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Record Review
While handclaps and upbeat tempos make for songs that sound cheery, the record's not all sunshine and smiles lyrically.
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Song of the Week
DP Holmes on riffs, sludge and the difficulties of being creative on the road
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Cy Rawls
"There were bands he really liked, but Cy seemed to be a fan of music."
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The Year in Music
We sat Max Indian and Brooks Wood Band at the same dinner table and asked them to think out loud about the costs and benefits of being a band right here, right now.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Invisible Hand, L.E.G.A.C.Y.'s 7th annual birthday bash, Curtains of Night, Kenny Roby, Django Haskins, Wax Fang, Hot Tuna, Tab Benoit, The Strugglers, more
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The Year in Music
This list gathers the year's work by bands from the Triangle or regional acts who consider this area their second home.
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The Year in Music
Tracks 1-10 (A-Ch) of the Triangle's 40 best songs of 2008
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The Year in Music
Tracks 11-20 (Co-G) of the Triangle's 40 best songs of 2008
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The Year in Music
Tracks 21-30 (H-Pa) of the Triangle's 40 best songs of 2008
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The Year in Music
Tracks 31-40 (Ph-W) of the Triangle's 40 best songs of 2008
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Theater
This time out, Ira David Wood's topical targets include the financial meltdown, Sarah Palin, auto executives, Facebook and, relatively esoterically, Mary Easley.
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Visual Art
The most vital element in this show is the layered dynamism that Cook maintains in her dialogue.
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On the Boards
By the end of the night, opener John Bowman had done something Lewis Black failed to do—deliver the unexpected.
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Theater
Feste gets the final line: "We'll strive to please you every day." If the run of this Twelfth Night continues as it began, the cast will have succeeded in this pledge.
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Now Serving
Gift cards or certificates; locally made edibles; tickets to a food-related event; cooking classes; food-related merchandise
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Locavore Cooking
Recipes: Carrot and Lentil Soup, Sweet Potato Pie
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Dec. 11, through Friday, Dec. 19
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Film Review
Milk plays so carefully to as big an audience as possible that it betrays its very subject matter.
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Film Review
In the opening scene, a game-show contestant is tortured and interrogated by police suspicious that he has cheated his way to the final question and a chance to win 20 million rupees.
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Film Review
Alien emissary Klaatu and his metallic bodyguard Gort visit Earth to wage war against mankind's penchant for self-destruction via global warming. Really.
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North Carolina
Six months after electing to go on strike over the number of hours they would be required to work, the unionized employees of Moncure Plywood are no closer to returning to their jobs.
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Durham County
Seven of the cameras work only at night. Just four operate with any consistency.
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News Feature
"The community system"—a political and economic structure that produces more low-wage jobs than it does affordable housing—also produces rhetorical support, but so far no business or political champion, to fight to end homelessness.
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Front Porch
Ah, the holiday card picture.
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Letters to the Editor
Those chumps at the "big" media have nothing on you guys.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Steven Petrow
The lessons of Milk are being lost to the newest generation of the LGBT community.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Holiday fun can be tasty too!
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Giveaways
Win 2 tickets to the Bob Margolin Blues Show at the Papa Mojo's Roadhouse!
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Giveaways
Win tickets to A Very Special Acoustic Performance by Bryan Adams!!
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8 Days a Week
Knitting as subversion; more
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8 Days a Week
A Child's Christmas in Wales
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8 Days a Week
The Santaland Diaries; A Trailer Park Christmas; more
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8 Days a Week
Cool John Ferguson; more
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8 Days a Week
Birds of Avalon; more
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8 Days a Week
Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
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8 Days a Week
Dub Trio
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8 Days a Week
Harry Connick Jr.
