What passed for “fish” at my childhood dinner table was usually a breaded, frozen stick that bore no resemblance to the original being that had a head, tail and gills. I disliked fish and fish facsimiles, and as a vegetarian, I abstained from them altogether until about a year ago. Now I’m among those in […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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Pride, no prejudice
Men strode through the festival wearing banana hammocks. Women kissed women. Drag queens sported legs befitting a gazelle and endured the entire two-and-a-half mile parade route in 5-inch heels. Gay and lesbian couples, kids in tow, caught lollipops tossed from passing floats. The annual N.C. Pride Festival and Parade in Durham celebrates the Triangle’s LGBTQ […]
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More layoffs at Durham’s Herald-Sun
The Herald-Sun in Durham has laid off several employees, the second round of job cuts since 2011. A source knowledgeable about the situation told the INDY that four to six people may have lost their jobs, but the number could not be confirmed. The staff box online lists 18 people in the newsroom, not including […]
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Have you voted yet?
Number of early votes in… …Wake County: 609 (as of 2:20 p.m., Sept. 24) …Durham County: 341 (as of 5 p.m., Sept. 23) It’s unfortunate but true: Elections in odd-numbered yearswhen we elect our city leaderstend to have lower voter turnout than those in which we choose state, federal and county officials. Municipal elections rarely […]
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A note about this week’s Durham cover
This week is our endorsements issue, and for our Durham readers, we featured Major, the bronze bull in CCB Plaza, to symbolize the city. Late yesterday afternoon, as many people know, an apparently suicidal man was shot by Durham police in the plaza near the bull. The cover photo had been made last week; the […]
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No parking: abandoned East Chapel Hill Street garage
Workspaces give us clues about the people who occupy them. In family photos and mementoes, food containers and tools of our trades, we reveal our personalities and tastes in the territories where we live, on average, 45 hours a week. The parking garage on East Chapel Hill Street in Durham recently closed for renovation. Shortly […]
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Keep ’em separated
One of the most basic and important tenets of journalism is to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest. This is ingrained in our brains and our ethics code, and we go to great lengths to uphold this essential precept of our profession. This principle came to the forefront when considering our coverage of Hopscotch […]
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‘Some parts are cracked’
If you would like to contribute to this column, contact [email protected]. Of course I would be there. To celebrate its 50th anniversary in the winter of 2008, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill unveiled an ambitious exhibit of abstract paintings and mixed-media collage, CIRCA 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art. It also featured assemblage […]
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This week in disappointment: Back for an exciting encore, welcome the N.C. Legislature!
Today’s riddle: What has 170 mouths and persists like a bad rash? The Legislature. Lawmakers will reconvene after Labor Day to consider overriding Gov. Pat McCrory’s two vetoes. The first is House Bill 392, which would require people applying for public assistance, such as EBT cards, to undergo a drug test. At least eight states […]
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A roundup of scuttlebutt in the Triangle
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation ice cream van that had been malingering in the District Drive Park-and-Ride lot in Raleigh for nearly three months is finally goneand so is the state director of the conservative Americans for Prosperity North Carolina. There’s no connection between the two that we know of, but Dallas Woodhouse, state director […]
