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https://indyweek.com/news/voices/drawn-out-the-protege/ | Support independent local journalism. Join the INDY Press Club to help us keep fearless watchdog reporting and essential arts and culture coverage viable in the Triangle.
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https://indyweek.com/news/what-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-triangle/ | There are sunny days ahead this weekend, but come Saturday night, most North Carolinians will be inside. As the NCAA tournament draws to a close, people in the Triangle are only thinking about one thing—the semifinal game between longtime rivals Duke and UNC.
This year marks the first time ever the two college basketba... | true | true | both | indyweek | 20220401 |
https://indyweek.com/news/longform/sunday-reading-origin-theories/ | In an absolutely wild story published this week, Vanity Fair contributor Katherine Eban follows Peter Daszak, the president of the nonprofit non-governmental organization EcoHealth Alliance, and the group's risky (albeit government-sponsored) work in the United States and China studying how to identify viruses that cou... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220403 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/volunteers-work-with-ukraine-refugees/ | Eduard and Liliya Chernous of Asheville spent several weeks in March working with Ukraine refugees in Eastern Europe locations like this facility in Poland. | Photo courtesy of Eduard Chernous
Less than two weeks after Russian forces opened fire on Ukraine, Liliya Chernous was on a flight from North Carolina to Poland.... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220404 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/nccu-professor-chosen-to-research-nina-smith/ | A Durham professor will join a team of scholars tasked with providing national leadership and research on how to best serve African American children and their families.
Nina Smith, an associate professor of human sciences at N.C. Central University, was selected to provide research for the newly-established National A... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220405 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/postpartum-medicaid-expansion-extended-for-pregnant-people/ | This story originally published online at NC Health News.
Postpartum Medicaid will be extended from 60 days after birth to one year starting today, as a provision included in last year’s state budget comes into effect.
The provision allows pregnant people at or below 196 percent of the federal poverty guidelines—about ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220405 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/page/megan-mayhew-bergman-story-collection-review/ | Book cover and photo of Megan Mayhew Bergman by Nina Subin
Megan Mayhew Bergman readings | Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh | Wednesday, Apr. 6, 7 p.m. | Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill | Thursday, Apr. 7, 5:30 p.m.
Only one of the stories in Megan Mayhew Bergman’s new short story collection, How Strange a Season, takes place in ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/page/david-sedaris-happy-go-lucky-review/ | David Sedaris: Happy-Go-Lucky | Little, Brown and Company; May 31, 2022
North Carolinians—or at least those of us who enjoy seeing our state through the twisted lens of Sedarian humor—may rejoice: David Sedaris’s latest essay collection, Happy-Go-Lucky, has much more of the Old North State in it.
Happy-Go-Lucky starts ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/screen/ten-films-full-frame-2022/ | A still from 'What We Leave Behind' | Photo courtesy of Full Frame Documentary Festival
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | Thursday, Apr. 7–Sunday, Apr. 10, 2022
Due to the perpetual bummer that is COVID-19, the 25th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is being held online again this year, April 7-10. But d... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/features/acme-strike-carrboro/ | On a Sunday in late February, as diners were beginning to warm up again to indoor dining and most restaurants were celebrating one of their busiest weekends in two years, Acme Food & Beverage Co. turned 24 years old to the tune of a silent, empty dining room.
The Carrboro restaurant’s birthday came three days after its... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/music/reviews/the-dead-tongues-dust-review/ | The Dead Tongues: Dust | ★★★★ | Psychic Hotline; Apr. 1
For over a decade, Ryan Gustafson has been crafting affectionate roots rock, sharing deeply personal lyrics with a mystical folk hue. Gustafson’s work with The Dead Tongues has become a reliable source of entrancing tunes, and while sometimes formulaic, it’s a for... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/15-minutes/15-minutes-musician-john-foley/ | John Foley | Courtesy Photo
How do you feel like your approach to music and the industry has changed and adapted throughout the pandemic?
I haven’t been playing live shows since COVID started. The plan was to move to a bigger city right as COVID hit and then that obviously changed everything. I shifted to Twitch on New... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/backtalk-indy-role-creating-nimbyism/ | Two weeks ago for print, Jasmine Gallup wrote about how the Triangle’s housing crisis, in Orange County specifically, is displacing residents as landlords increase rents. Reader Rob LaVelle suggests we here at the INDY take a look at our own culpability in contributing to the Triangle’s housing crisis over the years. L... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-development-tree-canopy/ | Donna Frederick | Photo by Brett Villena
Donna Frederick has lived in her dark brick home in the Colonial Village subdivision for nearly 20 years.
Frederick retired last year after owning and operating the now-closed Playhouse Toy Store on Ninth Street after more than a dozen years. She enjoys puttering around in the w... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/shotspotter-draws-mixed-views-at-durham-council/ | More than 1,900 shooting incidents have taken place in Durham since the start of 2020.
They’ve left more than 650 wounded and nearly 90 dead.
“Folks are asking for help,” said council member Leonardo Williams at a recent Durham City Council meeting. “They’re saying, ‘Just do something more, please.’”
That “something mo... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/nc-iraqi-students-exchange/ | Volunteers work to rebuild the University of Mosul’s Central Library. The library reopened in February after ISIS fighters destroyed it in 2015. | Photo Courtesy of UNC Media Hub
A couple of years ago, University of Mosul student Nora Al Jadoue wanted to leave Iraq. At the same time, UNC sophomore Eden Yousif wasn’t su... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/photo-series-season-finale/ | In a historic matchup, UNC’s men’s basketball team toppled its archrival Duke in the NCAA tournament’s Final Four game in New Orleans on Saturday night. As is their custom—and with the days of COVID anxiety largely behind them—elated students and fans flooded Chapel Hill’s Franklin Street for pole climbing, fireworks, ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/rushing-franklin-street-2022/ | On Saturday night, I found myself rushing Franklin Street for the first time.
I’ve never run to Franklin Street before, much less late at night with a stomach full of strawberry and mango margaritas.
If I’m being honest, I’ve never found sports to be extraordinarily riveting, but my roommate decided to host a watch par... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/wake/ncsu-womens-basketball-gender-disparity/ | Graphic by Jon Fuller
It’s overtime. Six seconds left on the clock. The NC State University women’s basketball team trails Connecticut by three points. That’s when forward Jakia Brown-Turner made her move.
With a clean pass from senior guard Raina Perez, Brown-Turner got a good look at the basket, and she didn’t waste ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220406 |
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/documents-show-new-details-in-sweeping-faculty-investigation/ | This story originally published online at NC Policy Watch.
A UNC-Chapel Hill investigation of its own faculty was much wider and deeper than previously disclosed, according to new documents released under state open records law .
Documents released last week show the probe went beyond reading faculty members’ emails to... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220407 |
https://indyweek.com/news/wake/raleigh-residents-keep-the-pressure-on-for-property-tax-relief/ | More than 100 Raleigh residents turned out at the Wake County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday to ask officials for relief from skyrocketing property taxes.
The cohort were all members of ONE Wake, a grassroots community group calling for a program that offers payments to people who have owned their homes for at l... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220407 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/page/2021-whiting-recipients-named/ | Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Ina Cariño | Photo courtesy of Broadside PR
In a Wednesday night ceremony in New York City, the Whiting Foundation announced the honorees of its 2022 Whiting Award, which is presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Awards are $50,000, one of the most... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220408 |
https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/stone-brothers-moves-locations/ | George Davis has owned and managed of Stone Brothers & Byrd since 1976 | Photo by Milena Ozernova — The 9th Street Journal
Step inside, and you’ll feel like you’ve been teleported back to the 1920s.
Racks of fertilizer and seed line the aisles. An assortment of gardening hats lies directly in front of the entrance. Ste... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220408 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/state-lawmakers-allocation-of-11-million-to-trosa-is-raising-questions/ | TROSA’s on-campus auto body workshop. Advocates, researchers, and some former employees and participants of TROSA say the program uses an outdated model that takes advantage of participants by making them work without pay. Photo credit: Taylor Knopf
This story originally published online at NC Health News in partnershi... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220408 |
https://indyweek.com/news/voices/time-will-tell-a-story-rodney-king-officers-acquittal-30-years/ | Thirty years ago this month the city of Los Angeles went up in flames after a jury acquitted three police officers of criminal charges for the beating of Rodney King one year before.
When I watched that brutal police assault on television with my mother, she told me about a brutal attack her father had endured at the h... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220408 |
https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/news/starbucks-fires-raleigh-worker-unionizing/ | The Midtown East Starbucks in Raleigh. | Photo by Brett Villena
On February 13, while washing dishes in the back room of the Raleigh Starbucks she works at, Sharon Gilman says that the three-compartment sink separated from the wall, falling toward her. She stepped backward and called for her shift supervisor. The two d... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220411 |
https://indyweek.com/guides/best-of-the-triangle/bott-2022-final-voting-begins/ | Congratulations to over 1,000 local businesses and people who have been nominated by the community as the "Best of the Triangle!" The final round of voting begins today through May 8. The top four vote-getters (plus ties) made it to the final multiple choice ballot. Take 10 minutes to support your favorite dives, healt... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220411 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/four-people-killed-11-wounded-in-three-days-of-gun-violence-/ | Durham’s elected officials, law enforcement leaders, activists, and others have deployed an array of resources that aims to stop gun violence.
The past weekend was disheartening.
Police say 11 people were shot and four died between Thursday afternoon and Saturday night.
The gunfire started Thursday at about 4:30 p.m., ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220412 |
https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/durham-school-of-the-arts-may-move-to-northern-durham/ | Photos of Durham School of the Arts by Milena Ozernova
Durham School of the Arts is grappling with the choice between holding onto history and beginning a new era.
The arts magnet school, a fixture in downtown Durham since 1995, has been a source of pride in Durham for years. Now it may be relocating to a new campus in... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220412 |
https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/upgrades-to-durham-bulls-athletics-park-will-exceed-%2410-million/ | Photo of Durham Bulls Athletic Park by Henry Haggart — The 9th Street Journal
When the City of Durham was asked to spend twice as much as expected to make improvements to Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the result was never really in question. But that didn’t keep the council from debating the question when it met on Monda... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220412 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/standing-their-ground-outside-of-the-abortion-clinic/ | The restaurant parking lot where Pro-Life advocates stand. All photos by Kathryn Osygus.
This story was originally published by UNC Media Hub.
On this Saturday, two groups of people stand watch in the 20-space parking lot of a Japanese steakhouse, each staking out their own territory.
When a car pulls in, often with a ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220412 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-state-of-the-county-address-fair-housing-month/ | In the annual State of the County address Monday night, Durham County Board of Commissioners chair Brenda Howerton foregrounded the silver linings of the COVID-19 pandemic and laid out a plan to expand funding to transit, broadband, and crime reduction initiatives.
For the first time in three years, the address was del... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/why-nc-legislators-are-arguing-a-legal-theory-democracy/ | Senate leader Phil Berger (left) and House Speaker Tim Moore field questions at a 2015 press conference. | Photo by Carolina Public Press
This story originally published online at Carolina Public Press.
House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, tried out a legal t... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/art/helen-frankenthaler-nasher/ | Helen Frankenthaler working on “Venice II” (1969-72) with Bill Goldston at Universal Limited ArtEditions (ULAE), West Islip, NY, March 1972 | Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Archives, New York
Helen Frankenthaler: Un Poco Más (A Little More) | Through Sunday, Aug. 28
The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham
Walking into the Nas... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/features/for-margaret-szewczyk-opening-up-a-european-bakery-is-a-drea/ | Margaret Szewcyzk | Photo by Brett Villena
Chef Chick’s Bakery | 2500 Meridian Pkwy Suite 135, Durham | Opening summer 2022
Stepping into Margaret Szewczyk’s kitchen, the unmistakable smell of pastry and baked butter hangs in the air. A hint of sweetness follows—sugar and apricot. All of a sudden, the baker’s townhouse... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/music/features/kate-rhudy-dream-rooms/ | Kate Rhudy | Photo by Brett Villena
Dream Rooms release show | Friday, Apr. 22, 6 p.m., $20 | Rose Garden, Raleigh
One afternoon in 2017, the singer-songwriter Kate Rhudy met Mipso’s Joseph Terrell for lunch at Jade Palace, a decorating book called Dream Rooms for Real People in tow. Earlier that day, Rhudy—who’d just ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/music/features/triangle-first-django-haskins-afraid-of-love/ | For years, the versatile singer-songwriter Django Haskins—also known for his work fronting The Old Ceremony—has been playing "Afraid of Love" at his sets; until recently, though, the song never made it onto any of his albums. (Which are many: Just this spring alone, he's released both Beforetimes 1 and Beforetimes 2; y... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/backtalk-gentrification-PR-firm/ | a group of Wake County residents from the housing justice coalition ONE Wake who are putting pressure on the Wake County Board of Commissioners to provide some sort of property tax relief as the Triangle becomes increasingly unaffordable for renters and longtime homeowners. Reader Iain Burnett has some thoughts on thes... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/hayti-reborn-update-council-41322/ | Fayette Place in Durham's Hayti district | Photo by D.L. Anderson
Earlier this year, the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) rejected a visionary plan to develop a residential, educational, and commercial hub near downtown Durham known as Hayti Reborn. Last week, the director of the group behind that effort asked the Durham... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/teardowns-durham-facebook-group-housing/ | The South Bank building downtown is among many Durham buildings undergoing demolition to make way for new construction. | Photo by Milena Ozernova/9th Street Journal
Addy Cozart’s first post to The Teardowns of Durham Facebook group features a series of emoji: angry, sad, crying.
“My block @ Hillsborough and Rutherford... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/news/wake/raleigh-senate-showdown/ | Lisa Grafstein (left) and Patrick Buffkin| Courtesy photos
The newly drawn state senate District 13, which spans North Raleigh from the inner beltline up to Durant Road, is a mixed bag.
On the west side, it’s a wooded suburban paradise, filled with towering oaks and homes sitting on almost an acre of land. Moving east,... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220413 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/you-can-go-home-again-dha-chief-assures-mcdougald-terrace-residents/ | The chief executive officer of the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) said this week that his agency will meet with residents of the city’s oldest public housing complex to discuss its fate and what it could mean for them in the future.
DHA CEO Anthony Scott offered reassurances that a recovery agreement that the agency ha... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220414 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/covid-19-cases-are-predicted-to-increase-in-nc-wastewater/ | This story originally published online at NC Policy Watch.
Another increase in COVID-19 cases is expected in North Carolina, but it’s predicted to be not as big as the wave of infections that filled hospitals last winter, state health officials told legislators Tuesday.
Susan Gale Perry, state Department of Health and ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220414 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/state-schools-superintendent-largely-ignores-reccomendations-for-parents-advisory-commision/ | This story originally published online at NC Policy Watch.
At the end of March, Every Child NC, a community-led, statewide coalition of organizations, parents, teachers, and students who advocate for every child’s constitutional right to a sound, basic education, sent a letter to state schools Superintendent Catherine ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220414 |
https://indyweek.com/news/things-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-triangle-41422/ | It’s not summer yet, which means luckily there’s still a chance to enjoy the outdoors before it’s boiling hot. Learn about Raleigh raptors, take your kids on an Easter egg hunt at the animal park, or sit back and listen to some live music at the Carolina Brewery.
Raptors, owls, and hawks, oh my! If you’re a fan of bird... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220414 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-man-charged-in-shootings-killed-wounded-teens/ | Durham police over the week charged a 21-year-old man with a disturbing, end-of-year mass shooting that killed two teens and wounded four juveniles between the ages of 17 and 12.
Members of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department’s Violent Crime Impact Teen took Keon Rayquan Beal into custody on Saturday, acc... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220415 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/its-time-to-register-to-vote/ | May 17 isn't the date most people think of when they hear the words "Election Day," but it's still an important time this year to cast your vote.
This spring's primary includes dozens of contenders in both parties for local, state, and federal offices. The Democratic field is particularly crowded, with some young, prog... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220416 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/study-north-carolina-smokers-would-quit-cigarettes-for-some-money/ | My friend Braima Moiwai last week returned from a three-month visit to his tiny village home in Sierra Leone, West Africa.
“Yes,” he calmly answered while sitting on my porch before lighting the last cigarette in his box of American Spirits, when asked if he would stop smoking for $7,900. “Just give me the money first.... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220416 |
https://indyweek.com/news/longform/sunday-reading-mackenzie-fierceton/ | During my senior year of high school, a college admissions counselor presented my class with a rundown on Common App essay clichés.
Don’t give a summary of your accomplishments—that’s what your resume is for. Avoid discussing your parents’ divorce or your grandmother’s death. That time you tore your ACL before the big ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220417 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/etc/price-is-right-live-religious-experience/ | Photo by Lena Geller.
On Good Friday, crowds flocked to the church of DPAC, mourned the loss of their Lord and savior, Bob Barker, and prayed for the chance to win a brand new car.
It was the Price is Right Live!, and it was a religious experience.
The staged production is based on the televised game show that airs wee... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220418 |
https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/op-ed-tax-day/ | North Carolinians across the state are feeling the squeeze of rising costs, my family included, but Democrats are working hard to lower costs, make necessities like health care more affordable, and build an economy that bolsters the middle class. On Tax Day this year, I can’t help but wonder why Republicans are calling... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220418 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections-nc/durham-health-director-covid-update-raleigh-mayor-baldwin-tests-positive/ | In a one-hour webinar Monday afternoon, Durham County Health director Rodney Jenkins reflected on the county’s successes in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and answered viewers’ inquiries about the potential reinstatement of a county-wide mask mandate.
The webinar came as the highly transmissible BA.2 variant fuels an... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220419 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/nc-congressional-candidates-fill-coffers-with-own-money/ | This story originally published online at NC Policy Watch.
For prominent candidates in the 13th Congressional district, campaign fundraising has meant a lot of pitching in of their own money.
Some candidates have loaned their campaigns significantly more than they’ve raised from supporters.
The new district is consider... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220419 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/durham-health-director-covid-update-raleigh-mayor-baldwin-tests-positive/ | In a one-hour webinar Monday afternoon, Durham County Health director Rodney Jenkins reflected on the county’s successes in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and answered viewers’ inquiries about the potential reinstatement of a county-wide mask mandate.
The webinar came as the highly transmissible BA.2 variant fuels an... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/art/sto-len-shadow-assembly-peel-gallery/ | The artist sTo Len at Peel Gallery | Photo courtesy of the subject
sTo Len: Shadow Assembly of the Haw | Through May 1, free | Peel Gallery, Carrboro
Usually, the Queens-based artist sTo Len picks up his own trash—and lots of other people’s, too. You’d expect no less from the New York Department of Sanitation’s officia... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/page/treva-b-lindsey-america-goddam-rofhiwa-cafe/ | Lindsay B. Treva and her new book | Photos courtesy of the subject
In 1964, performing in front of a mostly all-white crowd, North Carolina native Nina Simone released what would be known as one of her first protest anthems: “Mississippi Goddam.” Disturbed by the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama in 1963 th... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/features/moonbelly-meat-co-anna-gibala/ | Butcher Anna Gibala at work | Photo by Brett Villena
Moonbelly Meat Co. | moonbellymeatco@gmail.com
Anna Gibala was 11 years old when her dad pulled off the highway and told a police officer to shoot a deer in the head.
For context: the deer had just been hit by a car, and the officer, called to the scene of the accide... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/music/features/2022-hip-hop-south-festival/ | Regina N. Bradley and Christopher Massenburg in conversation | Photo courtesy of Rohwifa Book Café
Regina N. Bradley and Christopher Massenburg started talking about their vision for a Southern hip-hop festival in 2016 when they were both Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellows at Harvard. But while what became the Hip Hop South Fe... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/15-minutes/15-minutes-crystal-cavalier-44/ | Photo by Brett Villena
Tell me a little bit about yourself.
I'm an enrolled citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation here in Alamance County. There's a big Native American presence here (in Alamance, Orange, and Caswell counties). We’ve been here for 400 years. District Four is the land of my ancestors, so r... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/backtalk-onewake-housing/ | Last week, reader Iain Burnett emailed us to say that gentrification isn’t necessarily a bad thing and criticized housing justice coalition ONE Wake for lobbying the Wake County Commission to create a grant to support homeowners at risk of displacement. On behalf of ONE Wake, Fr. Jemonde Taylor of St. Ambrose Episcopal... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/dps-gop-stealth-slate/ | Last month, the Durham-based partisan science data firm EQV Analytics published a report entitled "Can the GOP Take Over Blue Durham County’s Board of Education? (They’re Betting On It)."
Days later, INDY staffers began receiving emails expressing alarm about what’s being referred to as the “Better Board, Better School... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/how-elon-musk-and-his-trolls-attacked-a-duke-professor-on-twitter/ | Missy Cummings, courtesy of Duke University; Elon Musk, from Wikimedia Commons.
It is not unusual for Tesla CEO Elon Musk to tweet 30 times a day. Twitter is his marketing platform, his customer service hub, and, unfortunately for his opponents, his battleground. (And now, he is seeking to buy it.)
Last October, Musk u... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/op-ed-legalizing-cannabis-42022/ | Right now, as readers pick up a copy of this column, there are students at UNC and Duke who are smoking or otherwise consuming cannabis with little fear of repercussions.
Meanwhile, all over North Carolina, Black and brown users of the exact same drug are being arrested and convicted at over twice the rate of their whi... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/wake/wake-sheriffs-primary-race-2022/ | Ten candidates. When there are 10 candidates in a political race, you know something is wrong. It’s only when people are clamoring for change—a shift in policy or leadership—that 10 people throw their hats in the ring.
The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has been in flux for the last several years, ever since Democrat Ger... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-school-board-candidate-says-influential-durham-political-groups-infiltrated/ | Red-baiting emerged in the Bull City on April Fool’s Day.
It’s a helluva accusation that would make ol’ Joe McCarthy proud: communists in the Bull City are secretly working to overthrow democracy.
That’s the reason a lifelong Durham resident and county school board candidate alluded to this month when he announced he w... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/orange-county-register-of-deeds-election/ | These days, when a real person sets foot into the Orange County register of deeds office, Mark Chilton’s heart skips a beat.
Providing residents with hands-on assistance in searching for records is one of his favorite parts of the job. Since the onset of the pandemic, more than 90 percent of the office’s transactions h... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/news/wake/raleigh-residents-concerned-about-growth-community-engagement/ | As the Raleigh City Council election approaches in November, local activist group Livable Raleigh commissioned the left-leaning local research group Public Policy Polling to survey residents on issues including growth, affordable housing, and community engagement.
The group—led in part by former city council members St... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220420 |
https://indyweek.com/guides/festival-guide/festival-events-directory-2022/ | After a long two years, our masks are coming off and festivals are back. There's a lot planned: from music festivals to food and wine festivals, art festivals, film festivals, Pride festivals, beer festivals, strawberry picking festivals—you name it. Browse our exhaustive listing below (or download a copy) to see what'... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220421 |
https://indyweek.com/news/Letters-to-the-Editor/op-ed-primary-determines-future-for-orange-county-students/ | Carrie Doyle serves on the Orange County school board and is not currently running for reelection. This piece reflects her personal opinion and not the opinion of the OCS Board of Education
In the upcoming May election, four of the seven seats are up for the Orange County Schools Board of Education; this election will ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220421 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/why-are-sheriffs-deputies-from-alamance-county-patrolling-durham/ | A bullet pierced the windshield of an unmarked police car patrolling public housing in Durham on the night of April 9, flying straight through to the back window and shattering it, photos show.
What remained was more than shards of glass. Questions about the investigation and the officers in the vehicle arose following... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220421 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durham-mayor-oneal-state-of-city-address/ | Durham Mayor Elaine O’Neal encouraged city and county residents to volunteer with the city’s boards, commissions, and community-based organizations on behalf of a “city in crisis” still recovering from a global pandemic and unprecedented gun violence.
O’Neal, while delivering her first "State Of The City" address three... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220422 |
https://indyweek.com/news/durham/durhams-harriet-tubman-ywca-will-be-renovated-for-affordabl/ | Photo by Caitlin Penna
The former Harriet Tubman YWCA
Change is coming to the historic Harriet Tubman YWCA.
On Monday, Durham community members accepted a $1 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to restore and renovate the historic location into affordable housing.
The center will be renov... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220422 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/things-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-triangle-042222/ | Teach our next generation about the power of renewable energy with a free all-day science festival at the Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill. Kids will have the chance to explore electricity and conductive materials, build a water turbine, learn how solar power works, and play with the museum's wind tunnel. The fam... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220422 |
https://indyweek.com/news/longform/sunday-reading-a-i-and-the-fragmentation-of-everything/ | This week’s Sunday Reading is a technology-themed two-parter.
The first piece, out last week on The Atlantic from social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, offers a bleak chronicle of the social media age and its role in dividing our country; the second, a recent New York Times Magazine article from contributor Steven Johnso... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220424 |
https://indyweek.com/news/ninth-street-journal/nearly-100-firearms-turned-in-at-gun-buy-back-event/ | Firearms of all sorts were collected at Durham’s recent gun buy-back event. Photo by Sophie Horst — The 9th Street Journal
On a recent Saturday, nearly 100 shotguns, handguns, and assault rifles of all shapes and sizes were unloaded from police vehicles outside of the Durham County Detention Facility.
Some were rusty m... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220426 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/fighting-the-stigma-getting-mental-health-support-to-first-responders/ | Graphic by Makayla Williams.
This story originally published online at UNC Media Hub.
Police officer Bradley Evans drove down Highway 55 in Cary, North Carolina, but he wasn’t paying much attention to the road. He was thinking about killing himself.
He was thinking about vivid scenes of police officers being shot, part... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220426 |
https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/nc-afl-cio-endorses-beasley-other-democrats/ | The state’s largest association of unions, which represents more than 100,000 workers and fights for their rights, has endorsed Cheri Beasley for U.S. Senate.
The North Carolina AFL-CIO endorsed 72 candidates, including Beasley, who they say will fight for working people. Beasley is one of six union members running for... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220426 |
https://indyweek.com/news/wake/march-to-the-polls-one-wake-cary-town-council/ | In a precursor to next month's local election on May 17, candidates for the Cary Town Council are coming together Thursday to talk about what they're willing to do to solve the area's affordable housing crisis.
ONE Wake, a grassroots community group advocating for the creation of a local housing fund in the town, is or... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220426 |
https://indyweek.com/culture/etc/arcane-carolinas-podcast/ | From left: Arcane Carolinas hosts Charlie Mewshawand Michael G. Williams | Photo by Andre Watson
It’s fitting to meet the duo behind Arcane Carolinas at the heart of a cemetery.
Surrounding our makeshift interview location are grand graying obelisks, headstones dating as far back as the early 1800s, and humble monument... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/features/bad-oven-a-cary-micro-bakery/ | Peanut Dela Cruz with Bad Oven baked goods | Photo by Brett Villena
In parking lots across the Triangle, you’ll find Peanut Dela Cruz warmly greeting customers. Some regulars have, by now, become friends; other shop customers are first-timers. All, however, receive beaming smiles and hugs as the Cary baker hands out ba... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/food-and-drink/features/med-deli-profile/ | Jamil Kadoura at the Med Deli counter | Photo by Brett Villena
In Palestine, Jamil Kadoura would not be called Jamil. Traditionally, once a Palestinian man has a son, he is usually called by his son’s name, with the prefix “Abu,” which translates to “father of.” Jamil and his wife, Angela, have three children: two daug... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/music/features/triangle-first-nightblooms/ | Sam Logan of Nightblooms | Photo by Reed Benjamin
Lilac Shadows first debuted in 2013, an "ominous shoegaze" quartet fronted by Sam Logan. Since then, the psych-rock band has made on-and-off appearances, finding no shortage of ominous material with a news cycle saturated by Trump (and everything that has followed since... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2022-primary-endorsements-durham-county/ | Durham District Attorney: Satana Deberry
When Durham voters first elected Satana Deberry in 2019, she was often cited as part of a group of reformist DAs from across the country, including Rachael Rollins in Boston and Larry Krasner in Philadelphia. Deberry cited Krasner as a model, someone who argued that a system bor... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2022-primary-endorsements-nc-house-and-senate/ | NC Senate District 13: Lisa Grafstein (D)
Grafstein and Patrick Buffkin (her opponent in the primary) and are both qualified candidates and agree on many of the big-ticket progressive priorities championed by Democrats in the NC General Assembly: expanding Medicaid, funding the Leandro mandate, investing in renewable e... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2022-primary-endorsements-orange-county/ | Orange/Chatham County District Attorney: Jeff Nieman and Kayley Taber (D)
Read Nieman’s candidate questionnaire here and Taber's questionnaire here.
Jeff Nieman and Kayley Taber have a lot in common. Both have worked for the Orange/Chatham District Attorney’s office for many years. Both differ from their predecessor, J... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2022-primary-endorsements-wake-county/ | Wake County District Attorney: Damon Chetson
We like incumbent Lorrin Freeman. She is an honest, even-tempered, forthright public servant who takes the work of her office seriously. She is transparent with the media and is clearly guided by a worldview that shapes her moral and ethical approach to the job. Additionally... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/2022-primary-endorsements/ | Welcome to the INDY's 2022 primary endorsements!
Here you'll find our recommendations in 29 races covering the US House and Senate, the state legislature, sheriffs, judges, district attorneys, town council and county board of commissioners candidates, and more. It's a lot, and for some of these races, we couldn't pick ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-ashley-wheeler-orange-county-board-of-education/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Ashley Wheeler
Age: 44
Party affiliation: Democrat
Campaign website: ashleywheelerforoc.org
Occupation & employer: registered nurse, Duke University Health System
Years lived in the area: 35 years
1. In 300 words or less, please give us—and our readers—your elevator pitch: Why are you ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-jeff-nieman-district-attorney-orange/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Jeff Nieman
Campaign website: www.jeffnieman.com
Years lived in Orange/Chatham County: 40 years, since I was 5
1. What do you believe are the most important issues facing the District Attorney’s Office? What are your top three priorities in addressing these issues?
I believe that syste... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-kayley-taber-orange-chatham-da/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Kayley Taber
Campaign website: KayleyTaber.com
Years lived in Orange/Chatham County: I have worked in the Orange/Chatham District Attorney’s office for 23 years. I previously lived in Orange County for about 5 years, in addition to that residency, I commuted to Orange County for an add... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-nida-allam-primary-2022/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Nida Allam
Age: 28
Party affiliation: Democrat
Campaign website: nidaallam.com
Occupation & employer: Durham County Commissioner
Years lived in North Carolina: 23
1. What are your primary concerns for the State of North Carolina?
Our district is facing several overlapping crises becaus... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-sarah-smylie-orange-county-schools/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Sarah Smylie
Age: 45
Party affiliation: Democrat
Campaign website: www.sarahsmylie.org
Occupation & employer: Talent management advisor to non-profits (self-employed)
Years lived in the area: 13
1. In 300 words or less, please give us—and our readers—your elevator pitch: Why are you ru... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/district-37-democratic-primary-candidates-2022/ | Thirty-five years ago, Holly Springs was a sleepy farming community. According to local lore, cows used to cross Sunset Lake Road twice a day. Today, however, that once rural two-lane road is set to expand into a four-lane thoroughfare, one of the many changes wrought by the town’s population boom.
In the past decade, ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/district-56-primary-2022-allen-buansi-and-jonah-garson/ | In Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough, local political activists often say the primary elections are more impactful than the midterms.
This year, in Orange County, that’s never been truer.
It’s common knowledge that Democrats outnumber Republicans so vastly that whoever wins the Democratic primary is almost guaran... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/endorsements-us-house-and-senate-primary-2022/ | U.S. Senate: Cheri Beasley (D)
Thirty-four US Senate seats are up for grabs in November’s general election; fewer than 10 are considered competitive. One is the seat left open with the pending retirement of Republican Senator Richard Burr, which makes the question of which candidate to choose in the Democratic primary ... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/nc-4th-congressional-district-democratic-primary-2022/ | Nida Allam giggles and shows me her phone.
She’s on the “Students4Nida” TikTok page, watching a video set to an Alvin and the Chipmunks-esque cover of Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me.”
The five-second video uses one of TikTok’s most common formats, where the subject lip syncs to a song and overlays text that sort of... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/orange/candidate-questionnaire-carrboro-town-council-posada-2022-primary/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Eliazar Posada
Age: 29
Party affiliation: Democrat
Campaign website: EliazarForCarrboro.com
Occupation & employer: Founder & President of Posada Strategy Consulting
Years lived in Carrboro: 6
1) In 300 words or less, please give us—and our readers—your elevator pitch: Why are you runni... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220427 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-allen-buansi-primary-2022/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Allen Buansi
Age: 35
Party affiliation: Democratic Party
Campaign website: www.allenbuansi.com
Occupation & employer: Assistant City Attorney, City of Greensboro Years lived in North Carolina: 20
1. What in your background qualifies you to represent the people of North Carolina effecti... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220428 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-cindy-sinkez-wake-commissioners-district-3/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Cynthia (Cindy) Sinkez
Campaign website: www.CindySinkez.com
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Profession or Occupation: In November, I resigned from my position as Administrative Assistant for a Raleigh Law Firm so that I could take care of my infant grandchild. Prior to working for Bowen... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220428 |
https://indyweek.com/news/elections/candidate-questionnaire-clarence-birkhead-durham-sheriff/ | Name as it appears on the ballot: Clarence Birkhead
Campaign website: birkheadfordurham.com
Party affiliation: Democrat
Years lived in Durham County: 34
1. What do you believe are the most important issues facing the Sheriff’s Office? What are your top three priorities in addressing these issues?
The top three issues f... | true | false | y0_only | indyweek | 20220428 |
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