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Film Review
So it is that a quarter-century after its founding, Pixar Animation Studios finally made an average, mundane movie.
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Film Review
The reliably adventurous Michael Winterbottom has latched onto a pretty foolproof low-budget gambit with this amiable, often riotous road film.
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Dish
Local cheesemakers; a ricotta recipe; cheeses raw, pimento and paired; more
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Dish
Cheese whizzes
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Dish
An homage to fromage
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Dish
Southern staple
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Dish
Way of the curds
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Dish
Five tastings
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Now Serving
Espresso peddler bikeCOFFEE coming this summer; bike delivery service from Berenbaum's bakery and The Wine Feed
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Blessed Is The Pour
At an evening of intense cheese-and-cider tasting, we found some definite matches for cheeses, local and otherwise. We also found that sometimes the cheese must stand alone.
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Orange County
Town Council members chose to side with the lifelong residents of Northside and Pine Knolls, whose families built the UNC campus and much of the town but who are struggling to stay in Chapel Hill.
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Wake County
A test-drive of Tata's controlled-choice plan skids in low-income areas; plus, an overview of the plan's major aspects
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Letters to the Editor
"There's a discussion to be had about how our commodity culture perpetuates some of our worst excesses, but I don't think the video game is the best exemplar here."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
My Spanish sentences have become bright beads of nouns strung together with weak chains of verbs, articles and prepositions.
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Jonathan Weiler
Pawlenty's "A Better Deal" is not a viable blueprint for governance but rather a symbol of the devolution of one of our two major political parties.
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Music Essay
As of this year, Raleigh has no publicly funded, sponsor-assisted live music series (no Downtown Live, no Raleigh Wide Open, no Cherry Bounce). Unlike Rocky Mount, which Forbes in 2009 named one of America's 10 most impoverished cities.
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Music Essay
While Fucked Up has all but left the world of punk rock behind—and if they haven't yet, these two David albums might be the group's one-way ticket out—they are now fully ensconced in the musical subculture of indie rock.
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Music Feature
"It seems like queerness has become sort of a pop culture circus as opposed to the way some people are choosing to live their lives every day."
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Record Review
(Sorry State Records) The first two of Double Negative's four Hardcore Confusion singles are as wonderful as they are frightening, another perfect progression for the Raleigh hardcore malingerers that outstrips an already strong catalog.
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Record Review
(self-released) Jack the Radio's full-length debut has its rewards, but overall, its value is one of promise. Consider Pretty Money a future investment.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Ben Sollee, Discovery, Roadside Graves, Kooley High, R. Kelly, Jonathan Byrd, Sally Spring, David Bazan, The Blow, Natural Science, Pinche Gringo, more
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Visual Art
Lump Gallery celebrates one of the original art communes of the '60s with an exhibit (and two zines) bringing together two contemporary art collectives, Raleigh's hometown Team Lump and the New Orleans-based The Front.
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Dance
"I was looking at his music that was about your responsibility to the world, being compassionate and all of these love songs that also have this kind of compassion and responsibility in it." — Ronald K. Brown
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Theater
Under the direction of returning guest Kevin Ewert, this production situates itself somewhere between the Coen Brothers' Fargo and Reno 911.
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Theater
With excellent singing all around, WMKS is a slight but entertaining irony-free look at Southern old-time radio.
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Theater
N.C. playwright Samm-Art Williams muses, gently, on the incremental progress experienced by so many families during the Great Migration.
