Every Day in Tuscany, where the food is always delicious

Recipe for Kale, White Bean and Sausage Soup from part-time Hillsborough resident and Under the Tuscan Sun author Frances Mayes

• by Sheryl Cornett
• Tags: Locavore Cooking, recipes

A breakfast of champions

It was with a skeptic's palate that I decided to try a made-from-scratch recipe in The Kid-Friendly Food Allergy Cookbook.

• by Joyce Clark Hicks

Diversifying at Bickett Market, the NCMA's Iris and Triangle Food Tour

Plus: Bellini opens in Raleigh

• by Emily Wallace

Rabbit Hole explores the grieving process

A simple scene on a park bench walloped me emotionally like no film in recent memory

• by Nathan Gelgud

Tata's first task: money

With Wake school board chair Ron Margiotta listening intently, superintendent Anthony Tata added: "Anybody who thinks I'm in their pocket has another think coming."

• by Bob Geary

Why you should care about the Food Safety Modernization Act

The new food safety law, small farms and you

• by Lisa Sorg
• Tags: North Carolina, Cover Story

Words and their consequences

Leading Republicans must call on media figures and political leaders to end the gruesome rhetoric.

• by Adele M. Stan

Wondering in a roundabout way

• by D.L. Anderson

What the frak is fracking?

Can you explain what "fracking" is with regard to natural gas exploration, and why it is controversial?

• by EarthTalk

The color purple

Attaching a simple color code to a diverse population is convenient for predicting electoral votes on election night. As a permanent model of the polity, however, it contributes to the "us and them" way of thinking.

• by Marc Maximov

Atomic attraction

• by V.C. Rogers

David Banner & 9th Wonder's Death of a Pop Star

On Death of a Pop Star, Banner finally forgoes ignorant trunk rattlers to focus solely on poignant, politically loaded raps.

• by Brandon Soderberg

Rapsody's Return of the B-Girl

B-Girl continues Rapsody's ascension toward the level of even her most prominent collaborators, male and female.

• by Spencer Griffith

Sean Boog's Light Beers Ahead of You

While we wait for Boog and Khrysis to give us their third The Away Team LP, we're happily agitated by another round of our beloved and cranky Boog.

• by Eric Tullis

Kylesa's Spiral Shadow deserves the mainstream

Insurgent and fresh, "Don't Look Back" is the sort of tune that, if handled correctly by moneybags at a label like Warner Brothers, could have given Southern metal a direct link to the mainstream.

• by Grayson Currin

After bailing on a major label, Against Me! returns to the road

"Our band definitely has a past, but we own the past. We own everything we've done."

• by Bryan C. Reed

The guide to the week's concerts

Wigg Report, Mangum & Company Shout Band, The Ettes, Dex Romweber Duo, The Love Language, Reigning Sound, Last Year's Men, Chris Pureka, more

The lion trumps the spider at DPAC

For those who only know director Julie Taymor for such films as Frida and Across the Universe, how does her sense for artistic spectacle play on stage?

• by Zack Smith

How good are the simulcast operas in local multiplexes?

Can "live" telecasts possibly generate the same—or even some of—the thrill of being in the same room with artists working their hearts out?

• by Kate Dobbs Ariail

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G-Movie Edits

• by Ben Tausig

Jan. 12 crossword puzzle