Best of the Triangle Readers’ Poll – Out & About
INDY Week readers pick their favorite places to have fun with friends.
Sound Factory Splits the Difference Between DIY Grit and Professional Clubs
Sound Factory 107 Edinburgh Drive S, Ste. 157, Cary The phrase “DIY” has very specific connotations, and none of them apply to Cary’s affluent MacGregor Downs. But across Edinburgh Drive from the neighborhood’s lush entrance, in the unassuming MacGregor Village shopping center, is Sound Factory. The venue is just a few weeks old, but if…
Indies Arts Awards: The Pinhook’s Kym Register uses her rock club to empower Durham voices
2015 WinnersGreg Lowenhagen and Cicely MitchellEmil KangKym RegisterDasan AhanuChris Tonelli Previous winners When Kym Register sits on the back patio of The Pinhook, the rock club and de facto community center she opened in 2008, the layers of modern Durham unfold before her. Panning from right to left, there’s the American Tobacco Campus and its…
An unceremonious, non-musical farewell for the Cameron Village Underground
Rod Abernethy pulled back the sheer curtain that hung beside the fashion show’s future stage, took four steps forward, pointed to his right and shouted, as though he’d seen a specter. “Well, holy shit,” he exclaimed. “That’s it. That has to be it.” With his 17-year-old son, Matt, at his left, Abernethy stood in front…