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elin o’Hara slavick charts history’s nightmares in Bomb After Bomb
Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography By elin o’Hara slavick Charta, 112 pp. Since it seems safe to assume that a majority of the Independent‘s readership, like myself, has never faced an aerial bombardment, I invite you to join me in attempting to imagine the moment. A dark speck makes a surgical incision across the […]
At Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution, taste wasn’t the issue
Projekt Revolution Walnut Creek Amphitheatre Monday, Aug. 13, 2007 It’s easy to understand how nü-metal came about: On its deathbed, grunge mated with its mainstream successors and spawned an unlikely hybrid with characteristics of both. Emo’s journey from obscure mid-’80s hardcore offshoot to world-conquering force is more mysterious. Still, the youth-culture appeal of music that […]
Hi Mom! Film Festival celebrates 10 years of experimental films with festival No. 9.5
High-profile film festivals are also highly exclusive, often resembling the closed society of a debutante’s coming out ball. But the local short film festival Hi Mom!, now almost 10 years old, is more like a high school kegger: rambunctious, loosely organized and open to anyone who shows up thirsty. Forget hors d’oeuvres and distribution deals; […]
In Feltbattery, Benjamin Trueblood makes music by listening to his surroundings
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A metaphysical evening with British author Rebecca Stott
Lydia Brooke, the protagonist of Rebecca Stott’s debut novel Ghostwalk, has a very specific appearance in my mind. She has a bright, pretty face framed by tight, dark curls. Her wide eyes turn ever so slightly downward at their corners, so she always appears to be on the verge of looking up, which, in concert […]
Rival literary journals in Greensboro
Backwards City Review Volume 3, Number 1 Spring 2007 The Greensboro Review Number 81 Spring 2007
UNC/Duke Battle of the Bands; Artsplosure update
Verses Versus Verses On April 12, I sat down at the judge’s table in UNC’s moderately crowded Great Hall Auditorium for the third annual UNC/Duke Battle of the Bands. It struck me as a fundamentally odd, almost arbitrary, proposition: Three Duke bands would square off against three UNC ones to find out who a couple […]


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