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Election Results
The power of money and the consequences of diluting the progressive vote
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Election Results
Durham County among highest voter turnout in the state; Triangle average is 47 percent
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Election Results
With help from Andy Griffith, the pro-business, conservative Democrats prevail in the state's most powerful offices
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Election Results
Big real estate money sent the land transfer tax down in flames, an incumbent state senator beat her better-funded rival, and the county commissioner’s race heads for a run-off.
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Election Results
Support from the Durham Committee on Affairs of Black People transforms underdogs into winners
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The Election Page
One day before the May 6 primary election, the Green and Libertarian parties sparred with the state in court over onerous requirements to appear on North Carolina's ballot.
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Election Results
Complete but unofficial results of the primary elections
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Live Review
Stakes seem necessarily high when one of the biggest independent rock bands in the world, Arcade Fire, and a band that usually only plays two shows a year, Superchunk, come to N.C. to play two consecutive shows.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Death Angel, Soilent Green, The Cave Singers, the everybodyfields, John Darnielle, Thrones, Blood on the Wall, Earth, In the Year of the Pig, more
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Music Briefs
Following last week's announcement that Downtown Event Center had closed its doors, the space's landlord says his company will attempt to start its own music club.
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Album of the Month
On this remix, The Rosebuds remained a rock-based band, but added heavy disco and new wave inflections.
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Listening with...
Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers is the sort you want to talk music with.
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Record Review
Were it not for the comical shadings of Chaundon's punchline collection, we'd be calling him a jerk instead of the jaunty giant he renders on Carnage.
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Song of the Week
On Baltimore, positivity and getting out of Australia
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Record Review
One gets the feeling B.J. Barham lives his life in search of a song, looking for an experience to fold into lyrics.
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Record Review
An instrumental band can display wit, via resourceful playing, clever titling, and even inspired motto-ing.
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Dish
When it comes to eating locally, we are rich in supply and plentiful in demand. The problem is that it can be tough to connect the two.
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Dish
The journey from farm to table is filled with obstacles, but help is on the way
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Dish
Organic grains are in high demand—and low supply
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Dish
People who are smoothing the road to real food
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Favorite Things
Steven Millhauser's prose is dreamily lucid. It alights on one vivid image after another, in a staccato rhythm, unfolding with a relentless internal logic.
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On the Boards
The Clean House is a deftly written, impish play that delights in its own playfulness. Liberty Warehouse's barn-like acoustics too frequently play havoc with @ liberty's most delicate weavings of words.
- by Megan Stein and Byron Woods
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Reading
The book is divided into sections that examine aspects of Southern eating, such as Lowcountry cooking, sugar and the South, "folk" foodways and what "downhome" really means when it comes to the kitchen.
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Visual Art
The artists in this exhibition are deserving of serious consideration, but, in this one show, something fell through the cracks
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Now Serving
Plus: monthly wine dinners at The Franklin Hotel; Wine Authorities hosts a seafood cooking demonstration and wine tasting
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, May 8, through Friday, May 16
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Film Review
Style, in any case, is where Wong puts most of his energy in My Blueberry Nights. Redbelt is bizarre.
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Slide Shows
For the first time in recent memory, North Carolina voters had a chance to affect the outcome of the primary race for the presidency of the United States.
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North Carolina
North Carolina taxpayers could chip in $25 million for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility, a federal disease research lab proposed for Butner.
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The Count
4,071 U.S. troops killed
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Durham County
Convicted robber Erick Daniels won another chance to prove his innocence claims last week when a superior court judge granted him a hearing that could overturn his conviction and lead to a new trial.
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Q&A
As part of Durham County's emission reduction plan, officials recently hired Tobin Freid as its sustainability coordinator, whose job is to educate business, government, industry and residents on cutting these emissions.
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North Carolina
For the foreseeable future, public transit in the Triangle will be on a bus. The commuter trains and streetcars imagined in the STAC process are at least a decade away, and for the trains, two decades or more.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
Driving home Thursday nights, I just can't help noticing those special guys (and women, too, OK?) who are shaming us by already mowing their lawns, getting a 36-hour jump on the weekend.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Show Mom you love her with pancakes in bed on Mother’s Day!
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8 Days a Week
Hanson
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8 Days a Week
Night Huntress
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8 Days a Week
Paul Gentille; more
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8 Days a Week
Colossus, Thunderlip; more
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8 Days a Week
Taiwanese dances; more
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8 Days a Week
Tony Horwitz; more
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8 Days a Week
Ladyhawk, Neva Dinova; more
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8 Days a Week
Special hearing on death penalty
