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Music Feature
Ultimately, Willie French Lowery's increasing faith in the power of his Lumbee community and the depth of tradition prevailed. Plant and See is a proper introduction to that quest.
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Record Review
The creature's alive; now, we get to see what spectacular havoc it might wreak. (self-released)
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Record Review
Hammer's Pink Worm EP is a small but stylistically significant offering that again finds the band trying to push its reach beyond the expected. (self-released)
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Our guide to this week's shows
What Did You Expect?, Izzy & the Catastrophics, These United States, Les Freres Kairaba, Crosby Stills & Nash, Andrew Bird, Mavis Staples, Furthur, more
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Casual Observer
We asked members of the North Carolina arts community to share their thoughts about Andy Griffith. Herein: Allan Gurganus, Tommy Edwards, Clyde Edgerton, George Holt, Mike Dillon, Eddie Huffman, Art Menius, Susan Ballard.
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Visual Art
"None of the cards were taken from full decks or anywhere a card might normally belong. These are genuine discards."
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Theater
Like a theatrical version of a farmers market, Politheatrics welcomes six companies to pitch their tents and vend their wares, tempting local audiences with a compelling mixture of tastes, textures and colors.
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Dance
Although Eno Ventures owns the land and enclosing building at 721 Broad St., ADF's well-lit upstairs studios are its own.
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Now Serving
Motorco's second Food Truck Mash Up (July 14); Fullsteam again picked to brew for National Rainier Cherry Day (July 11); Monuts Donuts brick and mortar shop coming (January)
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Feed With Care
It's stretches like these that make me hungry for shortcuts in the kitchen: Taco Tuesdays, fresh berries and melons, sorbets and popsicles, soda cake, fruit kabobs.
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Beer Hopping
A score of craft beer styles are now available in cans: pale ales, India pale ales and "black" IPAs; Belgian-style golden, strong dark and wit beers; German-style wheat beers; ambers, brown ales and dry stouts.
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Guidance For Gourmands
No less than classic French cuisine, Chinese food should leave you pondering how to wipe the plate clean without actually picking it up and licking it.
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Film Review
Critical resistance is futile.
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Film Review
Savages was clearly assembled by a committee charged with synthesizing the hippest films about crime and Mexico of the last generation.
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Film Review
Ruggero Leoncavallo's famous opera Pagliacci (or Clowns) is a perfect fit for Allen's themes, if not for his lifelong identity: This is the opera where that whole sad clown thing comes from.
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Film Review
Reality TV producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz assembled 300 hours of already-shot footage into a compelling rock doc narrative with a bittersweet coda.
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Film Beat
"We know what we see here and we know the information we've been told. But we don't know what's going on above us."
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North Carolina
Democratic Rep. Becky Carney's accidental "yea" provided the all-important 72nd vote to override Gov. Perdue on Senate Bill 820.
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Opinion
Business is doing fine—it's the rest of us who aren't. And if Congress ever wants to do something about it and spread the wealth around, the Supreme Court's ruling in Obamacare could stop it cold.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
"Some of the people who get hurt the most by the current musical situation are underground musicians like us."
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Front Porch
For me, the family beach trip is all about those unscripted moments of joy, when a tribe of project managers, list-makers and problem-solvers dials it back for a few days and, well, just hangs out.
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Gallery
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Editorial
Tuesday, July 3: Andy Griffith died today, and who the hell could blame him.
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Eva Hayward
A gentle, sure-footed gesture in the face of terribleness may seem naïve these days, but there remains something essential about living courageously at the crossroads of sometimes awful contradiction.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
