AltWeeklies Wire
A 278-year-old error over the N.C.–S.C. border is riling residentsnew
Unceremoniously marked 278 years ago with a stone here or a notch on a tree there, King George's boundaries leave a portion of Fred Berlinger's Polk County home in South Carolina.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
05-09-2013 |
Environment
Tags: border
Renoir the painter and Renoir the filmmakernew
Renoir, a ravishing and sensuous imagining of one summer late in the life of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, makes the great painter's work matter again by putting an aging man's passions into an emotional and historical context.
Remembering Jamie Hahn, a positive force in a cynical timenew
Why would anyone want to...? There's never a good answer to questions like that.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
05-02-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: fund raising
After a year of tragedy and setback, comedian Tig Notaro returnsnew
Tig Notaro probably has the biggest balls of any comic working today.
Sustenance and survival: the story of Yamazushinew
No comparison, no competitor: Serving a grandiose eight-course Japanese tasting menu and seating only 10 diners per night, a meal at Yamazushi is unrivaled by any other restaurant in the area.
INDY Week |
Victoria Bouloubasis |
05-02-2013 |
Food+Drink
Some facts about offshore tax dodgersnew
The Internal Revenue Services' Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program offers incentives for taxpayers to disclose their secret foreign bank accounts.
INDY Week |
Staff |
05-02-2013 |
Policy Issues
Tags: taxes
The climate change movement is not resonating with the publicnew
Movement leaders are tailoring their message to what they perceive is possible in the Republican-dominated political atmosphere of Raleigh, rather than fighting for the dramatic policy changes that science demands.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
04-24-2013 |
Commentary
Claiming freedom is worth itnew
State lawmakers might want to govern like this is my grandmother's South, but they ought not forget how our grandmothers fought for freedom and taught us to fight for it too.
INDY Week |
Crystal Hayes |
04-24-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: gay marriage
A new dance adaptation of a Harlem Renaissance classicnew
Like Jean Toomer's book that inspired it, CANE is a hybrid, a mix of choreography, videography and experimental set design and sound.
A Compelling Tale of NYC Graffiti Artists in Gimme the Lootnew
For his very low-budget debut, writer/director Andre Leon makes a spirited teen comedy with predominantly minority characters, which is damn near amazing in itself.
Tags: graffiti, Gimme the Loot
Barren Girls' Hell Hymnsnew
This four-song debut EP, every bit a punk record, preserves a rookie band's steady first steps.
Three area programs deliver music (and more) to kids, in spite of threatened arts budgetsnew
The Chorus Project, Girls Rock NC and KidZNotes showcase the range of opportunities and impacts such arts programs can have.
Chris Tucker is alive and doing very wellnew
Tucker says the $12 million he owed in back taxes "connected me back with my audience. Because they can relate to that, because they got their own problems."
What to pair with Rieslingsnew
Kabinett? Spätlese? Ah, those confusing German wine labels. It's not as complicated as it seems, but if you're daunted by the nomenclature—and by sweet wines, generally—start out simple.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
04-10-2013 |
Food+Drink
10 years after the Iraq warnew
Too many funerals, too many families destroyed, too few happy homecomings.
