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Music Essay
Glenn Jones' musical vocabulary may fall squarely inside the language that John Fahey invented, but the tales he's telling with it are his own. And on scales of creativity and beauty, his work is gaining on that of his forefather.
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Music Essay
"Loops play tricks on the mind most of the time and that's something I want to achieve. Also, if it's something familiar that you can't put your finger on, even better." — Axel Willner
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Record Review
Stratocruiser's fourth album successfully highlights more nascent psych influences that augment the ringing jangle pop and glammy hard pop of antecedents such as Badfinger and Cheap Trick.
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Record Review
The relationship between beatmaker Khrysis and lead emcee Sean Boog has persevered, a fact that's more impressive than the music they continue to make.
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Record Review
The Tigers have arrived at a wonderfully catchy, stylistically balanced record in little time at all.
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Record Review
When the group wanders, they're at their best.
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Record Review
Building from the soulful electronics of his earlier Moths EP, Pate adds hypnotic acoustic guitar, gracing the mix with his extraordinary voice.
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Record Review
At the core of Systems' brilliance, at least on the Carrboro band's debut, is the band's ability to navigate the uneven line between thrash and post-rock.
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Record Review
In the last two years, Heads on Sticks have gone from a largely studio-bound offshoot of a prominent local bandleader and sideman to one of the best live acts in the area.
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Record Review
If The Body sounds like the apocalypse, Braveyoung sounds like the dust clearing afterward. On this collaboration, the bands capitalize on the textures and moods that make them both compelling.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Screaming Females, Ra Ra Riot, Wham City Comedy Tour, The Beast, Yahzarah, Reverend Horton Heat, Supersuckers, Zen Frisbee, Shit Horse, Whatever Brains, Chuck Prophet, Arbouretum, Grogh, more
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Theater
After months of intensive collaboration, Living with the Tiger lets us approach what drives two unwise people to find and keep dangerous exotic animals.
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Visual Art
Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections offers a rare chance to enjoy an eyebrow-raising wealth of world-class art in your own backyard.
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Theater
Eva Perón gets defamed again in Raleigh.
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Now Serving
Regulars of Oriental Garden, which occupied 503 W. Rosemary St. for more than 20 years, may recognize George Chen: His parents owned the Chinese restaurant where his new bread bakery and coffee shop now resides.
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Blessed Is The Pour
You can look at the wine, but you can't drink it. Plus: a link to all of the N.C. State Fair wine winners.
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Film Review
Lech Majewski's film revels in the earthy details of 16th-century Flemish life even as it employs up-to-the-minute CGI techniques to bring this wonderfully complex painting by Pieter Bruegel to life.
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Film Beat
"It's really for the experience that people have as they go through the museum, to really see nature at its finest—first in high-definition and, now, in high-definition 3-D."
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Film Review
"Wait a minute, I'm being entertained by a movie about a damn talking, sword-fighting cat!"
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Film Review
Anybody who goes into Margin Call hoping to see investment bankers raked over the coals will be disappointed.
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News Feature
11 days and counting
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News Feature
In a college town, education will get you only so far
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News Feature
Many aspects of the Bull City's protest location make it significant
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News Feature
Carol Whittemore lives in Raleigh; she was in New York City when the Occupy Wall Street protests converged on Times Square. This is what she saw.
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Orange County
When a database of hospital employee salaries was published in June 2010, the plaintiff was surprised to discover that she made about 16 percent less than a male coworker with the same job and, to her knowledge, less experience.
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Letters to the Editor
Matt Czajkowski; 1/4-cent sales tax; Breakfast Club endorsements; Randy Voller; secret ballots
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Front Porch
To visit New York is to nibble on the crumbs falling from the table of capitalism, and it can be a very tasty meal. But in a small park downtown, there is a contingent determined to deliver a message: All is not well for the rest of us.
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Jonathan Weiler
OWS's growing appeal may be a reflection of the failure of mainstream journalism to do that which ought to be its first charge: Hold the powerful accountable, rather than serve as their sycophants.
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Hal Crowther
Even William Randolph Hearst might have been amazed by Rupert Murdoch's tactics.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
