“I want you, but I won’t see this through,” Carter Hodge sings with unflinching honesty, in a new song premiering on the INDY today.
Sarah Edwards
Sarah Edwards is culture editor of the INDY, covering cultural institutions and the arts in the Triangle. She joined the staff in 2019 and assumed her current role in 2020.
Triangle First: The Sound of Nightblooms’ Almost-Classic-Rock
“Heart to Heart,” premiering on the INDY Week today, is one of the first songs from Sam Logan’s new project.
Triangle First: Django Haskins Isn’t “Afraid of Love”
Haskins’ duet with Skylar Gudasz has the romantic, reassuring feel of a song you’d encounter in a Gene Kelly movie.
On Her Sophomore Album ‘Dream Rooms,’ Kate Rhudy Goes Her Own Way
The new album is a bittersweet slant toward the sweetness that romance can offer, even when fraught. It sounds, in other words, a lot like love.
Starbucks Fires Raleigh Worker Involved in Unionizing Efforts
Ballots for the store, the first in North Carolina to file for a union election, are supposed to go out this week. A company spokesperson says the termination is unrelated to organizing efforts.
Two Triangle Writers Named Recipients of Prestigious Whiting Award
Ina Cariño and Alexis Pauline Gumbs are two of ten writers to receive the legendary $50,000 award.
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Women For Every Season
The women in ‘How Strange A Season’—strong-willed activists, artists, and athletes—have footholds in the past and the future. They’re haunted by both.
Triangle First: Emma Geiger’s Restless Flock of Birds
“Flock,” premiering on the INDY website today, is an emotional ode to a world that is shifting beneath your feet.
Triangle First: Sengoko’s Night Moods
Premiering today on the INDY website, “Honeycombs (Here We are Again)” is one of Derek Torres’s first music video forays as Sengoko.
Thirty-One Days Inside the First North Carolina Starbucks to Organize for a Union
Conversations about unionizing at the Raleigh Starbucks began as a joke. That quickly changed.

