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Now Serving
Plus: Foster's Market's porch cookout series; Herons' terrace cocktail parties; Raleigh Times' Top 50 burgers; Epicurious Vino Challenge fundraiser
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Summer Guide
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." —Steven Wright
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Summer Guide
From 2,000 feet, one can't discern issues with groundwater pollution, the strains on the watershed created by overdevelopment, the unending arguments over the safety of nuclear power.
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Summer Guide
On a recent Sunday, I drove from Durham to downtown Raleigh and went, on foot, wherever the wind blows.
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Summer Guide
The ostrich-necked, fan-tailed fish hunter also known as a water turkey, or anhinga, typically resides in the bayous of Louisiana and Florida.
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Summer Guide
All was fine for the first seven miles, a beautiful, flat, tree-lined route, passing creeks and swamps. Then I hit the Chatham County line.
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Summer Guide
I've never been to Jock Road. I didn't know it existed until a horse standing as still as the day itself caught my eye as my car shot by on a smoothly paved country road.
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Summer Guide
Something to divert the shade-seeking, contemplative summer minds of everyone
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Summer Guide
Music, theater, literary events and more for now through August
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Film Review
One of the most profound things about this movie is the way it captures pitching prospect Miguel "Sugar" Santos' intense feelings of loneliness as he moves from the Dominican Republic to stay with a family of teetotalers in rural Iowa.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, May 21, through Friday, May 29
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Q&A
It was the 1976 decision by Raleigh and Wake County to merge and then establish the policy that every school would be racially balanced that made Raleigh the "hope" of other American cities.
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North Carolina
During the same week that North Carolina's death penalty cleared a significant legal hurdle, the state Senate passed a landmark bill that seeks to make capital punishment decisions more equitable.
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North Carolina
Download your jurisdiction's proposed budget; tell us what you think should be cut and what should receive more funding.
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Orange County
Publisher puts up condo as collateral; money stirs debate over government's role in media
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Durham County
Seven in the newsroom get the ax, leaving five news reporters in Durham.
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Q&A
The full transcript of our interview, including Grant's views on Charlotte's "neighborhood schools" policy.
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Opinion
Elizabeth Edwards' new book serves mainly as a disquieting reminder of how much we didn't know, or knew but set aside, as we climbed aboard for a thrill ride that wasn't safe for anyone.
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Front Porch
The dogs thought it was a game; the cats wanted breakfast. The raccoon knew better: It was life-and-death.
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Living Green
Cemeteries are the site of mass pollution, with almost a million gallons of embalming fluid and enough steel to build the Golden Gate Bridge interred each year.
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Gallery
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Queeries
Yes, manners usually takes up on the side of privacy, but when hypocrisy is at play, truthfulness and honesty are more important.
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Peripheral Visions
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Our guide to this week's shows
The Bleeding Hearts, Blair Crimmins, The Rosewood Thieves, Justin Jones & the Driving Rain, The Dirty Little Heaters, The Loners, The Old Ceremony, The Love Language, Lost in the Trees, Jukebox The Ghost, Tony Lucca, Tony Furtado
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Music Feature
The Bain Music Project—a fantastic 17-track, 52-minute compilation—blurs its own boundaries and deserves as much notice as the Bain fortress and its temporary artistic accompaniment.
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Song of the Week
Kenny Roby on battle wounds, thievery and doing what Prince would do
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Record Review
Let's just say we could have a whole album of this sort of thing and never complain, all right?
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Music Feature
Ponytail formed in 2005 in a class at the Maryland Institute of Art. The assignment was, quite simply, to create a band.
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Record Review
On Dances,it's difficult to hear B.J. Barham as much more than the sleazy rock 'n' roll huckster about which parents warn their children.
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Record Review
Lemming Malloy is one of a growing number of bands to identify with the relatively new, loosely defined music scene of steampunk.
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Record Review
Colossus oozes talent like a Viking lets blood on a battlefield.
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Record Review
Set against high-flying post-free jazz acrobatics, these numbers recall the mellow beauty of jazz's piano-led groups of the 1960s.
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Visual Art
An adolescent girl, percolating with hormones, sugar and other chemical additives is the unseen avatar that permeates Climaco's work, an ongoing investigation of a state of being that might be called impossible happiness.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Gingersnap Cookies
like Grandma used
to make!
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Giveaways
Win TIX to the Carolina Rollergirls' next bout!
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Promotional Events
Available for Myspace, Facebook, Bebo or more.
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8 Days a Week
Wino, Clutch; more
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8 Days a Week
Mr. Lif; more
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8 Days a Week
Bread & Puppet Theater; more
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8 Days a Week
John Oliver; more
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8 Days a Week
Time Served: The Evolution of a Documentary Project
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8 Days a Week
Memorial Day
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8 Days a Week
Clyde Edgerton & more
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8 Days a Week
Ciompi Quartet with Vega Quartet
