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Now Serving
Beckon in the barbecue season this weekend in Hillsborough; plus, the Triangle is stocked with new burger-n-beer options.
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Reading
If this world falls apart (the winner of the 2010 Blue Lynx Prize) consistently brings the reader to a dark place and then pulls back.
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Visual Art
In Mirror Image: Women Portraying Women, 13 women—including six area artists—take an unblinking look at issues around femininity, depicting women through lenses of race, marriage, family and childhood.
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Theater
How many other shows invoke Martin Heidegger, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the films of Charles Bronson, with a little Kurtis Blow to season? Sign us up for volume 2.
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Theater
Rachel Corrie, a student from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., gave the decades-long Middle Eastern conflict a young American face when she was crushed beneath a Caterpillar bulldozer in Gaza in March 2003.
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Theater
In Shiloh Rules, a modern-day historic re-enactment of the Battle of Shiloh goes totally off the rails.
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Music Feature
Even post-breakup, Hog and Lurch seem inextricably linked, like brothers who don't always get along.
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Music Essay
Amor de Días' patient, steady music is psychedelic but elegant, lush and paradoxically economical.
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Music Feature
"If these are the last two shows we do, it would be nice to go out on a higher note." —John Howie Jr.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Americans In France, Heads On Sticks, Small Ponds, Filthybird, Blood Red River, Phatlynx, Dust Vs Dirt, Kaia Wilson, Heather Mcentire, Danielle Howle, Rowdy Square Dance, The Old Ceremony, Dex Romweber & The New Romans, Jon Lindsay, Juan Huevos, The Memorials, Motor Skills , more
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Film Review
Bertrand Tavernier's film tells the story of a 16th-century noblewoman whose body is not her own, and who lives in a world in which marriages are political alliances and prudent women suppress their romantic feelings.
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News Feature
Bankers, ministers, journalists and politicians nationwide rallied behind a second wave of forced sterilization
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North Carolina
The small Triangle branch of WILPF isn't a household brand even to rank-and-file progressives, but its members are also leaders of such better-known groups as N.C. WARN, N.C. Peace Action, the Green Party and the NAACP.
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North Carolina
Tobacco Trust Fund grants are supposed to help more than just one farmer, and recipients are expected to pass on what they learn.
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North Carolina
Most people don't know what it's like to be "that kid" in church when the pastor says gays are going to hell and the congregation responds "amen," said state Rep. Marcus Brandon, a first-term lawmaker from Guilford County.
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Durham County
Durham previously did not alert Falls Lake beachgoers to health or water concerns, although Wake County does. As a result, when Wake County closed its beaches, visitors often went to the Durham side of the lake, which is often even more polluted.
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Exile on Jones Street
If you measure the success of the GOP leadership in the General Assembly by its ability to turn back the clock, there are few triumphs that will top what has happened to environmental policy, especially the dismantling of DENR, the lead agency charged with protecting it.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
"So can we leave Afghanistan finally? How about Iraq too while we're at it? Or will we save those options for 2012's campaign promises?"
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EarthTalk
Instances of people with thyroid problems seem to be on the rise. Is there an environmental connection?
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Front Porch
What happens when I'm the only one stunned by a dust of snow? No sweet tea, no biscuits, no 70-degree February weather?
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Editorial
Here's a headline we rarely get to use: Something good happened in state government this month.
