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Music Feature
A fixture of the Chapel Hill scene for two decades, Billy Sugarfix produces a public access video show called The Sugarfix Mix while cobbling together a diverse living as a substitute teacher, a caterer and a serenade writer for hire.
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Song of the Week
Hughes on jingles, beards and the perils of cotton candy
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Our guide to this week's shows
Malcolm Holcombe, The Moaners, Spinto Band, Generationals, Galactic, The Hood Internet, Mike Doughty, The Sundowners, Black Heart Procession, Cartel, Thursday, Electric Six, James Husband, Pinback
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Music Briefs
For the second year, women—not girls—gather to form rock bands this weekend.
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Record Review
Though Chapel Hill trio Simple clings to its rock 'n' roll staples—thick bass tones, ragged guitar lines, charging drum work—little else about the music suggests the boorishness, flimsiness or fundamentalism of its moniker.
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Record Review
Don't let the cheery flute of "Out Like a Lamb," the resplendent brass of "Bright Was My Sweetheart" or the soulful organ of "Teardrops" deceive: This is a brutal little record.
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Music Feature
There's often some special energy between band members that's utterly lost when only one tries to put it to tape by himself. May these five frontmen continue to avoid it.
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Theater
N.C. Theatre's production of West Side Story is a somewhat truncated version of the Big Show, but is still a competent, engaging version of the classic, while Temple Theater's production of Stones in His Pockets ups the ante traditionally associated with intimate theater.
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Reading
Chabon's making his first trip to the Triangle Oct. 22 to promote his new collection of essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son.
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Arts Feature
Ariel Dorfman discusses his play about Picasso in Nazi-occupied Paris; a Picasso paradigm shift at the Nasher; Carolina Ballet explores Picasso's relationship to modern dance
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Arts Feature
In Picasso's Closet, this phantom called Balzac asks Picasso, "Don't you want to be who you were at the beginning? With nobody between you and the terror?"
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Arts Feature
It's astonishing to consider that Picasso and the Allure of Language is the first major exhibition to have focused on the importance of text and language in Picasso's work.
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Arts Feature
Carolina Ballet's Picasso explores the narratives in Picasso's works more than what makes up their uniquely visual genius.
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Now Serving
Plus: Will Allen discusses urban farming in free lecture at NCSU; local farms featured in Our State magazine; special restaurant events
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Food Feature
"We farm because we want to, not because we need to. At some time or another, we were infected with a desire to give and take from the dirt."
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Film Review
African-Americans comprise 12 percent of the national population, yet they purchase 80 percent of the country's hair care products.
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Film Beat
Local filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer's latest work documents a year in the life of the Community Inclusive Theater Group, which brings together disabled and nondisabled performers to co-create a theater piece over many months.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Oct. 22, through Friday, Oct. 30
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Film Review
Every frame of Wild Things is dynamically composed, and no stretch of boring exposition is long enough to get truly frustrating.
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Wake County
Tedesco has met with leaders in Southeast Raleigh, and he acknowledges that most have a "legitimate fear" of resegregation.
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Orange County
"Don't create a bogeyman. These people are no different than you or me," Councilman Jim Ward told residents.
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Durham County
City staffers plan to take a revised proposal to the City Council early next year, but any improvements still lack funding.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
Grooming and veterinarian appointments have replaced the football and history bowl practices in my mom's schedule, and without two overeating sons to feed, she'll cook legitimate meals for the dogs.
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Living Green
N.C.'s first environmentally friendly rest area is located on the northbound side of U.S. 421 in North Wilkesboro.
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Letters to the Editor
Your votes for Will Raymond, Sharon Cook, Mark Kleinschmidt and Matt Czajkowski
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Queeries
How to come out at work and still keep your job; how to be out without causing problems for your kids; where to stick the labels
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
It's Apple Time!
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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8 Days a Week
Sea Wolf, Port O'Brien; more
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8 Days a Week
Topkapi
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8 Days a Week
Blood Done Sign My Name: The Movie; more
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8 Days a Week
Cherry Bounce Music Festival; more
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8 Days a Week
Glengarry Glen Ross
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8 Days a Week
KMFDM, Angelspit; more
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8 Days a Week
Jewbilly; more
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8 Days a Week
Shooter Jennings, Earl Greyhound; more
