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Music Feature
Apple Juice Kid and Suede Heron deliver imaginative soundscapes and extraterrestrial sweet-nothings.
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Song of the Week
John Gourley on Alaska, leaving and working with big producers
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Our guide to this week's shows
Naked Gods, Rat Jackson, Seth Walker Band, Peaches, Pontiak, Caltrop, Wrinkle Neck Mules, Firehouse Rhythm Kings, Black Dice, The Dillinger Escape Plan, TRKFest, Fiesta Latina, more
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Record Review
Luminescent, short drones serve as the bookends for Absence, the excellent third EP in as many years from Greensboro dream pop quartet Citified.
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Music Feature
The music industry's tactics to get listeners to buy CDs and records have taken on new feelings of ingenuity and urgency, reflecting both imagination and a faint sense of desperation.
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Record Review
Despite packaging rather uninspiring songs, these obtuse choruses are stubbornly contagious—that is, if you make it through enough listens for them to take hold.
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Record Review
Slow-burning folk rock and time-steeled lyrical contentment shape the 10 tracks of Warm Soul Shine, the fourth album by Raleigh's Milagro Saints.
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Best of the Triangle
Your Readers' Choice winners
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Soccer
The RailHawks have a dangerous, multi-pronged attack, and its beating heart is the center of its midfield.
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Dance
If this production were danced on a bare stage in workout clothes, even by lesser dancers, it would be thrilling in its mix of bold charging action and rich detailed steps that are like embroidery over embroidery.
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Visual Art
Louanne Watley's photographs of nuns in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Indiana subvert the preconceptions and clichés.
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Dance
Swan Lake was an unforgettable evening, but not exactly in the way I had thought it would be.
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Reading
This library's "unique connection" with the community persuades students that it's an important place—where in other high schools, libraries are an avoided place.
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Theater
This Cabaret might be the only Raleigh Little Theatre production where you can take both your mom and that girl you met at Hot Topic.
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Visual Art
In two Raleigh shows this month, there are distinct themes of anticipated destruction, confusion and dislocation, while a third exhibition focuses on the restoration of order.
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Now Serving
Wine Authorities; 3Cups; The Farmer's Daughter; Red Room Tapas Lounge
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Locavore Cooking
It's easy, but to get that thick, satiny, fresh texture, you have to cook the custard base first.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, June 11, through Friday, June 19
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Film Review
Tony Scott is like the Rafael Palmeiro of filmmaking. Both were mid-to-upper standouts in their respective fields until avarice and self-indulgence persuaded them to artificially—and detrimentally—enhance their innate abilities.
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Film Review
Rarely does a movie with so much superfluous junk in its first act have such a clear mark of when the skippable stuff is over and where the movie should have actually begun.
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Film Review
It's hard to find the fresh exuberance of the original A Chorus Line in this documentary.
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North Carolina
"To put the children together is just not the answer. Blind children learn one way and deaf children another way. It would put us back in the dark ages."
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Wake County
The Moore Square design competition for planning professionals and students has a top prize of $6,000.
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North Carolina
The Racial Justice Act faces ardent opposition from the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys, although some of its members, including Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline, have broken with the party line to support the measure.
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North Carolina
A bill that would outlaw the psychoactive herb Salvia divinorum has passed the state Senate, prompting consumers to rush to buy it legally.
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North Carolina
Budget cuts alone? Or tax increases, too? House Democrats were still trying to answer that question Tuesday as a package of proposed tax hikes ran into trouble on multiple fronts, just three weeks before the start of the new fiscal year.
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Living Green
Eco- and mosquito-friendly steps you can take to prevent these pests from leaving you itchy and bothered
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Derek Jennings
@djennings: Ppl r dumb. Don't say a whole lot. Don't say anything requiring context or analysis. Talk in small chunks so u stay out of troublez, ok?
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Gallery
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Front Porch
She thought of herself as a regular doctor, a mom. It was sad to her that her job required a fighter. It was sad to her that no one would take her place.
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Letters to the Editor
I guess I have to start missing Univapts now, now that I know I won't be given the option of missing it later.
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Peripheral Visions
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Take your taste buds on vacation!
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8 Days a Week
Bolshoi Ballet
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8 Days a Week
David Ebershoff; more
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8 Days a Week
Broadway & Beyond: Songs from the Great American Songbook; more
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8 Days a Week
Deceased; more
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8 Days a Week
Meat Puppets, Retribution Gospel Choir; more
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8 Days a Week
Sunset Rubdown; more
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8 Days a Week
Cotton Jones, The Antlers; more
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8 Days a Week
Megafaun
