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Music Feature
Middle Eastern exotica swirls into sludgy stoner rock riffs. Desert-baked noir-scapes lift off into synth-fueled space rock. Elemental drones contrast with trip-hop beats and modern chop-shop sampling. Grails is an evolving maze.
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Record Review
The Chapel Hill pop quintet will release their full-length Vexations later this year.
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Music Feature
"People really come here to spend time with their friends and their family. I think that's probably the unsung part of the festival of what really brings people in." —Jordan Puryear
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Our guide to this week's shows
Old Bricks, Lonnie Walker, Branford Marsalis, Woodsman, Captured By Robots, Yelle, more
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Reading
Creech has written a memoir, Adam's Gift, about the tumultuous years in his life when, as a Methodist pastor, he was called in the words of the subtitle "to defy the church's persecution of lesbians and gays."
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Arts Feature
According to research from the N.C. Arts Council, the creative industry is now second only to agriculture as the largest industry in the state, sustaining 300,000 jobs, or just over 5.5 percent of the workforce, and generating $41 billion in products and services annually.
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TV
"I mean, conservatives are even liking [Obama] more. The majority of conservatives now think he deserves a green card!"
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Guidance For Gourmands
Fiesta Grill's recipe for textbook chiles rellenos
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Now Serving
Plus: new vendors at the Wednesday Carrboro Farmers' Market; new menu items at Durham Bulls games
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Film Review
Of Gods and Men is concerned about faith, courage and love. The group of eight men, all in their 50s or older, must confront their fear of death—and ready themselves to submit to it humbly, as witnesses to their vows.
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Durham County
Erick Daniels has been free for two years—after spending seven years in prison for a burglary and robbery he didn't commit—but this month the state denied his request for a pardon that could clear his name.
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North Carolina
House Bill 601 has been proposed in an attempt to reduce the spread of blood-borne diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C.
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Wake County
Raleigh City Council denied the rezoning request by Hanson Aggregates Southeast, and as a result, the Crabtree Quarry expansion was nixed.
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News Feature
"This is our family, and this is all we have, and it's already destroyed, you can't drink the water. And if you do drink that water, it's going to be a slow death."
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Letters to the Editor
"'Going green' is not a matter of what you plant as much as it is the behavior and expectation we have in exercising our daily choices subsequent to planting."
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Front Porch
Raleigh is my town, and when my town is in trouble, I am in trouble.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Hopscotch News
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