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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 Statewide Judicial Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 Durham County Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 Wake County Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 U.S. Congressional Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 Orange County Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 Orange/Chatham County Endorsements
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Our Endorsements
Our Fall 2006 Chatham County Endorsements
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Candidate Questionnaires
2006 congressional races
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Candidate Questionnaires
2006 judicial races
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Candidate Questionnaires
2006 county, legislative and judicial races
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Candidate Questionnaires
2006 county and judicial races
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Candidate Questionnaires
2006 county, legislative and judicial races
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Candidate Questionnaires
2006 county, legislative and judicial races
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Music Feature
Hours before a show at The Berkeley Café in downtown Raleigh on June 4, 2004, Joe Murdock III—busy earning a reputation throughout the Triangle as the hard-spitting, masterful freestyle rapper Jozeemo—was arrested on a probation violation stemming from a series of gun-related charges in Durham.
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Music Feature
"The record industry is so fucked up right now you just have to be glad that somebody put your record out, you know," says Phonte Coleman, one of two emcees in Durham's Little Brother.
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Music Feature
When he graduated from N.C. Central, Darien Brockington became a teller at Bank of America. But that changed when college buddy Thomas "Rapper Big Pooh" Jones walked through Brockington's line.
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Record Review
Somebody to Love; The Commercial Free EP; Soldiers of Fortune
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Arts Feature
Samuel Barber's Vanessa is big and challenging, with terrific arias for all the characters, yet it has been inexplicably overlooked by most major companies.
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Lit Local
Bland Simpson didn't start out to write a series of books on the life and history of North Carolina's sound country; it just sort of happened that way.
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Casual Observer
Photo and Poem by Derek Anderson
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Theater
Once more it is the week of certain magic. Potent words, when spoken well, will have the power to conjure men and women from thin air...
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Film Review
With the North Carolina Museum of Art attracting large crowds for its Monet in Normandy exhibit, museum officials are hoping that patrons coming out for the paintings will stay for its new film series.
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Film Review
Viewers of Infamous and Running with Scissors might relate to comedian Steven Wright's quip, "Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time."
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Slide Shows
A look at the culture of Halloween costume shopping
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Wake County
A state probe into charges of cheating on certification exams by security staff at Progress Energy's Shearon Harris nuclear power plant found improper training of the plant's guards, who are responsible for protecting not only the facility's reactor but also one of the nation's largest stockpiles of highly radioactive spent fuel.
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Editorial
For years, the Independent has sent questionnaires to candidates in local and state race to help us make endorsements.
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Front Porch
I've voted in dozens of elections in my life. I've trudged through rotten weather in Chicago and Durham to drop my ballot, that symbol of democracy, into the box.
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Gallery
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Were I not a UNC-trained political scientist, I would have chuckled at Kirk Ross's comments about my new book, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South.
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Exile on Jones Street
There are 13, count 'em, 13 Cogressional races on North Carolina's card this year, most of them longshots for the challengers.
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Sudoku Solution
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Get your groove on with Raleigh's newest funk experience, Children of the Horn. Kickin' it old school with blue break-beats from the '70s, mixing in the New Orleans sound, a few shots of Caribbean music and some soul-jazz on top.
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MUSIC: Classical Voice of North Carolina
Jazz and family events at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke dominate the scene: UNC's fall jazz festival begins with the Lynn Seaton Trio on Wednesday, Oct. 25 with Chapel Hill pianist Stephen Anderson.
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Best Bets
Hatchfest at Kings; The Exonerated; Halloween alternatives; Nine Hills, One Valley; Lewis Black; Blackbeard's Lost Weekend
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Spotlight
Plensa's 9-foot-tall glowing sculpture "Tattoo" installed Friday, Oct. 27; free lecture by the artist Sunday, Oct. 29
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Spotlight
Incorporating her love for Chicago blues harp with raw, gritty, Haggard-like lyrics, Collins' sound mixes hardcore honky-tonk and blues-tinged rock.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Mojave 3, Tim O' Reagan and Jedi Mind Tricks at Cat's Cradle; Swearing at Motorists and Dodo Bird at Local 506 and more...
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Spotlight
The connection between good-time country music and altered states of mind is nothing new: Bands like Oakley Hall—a New York quintet that draws members and influences from across the American map...
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Spotlight
With luck, the freak-folk tag preemptively applied to almost any new artist or band signed to an indie rock label but doing things with some pastoral influence has lost its significance.
