Record #:

8045

Author(s):

Currin, Grayson Haver

Abstract:

For the past three years music industry executives have agreed that Roman Candle is one of the best, most complete American rock bands to emerge in over a decade. Currin discusses the performers and their style of music.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 25, June 2006, p22-25, 27, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Musical groups--Chapel Hill

Record #:

8046

Author(s):

Schacht, John

Abstract:

When Chuck Morrison graduated from high school in Burlington in 1984, he wrote in a friend's yearbook that he would \"one day run a major record label or compete with them.\" He is the founder of Charlotte-based MoRisen Records. The company has not risen as far as he would like, but with a growing profile and roster and two talked about June releases from The Sammies and Elevator Action, MoRisen is poised to become North Carolina's next brand-name independent.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 25, June 2006, p50-51, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Sound recording industry; Sound recording executives and producers--Charlotte

Record #:

8047

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

INDEPENDENT WKKELY's band of the month is Raleigh's Big City Reverie. The band was formed in an unusual way. Pete Wilson, the band's lead vocalist and guitarist, was looking to form a new group of like-minded, experienced players in a certain age group. His solution was to use the Internet as a recruiting tool. Cornell talks with the group about their work.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 30, Aug 2006, p30, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Musical groups--Raleigh

Record #:

8048

Author(s):

Canavan, Gerry

Abstract:

Simon & Shuster has published THE CITY IS A RISING TIDE, a debut novel by Rebecca Lee, a professor of creative writing at UNC-Wilmington. The novel's heroine is Justine Laxness, a young 30-something who works for an alternative-medicine nonprofit in New York in the early 1990s. Lee discusses her ten-year writing project with INDEPENDENT WEEKLY.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 33, Aug 2006, p34-35, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Women novelists--Wilmington; Lee, Rebecca

Record #:

8049

Author(s):

Howe, Brian

Abstract:

Will Hackney, 19, a rising sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Martin Anderson, 17, soon to start college at UNC-Greensboro, are the co-founders of Chapel Hill-based Trekky Records. The company started five years ago and now has a fully functional label, offices, a paid staff of five, and a revolving cast of volunteers. Trekky Records has a roster of twelve bands, five of which are active. In July 2006, the company released its most ambitious project to date--the Never's Antarctica, a sumptuous concept album including a fifty-page, full-color storybook.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 33, Aug 2006, p44-45, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Sound recording executives and producers--Chapel Hill; Sound recording industry--Chapel Hill

Record #:

8062

Author(s):

Ross, Kirk

Abstract:

Since the mid-1970s, beach development has been largely confined to North Carolina's shoreline. Hotels, family homes, and campgrounds gradually changed to condos, high-end housing, and gated communities. As the shoreline filled up, development began moving inland from the coasts, and condominium complexes and housing communities are springing up along inland waterways. In Carteret County, the development is threatening a way of life for many families who can trace their ancestry back to the mid-1700s. Fishing families and boat builders find surviving difficult when dealing with rising taxes, poor markets, and loss of fish houses, boat yards, and boat docks.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 23, June 2006, p14, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Carteret County--Economic conditions; Social change--Carteret County; Real estate development--Carteret County

Record #:

8063

Author(s):

Morris, Neil

Abstract:

Since 1999, the Triangle Jewish Film Festival has been held in Durham's Carolina Theatre. Mounting costs and low attendance forced the theatre to stop hosting the festival after 2004. The festival found a new home in 2006 at the Galaxy Cinema in Cary. The festival celebrates Jewish influences on filmmaking and explores themes of international Jewish life.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 20, May 2006, p67, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Jewish motion picture producers and directors; Film festivals--Cary

Record #:

8396

Author(s):

Morgan, Fiona

Abstract:

Underbounding is a form of residential segregation created by the land-use policies and practices of larger, wealthier, and predominately white municipalities that draw their boundaries in such a way to keep their neighbors out. Moore County is an example where African American communities including Midway, Jackson, and Hamlet, lack basic sanitation services and decent roads. These communities lie just beyond the boundaries of wealthier towns like Pinehurst and Aberdeen. Morgan discusses the progress to improve these communities that is occurring through federal grants and lobbying of local Moore County governments.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 48, Nov 2006, p11, 13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American neighborhoods--Moore County

Record #:

8397

Author(s):

Canavan, Gerry

Abstract:

Durham's Regulator Bookshop is celebrating its thirtieth year of business in December 2006. Tom Campbell and John Valentine are co-owners. A third partner, Helen Whiting, was also a co-owner from 1982 until she died in 1999. The store started as small storefront shop at 720 Ninth Street. It expanded into the upstairs in 1990, and in 1994, down into the building's basement. The owners attribute their survival as an independent bookshop to devoted community support.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 48, Nov 2006, p23, 25, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Bookstores--Durham

Record #:

8398

Author(s):

Geary, Bob

Abstract:

Dorothea Dix Hospital, which stands on a high hill overlooking the city of Raleigh, was the state's first hospital to treat mental illness. The North Carolina General Assembly approved appropriations for the hospital on December 23, 1848. Today much of the land has been deeded away by the State of North Carolina, but a core section, dotted with dozens of interesting and historical buildings, remains. This core section is up for grabs, and the legislature is reviewing proposals of what to do with it. The problem facing Raleigh is whether the 306-acre Dix tract should become a great city park complete with gardens and meadows and an exhibition hall or two, or a lovely greensward that sits at the foot of a new and taxpaying urban neighborhood.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 48, Nov 2006, p43-46, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Dorothea Dix Hospital (Raleigh); Land use--Planning--Raleigh

Record #:

8413

Author(s):

Greenlee-Donnell, Cynthia

Abstract:

Durham author Michele Andrea Bowen is one of the country's most successful writers of African American-oriented, religiously themed fiction. She is known as one of the \"bad girls of Christian fiction,\" a term she coined herself when she and two other black writers presented their books to the Christian Booksellers Association convention. Their books, which were a little steamy and a little spicy, were not what convention members envisioned as Christian literature. CHURCH FOLK, Bowen's first book, has sold over 280,000 copies since its publication in 2001. Bowen discusses her novels and how she got started writing them.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 45, Nov 2006, p20-21, 23-24, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American women authors--Durham

Record #:

8414

Author(s):

Sorg, Lisa

Abstract:

Environmental pollution and hazardous waste remain a problem at the local, state, and national levels. Much pollution is legal because of state and federal permits granted to businesses. Still, there are businesses that violate the law. The INDEPENDENT examines eight Wake County pollution sources. The facilities profiled were selected using three main criteria: the number or egregiousness of the violations; proximity to population centers; and fines assessed since 2003.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 44, Nov 2006, p15-16, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Hazardous wastes--Wake County; Pollution--Wake County

Record #:

8415

Author(s):

Ross, Kirk

Abstract:

In the November 2006 election, many voters will elect members to the non-partisan post of Soil & Water Conservation District Supervisor, a position many of them have never thought about. Every district has three elected members, two appointed members, and $4,000 in annual funding. The state has ninety-eight districts, including the nation's first--Brown Creek in Anson County. The district was home to Hugh Hammond Bennett, the \"Father of Soil Conservation.\" During the period of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, he was the chief evangelist and architect of the soil and water conservation system. Ross discusses how the system has evolved during its seventy-year history.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 44, Nov 2006, p19, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Soil conservation districts

Record #:

8449

Author(s):

Sorg, Lisa

Abstract:

There are 40,000 abandoned mobile homes in North Carolina, according to information compiled by the N.C. Association of County Commissioners. By 2020, the number is expected to double. County officials, lawmakers, and housing advocates are concerned about the problems they present, such as public health, environmental, and safety issues. At present there is no uniform state law under which counties can seize them. Money is also an issue because disposal of a mobile home can cost from $800 for a single one to $1,500 for a doublewide. A state law to give the counties seizure rights is currently stalled in committee because of objections from the manufactured housing lobby.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 23 Issue 49, Dec 2006, p14-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mobile homes

Record #:

8490

Author(s):

Hyman, Frank

Abstract:

Many artists maintain urban workplaces. Others opt for studios out in the boondocks far away from the crowds. Kevin Eichner, a sculptor and professor at Central Carolina Community College in Siler City, prefers the quiet lifestyle. Eichner, an East Carolina University graduate, is the art director at the Moncure Museum of Art in Moncure. Hyman describes a day at the artists' foundry where iron is melted and poured into the sculptors' molds. After cooling, the sculptures are broken from the molds.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Jan 2007, p23, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Sculptors--Moncure