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The Election Page
Nationwide, Burr is the most vulnerable Republican senator in the 2010 election. But the Democratic candidates lack name recognition.
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The Election Page
Are they smarter than a 10th grader? Who's giving them money?
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Music Feature
"I know Lil' Wayne went to jail, but if he picked up a banjo, that would change a whole bunch of stuff. Kids aren't just going to pick up banjos. They have to see that there's a function and relevance in the culture to do so."
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Music Feature
A white performance artist painted his neck and put on a black mask to present a monologue from the perspective of an African-American minstrel banjo player only to be followed by Carl Johnson, an actual black banjo player.
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Music Briefs
Relapse will re-release Horseback's 2009 album, The Invisible Mountain, on CD, following a vinyl release of the album via UK label Aurora Borealis and an as-yet-unrecorded companion piece to The Invisible Mountain.
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Music Feature
Inspired by a documentary, a Charlotte collective builds a fine regimen
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Record Review
Both sides are concise numbers that invite you to alternately thrash and dance.
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Record Review
Make no mistake: Brett Harris is a terrific talent. But one wonders how he would reach the audience most amenable to his classic pop-rock.
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Our guide to this week's shows
White Rabbits, Manchester Orchestra, Nuclear Power Pants, Double Negative, Dynamite Brothers, Tartufi, MC Frontalot, Citay, more
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Reading
The 1870 murder of North Carolina State Senator John W. "Chicken" Stephens by Ku Klux Klansmen in the Caswell County Courthouse inspired Wise's book.
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Visual Art
Curator Wu Hung chose not just these artists but these specific works spanning different media and traditions to represent the varied impact of the largest engineering project in human history upon the Chinese consciousness.
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Theater
A Remarkable Document concerns the Rwandan genocide of 1996. More specifically, it claims to detail a Tutsi survivor's life in that atrocity's aftermath.
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On the Boards
The limited and decidedly legato movement dynamics we saw too frequently in most of the seven works suggested deflated kinespheres whose slow leaks, over time, remain in need of repair.
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On the Boards
They're back to a full schedule of 13 presentations. Once again, the season tilts heavily in favor of companies and artists seen before.
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Now Serving
Plus: Merritt's Store & Grill; Glasshalfull; Weaver Street Market Annual Spring Wine Show
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Tags: Now Serving, Merritt's Store & Grill, Pittsboro Farmers' Market, Cary Farmers' Market, Wake Forest Farmers' Market, Western Wake Farmers' Market, Durham Farmers' Market, Fearrington Village Farmers' Market, Carrboro Farmers' Market, Glasshalfull, Weaver Street Market, Cary Downtown Farmers' Market
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Food Feature
Students, faculty and staff at N.C. State, UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke are pursuing ways to change the food systems in their communities to make them more fair and reliant on crops and animals raised locally.
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Film Review
Part conventional sports drama, part Nazi apologia, the debut effort of music video director Philipp Stölzl is intermittently successful and entertaining.
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Slide Shows
To honor the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his a witty meditations on food, the Preservation Department of Duke University Libraries held its fifth annual Edible Book Contest.
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News Feature
"I've been in the worst-case scenario. Sometimes you just have to tell yourself that you've got to make the best of the opportunity that you've got right now."
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Chatham County
"This is a tremendous loss, and there is no way to place a value on the historical material we had compiled. You can not replace the heritage of Chatham County."
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Durham County
The City of Durham has dispatched dozens of volunteers door-to-door to increase participation, in hopes of eventually boosting incoming dollars for federal programs.
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Orange County
UNC could overhaul or even scrap the new wastewater treatment system at its Bingham Facility west of Carrboro because of several leaks and discharges within the last year.
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Wake County
How should Wake's 140,000 students be assigned to specific schools?
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Wake County
Federal investigators are finally moving to criminally prosecute the perpetrators of a real estate Ponzi scheme that began in Raleigh and spread across the nation.
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Front Porch
A quiet girl saw everything and knew it was wrong, even though the thief wore her favorite color.
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Letters to the Editor
"These days this is not called eugenics. It is called population control using elective abortion."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Chillin' & Grillin'
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Giveaways
Closed- Congrats to the winners!
