Recently added articles from The Independent Weekly:
NOTHING SEEN, NOTHING LOST
Dec 31, 2008; ... My friends call it a refuge, but I call it regulan the silence out here, in western Orange County. In all the cities in which I've ever lived, there has been this conspicuous B-flat hum. It comes from the computer processors, refrigerators, televisions, the whirring up, on and off of ...
High stakes for high-speed internet
Dec 31, 2008; ... Telecom industry brings a new player into the broadband game Citizens across North Carolina are clamoring for better access to the Internet, but cable and telecom companies say it's too expensive to build service that reaches them. Now the industry has decided it is willing to pay an ...
Nursing home closes after state investigation
Dec 31, 2008; ... Forest View patients were in "immediate jeopardy" In the official investigation reports, to protect their privacy, they are referred to only by number: Resident No. 2, No. 6, No. 8 and so on. But they are people, once patients at Forest View Rehabilitation Center in Durham. They are ...
Cinema we can believe in
Dec 31, 2008; ... Happy days are here-just don't pay too close attention to the year-end hype The Academy Awards might not be the conclusive arbiter of the best motion picture during a given year, but the films that end up taking home Oscar gold are indicative of their era's mood. The end of the roaring ...
Breaking the glass screen
Dec 31, 2008; ... Was 2008 the year that girls put the bust into blockbuster? 2008 was not just the year that Hillary and (oh, Lordy) Sarah tried to shatter the presidential glass ceiling, but at the multiplex, too, the female-centered Sex and the City ($152 million), Mamma Mia! ($143 million), High ...
Department of corrections
Dec 31, 2008; ... Remembering the overlooked gems of 2008 Twice this year, I was awed by small films by acknowledged and accomplished American auteurs, first by Woody Allen's terse work of formal rigor, Cassandra's Dream. Allen - a director who's been accused of artistic laziness for at least a decade- ...
Worst Films of 2008
Dec 31, 2008; ... We asked our writers to come up with a few of the worst movies they saw this year. We tried to stay away from the likes of Saio 5 and from Nijht, instead targeting movies that had pretensions to quality. Of the several hundred films released in Triangle theaters this year, these nine films are ...
The difference of a decade
Dec 31, 2008; ... Life was different in 1999, and so were the movies In 1999, life was good: The economy was strong and jobs beckoned for college students like me. George W. Bush was just a Texas governor, and the only threat to our booming economy was the looming Y2K bug. Remember those times? It ...
NOW SERVING
Dec 31, 2008; ... new restaurants and happenings It's a new year, and I have a new best friend. Her name is Dolly Marcarelli (Hi Dolly! Call me!), and she Just happens to make handmade chocolates. Based in Durham, Dolly Mama Handmade Chocolates are crafted using local, hormone-free butter and ...
Up next!
Dec 31, 2008; ... 10 reasons to listen in 2009 From the reunions of Ben Folds Five and Polvo to the loss of Cy Rawls and the Bu Hanan collective, the Triangle's music scene in 2008 was a mixed bag of surprises, some disappointing and many delightful. Of course we can't predict all the stories of sound ...
THE READER
Dec 31, 2008; ... Opening This Week *** THE READER- For those of us with limited patience for the kinds of exquisitely tasteful literary adaptations that tend to litter theaters in December, The Reader requires, well, patience. Adapted from a bestselling novel by the German author Bernhard Schllnk by the ...
AUSTRALIA
Dec 31, 2008; ... Current Releases **** AUSTRALIA- Australia is no less than a Gone with the Wind for the new millennium Director Baz Luhrmann layers the Western, the war movie and the romantic epic together with conniving villains and meditations on race and history into an absorbing and eye-catching ...
BOLT
Dec 31, 2008; ... ** BOLT- The star of this 3-D animated spectacle is a small white shepard (voiced by John Travolta) who's lived his whole life as the star of his own action TV show, in which he possesses superpowers and does battle alongside his owner, a young girl named Penny (Miley Cyrus). After Bolt gets ...
CADILLAC RECORDS
Dec 31, 2008; ... *** CADILLAC RECORDS-An anthology of rags-to-riches stories unfolds under the revolving 45 RPM record sign of Chicago's influential Chess Records. Adrien Brody plays Leonard Chess (but what happened to his brother, Phil?), a Jewish junk dealer with a hankerin' for the blues. Essentially ...
A CHRISTMAS TALE
Dec 31, 2008; ... **** A CHRISTMAS TALE Director Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas TaJe is the story of an artsy, often eccentric family who love to talk, argue and obsess over the minutiae of their relationships. Junon, the mother, is stricken with an illness that requires a marrow transplant; this development ...
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Dec 31, 2008; ... ** THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON- Brad Pitt falls to make the most of a meaty role in this curious film, based on a 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about an orphan who ages backward. Benjamin Button, bom an osteophyte infant sets out on a Forrest Gump-like life of adventure, no coincidence ...
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Dec 31, 2008; ... * THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - Although ostensibly a remake of Robert Wise's 1951 Cold War sci-fi classic, this misbegotten spectacle could be easily confused with some ghastly, Roland Emmerich-produced hybrid of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, only more skilled at product ...
DOUBT
Dec 31, 2008; ... *** DOUBT- Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep) - Mother Superior at a Catholic school In the Bronx circa 1964 - hurls herself into proving her suspicions of an improper relationship between a 12-year-old student and the church's charismatic new priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) ....
FROST/NIXON
Dec 31, 2008; ... *** FROST/NIXON- The 1977 televised interview of disgraced President Richard M. Nixon, conducted by British television personality David Frost is one of those cultural moments that most of us under the age of 38 are woefully unfamiliar with. But with Frost/ Nixon, Ron Howard's entertaining ...
GHAJINI
Dec 31, 2008; ... GHAJINI- Advance publicity for Ghajini (reportedly a Bollywood version of the thriller Memento) has blanketed the Indian media market with photos of Aamir Khan's newly buff bod and ...