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Music Feature
In an era of roiling changes, Glenn Dicker and Tor Hansen have built a successful record company. A crucial component of Yep Roc's long run has been its willingness to experiment and fail.
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Music Feature
15 of the label's most intriguing releases, in three geographical subsets
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Our guide to this week's shows
Bonnie Raitt, Sarah Siskind, Ivan Neville’s Dumstaphunk, Leagues, Adelyn Rose, Humble Tripe, Perfume Genius, Suburban Nightmare Festival, The Demon Beat, The Mercators, Blanko Basnet, Dark Dark Dark, Emily Wells, Lucero, more
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Music Essay
Jazz is as good as ever. I've just become lazy. But I'm not the first suburban white boy to succumb to that, either.
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Record Review
This is an album rife with loss and searching. It doesn't aim to reassure because it doesn't hold much certain itself.
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Record Review
Addiction, depression, schizophrenia, isolation: The famous and the neglected are torn apart in keenly different, equally disastrous ways during Transcendental Youth.
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Record Review
Arriving exactly a decade after Bramble Rose, her 2002 major-label debut, Traveling Alone is Merritt's most exposed, open and ultimately best record to date.
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Record Review
Mount Moriah demands to be heard on vinyl. This reissue, courtesy of Merge Records, also comes with a download of seven live cuts Mount Moriah tracked for various radio stations and blogs.
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Visual Art
"My main goal for this exhibition is that people would walk out of here and say 'Whoa, that looks like art. Maybe that's art.'" — Gregg Director Roger Manley
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Visual Art
Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print features multiples of several of his most important images, revealing how the Norwegian master used repetition and iteration to travel through traumatic temporal rifts.
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Photography
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Theater
Florence Foster Jenkins had the cash and social standing to fund a classical music society or two, from which she launched one of the oddest careers in opera.
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First Bite
The moment I settled into the golden glow of Bida Manda, I set aside my worries about being unfamiliar with Laotian cuisine and vowed to simply eat and enjoy.
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First Bite
Finally, the secret Shangri-La of healthy, hearty, locally sourced (and often vegan) dining is in a real place for everyone.
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Film Spotlight
Aaron Syrett, director of the N.C. Film Office, has good claim to our attention these days: The Hunger Games (filmed largely in Burke County), Revolution (Wilmington) and Homeland (Charlotte).
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Film Review
In the final scenes of Argo I was literally on the edge of my seat, leaning forward. I can't remember the last time that's happened.
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Film Review
The second feature from writer/ director/ playwright/ Anglo-Irishman Martin McDonagh continues in the same deconstructive, profanely funny vein he brought to his 2008 debut In Bruges.
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Film Review
This friskier, wackier sequel to Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris finds her character now settled in the Big Apple with Chris Rock's journalist/radio host and their respective kids from other relationships.
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Film Review
Remember that cool Smashing Pumpkins video with the spaceship and moonscape? And the puppets in Pee-Wee's Playhouse and in Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" video? Turns out we've all been Wayne White fans for years.
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Film Review
The filmmakers don't trust their material, which is a shame. In the person of French con man Frederic Bourdin, they have a world-class maniac staring down the lens.
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Orange County
After Penny Rich leaves to join the Orange County Board of Commissioners, there will be just two women on the nine-member Chapel Hill Town Council.
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Wake County
An Indy investigation finds that Tony Tata led the school system's central office using tactics of fear and intimidation, while muffling the advice of his most experienced staff.
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Durham County
Given the volume of complaints about management, the apparent financial irregularities and the high stakes for the tenants, many residents are asking public officials to intervene.
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Durham County
The new rules would streamline the currently disjointed process by ensuring that annexation, utility extension and rezoning applications would all be presented to the city council at one time.
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Durham County
With recent attacks on the American Tobacco Trail, Durham officials are searching for solutions to the public safety problems on a seven-mile segment of the popular greenway.
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Letters to the Editor
"Why did you even bother grading 20 pizza joints?"
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
On Saturday evenings after supper, my five siblings and I would head up the country road to our grandmother's house for an evening of Gunsmoke, stove-top popcorn and—if we were lucky—homemade fudge.
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Jonathan Weiler
You might think we don't have ideal or even good choices. But that doesn't mean we lack clear ones.
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Citizen
Carolyn King's memorial service was a reminder that whenever progressive gains are achieved, the breakthroughs come first in the streets and then in the public mind, and when the way is clear, politicians follow up in the law.
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Gallery
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
