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Live music in Durham has ebbed and flowed over the years, but it's been on a definite upswing the past year and a half - and Motorco Music Hall, a 500-or-so-capacity club near the old Durham Bulls baseball park, is one of the key players.

Modified: 02/10/12 05:47:33 AM
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Fishbone: Still aiming to be one of a kind

Movie Review:  As he nears 60, Denzel Washington has begun to carve out a niche as the grumpy or morally compromised foil to young, gravitas-seeking white actors.

Modified: 02/09/12 06:07:43 PM

Movie Review:  Cast and crew err on the side of silly in "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," the amusingly childish sequel to that unlikely 2008 hit "Journey to the Center of the Earth." They've rendered Jules Verne's novel into a jokey lark, with broad, corny wisecracks, comic sidekicks and everybody riffing on the ginormous lizards, humungous spiders and the like.

Modified: 02/09/12 06:07:28 PM

Restaurant Review:  If corporations are people, as Mitt Romney has famously proposed, then I'm pretty sure I've discovered a business that has suffered from a multiple personality disorder for the past 10 years.

Modified: 02/09/12 06:04:48 PM

It's late Friday afternoon, and Tony Rock is in Shreveport, La. It's the first stop on the Royal Comedy Tour, a stand-up comedy roadshow that has him sharing the stage with seasoned heavy hitters Earthquake, Sommore, Bruce Bruce and Mark Curry.

Modified: 02/08/12 05:06:27 PM

The North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival continues this weekend with Sketch Week, featuring performances from more than a dozen comedy groups both homegrown and imported.

Modified: 02/08/12 05:06:33 PM

Family Picks:  If your family wants to try something new for physical fitness, then Hooping Hoopla on Sunday at Marbles Kids Museum might be just what everyone needs.

Modified: 02/09/12 06:05:56 PM

As far as local excitement, Sunday's Grammy Awards will have to go a long way to top last year - when Durham's Merge Records unexpectedly snatched last-minute victory from the jaws of defeat by winning the album-of-the-year grand prize (for Arcade Fire).

Modified: 02/08/12 05:30:13 PM
Food and more More

If corporations are people, as Mitt Romney has famously proposed, then I'm pretty sure I've discovered a business that has suffered from a multiple personality disorder for the past 10 years.

Modified: 02/09/12 06:04:48 PM
Style More

Posted along a wall of Cindi Leive's office at the Conde Nast building are a dozen recent covers of Glamour, the magazine she has edited for the past decade, all of them showing a celebrity pinned against a flat white background.

Modified: 02/08/12 05:45:17 PM
Get Fit More

It may come as a surprise, but those meals they serve at school were never meant to be solely about helping kids to be healthy.

Modified: 02/08/12 06:07:29 AM
Home and Garden More

Whether you're looking to add an unexpected punch of color to a kitchen chair or to strike a bold note in a powder room, the "it" color of 2012 is not for the faint of heart.

Modified: 02/04/12 05:22:59 AM
Faith and Religion More

The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh will soon begin the long process of determining whether the first North Carolina native to be ordained a priest should be declared a saint.

Modified: 02/10/12 05:25:28 AM
Family More

If your family wants to try something new for physical fitness, then Hooping Hoopla on Sunday at Marbles Kids Museum might be just what everyone needs.

Modified: 02/09/12 06:05:56 PM
Travel More

Thinking about a plane trip with kids in tow? As part of your flight plan, try storytelling to plot out what's ahead to reduce anxiety.

Modified: 02/07/12 06:06:01 AM

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