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Film Review
Cedar Rapids is one of the most adorable movies featuring drugs, alcohol, infidelity, prostitution, bribery and a fleeting moment of sidelong racism that you'll ever see.
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Film Review
Many scenes are wordless, most are simply conceived and beautifully executed, almost all are poignant, and only rarely do they seem to editorialize.
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Basketball
Here are two proposals for reform, one radical and almost certain to be rejected, the other more moderate with a greater chance of being taken seriously.
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Now Serving
Pi(e) Day at Johnny's; St. Patrick's potato-carving contest at Big Boss Brewing Co.; traditional afternoon tea at The King's Daughters Inn
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Lunch With...
"We're very conscious eaters on the road. To put it bluntly, the last thing you wanna do is feel sick onstage, because it will ruin a show."
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News Feature
Art Pope—former legislator, millionaire, political insider—is one of the most powerful people in North Carolina. This project analyzes both the extent of his influence and its ramifications for public policy.
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News Feature
Interactive flowchart highlighting the connections in Art Pope's world
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News Feature
The Pope family—through the John William Pope Foundation—has been funneling millions of dollars into a network of conservative research, media and legal centers.
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News Feature
Art Pope is growing his influence over education policy in North Carolina through the John Locke Foundation, the John William Pope Civitas Institute, Americans for Prosperity and the Republican Party.
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News Feature
Despite his groups' persistent calls for public accountability, the Pope Foundation itself failed to file timely tax returns for eight years. Pope's excuses? Hurricane Fran. Single fatherhood. For eight years.
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News Feature
In 2010, writers from the John Locke Foundation, Civitas Institute, N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law and John William Pope Center for Higher Education were afforded 30 columns on the N&O's editorial pages.
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News Feature
The John Locke Foundation is trying to roll back N.C. Senate Bill 3, a 2007 law that sets modest minimum requirements for electric utilities' use of renewable sources of power.
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Public Records Requests
It's a question we asked in light of the proposed expansion of the so-called Castle Doctrine, which lays out the circumstances under which you can kill someone in self-defense.
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Jonathan Weiler
The greatest threat to Social Security derives from political forces that, for their own purposes, want to change the program, not from any inherent fatal flaw in Social Security itself.
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Letters to the Editor
"If this bill goes through, BCBSNC will negate the Affordable Care Act."
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Front Porch
For many farmers in rural North Carolina, the land is their bank, the trees their retirement.
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Peripheral Visions
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Music Feature
The puking, "Dixie" Dave Collins says, doesn't usually start until midway through a tour. The Durham stop is night three. Bummer.
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Music Feature
Romany, an Indic language, has nothing to do with Romania, or Rome: It belongs to the Romany nation (often referred to as Gypsy), people whose ancestors traveled out of South Asia through the Middle East and into Europe, starting 10 or so centuries ago.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Cults, Lonnie Walker, Sharon Van Etten, Diana Ross, Terry Tuff, The Gibson Brothers, The Love Language, Telekinesis, Mi Ami, more
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Theater
Performance art is the place where serious artists seeking innovation come to try something different—and where audiences fed up with the cotton padding of safe theatrics go to experience the possibility of something very new.
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Theater
Molly Carden is probably the most believable of the four Catherines we've met in area productions.
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Theater
In addition to productions and fundraisers, the company will rent its theater as a meeting space for local and visiting businesses and corporations.
