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Music Feature
Jeff Weigand delved deep into the demimondes of indie rock and academia, found them both wanting, and moved to Vermont.
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Our guide to this week's shows
Harvey Milk, Pontiak, Jim Lauderdale, Waumiss, N.C. Sacred Harp Convention, Des Ark, Yardwork, The Rosewood Thieves, Turbo Fruits, Tapes 'n Tapes, John Howie Jr. and the Rosewood Bluff
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Album of the Month
Just as Soft Dick City feels spontaneous in its noise and spittle-lipped in its urgency, the subsequent Mt. Whatever 7" feels self-assured and somehow meticulous in its relative professionalism.
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Song of the Week
The twins talk
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Record Review
With Brighten the Corners producer Mitch Easter behind the boards, Shower ditches the lo-fi aesthetic of its predecessor, allowing gleaming guitars and harmonies to shine up front and not beneath layers of fuzz.
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Record Review
Comanche will either resuscitate his rep and become a hip-hop star around here or re-route his escape before his rap livelihood is demolished by his scene's disaffection.
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Record Review
Ward's tendency to float romanticism into his frustrations and his band's knack for simple but interesting arrangements allow Resist Not to transcend reductions pretty easily.
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Poetry Contest
From Wake Forest to Saxapahaw and points in between, Indy readers honed their writing implements and put their inchoate thoughts, feelings and impulses into alphanumeric characters.
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Theater
Contested wills
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Casual Observer
The presence of a Chelsea-style gallery with ties to the Nasher Museum and the New York, London, Miami, Barcelona and Cologne art worlds, as well as a focus on artists who often represented non-majority cultures, was an important part of Durham's emerging identity.
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Arts Feature
The conference will help inoculate poets from producing words "dropped careless on a Page," as the belle of Amherst put it.
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Dance
Behind the scenes, the conflict over performance space centers on a more pervasive issue: Raleigh's largest venues are now competing with Durham for the biggest touring acts.
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Food Feature
"Most of what we do is trying to understand that whole process and figuring out how to find an equitable way to pursue what we, as a student group, think the university needs to do."
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Now Serving
Plus: Cypress on the Hill now open; Watts Grocery hosts local food writer Kelly Alexander; European Espresso & Wine Cafe now open; Poole's Diner serving brunch
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If I Were You
The Independent deputized my midsize kitchen to serve as an official test site, and I cooked for three days straight. The entire meal was vegan, and no one knew it except for the cook (me), the host (my husband), the server and the photographer.
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If I Were You
"[Chefs] find the plant kingdom just full of endless possibilities. They're trained to think of color, texture and taste, and they say they get tired of cooking the animals, there's [only] so many ways you can cook them."
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If I Were You
All recipes are reprinted with permission from Great Chefs Cook Vegan by Linda Long (Gibbs-Smith, 2009)
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If I Were You
What to buy and how to make it through
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Film Review
Waltz is a documentary and a work of investigative journalism. It is also an animated curio with frequent bursts of expressionistic brilliance—I haven't been wowed by animation this much since I was a kid.
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calendar
Film times are good from Thursday, Feb. 26, through Friday, March 6
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Slide Shows
As the production methods of food become more centralized and invisible, we are losing the skills that make it possible to sustain ourselves.
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Durham County
Durham imposes no regulations on towing on private property.
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Wake County
The Neuse River Foundation is hosting a public meeting Thursday about PCB contamination at the Ward Transformer site, including an update on the cleanups.
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Durham County
A quarter of the city, including most of downtown, remains outside the protection of any water quality standards.
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Front Porch
Aimlessly and in slow motion I totter between my computer, the TV, painkillers, the couch and antibiotics.
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Gallery
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Peripheral Visions
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Living Green
A company called Citizenre plans to offer environment-conscious homeowners in the Triangle the opportunity to harness solar power without a huge front-end investment.
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Sudoku Solution
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Kroger Promotion: Recipe Ads
Make them yourself!
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8 Days a Week
David Hewson
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8 Days a Week
Tolstoy and Shakespeare: Masterworks in Motion; more
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8 Days a Week
The Band's Visit; more
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8 Days a Week
B.J. Novak; more
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8 Days a Week
Ben Kweller
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8 Days a Week
The Education of Shelby Knox
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8 Days a Week
"From James Joyce to Harry Potter and John Lennon"
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8 Days a Week
Black Lips
