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  • Polling for 28 seats of NC Hills Autonomous Council underway in Assam

    Voting is on for 28 seats of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council in Assam today. Over 1,21,000 voters are eligible to seal the political fate of 138 candidates. The Congress has fielded 28 candidates. The BJP has its candidates in ten constituencies. Nineteen former insurgent leaders are also in the poll fray. Meanwhile, security has been intensified across Dima Hasao District to ...

  • Trial opens for former N.C. legislator

    A former member of the Republican leadership of the N.C. House of Representatives faces trial today for allegedly swindling millions of dollars from two government-funded nonprofit ...

  • Downtown Durham names Durham as CEO

    Geoff Durham as its new president and CEO. Durham, 42, has more than 12 years experience in economic development strategy. Most recently, Durham acted as economic development director for Fairfax, Va., and prior to his stint there, he worked Silver Spring, Md., where he developed capital improvement projects for the urban district and managed property development and budgetary needs. The hire ...

  • ICF consolidates local offices new home in Durham

    ICF International, an information technology consulting firm for both corporate and government clients, will be consolidating its operations in the Triangle when it combines the company's offices in Cary and in Research Triangle Park into the Meridian Corporate Center in Durham. ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has signed a lease for 11,604 square feet space at 2635 Meridian Parkway in ...

  • Durham group cites creative vitality healthy in town

    study has Durham outpacing the nation by 25 percent and the State of North Carolina by 93 percent. The takeaway? That Durham's "creative economy" supports 7,335 jobs -- a figure that has grown 22 percent between 2006 and 2011. The index measures the health of the creative economy in communities after taking into consideration the number of people working in arts-related ...


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Movie Review

Polyester [DVD]

Polyester [DVD]

By the time writer/director John Waters made Desperate Living in 1977, he was already a notorious midnight-movie cult celebrity, a genuine fringe iconoclastic auteur whose low-budget cinematic barbs skewered self-aggrandizing hippies as readily as it did fascist oppressors. His early movies, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), had taken the midnight ... ...

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  • Washington group Immigration reform could mean 5K new jobs in N.C.

    Granting immigration reform to North Carolina's 325,000 undocumented workers would boost the state's gross state product by $34 billion and create 5,000 new jobs over the next 10 years, according to a progressive Washington-based think tank. ...

  • Farmer’s Market Planned for Southeast Raleigh

    A new farmer's market, featuring fresh local products, is planned to begin operating in southeast Raleigh this summer. The market is being developed in response to a need generated by the recent closing of two supermarkets in southeast Raleigh. Financial support to help offset the project's start-up costs was approved by the Raleigh City Council on May 7. The $15,000 donation will come ...

  • Charlotte Bobcats want to be Hornets again

    Charlotte Bobcats camp isn't something that will make a difference in the win-loss column, but it has the Queen City buzzing nonetheless. According to a report from CBSSports.com, the Bobcats are in the process of changing their name back to "Hornets," which would, critically, mean the return of Hugo the Hornet and the beehive-themed free throw lane to Charlotte. Such a change ...

  • Thousands turn out for Tour DCoup

    Good grief. I grew up in rural Cleveland County, and we had chickens all over the place. Laying hen, breeding roosters and fryers. Nowadays, that's a novelty. That's fine. Sort of part of the back to Earth movement. Thousands turned out this weekend to check the chicken coops in the backyards of urban Raleigh and ...

  • Showdown looms over pre-K in N.C.

    Proponents of pre-kindergarten educational programs in North Carolina credit it with preparing kids to learn when they arrive at school. But a showdown looms over the program, with the state House considering a proposal to limit ...

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