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Music Feature
"I think that is my essential gift: Music has a great affective quality on me, and everything else kind of stems from that." — Chris Stamey
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Music Feature
Shajarian pairs ancient Persian poetry with contemporary traditional compositions, sometimes taking months to choose just the right lyric.
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Our guide to this week's shows
White Hills, Ed Askew, Baby Copperhead, Allo Darlin', T0W3RS, Lonnie Walker, Weedeater, ASG, Cough, Midnite Reggae Band, Phil Cook, Cantwell Gomez & Jordan, Birds and Arrows, Sleepy Sun, Bear In Heaven, Blouse, Doldrums, Roomrunner, Zack Mexico, Last Year's Men, Xiu Xiu, Deep Sleep, Infeccion, Khaira Arby, Kairaba, The Beach Boys, Elvis Costello
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Reading
Baldwin's new book, Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down, is a memoir of his 18 months living and working as a créatif for a global advertising company in the City of Lights.
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Theater
There's danger when women are denied fundamental control over their own bodies. A century after Margaret Sanger's time, the continuing need for that reminder is evident all around us.
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Theater
The play is smart and funny, consisting of little more than six women hanging out in a beauty parlor in Louisiana in the 1980s.
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Theater
Thomas Hardy's final novel, Jude the Obscure, about the downwardly mobile, the harsh grind of poverty and the strict moralism of the upper classes supporting an immoral system, is still strikingly relevant in 2012.
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Theater
An alcoholic, unsuccessful mantrap of a mother precipitates much of the misery by the end of this 1958 drama.
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Casual Observer
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Now Serving
Largest sustainable farm tour in the country (April 28-29); ethnic Karen refugees from Burma farm land managed by the Triangle Land Conservancy (CSAs available); new food truck features Southern-inspired Mediterranean fare (April 27)
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Blessed Is The Pour
Matchmaking at Fire on the Dock in Wrightsville Beach
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Guidance For Gourmands
Recipes for Town Hall Grill's Cornmeal-Dusted Onion Straws and Watts Grocery's Beer-Battered Onion Rings
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Film Review
While I'm grateful for any opportunity to see a film by les Dardennes, this latest makes me wonder if they've become risk-averse.
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Durham County
Sidelined by a publicly unidentified illness that limits his mobility, the Durham City Councilman has missed 20 meetings over 150 days, including key votes on the 751 South development, a public arts project and a resolution on fracking.
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Public Records Requests
Although the number of suspensions has declined in many Triangle school districts in the last 10 years, the racial disparities among suspension rates remain the same, according to North Carolina's Annual Study of Suspensions and Expulsions.
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North Carolina
Raleigh AGAINST Amendment 1; Local Bites for Civil Rights Durham Food Truck Rodeo; OUTRaleigh2012; more
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Durham County
"We just have to go back out there and show him again what he's got to do." — NIS Assistant Director Rick Hester
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Letters to the Editor
"What could more excessively entangle government with religion than adopting and elevating one religious group's definition of marriage and imposing it on everyone else?"
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
"Who wrote the Anna Lee song?" he asked enthusiastically. "I am making a record with Levon Helm."
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Eva Hayward
To wonder, to be curious, undoes our self-certainties and requires us to live less timidly and more wholeheartedly.
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Citizen
The Democratic candidates for governor need to come up with examples of how changing government for the better will change people's lives for the better. Here's a few thoughts about what a winning line of attack could be.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
