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Record Review
Mount Moriah's eponymous debut is the sound of country being rocked at the foundations.
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Music Essay
Now, more than ever before, the avenues to new listeners are not only more abundant but more open.
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Our guide to this week's shows
It’s A Wonderful World Music Group, Ted Leo, Voice Of The Wetlands All-Stars, Carrie Martin Benefit With Caltrop & Make, Lost In The Trees, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Libyans, Shards, Logic Problem, Makoto Kawabata, Mugu Guymen, Here We Go Magic, more
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Theater
With Jade City Chronicles – Vol. 1, Durham playwright Howard L. Craft gives us a proud beacon of soulful, superhero justice with Herald Jones, better known as The Super Spectacular Bad Ass Herald M.F. Jones.
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Theater
There's a certain sense of triumph with N.C. Theatre's production of Hello, Dolly!—just like the title character, they've persevered to put on one hell of a show.
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Theater
Amid the snappy patter and coping jokes, a child and a family are threatened by an enemy as familiar to most of us as our daily calendar. Perhaps that provoked the standing ovation the cast received on their opening night.
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Theater
Opening night was a troubled affair, in which clearly superior characterizations and dramatic scene work were yoked to more questionable kin.
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Now Serving
Carolina Brewery's canned offerings and farmers market; Saxapahaw Farmers' Market and Rivermill Music Series; Indian Food Truck cooking classes at The Cookery
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Food Feature
Midtown Olive Press carries 18 olive oils, six specialty oils, eight white balsamic vinegars, 15 traditional vinegars and two wine champagne vinegars.
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Feed With Care
Numerous celiacs have likened Seelig's deception to a game of Russian roulette—except that you don't know you're playing.
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Film Review
Everything Must Go is a commentary about the artificiality of suburbia as well as an earnest fable about a man who must confront and let go of his past in order to embark on a better future.
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Film Review
If nothing else, Bridesmaids rebuts the criticism that Judd Apatow's films are nothing but wish-fulfillment scenarios for schlubby guys; in this one, whininess and low self-esteem are definitely gender-neutral.
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Film Review
It's a huckster's dream: Spurlock makes his movie, the sponsors promote their brand, and the film distributor pockets a tidy sum. The audience is the one left holding the shopping bag.
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North Carolina
North Carolina could be heading toward having no budget, no temporary budget and a constitutional crisis.
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News Feature
Light my faucet: flaming water, explosions, toxic spills
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Orange County
The project, which once promised to offer "the best life in town," is going bust.
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Jonathan Weiler
We need not forget in order to move on, and with bin Laden gone, now seems like an especially appropriate time to turn the page on a decade of fear, overreaction and decline. To do that, it might do to turn the page back to 1972.
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Letters to the Editor
"A clean, healthy environment and affordable, sustainable energy are what we already pay them to provide."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
The simple pact you make with chickens is that, if you give them fresh water, some scratch corn and a few greens every day, they'll give you eggs.
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EarthTalk
I heard that, despite its healthy image, most soy is grown using chemicals like other crops and is even being genetically modified.
