• Issue Archive for
  • Nov 25 - Dec 2, 2009
  • Vol. 26, No. 47

Music

  • Jon Shain
  • Jon Shain

    On bluegrass, blues, ballads and whatever else the Durham songwriter will (and won't) blend
  • The guide to the week's concerts
  • The guide to the week's concerts

    Future Islands, Gray Young, Thad Cockrell, Dave Rawlings Machine, Tiny Concept, Jay Reatard, Bob Margolin, Hobex, Acoustic Syndicate, ExMonkeys

Special Issues

  • 2009 Citizen Awards
  • 2009 Citizen Awards

    This year's winners are tackling some of the most difficult issues of the 21st century: crime, energy policy, racial justice, housing and health care reform.
  • Chase Foster
  • Chase Foster

    It was parody, of course, though, as Foster says, a lot of people didn't get it right away—and when they did, some didn't appreciate being the butt of the Billionaires' humor.
  • Judy Kincaid
  • Judy Kincaid

    As the executive director of Clean Energy Durham, Kincaid works to teach people on the most micro level—person by person, block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood—about sustainability and energy efficiency.
  • Michelle Cotton Laws
  • Michelle Cotton Laws

    While others may see a near-utopian, liberal and accepting Chapel Hill, Laws sees a town where minorities work low-wage jobs, can't afford to live in their historic, increasingly gentrified neighborhoods and are being left behind in the classroom.
  • Robert Dowling
  • Robert Dowling

    "For my tenure as mayor, whenever developers have come in to talk to me about a project, I've said to each one, 'Make sure that Robert Dowling is standing there advocating for the affordable housing component of your project, or don't bother.'"
  • Then and now: DeWarren Langley
  • Then and now: DeWarren Langley

    In 2001, the Indy honored DeWarren Langley as a Citizen Award winner for founding a nonprofit group that gave teenagers an advisory role with elected officials of the city, county and school district.

Arts

  • Jason Polan's <i>Please Trust Me</i> at Lump Gallery
  • Jason Polan's Please Trust Me at Lump Gallery

    The surprise here is that the show is dominated by photocopied reproductions, rather than the spunky little drawings for which the artist has become known.

Food

  • New, expanded and coming-soon restaurants

    New: Party In A Pita and TeaGschwendner. Expanding: Guglhupf and Bocci Italian Trattoria & Pizzeria. Coming Soon: Kildare's Irish Pub.

Film

News

  • Health care reform: Better than you think
  • Health care reform: Better than you think

    Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. That's the message from Adam Searing, director of the N.C. Justice Center's Health Access Coalition.

Columns

  • Dad, Inc.

    Coming to terms with these roles—weekday professional, weekend father—has been challenging, especially since my relationship with my own father has long been a very distant one.
  • Clean Energy Industry Growth Forum
  • Clean Energy Industry Growth Forum

    The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory sponsored this three-day forum to showcase clean-energy industry and business developments.

Diversions

Free Stuff & Promos

  • Apple Pie!
  • Apple Pie!

    Gluten-Free Apple Pie!

Ye Olde Archives

  • Sunday 11.29
  • Sunday 11.29

    The Queers, The Leftovers, The Malamondos; more

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