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Beer Hopping
Discover the ways that Triangle-based breweries are facing the challenge of brewing a summer beer.
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Food Feature
What are hot dogs really made of? Local hot dog makers can tell you
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Now Serving
Nanataco Mexican restaurant opens soon; Fullsteam Brewery to brew with Rainier cherries; Triangle Raw Foodists launches as a web-based delivery service; Carrboro Farmers' Market installs an ATM with a worthwhile fee
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Arts Feature
Will the Durham Sculpture Project change how we fund public art?
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TV
The TNT crime drama The Closer ends after seven seasons. Farewell to a great show we hardly saw.
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Theater
The show is a crowd-pleaser, earning a standing ovation at the performance I attended, and writer Roger Bean has already done a sequel, Winter Wonderettes.
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Music Feature
By the estimations of its own members, Raleigh quintet Whatever Brains are not a band that's likely to attract a large audience. But they're not exactly courting one either.
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Music Feature
More than a decade removed from his last solo album, former Squirrel Nut Zipper Tom Maxwell is back with the terrific Kingdom Come.
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Music Essay
Real Estate now has the unenviable task of answering a record that was made without expectations and in a very specific time, place and mood that—after success—can never be replicated.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs, Arbouretum, Whoarfrost, Small Ponds, Birds and Arrows, Fan Modine, L in Japanese Dance Party, The Psychedelic Furs, Richard Bacchus, Young Antiqes, Dash Rip Rock, Phatlynx, more
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North Carolina
North Carolina has not learned from the past. Your trash is part of the 9 million tons of garbage North Carolina generated last year, and much of it went into landfills in low-income neighborhoods.
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Orange County
Although "bombing" is a graffiti term, yarn bombing lacks the danger of say, a Banksy piece. And although technically illegal, yarn bombing isn't heavily prosecuted because the knit cozies can be easily removed.
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Citizen
Train of thought: Imagine life in the Triangle if we had frequent rail service.
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Front Porch
Boris, a male pit bull, and Winston, an old yellow Labrador, serve as companions on neighborhood watch.
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Gallery
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Eva Hayward
What is it that makes gender-ambiguous voices so different and appealing?
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Peripheral Visions
