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Music Feature
"I think people enjoy—no matter what their experience with the actual church is—they enjoy chewing on those kind of tunes." — Jeff Crawford
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Music Essay
Jeff Mangum's voice is filling rooms again, or at least one part of it is.
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Record Review
WXDU V.3 feels like a stolen peek into Aimée Argote's songwriter notebook as she explores questions of identity, commitment, and the barely navigable balances between love and betrayal, respect and hate. (Paramnesia Records)
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Record Review
As a whole, Real Life is a remarkably solid and absorbing hour of sound. Goodbye, Titan's texturally rich themes ride patiently, building riffs to rewarding catharses that last for minutes at a time but rarely lose their momentum. (self-released)
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Record Review
East Durham rapper and longtime rabble-rouser Jozeemo claims his latest LP is his last. But he can't quit now; the fun is just getting started. (Blockhuggerz Entertainment)
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Our guide to this week's shows
John Howie Jr., Magnolia Collective, Jon Shain Trio, Lizzy Ross Band, John Dee Holeman, Whatever Brains, Day Creeper, The Toddlers, Urban Sophisticates, Sea Wolf Mutiny, Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition, more
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Soccer
The Tar Heels' quartet of All-Americans—Ben Speas, Billy Schuler, Enzo Martinez and Matt Hedges—all landed pro contracts. The divergent avenues each took speaks to the challenges facing American soccer.
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Theater
For the most, this Dead Man's Cell Phone has a perfectly good signal. What it mainly needs is to figure out how to invite an audience to pick up and answer it.
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Now Serving
Blend Cafe at Golden Belt now open; Helios hosts special brunch with Counter Culture (Feb. 5); rare-beer tasting event at the newest Tyler's Taproom (Feb. 4); DPAC hosts showdown between Memphis and N.C. barbecues (Jan. 26)
- by Emily Wallace and Lisa Sorg
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Blessed Is The Pour
In place of the 5-cent Cokes and 27-cent gas that this 1920s building in Chatham County used to trade in, Unwined owners Ray and Joni Pavlik now sell North Carolina wine and locally made cheese, crackers and salami.
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Film Review
Two titans of psychotherapy (Jung and Freud) fight over theories of repression, the meaning of dreams and a disturbed and beautiful female patient.
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Film Review
Glenn Close plays Albert Nobbs, a nonentity with a traumatic, largely suppressed past who has survived for three decades dressing and working as a man.
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Film Review
If it weren't for the fact that Contraband came out a couple of weeks ago, I'd say Man on a Ledge is the most ridiculous new movie out there. However, it's definitely the most unbelievably ridiculous new movie.
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News Feature
As North Carolina plunges headlong into the charter school business, it's hard to tell whether any of the serious issues that surround charter schools will matter much in the application process.
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News Feature
The Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars charter school is a State Board of Education vote away from becoming a reality in Chapel Hill. It's an outcome the local school board is working to stop.
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News Feature
Triad Math and Science Academy in Greensboro is eyeing the former Exploris Middle School in Raleigh for a new campus. But parents and former TMSA employees have concerns they hope will be addressed before the charter is approved.
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Jonathan Weiler
Republicans in general and Mitt Romney in particular have fallen back on a single, simple "insight" to explain the traction of wealth distribution as a galvanizing political issue: envy.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
Through drinking samples of parsnip beer and eating bites of heirloom bruschetta, I have raised funds for SEEDS and the Center for Environmental Farming Systems. Want to know a secret? I would have attended those events with or without a charitable cause.
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Crossword Solution
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
