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 ...