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Dish
The roasters, purveyors and baristas who make our lattes and au laits some of the best in the country. Plus a spot of tea.
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Dish
It doesn't take much to justify a few hours spent sipping a warm, richly steeped brew while munching on delicate goodies.
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Dish
Dick Tabor is a longtime espresso connoisseur who helped establish the Triangle's coffee and foodie scenes.
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Dish
What Americans call chai is actually "masala chai"—tea flavored with cardamom, clove and other spices. Plus: Udupi Cafe's House Chai Recipe
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Feed With Care
Honey, you don't know desperate until it's 6:15 on a weeknight and you've still got a hungry husband and two food-allergic children to feed.
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Now Serving
Marry Durham; Carrboro Food Truck Showcase; Farm Fresh North Carolina; One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking
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TV
"Brother, it's kind of like a bulldog on the back of a meat wagon. You just stand there and eat until you run out of food, and you wait for somebody else to put a little more food there."
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Theater
Bell's dark comedy is a sharp-eyed critique of a medium that has, in its own way, proven just as metastatic in our culture as the carcinomas Claire's body.
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Visual Art
Put your nose an inch from the work's surface and scrutinize the detail. Then pick your lower jaw up from the floor.
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Music Feature
"A lot of bands that would have been kicked off of most any other label for not selling enough records, bands like ours that wouldn't be able to exist past one album on a major label, have been developed on Merge."
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Music Feature
"Over the past few years, we have just bastardized everything we had to have one working system. We want to get back to the point where we don't have to worry about it."
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Music Feature
The ArtsCenter has created a comprehensive program encompassing concerts, steel guitar master classes, lectures, a photography exhibit and a Sunday morning worship service and potluck.
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Music Feature
A sociopolitically purposed piece played by Kronos Quartet, Reich's third string quartet uses electronically manipulated samples to bolster what's being played by the ensemble.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Bullfrog Willard McGhee and Tad Walters, Chatham County Line, Kerblocki, Motor Skills, Polvo, Agalloch, more
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Record Review
The next time Wembley comes out with new music, it had better be in bulk, or we'll—once again—have to pout about it.
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Film Review
Dagenham is a suburb on the east side of London and, in 1968, was home to a Ford automotive plant. Several thousand worked there, including 187 women who were assigned the job of cutting and stitching the upholstery for the cars.
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Wake County
The fact that investors aren't willing to finance nuclear plants, even if promised high returns, is the reason the utilities in a few states (including N.C. and S.C.) have persuaded their legislatures that their customers must be forced to finance them.
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Orange County
"I want us to find time to talk about this," said Mayor Pro Tem Jim Ward, who attended the hearings and was "troubled" by what he witnessed. "I think the outcome was wrong. I think the system worked poorly."
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Orange County
The town will hold a hearing on the IFC's special use permit application, which must meet council approval before ground can be broken, at 7 p.m. March 21 at Chapel Hill Town Hall.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
What was the cure for damage done?
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First Person
Something is lost when announcing someone's death is reduced to just another quickie status update, lodged between "It's jambalaya time!" and "Totally pooped from paddle tennis."
