• Issue Archive for
  • Jul 30 - Aug 6, 2008
  • Vol. 25, No. 31

Food

Film

  • The future of China in <i>Up the Yangtze</i>
  • The future of China in Up the Yangtze

    With a level gaze and an utter lack of sentimentality, Up the Yangtze documents the upheaval wrought by the engineering project known as the Three Gorges Dam.

News

  • 38 questions for Homeland Security

    After nearly a year, many questions posed by Raleigh’s Public Utilities Department about a proposed federal disease lab remain unanswered.
  • Bus ridership spikes
  • Bus ridership spikes

    In June, Triangle Transit recorded a 30 percent jump over the similar period in 2007, setting a record ridership of more than 97,000.

Columns

  • Gassed

    Pulling into the gas station these days, I elicit the kind of "What does he do to afford that?" stares normally reserved for those rolling in a Bentley or Ferrari.
  • Extra, extra
  • Extra, extra

    Instead of picking up a roll of fish wrap at the end of my walk, I guess I am now expected to join the Wi-Fi masses over a three-dollar breakfast muffin to squint at an interactive map or slideshow. No thanks.
  • White denial
  • White denial

    What's wrong with Obama? Not much that I can see, not compared to what's wrong with you if you think his election is a threatening proposition.
  • The past in present tense

    The past is still present, whether political pundit Pat Buchanan is speaking in racist code about Barack Obama or the masses are genuflecting before the memory of Jesse Helms.
  • Talking back about Jesse

    Helms was an unabashed racist who did everything he could to deny millions of American citizens their constitutional rights.

Music

  • Sunfold's <i>Toy Tugboats</i>
  • Sunfold's Toy Tugboats

    Rather, the sextet's debut is an imaginative coterie of styles and structures, stretching from big-horizon alternative and skittering electronic circumspection to banjo-based narratives and narcotic jazz reveries.

Arts

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • Sunday 8.03
  • Sunday 8.03

    Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Clang Quartet; more

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