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Party at the Cartridge Family's Padnew
On Shine Like a Bottle, you'll be attending a pair of parties, both with a Replacements undercurrent.
A.C. Bushnell's Battlenew
How a battle with liver cancer gave a fiddler something to sing about.
INDY Week |
Ruth Eckles |
11-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: A.C. Bushnell
There's Troika; Where's 305?new
Troika Music Festival advances without 305 South, the venue that hosted the two biggest shows of last year.
Tags: concerts
Day Action Band on the Family Lifenew
On Wives & Babies, Matt and Nate O'Keefe sing largely about long workdays and kids in car seats and finding happiness at home. Not groundbreaking, no?
Tags: Day Action Band, Wives & Babies
Josh Ritter on Crosswords, Inspiration and Toll Boothsnew
On Ritter's latest release, The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, "The Temptation of Adam" claims Most Ambitious cut.
INDY Week |
Rick Cornell |
11-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Urban Chickensnew
Chapel Hill native Greg Bell began his foray into urban poultry as a peeved neighbor.
INDY Week |
Suzanne Nelson |
11-01-2007 |
Food+Drink
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe Face Off -- Sort ofnew
Is it not unavoidably frustrating in a movie when the two main antagonists almost never see each other?
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
Jeanne M. Leiby Debuts with her Childhood Detroitnew
One thing Downriver, the debut short story collection by Jeanne M. Leiby, will certainly not make you want to do is to move south of Detroit, the setting of most of her stories.
The Ghost and Squirrel Nut Zippersnew
Remembering a haunted recording session in New Orleans.
INDY Week |
Tom Maxwell |
11-01-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Squirrel Nut Zippers
'Crawl Inside Your Head' Roams Geek Turfnew
SNMNMNM's quirk-and-chorus has long had a wide appeal. This record won't change that.
Tags: Crawl Inside Your Head, SNMNMNM
Little Brother Has Something to Provenew
On Getback, Big Pooh and Phonte hint at apology, balancing newly nuanced social- and self-criticism.
Tags: Getback, Little Brother
MV & EE Brings Rock Back Homenew
For more than a decade, Matt Valentine and Erika Elder have concocted a loose, sprawling amalgam of folk, country and avant-garde rock.
INDY Week |
Marc Masters |
10-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gettin' Gone, MV & EE
John Edwards Watch: The Money Gamenew
Edwards has "substantially closed the cash gap" merely by opting into the public financing system.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
10-25-2007 |
Commentary
Burmese Refugees Working for Democracynew
Soe Naing hid in a jungle along the Burma-Thailand border after the military killed hundreds of peaceful protesters in 1988, and eventually ended up in North Carolina. The same military junta recently lashed out against Buddhist monks and pro-democracy demonstrators.
INDY Week |
Charles Duncan |
10-25-2007 |
International
Tags: Burma, international
Smithfield Foods Sues Unionnew
The $6 million civil racketeering suit alleges the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union has engaged in "extortionate and unlawful conduct" in its attempts to organize Smithfield's hog slaughter plant.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
10-25-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
