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The Election Page
Barack Obama kicked off his economic policy tour in Raleigh, saying "It's time to try something new. The seriousness of the moment tells us we can't afford not to try."
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Now Serving
Plus: Saladelia replacing Starbucks at American Tobacco; South becoming French
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Locavore Cooking
Grilled fish and roasted beet salad make light summer suppers refreshingly easy
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Dance
The fantastic parabolas still astound us in the major passages, fiery catapultings of energy, illustrated with less monochromatic paints this time. But Shen's summation at the end seems significantly more internal, self-absorbed—and qualified as a result.
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Reading
Dubus' visceral prose immerses the reader in a world that many other writers would have overlooked or backed away from. Rather than varnishing his characters, he honors them the best way a writer can: by making them conflicted and complex.
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On the Boards
What force, what necessity would it take to make you walk across a desert 1,100 square miles in area?
- by Byron Woods, Megan Stein and Zack Smith
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Arts Feature
The tournament has been running for a month, and this Friday, four finalists—the final four, as it were—will go toe to toe to claim the right to be called the best comic of the Carolinas.
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Music Feature
Orquesta GarDel represents the Triangle's ethnic mix—and (we hope) the sound of Carolina salsa to come
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Record Review
Through a series of loving-or-leaving pronouncements, The Proclivities' second proper full-length documents frontman Matt Douglas' duals better than ever before.
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Live Review
As the band bounced between eras Tuesday night, it was not as if Accelerate were written 20 years ago, but as if Murmur were penned today.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Enter the Haggis, The Grappling Hook, Maria Taylor, Don Dixon & the Jump Rabbits, Killer Filler, more
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Song of the Week
Chuck Prophet on cowriting, his father-in-law and the brilliant lyrics of Peaches
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Latin Beat
"Some people think that Mexicans are the only people coming to North Carolina. That is not true. And I would like for people to understand and learn a little bit more about our cultures."
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Music Feature
Rock historians, hopeful romantics, new parents: Raleigh's Goner lets go and turns in its best album yet
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Film Review
False villains, false heroes, false everything—how the photographs Morris explores in Standard Operating Procedure tell a false story
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, June 12, through Friday, June 20.
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Video
At stake is the title and an $800 cash prize. Second place will garner $200. The other two will win $20, or as Ward says, a friendly invitation to buy a couple of beers.
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Orange County
Chapel Hill Town Council members voted 8-1 in favor of a pilot program for publicly financed elections.
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Q&A
Tom Bonfield, the manager of Pensacola, Fla., is expected to start work no later than Sept. 1.
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Durham County
Arts supporters won major victories Monday night when the Durham City Council restored funding that had been cut in its preliminary 2008-09 budget.
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Durham County
Voorhees' interest elsewhere signals changes at City Hall
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Gallery
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Front Porch
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slapped us back to the reality known as George W. Bush in 2008.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
It doesn't matter who's right if you're dead.
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Letters to the Editor
Pittsboro is actually not an antiquing town any more: It is becoming a truly inspiring arts and crafts mecca.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
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Byron Woods
What once was an austere announcement to the world now seems something else—something, just possibly, with more than a trace of narcissism in it.
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Byron Woods
Do Shen Wei's revisions improve Connect Transfer?
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8 Days a Week
Farmer Appreciation Community Potluck
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Wine Beat
Why has this non-Californian wine property achieved such stellar results? One explanation could be that the winery hovers on the 46 parallel, the same latitude as Bordeaux.
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8 Days a Week
Joe Scudda, Chaundon, Jozeemo, M-1 Platoon; more
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8 Days a Week
Tripsichore; more
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8 Days a Week
Peter Pan Saturdays; more
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8 Days a Week
The Bluerunners
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8 Days a Week
W. Hodding Carter
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8 Days a Week
Ingrid Michaelson; more
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8 Days a Week
Double Muslims, Grasslung
