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New Adventures in Sciencenew
Genetic testing for a particular condition is at best predictive -- but there are weighty privacy issues.
Tags: Health & Science
Schoolkids Records in Chapel Hill to Closenew
Schoolkids Records music stores have been in most major college towns on the East Coast. The chain started in 1972 in Athens, Ga., and the Chapel Hill store, now at its third location on East Franklin Street, opened in 1975.
The Pride of Kinston, NCnew
On the tour kick-off, Parker filled the 1,000-seat room with people he grew up with, their children and grandchildren, and folks who've simply read about him in the Kinston Free Press as the local hero who's spent the last four decades touring alongside James Brown, George Clinton and Prince.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
02-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Maceo Parker
The Stars of Track & Fieldnew
Increasing rent forces the Carrboro studio out.
Lives Lived in Light and Shadownew
In North Carolina, a sister and brother, one undocumented, one legal, live starkly different lives.
INDY Week |
Remy Scalza |
02-28-2008 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
'Across the Lines' Shares Stories from the Not-So-Distant Pastnew
Barry Jacobs gives us a timely, spellbinding account of the racial integration of men's basketball in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference between the mid-1960s and early 1970s.
INDY Week |
Thad Williamson |
02-22-2008 |
Nonfiction
Down by Avalon: Simple, Precise Popnew
Frontman Alan Martin considers life and love with energy inherited from singers like Van Morrison, Ray Davies and Paul McCartney.
Tags: Down by Avalon
Dom Casual Moves Past Homagenew
On the band's latest, Espanta Muerto, they've created a fully-formed, rich-sounding, original testament to their touchstones.
Tags: Dom Casual, Espanta Muerto
The Mountain Goats Flex Their Rangenew
Heretic Pride isn't the band's best record by a Bethesda mile. But, perhaps more than any other, it is uniquely capable of articulating what they do so well.
Tags: Heretic Pride, The Mountain Goats
Five Words with Henry Rollinsnew
Sticking it to the man is still acceptable.
INDY Week |
Rich Ivey |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Henry Rollins
Cuba's Destinynew
Regardless of who leads Cuba, the embargo must go; that alone will help uplift the Cuban people.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
02-21-2008 |
Commentary
Tags: Cuba
Durham City Council Still Drags Feet on Droughtnew
North Carolina's drought book-ended the City Council's agenda Monday, and as usual, little was accomplished.
INDY Week |
Cat Warren |
02-21-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment, drought
Edwards Donors Fill Obama's Coffersnew
John Edwards' biggest contributors in North Carolina have transferred support to Barack Obama, including Edwards' former environmental adviser and his former law partner.
Lamenting the Fading of Black Historynew
One of the more startling revelations of Charles Cobb Jr.'s On the Road to Freedom, out last month from Algonquin Books, is just how rapidly the physical history of the Civil Rights movement is withering before our eyes.
INDY Week |
Gerry Canavan |
02-14-2008 |
Nonfiction
Edie Sedgwick is Deadnew
But empty celebrity is alive and well. Often donning full drag, Justin Moyer uses the poor little rich girl persona to address how we understand celebrity and as a vehicle for the empty celebration of decadence and fame.
INDY Week |
Robbie Mackey |
02-14-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
