Boiling Point

Activists go critical over the waste-storage issue at the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant.

• by Bob Geary
• Tags: News Feature, nuclear power, CP&L, Carolina Power & Light, Shearon Harris, environment

NC WARN members risk arrest out of "necessity"

• by Bob Geary
• Tags: News Feature, nuclear power, CP&L, Carolina Power & Light, Shearon Harris, environment, Jim Warren

Does Easley care?

• by Chris Fitzsimon

White vs. Right

• by Jon Elliston

Bring in the new

• by Bob Geary

Porch Quote

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

Striking a Chord

Spicy Mexican food and sweet Appalachian music come together for Old-Time Night at El Chilango.

• by John Martin
• Tags: Music Feature, old-time, Mexican, music, El Chilango, Jacques Menache

The Mythology of Flesh

In "The Lost Sea," Asheville's Keith Flynn brings substance and sublimity back into poetry.

• by L.D. Russell
• Tags: Arts Feature, poetry, Keith Flynn, Asheville, books

The Poet of Thanksgiving

Gratitude is a central theme in Feasting the Heart, a collection of 52 short radio essays by Reynolds Price.

• by David Perkins
• Tags: Arts Feature, Reynolds Price, radio, books, essays, Southern literature

Pulp Gnosis

M. Night Shyamalan's four features establish him as a rarity of rarities: a young Hollywood auteur of genuine talent and world-class commercial instincts.

• by Godfrey Cheshire

Rumble Seat

• by Dan Neil

In theater

Me and Isaac Newton

In books

COC, America's Volume Dealer

• by Angie Carlson

Freshly Pressed

• by Maria Hummel
• Tags: INDY READER: Freshly Pressed, T.R. Pearson, fiction, books, Virginia

CIA's Man on Campus

Straddling the divide between espionage and academia, an intelligence officer spends a semester in the UNC-Chapel Hill Economics Department.

• by Jon Elliston
• Tags: NEWS: Triangles, CIA, education, Robin Watson, recruitment

In covers

Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra

• by Elizabeth Kahn

Zine Stream

• by John Valentine
• Tags: Zinestream, Flaunt, The Fader, hip-hop, magazines

In tours

Hobex, Wisteria

• by Lynn Bryan

In strings

Lou Ford, Alan Freed's Radio

• by Angie Carlson

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