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Durham County
Earlier this month, the Peoples Intergalactic Food Conspiracy sold its building on West Chapel Hill Street to Nick Hawthorne-Johnson and his mother, Hettie Johnson, who plan to open an acupuncture clinic.
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National
Jan. 20 at noon is the beginning.
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North Carolina
Inauguration dispatches posted below
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The Count
4,226 U.S. troops killed
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North Carolina
Whatever's happening, Gov. Perdue said, especially if it's bad, she wants to know it as soon as anyone who works for her knows it. Or else, she went on, they won't be working for her.
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Wake County
In the first-ever exemption to protections established in the 1980s to control stormwater flooding and protect the city's drinking source, Raleigh's elected officials voted 6-1 to allow a charter school to build inside a natural resource buffer of Falls Lake.
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Durham County
In letter, DDI President Bill Kalkhof explains reasons for 45-member board decision
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National
Highbrow, lowbrow, socially conscious and sheer clean fun
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National
A group of bike riders from Raleigh and a Peace Corps volunteer from Durham will join the throng cheering the new president Jan. 20.
- by Jennifer Strom and Kelly Behling
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National
How several Triangle residents will be spending the day
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National
A dozen Triangle residents have donated nearly $230,000 to President Barack Obama's inaugural committee.
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Letters to the Editor
"I have been most impressed with the movie reviews in the Independent."
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Front Porch
There was December, a total crazy quilt of deadlines and wondrous events. Here is January, a tabula rasa of opportunity stretching into the unknown.
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First Person
Will we all come together around Rick Warren when he calls on his God?
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Living Green
At walkscore.com, type in a street address to calculate the neighborhood's walkability—proximity to groceries, cafes, libraries and other amenities.
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Record Review
If Vernon's sound has progressed, what hasn't changed is his elegiac mood, as he's still stuck on that forever-ago time.
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Our guide to this week's shows
The New Favorites, Freedom Hawk, Colossus, Los Campesinos!, Titus Andronicus, Kickin Grass, The Whistlestop, Schooner, Ghost to Falco, Embarrassing Fruits, Nanci Griffith, K-Hill, Longwave, Randy Rogers Band, Keller Williams, Yarn, Transportation, Joe Romeo, The Explorers Club, The Huguenots
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Song of the Week
Gareth on recording, writing from misery and making drunken passes
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Music Feature
God's Pottery puts the comedy first through characters, while Hamell on Trial appeals to emotions through very personal reflections.
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Record Review
Birds & Arrows spins songs from domestic images like the blue flickering flame of a gas burner and the trove of persistent memories that remain like love's kindling.
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Theater
In Souvenir, a woman who couldn't sing; in Hamlet, a man who couldn't decide
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Reading
Hamlet—the dead son, the missing person, the great fugitive—escapes our grasp and absconds with the key to our mortality, in flight toward the next generation.
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Film Review
The irony is that as we forge more avenues of escape, the more difficult it is to escape the trappings of convention.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Jan. 15, through Friday, Jan. 23
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Film Review
This WWII film is a trite clunker helmed by a director with no chops, and its awards-season release and pretensions to profundity are downright embarrassing.
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Food Feature
Muttering something about the ignorance of the city-bred, my husband began to wax poetic about the mystical goodness of his mother's persimmon pudding.
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Now Serving
It's time to stop hoovering cookies like it's mid-December, consider healthier food and maybe even ... learn something?
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Locavore Cooking
Stewing a hen is not as straightforward as you might think.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
If you’re having a party
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8 Days a Week
Bryan Adams
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8 Days a Week
Escultura Social; more
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8 Days a Week
Girlyman; more
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8 Days a Week
Santa Monica '72, aka Goodtime Charlie
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8 Days a Week
Mute
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8 Days a Week
Henry Alford
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8 Days a Week
Rent; more
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8 Days a Week
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power
