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Food Feature
"You want to drain them well to pull away the starch, no?" Jacky Rich asks. "No, mom," Penny Rich replies, gesturing with her hand as if marking a scoreboard. Her mother sniffs. "You should turn that one over."
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Sip
For those who fancy a considered beverage, Shannon Healy's new spot in downtown Durham exudes an air of maturity thanks to his attention to flavor and quality.
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Food Feature
Unlike many fruitcakes, Southern Supreme's doesn't contain candied fruit inside (candied cherries and pineapple do dress the top). Instead, it features pineapple, dates and raisins, in addition to a heavy load of walnuts and pecans.
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Film Review
Despite billing itself as an unexpected journey, this is pretty much what we expect: lots of epic battles; sweeping shots of pristine landscape; a score caught in a permanent swell; no one uses contractions.
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Film Review
Sacha Gervasi's facile, by-the-numbers film shouldn't be called Hitchcock; it should be called Somebody Else Who Is Reminiscent of Hitchcock.
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Film Review
This is romance novel stuff, with gorgeous lead actors and rapturous castle porn.
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News Feature
The water originates in Durham, which sells it to Chatham. And once the water leaves Chatham's hands, Aqua NC could sell it anywhere, including back to Durham customers in 751 South.
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North Carolina
Beginning Dec. 19, visitors to the N&O website will be asked to pay after reading a limited number of articles for free.
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Durham County
A 2008 decision by the N.C. Court of Appeals invalidates an owner-occupancy requirement in Durham's city code.
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North Carolina
September and October reports show Latino drivers were more than four times as likely as non-Latinos to be arrested during traffic stops by Alamance County deputies.
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News Briefs
At least no one's reading Fifty Shades of Grey. Or admitting to it, anyway.
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
Sometimes the person who knew you first feels like the one who knows you best.
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Letters to the Editor
"Unfortunately, Prestage refuses to take any action on this most basic animal welfare issue. Until they do, they're undeserving of having their name on an NCSU building."
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Gallery
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Jonathan Weiler
Fix the Debt and its wealthy founders, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, are out of touch.
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Citizen
"It still hurts," I said to Willie Earl Vereen, one of the Wilmington Ten. "Deeply," he answered. It should hurt us deeply, too.
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The Year in Music
The Triangle's 10 best records and 32 best tracks of 2012; seven photos that see into the sound; the fame of The Avett Brothers and the similar musical history and present of our state; the carrying capacity of our local music venues
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The Year in Music
From outer-limits metal to inner-circle folk, the best records released by area acts this year
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The Year in Music
These 32 tracks, culled from the favorites lists of nearly a dozen area music writers, are a broad representation of the region's best output this year.
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The Year in Music
"Besides having a beard, a banjo, being from N.C., and writing our own material, we really don't have much in common with The Avett Brothers." — Dave Wilson, Chatham County Line
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The Year in Music
After years of plenty, with bigger and newer rooms, ambitious schedules and upstart booking agents, the close of 2012 seems to have not just stalled the Triangle's rock club growth but perhaps reversed it, too.
- by Spencer Griffith
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Tags: The Year in Music, Volume 11 Tavern, Dive Bar Raleigh, The ArtsCenter, Southland Ballroom, Kings Barcade, The Pinhook, Casbah, Motorco Music Hall, Red Hat Amphitheater, Cat's Cradle, Nightlight, Haw River Ballroom, The Cave, Slim's Downtown, Carolina Theatre, Local 506, Pour House Music Hall, Lincoln Theatre, Cover Story
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Our guide to this week's shows
The Babies, Rayna Gellert, The Backsliders, Father Figures, Savage Knights, The Gathering, Chip Robinson, Lud, The MPS Project, Beat Report, Left Outlet, Black Taxi, Of Montreal, Ninjasonik
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Music Feature
Some tenants say that the scarcity of Raleigh practice spaces puts Joyner Realty in a position to manage the property poorly and maintain full rooms.
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Photography
Seven shots that provide a glimpse into the Triangle's sound this year
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Theater
Amid the empty calories of so much Yuletide entertainment, this muscular musical reminds us that a set of songs once stopped a war.
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Reading
It takes a rare kind of openness to experience to pick up the career machinist hitchhiking to the Grand Canyon or chauffeur the 110-year-old guy you just met all over Buffalo, N.Y.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
