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Music Feature
J Kutchma's unplugged solo work has reached a point where it's no less charged than his full band's output. And he's now released two EPs of live recordings.
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Music Essay
"We wanted to change up the details, like different rooms on the drums and different textures with distortion. Small tricks instead of big tricks. It's more of a street magician than Copperfield." —Björn Yttling
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Record Review
Durham singer-songwriter Shana Tucker's sweet, unerring voice alone would be enough to support a career; what makes Tucker special is her adherence to the cello, boldly taking the instrument into new territory.
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Record Review
Dead Lions treads the waters between Radiohead and Explosions in the Sky, using pretty piano-and-guitar-laced textures to build into big rock codas time and again.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Bottle Rockets, Guillermo Klein Y Los Gauchos, Yardwork, Nightlight Block Party, Holly Golightly, Martha Ann Motel, Young Dro, Killer Mike, Pac Div, more
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Arts Feature
CAM Raleigh opens with two delightful installations in one fascinating building
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Arts Feature
A brief civic history of CAM Raleigh, and a look ahead
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Visual Art
The Ackland's layout requires this additive thinking, and collections curator Timothy Riggs and chief curator Peter Nisbet prove up to the task.
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Reading
Ehrman is anti-lies: not just the ones told under false apostolic signatures 2,000 years ago, but the ones we tell ourselves today to prop up whatever we already want to believe.
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Arts Feature
Seven lines of legislative text nearly defunded arts organizations such as American Dance Festival, MerleFest and National Black Theater Festival.
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Now Serving
Plus: Farm to Fork Picnic in June has already sold out
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Blessed Is The Pour
Vinho verde is a great wine for sipping on long, hot summer nights because it's light and bright with a fruity nose and a zingy finish. It also goes well with seafood.
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Food Feature
The Triangle's first nonprofit food truck trains and employs youth to promote community activism.
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Film Review
A short slideshow of Hondros' war photos; a review of The Bang Bang Club; watch Hetherington's short film Diary
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North Carolina
There are plenty of side issues worthy of attention as the North Carolina legislative session passes the three-month mark. But this session is primarily about what legislative sessions are usually about: money.
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North Carolina
"It's really hard for the public to give meaningful input without being able to see a draft map."
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Jonathan Weiler
Efforts to paint President Obama as an anti-business extremist—when he simply isn't—only push our political system closer to the point where it will be helpless to address our most serious weaknesses.
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First Person
A report from the 25th annual Pilgrimage for Justice and Peace, an event organized each Holy Week since 1987 by former Catholic missionary Gail Phares
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
A long black snake with a white underbelly and faint white bands around its midsection sprawled—ironically, I thought—across the black letters declaring WELCOME on our front porch mat.
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EarthTalk
Is air quality in the United States improving or getting worse? Is it cleaner in some parts of the country than in others?
