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Album of the Month
With the second Horseback LP, Jenks Miller tethers hellish vocals and aggression to an overfed serpentine blues guitar and hushed majesty.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Free Energy, Holly Raleigh Christmas, Amanda Palmer, The Monologue Bombs, Heavy Trash, Elliott Brood, Filthybird, The Pneurotics, Pariah Piranha, Ah Holly Fam'ly, John Cowan Band, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge, The Jake Leg
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Song of the Week
Doseone on authenticity, indie rock whiners and the vernacular of hip-hop
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Record Review
This long-time-coming second release is for those who like their moods swinging and who find focus vastly overrated, as horns, hazy female vocals and quite possibly the spirit of Curtis Mayfield in action-soundtrack mode make cameos in this shifty mix.
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Music Feature
"It seemed to me there was this potential crossover between textural noise music, which has an ecstatic quality, and black metal, which has similar traits, even though they're dressed up very differently. I wanted to figure out the ways that metal and drone fit together."
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Music Feature
"If some other white kid is trying to position his place in a hip-hop culture that you want to be in, you're gonna get mad. You wanna be the coolest white boy in the room. Always."
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Theater
Duke Theatre Studies' The Lower D's; Solo Takes On Festival's Doin' Time: Through the Visiting Glass and Intimacies
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Reading
Horowitz comes to Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh Sunday, Nov. 22.
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Casual Observer
Although CIA campus recruitment drives can spark protests, the attendees of the NCSU event all seem to have a positive attitude about the organization.
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Theater
Although the show doesn't open for another week, the huge work of loading it in began this morning.
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Now Serving
Your favorite farmers' market, Foster's Market, Great Harvest Bread, Wine Authorities, Il Palio, Posta Tuscan Grille, plus Beaujolais Nouveau celebration
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Film Review
An Education sweeps us along as a teenage girl makes dangerous choices that are completely understandable in the emotional context of the film.
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Film Review
You'd hope for plenty of sucking in a movie about vampires ... just not the figurative kind.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Nov. 19, through Friday, Nov. 27
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Film Beat
Cucalorus, the state of N.C. filmmaking and the Superkiiids; plus, the Carrboro Film Festival
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Film Review
Only an African-American filmmaker could get away with making Precious. That's meant as both a compliment and a criticism.
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National
Initially priced at $265,000, upscale condos in Raleigh's Meadow Wood Park sold for as little as $116,000 at a recent public auction.
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Orange County
Paul Shareshian wants the two-screen theater to become a community space as well, where brides can rent space to show their wedding videos and a group of seniors can watch classic films.
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North Carolina
For 50 years, Alcoa has controlled—and profited from—part of the Yadkin River. Now Gov. Perdue and concerned citizens want it back.
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The Count
Number of U.S. and N.C.-based soldiers killed and wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Durham County
If anyone wants to question a vote commissioners took last month to move the Jordan Lake watershed, it's going to have to be an outside party in a lawsuit.
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Durham County
A team of planners is holding public meetings all week at the Hayti Heritage Center on Old Fayetteville Street.
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North Carolina
Other applicants can vie for the license when it's up for renewal, as the state is doing—over Alcoa's objection that its application came in after the 2006 deadline.
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North Carolina
Fueled by Andrew Mellon's fortune, Alcoa came to dominate the aluminum industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Living Green
ScienceNews.org reports that concentrations of Tamiflu's "active form" are showing up in rivers downstream of wastewater treatment plants. The source: human urine.
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Queeries
Being bi or straight in a mostly gay environment; plus, Is civil disobedience bad manners?
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
With our faces buried beneath hats and scarves, Grandpa and I didn't say much, but I remember well the soundtracks of crunching snow, panting dogs and breeze-tickled bare twigs.
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
*Gluten- free Sweet Potato Casserole!
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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8 Days a Week
Pictures Reframed; more
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8 Days a Week
Melt Banana; more
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8 Days a Week
Looking for Ms. Locklear; more
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8 Days a Week
Bull City, Morningbell, Jews and Catholics; more
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8 Days a Week
Underoath; more
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8 Days a Week
Blues Control, Jamie Stewart
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8 Days a Week
Public Nudity Songwriters Night
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8 Days a Week
Messiah
