Richard Hart

Long before anyone in the Triangle was putting focaccia, ciabatta and batards on their shopping lists, there was Ninth Street Bakery. As our Dish stories explain, there’s been a welcome resurgence in bread made with healthy ingredients, left to rise in its own time, and baked in ovens that give it taste and texture. Frank […]

We are all so ready to put the lacrosse tragedy behind us. Outside now, as when the story broke, fresh, young leaves paint a bright, green hue across the Piedmont. Temperatures are rising, the days are longer, and school is almost over. It is the first taste of summer, and after what we’ve been through, […]

We write a lot about artists in the Independent, and we’re fortunate to have so many on staff. They’re musicians, graphic designers, photographers and filmmakers, and we’re excited that the works of two regulars will be on display this week at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: Film writer Godfrey Cheshire will be premiering his […]

It makes my blood boil. We’re supposed to get all excited about these big-ticket projects that are going to bring back our cities’ downtownsthe $221 million (and rising) convention center in Raleigh and the $44 million performing arts center in Durham (it’s too soon to start calculating the cost overruns yet). But, when downtown venues […]

Whatever name it’s going by these days, wiki or public or community journalism, the participation of our readers in reflecting the life and times of the Triangle has long been important to the Independent. We regularly run First Person columns, Front Porch essays and, of course, Back Talk letters, and now have lively discussions in […]

Jim Lindsley had a large message to get across: “Impeachment Restores World Respect For USA And Inspires World Help For Iraq Which Allows Troops Home.” To get it all in, he needed a large sign. So Lindsley spent a couple of days fashioning a holder out of PVC pipe that he wears like a backpack […]

For Indy photographer Derek Anderson, the Duke lacrosse tragedy that started a year ago this week was about the house next door. You can see some of the pictures he took out of his windows over the past 12 months in this week’s issue. But the strange thing is, it felt that close for most […]

The same story is turning up over and over again these days: Public health concerns that are the result of the insane notion that private and public institutions can take care of the poorest, sickest among us and make money doing it. It’s the story behind the disgusting treatment of soldiers at the Walter Reed […]

There could be no more graphic representation of the collision between unbridled growth, inadequate tax policies and the power of the real estate lobby than Derek Anderson’s pictures that go with this week’s cover story. On the cover, second graders play in dirt outside classroom trailers at eight-year-old Wakefield Elementary, which reached its capacity five […]