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The Election Page
Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they saw a process that lived up to America's voting laws, but they had harsher criticisms for the impact of outside spending and our two-party system.
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The Election Page
The Republicans' 2010 victory—which happened as a national census ensured newly drawn voting districts, coupled with the windfall of campaign donations that bolster incumbents—struck a mortal blow to this year's crop of Democrats.
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The Election Page
"One day, demographically and otherwise, [today's Latino youth] will be the face of this state." — El Pueblo's Angeline Echeverria
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Music Feature
Amid the bustle of a high school talent show in Senegal, Toussa Senerap was the only woman to step up and rap. "She killed it, and all these high school boys watching her were super enthusiastic about what she was doing," says Ali Colleen Neff.
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Music Feature
If Béla Bartók was a grad student at Duke, he'd likely be in the DNME, perhaps covering Nirvana's "Lithium" for their upcoming show.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Converge, Torche, Red Fang, Black Tusk, Wood Ear, Call Of The Wild, The Tender Fruit, Cult Of Youth, Schooner, Naked Gods, Some Army, Fifteen Dead, Loudon Wainwright III, Dar Williams, Dysrhythmia, Last Year’s Men, Fletcher C. Johnson, more
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Music Feature
For the last decade, New York keyboardist and expressive instrumentalist Benevento has worked like a magpie, gathering the unbridled triumphs of post-rock with the compositional challenges of bebop.
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Theater
Shining City asks us if we're smart enough to recognize the very real ghosts that walk among us. Then it queries if we can discern what divides them from the living.
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Reading
Repo man Ron Shirley is about as happy as a short-legged pony in a high field of oats. The ready-to-rumble reality TV star's autobiographical book of short stories and witty cornpone sayings has just been retooled, revised and republished by Random House.
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Visual Art
Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore is about painting in the golden age of painting, and the creation of taste. It's also about women, and not just the women on the walls and pedestals.
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Photography
I followed the man through the tall grass. He leaned down and pointed to the spot where the young mother had, just a few days before, laid down her child, turned around and driven away.
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Guidance For Gourmands
The Chinese pork bun beats your everyday hamburger at its own game. And the wonder of the kao bao is that it will inevitably appeal to the Krispy Kreme clamorers of the kiddy set.
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Food Feature
On a lark 25 years ago, Helga and Tim MacAller of Four Leaf Farm in Rougemont planted two kiwi trees—a male and a female—in what could be considered an arranged marriage via the Stark Brothers seed catalog.
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First Bite
Bolt really wants you to like it. My guess is that you will.
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Beer Hopping
Without a doubt, beer was part of the first Thanksgiving, simply because beer was a part of every meal.
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Film Review
Where Persepolis was an animated tour de force that documented a precocious Iranian girl's experience of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Chicken with Plums is a dramatically different, live-action treatment of a earlier era of Iran's history.
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Film Review
The heart of The Sessions may be just and good, but it's really after-school-special stuff.
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Film Review
What was little understood in the aftermath of the U.S. basketball team's defeat at the 1988 Olympics was that the top players on the winning Soviet team were not Russian, but Lithuanian.
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Film Beat
Film fans might find this weekend to be best spent in Wilmington, where Cucalorus Film Festival will showcase some of the Triangle's filmmakers.
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Citizen
Is "war on women" too hyperbolic? Call it a war on women's equality, then. Or call it a war on working people's equality, because women are the ground troops in an economic fight that all working Americans are losing.
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Gallery
A slideshow of photos from the day around town
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First Person
Prior to this year, I had never felt like my living here, but not voting, mattered in a presidential election. But it does now.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
"We are becoming more and more a government 'of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.'"
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Eva Hayward
I'm not optimistic that Sandy will loosen the tight-lipped mumbling that is our national discussion on climate change. Might our planet's misery be our own?
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Front Porch
The week after Hurricane Sandy, we were no longer residents of the Lower East Side, of Chelsea or Chinatown, TriBeCa or Battery Park. We were the newly dubbed neighborhood of SoPo: "South of Power."
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
