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In world music
South African legends Ladysmith Black Mambazo were winning music contests in their homeland long before Paul Simon brought them to global attention for their vocal work on Graceland. Since then, the group has traveled the world as ambassadors of South African music and traditional culture. They perform a music and dance style known as Isicathamiya, […]
In storytelling
Chapel Hill’s The Cave has been branching out recently with its monthly Lit Night open mic events, on the third Tuesday of each month. This week, the bar takes another step in a different direction when storyteller and singer-songwriter Jerry Harmon takes over their small, smoky stage. Harmon is the great-great grandson of Council Harmon, […]
Community Cookbook
The Barkers say: “This soup has become an early fall staple at the Magnolia Grill, and it is one of our more requested recipes. We suppose everyone needs another use for all those end-of-season green tomatoes besides frying them. This soup is equally successful chilled or hot, and you can modify the garnish depending on […]
The Spinning Wheel
“Liddy’s Dole’s poll numbers are phenomenal,” a leading Democrat confides. Assuming she’s the Republican nominee, what chance do any of the Democrats have? Here’s the spin we’ve heard. Dan Blue: Only Blue will present a sharp contrast with Dole. He’s strongly progressive, with an up-from-nothing story of political success and family triumph to counter her […]
When’s the Primary?
If all goes according to schedule, primary elections will be May 7. But most political people think they’ll be postponed. The reason: Republican lawsuits challenging the new congressional and legislative redistricting maps drawn by the legislature’s Democratic majorities. The first one got to court just last week. The maps are also under scrutiny by the […]
Community Cookbook
This soup was inspired by versions the Barkers encountered on their travels in Portugal. Often the egg was poached right in the broth as it was brought steaming to the table. Rustic, texturally dramatic and thoroughly satisfying, this soup and a large tumbler of red wine erased the weariness of a hot August day in […]
Beam us up
Chapel Hill resident Phil Marsosudiro was perusing the Orange County court system’s Web site the other day, when something on the introductory “page” caught his eye. “With 31,000 new court proceedings filed annually in Orange County, the normal routine may appear strangely attracted to the complex edge of order and chaos,” the interesting paragraph began. […]
Counter Tenors
Our country’s recent period of hysterics and denial was a particularly felicitous time for reading books, especially the nonfiction variety. In a year in which we were relentlessly reminded that everything had changed, many of the best nonfiction books, from Renata Adler’s Canaries in the Mineshaft to Joan Didion’s Political Fictions, countered, “What’s new?” Far […]
The power of necessity
“A black face that is mute in party councils is not political representation; the ability to be independent, assertive and respected when the final decisions are made is indispensable for an authentic expression of power.” Those words might not be the most often quoted of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, but they are among the […]
