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Search local restaurants by location, price and cuisine, and read restaurant reviews by Greg Cox.

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Find all things food in the Triangle: where to dine, where to shop, what to eat, what to cook.

Entertainment

Baye Cobb teaching geometry in her classroom.

Drescher: Duke grad plays central role in ‘Blackboard Wars’

Raleigh-reared Baye Cobb’s first year with Teach For America featured on reality TV show 2 hours ago

Food & Drink

Eat like a Doughman racer

This year, the annual eating and racing competition offers a food fair for spectators.

Home & Garden

Ambiance can be fashioned even at poolside. Here, a painterly patterned zigzag rug in charcoal adds punch; a basket is handy for magazines. There's color in accessories such as an outdoor umbrella, the La Mer 22-inch patterned pillow ($34.95) and solid sulphur pillow ($44.95).

Airy elegance: Outdoor décor comes into its own

A well-designed garden, like an interior, reflects the balancing of color, texture, scale and use of materials. And whether a garden, terrace, deck...

Fashion

Prom pretty: Shopping for the big night can be tougher for girls in larger sizes

Like most teenage girls, 17-year-old Madelyn Rosario is enamored with this spring's prom dresses.

Travel

Harry Potter theme park to add Diagon Alley section

The rumors bubbling for the last year are true. The clever "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" theme park at Universal Orlando is being expanded, and it will open in 2014.

I'm staring at a really cute picture of my granddaughter and I smile. I shuffle through other pictures on my computer and smile again at the coconut-covered bunny cake I made for Easter. And I wonder - based on what we know and don't know about coconut...