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Beer Hopping
For beer drinkers who want variety in their summer fare, lagers, ales and the "W" beers make for an interesting change.
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Now Serving
Plus: Papa Mojo's Bayou Brunch, J. Betskis' new lunch, Great Harvest's gluten-free and dairy-free bread, Larry's Beans' green laurels
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Film Review
Tyson's rants expose a solipsism that allows him to play the part of either confident world-beater or wronged victim, depending on the needs of the moment.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, June 4, through Friday, June 12
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Film Beat
Art house theaters face the challenge of too little product for too much of the year, and a Hollywood industry that has too little regard for the health of these exhibitors.
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National
Immediately, two people punched me right in the backs of my knees. Then someone else was on my back. They were trying to knock me down. My face and arms scraped against the brick wall as I slid down.
- by Angela Williams as told to Fiona Morgan
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Wake County
More than 5,000 Cuban exiles live in North Carolina, and many of them settled in the Triangle.
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Durham County
Residents fear that the renovations, which will include replacing the windows originally installed in 1938 and laying carpet in bedrooms, will not only destroy Univapts' charm but also outprice current residents.
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North Carolina
As a percentage of current spending, North Carolina's shortfall is 11th worst in the country.
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Wake County
Unlike other groups of refugees or immigrants, Cubans who reach American soil are automatically accepted into the country; within one year, they are guaranteed permanent residency.
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Wake County
From Fulgencio Batista to Barack Obama
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Living Green
Organic sunscreens not only protect your skin, they are also free of the potentially harmful chemicals of synthetic sunscreens.
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Letters to the Editor
One local cemetery is right now offering green burials: Pine Forest Memorial Gardens, in Wake Forest.
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Front Porch
I'll spend the next four months living alone in a four-bed, two-bath, brick house with a kitchen much too big for someone who can barely fry bologna.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Five Words with...
After the first show of a solo tour in Massachusetts, Earle talked candidly about Van Zandt and the troubles of his own mind.
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Live Review
While "Play With the Pros" is open to amateur musicians of all ages, it predominately attracts high schoolers.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Chuck Mead & the Grassy Knoll Boys, Paleface, Simple, Tab Benoit, Mighty Gospel Inspirations, Detroit Cobras, Wild Wild Geese, X, Steely Dan, The Desmonds, more
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Music Feature
Birds or Monsters, Red Clay Ramblers, David Holt
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Music Feature
Justin Robinson mines hip-hop groove, Balearic flair and wayward indie pop, unifying it all with impressionistic glimpses of narrative, askance historical references and creaky production.
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Music Feature
It's not that the Red Clay Ramblers live in the past. It's that they bring the past to life.
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Music Feature
"I sort of see myself as the man who's standing at the door, opening the door, and saying, 'Look at all that we have. This is an unbelievable treasure.'"
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Theater
Playwright Linda Griffiths' achievement in Age of Arousal is to show us, at once, both how "frighteningly contemporary" these Victorian proto-feminists are to our present worldview, and how distant they are at the same time.
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TV
Edie Falco plays a badass New York City ER nurse who snorts painkillers she gets from a hospital pharmacist with whom she has quickie workplace sex. Followed by the same ol' Weeds.
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TV
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Theater
I wonder if this project might be more abundant as a sound recording emphasizing its musicality?
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
We are giving away tickets to Booth Amphitheatre's Robert Cray show!
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
mmm…Fresh Strawberry Pie
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8 Days a Week
This Is Bull City
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8 Days a Week
Alexandra Sokoloff; more
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8 Days a Week
The English Beat; more
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8 Days a Week
Rusted Root, The Rosebuds, Chatham County Line; more
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8 Days a Week
Easy Star All-Stars
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8 Days a Week
No Doubt, Paramore
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8 Days a Week
Gretchen Morrissey
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8 Days a Week
Steve Earle; more
