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Our guide to this week's shows
Gross Ghost, Lilac Shadows, The Jackets, Peter Lamb And The Wolves, The Moderate, Motion Pictures, Joe Hall, Kenny Roby, Stephen Simmons, A Carolina Christmas, Dex Romweber Duo, Phil Cook & His Feat, Blotter’s 100Th Issue, Secret Boyfriend, Rind, Post-Turkey Day Benefit Jam
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Record Review
The third full-length from Future Islands slows and stabilizes the band's formerly relentless dance beats and gets very serious about the heart, hope and the entirely unforgiving quest to make it into adulthood. (Thrill Jockey Records)
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Music Feature
"I think being a father sort of explained to me that I'm in control of so little in this world. Wouldn't it be nice to feel as though there was something else at work that was helping me get through?" — M.C. Taylor
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College Basketball
With Roy Williams and Mike Krzyzewski entering their golden years and a changing competitive landscape, it's time to be nostalgic for the present.
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College Basketball
The rules are written to make college players perform as vassals in a system that pays everyone but them. Instead, the system should start with the players and write the rules to be fair to them.
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College Basketball
Among the curious things about Prospero as a dramatic hero is that he has no real obstacles or antagonists. As his name suggests, he thrives from beginning to end. Because he possesses magic, it's easy for him to ward off any threat, overcome any trouble and fulfill his every desire.
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College Basketball
While returning all five starters carries substantial benefits, these are the same guys who constituted one of the worst-shooting teams in UNC history a season ago.
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College Basketball
It often gets ignored that some of the best women's basketball in the country is played right here. All three teams are off to solid starts, and all have a chance to make a long run in the big dance this season.
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College Basketball
The essential ingredients missing in and around the Wolfpack program the last several seasons were a sense of stability and authority.
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College Basketball
25 photos from inside the game
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Visual Art
Raleigh native Burk Uzzle's "Red, White, and Blue" appears to be kind of a bad photograph, compositionally. But as a conceptual tableaux, it prompts you to ponder where America is and where you are in it.
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Visual Art
"[The percentage] is not arbitrarily tied to some budget line item. It's something that citizens can really advocate for to be funded." — Josh Parker, Cultural Advisory Board member
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Now Serving
DaisyCakes opens a brick-and-mortar in downtown Durham, and it's not just cupcakes. Pullen Place offers traditional concession fare plus local and seasonal foods.
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Blessed Is The Pour
Straw Valley embodies the qualities of a great wine: a melding of history and tradition with innovation and craftsmanship to evoke a singular sense of place, embodying terroir as winemakers strive to do.
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Food Feature
"Why can't I have the same options as Southpoint, Brier Creek, Trinity Park? Just because we live here doesn't mean we're going to settle." — Dawn Hill-Alston
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Food Feature
Crimpers, razors, tanning beds and the bar
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Film Review
The brilliance of Hugo is that director Martin Scorsese appropriates the en vogue 3-D technology of today's movies to preserve and venerate pioneers of the medium.
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Film Review
Arthur Christmas is the latest flick from Britain-based Aardman Animations, aka the house that Wallace and Gromit built.
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Film Review
The Muppets aren't just one-note characters. They're fully realized beings, perfectly able to convey emotions. Even monosyllabic drummer Animal is just a dude looking for some inner peace.
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Orange County
A week after the illegal occupation and overzealous police raid at the former Chrysler Building, how can the community begin to heal?
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Orange County
Preserve Rural Orange, a citizens group, asked for the hearing after learning that UNC had received state erosion control and storm water permits and filed for four additional permits—after a university official told the group there were no new documents.
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North Carolina
"The meals gap is getting bigger. We're treading water rather than making progress." — Gideon Adams, of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
Slideshow
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Letters to the Editor
"Which side are you on?"
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Front Porch
I always wanted to be somewhere else, somewhere better. Now, only a few years later, I only want to be wherever is the best for Oliver.
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Jonathan Weiler
The typical U.S. citizen today enjoys the material comforts she does for many reasons. Among the most important have been far-reaching government efforts.
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First Person
How can people ever be safe in a society built upon exploitation and inequality?
