AltWeeklies Wire
Connecting the Dots on Americans for Prosperitynew
The right-wing group Americans for Prosperity protested financial reform advocates, the Center for Responsible Lending, in Durham last week. Now the Indy untangles AFP's web of conservative cohorts.
INDY Week |
Samiha Khanna and Lisa Sorg |
04-29-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: AFP, Americans for Prosperity
Crescent City Rising: David Simon Takes on Post-Katrina New Orleansnew
How will critics, bloggers and discriminating fans judge Treme, coming from the creators of The Wire, which some of us consider the greatest TV drama of all time?
Tags: David Simon
Lost Boy of Sudan Makes North Carolina Homenew
Mariak Chuor of Sudan finds a new life—and vocation as an author—in Garner, NC.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
04-01-2010 |
International
From Chile, a Toast 'A La Vida'new
"A la vida," says my small circle of friends, raising our cups of wine and pausing. The window behind me frames the jagged drop of one of the famous hills of Valparaíso, Chile, congested with vertically stacked tin houses and a fairy-tale web of streetlights.
Communities Go Gaga for Google's Fibernew
It was just a month ago when Google announced it was looking to partner with a U.S. city to launch its newest project. But already, several hundred communities have set their sights on securing a partnership.
The Static Minds' 'Rich Girl Blues'new
Here, on the debut 7" from Raleigh quartet The Static Minds, there are two. A-side reasoning: She's too busy being rich and, memorably put, "dying in her own bad taste." B-side reasoning: She's too busy being a bore.
Tags: Rich Girl Blues, The Static Minds
Wake County Goes to Hellnew
Del Burns' abrupt resignation as Wake County's superintendent of schools made things clear: The county is in crisis. The Wake school system, lauded as among the best in the nation, is in mortal danger from the newly elected school board majority and its right-wing backers.
People with Eating Disorders Can't Get Adequate Health Insurance Coveragenew
Unlike schizophrenia, depression and other mental illnesses, eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia are not often covered by health insurance. People are exhausting their life savings for treatment — or dying from a lack of it.
INDY Week |
Rebekah L. Cowell |
02-25-2010 |
Policy Issues
Sweepstakes Cafes: A Rip-Off Coming to Your Low-Income Neighborhoodnew
Since a state law passed last year created the loopholes, sweepstakes cafes have flourished throughout North Carolina. Yet that these businesses are opening is less notable than where they're opening—many of them in low-income and/or minority neighborhoods where people have little to spend and a lot to lose
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg and Joe Schwartz |
02-25-2010 |
Policy Issues
Chef David Chang of Momofuku Muses on Eating Everythingnew
From pork-heavy menus to rock-heavy soundtracks, from spare plywood interiors to "no VIP" online reservations, New York chef and restaurateur David Chang has developed a reputation as a nonconformist. He also has a tendency to drop F-bombs in conversation.
INDY Week |
Jane Hobson Snyder |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
CHAT Festival Ponders the Mix of Arts, Technologies and Humanitiesnew
With the advent of multiplatform, multigenre phenomena like the blockbuster film Avatar, the long-perceived boundaries between technology, arts and science are starting to crumble.
Tags: CHAT Festival, technology
Rush Radio: Truth is False and Logic Lostnew
If you're a card-carrying liberal, you may rightly be asking yourself: Isn't there enough conservative radio in the area already? Why isn't there equal counterprogramming of progressive talk across the radio band? And does it even matter that there isn't?
An Interview with Larry Flynt About Free Speechnew
Larry Flynt spoke as part of a two-day symposium on the First Amendment sponsored by the First Amendment Law Review of the UNC School of Law. The Indy caught up with Flynt by telephone last week.
The Secret World of Day Laborersnew
Day laborers are among the most exploited and vulnerable workers in the American economic system, yet they perform some of the most necessary — and dirty — jobs. Dick Reavis, a veteran journalist, chronicles his experiences working as a 62-year-old day laborer.
Tags: Dick J. Reavis, Catching Out
The Final Days of Tolstoy in 'The Last Station'new
In The Last Station, Tolstoy's ideology and less attractive character traits are downplayed in favor of a more universal, digestible historical period piece.
