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Now Serving
Urban Ministries' annual fundraiser plus after-party and food truck roundup; BCBB first anniversary, second golden bull scavenger hunt and Exotic Meat Month
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Beer Hopping
Like many other bastions of fine food, the venerable James Beard Foundation seems slow to adjust to the dramatic change that has overtaken beer in the past 25 years.
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First Bite
Most people go to Tyler's for the beer. Some go for the food. I go for the Wikki Stix—and the beer and the food. But the Wikki Stix can really push the meal experience over the top.
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Guidance For Gourmands
"In Mexico, moms teach their daughters to make masa. Our cooking is from that whole world of traditional cuisine. We use these same techniques but we take a little more sophisticated approach." — Tonali chef-owner Andres Macias
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Film Review
For the last 100 years, John Carter has been an inspirational, beloved hero. Now thanks to this adaptation, a pulp icon will be known as the jerkwad from that lame-ass Disney movie.
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Durham County
Twice in the past five years, Durham's top prosecutor has unexpectedly, disastrously, publicly imploded. Elected officials and other leaders are pondering how—or if—the DA's office can shed its bad rep.
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North Carolina
"Not all kids have been blessed with parents who are involved in their education the way they should be." — State Board of Education Chairman Bill Harrison
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North Carolina
Events March 10-15; where to get a yard sign; Wake County Libertarian Party against; "Values Bus Tour" groups for; more
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North Carolina
If Uriel Alberto could speak with legislators on the immigration committee, he would tell them: "This is not an immigration issue, but a human issue. The fear, that we have to hide is unacceptable. We're trying to empower youth and our community by coming out of the shadows."
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North Carolina
The House Select Committee on the State's Role on Immigration Policy has a long name with a short mission: to craft legislation that in effect would make life in North Carolina miserable for undocumented immigrants.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
If you need an egg or some milk, just come knock. We're home now.
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Eva Hayward
All that seems arcane about transsexuality—hormone replacement therapy, surgeries, name changes—can be understood as marks of healing and of the desire to live well.
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Record Review
Archers' perspective still feels relevant today, except now, the whole world is the scene. (Merge Records)
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Music Essay
Both Tennis and Hospitality do what they do very well, an observation often obscured by the notion that what they're doing is neither inspiring nor pioneering.
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Our guide to this week's shows
The War On Drugs, White Rabbits, Scott Kelly, Eugene Robinson, Windhand, Balaclava, Leslie & The Ly's, Hank III, Vattnet Viskar, more
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Music Feature
"I eventually gained confidence and I was just like, 'I don't care. I like how this sounds and this is how the song goes.'" — Maria Albani
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Record Review
Organos and Concha are happily different both in source and sound, offering a humbly memorable reappraisal of the limits of pop. (self-released)
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Music Feature
The Sacred Harp scene doesn't have a new star. I only threw in every 10th note or so. But I sang 'em loud.
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Visual Art
What Saul Flores experienced on "The Walk of the Immigrants" is as visually and intellectually stirring as it is politically infuriating. He saw many different cultures, Flores says, but finally he saw just one people. "We are, all of us, Americans."
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Theater
This intriguing Delta Boys production of Titus Andronicus, which the adventurous should seek out before it ends this weekend, convinces that it's possible to make a virtue of a necessary constraint.
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Theater
Stones is an odd mixture of satire and sorrow, and Theatre in the Park's production is strongest when it focuses on the satire.
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Theater
Brothers separated by apartheid in Blood Knot; scenes from the Middle East in Poetic Portraits of a Revolution
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
