• Issue Archive for
  • Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2008
  • Vol. 25, No. 9

Food

  • How FLO can you go?
  • How FLO can you go?

    In October, a group of UNC students formed Fair, Local, Organic Food (FLO Food). The acronym represents the three basic pillars of sustainability: benefiting the economy, people and the environment.

Arts

  • Excellence in photojournalism at the Ackland Art Museum
  • Excellence in photojournalism at the Ackland Art Museum

    Picturing the World, representing only a tiny fragment of the important photojournalism available to those who seek it out, makes clear the potential power that the still image could have in shaping our global understanding.
  • Will Ferrell goes for the hole
  • Will Ferrell goes for the hole

    Ferrell regaled the packed house at the Dean Smith Center with UNC/ Duke jokes, including a show-stopping bit with UNC men's basketball coach Roy Williams.

Music

  • Simple

    Smoak wrote the album's songs while recovering from a broken hip that necessitated his departure from North Elementary.
  • The stars of Track & Field
  • The stars of Track & Field

    A few dozen bands have rehearsed at Track & Field hallway since 2003. Hundreds of EPs, LPs and demos have been recorded here. But now it's almost over.

Film

Multimedia

News

  • Theresa O'Toole
  • Theresa O'Toole

    O'Toole says she didn't know anyone else at the Great White show that night, but since then, she's come to know many of them.
  • Competing agendas threaten transit planning
  • Competing agendas threaten transit planning

    As STAC attempts to wrap up its work this spring, pushback from Wake County officials threatens to undermine the regional vision for public transit that the group has spent nine months crafting.
  • Durham Performing Arts Center announces its inaugural season
  • Durham Performing Arts Center announces its inaugural season

    "Defying Gravity," a song from Wicked, could have been a message to skeptics of the theater's potential. "It's time to trust my instincts/ Close my eyes, and leap! ... think I'll try defying gravity, and you can't pull me down!"
  • STAND broadens view of genocide

    A national grassroots organization, STAND gathered at UNC-Chapel Hill last weekend to learn more about genocide throughout the world, as well as how best to raise the issue in the political arena.
  • Durham police employee downloads child porn, leaves job, faces no charges

    As the Durham coordinator of a federal anti-gun violence program, Robert Faggart reaching out to clergy and other citizens to help solve crimes. But when he was off the clock, Faggart admitted to interviewers during the process of applying to be a police officer, he downloaded child pornography.

Columns

  • Black artist/ white imagination
  • Black artist/ white imagination

    At a time when a black man is the first person of color to have a viable chance of becoming a presidential nominee, whites spontaneously report the negative stereotypes of African-American men.
  • Indy garners seven awards

    This week, the N.C. Press Association honors the best of the state's media, and the Indy is among them, winning seven awards—including four first-place finishes.
  • WMDs are in Fantasyland

    If you were to assume that Rebecca Cerese condoned the beheadings and other atrocities that are happening in that area, then you are the one living in Fantasyland.
  • Thanks to Hal Crowther

    Never underestimate the power of a large number of stupid people acting together.
  • The Goat flyer wasn't news

    I am offended, not by the absurdity and ignorance that was reported, but that it was reported.
  • Support public workers

    The current ban on collective bargaining affects more than 600,000 public employees and their families.
  • Gluten-free dining also a challenge

    Not to downplay the vegetarian's ethical dilemma, but finding gluten-free food is truly an issue of health or serious illness for people with gluten sensitivity.

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • Dr. Ralph Stanley brings his "high lonesome" sound
  • Dr. Ralph Stanley brings his "high lonesome" sound

    Clawhammer-style banjo player, bandleader and high tenor Ralph Stanley, now 79, is as dedicated to traditional mountain music now as he was when he first started playing it as a boy in his hilly southwest corner of Virginia.
  • Thursday 2.28
  • Thursday 2.28

    Helvetica at School of Communications Arts; more
  • Sunday 3.02
  • Sunday 3.02

    Blue Cheer at Downtown Event Center; more
  • Monday 3.03
  • Monday 3.03

    Curtains of Night at The Cave; more
  • Tuesday 3.04
  • Tuesday 3.04

    Peter Gomes at First Presbyterian Church; more

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