Tim Rutili won’t let anything be. As evidenced through 10 full-length releases from his band Califone, whatever is expected must be changed. Everything hopeful must be marred at the surface; everything poetic must be obscured; everything lovely must be stung or cut. When the band plays the Long View Center on Saturday at Hopscotch, three […]
Linda Ray
Bio: Linda Ray lives in the open spaces around Tucson, Ariz., and is a former contributing editor of No Depression.
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Minds Without Bodies
Every Tuesday, a group of people gather in the extra bedroom of Michael Toohey’s home in Raleigh to join in a conference call. It’s not a sales meeting or an update from the home office. The walls are a deep yellow, and incense and a candle burn in front of a picture of a mountain […]
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Border Crossings
Immigration Last year, the Taco Bell on Six Forks Road in Raleigh was razed and a new two-story building was built in its place. The light brown brick matches the surrounding architecture of the sprawling commercial development off Wake Forest Road. Like the other buildings, it’s high off the road to avoid the flooding common […]
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Home for Good
From the outside, the Mission House for Women looks like any other house in this quiet southeast Raleigh middle-class neighborhood. The yard is neat and raked, the gray paint on the two-story bungalow is weathered, but clean, bushes are trimmed, the grass is cut. But inside the house, this family is anything but normal. Seven […]
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Bickering Over Bickett Place
When Raleigh City Councilman Phillip Isley finished his 15-minute speech about the benefits of Bickett Place, half the audience in the city council chambers on March 19 applauded. Developer Mike White received handshakes in deference to his public vindication, and the neighbors continued to boo and scowl. The fight over White’s proposed 21-unit townhouse development […]