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Instrumentalist
Pavelid and Edmar Castaneda finally share the stage—and their story.
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Music Feature
Phoenix's success depends upon a strange hybrid of swoon-worthy romanticism and old-school industrialism.
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Record Review
Sing your worries through hooks this good (and, on Storage, not one of these 10 numbers misses), and people might even sing along.
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Record Review
Bouncing between blue-eyed soul, raucous gospel and earnest singer/ songwriter fare, Delta Rae is stuffed with spirited piano, dulcet guitar, charging drums and vocal harmonies.
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Music Feature
The "concert" was perfect, and cold, like Vegas in short pants.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Rosie Ledet & The Zydeco Playboys,
Seth Walker, The Spinners, Martha Reeves, Pollution, White Lung, Dexter Romweber, Countdown Quartet, Tom Russell, more
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Best of the Triangle
Your Readers' Choice poll winners; plus, six locals who get around
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Best of the Triangle
Congratulations to this year's winners and finalists!
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Best of the Triangle
A graphic designer by training and the current curator of Raleigh City Museum by trade, Ladye Jane Vickers lived in a number of larger cities before landing in Raleigh.
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Best of the Triangle
By day, this native Durhamite is a music monger, managing Offbeat Music at Brightleaf Square. Most nights, he's behind the bar at Whiskey.
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Best of the Triangle
Zach Ward, a Chapel Hill-Carrboro resident, founded DSI Comedy Theater and also started the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival.
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Best of the Triangle
Ruby Sinreich, founder and host of orangepolitics.com, describes herself as a "progressive activist, local politico, professional organizer, compulsive blogger and mom."
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Best of the Triangle
Jarrett Campbell's a family man, a businessman and a soccer—well, nut is not too strong a word, as founder and ringleader of the Triangle Soccer Fanatics.
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Best of the Triangle
Keval Kaur Khalsa, who has lived in Durham for most of the past 20 years, is director of the dance program at Duke University, where she also teaches modern dance and yoga.
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Best of the Triangle
Best of the Triangle voters explain why their faves are their faves
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Soccer
It's true that, in this country, soccer is still in its formative stages as a mass spectator entertainment, but when participation is considered, soccer is America's game.
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Soccer
International takes on the World Cup
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Soccer
Here are five teams from five continents that could make this already historic first World Cup on African soil one to be truly remembered.
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Soccer
Today, I use terms such as "pitch," "kit," "woodwork" and "stoppage time" in casual conversation.
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Dance
The modern dance perennial begins its 77th season in Durham June 10.
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Theater
Artistic and technical shortcomings limit the enchantment of a musical that questions the role of enchantment in affairs of the heart.
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Theater
With its hot-and-bothered women and its offhandedly snobbish colonial anti-Islamism, this Agatha Christie whodunit is ripe for winking postfeminist raunch and Iraq-era indulgences in bigotry.
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Reading
Junger's meditations on fear, killing and love—and on the intoxicating allure of combat for one group of young men—will no doubt earn WAR a well-deserved spot among the great works of combat journalism.
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TV
I love this show, and, thank the Dark Lord again, it's back for a third season.
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Theater
There's nothing wrong with this adaptation of the cartoon. If you've got kids and they really, really want to see it, then, pardon the pun, be our guest.
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Now Serving
Remodeled Krispy Kreme reopens in Raleigh, plus Chapel Hill and Wake Forest stores coming this summer; Café Caturra and La Volta Italiano open; Fullsteam Brewery local night
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Feed With Care
Lunch box suggestions from NC FACES parents, plus a recipe for no-cheese Alfredo-style macaroni and cheese
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Locavore Cooking
Grab a spoon for this Farm to Fork favorite, plus a recipe for Picnic Pasta Salad
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Film Review
Looking for Eric is a compassionate, occasionally tender portrait of its characters, even if it never quite finds what it's looking for.
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Film Review
I know Ralph Macchio, and you, Jaden Smith, are no Ralph Macchio.
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Film Beat
You can't quibble with the Carolina Theatre's choices for this mini-fest of crime films, even if they're not really, strictly speaking, noir.
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North Carolina
The sacred mangalsutra necklace never came off—not until her new husband, in a fury, snatched it from her neck, scattering the beads across the floor.
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North Carolina
A growing share of the nation's coal ash is being reused and recycled, finding its way into building materials, publicly used land and even farmland growing food crops.
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North Carolina
When it comes to high-speed Internet, rural North Carolinians are in the Stone Age. And a bill that passed the Senate this week will keep them there.
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The Count
4,402 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; 1,104 in Afghanistan
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Durham County
In the online Urban Outfitters catalogue, a gray V-neck T-shirt worn by a rail-like young woman. On the front, in script, the words "Eat Less."
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EarthTalk
Why is the BP oil leak much more of an environmental threat than previous spills from tankers?
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Citizen
The truth is, the school board hasn't spent much time on its budget. It seems that the new board majority—the Republican Five—would rather not know what its various moves will cost.
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