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Locavore Cooking
Victory gardens sprouted up everywhere in the U.K. and the U.S. during and after World War II.
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Now Serving
Plus: bittycakes at Cafe Helios; Péché de Chocolat; Dos Taquitos Centro
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Film Review
The emergence of a sprightly talent from France is something to celebrate. A certain sclerosis has taken hold in the country that produced Jean Renoir and Francois Truffaut.
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calendar
Times are good from Thursday, April 30, through Friday, May 8
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Chatham County
Citizens have the chance to agree or disagree with a change that would allow hard liquor by the glass in Chatham establishments.
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Wake County
Three months after approving the first exemption to a stormwater rule that protects Falls Lake, Raleigh officials now say that a watercourse standing in the way of a proposed charter school in North Raleigh never existed.
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North Carolina
Mass transit in the Triangle took a major step forward last week with the passage of House Bill 148, which contains the local option for a half-cent sales tax for transit.
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News Feature
"This goes beyond McClatchy. It's our whole industry, there's a lack of creative vision for how our content is going to reach people in a way that's going to make money." —Jason Arthurs, laid-off N&O photojournalist
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Wake County
Because of the rapidity of the cases, investigators believe some type of chemical or toxin was involved, but they won't know more until test results come back in another week or so.
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News Feature
A handful of local media outlets represent emerging business and reporting models people in journalism are discussing.
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News Feature
At heart, Gillmor believes journalism is a practice, one that works best when done collaboratively, and one that citizens in a democracy can and should learn.
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Living Green
Just because it's party season doesn't mean we should forget all that we've been celebrating with Earth Day.
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Letters to the Editor
"Wishing that more gun control laws could help us or Mexico is an act of anger, desperation and childishness."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
My 23-year stellar work history did not matter to the $6 billion corporation that deployed my manager to my office on a Monday morning to lay me off.
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Song of the Week
Brian Fallon on team colors, the mysterious Jackson and turning up the cool
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Our guide to this week's shows
Jake Shimabukuro, Whatever Brains, Hammer No More the Fingers, The Love Language, Americans in France, Sweet By and By, Tom Paxton, Jeff Hart Combo, Don Casual, Cursive, Man Man, Jordan Lake Music Festival, more
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Record Review
Captured last November in a British church built with tawny stone in the 19th century, Merritt's second live recording restores the soft focus to her romantic songwriting and Southern-sundamaged voice.
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Listening with...
Aside from drumming in more than a dozen rock bands, Walsby has long chronicled his adventures in and observations of rock 'n' roll in black-and-white, ink-and-paper cartoons.
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Record Review
With its precise balance of complex song structures and swift, fluid changes in tone and time, Durham's Grappling Hook is a band for a live audience.
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Record Review
While Doco are far from "coming original" on The Fossil Record, the studio album is rarely the best artifact of a group that prides itself on a fun live performance.
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Theater
Under Emily Ranii's empathic direction, actor Elizabeth Huffman conveys nuanced portrayals of complex women for whom the war is far from over.
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Lit Local
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned has earned lavish praise from all corners. The New York Times published a pair of raves, one from the reliably captious staff reviewer Michiko Kakutani and another from the celebrity literary critic Edmund White.
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Visual Art
Dave Sinkiewicz's tour de force sets a very high standard before you even enter the museum.
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Lit Local
From our archives: Wells Tower profiles Celebrity Dairy, the goat farm and bed and breakfast in Siler City, N.C.
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Lit Local
From our archives: Wells Tower writes about the regulars at a small biker bar near Cary
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
We are giving away tickets to the Durham Bulls 2009 games!
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Rich & Easy!
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8 Days a Week
Coppelia; more
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8 Days a Week
Reynolds Price; more
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8 Days a Week
Mike Epps and Friends; more
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8 Days a Week
The Mallarmé Chamber Players; more
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8 Days a Week
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, ZAZA
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8 Days a Week
The Wizard of Oz
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8 Days a Week
The Gaslight Anthem
