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Live Review
This demographic (one that's as diverse as lower- to upper-middle-class white people can be) simply doesn't make genre distinctions.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Wolf Parade, The Ladybug Transistor, Countdown Quartet, Opening Flower Happy Bird, Dark Meat, Annuals, Valient Thorr, more
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Record Review
Adam Thorn and the Top Buttons; Steep Canyon Rangers; Jeff Rehnlund; Dan Bryk; ZEGG
- by Rick Cornell, Kathy Justice, Grayson Currin, Brian Howe and Rich Ivey
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Tags: Record Review, Audio
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Album of the Month
"Seems like we're trying to relive the past," offers Greensboro's (soon to be Carrboro's) Adam Thorn about halfway through his debut.
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Music Briefs
A new Carrboro music festival; A new statewide music magazine; More local label power
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Song of the Week
Dark Meat's acid-adventure deluge of sound is anything but tranquil.
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Music Feature
Daniel Hart, co-founder of the Chapel Hill collective Bu Hanan Records and leader of The Physics of Meaning, has been touring with St. Vincent since the beginning of July.
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On the Boards
Somewhere between the sassy Southern gossip of Steel Magnolias' beauty queens and the frank sexuality of Carrie and her Sex and the City pals sits Alan Ball's 1993 off-Broadway production, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.
- by Kathy Justice and Megan Stein
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Arts Feature
You might not know this, but there is a once-thriving counterculture being threatened with extinction in Raleigh right now.
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Reading
Cassandra's choices win her the love of a man and make her fall in love with a gritty North Carolina beach town whose pace never outruns Aunt May's beloved turtles.
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Now Serving
Hogs Gone Wild Day at Ray Price Harley-Davidson/ Buell, plus ACME and Chapel Hill Wine Company, ChathamArts' Potluck in a Pasture, and Bonne Soirée in Bon Appetit
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Food Chain
Though the dancing at the Touch Ultra Lounge inside Carmen's is in itself enough to draw a crowd, the food and drink don't hurt: They're fantastic.
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Food Chain
We've gone to the most seasoned navigators possible—chefs at local restaurants—and asked, "Where do you like to go out to eat on your night off?"
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Film Review
Like Knocked Up, much of Superbad's gross-out humor works because it's based in relatable moments of embarrassment and insecurity that surround a surprisingly conservative core.
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calendar
Movie times are good from Friday, August 17 through Thursday, August 23 except where noted.
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North Carolina
Before the 2007 General Assembly session recedes from memory, here's the good, the bad and the other outcomes on the bills Indy writers were following.
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News Feature
Despite rising national resentment toward immigrants—especially toward immigrants here illegally—the movement to help migrant workers is gaining momentum, and with a youthful edge.
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North Carolina
Between June 2005 and June 2007, Moeser took to the air for 48 business trips, an average of two a month, at a cost of more than $77,000 in taxpayer money.
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Q&A
Jim Lindley, Dave Sokal and Diane VandenBroek are members of the N.C. Grassroots Impeachment Movement (GRIM), which started in Carrboro in 2006.
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Living Green
In 1978, Lois Gibbs did the unthinkable: She took on a powerful chemical company and local, state and federal officials over Love Canal, a leaking former toxic waste dump near Niagara Falls, N.Y.
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Editorial
The Independent's task, whether in print or online, is to capture the political and cultural zeitgeist of the Triangle, and connect it to the larger world.
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If animals must be killed, let's kill them with kindness. —Peter MacQueen III
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The Monitor
Soft-spoken and politically moderate (despite his Bush ties), the Federal Communications Commission Chairman from North Carolina is a rising star in Washington.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Cool off with an orange melon smoothie!
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8 Days a Week
New Bern author Bill Benners at the Regulator Bookshop
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Spotlight
The acoustic guitar is deadweight, of course. Go ahead, songwriter, pick one up, and you'll have your handicap.
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Heroes & Zeros
North Carolina is the only state that has collected and made public the data from post-election audits of electronic voting machines.
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Spotlight
Yes, that's Wool E. Bull cheering on the Hulk in Durham Bulls blues to a home run.
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Citizen
Kane's pitch is akin to the folks who cut taxes for the rich so the rest of us would be better off.
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Spotlight
A hybrid of the underdog sports movie and the ecumenical patriotic rabble-rouser
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8 Days a Week
Local camp-horror classic Elvis' Grave at the Rialto Theater
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Spotlight
One word that probably doesn't pop into a lot of heads when thinking of folk songs is soulful.
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Spotlight
When reggae and punk butted natty dreads against spikes in England in the 1970s, the relationship ranged from contentious to passionate.
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8 Days a Week
Lump Art Benefit; Carolina Theatre Grand Reopening; Dexter Romweber with The Firecracker Jazz Band at Local 506
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8 Days a Week
A Prairie Home Companion at NCMA with Robin and Linda Williams; Kapow! Music and The Private Sea at Nightlight
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Spotlight
Adrian Belew was playing in a costumed cover band in Nashville when Frank Zappa discovered him in 1977.
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8 Days a Week
The Jaguar Club at The Cave; Traction's Salsa Doble at Parker & Otis
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8 Days a Week
Discussion of After Hannibal at Barnes & Noble
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8 Days a Week
Pleasing to the Eye at N.C. Museum of History; Open Mic Night at Internationalist Books
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8 Days a Week
Polynya and Waumiss at Nightlight; Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy's Ain't Misbehavin'
