AltWeeklies Wire
N.C. Amendment 1 Opponents: "Our fight for fairness is not over."new
The Coalition to Protect all NC Families, which led the unsuccessful anti-Amendment 1 campaign, said "No One Wins Tonight in North Carolina."
Whit Stillman returns with Damsels in Distressnew
When Stillman's first film appeared in 1990, he was hailed as New York's WASP answer to Woody Allen. His movies reflect a conservative New England sensibility, of private schools, good manners, and unfashionable social and political opinions argued eloquently and amusingly.
Let Us Praise Nutmegnew
A shrine to the aromatic spice.
INDY Week |
Victoria Bouloubasis |
05-02-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Jonathan Nyberg, Nutmeg
In public school, blacks, Hispanics suspended at higher rates than whitesnew
Although the number of suspensions has declined in many Triangle school districts in the last 10 years, the racial disparities among suspension rates remain the same.
INDY Week |
Tiara Hodges |
04-26-2012 |
Race & Class
Crowd-Sourced Sex Ednew
There's danger when women are denied fundamental control over their own bodies. A century after Margaret Sanger's time, the continuing need for that reminder is evident all around us.
The Kid With a Bike is a moving tale from the great Dardenne brothersnew
While I'm grateful for any opportunity to see a film by les Dardennes, this latest makes me wonder if they've become risk-averse.
Where's Howard Clement?new
Sidelined by a publicly unidentified illness that limits his mobility, the Durham City Councilman has missed 20 meetings over 150 days, including key votes on the 751 South development, a public arts project and a resolution on fracking.
Tags: Howard Clement
Campaign finance reports show huge sums pouring into candidate coffersnew
Most of the Super PAC funds will roll in during the fall elections, but as we've seen in other states, Super PACs are starting to creep into our North Carolina primaries.
Sturgeon and Caviar Farming in Western N.C.new
La Paz farm in Caldwell County is the first of its kind in N.C. and only the fifth in the U.S. Sturgeon are being processed now, and the group expects to sell caviar by Christmas.
INDY Week |
Joe Schwartz |
04-20-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Caviar North Carolina, La Paz farm
Strikingly similar stories from Israel and Japan in Footnote and Jiro Dreams of Sushinew
One is a fiction feature from Israel; the other is a documentary about a Tokyo sushi chef. The dissimilarities end there. Both films feature an aging father and a middle-aged son, and both depict the lifelong obsession of the older man and the pitfalls of passing the torch to his heir.
Tags: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Ross McElwee talks his latest film, his Full Frame program and his sonnew
"Savor the experience of sitting in that dark room with other strangers and relating to a world that is not completely your own—in some ways, the opposite of Facebook."
INDY Week |
Craig D. Lindsey |
04-15-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
For Jesse Owens, What Happened After the Olympics Is Its Own Storynew
The son of Alabama sharecroppers and grandson of a slave, Jesse Owens won a record four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Five months later, he was racing a gelding for money on a dirt track in Cuba.
Polish film In Darkness Digs Deeper into WWII anti-Semitismnew
In Darkness is an unhappy portrait of humanity flailing about in the sewers, and things didn't get much worse than Poland and Ukraine in 1943: Virtually all of the 200,000 Jews in the vicinity of Lvov were annihilated.
The Devious, Dishonest Strategy of the National Organization for Marriagenew
One NOM memo outlined a "strategic goal ... to drive a wedge between gays and blacks—two key Democratic constituencies."
INDY Week |
Jonathan Weiler |
04-13-2012 |
Commentary
Health Care's Problems, and Possible Solutions, in Two Filmsnew
While we wait for the Supreme Court to declare whether the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, The Waiting Room and Escape Fire remind us that our health care system is an enormous scam and scandal of very long standing.
Tags: The Waiting Room
