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Music Feature
Chicago's Numero Group gives forgotten and unknown artists a strange second chance; this weekend, their Eccentric Soul Revue comes to Duke Performances.
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Our guide to this week's shows
I Was Totally Destroying It, The Loom, Jolly; Goodbye, Titan; The Neil Diamond All-Stars, The Infidels, David Heartbreak, Kingsbury Manx, Jeffrey Lewis, Guardian Alien, more
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Record Review
La Familia, a combination studio and live album produced in UNC's Kenan Music Building studio, celebrates a mature moment in Charanga Carolina's history. (self-released)
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Record Review
Nine Fingered Thug's debut cassette isn't just rough around the edges; it's rough to the core. (Hollow Bunny)
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Music Essay
Guitarist and vocalist Nick Palmirotto calls the process for making Beyond the Lightless Sky "grueling," but, lucky for listeners, it spawned a product that's every bit as difficult and demanding.
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Music Essay
A Struggle, Not a Thought clearly focuses on the compositions and what one well-practiced guitarist can say with them.
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Theater
Director Ellen Hemphill, one of the region's true theatrical auteurs, and composer Allison Leyton-Brown combine theatrical sets and an atmospheric score in A Doll's House.
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Theater
Director Tony Perucci and The Performance Collective stage Jonathan Safran Foer's 2009 best-seller, an investigation and critique of factory farming, and his accompanying argument for vegetarianism.
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Now Serving
Chef Sean Fowler, previously of Fearrington House, opening Mandolin near Five Points; special Tuesday hours for most area farmers markets
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Meet-and-Three
Bryan Wilson's parents opened Ye Old Country Kitchen at the corner of Snow Camp and Greensboro Chapel Hill roads in 1969, when the unincorporated community of Snow Camp was little more than farmland.
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Guidance For Gourmands
In an era of vertical desserts whose dubious aspirations recall the Tower of Babel, Kitchen's pound cake is refreshingly earthy. It deserves a wooden table in a dusky orchard.
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Film Review
Elizabeth Olsen's performance throughout is somber and self-assured, a promising debut encouraged perhaps by her own efforts to escape the suffocating shadow—and cult of personality—of her older siblings.
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Film Beat
"If I find out, oh, there's a new J. Stuart Blackton film from 1907 that I've never seen before, I really wanna see it. To me, that's a new movie."
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Film Beat
"Everybody has a stake in these issues—[the film] is in Brooklyn, but it's not about Brooklyn. It's not even about this project. It's about media, and it's about the way government and developers and businesses interact in a way that disadvantages everybody else."
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News Feature
There's a stirring in Southeast Raleigh, a semblance of do-it-yourself spirit. But outside investments are needed too—investments of money and of heart.
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Orange County
There are no good guys in this story, which now hangs, suspended after an acrimonious press conference and Chapel Hill Town Council meeting, while town residents and observers nationwide wait for answers.
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Durham County
It sounds like a bad plot from 1980s horror cinema: a street in a quiet neighborhood that turns cars insane, their wheels shrieking on asphalt as they whip out of control, slamming into street signs, utility poles and buildings.
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Durham County
"It's tough for all of us right now, but if we're going to try to keep the manager and maintain the level of services he has initiated, then we had to, at this time, compensate him." — Michael Page, chairman of the county commissioners
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Gallery
The desk of Jim Blaine, president and CEO of North Carolina's State Employees' Credit Union
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
There were hundreds of people, maybe thousands, on the grounds of the State Capitol. Many of the women had dark green buttons pinned to their shirts. Printed in thick white numbers, the buttons read "59¢."
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Letters to the Editor
"What is proposed is denial of a right of citizenship—and a human right—to thousands of our citizens."
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Exile on Jones Street
North Carolina has a crucial role to play in the presidential election and control of the U.S. House.
