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SXSW
There are plenty of bands worth seeing in Texas, really
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SXSW
It's Wednesday afternoon. My body has been recoiling from South by Southwest since sometime Friday morning.
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SXSW
Thousands of big bags of swag are layed out in the Austin Convention Center to be passed out to SXSW festival participants. Yes, we got ours.
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Music Feature
When people talk about Mississippi being a whole other part of the world, they're talking about places like the Sardis Motel.
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Record Review
Blackwing Yalobusha
(Yep Roc Records)
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SXSW
Game Rebellion is not the best band in the world--by any stretch of the words "best," "band" or "world."
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Music Feature
Several things sound familiar about Clipse. Virginia Beach brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton—aka Pusha T and Malice—have experienced major-label ineptitude.
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Visual Art
This week, Durham's Nasher Museum of Art premieres Street Level, an exhibition of contemporary art featuring work from Los Angeles's Mark Bradford, Miami's William Cordova and Johannesburg's Robin Rhode that focuses on images of urban centers and city spaces.
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Lit Local
Declaring Indianness is just as much a part of black American culture as it is for the majority's, partly due to real intermixture: Some recent large-scale DNA testing suggests that today's African-Americans typically have 14 percent European and 3 percent native genetic material.
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Theater
A 20th anniversary dance concert and one last stage play in a shabby but venerable old theater before it closes for major renovations: If the victory lap was invented for anything, surely such occasions come near the top of the list.
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Now Serving
Restaurant and food happenings this week
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Food Chain
Wasabi is a rock in the firmament of Cary's cuisine scene. Four years old and serving both sushi and Thai delicacies at lunch and dinner, it has developed a loyal following.
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calendar
Our film calendar with times, special showings and brief reviews.
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Film Review
Gogol Ganguli is mortified by his first name, a mark of his Indian parents' eccentricity.
- by Laura Boyes, Neil Morris and Kathy Justice
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News Feature
Since the beginning of the year, The News & Observer has slowly implemented a series of shifts in editorial personnel and coverage.
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Durham County
Just as unexpected and unannounced as his disappearance, he has returned to what all seem to agree is his rightful place on Ninth Street in Durham.
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Q&A
... voted for timetable to get out of Iraq
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Wake County
Two Triangle legislators convened a public meeting last week about the ongoing failure of Progress Energy's Shearon Harris nuclear power plant to comply with federal fire safety regulations.
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Gallery
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"For all the accomplishments of Western society, there have also been downfalls, neither of which we should soon forget." —Andrew Williams
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Editorial
Whatever name it's going by these days, wiki or public or community journalism, the participation of our readers in reflecting the life and times of the Triangle has long been important to the Independent.
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Front Porch
It was the middle of my workday and I was running errands at lunchtime. I stopped by the drugstore to pick up a prescription, hoping to cross off one more "to do" item from my list.
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Living Green
If your yard looks like a lunar landscape, then you need trees. And the National Arbor Day Foundation wants to give them to you.
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Sudoku Solution
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We feel our stripped-down unorthodox instrumentation is a constant creative challenge. We can make a pretty big complex sound with just acoustic instruments, a stripped-down drum set with no kick, and a sax playing the bass line standing on a street corner. It's fun to accomplish that.
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Heroes & Zeros
It takes a lot of courage to fight cancer while living in the public eye.
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Spotlight
Triangle audiences nostalgic for the days of B-fright features can experience homegrown horror at its most bloody and barebones this Saturday during a screening of The Forever Dead at Raleigh's Volume 11 Tavern.
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8 Days a Week
Dorianne Laux; North Carolina Symphony
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Zork Asks
Please explain the operation of your sock markets. Why did you pick socks to be your medium of exchange?
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Spotlight
N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk: The Race Show combines poetry, stand-up, monologues and other storytelling techniques to tell the tales of three friends who happen to be black, Latino and Asian, as they discuss racism, stereotypes, and identity.
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MUSIC: Get Out
Red Collar, Chest Pains and Wigg Report at Bull City Headquarters; Giant Squid, Grayceon and Tooth at Reservoir; more
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8 Days a Week
Street Level; The Holy Mountain, Cross Laws, Portals
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8 Days a Week
Eyes to Space; March Madness!; Tennesee Williams
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8 Days a Week
Carolina Ballet; Tres Chicas; Ukranian Easter Eggs
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8 Days a Week
Menomena; April Fuel's Day; CD and Record Show
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8 Days a Week
Cirque du Soleil; Gibbons Ruark; Xiu Xiu, Shearwater
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8 Days a Week
The Decemberists; Alice Osborn, et al.
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8 Days a Week
Sebadoh; The Contender
