• Issue Archive for
  • Jun 18-25, 2008
  • Vol. 25, No. 25

Food

Film

  • <i>Bigger, Stronger, Faster</i>; <i>Flight of the Red Balloon</i>
  • Bigger, Stronger, Faster; Flight of the Red Balloon

    If a study of steroid use doesn't sound like the recipe for a compelling film, you haven't seen Bigger, Stronger, Faster.
    Why would Hou Hsiao-hsien go off to France and make a Juliette Binoche movie?

News

  • Note to self: Don't download porn at work

    Three local university employees are out of a job after a state investigation revealed they had illegally downloaded materials, including porn, on work computers.
  • Motions favor convicted teen
  • Motions favor convicted teen

    Convicted robber Erick Daniels won another break last week when Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson ordered the Durham Police Department to turn over evidence that could clear Daniels' name.

Columns

  • China time
  • China time

    On a taxi ride from the airport, a man on his hands and knees with a pallet of concrete was building the road we were riding on.

Multimedia

Music

  • Lucy Wainwright Roche returns, with songs
  • Lucy Wainwright Roche returns, with songs

    When Lucy Wainwright Roche lived in Durham in 2003, she was a 22-year-old recent Oberlin College graduate looking to start her post-graduate life in a new city.
  • Thao Nguyen
  • Thao Nguyen

    "I hate those girls, because they're setting us back in 'the movement' hardcore. I do not appreciate anyone who uses their guitar as an ornament."
  • Jimmie's Chicken Shack
  • Jimmie's Chicken Shack

    I think about it, and I don't know if there are one-hit wonders. Usually, if they've written that one good song that has that power behind it that comes through big, I'm going to like something else on there.

Arts

  • Pure, but not simple
  • Pure, but not simple

    John Jasperse, an artist who qualifies as one of the most pensive choreographers working today, would remind us that the adjective "pure," the one-word title of his latest work, is clearly freighted with assumptions that demand close interrogation.
  • The many lives of actor, redneck and congressman Ben Jones
  • The many lives of actor, redneck and congressman Ben Jones

    Jones has been a Southern cavalier of sorts all his life, whether being the poor Southern boy marching for racial justice in Chapel Hill or demanding that The Dukes of Hazzard reflect the South as it existed instead of as created by Hollywood writers and producers.
  • Cooter's America

    Former congressman and television star Ben "Crazy Cooter" Jones talks national politics and self-evaluation

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • Monday 6.23
  • Monday 6.23

    El Ten Eleven; Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan

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