Eat Your Heart Out: Our Dish Guide to the Best Local Date Spots

From picking out "your place" to cheap hangs and dating yourself, we've compiled our favorite go-to bars and restaurants for romantics and cynics alike.

A Cynic's Guide to Date Nights For Every Bump in the Road

Our key takeaway: dress up to break up.

Where Do Our Beloved Local Celebrities Go For The Perfect Date?

Turns out Petey Pablo is indeed a "freek-a-leek"--at the farmers market.

Hide Your Love Away

Know everyone in town? Here are some cool places where you can escape with a new Tinder match without getting noticed.

Romance (Or Whatever) On a Grad School Budget

Impress your date with your jukebox prowess, not an $18 cocktail.

Play Dates For Parents

Your kids' friends have cool parents, too. And you all deserve to let loose.

Find a Delicious Offbeat Adventure With No Reservations

Sharing food is the ultimate test of compatibility.

Dates Don’t Have to Involve Another Person. In Fact, Some of the Best Ones Don’t

A self-date is the time to really go for it. Order a plate of pimento cheese and crush it.

Alliance Behavioral Healthcare Returned $14 Million to Wake County. Is That Good for People With Mental Illness?

The organization didn’t spend all of what Wake gave it to help those with behavioral health issues

Raleigh Attorney Beckie Moriello Could (in Theory) Go to Jail for Using Her Phone in Court

She says she wasn’t disturbing anyone and this whole thing has gotten out of hand

There are 480 Publications Banned in N.C. Prisons. One of Them Is a Copy of Oprah’s Magazine.

Last week, the Department of Public Safety unbanned The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Could Trump’s New Infrastructure Plan Kill the Durham-Orange Light Rail?

Signs point to … no one really knows

Environmentalists Aren’t Happy About the NCDOT’s Plan to Finish the I-540 Beltway

Here’s what you need to know about that

As Bat Fangs, Betsy Wright and Laura King Outstrip Their Parentheticals

Bat Fangs celebrates the release of its self-titled record Saturday night at the Cat's Cradle Back Room.

We Maybe Made Jens Lekman a Little Uncomfortable by Knowing Way Too Much About His Music

Between wedding gigs, the indie-pop charmer stops at The Pinhook in Durham Friday Night.

Monét Noelle Marshall’s Buy My Soul and Call It Art Forces an Overdue Conversation About the Local and National Art Scene’s Racist Framework

Marshall's challenging performance art installation runs at the Living Arts Collective through Sunday, Feb. 4.

UNC and Duke Answer Demands for Intimate, Adaptable Venues with Current and Von Der Heyden Studio Theater, Both Opening This Week

Both venues have grand opening parties and inaugural performances in the week to come.

Domestic Drama The Miraculous and the Mundane Features Some of Howard L. Craft's Most Vivid Writing Yet

The fully staged premiere of the local playwright's script runs at Manbites Dog Theater through Saturday, Feb. 3.

End of the Lines

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