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The Election Page
Wake County Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood ruled against the Libertarian and Green parties, which had sued the State Board of Elections, contending the signature requirements to get on the ballot were onerous and unconstitutional.
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The Election Page
Robin Anderson endorses Donnan in order to defeat the "elevator lady"
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Our guide to this week's shows
Darrell Scott, Darrell Scott, Greg Ginn's Jambang, Dead Confederate, TRKfest, more
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Music Feature
The voices meet, but not as one. This is important: They meet as six individual voices, each with a role to play.
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Song of the Week
On Canada, open doors and the prophets of The Twilight Zone
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Record Review
Warren tells a relationship story that rings universal, and he sells the songs by letting his survivor scars show.
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Record Review
It's not until "Splendid Little War," the 11th and final track on the scowling debut from Durham's The Dry Heathens, that you'll really get Darren Sink, the trio's writer, guitarist and frontman.
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Music Feature
As he's grown up, so have his words (mostly), but he's always been at his best by making his life ours
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Summer Guide
This year's summer guide carries the theme of "recession recreation," and the more we thought about it, the more we determined that the humble bicycle deserves special attention.
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Summer Guide
After practicing with Bruce Rosar for an hour, I am totally comfortable riding among the cars in the center of Cary.
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Summer Guide
Miles Holst, organizer of this Alley Cat race, has designed missions for participants to accomplish as they travel from checkpoint to checkpoint.
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Summer Guide
If you have a couple of hours to kill and some ambition to spare, traveling via bicycle between cities in the Triangle is a good way to go without burning increasingly precious gas.
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Summer Guide
The cheapest and most interesting way to get a bike in the area is through one of the local bicycle co-ops, which tune up old donated bikes and bike parts.
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Summer Guide
A guide to free—or practically free—cultural events.
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Reading
Family Bible's story and description captures a region, brushing off the kissing cousins cliché because in a small Southern town "you can't swing a cat without hitting a cousin."
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Visual Art
The concepts of "creation" and "creator," despite their Old Testament associations, are also set in motion within the gallery space.
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Reading
Even for the most staunch anti-nuclear activist, it's difficult to read A Nuclear Family Vacation and not come away with some sympathy for the people who spent their lives laboring behind barbed-wire fences in the literally subterranean world of nuclear weapons.
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Arts Feature
African-American groups hit hardest, including the African American Dance Ensemble and St. Joseph's Historic Foundation
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Now Serving
Plus: The Flying Burrito reopens after renovations; enjoy dining on a patio at Glasshalfull and, later this summer, at Bloomsbury Bistro; and Pop's delivers
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, May 29, through Friday, June 6
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Film Review
Priceless is pure, unadulterated fluff, but it's gloriously well-crafted fluff. You will rarely see a film as visually arresting as The Fall.
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North Carolina
Women who birth at home don't have epidurals, maintain much more autonomy over their own movement, and play a far more active role in the management of their own labor.
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North Carolina
State Rep. W.A. "Winkie" Wilkins has introduced a bill that would appropriate $25 million for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility. His brother, Mike Wilkins, belongs to a group lobbying for the lab to be sited in Butner.
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Wake County
The forlorn shopping cart, ditched at the bus stop, on the street corner or in the ravine, finds its way home.
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Wake County
Six newsroom staffers take buyouts, but McClatchy's debt will demand more.
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Front Porch
At 9 years old, a drive on a dirt road in my granddad's car was enough of a scenery change that I had a hard time paying attention to the view past the roadside ditches.
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Gallery
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Keep Cool with Spicy Beef and Mango Salad!
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Giveaways
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8 Days a Week
J. Bully and Carolina Crusha
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8 Days a Week
Wattstax; more
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8 Days a Week
Elegies at Oakwood Cemetery; more
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8 Days a Week
N.C. WARN Dance Party & Raffle; more
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8 Days a Week
Madama Butterfly
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8 Days a Week
Nicholas Dawidoff
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8 Days a Week
Amanda Lamb
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8 Days a Week
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