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The Election Page
Dirty tricks I & II: The false attacks on Chris Heagarty & Renee Ellmers goes "tea party" on Bob Etheridge
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The Election Page
Republican candidate for sheriff Roy Taylor says he is withdrawing from the race because he has not lived in Durham County consecutively for one year, which disqualifies him from becoming sheriff.
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Music Feature
"Once I saw the size of the space, I was definitely like, 'This is a whole new ball game.' We've gone from hunting rabbits and squirrels to going after big game."
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Music Feature
The Books' latest and inarguably most diverse record, The Way Out, is one of the year's best; the band's live show pushes those tunes to what must be the limits of economical imagination.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Dead Confederate, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band, Aminal, Gmish, Tobacco, Ozomatli, Mavis Staples, Cotton Jones, Whitey Morgan & the 78s, Tonk, The National, Capleton, more
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Arts Feature
The nation that for the last 50 years has defined its "dream" as a house in the suburbs where no one can bother you is now spending more and more of its spare time letting everybody back in.
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Arts Feature
Sorkin on the drive behind Facebook and those who created it, on the allure and trappings of social media, and on why he decided to option Andrew Young's book about the John Edwards sex scandal and cover-up
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Arts Feature
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Theater
Director Joseph Haj faithfully enacts Shakespeare's litany of human errors in an imaginative season opener in the newly renovated Paul Green Theater.
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Visual Art
Curator Trevor Schoonmaker has identified a bona fide subgenre of contemporary art practice and delivered a significant exhibition.
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Now Serving
Plus: Top of the Hill's DIY Bloody Mary bar; new 157 East Bar; World Beer Festival in Durham
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Food Feature
Hipsters, college students and middle-aged couples have begun to adopt a pastime once practiced by the ancient Egyptians and other cultures.
- by Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
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Film Beat
If you've never experienced a Chaplin film before, or only seen them on TV or video, the Carolina Theatre offers a special chance to check out pristine prints of Chaplin's work on the big screen Sept. 27–Oct. 7.
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Film Review
The irony is this tech-led revenge of the nerds ends up succumbing to the same trappings of ambition, entitlement and narcissism, as well as emulating the very social caste system they rebel against.
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Film Beat
A.R. Rahman's multimedia spectacular, the Indian equivalent of Lady Gaga's Monster Ball, rolls into Raleigh Sept. 29 for one last American tour date before he opens the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
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Film Beat
Leena Pendharkar's film concerns a girl and her 6th-grade science fair project about raspberry bushes—she hopes that the flourishing of her bushes will help heal her fractured family.
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Slide Shows
"There is no way to get from here to there except by coming out, joining together and marching."
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Durham County
Even when Kosta Harlan was more involved in the anti-war and international solidarity movements, his activism was routine.
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News Feature
Bedri Kulla is not the kind of guy young, pretty Latinas whose lives are full of possibility flock to.
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Wake County
The old debate over when younger leaders in historically black Southeast Raleigh will be elevated to public office is heating up again.
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Front Porch
What dawned on me after five weeks of accidental environmentalism was how easy Italy made it to be so green.
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Peripheral Visions
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EarthTalk
Tires contain a large amount of petroleum products. Is there an alternative?
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Gallery
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Soup during the Fall is a perfect combination!