Staff with the first edition, April 1983. The Durham City Council election of 1979 was a doozy, sweeping a conservative slate of seven white men into office. I was on the other side of that election, working for the losing ticket and then watching helplessly as the new council majority voted at its first meeting […]
Steve Schewel, President, Independent Weekly
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Hopscotch, so fast
Hopscotch I was our party. Hopscotch II was your party. It is true that the Indy “owns” Hopscotch, but what began two years ago as a fantasy in the minds of Indy staffers Greg Lowenhagen and Grayson Currin has now become an annual collective fantasy. You embraced the festival, and then everybody started inventing things: […]