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The Election Page
For all its combativeness, the Republican National Convention failed to address the country's most fundamental issues.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Lurrie Bell, Redman, Sonny Landreth, Everclear, Donna the Buffalo, Toubab Krewe, Gray Young, The Bronzed Chorus, more
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Music Feature
Mac McCaughan collects two decades of Portastatic rarities on a new set: Is it the end?
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Song of the Week
Smaldone on the Balkans, atrocity and playing it cooler
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Five Words with...
Chadbourne has chased music down unexpected rabbit holes for the last 30 years.
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Record Review
An Arcadian construction of emotional wilderness hemmed by string sections, strummed acoustic guitars and underage gentility
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Music Feature
Berman, 41, has said he is speaking to a younger generation for the first time now.
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Music Feature
David Berman discusses why 11/7 was bigger than 9/11
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Fall Guide
This fall, will we see the fruits of area schools' investments in football?
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Fall Guide
This fall is a season of investment.
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Reading
"The Washington conservatives aim to make liberalism irrelevant not by debating but by erasing it."
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Theater
Little Green Pig's The Island; Ghost & Spice's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
- by Byron Woods and Kate Dobbs Ariail
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Reading
The World Without Us speaks not for the left or for the right but for a humanistic, post-partisan, even post-national vision of collective action in the face of environmental crisis.
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Now Serving
Judy Wicks lectures at CEFS this week, plus: Panzanella hosts final farm dinner of the year; Castle Rock Gardens hosts Potluck in a Pasture; harvest grapes at Benjamin Vineyards; Dish It Up fundraiser
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Film Review
A phone call, a car, a gun or a hatchet will be wielded, as paranoia inevitably intersects with delusion.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Sept. 11, through Friday, Sept. 19
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Film Review
Can it be coincidence that Akin, perhaps the most acclaimed director to emerge from Europe in this decade, is an artist whose background spans the two cultures that lie closest to the gaping fault line separating the West and Islam?
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Slide Shows
In the nation's basketball hotbed, enthusiasm is growing about football, of all things.
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Durham County
"He understood that he didn't have enough capital to build the place himself—but [he hoped] that a black man could be the lead in recreating a signature building in downtown Durham as a follow-up to the historical Black Wall Street."
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Wake County
The motion to approve a $560,893 grant to nonprofit CASA to build the affordable-housing project was tabled after an emotional public hearing.
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Durham County
Former News & Record features editor Carla Bagley found dead on tracks
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Durham County
After two years of discussion and debate, ordinance outlaws dog tethering in Durham County beginning in 2010.
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Letters to the Editor
This conversation is long overdue and just getting started.
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Peripheral Visions
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Front Porch
We camped in a rural Louisiana barn without power or running water, caring for 200 homeless dogs and cats evacuated from two New Orleans animal shelters.
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Gallery
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Letters to the Editor
In the end, the Independent has established that Lozoff is a human being rich with the flaws, complexity and magnificent possibility that we all share.
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Sudoku Solution
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Wine Beat
History has shown that dry-farmed wines are ultimately the best, as the vines must struggle to find water and sustenance in the mineral-laden soils.
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8 Days a Week
In the Continuum
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8 Days a Week
Robert Parkins; more
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8 Days a Week
Early '90s Dance Party; more
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8 Days a Week
The Prisoner's Dilemma
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8 Days a Week
Tamera Mulanix and Rita Spina
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8 Days a Week
Sera Cahoone, Sam Champion
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8 Days a Week
Tussle, Black Congo NC; more
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8 Days a Week
Kenosha Kid; more
