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Food Feature
The N.C. Tomato Man and founder of Tomatopalooza hopes dwarf tomatoes might be the festival's revolutionary work, its legacy act.
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Food Feature
As Barry Estabrook's new book explains, Big Ag, in meeting consumer demand for tomatoes year-round, is bending nature—and a migrant workforce—to its will.
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Guidance For Gourmands
Once the initiating egg has hit pan, there's no pausing to consult, measure or chop; you're riding a tiger and you have to hold on with both hands.
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Now Serving
Community-supported seafood without the monthly commitment; a mini Ren Fair with Meadjito slushies, mead soap and mead candy; Piedmont Distillers tours, live music and Junior Johnson
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Blessed Is The Pour
"As we've gotten greener as a culture and a society, this just makes more sense," says veteran North Carolina wine distributor Art Gennari.
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North Carolina
Representatives override Perdue's veto of Senate Bill 781, which reforms the state's regulatory system. Up next: Senate Bill 709, which clears the way for fracking.
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Chatham County
One by one, the HRC chair named the members of the commission, and each resigned his or her post.
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Orange County
The residency queries came a year and a half into May Becker's term, when she found herself on the dissenting side of a controversial vote regarding county zoning ordinances.
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Letters to the Editor
"If anyone would be a supporter of Rep. Michele Bachmann, it should be me. I am a white, male, Christian, 59-year-old Republican. But would I vote for her? Not just no, but hell no."
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Front Porch
"I don't think college is going to be like this," she said. "Right," I replied, my heart burrowing until it finally found my stomach. "I think there's more Frisbee."
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Gallery
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Jonathan Weiler
This is all being debated within the perverse framework that people aren't already doing that belt-tightening.
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Peripheral Visions
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Music Feature
From his influences to his collaborators, former Raleigh musician Justin Vernon has taken a steady approach to his career—and won.
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Music Feature
"You can't just go and have a bunch of beers and hang out and see my music."
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Our guide to this week's shows
Gillian Welch, Lilac Shadows, Fan Modine, Peter Holsapple, Aardvark and Z-Pocket, Auxes, Bats & Mice, Jolie Holland, David Dondero, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Moaners, Rational Animals, Brain F≠, Whatever Brains, Mutant League, The Young Volcanos, Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun, The Loners
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Reading
Bull Spec's Cabinet of Curiosities Extravaganza with Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Mur Lafferty and The Clockwork Cabaret; Ransom Riggs; Maggie Stiefvater
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Reading
The Night Train is very much about the slow, pained shift in race relations during one important moment, but its 200 pages speak to life, not laws.
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Dance
Looking back, the 2011 American Dance Festival truly belonged to a number of individuals and developments. It was the season of ...
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Theater
In these two productions, the subject is changing times and black-white relations, but a century apart.
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Theater
This group of eight directors has assembled a compelling showcase, one that makes a strong argument for a frequently discounted genre.
