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Now Serving
New chef at The Duck and Dumpling; Market Restaurant coming; Escazu Chocolates relocating; Frazier's revamping; "A Toast to the Triangle" fundraiser
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Blessed Is The Pour
Spanish wines are everywhere. This week, I found myself drawn to Hope Valley Bottle Shop, BrandyWine Cellars, Total Wine and Seaboard Wine Warehouse.
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Poetry Contest
The offerings of this year's poetry winners have a nostalgic or regretful hue. Two poems are explicitly about vanished features of North Carolina; other poems bring up memories of Midwestern hayfields and an imagined medieval dungeon of language.
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Other Sports
Kneeling in the hack while holding a stone and a broom certainly looks easy on TV, but when you're actually the one on the sheet, curling seems like a sport not meant to be played by humans.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Feb. 25, through Friday, March 5
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Film Review
A great many of the films—like the festival itself—grew out of improv roots.
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Film Beat
"The first thing a person asks me when a domestic violence story comes up is 'Why did she stay?' instead of 'Why does he beat her and get away with it?'"
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National
"Too many times, we are appealing with the insurance provider while a person is literally dying before us."
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North Carolina
That these businesses are opening is less notable than where they're opening—many of them in low-income and/or minority neighborhoods.
- by Lisa Sorg and Joe Schwartz
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Orange County
The comments revealed an underlying tension between students and locals and conflicting views of Chapel Hill police.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
"UNC could become a nationwide leader in reducing its coal use. And with so much at stake, shouldn't it?"
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Citizen
The plan has moved relentlessly from the drawing board to a sparkling design, without any serious public vetting. Until now.
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Front Porch
It wasn't vanity that compelled me to reject food; it was conditioning.
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Music Feature
Wendy Spitzer catalogs her history—classical music, a rock band, European parents—in Felix Obelix.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Sam Bush, Terence Blanchard, Monterey Jazz Festival, Lucky, The Jackets, The Invisible Hand, Simeon, Bustello, John Harrison, Lonely H, Matt Kurz One, Ray Bonneville, more
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Song of the Week
Aaron Marsh on Autotune, waltzes and his musical future
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Listening with...
Emcees Charlie Smarts and Tab-One and producers Foolery and The Sinopsis dish on inspirational records, ringtone rap and Radiohead.
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Record Review
Blag'ard continues to refine its hooky, herky-jerky sound. Truth be told, they were good to begin with. Now, they're just better.
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Record Review
This is the perfect roots-orchestral, country-and-Neptune sea shanty.
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Theater
Manbites Dog Theater asks what will happen when computer games take on more reality and meaning than ties with family and friends, and CHAT Festival's episodic compilation of 14 short scripts by six noted playwrights
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Theater
Ellen Hemphill's new work asks: Is fate some obscure combination of action, emotion and inaction—or just the way the fortune cookie crumbles?
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Warm Up With Spicy Beef Stir-Fry
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8 Days a Week
Hairspray
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8 Days a Week
Love and Robots: A Puppet Rock Opera; more
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8 Days a Week
Speech & Debate
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8 Days a Week
Hurray for the Riff-Raff; more
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8 Days a Week
North Mississippi Allstars; more
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8 Days a Week
Title Tracks, Pretty & Nice
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8 Days a Week
Ben Sollee & Daniel Martin Moore; more
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8 Days a Week
The Importance of Being Earnest; more
