Two Triangle radio stations embrace all-holiday format

Love it or loathe it, Triangle radio listeners are getting twice as much Christmas music this year.
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Introducing their shade of bluegrass

Steep Canyon Rangers guitarist and lead vocalist Woody Platt can be forgiven for sounding as if he's not quite sure which time zone he's in.
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Lovett is still smooth and deft

Lyle Lovett figured out something a long time ago: You can get away with saying just about anything, as long as your delivery can pass for polite.
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This time, the kids can get jolly

You probably spent at least some of this past summer engaged in warm-weather pursuits. But Jeff Carroll spent the heat of summer deep in the throes of ... Christmas?
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Film Picks

It's another-world night over at Durham's Carolina Theatre this evening. And, no, you won't be seeing Linda Dano there!
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John Cowan made his name as the soul-powered, rock-inspired lead singer of New Grass Revival. The innovative quartet blended a rocker's ethos with instruments and tunes of bluegrass, and fashioned one of the most popular acts of the '70s and '80s.
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Quick Bites

Most weeks, I like to use this space to share little discoveries I make in the course of my gastronomic exploration of the Triangle - a locally hard-to-find exotic dish, say, or some off-the-beaten-path eatery.
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Rock Picks

You never can have too much freaky theatricality this time of year, to cut through the treacle of the holiday season we're about to enter. And theatricality doesn't get much freakier or cooler than Amanda Palmer, singer/pianist of the Dresden Dolls.
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DVD Picks

In the late 1960s, budding über movie star Robert Redford was just starting to accumulate his Hollywood clout.
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Game Picks

It seems like something that should be an afterthought in the current generation of game consoles, but dribbling in modern soccer games hadn't been done before "FIFA Soccer 10" (Xbox 360, PS3; Rated E).
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Classical Picks

Many composers fleeing the grip of the Third Reich ended up in Hollywood.
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Homeless harmonizers lift spirits

Three men distracted lunchtime readers from their books and newspapers at the Fayetteville Street branch of the public library Wednesday by raising their voices: two tenors and a baritone, in perfect doo-wop harmony.
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video: Listen to the trio "MKM" perform for library patrons.

Norah Jones experiments with guitars and grooves

Indie-rock producer Jacquire King had long been an admirer of Norah Jones' smoky, seductive voice, but the man behind acclaimed albums from Kings of Leon to Tom Waits never thought the two would ever inhabit the same musical orbit, let alone work together on a CD.
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