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Music Feature
It's surprising how three minutes of action can reverse nearly a decade of neglect, but that's exactly what the new 7-inch vinyl single "Jam Up and Jelly Tight" did for fabled Chapel Hill band Jennyanykind.
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Music Essay
"The kind of music I gravitate to is darker stuff. It seems more honest and more in touch with the human condition—just the struggle through life."
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Music Feature
The genre-tweaking folk-rock band Onward, Soldiers is roots rock with a Southern soul and a restless heart.
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Record Review
(Factor IX Records) "At 35, you take a long, hard look at yourself. You ask yourself, what have I done? And what am I to become?"
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Record Review
(self-released) The Durham punk rock trio's latest EP aims for something more nuanced than thrashing, screeching rebellion—properly, post-punk angularity.
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Our guide to this week's shows
The Strange Boys, Porter Hall, Brainbows, Gardens, Shepherds, Beausoleil, Joe Ely Band, Sun Splitter, Bridesmaid, Circle of Friends Benefit for Jan Johansson, more
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Best of the Triangle
Lots of love for local businesses, people and towns...
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Reading
"Perhaps most characteristic of Durham was an easygoing tolerance, a live-and-let-live philosophy." (The modern slogan "Keep Durham Dirty" is, in a way, a spiritual descendant of that philosophy.)
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Visual Art
A scientific illustrator at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences for 30 years, Renaldo Kuhler explains that Rocaterrania "is not a utopia. It is not a fairyland or a dreamland. It directly tells the story of my life and my struggle to become what I am today."
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Theater
Patrick Barlow's daffy 2006 stage adaptation of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock classic reads like a supersize version of the takeoffs once seen on the old Carol Burnett Show.
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Theater
Michael Frayn's Noises Off is an excellent fit for Theatre in the Park, which has staged a number of farces with the energy level up to 11 in recent seasons.
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Now Serving
"You can taste the love."
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First Bite
The construction is simple. The results are sublime. This is what is possible when a sandwich maker understands.
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Film Review
Malick claimed the prestigious Palme d'Or with The Tree of Life, and with this effort, he's tripping along at a rate of about one film per decade.
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Durham County
"We were assured multiple times by multiple people that the credits would transfer."
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Wake County
Hey, who are you calling "creative"?
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North Carolina
"The whole point of this court is to stop that revolving door of folks going in and out of prison all because they have never received treatment."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
"We invite Mr. Currin to visit Garner and talk with its diverse residents and long-standing small business owners and see the many assets of this wonderful place."
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Front Porch
The technocrat sitting in a folding chair behind his car is the ruler of his domain.
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Hal Crowther
"Kuma War Episode 107: Osama 2011" is hardly the final straw, but it might be the final nail in the coffin of American "exceptionalism," our quasi-religious belief that we are better than the rest.
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Editorial
We've slipped on the legislative decoder ring to reveal the true nature of some of this session's benignly named bills.
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Exile on Jones Street
This is a Legislature not content with turning back the clock (now the most overused metaphor in the history of state politics). They are ensuring that once we get to the past, we're stuck there.
