Elaine Marshall: working class at heart

Our take-to-the-polls voting guide

Early voting for runoff elections runs from Thursday, June 3, through Saturday, June 19. Election Day is June 22.

Reeves for 13th District

In Orange County it's Medenblik

A tough call in Durham, but it's Martin

This beer is skunked!

So, was that disappointing glass of beer the result of rough treatment, a single bad batch or was it just plain bad beer?

• by Julie Johnson

Appetites for cool treats are strong

Locopops; Creative ways to use your herbs; Chapel Hill/ Carrboro's first community-supported fishery

• by Victoria Bouloubasis

Mother and Child is a circle-of-life tale reaching for universality

Mother and Child is a postracial story of maternal relationships.

• by David Fellerath

Judd Apatow's Get Him to the Greek

Get Him to the Greek lacks the emotional edge that characterizes the best Apatow-produced comedies, though it's still a very crude, very funny romp that shows Russell Brand can carry a movie.

• by Zack Smith

The most important property in Raleigh

Built on streets with some lawns and some trees, density works, and walkable, transit-friendly places take shape, not just for the people who live in a given development but for the people who live near it as well.

• by Bob Geary

Plot of land

Water, rocks, fireflies: They're the main characters in our June gardening plot.

• by John Valentine

Re: Hal Crowther & Republicans

"Republicans do not govern, they rule ..."

The 2010 Animazement Festival

• by Jeremy M. Lange

Milk not in a jug, but in a bag

• by EarthTalk

Wheeling and Dealing

• by V.C. Rogers

The guide to the week's concerts

Rev. Horton Heat, Cracker, Legendary Shack Shakers, Jucifer, D-Town Brass, Bustello, Erie Choir, Red Collar, The Loners, Del McCoury Band, Brooks & Dunn, Birds Of Avalon, Carnivores, Selmanaires, more

Radiation sweetness

It's only fitting that "That Summer...," the band's strongest song to date, happens to be their first—five minutes born of the earliest Twilight Sad jam sessions.

• by Robbie Mackey

American Aquarium's Smalltown Hymns

(Last Chance Records)

• by Spencer Griffith

Mandolin Orange's Quiet Little Room

If quiet is the new loud, then Carrboro-based, unplugged-Americana duo Mandolin Orange bludgeons your ears bloody.

• by Rick Cornell

Penny Prophets' First Run

Randy Whitt has a new band now, Penny Prophets, and their goal runs counter to the aim of those earlier efforts.

• by Rick Cornell

Why the Triangle still doesn’t have the perfect amphitheater

Too big, too plain, too quiet

• by Grayson Currin
• Tags: Music Feature, Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion (formerly Walnut Creek), Raleigh Amphitheater, Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion (Walnut Creek), Cover Story

Tidewater blues

The end of a Virginia river and its people, in stories by Pittsboro's Belle Boggs

• by Adam Sobsey

Social insecurity

A Marple to die for in A Murder is Announced

• by Byron Woods

Field notes for the apocalypse

Raleigh's Scott Huler tells us how bad it really is

• by Gerry Canavan

June 2 crossword solution

June 2 sudoku solution

ACTION!

• by Ben Tausig

Pancakes, Made From Scratch!

Wake Dad Up to some made-from-scratch pancakes this Father's Day!