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Food Feature
Poe's Farm Fresh Dairy convenient mart opened in 1964 in Durham's Tuscaloosa-Lakewood neighborhood. It was known as one of the "Cow Stores" because of the brown-and-white fiberglass Jersey cow perched on the roof.
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The Soul of Wine
Write about wine? For Dionysus' sake, why? It's just a drug, for sale at the gas station along with cigarettes and painkillers. What justifies pouring ink after wine?
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Film Review
Zero Dark Thirty opens and closes with acts of cold-blooded violence, the righteousness of which is left to the conscience of the beholder.
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News Feature
"I'm a bit of a mystic myself and there's some things you can't understand."
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News Briefs
Tolls are now being collected on Phases 1, 2 and 3
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Wake County
Democrats could gain a supermajority with replacement for Republican Chris Malone
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Wake County
There are 169 public schools in Wake County. Armed law enforcement officers are currently stationed at more than 50 of them. Placing at least one armed officer at the remaining schools would cost an additional $9.2 million per year.
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North Carolina
The nine-member Legislative Services Commission, which is composed almost entirely of Republicans, was tasked to launch a study into state workers' compensation, with a final report originally due in late February.
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News Feature
Depending on their usage, Aqua North Carolina customers pay as much as $425 a month for water and sewer bills—roughly equivalent to the average monthly payment for a new car.
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Peripheral Visions
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Letters to the Editor
"Change will come when stubborn refusal to compromise is seen as a weakness and the ability to respectfully negotiate mutually beneficial solutions as the true strength that our leaders must exhibit."
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Front Porch
I was behind the house getting an armload of firewood when the peaceful morning cracked with the terrible sound of a great tree on its way down.
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Gallery
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Jonathan Weiler
Our government is locking into place a taxation system that remains historically favorable to wealthy Americans at the inevitable expense of ordinary folks.
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Citizen
Clever: In a continuing effort to make Aero Contractors come clean about its role in CIA rendition flights, N.C. Stop Torture Now joined the Adopt-A-Highway program, thus earning a prominent sign in front of Johnston County Airport and its tenant, Aero.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Tar Heel Sound Fest, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Last Year's Men, Dex Romweber, Spider Bags, Gross Ghost, Plume Giant, Phil Cook, Rory Block, The Overmountain Men, Mipso, Tom Blacklung & the Smokestacks, Terry Anderson & the Olympic Ass-Kicking Team, The Old Ceremony, stephaniesĭd, Pujol, Guster
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Music Essay
In its compositional complexity and obvious European influences, N.C. metalcore counters the perceptions of Southern heaviness cast by the slow, distortion-encrusted riffs of their sludge-loving peers.
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Music Feature
Is crowd funding destined to hit critical mass and implode, or will the crowdsourcing model enter and sustain itself within the larger cultural dialogue, which happened with social media within the last decade?
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Photography
Driving up to the main office at Wagner's Auto Salvage, I noticed, sitting between a row of cars, two fat and furry cats. I stopped and looked again; there were cats everywhere.
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Visual Art
From 1999 to 2002, Alec Soth traveled the 2,300-mile length of the Mississippi River, from Minnesota to Louisiana, photographing people and places and gathering their stories as "a series of scenes in a lucid dream."
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Theater
"All kinds of people come to my show with an idea of what they think a drag queen doing gospel music would be," notes Rev. Roger Anthony Yolanda Mapes. "And they walk away with a completely different experience."
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Theater
Copenhagen hinges on the falling out between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, which came to a head late one September afternoon in 1941.
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Comedy
What's made WTF with Marc Maron such a must-listen is that it's not only a haven for comedy nerds but also a place where the industry's most well-known clowns can get genuinely, blisteringly real.
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Sudoku Solution
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Crossword Solution
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Crossword Puzzle
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Indy Animals
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