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The Election Page
The most interesting debate recently is the one Jack Nichols, a Democratic candidate in state Senate District 16, is having with himself.
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The Election Page
Barack Obama supporters—and entrepreneurs—have taken to making their own merchandise and signs to capitalize on the fervor.
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Locavore Cooking
Maximizing meal options sometimes means razing expectations.
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Food Feature
Worms turn food waste into garden nutrients, saving landfill space
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
One of the festival's perennial highlights is its career award, which this year is being bestowed on pioneering African-American playwright and filmmaker William Greaves.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Indy staff and freelancers watched several dozen of the more than 60 films screening this weekend. Here are short capsules, sorted alphabetically within each day.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Trumbo was officially persona non grata at the Motion Picture Academy, due to his refusal to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee about his membership in the American Communist Party.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Brown is a native of Mobile, Ala., and it was to that Gulf Coast town that she returned to make Order of Myths, a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall look at the Western Hemisphere's oldest Mardi Gras celebration—or celebrations: one for the black community and one for the white.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
At the Death House Door is not about "the death penalty," but about how the death penalty creates more victims, including the surviving family of the condemned, the prison workers and finally, those charged with the duty of providing spiritual counseling.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Full Battle Rattle is a venture to the Mojave Desert where the U.S. Army maintains a battle training facility equipped with mock Iraqi villages and populated by actual Iraqi exiles playing civilians.
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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Who knew that Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins who gained fame as an attraction for P.T. Barnum's traveling circus during the early 19th century, eventually settled down and spent the final 35 years of their lives near Mt. Airy, N.C.?
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, April 3, through Friday, April 11
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Film Review
I was prepared to see Mick and the boys looking older, but the facial images in the verite opening of Scorsese's doc still stunned me.
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North Carolina
The federal government is proposing that state or local dollars should fund construction of the NBAF's utility plant.
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Peripheral Visions
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
We've been building schools like crazy to house these little rascals for the past 15 years, and now they're about to enter the job market. Cannon fodder will get right cheap shortly.
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Derek Jennings
You know that a piece of your humanity is being siphoned when your mind no longer challenges the premise of stories about how murders have increased by 11 percent over the same period of last year—as if last year's number was acceptable.
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Front Porch
"Now that she's met the important people, we'll start."
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Song of the Week
On throwaways, Chapel Hill and the good feelings good musicians get
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Music Feature
Aside from offering public performances of music that Dylan refuses to release, Fishman's take presents an important critical lesson about Dylan's past-into-present musical relationship with The Band.
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Our guide to this week's shows
The Dirtbombs, Howlin Rain, Vienna Teng vs. David Dondero, Pico Vs. Island Trees, more
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Record Review
If the bands at the core of Durham's still-rising music scene share one characteristic, it's this: They bear the personality of the people that form them.
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Album of the Month
CG&J's second full-length—and first for Durham imprint 307 Knox—isn't a breakthrough as much as it is a boiling distillation of the music they do best.
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Music Feature
Some industry experts argue that independent record stores could survive and even flourish if they expand inventory to include non-music product lines or reduce inventory to serve only niche markets.
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Music Feature
More chances for live music in Pittsboro with the Café's new 350-square-foot stage
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Arts Feature
You never know exactly when eternity is looking in on you through the pupil of a camera lens. Or what part of it is, for that matter.
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Reading
The book begins in Topsail Island, N.C., employing the language of math in its descriptions of the place: "Rocks are graphs/ Seeing is a perpetual axis."
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Sudoku Solution
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Interactive Crossword
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Giveaways
Win a pair of day passes to the music and dance festival April 17th-20th.
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Giveaways
The next show is Amadeus!
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Giveaways
The next show is Waltzes of Old Vienna!
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Matzah Ball Soup made easy!
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8 Days a Week
Finn Riggins at Nightlight; more
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8 Days a Week
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
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8 Days a Week
Leatherheads; more
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8 Days a Week
Sexual Perversity in Chicago; more
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8 Days a Week
Spring Awakening; more
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8 Days a Week
USA v. Al-Arian; more
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8 Days a Week
Kate Torgovnick
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8 Days a Week
Dinner with a Legend; more
