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The Election Page
In seven weeks, North Carolina voters may have the chance to help choose the next occupant of the White House—for the first time in two decades.
- by Bob Geary, Fiona Morgan and Mosi Secret
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Our Endorsements
The Independent strongly endorses candidate Michele Berger.
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Now Serving
Plus: NCFOOD features news of food events, Locopops expands and Spanish wine and cooking class at Red Room Tapas Lounge.
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Casa: Home & Garden
Several times a month, someone from the county clerk's office stands outside the first-floor elevator of the Durham County Courthouse and sells people's dreams.
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Casa: Home & Garden
Besides the borrower, there are four entities involved in loan-making: lenders, brokers, investors and servicing companies.
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Casa: Home & Garden
Several terms signal you could be entering a bad deal.
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Casa: Home & Garden
States have been excluded from regulating real-estate transactions that historically had been under their watch, N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper says.
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Casa: Home & Garden
"They make it sound like all these people [in foreclosure] are in over their heads," Wilma Vaughn says, "but they're in over their heads because these companies put them in over their heads."
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Casa: Home & Garden
Between 1996 and 1999, I spent over a thousand nights bedded down in my van.
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Film Review
At once both brilliant and nihilistic, the real paradox is that while Funny Games demands a second viewing, you might not want to give it one.
- by Neil Morris and Laura Boyes
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Film Beat
Tragedy, forgiveness and justice in Pittsboro filmmaker Linda Booker's first feature film
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, March 13, through Friday, March 21
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Peripheral Visions
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Editorial
Records are often difficult to get, and now, even more so, since President George W. Bush designated entire categories of federal documents off-limits in the name of "national security."
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Gallery
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Front Porch
For Eve, every connection was meaningful, every moment honest and exciting.
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Letters to the Editor
Shelter animals deserve the same type of peaceful death as our own family pets.
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Slide Shows
Exclusive Polaroids from Caitlin Cary, set to Whiskeytown's "Yesterday's News"
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Music Feature
"With Steve and Skillet gone, it didn't feel like 'the band' anymore, but it did still feel kind of important and charged," says Cary. "The impulse to quit the band started to feel just slightly more foolish than staying."
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Our guide to this week's shows
des_ark, Tubers, A Place to Bury Strangers, Sons & Daughters, Fan-Tan, more
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Record Review
You could say a desire to dig through memories and crawlspaces for artifacts drives this deluxe edition.
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Music Feature
Standing in front and looking through the big twin windows, I try to decide whether the place looks any different these days, but I remember that I'd actually never entered the Comet through the front door.
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Live Review
Malin barked the anthems, dragging his mic stand into the dancing audience. Bacchus added his high-end punch.
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Song of the Week
On habits, breaking the past and the wonderful world of guitar loops
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Music Feature
We asked several musicians, journalists and fans to share their thoughts on Strangers Almanac 11 years after its release.
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Music Feature
For our retrospective on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac, we spoke with founder Ryan Adams via e-mail about the record and the band that made it.
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Music Feature
For our retrospective on Whiskeytown's Strangers Almanac, we spoke with songwriter, violinist and singer Caitlin Cary via e-mail about the band she recorded it with.
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Music Feature
Clippings
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Reading
The collection compels us to see these birdhouses as small relics of human interaction with the land and nature.
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Theater
Compared with the watery domestic beer we're often served on local stages, Howie the Rookie is a single-malt whiskey direct from the old country, as potent as it is intoxicating, served straight, no chaser.
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Interactive Crossword
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Making cookies can be as fun as eating them!
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8 Days a Week
Thomas Cahill at First Presbyterian Church
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Wine Beat
I may forget who was sitting across the table at dinner a decade ago, but I will remember the wines and how they tasted.
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Spotlight
The pair's unflagging spirit wants to have fun, to party, to do what they do best in New Orleans, especially at funerals: to celebrate.
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8 Days a Week
pulsoptional at Local 506; more
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8 Days a Week
Coliseum, Strike Anywhere, Riverboat Gamblers at The Brewery; more
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8 Days a Week
Choreo Collective at Chapel Hill High School; more
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8 Days a Week
Wayne "The Train" Hancock at Berkeley Cafe; more
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8 Days a Week
Stephen Labaton at Duke Campus; more
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8 Days a Week
Love Lived On Death Row at UNC
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8 Days a Week
Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance at Duke; more
