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Durham County
Ideally, the city and county would have the money to conduct their own surveys to ensure accurate results and public confidence.
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North Carolina
Myrick held a forum on Thursday, Feb. 25, with about 200 of her Charlotte-area constituents from the Muslim community to address what many see as a record of offensive statements.
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News Feature
Bruce Thomas' life can be divided into two parts. Part I: The events leading up to and including Nov. 28, 1980, the day Bruce says God spoke to him and he didn't listen. Part II: Everything that has come after.
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Orange County
"We are less successful with those who aren't so certain of their career or perhaps don't have those aspirations."
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Opinion
"If you believe what the board just did was wrong, come stand next to me."
- by Chase Foster and Louisa Warren
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
Phrases like Mr. Mom and Daddy Daycare—which have both been uttered my way fairly often of late—don't necessarily bother me. They just seem misinformed and reductive.
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Citizen
A right-wing school board, a dysfunctional county commission: What's next?
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
"I was surprised to read the benign questions you asked Larry Flynt."
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Basketball
The 33rd ACC Women's Tournament begins Thursday at Greensboro Coliseum, and one thing is certain. Three of four teams in Saturday's semifinals won't have cut the nets during the event's 10-year Greensboro run.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Jason Ringenberg, Esperanza Spalding, DRI, Richard Bacchus, Bear in Heaven, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Slow Death, Sandwitches, Rogue Wave, Austin Lucas, The Coastal Cohorts, more
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Record Review
The four Static Minders—vets of the Cherry Valence, the Dragstrip Syndicate, the T's and the Royal Nites—know how that rock is done, and here, they do it well.
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Music Feature
"You're pretending that you live on airships, that you have ray guns, you wear goggles, you're wearing a top hat. It kind of is steeped in the ridiculous."
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Song of the Week
Joe Pug on borrowing from history, preserving the mystery and the B-52s
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Record Review
Perhaps a little kind bud is the necessary ingredient to finding pleasure in Feeding the Fire's lack of memorable melodies and abundance of deeply rutted grooves, sophomoric lyrics and expansive prog-rock pretensions.
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Music Feature
Chatham County Line's Wildwood; Megafaun's Heretofore; Des Ark's Don't Rock the Boat, Sink the Fucker; Lost in the Trees' All Alone in an Empty House; The Love Language's Libraries; Yahzarah's The Ballad of Purple St. James
- by Grayson Currin and Bryan C. Reed
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Record Review
Jane Tarry's new Raleigh quintet offers surprisingly diverse takes on sassy Southern rock, especially for such a recent addition.
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Visual Art
It's gratifying to experience a well-conceived juried show that has a point of view and a story to tell. Plastic CameraWorks tells a story of the aesthetic pleasure of the degraded image.
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Reading
In House Rules, a teenager with Asperger syndrome is accused of murder. Picoult uses the crime as a window into the teenager's life and the effect his condition has on his family.
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Theater
In a time exactly like our own, except that it's 2,000 years from now, the denizens of a space installation look down on Earth and reconstruct the story of their survival. The saints and saviors in this piece are all robots.
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Theater
Though Spring Awakening claims to anticipate a liberation from repressive sexual mores, what it ultimately depicts is another thing entirely: a technically hyped-up version of the same old story.
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Visual Art
In Joy Feasley's collaborative work with her husband, Paul Swenbeck, the pair consistently strikes a balancing act between bohemian content and theistic context.
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Theater
N.C. Theatre's production with Theatre in the Park mainstay Ira David Wood III and TV-rerun fixture Sally Struthers captures the crowd-pleasing aspects of the original story, though some aspects of Terrence McNally's book could stand to be updated for the current recession.
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Film Review
The White Ribbon qualifies as a must-see. The prewar German milieu is extraordinarily well constructed, and the ensemble acting is exquisite. The tactile mise-en-scène recalls the realistic fiction of Maupassant and early Hemingway.
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Film Review
Alice is a phantasmagorical fever dream that is both absorbing and banal, a looking glass that reflects Narnia, Middle-earth and assorted other child-escapist imaginaria in addition to its source text.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, March 4, through Friday, March 12
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Food Feature
"If you kill all the damn fish and catch the rest, then there won't be any fish. And you won't have any to sell. They don't understand that."
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Feed With Care
For nearly seven years now, I have been tediously dissecting and researching food labels, scouring the Web for information, interrogating food companies and testing "allergen-friendly" products, cookbooks, recipes and more.
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Now Serving
Celebrity Dairy's Open Barn; Carrboro's 13th Annual Community Dinner; Third Annual Film 'Feast'ival
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Beer Hopping
Tour a local brewery to appreciate the hard work that goes into your brew and to taste a range of beers you might want to stock at home.
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Food Feature
Four Triangle chefs with revolutionary instincts made the cut as Best Chef of the Southeast semifinalists, and two local eateries made the list for Outstanding Restaurant.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Meatloaf With Mushroom Sauce, Yum!
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8 Days a Week
Chrisette Michele; more
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8 Days a Week
Dervish; more
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8 Days a Week
Howard Sherman's Bogus Rating System; more
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8 Days a Week
Anne Kornblut; more
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8 Days a Week
Reckless Kelly, Cross Canadian Ragweed; more
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8 Days a Week
Goes Cube
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8 Days a Week
Awesome Color, Tyvek; more
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8 Days a Week
Stars of Track & Field
