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Now Serving
Early holiday dinners at Panciuto and Zely & Ritz; the Farmer FoodShare Holiday Fresh Food Drive; build a greenhouse for Grow and Share
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Dish
Over two weeks, between the three of us (and whatever friends, family and strangers we could rope in), we have tasted 78 Triangle-area pies, all in the name of research.
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Dish
Pies in Raleigh, Wake Forest, Apex and Cary
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Pies in downtown Raleigh, Holly Springs and Fuquay Varina
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Pies in Durham, Chapel Hill and Carrboro
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Recipe for Guglhupf's French Apple Tart
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Film Review
Unlike the typical sports film, which follows a story arc of adversity, perseverance and triumph, success turns into failure in The Damned United.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Dec. 10, through Friday, Dec. 18
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Film Review
Clint Eastwood's Invictus concerns rugby in South Africa. During the years of apartheid, athletes were also segregated, with whites excelling at rugby and blacks gravitating to soccer.
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Wake County
Two dozen parents and teachers denounced the new majority's tactics during the public portion of the meeting, many saying the new members had breached their campaign promise to listen to the public.
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Durham County
The group's contentious chairwoman has overstayed her welcome, several local leaders say. For the first time in a half dozen years, a member of the committee is challenging Allison's 12-year reign.
- by Samiha Khanna
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Tags: Durham County, Durham, Durham politics, Lavonia Allison, Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People, Melvin Whitley, Howard Clement, Bill Bell, Cora Cole-McFadden, Donald Hughes, Jackie Wagstaff, Darius Little, People's Alliance, Frank Hyman, Brenda Howerton, Keith Corbett
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Orange County
Aide to Kevin Foy, Carlo Robustelli was a jack-of-all-trades. Now he's out of a job.
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Peripheral Visions
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Living Green
Wood waste, the byproduct of plywood and furniture manufacturing, is considered biomass. But among the many compounds found in this type of wood waste are chlorinated adhesives, the toxic glue isocyanate and urea formaldehyde.
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Letters to the Editor
"The controversy over the fate of the old houses is unfortunate, but it is hoped that the parties involved can reach a compromise."
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Front Porch
Tucking in the garden for its long winter nap is all yin.
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Gallery
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Music Feature
Today is the first full day of the second Women's Rock Retreat, which began last year as a response to the success of Girls Rock NC summer camps.
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Song of the Week
Benson on paranoia, Catholic school and big ol' wood block
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Our guide to this week's shows
Spider Bags, John Wesley Coleman, Mandolin Orange, Big Fat Gap, Drughorse holiday show, Valentino and the Piedmont Sheiks, ExMonkeys, Juan Huevos, Wet Mango, Benji Hughes, Papaya, Birds of Avalon, Violet Vector, The New Familiars, Mark Stuart & The Bastard Sons, Street Dogs, The Whigs
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Music Feature
Rap starrs
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Reading
Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia; Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues; Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story
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Theater
Burning Coal's Much Ado About Nothing is a stylish, if at times eccentric, take on one of Shakespeare's lesser-known but more rewarding comedies about the battles of true courtship.
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Visual Art
An acclaimed documentary photographer, Mark creates work that crosses geography and culture, and she provides unblinking studies of a wide range of social customs.
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Reading
If Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns was the sacred text of popular appreciation for one of America's most prized forms, The Jazz Loft Project feels a lot like the apocrypha.
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Theater
The paint-daubed platforms of the threadbare set only reinforce the impression of a production that appears to have been mounted without sufficient resources, cast and, in some cases, knowledge of the original text.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
The dark chocolate kind!
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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8 Days a Week
Micah Schnabel
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8 Days a Week
Serenity; more
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8 Days a Week
Monsters of Death; more
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8 Days a Week
Telling Our Stories; more
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8 Days a Week
SWASO; more
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8 Days a Week
Brand Fandango VIII
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8 Days a Week
Trekky Records Christmas; more
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8 Days a Week
Heroes and Hoodlums
