Indy Week

Lincoln re-opens

Raleigh's Lincoln Theatre re-opened Sunday night after closing in May to add a balcony and renovate the club's interior.

• by Grayson Currin

Like a weed

Tucked away in a Chapel Hill office complex, the Trekky Records headquarters hums with the energy of young people pursuing a common goal.

• by Brian Howe
• Tags: Music Feature, Audio

Nine stories

The Nasher Museum of Art hosts Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, a selection of nine videos by seven international artists.

• by Michele Natale

Moon rising

The heroine of Rebecca Lee's debut novel, The City Is a Rising Tide, is Justine Laxness, a young 30-something working for an alternative-medicine nonprofit in New York in the early '90s.

• by Gerry Canavan

In defense of City Square

Raleigh finds itself at a critical point in its ongoing progress toward being a better place to live and establishing its identity as a creative and innovative city.

• by Lee Tripi

New Restaurants and Happenings

Restaurant and food happenings this week

• by Denise Prickett

Grouper for two from Porter's City Tavern

It's summertime and the local produce abundant.

• by Sheryl Cornett
• Tags: $20 Dinners, recipes, Porter's City Tavern

The rubber meets the road

The most surprising thing about Little Miss Sunshine is how bad it is.

• by David Fellerath

East Durham leaders look to the future

Barbershop owner Samuel Jenkins stood before residents and business owners from his East Durham neighborhood as an example of how one person could use individual and municipal resources to rebuild the blighted community.

• by Mosi Secret

The Vanishing Voter

Follow the money and you'll discover that the big political powerhouses like Black and Pope don't have to raise (or spend) all that much to control our legislative elections in North Carolina.
Plus:
* Art Pope's purge
* Black day at the IHOP

• by Bob Geary
• Tags: News Feature, Cover Story

Mining company digs Chatham rock; citizens protest

In the hills of western Chatham County about four miles south of Siler City, just off a two-lane road, sits a small shelter built over not one but a pair of natural springs.

• by Roland McReynolds

Art Pope's purge

It's up to the N.C. State Board of Elections to decide whether Art Pope broke any rules in his attacks on former House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan and the breakaway Republicans.

• by Bob Geary

Black day at the IHOP

The infamous meeting at the International House of Pancakes in Salisbury between disgraced former legislator Michael Decker and House Speaker Jim Black may or may not get Black indicted.

• by Bob Geary

...or, not

Grayson Currin's "review" of the Tom Waits show in Asheville is the most pathetic excuse for journalism since the last Fox News report.

Square One

• by V.C. Rogers

Thanks for "Dreams deferred"

I would like to commend you on the interesting article you did on Project Strike (cover story, Aug. 2).

Bunkey-mandering

If you need any more proof than Bob Geary's story this week about the vanishing role voters are playing in North Carolina, look no further than Chatham County.

• by Jennifer Strom

Paranoia

In light of the recent arrests of some 20-odd terrorists in Great Britain who were plotting to blow up airliners with explosives disguised as beverages and personal electronic devices, I feel that it is high time we abandon all semblance of calm rationality.

• by Matt Rawlings

Insult to injury

We learned about the Turkish Insult Laws as we settled in to our temporary home in Izmir four years ago.

• by Francine Less

Races to watch as the N.C. GOP seeks leverage

These are not happy times for North Carolina's Republican Party, which had hoped to use security, scandal and shifting demographics to leverage a takeover of the state House and Senate.

• by Kirk Ross

Butterscotch's happy ending

I am excited to report that our 16-year-old homeless cat you featured, Butterscotch, has been adopted.

Pick-up lines

As a condition of entering a drawing to win tickets to a Bob Dylan concert, we recently asked Indy readers to tell us why they read us.

• by Jennifer Strom

More Dog Days!

I laughed, I cried (which is very good for you, you know), I contemplated--ever so briefly--adopting yet another cat, to the detriment of my reputation in the neighborhood.

The summer wind

• by D.L. Anderson

Grayson Currin rocks...

I read your review of the Tom Waits show in Asheville ("Tough wait," Aug. 9). Sorry it wasn't a better evening.). I'd be inclined to dismiss the opinion because of an amazing experience I had seeing him here in NYC in 1999. But your review was really well-written.

August 16 sudoku solution

August 16 crossword solution

For the week of August 16 through 23

The Old Ceremony; Recess Experimental-Improv Series; Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Umphree's McGee, Marc Broussard at Koka Booth Amphitheatre and more...

For the week of August 16 through 22

Dave Griffin at N.C. Museum of Art; Carolina Rollergirls; Josh Kelley at Koka Booth Amphitheatre; Legal Defense Fundraiser Fête

Summer slumber party issues

The Ides of August mean one thing in North Carolina. Lethargy. Torpor in the Piedmont.

• by John Valentine

Plaza? Or no plaza?

The question of whether or not to install Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's light show on Fayetteville Street has set off the most amazing debate in Raleigh...

• by Bob Geary

Agitated ambience

How do you straddle the line between ambient and engaging?

• by Jeramy Lowe

Herring, Rodgers, Sipe and Fountain

Bobby Lee Rodgers can make murder funny.

• by Grant Britt

Wrecking downtown in order to save it

In order to properly celebrate the opening of Fayetteville Street to cars, it was necessary to close it and allow only pedestrian traffic.

• by Peter Eichenberger

The Two Gentlemen Band

By definition, traditional music is conservative, holding tight to centuries-old tenets to give antiquated forms continued life.

• by Grayson Currin