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Our guide to this week's shows
The Moaners, Raised By Wolves, Junior Brown, John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff, The Loners, The Royal Nights, The Spring Collection, Igor and the Red Elvises, Nasty Habits; more
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Music Feature
Little Brother couldn't grow up while growing together—and now North Carolina hip-hop suffers.
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Music Feature
On the afternoon of Saturday, March 27, Phonte and 9th Wonder finally spoke—via Twitter, and for all the world to see.
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Music Feature
On Smalltown Hymns, BJ Barham takes a page from the playbook of heroes like Bruce Springsteen, Craig Finn and Bob Dylan, writing from the perspective of another character.
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Music Feature
Emily Frantz is doe-eyed and as young and lovely as Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors." Andrew Marlin is tousle-haired and as young and handsome as Gram Parsons' "Brass Buttons."
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Music Feature
The layman's law of averages would suggest that a middling Frankenstein of the two would find real success, but the history of pop music has never borne out such melded identities.
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Record Review
In Evening Air stands as one of the year's best records—a poetic, provocative and powerful statement by a band patient enough to recognize its limitations and turn them into intoxicating, electric atmospheres.
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Visual Art
Threads of clarity of thought and straightforwardness with materials draw together the work of four artists in this annual show.
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Theater
If Howard Zinn had taken up children's fables, the results would have looked a lot like this.
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Theater
After using the Internet to get back at bullies at school, Nick's interested in seeing how much further he can push people he looks down on, those whose "gullibility threshold" is greater than his own.
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Theater
Told in slices of life linked by gospel songs over the better part of the 20th century, Gee's Bend follows an African-American family over the course of many years.
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Now Serving
Neal's Deli featured twice in NYT; Mecca Restaurant turns 80; Grandma Hoyt's Country Buffet truck; You Don't Know Biscuits blog; Raleigh Downtown Farmers' Market opens; Eastern Market Oriental Food to close
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Locavore Cooking
Recipes for an adaptation of the Barefoot Contessa's Spinach Pie and a Russian concept salad
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Food Feature
Starting May 1, low-income market patrons can pay with Electronic Benefit Transfer cards.
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Film Review
This Oscar-nominated fable from director Tomm Moore and the producers behind the sublime The Triplets of Belleville summons the influences of past and present animated masters, particularly the recent works of Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away).
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Film Review
City Island is a tolerably charming, modest effort from a polite writer-director. But it's also so limp and colored so tidily inside the lines of faux-indie narrative, we can't help but ask—Why bother?
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Durham County
AFP, who protested the Center for Responsible Lending last week, has a tangled web of conservative cohorts with deep financial ties of their own.
- by Samiha Khanna and Lisa Sorg
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Orange County
No violence, but plenty of harsh words at the controversial speaker's return to UNC
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
I remember telling someone that deer were nature's natural pruners. Whoops.
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EarthTalk
Which woods are OK to purchase and which are not, in the interest of preserving forests and not harming those who depend upon them?
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Citizen
In a hastily called special meeting last Friday afternoon, John Tedesco was struggling to explain how a new school assignment plan might be crafted to allow parental choice without resulting in a segregated system.
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