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Music Feature
By virtue of their signing with Warner Brothers imprint Sire Records, Durham sextet Delta Rae seems well positioned to leverage the current popularity of smooth, shining Americana and kick into their own stratosphere.
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Record Review
Their songs have remarkable vocal talent and a keen understanding of what it takes to get a song to stick. But Delta Rae's void of restraint, subversion and nuance quickly sours those attributes. (Sire Records)
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Our guide to this week's shows
Mount Moriah, Skylar Gudasz & the Ugly Girls, Coma Cinema, Lake & Hennepin, Stella Lively, the Revolutionary Sweethearts, Rainbow Danger Club, Whatever Brains, Brain F≠, Shoxx, Double Negative, Salvation, Gross Ghost, Wesley Wolfe, Wembley, Agalloch, Taurus, more
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Listening with...
The Raleigh quintet's new album, Walk With Me, is more diverse than the band's name might suggest.
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Record Review
Whitt's fifth album is a welcome return fueled by a loose, unaffected energy that suggests fun—not stylistic limitation—was the cardinal consideration. (11/22 Records)
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Visual Art
Rorschach is heading west to take the reins of the Seattle Art Museum. Under her watch, the Nasher's track record of prescient exhibitions of artists before they became all the rage made a blank spot into a hotspot for contemporary art.
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Theater
Durang Durang is an amusing collection of inside-theater jokes.
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Visual Art
The collection, given by Raleigh native Julian T. Baker Jr.'s family and estate, displays black-and-white photographs from pioneering artists, mid-century masters and contemporary figures, many of whom elevated the medium.
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Food Feature
Slideshow: A crowded and busy kitchen serves six courses to a sold-out crowd of 120 diners during the Fire In The Triangle match-up between two Chapel Hill chefs: Ryan Payne of Weathervane and Adam Rose of Il Palio.
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Now Serving
American Cheese Society 29th annual conference and competition in Raleigh features locals, includes cheese sampling and sale; inspires cheese festivities at Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market and A Southern Season (Aug. 1-5)
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First Bite
When we're promised a really great pizza joint with a brazen and entertaining reputation, we expect to be treated with a big-ass bang. You have more time to "WOW!" us.
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Blessed Is The Pour
Sometimes the cure for stifling summer heat is to step out of your taste comfort zone and try some different wines.
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Object of Desire
A centerpiece of the middle-class spread, the green-bean-and-cream-of-mushroom-soup-with-French-fried-onions casserole was foisted upon many '70s- and '80s-era homemakers by the Campbell Soup Co., which was probably in cahoots with Del Monte and French's, although I have no evidence to back this up.
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Now Serving
The owner of the revered Refectory at Duke is closing the Divinity location but opening a new location on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard and has plans for a food truck.
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Film Review
Featuring a cast of unknowns, Benh Zeitlin's film is an apocalyptic fever dream of the Mississippi Delta, haunted by the specter of Hurricane Katrina and our current ecological anxieties.
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Durham County
21c Museum Hotels has offered to buy and convert the building into a 125-room luxury hotel, but the deal hinges on whether the Kentucky-based developer can secure tax incentives from Durham city and county.
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Durham County
Although the state designated the house a historic site in November, it remains boarded up. Before it can be made into a functioning historic and neighborhood institution, the foundation, roof and chimney must be fixed, at a cost of $150,000 to $200,000.
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Durham County
A proposed route for the nearly four-mile sewer line crosses more than a mile of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land, requiring federal approval to go forward. An Army Corps biologist warned of potential wetland and wildlife disruption and an increased risk of lake contamination in the event of sewer spills.
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National
Three investment firms agreed that the two companies operating as one would save little in operating costs. But the firms also foresaw the merged company would be "well-positioned to pursue nuclear investment opportunities in the Carolinas."
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Letters to the Editor
"Apparently the Indy is willing to open its authoritarian kimono."
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Front Porch
I started to explain that I might write about the tour for a newspaper back home, but I couldn't finish my sentence. "About a muffler factory?" she interrupted.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
