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Now Serving
Rhys Botica's good-looking, low-key new bar; cheesemaking in the South with Reliable Cheese Company, Chapel Hill Creamery, Hillsborough Cheese Company and Prodigal Farm
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Beer Hopping
North Carolina leads specialty brewing in the South, and we stand at the perfect intersection in time when commercial capacity meets public enthusiasm.
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Food Feature
Berenbaum's eponymous, mostly Jewish bakery works on "sliding-scale" pricing: Witness the customer pause blankly, as though mentally translating a foreign language, then raise a "what's the catch?" eyebrow or laugh uneasily.
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Food Feature
In September, Fair Trade USA split from Fairtrade International and proposed new standards that expand fair trade to include some larger farms and estate plantations (but not corporate farms).
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Reading
"Democrats really failed to speak to the new angry sensibility in the country. And Obama's personality is almost precisely wrong for the populist moment—he really has trouble turning on that emotion."
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Visual Art
Making these portraits has become a means toward another end. McIver is searching for something through the repetition. Remembering is one mode of her investigation. Imagination or fantasy is another.
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Music Feature
Sometimes more a rolling chaos field than a rock group, Akron/Family lately have sought to even further blur the lines of bandom itself.
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Music Feature
"It's our version of the aesthetic that inspires us, that whole '60s and '70s world. It's not a tribute. It's just picking up the baton, hopefully, and running with it for awhile." — Rei Alvarez
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Our guide to this week's shows
Cliff Jackson Memorial Show With Maxx Warrior, R.E.M. vs. U2, Unknown Hinson, The Shucks, Martha Ann Motel, Whores, Church Of Wolves, Shipwrecker, Jason & The Scorchers, Stella Lively, Loretta Lynn, Kacey Musgraves, more
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Music Feature
"My friends make fun of me for this, and they should. I'm very extreme. I'm not extreme like a Mountain Dew commercial, but when I do something I do it 10 or zero."
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Film Review
This well-acted, well-made movie is a compelling character study of men fighting to stay relevant in a world where they can easily be replaced.
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News Feature
OK, no jetpacks. We'll settle for equality.
- by Lisa Sorg, Bob Geary, Samiha Khanna and Joe Schwartz
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National
On the candidates, the contest and the new dog whistle
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Gallery
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Front Porch
I remember those women who connected my grandfather to the new world, a world he turned his family's life upside down to join and one he gave everything to hold on to with both hands.
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Eva Hayward
We deploy voguish (if also necessary) green technologies in a hope that green money will save our blue planet and its white poles. Dare we place our hope in consumer capitalism? Can we buy our way toward a future?
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Peripheral Visions
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
