Independent political endorsements 2003

Who we see as the next leaders of the Triangle

Complete voter guides

Our picks for Wake, Durham, Orange and Chatham

Populist mechanics

An Interview with Jim Hightower

• by Andy Newman

Don't be sorry later

• by Richard Hart

Freedom Riding 40 years later for immigrant rights

• by Victoria Kaplan

Parental homework isn't enough

Goodbye, mayor

Hello, peace

• by Tom Stern

Dean's blue-ribbon team

• by Patrick O'Neill

The Independent Weekly 20th Anniversary

Looking back

Join us on the Porch

Porch Quote

Back Talk

Letters to the Editor

Witches' brew

With Halloween on a Friday, it's a great year to make the scream scene

• by Chris Toenes

Bright world

Our man in Manhattan surveys the New York Film Festival, which features a sparkling new film from lcoal director Ross McElwee

• by Godfrey Cheshire

Secret agents

Two new films explore unusual relationships in highly usual ways

• by David Fellerath

In above-average girl

• by Michael J. Kramer

The Indy Bookshelf

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains, by Timothy Silver

• by Perry Deane Young

The Indy Bookshelf

Enslaved by Ducks, by Bob Tarte

• by Dawn Dreyer

In a taste of 'wine'

• by Chris Toenes

Exotica at the mall

The customers are coming, not like the torrential eaters at The Cheesecake Factory, but in a consistent drip, drawn by exotic smells unusual to a food court--aromas of roasting okra, savory stews and Persian marinades.

• by Erika Gamel

In democracy

• by Kirk Ross

Get out

Music worth leaving the house to hear this week

Byron Woods

Two schools for Shakespeare?

• by Byron Woods

In masquerades

• by olufunke moses

Some things are really f------ bad

• by Bob Geary

Raleigh Rhythms

Notes on the Raleigh music scene

• by Grayson Currin

Spectator

Weekly highlights for arts and entertainment in the Triangle

In peliculas americanas latinas

• by David Fellerath