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Our guide to this week's shows
Jucifer, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Mark Eitzel, Lost in the Trees, The Happy Valley Pals, David and Jessica Lea Mayfield, Duke New Music Ensemble, Waumiss, T0W3RS, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, John Howie Jr. & the Rosewood Bluff, Melissa Swingle, L.E.G.A.C.Y., John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
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Music Essay
Whether for the revenue that their sound generates, for the egos that their fame feeds, or simply for the love of making music, bands struggle with letting go.
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Music Feature
The Rosebuds retain Sade's slowly molting sprawl and considerable use of empty space. And as a singer, Ivan Howard is creative but deferential: Small choices shift the songs just enough to make them new without making him appear too clever or indulgent.
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Listening with...
The veteran musician talks maturity and reinvention via songs from Fugazi, Blonde Redhead, Des Ark, My Dear Ella and more.
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Dish
Stories and recipes for historical favorites such as lemon meringue and apple as well as cultural imports such as bean and mincemeat
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Dish
Brooke Erceg has spent seven years working on her grandmother's lemon meringue recipe: "In a way, I think she wanted me to figure them out on my own. Just like she did. One pie at a time."
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Dish
"Hi, this is Lauren, Eric Hodge's wife," began the voicemail. Drawing out every word, she declared: "I'm calling to defend the mince pie."
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Dish
Horace Johnson has hawked pie ("with three i's") at the N.C. State Fair for almost 30 years. His wife, Frankie, is known for her blueberry-banana pies, which Horace calls a "more adult-y pie."
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Dish
Many attribute the original bean pie recipe to Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. But Muhammad's son Jabir says today's pie evolved from a recipe by Lana Shabazz, personal chef to Muhammad Ali.
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Dish
In Vardaman, Miss., you had to wear heels to compete for the title of Sweet Potato Queen. April McGreger, aka the Farmer's Daughter, wobbled in such shoes: "I knew very early I wouldn't be a Sweet Potato Queen."
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Dish
Emily Elizabeth Hilliard undoubtedly deserves the title "pie girl." In 2005, well before food blogs (or pies) were en vogue, she began blogging about the pastry at nothinginthehouse.com.
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Dish
A pie-eyed cutie pie...
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Dish
He took one bite, made a face and put the plate on top of the Amiga. A few days later I noticed the plate was still on top of the monitor and the pie hadn't changed in the slightest...
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Basketball
Welcome to the world of NCAA Bylaw 17.3.5.1.1, aka the "qualifying regular-season multi-team event" (MTE).
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Theater
Dorothy Lyman turns the mother of the Weston clan into an indomitable, destructive force of nature who sweeps all bystanders into her riving embrace before scattering the remains to the four winds.
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Theater
This show's highly recommended if you need to recharge your belief that yes, in spite of everything, it is a wonderful life.
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Theater
Shakespeare pioneered both the romantic comedy and the musical comedy with As You Like It, the light-hearted pastoral romp that's been in production for, oh, about 400 years now.
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Theater
As playwright and directors clearly deconstruct most of the trappings of drama, linearity of plot, costumes, scene, set and suspension of disbelief are sequentially dismantled, in what all but qualifies as a theatrical version of Jenga.
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Now Serving
For three days in February, Hakanai will encamp at the Cookery in Durham. And then, poof, it will disappear.
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Beer Hopping
Stay horizontal. Swallow some vitamins. And never, ever overindulge again.
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Film Review
In French filmmaker Lorraine Levy's switched-at-birth story, a Jewish baby grows up in the West Bank as an Arab named Yacine, while an Arab baby grows up in a comfortably middle-class Tel Aviv household as Joseph.
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Film Review
A less naïve viewer (than myself) might readily see Smashed for what it is: a vehicle for an ambitious young talent to escape the straitjacket of typecasting. This is Mary Elizabeth Winstead's movie, and she's a charmer.
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Film Review
There's enough comic potential here to keep your hopes up, but everything gradually collapses into unearned sentiment and painfully strained gambling metaphors.
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Wake County
People behind the animal welfare investigation say Prestage's money would be better spent on improving conditions for its farm animals.
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Durham County
Over three months, the owner of Community Grocery in East Durham and a clerk at Holloway Street Food Mart allegedly purchased more than $8,000 of goods from undercover police, who had told the suspects the items were stolen.
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Orange County
Johnny's has been at the center of a dispute between neighbors and owners over noise complaints from music events at the store.
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Durham County
New Internet sweepstakes parlors inside the Durham city limits will have to locate at least 500 feet from day cares, parks, schools, churches and homes.
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
There is a satisfaction in doing certain tasks entirely through your own efforts. To me, clearing a lawn of leaves the old-fashioned way—somewhere between deveining your own shrimp and climbing Everest without bottled oxygen—is one of them.
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Letters to the Editor
"It is bizarre to think that the CIA, years in advance, planted a devoted agent, a local businessman, in Dallas and told him to cultivate the police, just in case they someday wanted him to kill someone for them."
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Gallery
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Citizen
Every great city has a park like this one can be. So now the work begins. But first, make out your thank-you notes to the Friends of Dorothea Dix Park, Dix306 and the Dix Visionaries.
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Citizen
It didn't surprise me to hear UNC's chancellor and investment funds manager answer with the same old points about maximizing returns. But I wasn't prepared for the rest of their argument, which was that they couldn't divest if they wanted to.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
