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Now Serving
ELF Arts and Craft Holiday Fair at The ArtsCenter; Guglhupf's German Christmas Market; Joe Van Gogh's Home for the Holidays blend
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Dish
Frazier's Wine Bar, Cherry Bomb Grill, Mami Nora's, Tribeca Tavern, One, Scratch, Kitchen, Bella Mia, Dame's Almost World Famous Chicken & Waffles, Pomegranate Kitchen
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Best suited for: Cosmopolitan friends visiting from out of town, or any party of adventurous eaters who value a wide wine selection and aren't above passing plates between friends
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Best suited for: People who like hamburgers, beer and rock 'n' roll
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Best suited for: Feeding a passel of lingering relatives tantalizing but comfortable family-style food, for about as much as you'd spend on a trip to your average steam-table buffet
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Best suited for: Watching the game with fans who understand the value of seeing every play and eating pub food made from locally sourced beef, cheese and produce while they do it
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Best suited for: Sophisticated diners who have seen and tasted it all—including your tech-savvy grandma—and crave a setting that's as stimulating as the cuisine is inventive
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Best suited for: Your visiting foodie pals who salivate over bakers who make the news, those who mistakenly think they already know what a perfect pastry crust tastes like or a good friend who likes to linger over lunch
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Best suited for: Francophiles who don't mind standing in line for truly comforting bistro food
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Best suited for: Know-it-all Yankee visitors who need the there's-no-decent-pie-in-this-burg smirk wiped off their faces, or well-mannered Southerners ready to have their pizza worlds rocked
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Best suited for: Very hungry people who yearn for crispy-creamy, salty-savory combinations or jazz lovers who want a taste of culinary tradition
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Best suited for: Those seeking a light and healthy takeout alternative to December's seemingly endless stream of traditional, heavy seasonal holiday fare
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Film Review
By placing himself in the service of his animal, an old man is better able to serve his own needs.
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Film Review
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader includes more intelligence than many fantasy films for children.
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Film Review
Monsters is in the apocalyptic vein of so many films of recent years—District 9 and The Road are obvious corollaries.
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Wake County
North Carolina was once a leader in mental health. After a decade of "reforms," it no longer is.
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Durham County
At Monday's meeting, Durham's county commissioners voted more than 30 times to either name a vice chair, delay the vote or adjourn the meeting altogether. Each vote failed.
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Wake County
Plans to expand Crabtree Quarry pit neighbors against operator, with a greenway, flood control and dropping an ongoing lawsuit being dangled as incentives for the City of Raleigh
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Wake County
"The literature they handed out was riddled with fallacies and was racially targeted, as there were different pamphlets for white and black students."
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Front Porch
With its juicy, candy-apple paint and oversized, knobby tires, Cindy's red, rugged 1991 Jeep Wrangler became the first object of my desires.
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EarthTalk
Where can I find information on which electronics and their manufacturers are greener than others?
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First Person
Mania, when managed, reveals brilliance and creativity. Voices, when managed, provide insight.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
"'Inside Eichenberger's brain' is one of the Indy articles that has stayed in my mind, and when I read this week that Peter had died, I was so sad."
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Gallery
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First Person
Former White Rabbit manager Jim Baxter collected these comments from White Rabbit employees and customers.
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Music Feature
Stamey is preparing to lead two dozen musicians, including a string section and a rotating cast of vocalists, through the first live and fully orchestrated re-creation of Big Star's third album. They'll all do it again the next evening.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Dylan Gilbert, Joe Norkus, Pipe, Caltrop, Tom Maxwell, Bustello, The Breaks, Gene Ween, Kooley High, Carolina Chocolate Drops, more
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Record Review
The five tracks here dole out drone and noise at a high level.
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Record Review
If the best material continues to get better, this green magic should translate into a solid debut LP sooner rather than later.
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Record Review
These four minutes proclaim that Wolfe leads one of the state's best new bands, even if it's just him, alone at home.
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Record Review
We hope we'll see another, better version of this performance before long.
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Record Review
There's nothing wrong with being out of step with the masses when you're dancing this well to your own beat.
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Comedy
John Waters discusses the current state of filmmaking, his late muse Divine and whether he'd do another stage musical.
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Theater
Playwright Donald Margulies instructed theaters performing Shipwrecked to "make no attempt to replicate onstage what television and movies do," but rather, "simply get back to the essence of telling a good story."
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Theater
Your questions will be asked, your fears and hopes revealed, and your dreary isolation breached by this touching production of Will Eno's Oh, the Humanity.
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Theater
Crowns suffers from a slightly unfocused script but comes alive in its dance sequences, displaying an energy and vitality that gets the audience's toes tapping.
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Giveaways
We are giving away three pairs of tickets to see Bettye LaVette at The ArtsCenter
