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Love Ramen? Get to Rose's Meat Market on Wednesdays.
A perfect lunch break Each week, Rose's Meat Market and Sweet Shop butchers three or four pigs. The meat becomes whiskey breakfast sausage, smoked pork chops, pancetta, porchetta, bratwurst, and...
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Record review: Mac McCaughan Goes Instrumental on Staring at Your Hologram
Does Mac McCaughan possess a musical trademark more distinctive than his voice? Sure, his thin, incisive riffs have long cut through the churn of Superchunk.…
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Record review: On Everything I Need, Rising Raleigh Rapper NANCE Shows a Lot...
Hip-hop trends come and go, but one thing will never become irrelevant: context. The same line that's a dud for one rapper may bring down the house for another; being a great rapper is as much about...
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The Morning Roundup: Basketball, Guns, and Money
Good morning to you. Let's dispense with the pleasantries.…
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Ashley Christensen, Death and Taxes Lead the Triangle's James Beard Award...
This morning, the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2016 James Beard Awards. Ashley Christensen leads North Carolina's copious nominees; the Raleigh chef's latest venture,...
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Live + Video: American Aquarium Shows Off its Hometown at "Roadtrip to Raleigh"
American Aquarium, T. Hardy Morris The Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh Friday, Feb. 5, 2016Were it not for the T-shirts handed out to Krispy Kreme Challenge participants, "American Aquarium" would have been...
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Here Are the Triangle's Biggest Rental Developments in 2015
We've written about how nearly 51 percent of renters in North Carolina are cost-burdened, and about the economic theory that building more luxury high-rises could be a solution to the Triangle's...
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Moogfest, Art of Cool Collaborate to Boost Girls Rock NC at Thursday Benefit
We showed you what it looked like when The Pinhook's Kym Register and a few friends showed up to the North Carolina Department of Revenue Friday to pay off the club’s $80,000 tax debt. With that issue...
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Rep. G.K. Butterfield to Berger, Moore: GOP Redistricting Plan Violates...
On Wednesday afternoon, Rep G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.-01) publicly released a letter he'd sent to the N.C. Senate president and House Speaker, blasting the the GOP plan to completely eliminate race as...
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Ready, Set, Rise: Durham Biscuit And Doughnut Spot Expands Twice More
Rise Biscuits & Donuts, once a single store near Durham's Southpoint Mall, has been steadily expanding its delicious doughy empire. Three new locations have popped up in recent years: two in...
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The Morning Roundup: Duke Won Again and Democrats Will Probably Lose, Again
Good morning, everyone. It's important to note here that Thursday is little Friday.…
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Theater Review: Revising A.R. Gurney's Love Letters Pays Off in Poignancy
Love Letters ★★★ ½Bare Theatre @ Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh Through Feb. 28 Love Letters, A.R. Gurney’s unconventional epistolary drama from 1989, usually features two actors seated side by...
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Listen to Skylar Gudasz's Stunning New Oleander Right Now, See Her Tomorrow
We aren't very far into 2016 yet, but Durham's Skylar Gudasz has one of the best LPs of the year in her hands. Oleander, Gudasz's first full-length, officially comes out tomorrow.…
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Everything You Need to Know About North Carolina’s New Gerrymander
The elections for North Carolina’s congressional districts have already been thrown into chaos by a shotgun court order to redraw the districts, the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and...
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Live: A Bland Bryson Tiller Sleepwalks at The Ritz
Bryson Tiller The Ritz, Raleigh Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016 In a post-Drake world—where hip, emotionally vulnerable music has returned to the Top 40—we’ve seen the zeitgeist turn toward an archetype: the...
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The Morning Roundup: New (But Not Improved) Congressional Maps, Down Goes...
Happy Friday, everyone! We’ll have some pretty terrific weather this weekend, and there’s a ton of cool stuff to do, so get out there an enjoy yourselves, before another Monday rips the joy from your...
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Listen to Body Games' Emotionally Brutal, Musically Exquisite "Special"
“Special,” the first single from the upcoming Body Games LP, Damager, begins with a scene, cut perhaps from some dimly lit nightclub. With her clarion, gently plaintive voice curling around the...
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Third Friday Reception: 'Durham Under Development' at Pleiades Gallery
Kim Wheaton, co-founder of Pleiades Gallery in Downtown Durham, told the small group of people in a presentation room at 21C Museum Hotel last week that her gallery's current exhibit is meant to spur...
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Movie Review: The Witch Conjures the Demon-Haunted World of English Settlers...
The Witch ★★★ ½ Now playing For seventeenth-century English Puritan Joseph Glanvill, belief in the supernatural was a prerequisite for belief in God. Folktales about ghosts, witches, and devils...
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What Should the New Orange County Slogan Be?
Per Chapelboro, Orange County is seeking input for a new slogan to be slapped upon the highway sign greeting westbound travelers on Interstate-40 at mile maker 269. The current, damaged sign says...
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Video: Humanize Visits the New Sadlands in Carrboro
Humanize, Teardrop Canyon Cat's Cradle Back Room, Carrboro Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016 Humanize (formerly, Human Eyes) have long seemed to fly just below the Triangle's collective musical radar. Three years...
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The Byrds' Roger McGuinn To Be Honored by UNC for Folk Music Preservation Work
As a founding member of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn helped shape the sound of the sixties with lysergic guitar solos, bewitching harmonies, and the meshing of country and rock into a lasting hybrid. For...
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Deah Barakat's Sister Admonishes Trump for Anti-Muslim Remarks
Donald Trump went to South Carolina this weekend and said something gross again. And then he won the Republican primary!The New York Times has a report on Trump's comments during a rally to the effect...
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Bathroom Inspector McCrory: It's All About the Peepees and Hoohoos, Y'all
Gov. Pat McCrory promised two members of the Charlotte City Council Sunday that there will be swift and sure consequences if the majority votes to allow people to pee and poo in public restrooms where...
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Saltbox Seafood Joint Burglarized by Spineless Shrimp
There ought to exist a code among thieves stating that a place as charming and modest as the Saltbox Seafood Joint—a 200-square-foot pescatarian paradise on Durham's North Mangum Street—is off-limits....
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