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Now Serving
The Cookery's winter courses and The Carolina Inn's "Twelve Days of Christmas" both begin Saturday
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First Bite
Chef Dania Gonzalez, who for decades has worked in local kitchens such as George's Garage, is of Cuban descent and grew up in south Florida.
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Food Feature
Sweets are where Rande Smith really made her reputation—seasonal fruit tarts, scones, handheld pies, warm sticky buns, one-of-a-kind desserts—but she's also expanded her business to include chicken potpies, stews and other savory dishes.
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Meet-and-Three
Owner and cook Carolyn Artis finally asked us an important, highly anticipated question: "Do you want your regular?" My friend and I clinked glasses of orange juice like tumblers of bourbon. We were in.
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Film Review
Herzog's fervent fans surely rushed out to see this over the weekend, but for those who need coaxing, let me urge you to do the same in the limited time left for this title.
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Film Review
The Skin I Live In is a hyper-realized illustration of Almodóvar's fondness for audience manipulation.
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Film Review
Director Simon Curtis' film is not effective or well-made enough to make any lasting impressions, but that doesn't mean its sentiments are any less inartistic or offensive.
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National
In 1983, when Katherine and I walked out of the New York Times with the promise of columnist Tom Wicker's name on the Independent's first masthead, we figured we might really be able to publish a newspaper after all.
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North Carolina
The N.C. Senate gave final legislative approval (along party lines) to a bill to repeal the RJA Monday night; now the fate of the landmark 2009 law is in the hands of Gov. Bev Perdue.
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Orange County
"His success this quickly in his career doesn't surprise me in the least. I saw that coming a long time ago, and that's one of the few people I can say that about." — Storrow's high school debate coach
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Hal Crowther
When a citizen comes of age in a plutocracy, he has no moral choice but to slay Pluto or die trying.
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
In the calm before the preteen tempest, Ava seemed to have found her sea legs.
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
"This is not to take away from Coach K, but Pat Summit's accomplishment deserves recognition."
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First Person
Sadly, even the zombie shoppers couldn't save Thanksgiving.
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Record Review
On V. Eternal Depression, Young and in the Way finally merges its ideas into one menacing whole. (Antithetic Records)
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Record Review
On For Everything, Rapsody's third full-length project overseen by producer 9th Wonder, her sex appeal and tomboyish, B-girl charisma work in tandem. (Jamla Records)
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Our guide to this week's shows
Cory Branan, Steep Canyon Rangers, Hopscotch Holiday Dance Party, Hall & Oates, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, HearNC Music & Film Festival, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Luminescent Orchestrii, more
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Music Feature
"Now, we're looking at it a little more grown-up-like. We still drink heavy, have fun with the audience and talk a lot of shit, but we're a better performing band than we were a year ago." — B.J. Barham
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Music Feature
The story of the Magnolia Collective is one of friendship, an asset that even high seas and long distance sometimes can't destroy.
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Theater
Director Allison Bergman coaxes a credible performance from Jordan Manning as Jo, and DeShawn Brown proves a suave Laurie, next-door neighbor and possible love interest.
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Visual Art
The blurring of boundaries—between media, disciplines, realities and identities—is the conceptual undercurrent of ID:ENTITY, featuring 11 artists affiliated with NCSU's College of Design.
