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The Election Page
It's Tuesday morning, and I don't know how I'll feel this time tomorrow after the election results sink in, but I bet it will be lousy.
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The Election Page
If you totaled the huge sums raised and spent on elections in North Carolina and funneled that money to counties, cities and school districts, you could erase some of their deficits. But that's not where the money goes.
- by Joe Schwartz, Lisa Sorg and JP Trostle
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Beer Hopping
You love beer and your companion doesn't. This doesn't have to be the end of the relationship.
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Feed With Care
Recipes for a Thanksgiving dinner without butter, milk, eggs and flour
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Now Serving
Plus: Weaver Street's Holiday Tasting Fair; Lunch Line screenings; Frank Bruni talk
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Film Review
The Swedish crime trilogy ends with a whimper.
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Film Review
Robert Downey Jr. notwithstanding, the most conspicuous part of Due Date ends up being the "Welcome To" state border signs, since each one brings the film that much closer to ending.
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News Feature
The archconservative political operative makes millions selling cheap dreck at discount stores. So what's for sale—besides the election?
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EarthTalk
What are the environmental benefits of the hydroponic growing of lettuce and other crops?
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Casual Observer
"We live in hard times, but not end times. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing," Jon Stewart said.
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
The grassy hillside in rural Wisconsin was dotted with about 250 Porsches, so I was careful not to sound like a dull study.
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Gallery
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Festival Guide
Troika has become sustainable by staying local.
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Festival Guide
Birds and Arrows, Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes, Veelee, Django Haskins, Midtown Dickens, Valient Thorr, Hog, Double Negative
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Festival Guide
Dillon Fence, Free Electric State, Jason Kutchma, Wesley Wolfe, Nate Tarr, The Small Ponds, The Jackets, The Sames, Whatever Brains, Mandolin Orange, In the Year of the Pig, Red Collar
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Festival Guide
Organos, Phil Cook and His Feat, Filthybird, Chatham County Line, Gross Ghost, Billy Sugarfix's Carousel, The Loom, Ezekiel Graves, Datahata, Joe Romeo, The Wigg Report, Shipwrecker, Gray Young, Last Year's Men, Futurebirds, Birds of Avalon, Mount Moriah, Spider Bags, Pink Flag, Hammer No More the Fingers, Junk Culture
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Music Feature
Songs for Other People, Filthybird's second album, is an arduously made, exquisitely written record. Complex and confident, its existence is a testament to Renée Mendoza and Brian Haran's maturity and perseverance, as band mates and as partners.
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Music Feature
The last Cuban artist to play here, in 2003, was Barbarito Torres, who, like Portuondo, was an original member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
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Music Essay
Whatever MGMT does next—artistic oddity or commercial commodity—they'll get away with it.
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Music Feature
"Music ought to be revelatory to the artist. I'm positive I wouldn't be who I am had I never written a song or learned an instrument."
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Our guide to this week's shows
Hoots & Hellmouth, The Felice Brothers, Black Skies, Cough, Resister, 12,000 Armies, The Light Pines, Future Islands, Lonnie Walker, Motor Skills, Soft Company, Bear Hands, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Hog, Mortals, Wizardry, more
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Reading
At nearly 500 pages long, Frazier's Siberia rambles through ancient history and contemporary anecdote, is full of both affection and frustration, and has a deliberately inconclusive ending. It seems appropriate.
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Reading
Living Above the Frost Line, a collection of new and selected poems ordered chronologically and spanning 32 years of Simpson's work, is the inaugural publication of Carolina Wren Press' new Laureate Series.
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Comedy
"If you have a hint that our whole entire country is being absorbed by corporate greed, I think you will enjoy my show."
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Theater
Theatergoers always claim they want their drama to be visceral. BUG delivers.
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Theater
PlayMakers Repertory Company's production of Fences is the second memorable version of the August Wilson play this region has seen this year.
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Turn the clock back and snuggle with Steak Chili!
