For each of the past 13 years, The Independent has presented Indies Arts Awards to individuals, groups and organizations who’ve made significant contributions to the local arts scene. Each year we convene a new panel to choose winners, and every year the criteria are slightly different, as befits the Triangle’s ever-changing cultural landscape. This year’s […]
The Editors
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The Real Best of the Triangle 2002
In one corner, weighing in with their solicited opinions is the Indy staff and assorted contributors. A rag-tag crew of blowhards and know-it-alls, these writers think they invented the word “best.” In the other corner, under the Indy‘s scrutinizing gaze, are this year’s picks for what’s really best about the Triangle in 2002. Read on […]
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Readers’ Choice 2002
Here’s how our Readers’ Choice poll works: You, the reader, pick up a paper, fill out a form and send it in. Someone on our end opens the mail, collects the faxes and prints out the e-mails and types up a neat list of responses. Here we regurgitate that list in narrative form. This is […]
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Independent Endorsements 2001
In communities across the Triangle, “smart growth” is the latest catch phrase. As the down side of growth has everywhere become more obvious–traffic jams, big-box commercial centers and vanishing green space–citizens have been raising questions about the unchecked pace of development in the region. In its current usage by business interests and politicians, smart growth […]
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In the immediate aftermath …
Three hours ago, as the initial reports of the disasters in New York, the Pentagon and elsewhere were pouring in, a network news anchor made this telling comment: “We are going to have to re-evaluate some of our freedoms.” In addition to the horror of the events themselves, those words strike a deeper chill and […]
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En Garde
Every year for our annual Fall Preview issues, we try to track down for you the most important cultural events taking place in the Triangle over the last quarter of the year. This year, for part one of our two-part coverage, we’ve defined “important” more intriguingly, enjoining our writers to uncover artists, trends and events […]
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Club Culture
The communal culture established through live music and dance is a thread that weaves and binds communities, sometimes even defining them. From Mayberry-style front porch hootenannies (check out David Potorti’s article on old-time music venues) to a dizzying assortment of Latin sounds (read Sylvia Pfeiffenberger’s piece to discover the differences between salsa, meringue and bachata), […]
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Big Bad Love
As euphoric and transcendent as love can be, as dewy-eyed and splendiferous, lost love, or nega-love, can leave you as high-lonesome as a lost pup–sort of the same feeling you get listening to Hank Williams Sr. wailing about Audrey (Bocephus’ Ma) on bawlers like “Cold Cold Heart.” A feeling of being almost impossibly alone. Hence […]
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Fall Preview
If summer in the Triangle is all about departures–summer vacations to the beach and mountains, children heading off to camp, and cheap flights to Europe–then the fall revolves around arrival. Students return, theaters reawaken with new seasons, the clubs start heating up and series are launched to feed our rested minds with art. It is […]
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Clarification
In our Aug. 23 issue, the article “Ballot Blues,” which discussed the state of Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign, contained this passage: “Voting for a loser in 2000 will help set the stage for a stronger run in 2004.” This was not a paraphrase of remarks by Doug Stuber, campaign coordinator for the N.C. Green Party. […]
