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Election Results
The top Democratic nominees are all conservative, pro-business Democrats in the Basnight mold: Perdue, Hagan, Dalton.
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Election Results
Provisional ballots narrow gaps in the Durham Commission race, but don't change results
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Election Results
Chatham County voters sent a mixed message in last week's Democratic primary, choosing one winner from each of the slates vying for two commissioners' seats in a race that has left both sides dissecting the results a week later.
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The Election Page
Last year, the state legislature authorized the council to launch "voter-owned" elections for the 2009 and 2011 mayoral and council contests.
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Now Serving
Plus: Chapel Hill Wine Company and Chapel Hill Creamery's even features Spanish wine and locally made cheese; gormet popcorn now available at The Mad Popper; and great local food on The Biscuit blog.
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Film Review
Young@Heart warms the soul. With any luck, Then She Found Me will be only the first film of Hunt's directing career.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, May 15, through Friday, May 23
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News Feature
Who wins, who loses in neighborhood revitalization?
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Q&A
"After a five-year presence of the most powerful military in the world, Iraq is a very violent place in great measure because of our presence."
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Wake County
A judge has ruled against 19 Cary citizens who fought a 42-acre mixed-use development planned for a corner of Davis Drive and High House Road.
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The Monitor
Under a new law, funding has dried up—and the cable industry opposes an attempt to save it
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
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Letters to the Editor
To many of us, it seems a bit hard to justify the suggestion that a serving elected official with a 20-year record of progressive public service should have quit a race because a first-time candidate wanted the same post.
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Editorial
After all, who will pick our tomatoes, prune our bushes and wash dishes 60 hours a week for less than minimum wage?
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Peripheral Visions
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Slide Shows
Polvo takes to the Cat's Cradle stage for the first time in a decade
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Live Review
As Polvo took the stage, the fans were eager for the return of one of the most distinctive, influential bands to emerge in the 1990s indie rock scene, and that's what they got. Sort of.
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Song of the Week
On surviving, advancing and the psychology of hooks
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Record Review
Forty radiates a calm confidence, the wisdom of a veteran matched by the genuinely youthful joy of discovery.
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Record Review
The songs on Fear of Flying, largely about the pains of both disconnect and intimacy with family members, spill entrails across near empty backdrops, rarely making much musical progress.
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Music Briefs
Plus: Katharine Whalen's band Lucky; Rachel VanSlyke bikes her tour; and RebusFest brings a full pail of Raleigh rock
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Music Feature
The Bleeding Hearts were born to be badasses, liars or both.
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Music Feature
The night of its first show in a decade, half of Polvo talks the next stage
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Our guide to this week's shows
Kenny Roby's Mercy Filter, Bell X1, Thrill Kill Kult, Helmet, Southern Culture on the Skids, Red Stick Ramblers, more
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Live Review
If you can imagine watching Die Hard, Star Wars and Cirque de Soleil simultaneously, with Kanye as Bono as Han Solo, you've begun to approach the intensity of spectacle that informs his live show.
- by Brian Howe and Grayson Currin
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Casual Observer
The Saturday before the North Carolina primary, in the wake of local Obama rallies with attendance in the thousands, around 200 dedicated supporters of cannabis dot the lawn of the State Capitol building in Raleigh.
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Reading
There's a scene early on in Daughters of the North that is so viscerally horrifying that it functions as a useful shorthand for the novel's dystopia as a whole.
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Visual Art
The mere fact that basic, plain old drawing materials like charcoal and pastel can still present endless possibilities of expression truly moves me in this, our most overtly digital age.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Loco for Fish Tacos!!
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8 Days a Week
John Darnielle
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Wine Beat
A recent wine tasting in Cary was one of just six stops on Frederick Wildman & Sons' Grand Tour 2008.
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8 Days a Week
First Blood; more
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8 Days a Week
Pin Projekt; more
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8 Days a Week
Artsplosure; more
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8 Days a Week
The Sociologist, The Architect and the Twisting Tower; more
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8 Days a Week
Yo Majesty
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8 Days a Week
PaganFest; more
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8 Days a Week
Beloved Binge, Grappling Hook
