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  • News

    February 29, 2012

    Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out

    Killing livelihoods and a $2.5 billion industry, the feds attack Internet gambling

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Paraskevidekatriaphobia Sufferers Are Having a Bad Year

    Today is a day that strikes fear in the hearts of some and general amusement or even glad tidings in the hearts of stauncher types. It is Friday the 13th. If you are one of the terrified, you suffer from "paraskevidekatriaphobia," a potentially crippling disorder that means you are among plenty of p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    James Franco, on Sale for Eight Grand

    Who can resist?​Well, this is not the real James Franco, but this version of James Franco can live on forever. For a measly $8,000, original photographs taken by the lovable Jack-of-all-trades can be yours when they go on sale next week at the RxArt Pop-Up Shop. The nonprofit, which places f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    R.I.P. Armando Orsini; NYC Gay Resort Hotel Planned

    ​Armando Orsini, the New York restaurateur who made Orsini's a hot spot in the '60s, died on July 13 in Asheville, N.C., at age 88. [NY Times] A new gay resort hotel is planned for Midtown West, which will include a nightclub, lounge and cabaret, and cafĂ© and restaurant called Kitchen. [Hote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    When Scientology Was Hip: E-Meters in the Village

    Drop out, tune in, and turn on the e-meter​Last week, we started a new feature on Tuesdays. We've asked freelancer Antoine Oman* to write us stories that look at things from Scientology's perspective. This week, he takes a look at Scientology in the 1960s -- ed. I had the distinct pleasure la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Q&A: Ear Pwr's Sarah Reynolds On Getting Back To Nature, Sweaty House Shows And The National Parks

    ​ If Ear Pwr's 2009 album Super Animal Brothers III (Carpark) was a supremely dizzying act of extroversion—a string of cherry bombs celebrating cats, shiny sweaters, dumb jokes, and electro-pop over-ambition—its successor is so mild, by comparison, that it registers as the work of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Sharon Van Etten Playing Bowery Ballroom In January

    ​Politely acidic Brooklyn folkie Sharon Van Etten is a burgeoning SOTC obsession -- her intoxicating sophomore album, Epic, is a killer if you're in a particularly emotionally vulnerable mood. (YIMBY'd closing track "Love More" especially.) She hasn't played around here lately, alas, denying u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Devo Cancel Their Tour, Including Saturday's Hammerstein Ballroom Show (Now Featuring The Drums, For Free)

    ​A rough week for canceled shows around here: Devo has scrapped all their upcoming dates, including Saturday night's Hammerstein Ballroom fete (which is now a free show with the Drums and Neon Trees), after a glass shard sliced guitarist Bob Mothersbaugh's right thumb to the bone. The band was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    The James Beard Awards Semi-Finalists Have Been Announced

    Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?​The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>

  • Music

    November 17, 2009

    The Reigning Sound, Within Reason

    NC garage titans emote pain, but mostly on weekends

  • Voice Choices

    March 25, 2009

    Toubab Krewe

    NC garage titans emote pain, but mostly on weekends

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Rightbloggers Hold a Sparsely-Attended Tea Party

    Rightbloggers had a big project last week: A series of "tea parties" across the country to protest Obama and his stimulus bill, inspired by comments by CNBC's Rick Santelli (and, it has been suggested, by some rightwing pressure groups). The results were not a great success, at least in the ob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Mountain Goats Gone Primitive: New Solo Tour Dates

    Two of these guys are not going on the no-sideburns tour For an awful long time, every John Darnielle tour was a solo tour. Excepting an early stretch with Rachel Ware, Darnielle's Mountain Goats were a purely one man entity, if a bit a of joke on the whole singer-songwriter phenomenon. The arrang ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2008

    Saturday 5.10

    Two of these guys are not going on the no-sideburns tour For an awful long time, every John Darnielle tour was a solo tour. Excepting an early stretch with Rachel Ware, Darnielle's Mountain Goats were a purely one man entity, if a bit a of joke on the whole singer-songwriter phenomenon. The arrang ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2008

    AFRICAN BEAT

    Asheville-based quintet whip up a neo-griot frenzy

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2007

    Provincializm: Pearlene, Dirty South As Gravitron

    Asheville-based quintet whip up a neo-griot frenzy

  • pazzandjop

    January 30, 2007

    God Grew Tired of Us

    Record-store eulogies, blogger angst, and other symptoms of a dying industry

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    The Personals

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Film

    October 4, 2005

    Wild life: Nuanced Adoption Drama Runs at Turtle's Pace

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Specials

    September 13, 2005

    Letters

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Specials

    March 27, 2001

    Letters

    Falling in love for different reasons

  • Film

    November 28, 2000

    Cara Seymour Looks for Trouble

    Paths Less Traveled

  • Theater

    September 19, 2000

    Theater

    Paths Less Traveled

  • News

    February 29, 2000

    The Right Stuff

    How Bush Met His Maker in South Carolina

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