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First Bite
Owner Sam Suchoff, a former vegetarian who has worked at The BBQ Joint, Neal's Deli and Lantern, has made special efforts to keep non-meateaters happy.
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Now Serving
Workshops from Bountiful Backyards, The Gardener's Kitchen, Farm School for Women, Advocates for Health in Action and Hickory Mountain Farm; plus, roll out a picnic at Celebrity Dairy's Open Barn
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Film Review
Barney Panofsky is a boozy, sweaty, ostensible fuckup who—despite being played by Paul Giamatti—is nonetheless strikingly successful in business and even more so with women.
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Film Beat
Year two of Strange Beauty includes the work of 14 filmmakers with local connections, a feature on the Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra, a special program of archival madness by Durham Cinematheque, and the Strange Beauty Aural Fixation.
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National
It's unclear if the existing political parties and organizations can answer the calls of the movement—jobs, free expression and government transparency.
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North Carolina
Unlike traditional public schools, charter schools aren't required to provide transportation or meals to students, and most don't.
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Wake County
The plan's "new paradigm of choice," as backers term it, does give the two sides in the diversity fight the chance to come to the middle if they choose to.
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News Feature
According to the EPA, 47 percent of all waste transfer stations in the U.S. are located within one mile of African-American and Latino neighborhoods.
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First Person
I awoke on Friday, Jan. 28, in my apartment in Dokki, Cairo—five minutes from Tahrir Square—to the sight of a single word on my cell phone screen: "emergency."
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EarthTalk
What's being done to "green up" professional sports? I know that the last two Olympic Games both made some effort, but are there others?
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
Oliver suddenly ran over to my mother, holding a red 7-inch single in his hands, screaming, "Record! Record!"
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Letters to the Editor
"Should we pick up our pitchforks and storm the barricades, or start working harder to make our democracy function the way it should?"
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First Person
Let me infuse some truth into the debate: Abortions account for only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood's expenditures on services.
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Music Feature
At age 74 with nine Grammys and 36 albums to his credit, one of Latin music's most recognized innovators shows no signs of letting up.
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Record Review
Desert Etiquette, Seth Kauffman's fourth album and second under the Floating Action moniker, is an adventurous yet comfortably familiar excursion, a colorful musical expanse that's worth more than a few trips.
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Record Review
HaLo's days as Kooley High's homeboy are over; his patience has finally led him here, as the last "official" member to be signed to 9th Wonder's IWW/ Jamla imprint.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Sam Bush Band, GWAR, Thank You, Naps, Nests, Schooner, Floating Action, The Tomahawks, Lud, North Elementary, Weedeater, more
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Music Feature
"I just want bands, out of all their nights on the road, to be comfortable for at least one."
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Reading
Published by McSweeney's, Donald imagines what would happen if the former defense secretary were abducted to a detainment center much like Guantánamo or Bagram and subjected to "enhanced interrogation."
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Reading
From 1915–1970, more than 6 million African-Americans fled the cruel caste system of the South, making the difficult choice to leave the land they knew for a land they had never seen.
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Visual Art
I'm writing this sentence from inside a cardboard snowdrift. The sweet acridity of smoldering tobacco leaves wafts down the tunnel I crawled through to get in here.
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Theater
N.C. Theatre doesn't disappoint with its revival of Mel Brooks' mega-hit The Producers.
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Theater
It should burn the conscience that for women like the rough Salima, Josephine the haughty refugee and Sophie the fragile songbird, sexual violation in the world of the Congo seems a foregone conclusion.
