‘We’re Carrboro,” said Alderwoman Jacquelyn Gist. ‘We’re not Sim City.” Gist brought up the urban-planning-on-steroids gaming phenomenon to illustrate her long-standing opposition to the town’s Connector Roads Policy. ‘It looks great on paper, but does it really make sense?” she said. ‘You have to be able to look at these things in reality as well […]
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To connect or not to connect? Carrboro considers the question
“We’re Carrboro,” said Alderwoman Jacquelyn Gist. “We’re not Sim City.” Gist brought up the urban-planning-on-steroids gaming phenomenon to illustrate her long-standing opposition to the town’s Connector Roads Policy. “It looks great on paper, but does it really make sense?” she said. “You have to be able to look at these things in reality as well […]
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Tailpipe emissions on the table
“I don’t know why all cars aren’t made like this,” Diane Gillis said, loading groceries into her Honda hybrid in the Weaver Street Market parking lot in Carrboro. Gillis said she chose a gasoline-electric vehicleher secondfor “environmental reasons and to save money on gas.” If some local lawmakers have their way, a lot more North […]
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Carrboro residents, still smarting from annexation, protest new development
The marriage of Carrboro to its recently annexed northern suburbs is proving to be a rocky one. Fox Meadow and Highlands, two of six subdivisions annexed by the town in 2006, are protesting a proposed development on Reynard Road that would add almost 900 car trips per day between their neighborhoods. What’s next? A development […]
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Carrboro seeks equality for LGBT renters
Renters could not be discriminated against based on their sexuality in Carrboro, but only if the state legislature approves. Read the bill (PDF, 76 KB) The Carrboro Board of Aldermen recently pressed its legislative delegation for help in strengthening housing protections for gay, lesbian and transgendered residents. The board, with Mayor Mark Chilton, wants to […]
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Paul Maliszewski examines literary fraudsters
Read our full interview with author Paul Maliszewski “Knowst not, my Lucia, that he/ Who has caparisoned a nun dies/ With his twankydillo at the ready?” Thus wrote the Australian modernist Ern Malley in The Darkening Ecliptic, a collection of poetry published in 1944 in Angry Penguins, a small but influential literary journal. Malley, a […]
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Q&A with Fakers author Paul Maliszewski
INDEPENDENT WEEKLY: You said over e-mail you lived in Durham. Were you in school here? MALISZEWSKI: I moved there in 2000 after graduate school at Syracuse. A woman I was seeing had a job teaching at Duke. We moved to Washington, D.C. in 2003; my wife works for the House of Representatives. With that political […]
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The Kimbo Slice blues
[/caption] If you don’t follow mixed martial arts fighting, you probably haven’t heard of Kevin Ferguson, aka Kimbo Slice. According the hype, Ferguson-or Slice, if you prefer-was going to rule the MMA (mixed martial arts) circuit for years to come. The buzz was enough that I noticed it, and I watch MMA only in the […]
