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Music Feature
Samuel Moore has spent a half-century writing, performing and recording songs, but mostly entertaining. "I get to see people at their human best ... when they laugh and smile and have a good time."
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Music Essay
More than a decade after Hollertronix 1, it often seems like Diplo now needs us more than we need him.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Rebirth Brass Band; Jacco Gardner; Vattnet Viskar; Braids; Ducktails, Alex Bleeker & the Freaks; The Dead Tongues, Schooner; André Obin, The White Cascade; The Backsliders; Effingham; Grandchildren, Oulipo; Blue Dogs; The Gaslight Anthem
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Record Review
Wembley inhabit a space where the unconventional dates the popular, taking the naïve to the art house cinema, the microbrew pub and the grimy rock club.
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Record Review
This is refined and subdued indie rock, now with a laser-sharp focus paired to its proud veteran pedigree.
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Record Review
John Harrison revels in the possibilities of shaping sounds into songs here, caring less about structural rigors than rigorously exploring individual ideas.
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Music Feature
Sorry State has again bested itself with an excellent batch of new records from Raleigh heroes Double Negative, Charlotte punks Nö Pöwer, Los Angelenos Rough Kids and Chicagoans Broken Prayer.
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Photography
Four months after the first tenants began leaving Lincoln Apartments, all 150 units are empty at the former low-income housing development.
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Visual Art
Shows by two emerging young artists, U.K.-based Alistair McClymont and Chicago-based Ryan Travis Christian, suit CAM's increasing profile
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Theater
Playwright Brian Yorkey dares much in this 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning work, bringing mental illness home with integrity.
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Reading
Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is exactly the sort of thing I'll e-read, while the likes of Terry Tempest Williams' When Women Were Birds will stay in print.
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First Bite
When you walk into Yard House, you may assume you've entered a sports bar. The thud signaling its heavy tome of a menu landing on your table will begin changing your perception.
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Guidance For Gourmands
"We wanted to create a dessert that would excite kids but also please parents. These cannoli are the ideal approach." — Pizzeria Toro chef-owner Gray Brooks
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Food Feature
For one night only, chef Matt Props and baker Ari Berenbaum served 85 bowls of vegan ramen at Ninth Street Bakery.
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Film Review
Emperor is a reminder that it takes more than research, costumes and good intentions to make a compelling film.
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News Feature
The results of climate change are already altering the way crops pollinate, mature and produce. Over time, they could change what we eat and when we eat it.
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News Briefs
The Annie E. Casey Foundation released a report last month that showed the number of incarcerated youth is at a 35-year low.
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North Carolina
Senate Bills 106 and 107—The Homebirth Freedom Act and Decriminalize Direct-Entry Midwifery— would license Certified Professional Midwives to practice in North Carolina.
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North Carolina
State leaders say $550 million in relief for I-77 through Charlotte is en route in the form of high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes run by a private tolling company. This public-private partnership could set a statewide precedent.
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Letters to the Editor
"But what is a relationship, really, when one partner is not living authentically, when one partner is hiding his very identity?"
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Gallery
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Editorial
In issuing these pink driver's licenses, emblazoned with the words "no lawful status" (which isn't true), Republicans want to elicit fear from as well as punish North Carolina's undocumented immigrants.
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Front Porch
I'd thought I was running a chickens' retirement home. But here they were, in the face of flurries and frosts, announcing as only chickens can, "Hey, look around, it's spring!"
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Citizen
Raleigh's inaugural bicycle festival is off to a great start, underlining that our city is finally leaving its "bikes not wanted" phase of transportation.
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Peripheral Visions
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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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