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The Election Page
Victory over Heather Losurdo signals end of GOP majority rule
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The Election Page
Plus: Scenes from the after-parties
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The Election Page
Catotti, Brown and Schewel secure council seats; Bell wins sixth term
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Now Serving
Bull City Burger and Brewery's Movamber Moustache Ale and Movember Mondays benefit Movember (all month)
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First Bite
Battistella's in Raleigh's City Market is the Triangle's newest purveyor of what Chef Brian Battistella calls "classic New Orleans and upscale Southern cuisine."
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Feed With Care
The "Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pie" looked and smelled delicious. But would it deliver?
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Theater
"Our goal is not to persuade, precisely—it's to confront. At least have a position that's based on your own critical reflection." — Tony Perucci
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Reading
"This conference is happening here—and that's not an accident. They haven't had one like this in New York yet, or in San Francisco yet. This is a thing that could only happen here." — Fred Moten, poet and professor
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Theater
In this rewarding but brief production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, director Jody McAuliffe and actor Derrick Ivey return to a world where words are the primary tools to paper over something insidious, official and grotesque.
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Theater
"It's a wonderful thing to say that you were a Rockette. You meet women who are 60 years old and come up to you and say, 'I did the Rockettes at Radio City.'"
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Music Feature
When Bombadil called it quits almost three years ago, they were one of the country's brightest young bands. Somehow, they're back.
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Record Review
Boone quintet Naked Gods pair weirdo roots rock, not far removed from Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, with ambitious guitar architecture that points to Built to Spill and Dinosaur Jr.
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Record Review
It's all pitched at a certain intensity, but there are hints of even greater eclecticism and enough promise to tickle anticipation.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Exitmusic, Gringo Star, Breakestra, Still Black Still Proud, more
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Music Feature
In the pivotal final third of "The Sleeping Prophet," the last song on their new self-released album, a new, rather warm sound slides through the fuzz. It is a flute, brought to you by one of the heaviest bands ever to emerge from the Triangle.
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Film Beat
Asked to pick out a few highlights from Cucalorus 2011, festival director Dan Brawley begins with the Norwood Cheek retrospective, chains through a list of some 142 screenings and events featuring 83 film artists, and closes with hosannas for the special lineup of Blue Velvet events.
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North Carolina
"We've seen some pretty bad conditions, but this was the first time that we were able to really take an in-depth, personal look and hear from the workers in a very detailed way about a lot of the abuses." — FLOC representative Briana Connors
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North Carolina
The maps were right, the statistics accurate, but the actual law on the books—not so much.
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Wake County
If the Occupy Raleigh group had been granted permission to indefinitely camp out downtown on City Hall property, then other groups—possibly more controversial—would have the same rights in the future.
- by Bob Geary and Maggie Smith
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
When the house gets the baked, yeasty scent of Kossar's in the morning, it feels like I've gotten damn close.
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Jonathan Weiler
When George Will, about as wonky and self-serious a commentator as the right has, reveals such contempt for "data," it's a clear sign that hostility to reality is now a central fact of the modern right.
