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Beer Hopping
It seems we're now ready to look beyond the cozy nuclear family of Belgian beer and embrace the crazy cousins.
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Locavore Cooking
Recipes for fresh kale side salad, cabbage sauté (a wilted salad) and two dinner salads (taco and chicken Caesar)
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Now Serving
Chalkboards, pimento cheese and strawberry shortcake: What's not to love?
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Film Review
It's to the credit of Susanne Bier's film that, even as it sets up fairly Manichean conflicts, it discourages us from taking pleasure in easy violence.
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News Feature
New rules to clean up the waterway went into effect Jan. 15, but local municipalities—primarily Raleigh and Durham—argued over who is responsible for the pollution and who should pay for the $1.5 billion cleanup.
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Durham County
The $48 million project to revive the south side of Durham's downtown promises to be long, socially complex and financially risky.
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North Carolina
House Bill 129, which passed the Senate this week, prevents local governments from providing high-speed Internet service.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
"It is a form of sexual deviation that brings such a euphoria to these people they cannot quit."
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Front Porch
The day after President Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, I took the subway to the site of the World Trade Center.
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Record Review
Cook's second solo set provides a nice counterpart to his music with Megafaun, making it less a side project and more a satellite orbiting that band's three records of folk deconstructions.
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Music Essay
Matthew Houck's latest, Here's to Taking It Easy, demonstrates an ease with a variety of '60s and '70s sounds—from outlaw country to Muscle Shoals soul—without diving into revivalism.
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Instrumentalist
"What I'm trying to master is not any one of these instruments, but forgetting my head and listening to my heart."
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Music Feature
Deepak Mantena's love of short works—music, film, whatever—comes from an appreciation of artists who know how to make their point quickly and then cut out.
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Record Review
Whereas their debut was a look at a new couple dealing lovingly with life, We're Gonna Run adds appropriate clouds to a once-honeymoon atmosphere.
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Record Review
Despite the quartet's short history, its debut finds the group possessing the refinement of seasoned veterans.
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Record Review
This six-song set of self-assured work with N.C.'s best beat statesman, Khrysis, is a proclamation of the aggressiveness previously missing from some of Mez's work.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Blues in the Night, Savage Weekend, Band Together, The Future Kings of Nowhere, The Others, Municipal Waste, Charlie Hunter, Prisms, more
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Casual Observer
These days, the biggest stunt Steve-O is doing in front of crowds is performing stand-up, as evidenced by the stint he did as the headliner at Goodnights Comedy Club in Raleigh last weekend.
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Theater
Distillery Theatre's Pornography; Ghost and Spice's Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
