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The Election Page
"I think that having the opportunity to make our own destiny would be a privilege." —Linward Hedgspeth, who has lived in Rougemont his entire 63 years
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Music Feature
As I listened to The Hold Steady's fourth album, Stay Positive, I felt like I was being hipped to things in white culture that I shouldn't know about, that I didn't know happened.
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Music Feature
"It's not just the space and the equipment. It's also the fact that you have this dedicated environment, and other people work there. I just always thought that was a romantic notion."
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Music Feature
"The last record was more about time and space and outer space and galactic alignment than human consciousness. This one was more about the physicality of the world and sexuality."
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Our guide to this week's shows
Lonnie Walker, Wylie Hunter & The Cazadores, Future Islands, Nine Fingered Thug, Rocket Cottage, Luego, Soft Company, Lilac Shadows, Music Hates You, The Moaners, Fantastico, Jeremy Blair, Sinful Savage Tigers, Slingshot Cash, Trepak
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Reading
"Fan fiction is part of a larger tradition that also includes things like Wide Sargasso Sea and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: books that engage with and borrow from other texts in an explicit way. I completely see myself as part of that tradition."
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Reading
By looking at the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the modern school and workplace, Davidson makes a persuasive case for her book's subtitle: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
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Visual Art
Ward has striped the walls, floors and concrete columns of CAM with lines, grids and hanging swoops of electrical, gaffers and masking tape—in all the colors of the Lego bin.
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Theater
Violet has "a need so giant I could force Him into action, a need so giant that God could be invented right there on the spot." That's one big need.
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Theater
Director/ lead Jesse Gephart and company re-examine several conventions long associated with Steinbeck's classic text in this strongly recommended production.
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Now Serving
Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week runs through Sunday (get a taste of it at Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market); The Remedy Diner in PETA's top five vegan sandwiches; vote in Food Network's Great Food Truck Race through Sept. 12
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Food Feature
Cold comforts from The Parlour, La Monarca Michoacana, Pearl Gray Frozen Custard, Bikescream! and Tamu Ice Cream
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Blessed Is The Pour
The small space is divided into rooms and nooks, so you can slip away for a quiet conversation or gather around a table and listen to a guy playing guitar in front of the fireplace.
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Food Feature
W.A. Turnier worked for Nabisco from 1923 to 1973, moving up in the ranks from mail boy to a member of the engineering department. His son Bill, who resides in Chapel Hill and teaches tax law at UNC, shared with us the story and the 1952 blueprint.
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Film Review
One of the best things about Another Earth is that it's genuinely unpredictable. It also gives you space to ask tantalizing questions as you watch.
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Orange County
"I wish the restaurant owners would go to Durham and see what food trucks do. It's not a bad thing for restaurants." —Carol Edenton of Will & Pop's
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
This year, drought and searing heat have made for some curious sights and memories.
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Letters to the Editor
"Your piece on Ayn Rand worship really annoyed the hell out of me."
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Jonathan Weiler
Freedom in this worldview has a very specific meaning: Only those who embrace the teachings of the Lord can really be trusted to exercise it.
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Citizen
The N.C. General Assembly made history this year by enacting a law allowing vouchers for students with special needs who attend private schools. The question now is whether this measure becomes "the foot in the door" for conservatives determined to privatize public education.
