• Issue Archive for
  • Sep 24 - Oct 1, 2008
  • Vol. 25, No. 39

Elections

  • Swamped Wake commissioner looks for dry land

    Wake County Commissioner Kenn Gardner is treading in deep water because of recent revelations about his conduct in the Cary swimming pool wars of 2004-05.

Food

Film

  • Hankies in Rodanthe
  • Hankies in Rodanthe

    Ah, so this is what North Carolina's coast looks like on film.

News

  • Iraqi journalist Ahmed Fadaam
  • Iraqi journalist Ahmed Fadaam

    Ahmed Fadaam, an Iraqi artist and professor, began his award-winning journalism career in 2003 translating for Dick Gordon's The Story on WUNC.
  • Orange still studying ban on dog tethering
  • Orange still studying ban on dog tethering

    Orange County Commissioners raised more questions about the implementation of a proposed ban on dog tethering Monday night, at a work session in which they examined the plan for the first time since delaying a vote in June.
  • Finally free
  • Finally free

    Last Friday afternoon, Erick Daniels walked out of the Durham County Jail into the sunshine, threw up his arms and screamed, "I'm free."

Columns

  • Re: Global warming and Moving Midway

    Indeed, our society is in systemic dysfunction over the pace of climate change, largely due to well-orchestrated confusion sown by energy companies

Music

  • Spread music forever
  • Spread music forever

    Come the Freak On, a reunion festival born out of early-'90s Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla. bedrooms that produced many skewed pop songs, comes to Chapel Hill for the first time ever this weekend.
  • The High and Mighties
  • The High and Mighties

    Like every other group currently commercializing a pop reduction of reggae, Chapel Hill band The High and Mighties cites Bob Marley as its forefather.
  • Transportation
  • Transportation

    "The past is never dead," William Faulkner famously wrote. "It's not even past." So it is with Transportation's long-awaited Daydreams.
  • Waumiss
  • Waumiss

    The European version of The Kingsbury Manx's 2005 EP, Afternoon Owls, included two remixes by producer (and Wilco keyboardist) Mikael Jorgensen, which made the songs seem adrift in time, harking back to Pink Floyd-era sounds even as the music plunged headlong into the future.
  • Pity for Black Kids
  • Pity for Black Kids

    The Internet is a filterless radio, and bands like Black Kids don't stand to win

Arts

  • Change (of clothes) we need
  • Change (of clothes) we need

    At New York's Fashion Week, the industry picked up on this election season's themes of race and gender.

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

Ye Olde Archives

  • Friday 9.26
  • Friday 9.26

    Conversation with Dash Shaw and Gary Panter; more

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