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Music Feature
After spending a night hanging out with Steve Earle, Doug Sahm and Neil Young at Farm Aid in 1996, Daniel Coston figured out his true calling.
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Music Feature
Sean Johnson, known as DJ Old School in clubs across Raleigh, spun his way into my life years ago, a friend of a friend who gradually became an irreplaceable star in his own right.
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Music Feature
He's the most prominent bayou howler ever to come out of Berkeley. John Fogerty's swampy odes and backwoods rhythm guitars were the backbone of Creedence Clearwater Revival, an early, rockin' version of Americana.
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Theater
The waters were dark and the seaweed was an electric green, and the two-story jellyfish that slowly pulsed above our heads were a delicate lavender.
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Visual Art
New sculptures greet Nasher Museum visitors
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Lit Local
Michael Chitwood has a good attitude about this global warming heat and humidity we seem to be glued into this Piedmont summer.
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Dance
Sometimes the questions are clear, in the end.
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Visual Art
In two shows in Raleigh, similar media and themes play out with radically differing results in the hands of two artists.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Beat
Carrboro documentary filmmaker Rebecca Cerese was driving on the I-395 in Washington, D.C., with her parents and her brother when she decided that something was amiss with the official Sept. 11 narrative.
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North Carolina
Members of the Socialist Party of North Carolina will meet July 29, bringing together in the Wake County town of Garner the South's only statewide chapter of a party that traces its roots back to the turn of the 20th century.
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Wake County
When they strike up the music on Saturday and christen the new Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh, Marc Scruggs will be somewhere in the crowd, smiling.
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Front Porch
"It was some kind of an animal" was what my father would say about it. "Noise like nothing I'd ever heard before."
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Front Porch
Writers have a unique problem when it comes to our occupation. Here's the scenario: You're at a cocktail party, church picnic, bris or any other place where strangers start talking to each other. The break-the-ice question is typically: "So, what do you do?"
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Exile on Jones Street
Excuse me while I use a tortured analogy. In a rather spirited moment of debate in the doldrums of late last week, state Sen. David Weinstein said we've already got plenty of parties wrapped inside the Democrat and Republican camps.
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Letters to the Editor
I would like to thank Mr. Crowther for his insightful, well written piece on the Duke lacrosse team players and student life at Duke.
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Letters to the Editor
You write so well! I have copied "Sympathy for the Devils?" to my son, who enrolls as a freshman at Duke this fall.
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Letters to the Editor
I just read your article about the overcharging of Orange Correctional Center inmates for rides to work. It is generally a good article...
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Editorial
Citizen is the latest evolution of the Independent Weekly's presence on the Web. It's also at the top of our home page, www.indyweek.com, where it's updated every time Geary writes an entry.
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Letters to the Editor
I'm writing to thank you for including me as Best District Attorney in the Indy's Best of the Triangle issue.
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Sudoku Solution
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A weekly adventure by Kevin Dixon
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"From the stereo to the stage, Big City Reverie is simply Rock and Roll."
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Spotlight
A recent visit to the Nasher found curator Sarah Schroth working with museum preparators to place two recent arrivals to the Nasher Museum.
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MUSIC: Get Out
ReAlign at the Pour House; The Tourist and Snuzz at Bickett Gallery; Colossus, Space Age Polymers and Uncomfortable at Kings, and more...
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Citizen
I have to admit, it took awhile for me to register exactly why I was so bothered watching the Raleigh Parks, Recreation and Greenways Advisory Board dismember the plan for Horseshoe Farm Park, a 146-acre tract on the Neuse River in North Raleigh.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
The third week of the Eastern Music Festival began with music by Ervin Schulhoff, Ernö Dohnányi and Igor Stravinsky, presented by the Eastern Chamber Players.
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Spotlight
Of the approximately 760 people who have been incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay as part of the so-called Global War on Terror, only 10 or so have been formally charged with crimes and none have been convicted.
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MUSIC: Rock & Roll Quarterly
The Proclivities; The Yayhoos; Fashion Design; Lovehead and the Real; The Never
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MUSIC: Oak City Notes
"Make with the funny": That's the mantra of Oak City Nights, a new comedic talk show that has called the Kings stage home every second Monday for the last four months.
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8 Days a Week
Triangle artist M. Torez discusses hip hop and manga
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MUSIC: Rock & Roll Quarterly
She smiles wide, bobbing her head to the beat and holding a tray of takeout, standing outside of Shorty's, a sports bar and hangout next door to Chapel Hill music haven Local 506, peering through a window.
PLUS: Local Reviews
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Best Bets
Raleigh Wide Open block party; Crape Myrtle Festival; Auction for the Animals; Microphone Mondays; Latta House Series; Hou Hsaio-Hsien's film Three Times
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Spotlight
Like a brilliant, single-minded artist who paints the same image every day, Freddy Ruppert plays pathos-driven tearjerkers about one tragic event: the death of his mother.
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8 Days a Week
Researcher Paul Orbitz discusses the effect of Jim Crow laws in the rural South
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8 Days a Week
Capote at the Museum of Art; Singles night for booklovers at the Cameron Village Library
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8 Days a Week
Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys play the Blue Bayou; Fayetteville Street reopens; Penguins march again at the Museum of Art
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8 Days a Week
Joel Haas sculpture walk near Meredith College
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8 Days a Week
"Japan: Then and Now" movie series at Manbites Dog; Oneida and Birds of Avalon at Kings
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8 Days a Week
Quentin Tarantino night at Kings; Caltrop, Blag'ard and Monotonix at The Reservoir
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8 Days a Week
The Marked Men at Chaz's Bull City Records; O.A.R. and Jack's Mannequin at Koka Booth Amphitheatre
