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The Election Page
"We may have been among the very first to figure out you could do it in a congressional race." — Palmer Sugg, founding member of the American Foundations Committee Super PAC
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The Election Page
New reports show Real Jobs NC has raised at least $850,000 to help state GOP candidates this election cycle.
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Music Feature
For enduring artists like multidisciplinary innovator Monk, 70, the challenge remains in keeping people's attention on her work and evolution even while building upon a sterling legacy.
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Record Review
Derek Torres and the band of pals he recruited on a whim last year are just starting to find their promise.
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Record Review
Subtle for Flames retains the band's playful spirit and divergent impulses, but there's a newfound focus to Waumiss these days.
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Music Essay
You start to understand how your favorite band hears music—what they like and appreciate, what they're willing to invest their own lucre in, the way they categorize and process sound.
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Music Feature
"There's not enough market for three or four nights of the same Longbranch any longer." — co-owner Christian Elmore
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Our guide to this week's shows
Cactus Truck, Fenster, The Sea And Cake, Sharon Van Etten, Damien Jurado, Titus Andronicus, Spider Bags, Mac McCaughan, Steve Forbert, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Jerry Douglas Band, Divine Fits, Cold Cave, Mark Sultan, more
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Hockey
While the current dispute is officially between players and owners, it's also a standoff between the league's rich, powerful clubs (Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings) and its struggling upstarts (Carolina Hurricanes).
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Visual Art
The real substance of Still-Life Masterpieces is its curation, the goal of which was to create interesting conversations between adjacent works that enliven the paintings and the genre overall.
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Theater
Director Torry Bend brings a brilliantly cinematic dimension to our area's formidable puppetry scene. (5 stars)
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Theater
A TV actor from a recently canceled medical drama moves to New York (and John Barrymore's old apartment) for a Shakespeare in the Park lead he's reluctant to take because ... well, see the play's title.
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Reading
Paolini spent nearly half of his life writing the epic Inheritance cycle, which has sold 25 million copies to date. And he's still yet to celebrate his 30th birthday.
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Photography
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First Bite
Dos Taquitos has been on the Raleigh scene for about 20 years, and it is easy to see why. It is part of the Salamanca family's collection of restaurants (which also includes Centro and Gonza's Tacos y Tequila), and they obviously know what they're doing.
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Food Feature
Cave Taureau is as much about championing Durham as it is about championing natural wine: "What's put Durham back on track is food," says co-owner Nathan Vandergrift.
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Food Feature
I hope I'm not the first black person to admit I have a love/hate relationship with fried chicken.
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Film Review
While insurance companies agreed to curb their worst abuses, what they got in return was more valuable.
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Durham County
In one week, 200 low-income residents will be evicted from their Lincoln Apartments homes. None of the city's recent initiatives will immediately help them.
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Hal Crowther
This election is not at all about voting for a candidate you admire or a party platform that echoes your ideals. It's about trying to defeat what you have every reason to loathe and fear.
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Citizen
Monday night's presidential debate marked a turning back to the policies George McGovern advocated 40 years ago.
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Eva Hayward
How will a harvested moon affect our dreams, our breath and our poetry?
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
With reassuring woodpiles resting at the borders of several close-by paths, we're ready for glaciers from Roxboro.
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Letters to the Editor
"Any voters who mark their ballots with a straight party vote must also mark their ballots for a presidential choice or they will not, in fact, be casting a vote for president."
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Crossword Puzzle
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Crossword Solution
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Sudoku Solution
