AltWeeklies Wire
A note from the Durham County jailnew

I noticed there were letters on both sides—on the front a typed intake form from the jail, on the back a handwritten note in pencil—so I sifted the pieces from the dormant blades of grass and took them home.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
07-31-2013 |
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Tags: Durham County jail
Minding—and mining—the moonnew

How will a harvested moon affect our dreams, our breath and our poetry?
INDY Week |
Eva Hayward |
10-24-2012 |
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Blackbird singingnew
Harry Crews' oversized life was truly stranger than fiction, from brilliant writing to strange hobbies and everything in between.
INDY Week |
Memsy Price |
05-31-2012 |
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Tags: Harry Crews
The progressive interest in stylistically conservative musicnew

To call it apologetic would be reductive; to say that it's driven in part by the need to experience, understand and connect several once-forbidden dots seems closer to the essence.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
04-09-2012 |
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My two dadsnew

On May 8, we have a chance to set just one example of tolerance for our children. It's up to you.
INDY Week |
Kate Fellman |
04-05-2012 |
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Insane Clown Posse's Fan Reflectionnew

"We don't give a fuck if people understand it or not," says Violent J, or Joseph Bruce, from a California tour stop.
INDY Week |
Chris Parker |
10-12-2011 |
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Tags: Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos
Different Jobsnew
People rending their garments in such a way for the death of a celebrity seem all the more distasteful when real heroes die; and last week, hours before Steve Jobs passed, a real hero did die -- Fred Shuttlesworth.
INDY Week |
Vernal Coleman |
10-12-2011 |
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Tags: Steve Jobs, Fred Shuttlesworth
Hablar ... Hablaron ... Hablando ...new
My Spanish sentences have become bright beads of nouns strung together with weak chains of verbs, articles and prepositions.
INDY Week |
Susan Olson |
06-23-2011 |
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Tags: Spanish
City of Fallen Oaksnew
Raleigh is my town, and when my town is in trouble, I am in trouble.
INDY Week |
Abby Nardo |
04-21-2011 |
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Tags: Raleigh
Ballad of a Trucknew
Maybe it was time to get that new truck. It was a crisis of faith. When was the right time? How was I to know?
INDY Week |
John Valentine |
04-13-2011 |
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Tags: personal reflections, trucks
Cancer, Inc.new
"It's just business. They aren't ever going to cure it, but they'll treat us forever."
INDY Week |
Katja Hill |
10-26-2010 |
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Living Green: Organic Trash, Garden Treasurenew
Instead of tossing those tough asparagus stems or the seemingly endless mounds of pine straw, consider composting.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
05-03-2007 |
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We're All Ready to Put the Duke Lacrosse Case Behind Usnew
It would be nice if we could walk away from the questions that seem to grow exponentially from the case, but it exposed many deep nerves. And it revealed fundamental problems that will take even longer to fix -- assuming we try.
INDY Week |
Richard Hart |
04-26-2007 |
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Living Green: Get Reelnew
What's the greenest way to mow your lawn?
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
04-26-2007 |
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Smithfield's Messnew
There's an arc to the history of meatpacking in America.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
04-12-2007 |
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