There is perhaps no better way to sum up Eliza McLamb than by peeking back at her life during the summer of 2020, when she was working as a farmhand in Kansas while simultaneously going viral on TikTok for a song she wrote called “Porn Star Tits.”
Lena Geller
Lena Geller is a reporter for INDY, covering food, housing, and politics. She joined the staff in 2018 and previously ran a custom cake business.
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With Brodeto, Raleigh Chef Scott Crawford Is Stripping His Product Down to the Essentials
“You’re just having this incredible fresh fish, cooked over coals with a simple herb sauce or fresh lemon and a beautiful olive oil,” Crawford says. “When you eat that food, there’s magic to that simplicity.”
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Barrel Culture Brewing and Blending, Known for Imaginative Fruit-Forward Beers, Closes Its Doors
“We have had our shares of ups and downs, and have continued to navigate through them to keep our doors open and taps flowing. We have reached a point where we can no longer do that.”
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Southern Service Workers Unionize for Better Working Conditions
In four Southern states including North Carolina, service workers have formed a cross-sector union to demand fair pay, safety, consistent scheduling, and dignity.
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Service Workers in NC, Other Southern States Launch a Union
The Union of Southern Service Workers will function as a part of the Service Employees International Union, a labor union that represents nearly 2 million workers in the U.S. and Canada.
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DPS Receives $18 Million Unsolicited Grant from Billionaire Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott
“We will focus on using this to enhance our work with schools that will ignite the limitless potential of our students.”
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Sunday Reading: Silent Stakeholders
I cannot think of a more perfect illustration of what it is like to pretend things are normal in America right now—a more 2022 image than a work-from-home finance guy taking a Zoom call from his car, outside what may or may not be a school shooting.
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Triangle First: Finding Comfort and Safety “In Your Eyes”
The Pinkerton Raid’s Jesse James DeConto wrote the song about his late grandfather, who developed dementia toward the end of his life.
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Why You Should Care About the Appellate Court Races
The Court of Appeals races are low profile, but the court—often the final stop for significant cases—plays an important role in the state’s judiciary.
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First Coffee, Then Beer: A New Main Street Bar Aims to Be Durham’s “Daily Spot”
Branded as an “all-day cafe,” The Daily Beer Bar will operate threefold as a bar, coffeeshop, and casual eatery, offering a morning menu of local pastries and coffee drinks and an afternoon and evening spread of sandwiches, salads, snacks, sodas, jui