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Music Feature
Rapper Phonte Coleman, producer Commissioner Gordon, DJ Nanci O and Tribe zealot/ Colony Theatre manager Denver Hill give us their take on this tale of Tribe.
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Music Feature
"Concerts and readings have such established conventions that ... everyone knows what they're getting into. This is fresh; no one knows what might happen, not even me." —Daniel Wallace
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Our guide to this week's shows
Free Electric State, Trkfest, Flea Market, E.G. Kight, Lurch, Bitter Resolve, Savagist, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Knives, Larkin Poe, Toxic Holocaust, Th' Bullfrog Willard Mcgee, The Band of Heathens, Onward Soldier
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Record Review
"Worthwhile," which closes the album, is a fittingly bittersweet farewell—and, you have to think, the quiet gatherings of a new start.
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Record Review
Recorded this past February at Durham's Sound Pure Studios in front of an audience of 40 fortunate fans, this CD/DVD package is an intimate, scaled-down performance exemplifying the magic that can happen when a band handles its music and career with care.
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Record Review
The compilation tape—titled in honor or jest of The Grateful Dead's exhaustive live series—gathers up Rich Ivey's buddy musicians for an 11-song jaunt that's incredibly fun.
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Record Review
What makes this debut LP a record that will instantly drill itself into the head of most any loud-rock fan is the Charlotte band's endless churning, wrought by a precise mix of mind-rattling hooks and bone-crushing riffs.
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Record Review
The Asheville musician's first solo release is a home-recorded, no-frills, lo-fi affair built on a simple template of acoustic strums, electric fills, red-lined bass, crushed percussion and—here's the chief asset—memorable hooks.
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Record Review
On the latest project from this North Carolina hip-hop duo, Enigma and Sundown find themselves trying something larger—less spring-and-snap action and more knockout, bare-knuckle boxing.
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Record Review
The songs on the band's third release are so catchy, well-written and eclectic that, at just over 30 minutes, it feels as though it's over before it's begun.
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Record Review
John Howie Jr. trades the barroom for the car stereo on this full-length debut with his new band.
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Visual Art
After Destiny: The Contemporary American Landscape brings us seven painters who solidly prove that artwork about landscape still has the capacity to contain Big Ideas and resonate meaningfully, even urgently, with contemporary life.
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Theater
Cass suddenly flees her marriage upon learning that her husband has been hiding a sexual deviancy so outré and laughable that even our most progressive readers may briefly feel like crossing their legs upon hearing it.
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Visual Art
Dawn Gettler, a Chicago-based artist, has cultivated an art practice predicated on the scores of repetitions that constitute lived existence.
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Theater
Giant papier-mâché baby heads (equal parts unsettling and adorable) re-enact the story of life while Mexican-style reapers cavort on bone horses and towering plant-people reach out to the golden hands of a giant sun.
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Now Serving
Organic "cookies with a conscience"; Jeff & King's chocolate bazaar at Casbah; local gourmet staple under new ownership
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Feed With Care
Here are a few tips, resources and strategies that I've found helpful in keeping my now 10-year-old son safe without overburdening school staff, students or their families.
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Food Feature
Christensen made her name with Poole's Downtown Diner. With two restaurants and a bar to open this fall, she rolls out a new concept in dining.
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Food Feature
The New York cocktail guru is designing the drink menu at Ashley Christensen's Fox Liquor Bar in downtown Raleigh and will reside half-time in the Triangle through Fox's first season.
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Film Beat
Unstable salaries, unsteady job prospects and uncertain futures are depicted in many of this year's films, as are struggles with grief, thwarted ambition, love, adolescence and midlife regret.
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Film Review
There's something refreshing about an action story where the characters' dunderheaded, illogical actions are constantly called out.
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Film Review
A melancholy but proud maid's newfound obsession with chess offers her a feeling of freedom but doesn't liberate her from financial and gender-based traps.
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North Carolina
Next up on the GOP agenda: capital funding for charter schools and more clout, if not outright independence, for a newly created charter schools advisory council that is supposed to report to the State Board of Education.
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North Carolina
The main legal impediment to fracking is the state's Oil and Gas Conservation Act of 1945, which outlaws horizontal drilling. Senate Bill 709 stands to change that.
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Durham County
The fish kill is due to what biologists call a "dissolved oxygen/ temperature squeeze," according to Brian McRae, Piedmont Region fishery supervisor with the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Basically, our record summer temperatures are to blame.
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Letters to the Editor
"When she spoke her first, labored words, Jason Jordan had the patience to listen."
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Front Porch
When my expected future never materialized, I railed against everything. It was ugly.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Jonathan Weiler
The debt ceiling imbroglio is perhaps the clearest indication yet of how broken and unresponsive our political system has become.
