, Duke campus; Super Fat Tuesday at Fishmonger's
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8 Days a Week
Gerald J. Prokopowicz's Did Lincoln Own Slaves? at Quail Ridge Books & Music
