your turn Message Madness 2000, Saturday, May 6: The subtitle of this daylong training session for grassroots activists is “Getting Your Message Heard by the Media and Policy Makers.” Organized by the Common Sense Foundation, a nonprofit public-policy organization, the workshops teach concerned citizens how to work more effectively with the media and legislators. Workshops […]
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Joe Gould’s Secret
Yuppies can satisfy their preoccupation with educated eccentrics and New York a la Woody Allen through actor-director Stanley Tucci’s tribute to Joe Gould, a man immortalized by writer Joseph Mitchell in The New Yorker back in the 1940s. After spotting a rumpled and almost penniless Gould emptying a bottle of ketchup into a bowl of […]
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Enough cars already!
So Honda has a nice $20,000 two-seater gas-electric car [“IGO ECO,” April 29]. Big deal. We had electric cars in 1910. Consider the disastrous effects the car has on city planning and land values. Look at the Yellow Pages. More pages deal with cars than any other category except for lawyers. Add up the amount […]
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In stillness
More than 50 pieces of original artwork by area sculptors will be on display at Sculpture on the Green (pictured left), part of Chapel Hill’s Apple Chill festival. From 1 p.m to 6 p.m. on April 29 and 30, in McCorkle Place at UNC-Chapel Hill, you can peruse the indoor, outdoor, interactive and installation sculptures, […]
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Your Turn
your turn Nuclear Waste Site Expansion Protest, Sunday, April 30: Carolina Power & Light has plans to expand its nuclear-waste capacity at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Apex. Such an expansion would make the plant the nation’s largest high-level nuclear-waste site. Despite many calls for full disclosure on the scientific specifications of the expansion, […]
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Independent Endorsements 2000
If you really want your vote to count, head out to your polling place on Tuesday, May 2. Turnout is guaranteed to be light, thanks to a lackluster spring campaign and to the fact that the presidential nominations were locked up two months ago. But with fewer people taking the trouble to fill in their […]
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A struggle to succeed
I was born in 1926 in Buchanan County, Va., where I have spent most of my life practicing law, and I have been a close friend of Alfred and Irene Moore and their children for many, many years. I was very disappointed to see Bob Geary’s article [“Mine-owner’s daughter,” March 29] questioning Sen. Bev Perdue’s […]
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In talks
It’s always pleasant to attend events featuring black authors–that aren’t in February. To kick off Durham’s 31st annual Bimbé Festival (May 27-28), Barnes & Noble at New Hope Commons is inviting noted NYU journalism professor and writer David J. Dent to discuss his book, In Search of Black America, on Tuesday, May 2, 2000. Dent, […]
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In movement
On Saturday, April 29, the Even Exchange Dance Theater will perform its second annual improv concert, Walls … real or imagined (pictured below), at Arts Together in Raleigh. Don’t plan to sit back and watch the show: The theater company invites its dancers, musicians, set and lighting designers, and audience to inspire the improvisational process. […]
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Independent Best Sellers
Hardcover 1Leading With the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski (Warner, $24.95). Duke University’s successful basketball coach shares leadership techniques. 2In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent (Atlantic Monthly, $25). A former slave, a Yankee farmer and their children fight to reconcile their pasts with a more hopeful future. 3Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani (Random House, $23.95). […]