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Celebration of the skirt

The skirt takes center stage at a fashion show on Friday. Marcela Slade, a resident of Chapel Hill and Quito, Ecuador, will present her fifth collection at Durham's Golden Belt.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2009 7:39 AM | Full story

Change your look with sunglasses

Summer's glare requires sunglasses. But just because they're utilitarian doesn't mean you can't have fun.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2009 7:34 AM | Full story

Wendy W. will wig-out on TV, too

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It's no secret that Wendy Williams wears a wig. Oh no, honey, she talks about it all the time on her radio show.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2009 6:15 AM | Full story

Taking the 'lug' out of luggage

Fashion Luggage Trends

Travelers have no interest in lugging their luggage anymore.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2009 10:11 PM | Full story

She's everything but a soul-mate

Dear Carolyn: I have been dating a woman who is, save in one respect, the woman of my dreams.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2009 6:15 AM | Full story

'Slumdog' star gets a new home

One of the impoverished child stars from "Slumdog Millionaire" will move from his shanty home in one of Mumbai's more wretched slums into a new apartment this week, his mother said Sunday.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 11:38 PM | Full story

Jackson fans get word on coveted tickets

Fans began to celebrate Sunday after winning coveted tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service at Los Angeles' Staples Center.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 11:38 PM | Full story

'Unto These Hills': The native truth

What makes this year's performances of "Unto these Hills" different from the more than 4,000 prior performances is that members of North Carolina's Eastern Band of Cherokees now play most of the lead roles.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:18 AM | Full story

Reeling in film lovers

Art houses all over the Triangle are taking hits in this economy (the Varsity in Chapel Hill officially closed two Fridays ago, while other theaters have had to play mainstream movies to make money), raising questions about the repertory scene.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2009 10:04 PM | Full story

A savage storm in vignettes

Strange as it seems, there's something about impending disaster that can really liven up your day.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 6:33 AM | Full story

Family recipes, fresh ideas

The mantra is freshness at Jamil Kadoura's restaurant, Mediterranean Deli, or "Med Deli" as the locals call it in Chapel Hill.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2009 2:48 PM | Full story

DIG it: Lemon balm sorbet

The second-most-talked-about dish at last month's Farm to Fork picnic was the DIG teenagers' lemon balm sorbet.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2009 2:48 PM | Full story

Hot stuff

Colonial Williamsburg is hosting a "Foodways of the 18th Century" conference Nov. 8-10.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:21 AM | Full story

New music festival hopes to buck economy

The idea of starting a new summer music festival in the Triangle -- or anywhere else, in this economy -- and anchoring it with a popular European chamber orchestra, then inviting high-caliber international and local guest performers seems a little far-fetched.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2009 4:08 PM | Full story

Tweedy's search for a balm

Music review:Wilco mastermind Jeff Tweedy seems perpetually harried. His public mien is that of a bleary-eyed everyman who happens to possess songwriting gifts that may or may not be a curse.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:45 AM | Full story

Jazz review: Daniela Schachter

Michel Legrand and Norman Gimbel's "I Will Wait for You," the first song on singer and pianist Daniela Schachter's self-produced "Purple Butterfly," clearly establishes her jazz integrity.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:20 AM | Full story

Parkinson's implant helps

Michel Medina Gonzalez shakes violently in his chair inside a patient room at Orlando Health, where he was fitted earlier this month with a brain implant to control his symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

Updated: Jul. 2, 2009 2:54 PM | Full story

Hijinks in the Lowcountry

Book review:If Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons are the king and queen of Lowcountry Lit, then Dottie Frank is surely one of the slightly less serious, slightly more lighthearted, members of the royal family.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:47 AM | Full story

A father's final lesson to his 11-year-old son

Book review:Little boys like to play at adventure and dream of danger in faraway places. But what 11-year-old Norman Ollestad endured atop a California mountain in 1979 was a nightmare.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:47 AM | Full story

Where sign language meets music

Creators:Dusk falls on Durham Central Park, where a dozen folding chairs dot a lush, green field.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2009 8:54 AM | Full story

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