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To avoid the latter, here are the best apps you can download for your trip. Happiness is a Warm TV What to Watch on Sunday: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ takes to the sea In the Season 2 opener, it looks like they’ll address a question I had during the first season of “The Walking Dead”: what if you just got on a boat? Arts & Culture Carolina Ballet reimagines timeless ‘Macbeth’ The Carolina Ballet has found a new way to tell a 400-year-old tale, stripping the dialogue from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and replacing it with dance and music. Columns & Blogs Suicide not just a ‘white thing’ I’ve been thinking about suicide lately. Food & Drink Stir a pot of spring Try a springtime risotto by Weekend Gourmet columnist Fred Thompson. Home & Garden Welcome butterflies to your landscape Just as we go full scale into planting flower beds, pause and consider the butterflies. Home & Garden Birdhouse winners create more than just a box for contest in Raleigh Check out the winners of this year’s annual birdhouse contest, which is part of the Raulston Blooms! annual celebration at Raleigh’s JC Raulston Arboretum. Home & Garden Are backyard feeders actually harmful to songbirds? Deaths of songbirds in California leads to wildlife officials to discourage backyard bird feeders. Home & Garden The best small trees for outside townhomes JC Raulston Arboretum director Mark Weathington answers readers’ gardening questions. Music News & Reviews April music fests include Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, Live & Local, more North Carolina’s 2016 outdoor music festival season begins this weekend with events in Raleigh and Selma. Also in April, look for Merlefest in Wilkesboro, ’Cuegrass in Raleigh, and Triangle Beach Music moves to Greenville. Home & Garden Introduction to bonsai class and more home and garden events A weekly roundup of home and garden classes, tours and more across the Triangle. News Columns & Blogs Wheeler: Depression confession elicits support, stories, suggestions In conversations with editors about whether I had weighed every possible negative consequence of publishing a column confessing to living with clinical depression, someone asked whether I had considered how it might affect my significant other because he’s a public school teacher. Barry Saunders Saunders: It’s time to come to grips with the sugar-on-grits debate With all the calamitous political carryings-on occurring in North Carolina – our legislature passing a law to save us from unseen bathroom boogeymen and Bruce Springsteen refusing to play here because of it – whose idea was it to write a novel-length newspaper article about cornbread and whether it should be sweet or unsweet? A.C. Snow Everybody is begging for something Lured by recent spasms of spring weather, the street people, like the swallows coming back to Capistrano, are emerging from their winter dwelling places. Chapel Hill News Henrietta the hog to get leg surgery Monday at NC State vet school Henrietta, the hog found roaming loose this winter with a big, bony mass on her left foreleg, has a return trip to Raleigh on Monday. Happiness is a Warm TV What to Watch on Saturday: ‘O.J.’ marathon, Russell Crowe hosts SNL FX will marathon the entire run of “The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” today starting at 2 p.m. Also, check out Russell Crowe and Margo Price on “Saturday Night Live.” Cary News Food Network’s ‘Restaurant Impossible’ features Holly Springs restaurant April 13 An episode of “Restaurant: Impossible AMBUSH,” a Food Network show that revamps struggling restaurants, will air at 10 p.m. on April 13. It will feature Holly Springs restaurant SiP Bistro, a European-style wine bar, coffeehouse and eatery. Travel Obscura Day lets you explore secret treasures in NC, DC and beyond About 160 miles southeast of Raleigh, not too far from Holden Beach in Brunswick County, is a vision of glass and baby dolls. On the Beat Springsteen cancels Greensboro show over House Bill 2 Bruce Springsteen cancels his show scheduled for Sunday at Greensboro Coliseum, over House Bill 2. Blogs & Columns Happiness is a Warm TV What to Watch on Sunday: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ takes to the sea Barry Saunders Saunders: It’s time to come to grips with the sugar-on-grits debate A.C. 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