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Music Essay
If at first Floating Action feels boring, turn it up, and pay closer attention. It's immersive music that doesn't seem busy, even though a dozen different styles and genres are always at work.
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Music Feature
Both Dan and Letha have been very artistically productive since she became sick, with a litany of releases and a few shows around the world.
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Record Review
After 35-plus minutes of tambourine slaps, whistles, choppy pianos, show-off solos and throwback harmonies, it's too late to wallow and time to, as the bulk of this welcome little album does, live.
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Record Review
The latest LP from producer Gavin Bouma, aka Orgavin, draws a direct line from the darkly danceable and sensationalist electronica of the '90s to now.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Antibalas, Ben Sollee, Zen Frisbee and Shark Quest, The Big Beat Dance, Frontier Ruckus, Team Dresch, The Butchies, OFF!, Negative Approach, Double Negative, Royal Chant, more
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Reading
The tensions between Durham's aspirations, successes and failures are admirably accounted for in Eno Publishers' newest 27 Views.
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![A fresh take on a Shakespeare parody, <i>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [Revised]</i>](/imager/b/square/3157294/b8b0/CompleteWorks-Publicity-05.jpg)
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Theater
Several treats await newcomers—and those who think they already know this show. Recommended.
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Theater
In Red we learn the only way we get anything from a work of art is by entering into a relationship with it.
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Covert Kitchens
"We wanted to figure out ways and structures that made sure we kept foregrounding people of color and low-income communities that we want to be rooted in." — Tim Stallmann
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Object of Desire
The history of fondue is not that sexy.
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Film Review
Pitch Perfect is full of annoyingly chipper musical numbers that I'd hate if it weren't for the fact that they're so damn rousing.
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Film Review
The script was co-written by famed SNL writer and longtime Sandler crony Robert Smigel, although I like to think the slower, more clever moments came from the other co-writer, Peter Baynham, of last year's underappreciated Arthur Christmas.
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News Feature
The mission of the Independent has always been to publish the nation's best alternative journalism; to help build a just community in the Triangle; to create a great workplace for every individual here; and to make a profit doing it.
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Wake County
The Wake County Board of Education voted 5-4 to fire Superintendent Tony Tata. The vote was split along party lines: Democrats for dismissing and Republicans against. Tata will receive $253,000 in severance.
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North Carolina
Follow up: DOJ officials promised legal action if the Alamance County sheriff's office does not work with federal investigators to address the complaints.
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North Carolina
Depending on what the state rules commission decides, the outdoor advertising industry and individual billboard owners may be dissatisfied with the outcome.
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Orange County
Rural Orange County residents are troubled by news that UNC-Chapel Hill administrators are acquiring additional property around a controversial animal-holding facility west of Chapel Hill.
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News Briefs
News we're keeping an eye on: "Conservative Visions of Our Environmental Future," fracking, N.C. Mining and Energy Commission; UNC Advisory Committee on Strategic Directions, N.C. Student Power Union, Art Pope, Thom Tillis
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Citizen
Because TTA sold the former Dillon Supply Company buildings to Citrix, DOT will be forced to pay to remove a slice of those structures at some point in the future.
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First Person
The obstacles that reporters and writers and photographers faced elsewhere—having to fight, all the time, to produce anything interesting or challenging—were things I couldn't fathom.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
I'm not the guy to see if the milk's bad; it always tastes and smells good to me. But who's up for some vindaloo?
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Letters to the Editor
"While I am happy as a gay man in my male birth-body, I so identified with Eva Hayward's understanding that our gender and our sexuality are constantly evolving."
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Crossword Puzzle
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
