Indy Week

Revolutionary sounds

Orchestra Baobab reunites Latin music with its African roots--and vice versa

• by Sylvia Pfeiffenberger

Get out

Music worth leaving the house to hear this week

LatinBeat

Visitations

• by Sylvia Pfeiffenberger

The 2003 Indies

This year's Indies Arts Awards winners are storytellers: transmitters of culture across generation, color lines and physical limitations

• by The Editors

Arts Access, Inc.

A brighter, broader view

• by Shirlette Ammons

Howard L. Craft

Playwright, poet, teacher

• by Byron Woods

Andre Leon Gray

The alchemist

• by olufunke moses

Cynthia Hill

Dedicated documentarian

• by Kirsten Mullen

Barbara Lau

Committed to community

• by Dawn Dreyer

Shepard Jazz Camp

Stanley Baird, Chip Crawford & Eve Cornelious

• by Brett Chambers

Voices in the wilderness

Four more worthy of note

Humble openings?

In its 26th year in Durham, ADF takes its first awkward steps toward recognizing North Carolina dance

• by Byron Woods

The Indy Bookshelf

Mordecai: An Early American Family by Emily Bingham

• by Leonard Rogoff

ZineStream

Great summer reads

2 kool 4 skool

Three excellent films promise refuge from the summer heat

• by David Fellerath

Something to hide

• by Richard Hart

Black Future Month redux

• by Derek Jennings

Message for the left: Sit down, shut up and focus on common goals

• by Scott Weir

A rating that's not up in smoke

• by Brian Millikin

Recognizing African-American history

• by Lauren Hooker and Danielle Purifoy

The Independent Weekly 20th Anniversary

Looking back

Porch Quote

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

In the galleries

Chef for a day

How would you like to spend a day with a top-notch, fun-loving chef? To go with him to the market, select expensive produce, meats and cheeses and prepare a spectacular four-course meal standing at his side?

• by Erika Gamel

Movie Spotlight

Chi-hwa-seon (Painted Fire)

• by David Fellerath

In Manbites music

• by Rick Cornell

In clubs

• by Grayson Currin

In real hip hop

• by K8 Erwin

A&E Spotlight

Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey

• by Jabari Sellars

Raleigh Rhythms

Notes on the Raleigh music scene

• by Grayson Currin

Spectator

Weekly highlights for arts and entertainment in the Triangle

Peterson on Trial

Something cold and squishy

• by Peter Eichenberger and Robert Olason