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Album of the Month
IV is an exceptionally eloquent love letter to roots music, one written with appreciation for the past and big plans for the future.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Toubab Krewe, Meshell Ndegeocello, Limbeck, Dervish, Altan, Pratie Heads, more
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Record Review
It sounds so perfect, like a band finally staking its own territory, wider than we could have ever guessed.
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Record Review
Where Mellencamp and Springsteen capitalized on the grit beneath the blue collar, Dunn reaches toward optimism in earnest.
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Song of the Week
Steve Yutzy-Burkey on pianos, iPods and the show he's on, Trading Spaces
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Record Review
Since its eponymous debut, Greensboro quartet Citified has stretched things out, slowed things down. It's done so much of that, several writers have called the seven-song follow-up EP shoegaze.
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Music Feature
When Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road inevitably becomes a major motion picture, Brooklyn noise-rock trio Sightings should compose the score.
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Record Review
With this debut, Kooley High sounds less like a hip-hop contrivance with a stately objective and more like a few hip-hop fans who decided to get together one night, goof-off and rap to some beats.
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Visual Art
Barkley L. Hendricks, in conversation at the Nasher with Duke art professor Richard J. Powell, described an aspect of his experience as a young man visiting the great museums of Europe, indicating there were not many works of art that reflected images of his "peeps."
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Arts Feature
On the afternoon of Jan. 27, about an hour after the news came that ex-President Suharto died, the streets of Jakarta were eerily quiet and empty.
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Reading
As his firm survives a somewhat hostile takeover, where even seven-figure salaried executives start to get laid off, Dan Kennedy is laughing, biting all the way.
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On the Boards
Christopher Shinn's Dying City is powerfully written and topically poignant as it limns three characters affected by the Iraq war.
- by Megan Stein and Byron Woods
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Food Feature
At first glance, the environmental case against cows is a mighty one.
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Now Serving
Joe Van Gogh; Broad Street Cafe; Urban Ministries of Durham's Empty Bowls benefit; plus I Like That: A Meal Blog
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Film Review
British cinema may not abound in truly memorable crime movies, but every once in a while, a fine one pops up that reminds us of its gritty lineage.
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calendar
Film times are good for Thursday, March 6, through Friday, March 14
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Video
On Saturday, Feb. 16, a casting team from MTV's long-running series The Real World held an open audition for college-age applicants for their 21st season.
- by Sarah Lupton and Bruna Zacka
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Tags: Video, Video
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Durham County
Something Wicked this way comes.
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The Count
3,945 U.S. troops killed
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North Carolina
Will Time Warner Cable customers in the Triangle be able to watch Major League Baseball this spring?
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North Carolina
"... the governor's budget document is the place where transparency ends."
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News Feature
Despite local business leaders' efforts at linking the region, other forces are pulling the area into two distinct, increasingly estranged regions.
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Q&A
"North Carolina is an area that the border patrol has been looking at—actually that whole region—with the NASCAR sponsorship."
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News Feature
Traveling from one end of the region—say, Pittsboro—to hear or play music in another distant region—say, Volume 11 Tavern, which sits on the edge of Garner and Raleigh—takes at least 40 minutes.
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News Feature
While my perspective as a consumer and observer leads me to conclude that there are two discrete communities, I was surprised to learn that theater artists, in particular, are willing to think of the Triangle as a single, large market.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
You could have moved the issues forward. Maybe next time.
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Cat Warren
Lake Jordan, polluted and sediment-laden, is looking downright gorgeous these days to desperate cities.
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Steven Petrow
Genetic testing for a particular condition is at best predictive. Then there are weighty privacy issues.
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Gallery
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Front Porch
Semester abroad was never like this when I went to college.
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Editorial
If this type of eavesdropping and data collecting were innocuous and lawful, then immunity would be unnecessary, and the companies would be continuing their work.
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Letters to the Editor
We have a choice, the animals don't.
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Letters to the Editor
The use of unchecked presidential power in the service of big business and the wealthy is called fascism.
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Letters to the Editor
The best way for us to minimize terrorism is to stop inspiring terrorists.
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Sudoku Solution
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Interactive Crossword
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Shamrock Cookies!
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Get a taste of Ireland with Irish Soda Bread!
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8 Days a Week
All-American Film Festival at Common Ground Theatre; more
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8 Days a Week
Here Be Monsters at Flanders 311; more
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8 Days a Week
The Swimmers at Nightlight; more
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8 Days a Week
Robbie Fulks at the Berkeley Cafe; more
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8 Days a Week
Reid Johnson and Jen Richelson at The Cave
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8 Days a Week
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy author at Regulator
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8 Days a Week
The Passenger at NCSU Campus Cinema
