“We are getting the message that if you mother, it should be the thing that colors everything else in your life. And if you don’t mother, you’re not living in Technicolor.”
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.
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Chapel Hill Guitar Virtuoso Elizabeth Cotten Will Be Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Born in Chapel Hill in 1893, Cotten was a musical trailblazer. Other 2022 inductees include Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and Carly Simon.
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Organizing Employees at a Raleigh Starbucks Face a Disappointing Union Election. They’re Not Giving Up Yet.
The election tally was 7 votes no, 5 yes—with several votes from organizers challenged or not counted. Organizers are challenging the election.
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Triangle First: On “Fear of Flying,” Dissimilar South Tracks the Nuances of Romantic Dissolution
“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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
