Indy Week

When a bridge is more than a bridge

• by Adam Sobsey
R. Kelly Bryant Jr., whose name graces the new pedestrian bridge, is a forthcoming and valuable repository of history about Hayti, Durham's once-thriving historically black community.

The fire of Pride

• Tags: Gallery, Pinhook, The Pinhook

DOT to examine alternate routes for high-speed rail

• by Bob Geary
New "hybrid" routes sketched by residents and a city councilor may offer salvation not just for the rail project but for the much-maligned Capital Boulevard corridor as well.

N.C. ramps up for wind energy

• by Lisa Sorg
"If wind is to be a key element in North Carolina's long-term energy portfolio, it's time to develop the first offshore wind farm."
• Tags: North Carolina, energy

Cover Story

The next hot spot for drilling could be the N.C. coast

N.C. is central to MMS's proposed five-year leasing plan

• by Lisa Sorg
If the Minerals Management Service proceeds with its five-year leasing plan, then there could be offshore drilling in these waters for the first time in North Carolina history.
• Tags: North Carolina, energy, BP oil spill, Cover Story

N.C. breweries win at World Beer Cup

• by Julie Johnson
Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery captured a gold, while Outer Banks Brewing Station, Olde Hickory Brewery and Foothills Brewing Co. won silver.

Audio

Tift Merritt gets a second chance on her third album

City lights and Another Country

• by Grayson Currin
How getting dropped by a major label gave singer/songwriter Tift Merritt a second chance
• Tags: Music Feature, Audio

Tift Merritt reveals Raleigh photography show

• by Elizabeth Lilly
• Tags: News flashes, The Mahler, Raleigh, Tift Merritt

Tift Merritt's Buckingham Solo

(Vella Recordings)

• by Grayson Currin
Captured last November in a British church built with tawny stone in the 19th century, Merritt's second live recording restores the soft focus to her romantic songwriting and Southern-sundamaged voice.

George Washington Bridge

• by Jeremy M. Lange

The idyllic Beaufort Music Festival calls on Triangle bands

• by Spencer Griffith
One day and two nights of free music in a picturesque setting among a few hundred friendly folks—the Beaufort Music Festival is one of the state's best-kept secrets.

Readers' Choice 2007

Best of the Triangle

Hopscotch: Public Enemy, Panda Bear, Broken Social Scene to headline

• by Denise Prickett
Tickets go on sale Thursday, April 1
• Tags: You Should Do This, Hopscotch Music Festival

Sweepstakes cafes: coming to your low-income neighborhood

"$Money, Mo Money, Come on, Get it"

• by Lisa Sorg and Joe Schwartz
That these businesses are opening is less notable than where they're opening—many of them in low-income and/or minority neighborhoods.

'Canes go green and recycle talent

The most eco-friendly team in the NHL

• by Kate Shefte
Over the last several seasons in Raleigh, Hurricanes General Manager Jim Rutherford has shown a tendency to look to the past in order to bolster the team for the future.