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Durham County
Gates today, alligator-filled moats tomorrow
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Orange County
When, without so much as a notice, the church erected a ballfield complete with stadium-quality lights that shine in her bedroom window and block out the stars of the night sky, she decided that enough was enough.
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News Feature
The Capital Area Homeless Veterans Stand Down event provides free food, clothing, blankets and packs, plus help finding medical services, housing, jobs and educational programs.
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Wake County
On Monday, Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker will announce his decision about running again in October, and several excellent sources say he will run.
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North Carolina
House Bill 88 would offer comprehensive sex education to students across the state.
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Wake County
"My contention would be that if you put [Wake and Charlotte-Mecklenburg's programs] together, you'd have the most powerful effects on student outcomes."
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Orange County
YWC is a self-styled "right-wing youth movement" founded in 2008 to "create a subculture that will promote the survival of Western Civilization and pride in Western heritage" on college campuses.
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News Feature
N.C.'s most successful mental health programs for children, the Wright and Whitaker schools, are on the chopping block.
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Orange County
Capital costs are spread out over 20 years, making it impossible to compare the contractual risks of hiring a private contractor with the long-term costs of investing in a county-run facility.
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Front Porch
It was tempting to see Maggie Valley bootlegger Popcorn Sutton as a tourist attraction, a kind of moonshiner Buffalo Bill who parlayed a colorful past into a commercial identity based on nostalgia for a lost era.
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Living Green
The National Gardening Association estimates that more than 70 percent of Americans garden, whether it's indoor or out.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
What have we done for Mexican, African and American Indian slaves? I would argue not much.
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Baseball
When the Tampa Bay Rays won the American League pennant last year and stepped into the World Series spotlight, everything changed for the Durham Bulls.
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Soccer
The team has had mixed results during the preseason.
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Song of the Week
Tom Gabel on war, The Watchmen and Against Me!'s new record
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Record Review
Front-runner for local album of the year
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Music Feature
By day, Ken Friedman directs a molecular genetics program; by night, he compiles N.C.'s lost musical gems.
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Our guide to this week's shows
An Horse, Of Montreal, Bowerbirds, Bombadil, Joe Bell & the Stinging Blades, Mark Holland's Rhythm Force, more
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Record Review
Three tracks are premieres, but another is an acoustic demo of the contagious lead tune, "Learned to Surf," while the other is the first widespread release of "Misfits and Mistakes," a punchy little classic cut in 2007 as a limited-edition seven-inch for a cartoon soundtrack.
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Record Review
Both for its peculiar band name and for oddball track titles like "Vodka Grasshopper" and "O.R.G.Y.," Hammer's earned a reputation for its quirks.
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Record Review
9th's cottony bassline gives Pooh the comfort to use the track as a confession booth and finally uncover many of the details about the Little Brother-9th split that everyone's been harassing the three guys about for years.
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Record Review
While 2004's Lose Your Favorite Things was a fine album, it wasn't nearly as polished or crafted as this.
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Visual Art
In addition to depleted uranium, the displayed paintings and sculptures include other potentially incendiary materials: blood, human bones, gunpowder, Cuban cigars, poppy seeds and unpasteurized milk.
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Casual Observer
"The inherent problem with college girls is that they chicken out," he says. "Duke girls especially. We only had one State girl back out."
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Theater
Would you be willing to modify a text that is nearly sacred to legions of Jane Austen worshipers and premiere it opposite the Final Four and while the actor who most perfectly embodied Mr. Darcy was sporting around nearby? No, me neither.
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On the Boards
Duke's take on Exit the King ranks as an inventive and imaginative look at the dying of the light, and what happens when there's nothing left to rage against.
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Film Review
We know that we must never forget, but One Day challenges us to realize a less tenable reality: that we might never understand.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, April 9, through Friday, April 17
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Now Serving
Durham Inner-City Gardeners Pie Social and Skill-Sharing Silent Auction; A Taste of Home benefit; Doughman benefit
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Food Feature
Robert Kenner's film is a damning look at a food system that treats its animals, farmers and workers little better than the commodities of corn, wheat and soy that form the basis of most foodstuffs lining grocery store shelves.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Award winners, André Leon Talley, Hoop Dreams and more
- by David Fellerath, Marc Maximov and Matt Saldaña
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Who's hopping for carrot cake?
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8 Days a Week
Amy Goodman
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8 Days a Week
Maria Taylor; more
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8 Days a Week
Manchild 4; more
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8 Days a Week
David Sedaris; more
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8 Days a Week
Fancy Free
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8 Days a Week
The Omega Man
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8 Days a Week
The Monti StorySlam; more
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8 Days a Week
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
