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The Election Page
Until last week, it looked like Hill might finally face a serious contender in Republican newcomer Roy Taylor.
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The Election Page
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Music Feature
Minus Sound Research, which curates and presents the visual art of local musicians in galleries, reinvents itself for its fifth-anniversary show.
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Music Feature
A potential conflict from each of the festival's four nights, Oct. 7-10, and unsolicited advice on what might satisfy best
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Music Feature
The first complaint is never the squealing guitars or abrupt rhythms; the vocals are always the obstacle, and one often worth overcoming.
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Record Review
The Durham quartet's newest is a fine full-length that echoes the fuzz-drenched sounds of Dinosaur Jr., the Northwestern pop amble of Built to Spill and the tuneful art punk of Agitpop.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Menomena, Wesley Wolfe, Shit Horse, Killer Filler, Starmount, The Avett Brothers, Bowerbirds, Joe Pug & The Hundred Mile Band, Wolvserpent, more
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Dish
A weeklong trek to find some of the Triangle's best cocktails and meet some of the folks behind the bars and the mixes
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Dish
Top of the Hill owner Scott Maitland plans to start distilling and selling the state's first legally made vodka next February under the label Topo Spirits.
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Dish
Wine Spectator recently awarded The Players' Retreat an Award of Excellence for its lengthy wine list.
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Dish
Rick Tufts of Triangle Brewing Company, which began packing its brews in cans last month, says cans have advantages over bottles.
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Theater
Under the guise of absurdism, Playground over-employs shrill histrionics at the edges of its story, while it keeps too convenient a distance from the physical realities at its center.
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Theater
Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale is a powerful study of the effects of untamed jealousy over a lifetime and the strange twists it can set in motion.
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Visual Art
The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914–18 is the first U.S. retrospective of the British alternative to French Cubism and Italian Futurism since the original show at a New York gallery in 1917.
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Casual Observer
Noam Chomsky holds forth on "What we say goes. Not." at the opening of UNC art professor elin o'Hara slavick's Aftermath: Protesting Cartography + Hiroshima
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Now Serving
Plus: Diabetes Restaurant Month with Mitch's Tavern, 518 West, Backyard Bistro, Market Restaurant and Zest Cafe
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Beer Hopping
Last year, all that beer washed down 111 roast oxen, half a million roasted chickens and 116,923 pairs of sausages, consumed when the festival goers weren't busy on the roller coasters, loop-de-loops and spinning gondolas.
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Feed With Care
Allergen-safe All Hallows' Eve treats
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Film Review
It's Kind of a Funny Story reaches for an ironic, self-aware tone but doesn't transcend its young adult fiction origins.
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Film Review
Jack Goes Boating attempts to offer a satisfying portrait of two people falling in love. Given its talented two leads, it falls surprisingly short of this modest ambition.
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Slide Shows
Thirteen musicians from around the country gather at the Hayti Heritage Center to reinterpret Alan Lomax's Sounds of the South.
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Orange County
Downtown Chapel Hill could be compact, connected, anchored and green, just as the motto calls for. Or this could be just another expensive exercise in how to win "Sim City: The Chapel Hill Edition."
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National
By and large, the rally stuck to its message: Obama is trying to solve the economy, but he needs help.
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Citizen
If forced to say what they think about the current Wake school board majority and its policies, the Republican candidates change the subject to how we should build cheaper schools or charter schools and avoid paying the tab for Wake's rapid growth.
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Peripheral Visions
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EarthTalk
A friend of mine working on the Gulf Coast oil cleanup says that at least 50 percent of the loose oil is laying on the sea floor. What's the long-term prognosis of this?
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Front Porch
I didn't see his face till he was right there, frozen for an instant where I was expecting to see more road.
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Gallery
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
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Giveaways
Closed- Congrats to the winners!
