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Our guide to this week's shows
Animal Weapon, Lindsey Buckingham, Regina Hexaphone, Actual Persons, Andrew Weathers, Haunter, Pipe, Flesh Wounds, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, more
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Music Feature
Rabun cuts to the heart of what this soulful exploration of jazz and R&B is all about: music you can turn the lights down to, that won't insult your intelligence.
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Music Essay
Raleigh's Stripmines plan to move forward without vocalist and firebrand Matt LaVallee and likely with Jordan Noe of the Greensboro grindcore band Priapus.
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Record Review
No Eyes' self-titled EP is like a Texas psych-rockin' longhair in the midst of getting his mop snipped into a neat London bowl, but some loose ends still await their trim. (self-released)
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Record Review
Primitive Ways sounds like the next step of an almost great band, drunk on possibilities but still learning how to present them. (DiggUp Tapes)
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Dog Days of Summer
Readers' pet tales
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Dog Days of Summer
Fetch me a bourbon, boy.
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Dog Days of Summer
"The idea is to give those cats a better outcome, have them live out their lives in the community and produce fewer cats so that, in the long run, there are fewer cats impacting the shelter system." — Lisa Kroll, associate executive director of the SPCA of Wake County
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Dog Days of Summer
Additional photos from our Dog Days cover shoot
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Theater
"The legal process is only about three things ... hatred, fear or envy. And you just hit the trifecta."
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Visual Art
"In the modern field, not just creatively but economically, you have to look outside traditional theater spaces." — Myra Scibetta, American Dance Festival
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Fashion
For the past year, local designers, artists and other vendors have been hawking their most stylish creations at the market, drawing in attention and fans.
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Now Serving
Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop hosts a Japanese Chicken Dinner at Elodie Farms (Saturday); limited-edition anniversary lager, "Dream Burger" recipes, more to celebrate Carolina Brewery anniversary (starting next Wednesday)
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Beer Hopping
Periodically, a beer enthusiast will privately confess to enjoying the occasional Bud Light. The comment is either received with scorn or the kind of puzzlement that occurs when a person you think you know admits to something terribly out of character.
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Covert Kitchens
While charcuterie is established in big food cities across the nation, there's a growing need for food safety regulators and health inspectors to learn the science behind it. In North Carolina, that is a very gray area.
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Film Review
"Isle de Jean Charles—the real-life setting of The Bathtub, where the film's protagonists live—has undergone catastrophic loss. The island used to be four miles wide; now it's about 1,000 feet wide." — Barry Yeoman
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Film Review
Can someone who is very serious about something laughably eccentric be treated with respect? How far can a movie dissociate itself from its plot's reason for existing and remain honest?
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Wake County
More than sad, Stanhope is a cautionary tale as Raleigh attempts to turn away from its history of suburban sprawl and toward its intended future of urban growth and redevelopment downtown.
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Durham County
Starting today, smoking tobacco is illegal on sidewalks and trails, at bus stops, parks and other publicly owned property in Durham County.
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Letters to the Editor
"The rainbow of Post-it note comments on the designer renderings provided lots of good ideas and feedback on the vision of Durham's first history museum."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Eva Hayward
The Crochet Coral Reef project is not solving the problem of coral collapse, but the art is creating alternate ways of understanding our relationship with these ailing systems. Being inside the problem is a condition of problem solving.
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Front Porch
Oliver grasped the concept of fishing only slightly, perhaps because it offered a more charming space far away from the hallways of the cancer floor.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
