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Music Feature
Odessa's first three albums are three of the year's best contributions to indie rock—locally or nationally, no qualifications needed.
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Record Review
Chapel Hill's Impossible Arms' debut is a grower record that seems simple on the surface but is invitingly undecided at the core.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Free Electric State, The Jackets, Sam Quinn & the Japan 10, Camera Obscura, Anni Rossi, The Duhks, Sam & Ruby, Alina Simone, Bellafea, Maple Stave, Telepathe, Lemonade, more
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Record Review
Though they're a little more Black Flag than Buddy Holly, there's a sloppy, rudimentary straightforwardness to Americans in France. That's not to call the Chapel Hill trio's debut simplistic, though.
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Music Feature
We once saw our coal workers as heroes. Then we worried about their health. Now, though, we're worried about the broken terrain their work leaves.
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Music Feature
"I wanted to combine the mythologies of the Sumerians and the Mesopotamians with pure chaotic magic. That was my intention."
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On the Boards
You'll spend the next several days singing damn catchy songs about idyllic 17-year-old lives, whether you like it or not.
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Fashion
ADF staffers and dancers take dance-inspired, summery clothes from Triangle boutiques and designers for a twirl.
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Arts Feature
Our season preview of ADF; a Jersey boy on Jersey Boys; the venues
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Reading
"I would go to the Raleigh Underground in Cameron Village and think, 'This is what New York is like!'"
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Reading
The Book of Dads elicits pungent prose from nearly all of its contributors. The pieces whipsaw between comedy and angst, wonder and worry.
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Arts Feature
As director Charles Reinhart says, "Onwards—and sideways!"
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On the Boards
Sure, Charley's Aunt, been done many times over—but that's partly because its main conceit still works. A man in an unconvincing dress is always good for a laugh.
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Reading
But his son doesn't love the game. Or maybe he does! But he can't play under pressure. But maybe he can! Omigod, what a soap opera this thing is.
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Arts Feature
Jersey Boys is the mob and the clubs, the dark side and the light side of life in what is incongruously called the Garden State.
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Arts Feature
How will ADF and Jersey Boys fare in their respective theaters?
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Now Serving
Plus: The Spice Lounge opens; Sauced arrives
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Locavore Cooking
Fresh North Carolina scallops, local tomatoes, freshly made basil pesto and young onions or scallions come together in this sunny Café Atlantic Cookbook recipe.
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Film Review
Easy Virtue may be a country manor movie for people who don't like them very much.
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Film Review
The Proposal manages to be both predictable and unbelievable at the same time.
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Film Beat
The final screenings are Thursday night at 9:20 and 9:30.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, June 18, through Friday, June 26
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Slide Shows
ADF staffers and dancers take dance-inspired, summery clothes from Triangle boutiques and designers for a twirl.
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Durham County
Rents are going up, from $565-$650 to $665-$820.
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North Carolina
Ex-Raleigh Mayor Fetzer's close win was a victory for the traditional, and generally older, side of the party long linked with the Christian evangelists and uncomfortable with the Ron Paul brand of libertarian Republicanism.
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National
Andy Ives, an Efland, N.C., native and recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, is biking cross-country to raise awareness for the affordable housing crisis in America.
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Living Green
This green beer is more Al Gore than Dr. Seuss.
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Queeries
The oral sex dilemma; the silent girlfriend; when friends have sex
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Gallery
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Front Porch
For me, it's all about Phil Jackson.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
"Doesn't anybody care about FIT anymore? Damn!"
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Delicious Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free
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8 Days a Week
John Vanderslice; more
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8 Days a Week
Double Dagger; more
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8 Days a Week
The Connells, The Mayflies USA; more
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8 Days a Week
Washing Machine; more
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8 Days a Week
Triangle Gay Men's Chorus
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8 Days a Week
Readings by Duke Young Writers
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8 Days a Week
Bad Company & The Doobie Bros
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8 Days a Week
David Sedaris; more
