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The Election Page
The 2010 Republican primary in the 4th Congressional District promises to be freakishly entertaining.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Allen Toussaint, Carlitta Durand, M-1 Platoon, Thee Tom Hardy, Nile, Krisiun, Immolation, Senryu, Juan Huevos, The Monologue Bombs, Bull City, Dynamite Brothers, Screaming Females, Dave Alvin, Kevin Blechdom, Joe Firstman, Applesauce
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Song of the Week
Veirs on structure, moving on and touring while pregnant
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Record Review
This is the best, most balanced material by Schooner yet, a fantastic pop collection that's catchier than the rest of their discography and more expansive, too.
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Music Feature
"I had seen Lee play drums at Mercury Lounge in New York with Jule Brown, and remembered being super-impressed. He is one of those drummers who makes everyone around him play and sound better," says Wareham.
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Music Feature
"The Screen Tests are a lesser-known part of Warhol's work, but I think they are strange and beautiful, some more than others of course, and even more so when you project them on the big screen and play music to them," says Wareham.
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Record Review
This Triangle quartet is a garage-rock force so sensually overwhelming you must acknowledge it or else be crushed within its grimy blues-grooving tonnage.
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Music Feature
Broad Street regularly violates Durham's noise ordinance, and now it's seeking the permit that will allow it to maintain its late-night gigs by becoming a nightclub.
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Record Review
The second solo outing from Miller, who's been busy with the excellent metal of Horseback, is a piece of inhuman systems music.
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Arts Feature
"We're trying to lay the groundwork for a regional research initiative between research institutions and gaming companies."
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Theater
In a time of economic—and, apparently, aesthetic—downsizing in local theaters, it's refreshing to see an actor and a company unafraid to swing for the rafters.
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Arts Feature
Pornographer and First Amendment champion Larry Flynt will speak to students on the UNC-CH campus tonight.
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Theater
This is a valiant attempt at a marvelous play, and it gets some of the laughs it deserves—but you wish the team had injected more bubbles.
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Theater
Not for the faint of heart, Veronica's Room is a nicely campy piece of melodrama that will leave you shaken.
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Theater
While no first-date plays are in the mix, two of the three contemporary one-acts here have real potential to qualify for a last-date encounter.
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Theater
If you really want the story behind Gone With the Wind, you might be better off with some DVD extras than this script.
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Lunch With...
Over a plate of Sandwhich's handmade chips, Moroccan carrot salad and a grilled Outrageous BLT, Chang rubs his eyes, reflecting on the whirlwind of the past six years.
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Now Serving
Plus: Homebrewed Raleigh event; latte art competition to support Haiti
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First Bite
While we found merit for common complaints about uneven service during our recent visits, we have nothing but praise for the food.
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Lunch With...
David Chang's new cookbook reveals not only some of his most famous recipes but also the inside story of how a small, unknown ramen shop propelled the meteoric rise of a young chef.
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Film Review
Many real-life participants make cameos, including both Tysons, along with the late historian John Hope Franklin.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Feb. 18, through Friday, Feb. 26
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Film Review
Shutter Island is an old-fashioned potboiler that, despite its faults and self-importance, is unrelenting in its audacity and visual stimulation.
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Film Beat
If you're sick of Saw sequels, take refuge this weekend at the Carolina Theatre's Nevermore Film Festival.
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Public Records Requests
When Chancellor Holden Thorp and other UNC brass address the campuses' use of coal, "according to our suppliers" is almost always a part of the explanation.
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News Feature
Reavis, a veteran journalist and Raleigh resident, chronicles his experiences working as a 62-year-old day laborer. His jobs included factory worker, landscaper, road crew flagman, auto-auction driver, warehouseman and construction worker.
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News Feature
"I always assumed I could drop dead out there and nobody would give a damn."
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
"It genuinely pains me to write to you objecting to Adam Sobsey's review of The Last Lawyer by John Temple."
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Citizen
On a pair of 3-3 votes along party lines, the commissioners neither ratified nor overturned County Manager David Cooke's unilateral decision to drop coverage for elective abortions from the health insurance plan for Wake employees.
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Queeries
When a straight guy asks out a lesbian; Are older gay men "cougars" or "daddies"?; Can kids grow up "normal" in a gay home?
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Opinion
Clear Channel has reprogrammed WRDU-FM 106.1 as a talk station with a daylong cavalcade of conservative stars.
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Peripheral Visions
Charmer
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Front Porch
"Facebook just became totally worth it," wrote Christie, my grade-school best friend, this morning.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Mmmmmminestrone!
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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8 Days a Week
Jim Wise
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8 Days a Week
Out of the Blue; more
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8 Days a Week
Punch Brothers; more
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8 Days a Week
Jacob Lawrence and the Legend of John Brown; more
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8 Days a Week
Della Mae; more
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8 Days a Week
Hacienda, Floating Action, Generationals, Jason Kutchma; more
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8 Days a Week
Public Nudity Songwriters Night No. 4
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8 Days a Week
The Clientele, Vetiver
