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Music Feature
The first Kings was more of a community center with an attitude, spinning the wheels of a positive-feedback cycle that generated the very art, ideas and bands on which it and its allies thrived.
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Music Feature
"It's about understanding your situation and understanding that something has to change in order to get to a better place," says frontman Russell Baggett of the band's third album, Please Try Again.
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Record Review
In lesser hands, Plaza-Midwood would come off as a mishmash of half-baked ideas, but Lindsay's approach makes this diverse pop collection mesh.
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Record Review
With six of its seven songs being Avett originals, Tribes can be considered Avett's proper debut as a country music singer-songwriter.
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Record Review
On the five-piece's first EP, anthemic choruses and expectant bridges abound, and warm singer-songwriter vocals develop into earnest, raspy shouts.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Colossus, Constrictor, Guitar Shorty, Cesar Comanche, Max Indian, Twelve Thousand Armies, The Houstons, Beausoleil, Brad Paisley, Mandolin Orange, Embarrassing Fruits, Gray Young, Blood Feathers, Lions at Lunchtime, more
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Reading
Are guest editor Amy Hempel and series editor Kathy Pories pointing us to a change in Southern literature?
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Visual Art
The exhibition tells the story of Gov. Terry Sanford's North Carolina Fund, a private nonprofit founded in 1963 in order to "create the possible" and address the key issues and causes of poverty in a way that government either could or would not.
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Theater
The script never seems all that interested in learning why its only onstage character consistently chooses Mr. Really Wrong.
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Comedy
The goal: give scenes from American history the Reduced Shakespeare Company treatment while the performers develop their comic acting and timing chops in a new format.
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Reading
Cash discusses her feelings about the film Walk the Line, her early musical influences and having Morrissey as an in-law.
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Now Serving
Plus: Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week, Dickey's Barbecue Pit, Down East fish fry fundraiser
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Food Feature
"[Women are] baking together, they're knitting together, they're having sewing circles. It's like another form of social media."
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Film Review
A film that looks to Horton Foote for inspiration is worth taking seriously, but this director and screenwriter don't have what it takes to give their synthetic concoction any authority.
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North Carolina
The decision of the Industrial Commission, which hears tort cases against the state, could set a precedent for animal law in North Carolina.
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Public Records Requests
The cost to Durham County to examine and review the controversial case so far exceeds more than $100,000, including legal fees.
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News Feature
"Seeing a black family in the White House is something that some people simply cannot take."
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Letters to the Editor
"We've already conducted one public review session, and we look forward to the next later this month."
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EarthTalk
Many people oppose dams because they change the flow of rivers and affect the migrating patterns of fish and other species, but aren't they also a great renewable energy source?
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Front Porch
Summer is an assemblage of unscripted experiences, and there's generally still daylight when it's all over. Or so I'd hoped.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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