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Our guide to this week's shows
Mutant Supremacy, Atrophix, Pressed And, C Powers, Featureless Ghost, Holygrailers, Steep Canyon Rangers, The Black Experience, Brand New Life, Fuck The Biters, Jonathan Byrd, Sally Spring, Red Horse, Dare Dukes & The Blackstock Collection, more
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Music Feature
The social scars of Les Enfants Terribles are as insidious as the trauma played out in Zuccotti Park and other tent-dotted scenes like it.
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Music Feature
"I know a lot of metal guys who would hear the Gauchiste and go, 'So, is this a soundtrack? Are these sound effects you guys made?'" — Craig Hilton
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Music Essay
Beyond releasing two acclaimed LPs in one year, what's most notable about McCombs' 2011 is that it marks the point in his career when he discovered and consistently delivered his own voice.
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Citizen Awards
This year's Citizen Award winners ably demonstrate how committed individuals can make a difference in all levels of a community.
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Citizen Awards
"How do you say, 'I'm sorry that nobody stood up for you'?" says Fuller Cooper, executive director of the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, which is working to get compensation and other help for an estimated 3,000 living victims.
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Citizen Awards
Within days of the 2009 elections in which Republican candidates captured the school board, the Great Schools in Wake Coalition was created and began rebuilding the case for diversity and excellence.
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Citizen Awards
Since 1984, Clean Water for North Carolina has worked to protect both urban waterways and groundwater by building alliances with disadvantaged communities, which lack the power and influence of lobbyists and lawmakers.
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Citizen Awards
Sustaining OurSelves began in 2009 with leaders from the Jackson Center for Saving and Making History, NAACP, EmPOWERment Inc., St. Paul A.M.E Church and St. Joseph C.M.E. Church. In large-scale community conversations in packed church pews, people started hearing themselves being heard.
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Citizen Awards
Until the crisis is over, Occupy Raleigh, Occupy Durham and Occupy Chapel Hill/Carrboro intend to occupy not just public spaces but the public mind.
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Citizen Awards
As an educator—both of students and adults—Eddie Davis has made history.
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Theater
When a romantic ideal goes astray in a life and a world, a cost must be paid.
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Reading
Ultimately, Broadway Baby is a story about which of one's fantasies make it over into one's actual life, and how those fantasies are compromised and transformed. It's also a page-turner.
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Now Serving
Sam Ratto wants to make the chocolate business more transparent; Gabrielle Hamilton reads from her memoir at Flyleaf (Jan. 25); more than 80 restaurants participating in TRW (Jan. 23-29)
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Guidance For Gourmands
At Chinese-American picnics and potlucks, nian gao holds its own against American classics like Rice Krispies Treats and brownies. Even better is deep-fried nian gao.
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Now Serving
"It's going to have a 1920s vibe with a modern touch. I'm trying to keep as much of the original parts of the building as possible." — owner Courtney Brown
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First Bite
Like many novice restaurateurs, chef/owner Claudia Barragan is taking on too much with her menus, all seven of them: brunch, lunch, dinner, dessert, wine, kids and vegan/vegetarian.
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Food Feature
After realizing He's Not Here was neither a band nor a spiritual movement but a bar, the myth didn't disappear. I couldn't find it: The address-less place was like a treehouse in someone's backyard, or more appropriately, a speakeasy.
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Film Review
A French silent film as Oscar's Best Picture of 2011? I'm voting oui.
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Film Review
First off, let me just say I don't feel sorry for any dude whose dick I can see from the back. That's the first strike against the lead character as played by Michael Fassbender in Steve McQueen's latest film, Shame.
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Film Review
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close tackles 9/11, a cinematic third-rail used as the milieu for films both brilliant (United 93) and inept (World Trade Center; Remember Me).
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Film Beat
Tuesday morning the Academy Award nominations will be announced, and two documentary filmmakers with Triangle ties—Nancy Buirski and Michael Galinsky—may receive some good news.
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North Carolina
These plates—some of which are 19th-century daguerrotypes—have been stashed under desks, stacked in closets, stored in flood-prone basements and tossed in the trash.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
These places, the pockets where interaction trumps convenience, are few but are becoming more prevalent, arguably more important.
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Letters to the Editor
"Weiler says it like it is, about things other writers hesitate to talk about. How refreshing!"
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Exile on Jones Street
"The growing income disparity that's been a focus of the Occupy movement, the depth of the recession and the glacial pace of the recovery has taken a very real toll in North Carolina." — Alexandra Sirota, director of the N.C. Budget and Tax Center
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
