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The Election Page
Democratic board member Jim Martin says he won't institute a party litmus test for his pick to fill Republican Chris Malone's seat.
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The Election Page
"I've won elections before, and I've lost, but I've never had these dirty tactics used against me until now," Jones says.
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The Election Page
Less than a third of House seats are held by women; in the Senate, that figure is only 14 percent.
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Music Essay
On his own, Yelawolf crossed into the realms of pop, R&B and party music just fine. But his debut on Eminem's Shady Records was a mixed bag of half-baked attempts at branching out.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Phil Cook and His Feat, Sumner James, Tim Smith Band, Handle with Care Benefit, Horse Feathers, Simon Joyner, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Matthew E. White, Midtown Dickens, Southern Femisphere, Twilighter, Black Skies, Caltrop, Fin Fang Foom, more
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Music Feature
For a series based on a 1913 ballet, Carolina Performing Arts' Rite of Spring at 100 is resolutely focused on new and future work. That idea is epitomized by string quartet Brooklyn Rider, now in its first year of a three-year residency at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Music Feature
Invisible is a band, and it isn't. Yes, there are guitars and synthesizers and amplifiers. But there are also elaborate, homemade instruments that are part-sculpture, part-exploded mechanism.
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Instrumentalist
"Invisible has always worked with old junk that we find on the side of the road or thrift store instruments—the cast-off objects of society." — Mark Dixon
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Reading
Grassroots but ambitious, supported by the resources of a respected retailer, NC Comicon focuses almost exclusively on comic books and the people who make them.
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Arts Feature
"It's going to be bad enough no matter what we do. It's going to be a difficult century in any event. Our job is to keep it from becoming an impossible one." — Bill McKibben
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Photography
Usually, Iraq veteran Jeremy Berggren feels restless on Veterans Day, unsure of his place as a veteran committed to peace and healing.
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Comedy
This week, comedians John Sideris and Michelle Maclay are celebrating a year of informing people that being a Triangle-based comedian can be a pain in the ass.
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Theater
Instead of finding vivid, contemporary counterparts for ancient roles, one of the usual strengths in director Jay O'Berski's adaptations, Women Beware Women relies more on caricatures.
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First Bite
After the complimentary bread and the appetizer, we had to wonder, Did we take a wrong turn and wind up at Applebee's? Thankfully, the main courses proved we did not.
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Film Review
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln accomplishes the seemingly irreconcilable feat of humanizing Abraham Lincoln while preserving his mythology.
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Film Review
For a movie about smart, sophisticated folk, starring actors I would gladly see in anything, these people do pull off some simple-minded, soap-operaish shit.
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News Feature
"Was [the Raleigh Call Oswald's] death warrant? You betcha." — conversation between former CIA agent Victor Marchetti and JFK assassination researcher Grover Proctor
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News Feature
A staggering 6 million documents have been released under the JFK Records Act, as well as mountains of independent research.
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News Feature
Although many were professional investigators, photo analysts, pathologists, journalists, historians or lawyers, most approached the assassination not as a vocation but as an avocation.
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Durham County
Housing for New Hope, a Durham nonprofit organization, announced it is helping Lincoln residents find homes, secure moving trucks and pay utility and rent deposits.
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Letters to the Editor
"Let's usher in a solution-solving debate around why we should spend $35,000 a year warehousing close-custody prisoners in this state."
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Front Porch
Longevity takes time, I speculate.
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Jonathan Weiler
While Obama and his supporters celebrate his surprisingly comfortable win, the reality of governing amid undiminished acrimony will soon rear its head.
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Citizen
Obama's proposal is a small price to pay to avoid the fiscal cliff, with its multiple tax hikes for everyone and deep cuts in federal spending.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
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Crossword Solution
