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Food Feature
Moonshine, hops, distilleries, and a monthlong investigation into Durham's efforts to regulate liquor permits
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Food Feature
An illustrated guide to sayings from the still
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Food Feature
I heard many a grand tale while filming Mr. Percy's Run, a short documentary about North Carolina's No. 1 bootlegger, J. Percy Flowers of Johnston County.
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Food Feature
Although homemade beer and wine are permissible, non-tax-paid spirituous liquor is another story.
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Food Feature
North Carolina brewers, growers, researchers and beer drinkers agree that with the right hops variety and the right investments, hops could be a robust niche industry in this region and in the mountains, where there are fledgling hops farms.
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Food Feature
Rimas Vilgalys hopes that Durham will welcome a new spirit into the city—a spirit of the honey-spiced liqueur variety.
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Now Serving
Slingshot Coffee Company's summer brew launch; Carrboro Farmers' Market Tomato Day; Speed Weeding with the 10% Campaign
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Theater
Served chilled on the hottest days and nights of the year, this daffy tribute to old-school showbiz has enough zing in it to remind us what was great about the originals.
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Theater
The region's yearly festival of 10-minute plays presents the critical challenge of discerning where the greatest contribution was: in direction, acting or script.
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TV
Eyebrow-raising plot contortions have become commonplace for this show lately (Lily of the Valley, anyone?), but character implausibilities are even more worrisome.
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Music Essay
Best Coast's The Only Place is so very devoid of anything to hold on to—melodically, musically or lyrically. Likewise, hearing Sleigh Bells' Reign of Terror more than a few times is both exhausting and without reward.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Midtown Dickens & Guests, Ruscha, Droids Attack, Superchunk, Gross Ghost, Crooked Fingers, Mike Tamburo, Swayback Sisters, NC Local Music Five Year Anniversary Party, Johnny White & The Elite Band, Woody Guthrie Centennial, more
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Music Essay
Sugar Ray named its most recent LP Music for Cougars, while the Barenaked Ladies just issued the archival collection Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before! Can we, for real?
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Record Review
As far as rap in The Tar Heel State goes right now, King Mez is our leader. And like The Listening a decade before it, this is the new classic text. (self-released)
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Film Review
It hasn't all been bad—I sat through Avengers, Brave and Dark Shadows without wishing for death's sweet embrace.
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News Feature
Durham City Council is exploring the feasibility of a new ordinance that would restrict the density of stores and other outlets that sell alcohol.
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National
"Corporate decisions are announced when they are made, not when they are contemplated." — Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers
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Orange County
A change is brewing in Chapel Hill, which has maintained stringent ordinances that make B&Bs nearly impossible to operate.
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Durham County
Durham city planners have reworked some of the proposed amendments to the Mobile Vending Provisions ordinance in order to relax rules on food trucks.
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North Carolina
The UNC School of Government, which provides legal and policy guidance to local municipalities, concludes that Amendment 1 doesn't prohibit local governments from offering their employees domestic partner benefits.
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Letters to the Editor
"It is too late to prevent the U.S. from becoming a purely corporatist state. It is already one."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
Dismissing those four boys in New York as bad seeds seems easy enough, but I also realize how much effort it takes to model the behavior we expect. How courteous am I when someone zips in front of me on Interstate 40?
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Jonathan Weiler
What will—and won't—happen under health care reform.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
