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Now Serving
Plus: Owner of the Original Q Shack opens new Fish Shack; PieBird moves in; Hillsborough's second annual (monthly) pie contest; Triangle Food Tour in April; Natty Greene's now in Raleigh
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Food Feature
"A few years ago, there's no way we could have pulled off what we want to do. A lot of people don't care about what food tastes like; I think this is indicative of American food culture. But it's changing here."
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Food Feature
Popular Triangle bakeries specializing in the pint-sized treats
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Theater
PlayMakers Repertory Company is wrapping up its preposterously ambitious 2009-10 main stage season with a gorgeous production of Oscar Wilde's most delightful play, still fresh after 115 years.
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Theater
Eric Carl's play about Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American author, needs—and merits—more development to achieve its creators' high goals.
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Reading
A screenwriter and filmmaker returns to North Carolina—and the novel; plus, two writers return to the Triangle having sold 65 million books.
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Reading
You can't go home again because home isn't there anymore.
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Music Feature
"I'm not worried about having too many venues. I think if there are good shows, people will go."
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Our guide to this week's shows
Kool Keith, I Was Totally Destroying It, Gray Young, Terrance Simien, Reese McHenry Benefit, Benji Hughes, Over the Rhine, Fruit Bats, Here We Go Magic, These Are Powers, Bill Kirchen, Gary Allan, Adrienne Young
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Song of the Week
Chris Chu on mixing, getting free and being everything at once
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Music Feature
Phillip Dabbs and Betty Compton started the get-together for reasons you might guess—they felt it'd be nice to offer folks an opportunity to come together and make some music while they're at it.
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Music Feature
Fred and Toody Cole just want to share their chunky, no-frills garage rock rumble with a worldwide network of those who might appreciate it.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, March 11, through Friday, March 19
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Film Review
Despite the familiarity of the narrative, you can practically smell the brackish water of the riverside setting and feel the sweaty discontent and inchoate rage in the lives of the characters.
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Film Review
Nobody falls for the "wedding that heals society" plot harder than I, but once uttered, some bad words cannot be taken back.
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Film Review
Although a good movie can and should be made that investigates the political misinformation used to justify the war in Iraq, Green Zone feels like a dated political drama grounded in theatrics and buzzwords.
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News Feature
While residents in Korea and Japan blaze along on the Internet at speeds of 100 megabits per second, most Internet services in U.S. communities offer home Internet speeds of 1.5 to 3 mbps, and up to 10 mbps for businesses.
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North Carolina
If approved by voters in 2011 or 2012, the new rail transit plan would bring localized light-rail passenger services to parts of the Triangle by the early 2020s.
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The Count
4,382 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; 1,016 in Afghanistan
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North Carolina
The parallels between the N.C. Association of Realtors' electioneering tactics and what a corporation might do in the post-Citizens United era are alarming.
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EarthTalk
Donate your electronic waste to a charity or needy school, or take it to an electronics recycler.
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Peripheral Visions
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Citizen
"Designing for Resilient Cities" was the order of the day at the annual Urban Design Forum in Raleigh, a collaboration of NCSU's College of Design and the city's department of planning.
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Letters to the Editor
"I appreciated the In Memoriam article on Tom Robinson. It was well done."
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Gallery
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Front Porch
When I think of Chile, constant laughter—the dark, self-conscious Chilean wit—comes to mind first.
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Get your Irish on!
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Giveaways
closed - congrats to the winners
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8 Days a Week
Wolf Nipple Foofaraw
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8 Days a Week
Amelia's Mechanics, Jim Avett; more
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8 Days a Week
The Daredevil Christopher Wright; more
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8 Days a Week
Artemis String Quartet; more
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8 Days a Week
Gilberto Gil; more
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8 Days a Week
Lia Cook's Faces and Mazes
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8 Days a Week
Little House on the Prairie—The Musical; more
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8 Days a Week
Eileen Ivers; more
