AltWeeklies Wire
Yup, It's a Yep Roc Christmasnew
The debut Christmas compilation from Yep Roc Records successfully captures the range and fiery spirit of its label: Collecting new Christmas cuts from a dozen Yep Roc bands, Oh Santa! is alternately cranky or sentimental, thoughtful or whimsical and reverent or mischievous.
Dispirit of the Seasonnew
Michael Knight's slim volume The Holiday Season might make a good stocking stuffer for family members in need of escape and commiseration after the shrapnel of present-opening has settled, the eggnog has curdled and cabin fever has set in.
What Cooks and Waiters Wear, and Whynew
There's practicality, tradition and preference.
INDY Week |
Adam Sobsey |
12-13-2007 |
Food+Drink
UNC's Black Contractors Allege Biasnew
Pay for state construction projects bogs down in disputes.
INDY Week |
Mosi Secret |
12-13-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Is John Edwards On the Ropes?new
Now that Barack Obama has "O-Mentum" courtesy of Oprah Winfrey, and the Clintons are said to be squabbling over who's sinking Hillary's inevitability faster, she or he, the national press is 24/7 about HC versus O-b. JE does not compute. Inconveniently, however, Edwards continues to be a close third in Iowa polling.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
12-13-2007 |
Commentary
Hisham Mayet Travels the World Seeking Ecstasy in Soundnew
In what his label, Sublime Frequencies, calls "folk cinema," Mayet aims to capture the personal essence and rituals of cultures, from the Bori cult dance ceremony to the ancient mystical gatherings formed around centuries-old Moroccan trade caravans.
INDY Week |
Chris Toenes |
12-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hisham Mayet
Remembering Alt.country's Big 1996 Showcasenew
Please forgive this recollection, as it comes through the haze formed by many draft beers, a cloud of music-club cigarette smoke and near whiteout snow conditions that swept through North Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 3, 1996, the second day of the first Honky-Tonk-arama.
Tags: concerts
Verbal Landscapes of Durham Poet Tony Tostnew
These poems will not take readers gently by the hand and guide us from point A to point B. We are given breadcrumbs to follow and led deeper and deeper into the forest of Tost's language.
Karl Rove, in Haikunew
Karl Rove at Duke U.
plays defense blocking questions
regarding treason
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
12-06-2007 |
Commentary
Living Green: There's Nothing Like Lead for the Holidaysnew
Holiday caveat No. 1: Those twinkling lights you're stringing on the tree or around the windows can be hazardous to your health.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Energy Interests Fund Duke's Climate Change Researchnew
Duke Energy and ConocoPhillips have donated $3.5 million to Duke University's Climate Change Policy Partnership, and that financial support may have influenced academic research.
INDY Week |
Matt Saldana |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Hot Air Rises in North Carolinanew
State senator parades dubious "global warming experts" before commission.
INDY Week |
Mosi Secret |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
James Hansen Won't Be Quietnew
NASA scientist calls for 10-year moratorium on coal-fired power plants.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, environment
Reunited Blind Melon Reminisces About Its Time in Durhamnew
Guitarist Christopher Thorn remembers an idyllic winter in Durham the year before Blind Melon's debut album and its slightly psychedelic hit, "No Rain," made them famous.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
11-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blind Melon
A Nostalgic, Flawed Daniel Boone in Robert Morgan's Biographynew
Morgan fashions Daniel Boone not just as a legendary woodsman, but as a literary and philosophical ideal -- a naturalist -- living the life of Walden before Thoreau ever valorized such ideals.
INDY Week |
Jaimee Hills |
11-29-2007 |
Nonfiction
