A gray day, Feb. 15, not a pretty day to rally against the impending war in Iraq, but I found them sitting together nonetheless under the spreading magnolia tree on the grounds of the state capitol in Raleigh. Marty and Adam were half-listening to the speakers rasping through the microphone, but I figure they took […]
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Local Paper Makes Good
I’ve lived and breathed this competition for two decades, so I’m surprised even as I write this: Sometime in the next 90 daysbarring dramatic, unforeseen eventsThe Independent will acquire the Spectator. We are purchasing the Spectator from Creative Loafing Inc., the Tampa-based group that also owns weekly newspapers in Atlanta, Tampa and Charlotte. Throughout our […]
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The Heart of The Independent
Carol Wills was born on a mountain top in Tennessee–or pretty close to one anyway–and maybe that’s what puts me in mind of Davy Crockett when I consider Carol’s virtues. No, she doesn’t wear a coonskin cap to work, but she does have a natural inclination towards tall tales and off-the-cuff speechifying that reminds me […]
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The Indy years
This essay appears in In Helen’s Kitchen: A Philosophy of Food, and is reprinted with the permission of the Regulator Bookshop.In the second issue of The Independent, 29 April 1983, H. Hudson Whiting wrote our first food article. The topic was fried chicken and how to make it–a perfect topic for our Southern-fried alternative newspaper […]
