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Music Feature
"We wanted to go to parties where people are dancing. It wasn't black or white, it was just people having fun." —Jeff Johnson
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Music Feature
"I'm more known for my local contacts. A place that big, they definitely need somebody who has a national prominence." —Chris Tamplin
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Music Essay
The Protomen, a 10-strong prog-rock orchestra from outside Nashville, merge 8-bit graphics and rock epics.
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Record Review
(Bloodshot Records) The duo's second proper album is its leader's most consistent and distilled effort since Flat Duo Jets broke up.
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Music Feature
The early releases evoke a desolate, gutted post-punk landscape, while the later '90s albums explore wider sonic boundaries.
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Music Feature
Early indie rock misanthrope My Dad is Dead ends its 25-plus-year run this weekend.
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Music Feature
"I can't stand still very long. Like right now, I can't sit still talking to you. It bugs me. I fidget, you know? It's kind of good. It kind of keeps me off of drugs and shit." —John Wesley Coleman
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Our guide to this week's shows
John Wesley Coleman, Heartless Bastards, Lilac Shadows, The Invisible Hand, Borrowed Beams of Light, Zen Frisbee, Moonface, New Town Drunks, Red Hot Poker Dots, Curtis Ellis, Fuck the Facts, Delicate Steve, Josh Ritter, American Idol Live, Rock Star Stephen Vincent
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Indies Arts Awards
This year's honorees: Sacrificial Poets, Tom and Heather LaGarde, Avid Video and Bull City Records, Sam Stephenson, The Scrap Exchange, Raleigh Ensemble Players
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Indies Arts Awards
"In case y'all are confused about what just happened, this is a place for that: a place of transformation, a place of reconnection, a place of growth, a place of openness." —CJ Suitt
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Indies Arts Awards
"The Jazz Loft Project gets back to my whole original puzzle about value. Why are people obscure? Why are certain people valued by history more than others?" —Sam Stephenson
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Indies Arts Awards
"One thing we're known for is the intimacy of the theater, how close you are to the actors. It allows for us to be able to involve the audience in different ways." —Gary Williams & Glen Matthews
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Indies Arts Awards
"There's a little bit of every small town in North Carolina in the Haw River Ballroom." —Tom LaGarde
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Indies Arts Awards
"I can only stock something I know I really like or something I know other people will like. I have to have somebody specific in mind." —Chaz Martenstein
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Indies Arts Awards
"It's an open door to creativity, to getting rid of your preconceived notions. Isn't that what life's about?" —Bryant Holsenbeck
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Reading
Pratt's Inside the Money Machine explores work and money; Murphy's Aviaries is full of whimsy and delight
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Theater
After a genial master of ceremonies leads the preshow fashion competition—and those all-important vocal warmups—the lights will dim, the film will start and subtitles for every lyric will be projected throughout the movie.
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Now Serving
Six Plates celebrates the Basque Country with TxakoliFest; Cafe Helios and Counter Culture raise funds for Coffee Kids; RAFI presents multimedia stories from Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund farmers
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Locavore Cooking
Plus recipes for Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins and Bella Blueberry Sauce
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Food Feature
Imported shrimp, most of it farm raised, now accounts for roughly 90 percent of U.S. sales. Domestic shrimpers in the southeast Atlantic region have banded together to try to market what they see as their advantages, which dovetail neatly with a locally grown narrative.
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Film Review
Page One explores difficult economic and philosophical questions: How do we monetize the migration of journalism to the Web? What is the level of accountability, not just for old-school journalism but for blogs and nontraditional media as well?
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Durham County
Plus other Greenfire-related news: SunTrust building, Liberty Warehouse
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National
Speaking to the Triangle Freethought Society in Raleigh on Monday, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said, "It's like an extreme makeover of the Constitution that we used to know."
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Durham County
Duke University's vice president of public relations says that following the complete city mobile food ordinance—including the clause that requires vendors to move 60 feet every 15 minutes—is a matter of safety.
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Front Porch
In our rural neighborhood, mailboxes have multiple functions and signal codes.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Exile on Jones Street
The fruits of this legislative session include offshore drilling proposals, a decimated Clean Water Management Trust Fund, cuts to research, the approval of terminal groins, and a rush to dismantle environmental regulation and enforcement.
