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Music Briefs
Quick: Who penned Duke Ellington's familiar theme "Take the A Train"?
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Music Feature
Chances are, from 1976 to 1978, when the clock radio woke you up, one of three hits was playing: "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow, "You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone or "Whatcha Gonna Do" by Pablo Cruise.
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Music Feature
The fabric of music, like that of life, is woven from chance and timing. But for a broken bus heater, would Buddy Holly be here today?
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Lit Local
Winston-Salem writer Kathy Norcross Watts may be a newly published book author, but she's no stranger to writing.
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Dance
Over the past decade, we've followed the shifting fortunes of the North Carolina Dance Festival with a mixture of joy and concern.
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Reading
"After he left her" and "After she left"—those are the opening words to two of the stories in Don't Make Me Stop Now, the new collection by Greensboro's Michael Parker.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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$20 Dinners
Comfort food is still a draw in these days and weeks of winter dark and cold. How to reconcile the need for savory, warming comfort food with our new year's resolutions to cut back on carbs and eat healthy?
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Film Review
"Worst. Oscars. Ever." The admirably concise e-mail from a critic friend handily summed up my own reaction to last week's announcement of the Academy Award nominations.
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Film Beat
Over the past few years, the face of short films has changed dramatically. For one thing, the Internet has made it easier to watch them.
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calendar
A city-by-city list of movie times this week, with brief reviews of what's playing on silver screens around the Triangle
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News Feature
As the Eno River Association celebrates its 40th anniversary this week with a sold-out gala, a new generation of leaders faces new challenges.
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North Carolina
While state lawmakers won't get down to the real nitty-gritty until committee appointments are finalized in early to mid-February, a cavalcade of bills was introduced in the House and Senate this week.
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Orange County
Seventeen UNC Hospital employees resigned or were fired after an N.C. State Auditor's analysis discovered they had invalid Social Security numbers.
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Front Porch
The owner's partner expressed a similar vision. "We don't know whether the land is going to go to North Carolina Land Conservancy, but it's going to go to a reputable organization.
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When your paper described the displacement of numerous tenants by the Independent's offices because of the higher rents ("Eyes on the Prizery," by Kate Dobbs Ariail, Jan. 17), the article's subtitle called it "a palimpsest of urban evolution."
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Editorial
Near the end of the baseball movie Bull Durham, a young pitcher played by Tim Robbins faces a horde of cameras and microphones and—after lessons by an older mentor in saying meaningless sound-bites like "I'm just happy to do my part for the ball club"—let's fly with aphorism after platitude.
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Exile on Jones Street
A few thousand wary eyes are peeled for what's in the set of changes to the operating rules of the N.C. House now under consideration.
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Religious Left
During his homily on Friday, Jan. 26, the Rev. Robert T. Schriber, of Garner's St. Mary Mother of the Church, said he came to mass with "a light heart" because the execution of Marcus Reymond Robinson did not happen earlier that morning.
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Front Porch
When my daughter started kindergarten, she didn't know anyone in her class. But within the first two days, she started talking about her new best friend, a cute little olive-skinned child.
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Sudoku Solution
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Giveaways
Win a FREE one-year premium membership valued at over $150!
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NEWS: In Response
The Jan. 17 issue of the Independent Weekly criticized UNC Health Care for its financial practices. The frustration with the cost of health care, who pays and how was evident.
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Spotlight
Exploris in downtown Raleigh debuts Mystic India, the latest IMAX extreme travelogue, in conjunction with India Day celebrations on Saturday, Feb. 3, during which a statue of Mahatma Gandhi—donated by the local Indian community—will be unveiled.
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Spotlight
You've got to give thanks: Dylan gave Guthrie his due. British blues gave its idols a new audience.
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Citizen
I must say that it's fun seeing a business guy with fire in his eyes for a public cause. Which is what I saw last week in Gregory Poole Sr., the moving force behind the group called the Dix Visionaries.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Haptickle Optrickery at Kings; Manchester Orchestra at Local 506; Across the Elementary, Sweater Weather at Nightlight; more...
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Best Bets
Rewind; Alice Gerrard at the ArtsCenter's American Roots Series; Superbowl XLI parties; WKNC's 4th Annual Double Barrel Benefit at Kings; CDS's 11th Annual Documentary Happening
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NEWS: In Response
An article in the Jan. 17 issue of the Independent asserted that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had lost sight of its mission and that our quest for quality was only about the rankings.
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Spotlight
In the time of the ancients, the great and powerful looked to the Oracle of Delphi, located on the slope of Mt. Parnassus, for wisdom on waging wars and other important policy decisions.
