“The South is a haunted place, but a lot of the haunting isn’t ghosts,” Williams says. “It’s being aware of what our ancestors did and what a lot of our contemporaries continue to do.”
Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
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Local Photographer Michael Galinsky’s Lost Images Take Us on Nostalgia Trip to a Time When the Mall Was King
“The Decline of Mall Civilization” brings to life vivid images of short shorts, big hair, and bigger suburban commerce.
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Raleigh Bar Foundation Celebrates a Decade With a Book About Itself
“I’m a better person for those fifteen steps to Foundation.”
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Son Volt Sees All Sides on “Union,” as Only Midwesterners Could
“Being in the middle of the country does inform these songs,” says Jay Farrar. “Half the people you know have a different viewpoint, so you just have to find a way to coexist.”
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Strand of Oaks Was Almost Kaput Until My Morning Jacket Showed Up
“My manager called me and was like, “Hey Tim, are you making a record with My Morning Jacket?” I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about.”
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Every City Has Its Slim’s, But This One’s Ours. Happy Twentieth to Raleigh’s Essential Dive.
“We used to say, if you saw someone downtown after eight p.m., they were heading to Slim’s. It was just us.”
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Innovation Is Traditional for Sitar Star Anoushka Shankar
“With every generation, people put themselves into the music. It’s always open-ended. That’s the nature of the traditional music I play.”
