AltWeeklies Wire
What's fueling Obama's full-court press: Hope turns to fearnew
If the Obama campaign can turn out people who don't regularly make it to the polls, it may have discovered a strategy to rival the big money of Romney's Super PACs and television advertising.
GOP learns from its mistakes of 2008: New push in North Carolinanew
"If Republicans have expended less resources to win North Carolina, it's because they have a lower bar to clear to win it." — GOP strategist Dee Stewart
What Life is Like in Solitary Confinementnew
Solitary confinement is expensive, psychologically damaging and ineffective. So why do we use it?
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
11-01-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Solitary confinement
PlayMakers Rep's Imaginary Invalid: "Ain't that some shit!"new
Should you see Imaginary Invalid, gentle reader? The answer has a lot to do with how much crap you're willing to put up with—literally.
The instructive joy of artist-led labelsnew
Little labels started by musicians work because they understand the music industry and its oft-diminishing margins.
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 |
Commentary
Durham's affordable housing crisisnew
It would be hard to find a more pointed example of Durham's affordable housing crisis than the situation at Lincoln Apartments: In one week, 200 low-income residents will be evicted from their homes. None of the city's recent initiatives will immediately help them.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
10-24-2012 |
Housing & Development
Where cotton candy comes fromnew
In 1897, William James Morrison, former president of the Tennessee State Dental Association, co-created a machine capable of producing cottony strands of crystallized sugar.
INDY Week |
Emily Wallace |
10-17-2012 |
Food+Drink
Why it's vital to vote earlynew
Above all, early voting is crucial if there's a chance your right to vote will be obstructed or challenged at your polling place.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
10-17-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Early Voting
Conservative pastor advocates sitting out presidential electionnew
The Rev. Patrick Wooden of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh is asking his 3,000 congregants to abstain from voting for president because neither candidate, in his eyes, upholds the Christian values he espouses.
Life, death, and the consequences of executive decisionsnew
You might think we don't have ideal or even good choices. But that doesn't mean we lack clear ones.
INDY Week |
Jonathan Weiler |
10-15-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: decision-making
2 Days in New York is crazy from the heartnew
This friskier, wackier sequel to Julie Delpy's 2 Days in Paris finds her character now settled in the Big Apple with Chris Rock's journalist/radio host and their respective kids from other relationships.
Seven Psychopaths gleefully guts crime-movie tropesnew
The second feature from writer/ director/ playwright/ Anglo-Irishman Martin McDonagh continues in the same deconstructive, profanely funny vein he brought to his 2008 debut In Bruges.
Ben Affleck's directing career continues to impress with Argonew
In the final scenes of Argo I was literally on the edge of my seat, leaning forward. I can't remember the last time that's happened.
Are presidential homebrews a political edge?new
President James Madison proposed the creation of a national brewery and a cabinet position for a Secretary of Beer, which, sadly, never came to be.
INDY Week |
Julie Johnson |
10-04-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: White House Beer
