AltWeeklies Wire
Election shows impact of redistricting and why voting-rights groups are suingnew
Even though North Carolinians split their 2012 votes almost evenly between the parties, far fewer Democrats were elected than Republicans. Voting-rights groups are pointing to the results to press their case that the 2011 redistricting maps should be thrown out.
Tags: redistricting
Will N.C. State basketball return to its glory days?new
The Wolfpack's disappearance from the upper echelon of ACC basketball has been long, painful and in some ways surprising. Now, as the 2012–13 season gets under way, the world seems to have turned again.
Silver Linings Playbook is more than a rom-comnew
The most surprising thing about Silver Linings Playbook is how relentlessly funny it is. The laughs arise with organic force, triggering that slightly out-of-control quality that manifests in genuine fits of hysteria.
Positive hatenew
With the election finally over, friends and families can stop arguing over politics and return to stoking a far more beloved partisan divide: UNC vs. Duke.
8 early researchers into the JFK assassinationnew
Although many were professional investigators, photo analysts, pathologists, journalists, historians or lawyers, most approached the assassination not as a vocation but as an avocation.
Morality at the fiscal cliff: A fairer way to taxnew
Obama's proposal is a small price to pay to avoid the fiscal cliff, with its multiple tax hikes for everyone and deep cuts in federal spending.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-15-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Erskine Bowles, Fiscal Cliff
Daniel Day-Lewis ends slavery in Lincolnnew
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln accomplishes the seemingly irreconcilable feat of humanizing Abraham Lincoln while preserving his mythology.
13 documents you should read about the JFK assassinationnew
A staggering 6 million documents have been released under the JFK Records Act, as well as mountains of independent research.
Tags: JFK assassination
A hardworking redneck rapper like Yelawolf can't get nowherenew
On his own, Yelawolf crossed into the realms of pop, R&B and party music just fine. But when Eminem unveiled the first single from Yelawolf's debut on Shady Records, the album that followed was a mixed bag of half-baked attempts at branching out.
INDY Week |
Brandon Soderberg |
11-14-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yelawolf
Traditional America? It's Over.new
While Obama and his supporters celebrate his surprisingly comfortable win, the reality of governing amid undiminished acrimony will soon rear its head.
INDY Week |
Jonathan Weiler |
11-14-2012 |
Commentary
Documenting The Other Dream Team, from Lithuanianew
What was little understood in the aftermath of the U.S. basketball team's defeat at the 1988 Olympics was that the top players on the winning Soviet team were not Russian, but Lithuanian.
In Wake County, European election observers critique the processnew
Election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they saw a process that lived up to America's voting laws, but they had harsher criticisms for the impact of outside spending and our two-party system.
What went wrong for North Carolina's Democrats?new
The Republicans' 2010 victory—which happened as a national census ensured newly drawn voting districts, coupled with the windfall of campaign donations that bolster incumbents—struck a mortal blow to this year's crop of Democrats.
Tags: NC Democratic Party
My first vote as a U.S. citizennew
Prior to this year, I had never felt like my living here, but not voting, mattered in a presidential election. But it does now.
What Election 2012 means for womennew
Is "war on women" too hyperbolic? Call it a war on women's equality, then. Or call it a war on working people's equality, because women are the ground troops in an economic fight that all working Americans are losing.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-07-2012 |
Commentary
