For our annual Pride edition last month, Lena Geller wrote about Anchor Powerlifting and its third-annual “Weight, Not Hate” deadlifting event to benefit the Durham LGBTQ Youth Center. Anchor owner Holli Mann “likes to joke she’s building an army for the current situation at hand,” Geller wrote. Readers weighed in on the story on social media.
From Instagram user @lini_leigh:
Hell yeah! What a wonderful program. Get strong, besties. We’ll need every bit of strength to make it through this bleak timeline.
From Instagram user @grimmory:
This event was such a blast, I had so much fun AND hit a personal best!!
From Instagram user @carolinagayniacs:
This was so fun we loved getting to attend and sponsor this fundraiser!!
From Instagram user @thewheelybinsaga:
That name is epic… Weight not hate! Love it
Also in our last edition, freelance writer Nick McGregor wrote about Durham musician Chris Fisina, who performs under the name Lou Hazel and sold his own watercolor paintings to pay a crew to help produce a new, as-yet unnamed record.
From Instagram user @marissamobs:
It’s crazy that all this talent is just a portion of who @louuhazel is!!
From Instagram user @603brett:
I love it whenever Lou comes out to the Northeast. Great songwriter and live performer.
Finally, freelance writer Jasmine Gallup reported on the closure of CAM Raleigh, and asked if the nonprofit museum’s board could have done more to keep its iconic building in downtown Raleigh’s Warehouse District. Readers on social media had thoughts.
From Instagram user @j.ward____:
Could have been saved. I don’t think they had a clear direction on how to utilize the space.
From Instagram user @tuttle_recall:
“Our boldest chapter yet” and it’s just selling out to a real estate developer lmao
From Instagram user @guytaylor68:
Maybe they could have installed something people were interested in?
And a pointed critique from Instagram user @jasonearllord:
Beyond Birth and Death Announcements: Could INDY Week Do More to Support the Writers Who Pull People into Spaces like CAM?
When was the last time y’all had someone write about an exhibition at CAM? 2019? Is the INDY’s greatly reduced visual art coverage in recent years related to this closing?
