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News Feature
"Google Maps reduces the world to a bunch of automobile pipes. I don't want to think of my world only in terms of streets," Denis Wood says.
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North Carolina
The Department of Homeland Security justified building federal disease research lab on the mainland United States based on an inaccurate study; the agency has also withheld documents related to the project from government investigators.
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North Carolina
Small-farm advocates, public health officials, representatives of the dairy industry and—perhaps most of all—drinkers of unprocessed milk all have their eyes on two bills expected to move through the N.C. General Assembly this session.
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North Carolina
With the governor's race wide open and the state strapped by a recession, the budget will get plenty of political tinkering.
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North Carolina
"We're concerned about groundwater contamination and well water," Hope Taylor said, adding she believes local industries aren't adequately pretreating their water before it arrives at SGWASA.
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Gallery
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Religious Left
Another North Carolina death-row inmate is exonerated; a former death-house chaplain speaks out against capital punishment; a bill brews in the legislature that would address the racial issues in executions.
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Letters to the Editor
No student is being kicked out. No student who has been accepted will be refused admittance.
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
The most fun for me, besides those fresh tomato sandwiches, are the surprise, bonus plants that pop up.
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The Election Page
Despite opposition from a council member who bankrolled his campaign, publicly financed elections gain favor as a way to level the playing field for less affluent political hopefuls
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Record Review
Where Annuals takes cues from the kitchen-sink, simmer-and-swell indie crowd, Sunfold refocuses '90s alternative rock with the familiar tools.
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Record Review
On first listen, Chapel Hill quartet Tripp will sound like radio-ready bar rock, its big guitar solos and tight, monolithic rhythm section darting around or driving behind hooks preened for popular play.
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Music Feature
Gone are the band's traditional verse-chorus structures, replaced by gentler, melodic interludes and experimental soundscapes.
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Song of the Week
Exene Cervenka on timeless music, living conditions and life on the road again
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Our guide to this week's shows
Kylesa, Duran Duran, Nathan Asher & the Infantry, Fighting Poseidon, The Kickass, more
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Music Feature
Denmark's more desirable venues are supported by public funds, and most musicians are part of a nationwide union. The pay for playing in Denmark, then, is high—generally, $250 per musician per show—but shows themselves are limited.
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Music Briefs
K.T. Kelly wants to make The Double Down as open to local bands of all genres as Kings Barcade once was.
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Visual Art
Becca Albee has been asking for beauty tips from friends, family, distant acquaintances and gallery goers. Nathaniel Hester channels Henri Matisse from the studio on his farm in Person County.
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Theater
When 50 men are cast as grooms trying to escape an equal number of unusually insistent brides, Mee's discourse on coercion is burlesqued into an odd conflation: say, Bridezillas meets Sadie Hawkins Day.
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Reading
On Account of Conspicuous Women is a picturesque, historically thoughtful look at four young women who become friends in 1920—a time when women, recently armed with the right to vote, faced the new challenge of proving their equality with men.
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On the Boards
Even if there are facets of the production that could use a little 409, Ruhl's wonderful script—and Deep Dish's mostly sturdy production of it—are worth seeing.
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Film Review
The new film is like so many other fantasy-spectaculars nowadays in that it leads us relentlessly toward a cyclone of action and effects that inevitably buries all meaning and possibility under the weight of overdetermined conventions.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, May 22, through Friday, May 30
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Locavore Cooking
Of all the sights and smells that suggest summer is on its way for sure, succulent, glistening strawberries top the list.
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Now Serving
Plus: Grilling at Whole Foods in Raleigh and Taste of Durham
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Easy Gluten-free Corn Dogs for Memorial Day!
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8 Days a Week
Rachel Campbell
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Spotlight
Pollack's death Monday, May 26, at age 73 represents the passing of a true film raconteur and accomplished director.
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8 Days a Week
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents; more
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8 Days a Week
Mike Farrell; more
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8 Days a Week
Dropsonic, The Needles; more
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8 Days a Week
Hanging by a Thread; more
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8 Days a Week
The Families of Abraham
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8 Days a Week
James Taylor
