- Photo by D.L. Anderson
- Homegrown City Farms
- Photo illustration by JP Trostle
- Issue of
- May 22-29, 2013
- Vol. 30, No. 21
- Grow our own: Rethinking how to pay for our food
Cover Story
-
How Carol Peppe Hewitt and Slow Money NC are raising funds for farmers, one loan at a time
Farming has many joys, but steady cash flow is not one of them. Slow Money NC's innovative lending system has helped arrange 80 loans to nearly 40 borrowers in North Carolina, including many names you'll recognize.
News
-
- Durham County
-
Liberty Warehouse's historic landmark designation removed; building to be sold and redeveloped
Durham's last standing tobacco auction warehouse is to be sold and redeveloped into a mixed-use site with commercial and residential space.
-
- News Briefs
-
A healthy dose of transparency in the price of health care
The Obama administration has taken a step in making hospital costs publicly available by creating a database of previously undisclosed charges and Medicare payments.
-
- North Carolina
-
Crowd size and arrest totals increase at latest Moral Monday protest
Roughly 600 people gathered outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh on Monday. The Moral Monday protests have now led to 153 arrests over four weeks.
-
- North Carolina
-
Parents and environmental activists concerned about sewage sludge fields near schools
Sewage sludge, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment process, is used as agricultural fertilizer across North Carolina. Activists say exposure causes headaches, nausea, respiratory problems, lesions and more.
- North Carolina
-
This week in disappointment: the budget, fracking again
The Senate's proposed budget cuts would close the 24-bed Wright School, cut funding for tobacco prevention programs, close three alcohol and drug abuse inpatient treatment centers, and defund the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. Plus, Senate Bill 76 would fuel our sprint toward fracking.
Music
-
- Music Feature
-
The unlikely and intersecting successes of The Old Ceremony and Haw River Ballroom
The Old Ceremony will play the second anniversary of Haw River Ballroom, reconnecting two great ideas—a ballroom in the country and a rock band with a dozen members—that have become unpredictable successes.
-
- Music Feature
-
How Southern metal supergroup Down earned that title
The dudes of New Orleans doom rock quintet Down have lived the hardscrabble lifestyle long enough to warrant the "super-" tag, and their past is essential to the success of their music.
-
- Music Feature
-
Within a widening gyre of genres, Chuck Johnson has discovered his artistic through-line
Over 20 years, Chuck Johnson has developed three discrete aspects of musical performance: experimental rock guitarist, analog electronics wizard, fingerstyle acoustic guitarist. His elemental through-line: emotion.
-
- Our guide to this week's shows
-
The week in music: May 22-29, 2013
10&2: a dozen gigs for your consideration
Food
-
- Food Feature
-
How Carol Peppe Hewitt and Slow Money NC are raising funds for farmers, one loan at a time
Farming has many joys, but steady cash flow is not one of them. Slow Money NC's innovative lending system has helped arrange 80 loans to nearly 40 borrowers in North Carolina, including many names you'll recognize.
-
- Food Feature
-
Lights, camera, eat! Favorite films about food
The gastro-cinematic canon, ranked by culinary interest and artistic merit, and five films to make a foodie shudder, in order of deplorability
-
- Food Feature
-
Carolina Crossroads Chef James Clark specializes in obscure fish
Clark has established a reputation for seeking out lesser-known but equally delicious and sustainable varieties that fishermen pull from the waters of the Carolina coast.
Arts
-
- Comedy
-
Finesse Mitchell got a taste of Saturday Night
"I am one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud, make-you-cry, make-you-pee-a-little-bit stand-up comics out there, and I can't wait for everybody to know it."
Film
-
- Film Beat
-
N.C. native Ramin Bahrani on At Any Price, the state of movies, and Roger Ebert's death
Ramin Bahrani, a Winston-Salem native, has charted an unlikely path to making a film with Zac Efron in the cornfields of Iowa.
-
- Film Review
-
Them Iowa boys mean business in At Any Price
Director Ramin Bahrani's stark farmland drama chronicles one family's moral decay among the amber waves of grain.
Columns
- Freedom's Daughter
-
A reality check on the Hallmark version of motherhood
Motherhood is the leading cause of poverty for single women. The problem is that we've come to accept this as the status quo when someone chooses to mother outside our cultural norm of marriage.
-
- Citizen
-
Public Schools First NC is sounding the alarm
North Carolina has dropped to 48th among the 50 states plus the District of Columbia in terms of our per-student support for K–12 public schools.
-
- Photo Journal
-
Morality Play
Scenes from Moral Monday
- Front Porch
-
Clear for departure
My father is 83 now, and his health is declining. In mid-April, my brother called: "You need to get up here now."
- Letters to the Editor
-
Re: The Legislature; climate change
"Thank you many times over for posting the week's N.C. legislative bills passed. Also for the statistics page. Both are very helpful in keeping abreast of the insanity of the radical Republicans in our state government."
Diversions
