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The Election Page
"It's all a matter of public record. It's nothing that I'm hiding from," Amanda Ashley says.
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Record Review
Showcasing a more mature direction for the band's pop-inflected indie rock, these dual EPs are likely to change some opinions on I Was Totally Destroying It.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Cheap Trick, "Lost in Music and Adrift on Disco" with Sleazy McQueen, NOMO, Two Cow Garage, Austin Lucas, Mike Hale, Akron/Family, The Duke & The King, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Chicago Blues Tribute, The Soul Picnic, Jeanne Jolly, Minor Stars
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Song of the Week
Brian Corum on structures, jams and writing love songs as exercise
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Music Feature
In short, Coldplay rewards its following (specifically online), and its online following has repaid the band handsomely.
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Music Feature
Respect: Now there's a word that seems rather problematic in hip-hop, specifically in relation to the divide between the form's newcomers and elders.
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Record Review
This band's charm, aside from its crafty pop hooks, has long been its psychedelic glee club aesthetic—a super-peppy and often cartoonish obsession with candy and bright colors.
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Record Review
The Ex-Monkeys' combination of electronic samplers and electric guitar in propulsive, rock-like themes is relatively isolated in the Triangle.
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Dog Days of Summer
Our annual pets issue features the "least adoptable" pets at four local shelters and rescue groups, our readers' pet tales, and pet-related news.
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Dog Days of Summer
Four local animal rescue groups highlight their "least adoptable" pets
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Dog Days of Summer
Four million animals are euthanized every year in the U.S. in an attempt to control the pet population.
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Dog Days of Summer
Featuring Beecham, Harry, Jimmy, Laika, Morgana and Squeaker
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Dog Days of Summer
Featuring Bernice, Big Sandy, Ernie, Fly, Hank, Hyacinth, Justice, Lindy Lou, Mimi, Rockets, Sabrina, Samuel, Tiny, Woodstock, and the heart-wrenching tale of the bus station kitten
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Dog Days of Summer
North Carolina is the only state that has a law giving private citizens and animal protection organizations the right to sue in animal cruelty cases.
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Dog Days of Summer
Three weeks after Piedmont Wildlife Center closed its clinic, questions are emerging about its finances and its importance in the local wildlife rehabilitation community.
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Reading
Narrated jauntily by its protagonist, the novel is a comic picaresque grounded in serious historical concerns.
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Theater
The real horror in The Turn of the Screw might be the Victorian-era mania that results in the death of a young, gay child when his guardian attempts to "deprogram" him.
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Beer Hopping
The Reinheitsgebot is a Bavarian tradition of beer quality nearly five centuries old.
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Now Serving
Plus: Local, organic pancake breakfast at Eno River Farmers' Market
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Film Review
Rudo y Cursi may be unsatisfying in the way that misanthropic movies are, but it nonetheless leaves an impression.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Aug. 6, through Friday, Aug. 14
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Film Review
There's enormous pleasure to be had in the spectacle of Meryl Streep grabbing a beloved, larger-than-life character and chewing the scenery (and the Sole Meunière) for all it's worth.
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Film Review
Don't all cute girls love The Smiths? Doesn't every white person this side of a tractor pull at least like The Smiths?
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National
After forgetting to mention the public option, Obama assured the Raleigh audience that he still wants it. But how much he wants it and whether he'll fight to get it are open questions.
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National
The way the terrorism statutes are written, it was up to the defendants to prove that they wouldn't run and weren't dangerous.
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Orange County
Bill Strom is leaving two years before his term expires. What is Chapel Hill to do with his vacant seat: appoint a resident or award the fifth-place finisher?
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North Carolina
The actual charges Daniel Boyd and his co-defendants face are legal. What makes them illegal is that they were allegedly conducted under a conspiracy to radicalize "young Muslims and converts to Islam."
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Wake County
"I'm struggling not to make a prejudgment in this case," Jihad Shawwa says. "The FBI has an important job to do, and I can see the dilemma of their job. But think of the people who've been harassed. It's scary."
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Gallery
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Front Porch
For nearly a week, Brazos ate from a salad bowl, attended to her litter in a turkey-basting pan, napped in a desk chair and used newspaper bundling bands as toys.
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Peripheral Visions
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Living Green
If you wash your car at home, do so over gravel or grass. The water will seep into the ground rather than run off into the storm drain, which, in turn, sends it directly into rivers and streams.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Only looks complicated!
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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8 Days a Week
Max Indian
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8 Days a Week
Cheezface, Ex-Monkeys
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8 Days a Week
Paperhand Puppet Intervention; more
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8 Days a Week
Hubert Sumlin and Bob Margolin with Cadillac Records; more
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8 Days a Week
Franz Nicolay; more
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8 Days a Week
The Big Surprise Tour
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8 Days a Week
Parnin-palooza; more
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8 Days a Week
Death Race 2000
