Indy Week

Breakin' Out

Alt-country diva Tift Merritt goes national.

• by Bryson Strauss
• Tags: Music Feature, Tift Merritt, Lost Highway, The Carbines

Matthew Sweet's Pet Sounds

Sweet's latest record, In Reverse, is an homage to classic '60s pop sounds.

• by Angie Carlson
• Tags: Music Feature, Matthew Sweet, In Reverse, Pet Sounds

Rewriting Macdonald-Wright

The North Carolina Museum of Art rediscovers an artist who wanted color to act more like music.

• by Kate Dobbs Ariail
• Tags: Arts Feature, Modernist, painting, N.C. Museum of Art, Stanton Macdonald-Wright

Role Reversal

Bruning Coal Theatre's postmodern take on Uncle Tom's Cabin thwarts our expectations of how racial difference works.

• by Maria Pramaggiore
• Tags: Arts Feature, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Burning Coal Theatre, postmodern theater, BTI Cemter

Ishtar Regained

Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts team, but rarely come together, in The Mexican.

• by James Morrison
• Tags: Film Review, The Mexican, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts

Silence in the Fields

The H-2A guestworker program is a boon for farmers, but reports of labor abuse are common.

• by Barry Yeoman
• Tags: News Feature, H-2A guestworker program, farmworkers, labor

Death Watch

Profile of an execution.

• Tags: News Feature, death penalty, Willie Ervin Fisher

Execution Index

Numbers include the execution of Willie E. Fisher if carried out on Friday.

• Tags: News Feature, death penalty, Willie Ervin Fisher

First Person

A lifelong racing fan says goodbye to his hero.

• by L.D. Russell
• Tags: First Person, Dale Earnhardt, stock car racing, NASCAR

National security vouchers

• by David Potorti

Citizens' movement

• by Chris Weber

Porch Quote

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

All tore up

Puzzling over the death of a NASCAR legend.

• by Melinda Ruley

In the clubs

Blow Dry

In the galleries

In "high art"

Spy Like Us?

Felix Bloch, one of the great unsolved mysteries of Cold War espionage, is back in the headlines--and still driving a bus in Chapel Hill.

• by Jon Elliston
• Tags: NEWS: Triangles, Felix Bloch, espionage, spy, FBI, intelligence

In puppet theater

Scene & Heard

Short takes on the local music scene.

• by Angie Carlson

Volunteer Spotlight