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Now Serving
In underserved Northeast Central Durham, the new Bull City Urban Market offers "affordable, healthy produce and quality food that's within walking distance."
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Beer Hopping
Homebrewers are the goad that keeps the pros on their toes. (Also: Homebrew For Hunger is Saturday.)
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Meet-and-Three
"We always have real creamed potatoes, dry beans and greens," Libby Green says. A lunch plate includes the choice of one meat, two sides, bread and tea for $8.
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Lunch With...
"I started researching and found similarities in Southern and Latin American cuisines that were very uncanny. Both culinary cultures are so similar that people start adapting and adopting."
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Film Review
Anonymous is a hoot for literate moviegoers, a treat for theater geeks, a rag on backstage egotists, and an alternate version of the Elizabethan Age. But I seriously doubt that it is history.
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Film Review
Take Shelter is a valiant, worthy effort, but the film doesn't go far enough—and doesn't succeed in escaping its influences.
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News Feature
Chapel Hill's public works director says Clyde Clark and Kerry Bigelow were fired for insubordination and threatening behavior. But Clark and Bigelow believe their firings were retaliation for filing race discrimination grievances, for speaking out on work and safety conditions, and for joining a union.
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North Carolina
State and federal officials are reviewing fire management procedures after fire crews plowed a section of Sandy Run Savannas State Natural Area known to contain a number of rare and endangered plants while fighting the massive Juniper Road fire this summer.
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Orange County
The intersection of Jones Ferry and Davie roads, which is convenient for day laborers and contractors, is the only corner subject to a town ordinance that makes it a misdemeanor to "stand, sit, recline, linger or otherwise remain" after 11 a.m. and before 5 a.m. each day.
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National
Edwards' defense team says the indictment accuses their client of breaking a law that doesn't exist. The trial is set to open in January.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
Amsterdam fosters that feeling of possibility, but I know I don't need to fly through six time zones to find gezellig.
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Letters to the Editor
"Vote for the candidates running clean, local campaigns without big cash and without out-of-town money."
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Eva Hayward
If U.S. politicians are an example of humanity—many of you are snickering—how has empathy shaped politics?
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Our guide to this week's shows
Chris Knight, Melt-Banana, Crystal Antlers, Old Bricks, Free Electric State, Greg Humphreys, Sally Spring, Javelin, Bill Frisell, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, The Beets, Girl in a Coma, more
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Music Feature
Camus, Sartre and Cormac McCarthy come up just as often in conversation as Mamiffer, Cathedral and Locrian.
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Record Review
With Dirty Pretty Things, Pooh doesn't party as much as he used to, but Durham vocalist Darien Brockington returns from his spiritual hiatus on the penetrating "Soul Music."
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Record Review
On the rich and enveloping That Is What I Said, Raleigh five-piece Oulipo crams an LP's worth of ideas onto a five-song cassette. (Diggup Tapes)
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Record Review
This is a perfect start for a welcome young band.
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Music Feature
The Kruger Brothers perform progressively minded, classically conscious folk that's rooted in American tradition but flairs wildly with disparate influences.
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Music Essay
Despite the two groups' various sonic similarities, their current fortunes could barely be more dissimilar.
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Theater
"A man in a cage always appealed to Beckett, and with some reason. A part of Sam thought he was always a man in a cage."
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Theater
Garden District provides a poignant, pointed reminder of what two parts of the good old days were like and how far we have—and haven't—come.
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Theater
Mike Wiley's historical drama about a multiracial group of civil rights activists remains a necessary reminder of the resilience of those who challenged an entire society's conscience.
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Theater
In Gottholt Lessing's Nathan the Wise, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim (insert inevitable "walk into a bar" joke here) come together, putting the conflicts of their religious beliefs aside in favor of recognizing the others' character.
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Theater
Bare Theatre's Much Ado About Nothing is a competent and accessible production of one of Shakespeare's best comedies, but in its central characters, it seems to lack something critical.
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Visual Art
While the exhibit focuses on work that fell into American hands, it's also about the cult of originality, the lost tradition of apprenticeship, shifting notions of value and that vitally important commodity to Americans: money.
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Visual Art
Rembrandt helped form the portraiture envelope but he didn't exactly push it. However, just outside the N.C. Museum of Art's Rembrandt in America show exit, another exhibition does just that.
