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Music Feature
"Music is communal. Every song is co-written, whether you like it or not. I think life is co-written."
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Record Review
To commemorate his newfound single status and to clear the slush pile for new output, Greg Humphreys has released a dozen recordings that had gathered dust for several years.
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Live Review
After releasing two stellar and celebrated albums in four years, The Foreign Exchange has every right to make its live debut in its home state an aggressive, ambitious affair.
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Our guide to this week's shows
The Loners, Pinche Gringo, Annihilation Time, Hayes Carll, John Evans Band, O'Death, Megafaun, The Prayers & Tears, The Rosebuds, Savage Knights, Blankface, more
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Music Feature
We asked our critics to think about the sounds they've heard this year and offer a reflection on which album meant the most—not necessarily as a critic who's listening and responding, but as a person who's hearing and living.
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Citizen Awards
The Indy's Citizen Awards honor people and groups whose activism has positively impacted their communities, whether it's one neighborhood, a city or several counties.
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Citizen Awards
WakeUP Wake County, a citizen organization with clout on the county's explosive growth issues, sputtered until Raleigh's Karen Rindge came along and took the reins.
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Citizen Awards
One by one, the Granville Non-violent Action Team has persuaded most, if not all, elected officials to withdraw their support or actively oppose siting the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Butner.
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Citizen Awards
Arrington is director of the Coalition to Unchain Dogs, a Durham-based nonprofit charged with a mission that seems contradictory: "We build dogs fences to set them free."
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Citizen Awards
In nearly 800 posts on Endangered Durham, Kueber forces us to consider our development choices, and the way we view the Bull City.
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Citizen Awards
"Women need fellowship," Edwards says. "We need a place where we can come and be, and get built up. And it needs to be somewhere outside of a church, just the girls getting together in a safe place."
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On the Boards
It's not in the league of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but Redheaded Robbie is a harmless and diverting tale for small children.
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Reading
Spill grapples with the spiritual, finding it in uncommon places, especially in the commonplace and everyday.
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Theater
UNC Opera tackles Tirésias with the appropriate gusto, underscoring its gaudiness and slapstick.
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Locavore Cooking
I'm no expert on risotto, but I love it and make it enough to appreciate an expert touch when I see it.
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Now Serving
Plus: The Carolina Food Experiment; Black Friday Beer Festival
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Nov. 27, through Friday, Dec. 5
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Film Review
With Australia, a sprawling historical romantic melodrama, Luhrmann revives another once-robust genre.
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Film Review
The opening of JCVD is a marvel; alas, none of the directorial artistry displayed in the opening is in evidence for the rest of the film.
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North Carolina
"Once a decision is reached, I will direct the Department of Correction to proceed under an appropriate set of rules that abides by the Court's judgment," Governor-elect Perdue says.
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News Feature
It's going on five years since the City of Raleigh, Wake County, and the Triangle United Way and other social services agencies agreed to develop a 10-year "action plan" to end homelessness.
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North Carolina
Competition is coming to the North Carolina cable television market—though not to the Triangle, yet.
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News Feature
I asked Gary about job interviews. "I lay out what I can do. I don't feed 'em a bunch of bull like a lot of people do, and then you find out they can't do what they say they can."
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News Feature
When I met Joe five years ago, his days of high-paying work as a computer programmer were over.
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News Feature
"My main problem," Dan tells me, "is that I need a job."
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Living Green
To reduce your carbon footprint, shop locally at the many Triangle stores that carry green items.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
My neighbors sometimes joke about their "gay lifestyle" of soccer matches and karate lessons, laundry and homework.
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Letters to the Editor
John Edwards screwed up royally in his private life, but he did not cause the deaths of countless human beings or the financial ruin of countless others.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
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8 Days a Week
Australia; more
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8 Days a Week
Titans vs. Lions; more
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8 Days a Week
Handel's Messiah; more
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8 Days a Week
The Ramblers
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8 Days a Week
B.B. King
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8 Days a Week
Snowden; more
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8 Days a Week
Chicago; more
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8 Days a Week
Lewis Black
