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Now Serving
The Thrill at Hector's officially opens Thursday (The Rathskeller is also slated to reopen this month); sample intentionally soured beers Saturday at Sam's
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Food Feature
Under the regulations before the exemption, for example, instructors couldn't use a food processor during classes because it is a household appliance; they would have to use the commercial equivalent.
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Soccer
Rennie, the 36-year-old coach of the second-tier Carolina RailHawks since 2009, has been named the new coach of the top-tier Vancouver Whitecaps.
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Arts Feature
The 48,000-square-foot facility will offer everything from theatrical and musical performances to classes, camps, gallery exhibitions, open studios and meeting space for community groups.
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Visual Art
"I've been around places that have historic buildings. But there's a lot more preserved in Durham than people realize or appreciate."
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Reading
One increasingly tenable theory holds that the disproportionate prevalence of a spectrum of disorders in affluent nations—from allergies and asthma to diabetes and Crohn's disease—may be because we miss our worms.
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Music Feature
"I'm grateful that we [got bigger], but bad things can happen if you enter the music business and you're not prepared. That's where we got in trouble." —Eric Bachmann
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Music Essay
"I remember where I was when Britney Spears was no longer a virgin." Two Raleigh residents discuss growing up along with Britney.
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Music Feature
Imagine strolling through downtown Durham and hearing a strange sound echoing off the buildings. You turn a corner and a couple of blocks away, a small crowd has gathered. In the middle is a guy wailing boogie-woogie blues on a battered, old upright piano.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Justin Robinson & the Mary Annettes, I Heart Chocolate, Six Organs Of Admittance, Peter Lamb & the Wolves, Shana Tucker Quartet, Totimoshi, more
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Music Essay
Back in February I jumped in a van with Steve Oliva, Rock Forbes and Dan McGee...
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Film Review
The movie's almost as ridiculously entertaining as Colin Farrell's performance, which has him hissing at beams of sunlight in mid-sentence and casually telling prospective victims "Catch ya later!" as they run away.
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Film Review
Sarah's Key tells the story of an American expat journalist in Paris who discovers that the apartment she's about to move into has a deeply unsettling connection to the past.
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Film Review
As the film checks on its characters each July 15 for 20 years, the date appears in dainty cursive font that floats, blows away and, at one point, pops up in a toaster. It's typical of the twee tone that undercuts the story's potential.
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Chatham County
The old Chatham County landfill is bleeding contamination into their drinking water wells, and now the families that live along East Alston Road are about to get 100 new neighbors: They'll be living next to the new county jail.
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Wake County
For the second consecutive year, the Wake County Public School System has violated state and federal law by failing to provide an adequate education for 164 middle and high school students with disabilities.
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Durham County
It could be late fall before a court case delaying the controversial housing development near Jordan Lake is settled.
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Letters to the Editor
"The City of Mebane has aggressively worked to abate these hardships and will continue to do so with the help of the good people we call our neighbors."
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Front Porch
Paranoia and fear banged on the front door, and I needed to stave them off with some reminder that life is fundamentally a good and beautiful thing.
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Hal Crowther
Ayn Rand's 21st-century resurrection is the work of small, almost invisible minds that cherry-pick her oeuvre for their own ends, just as they cherry-pick the Bible or The Wealth of Nations.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Exile on Jones Street
Now that redistricting has set the table, the GOP and outside groups are preparing to pour enormous resources into close races to unseat Democratic incumbents in North Carolina.
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Citizen
Nancy McFarlane, Billie Redmond and Randall Williams are three very accomplished people who've taken different paths to a mayoral campaign and are far apart in how they view their role of mayor.
