Indy Week

Mount Moriah's leaders get personal about their exquisite, intimate debut

Heather McEntire and Jenks Miller explain the voyages and stories of their self-titled debut LP during an extended conversation about the evolution of Mount Moriah and its songs.

• by Brian Howe

Emeline Michel's rich Haitian fusion

The nickname Queen of Haitian Song doesn't sit well with Emeline Michel: "I said, 'OK, if I'm a queen, I'm a queen of the heart. I want to have the biggest heart ever to share with everybody, and give that wherever I go to my music."

• by Sylvia Pfeiffenberger

New Music Raleigh's classical crossover in a rock club

New Music Raleigh recruited Shara Worden for Penelope in large part because the piece, like the group itself, blurs the lines between classical and rock music.

• by Grayson Currin

Five words with Drivin' n' Cryin'

Kevn Kinney talks apostrophes, a hit, The American Dream, vocal surgery and "rust (or mold) never sleeps"

• by Chris Parker

The guide to the week's concerts

Southern Culture On The Skids, The Nighthawks, Chris Knight, Thompson Brothers Band, The Bleeding Hearts, Toro Y Moi, Braids, Acid Mothers Temple, Shilpa Ray, Old Bricks, Hunx And His Punx, Shannon And The Clams, More

Full Frame 2011: The festival enters its second decade

In a couple of significant ways, this year's festival seems to mark a sea change.

The Loving Story is Full Frame founder Nancy Buirski's documentary about a landmark in marriage equality and civil rights

In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving did something that millions of Americans did that year: They got married. But Mildred was black and Native American and Richard was white. And they lived in Virginia, where it was a felony for blacks and whites "to leave the state in order to marry."

• by Lisa Sorg

Career Award winners Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern review the first part of their legacy

Although their films have predominantly, and famously, dealt with pressing social issues and human drama, Stern and Sundberg do not necessarily see themselves as "issue-oriented" filmmakers.

• by Neil Morris

Durham filmmakers Josh Gibson and Rodrigo Dorfman return to the festival

Two short films with strong ties to Duke have their world debut at Full Frame this year: Kudzu Vine, by Josh Gibson, and One Night in Kernersville, by Rodrigo Dorfman.

• by Sylvia Pfeiffenberger

Durham artist Beverly McIver lifts curtain on her life in Raising Renee

Raising Renee follows Beverly McIver as she brings her sister Renee—who developmentally is akin to a third grader—into her home and her life as a painter and university professor just as her career is taking off.

• by Chris Vitiello

Full Frame 2011 brief film reviews

Our writers watched as many of the films as possible, but this list isn't exhaustive.

Two books shed light on the 2011 Durham Bulls

If you really want to get bullish this season, read The Bullpen Gospels, by Bulls pitcher Dirk Hayhurst, and The Extra 2%, about the Bulls' parent club, the Tampa Bay Rays.

• by Adam Sobsey
• Tags: Baseball, Durham Bulls Athletic Park

Mudcats prepare for final season of Double A in Zebulon

"Very rarely do you ever get a chance to reinvent yourself, so we're looking to put out an even better product. It's a good move for both the Southern League and the Carolina League."

• by Mike Potter

The Last Night of Ballyhoo at Raleigh Little Theatre

It's to the credit of Alfred Uhry's sturdy, genteel script and the committed cast that this production is as satisfying and edifying as it is.

• by David Fellerath

Big River at PlayMakers Rep

If Big River exemplifies how PlayMakers can rise to the challenge of ambitious musical productions, I hope many more float our way.

• by Christina Cass

The Mercy Seat at Raleigh Ensemble Players

The Mercy Seat is an auspicious beginning to REP's "Stripped" series, and if carefully curated, these shows could become a regular must-see in the Triangle theater scene.

• by David Fellerath

The Shape of the Table at Burning Coal Theatre

Good acting. Good direction, too. Strongly recommended.

• by Byron Woods

The Laramie Project at Duke Theater Studies

We praise the moving work under Jeff Storer's direction by a number of actors.

• by Byron Woods

Allergen-friendly grocers becoming the norm

The new North Raleigh Whole Foods joins Harmony Farms, Weaver Street Market, Trader Joe's and Earth Fare; Kroger and Kerr Drugs offer options as well

• by Joyce Clark Hicks

Food trucks circling the wagons in Raleigh

Plus: Rebus Works launching Saturday Market, Raleigh's newest urban farmers market and local goods open-air shop

• by Victoria Bouloubasis

Redford's studious but inert Lincoln film, The Conspirator

The film's opening act is a well-crafted recounting of the conspiracy, and Redford's attention to detail is impressive throughout, but we're left puzzling over the figures at the center of the diorama.

• by Neil Morris

Would-be Woody Allen-ish indie happythankyoumoreplease

Writer-director-star Josh Radnor's film, placed in a superficially recognizable but lifeless version of Manhattan's East Village, is full of distractingly dissonant moments.

• by Nathan Gelgud

Durham police trying to crack down on celebratory gunfire

To examine the frequency of gunshot reports, we mapped a year's worth of calls to 911 to report the "sound of shots."

• by Samiha Khanna
• Tags: Durham County, Interactive, Video

Bad blood brewing over Old North Durham Park

At issue are the use of a scarce community resource, the people it should serve, the complexities of private involvement with a public good, and the changes that could threaten a tightly knit inner-city neighborhood.

• by Joe Schwartz

The first 77 days of legislative mayhem

If it's a right-wing cause frustrated for years by the formerly dominant Democrats, there's an app for it—and bills—coming from the Republicans who now control the House and the Senate.

• by Bob Geary

Fan Mail

• by V.C. Rogers

"Roadkill Dress"

• by Jeremy M. Lange

Ballad of a truck

Maybe it was time to get that new truck. It was a crisis of faith. When was the right time? How was I to know?

• by John Valentine

A re-examination of why so many Americans vote "against their interests"

Ours is a political system of the 1 percent, by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent.

• by Jonathan Weiler

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• by Ben Tausig