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Wednesday, July 23,2008

Miles of conversation on the road with the Avetts

By Carole Perkins
The low, steady rumble of tour-bus tires on the highway is white noise, a smooth and steady backdrop to Seth Avett’s easy laugh and languid Southern drawl. The Avett Brothers are headed to New York, traversing a route from West Coast to East Coast, miles away from the red clay of their stomping grounds in Concord.
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Wednesday, July 23,2008

WHITE NOISE

News from inside the media bubble

By YES! Weekly staff
Taking a page from the Jesse Helms playbook, Amer ican for Legal Immigration PAC in Raleigh launched a public assault on the News Observer last week. Ask any radical or subversive: If you can’t get the media to reflect your bias, relentlessly attack its credibility until you can elevate yourself to the same level of influence.
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Thursday, July 24,2008

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny
That’s why he liked Darwin’s idea that error is the driving force in evolution. I think this wandering-about-looking-for-something approach should be the driving force in your personal evolution, Sagittarius.
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Wednesday, July 30,2008

Pop Quiz

Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants questions about their jobs. This week we’re asking questions about the budget passed by the Winston-Salem City Council last month. The rules are simple: The officials must answer immediately — no research, no callbacks.
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Wednesday, July 30,2008

McCain ‘Ich bin ein güberhead’ tour continues

By Ogi Overman
There is something very peculiar leftward, that the pendulum is swinging toward change and about this presidential he represents the status quo, that the stars campaign. I’m not are aligned against him, so this is his tactic talking about the of last resort.
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Wednesday, July 30,2008

Free Will Astrology

By Rob Brezsny
Wednesday, August 6,2008

Ten Best!

By Brian Clarey
I’ve been trying, when possible, to telecommute a few days a month in an effort to save money and do my share to curb our national jones for gasoline. There are other nice things about it too.
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Wednesday, August 6,2008

Ask a Mexican!

By Gustavo Arellano
Dear Mexican: Where I recently started working at, Latinos make up about 95 percent of the work force. We are, however, prohibited from speaking Spanish. Our supervisor tells us that if we can so much as speak one word of English, that we cannot speak in Span ish.
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Wednesday, August 6,2008

Wolf Parade headlines at Lincoln Theatre

By Heather MacIntyre
Walking up to the Raleigh venue, kids of all ages were immediately approached before even making it to the waiting line by two or three others with questions. The first was a kid working for the Obama campaign, who wasn’t even old enough to vote himself, and if you gave him a moment, you’d quickly learn he was also too young to drive.
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