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Sarah Edwards

Durham

Arts and Culture Editor at Indy Week

culture editor at @indyweek | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | [email protected]

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  • 5 days ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

    John Bowman and Amanda Barr want to finish their bar’s fifteen-year run in style. “Did you watch White Lotus?” Barr asks over the phone, referring to the popular HBO show. “You know who died, our favorite couple?

  • 1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards |Lena Geller

    Musical duo Larry BellorĂn and Joe Troop may have the distinction of being the Triangle’s most unique musical fusion (a distinction that has much competition, by the way): BellorĂn, a master of Venezuelan folk tradition mĂşsica llanera, comes to Raleigh by way of political asylum, while Troop, who grew up in Winston-Salem, grew up learning old-time music and founded GRAMMY-nominated stringband Che Apache.

  • 1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

    “I’m interested in the throughline. That’s always what I’m interested in.”Rhiannon Giddens is speaking from her home office in Ireland, stacks of books and skeins of yarn piled on a shelf behind her. She’s speaking about reviving traditional music from the past—specifically, in this conversation, songs honoring German student protester Sophie Scholl, who was beheaded in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets—and finding its resonance in the present.

  • 1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

    In late March, the INDY reported that North Carolina libraries and cultural centers were bracing for impact from the Trump administration’s sweeping federal reductions. A March 14 executive order had called for drastic cuts to the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a small federal agency that helps fund cultural institutions across the country.

  • 1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

    This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. A giant mason jar is nestled on the teal countertop of Whisk & Rye Bakehouse + Coffee. It’s stuffed full of dollar bills, left by customers wooed by the shop’s collection of pastries, selection of beverages, or the friendliness of its employees—but curiously, there are hardly any coins. “When we run out of pennies, it normally aligns with presidential elections,” joked Andy Olivares, one of the co-owners.

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Sarah Edwards
Sarah Edwards @eddy_sarah
11 Apr 25

Durham! Come by Letters on April 22 to learn more about my friend @jttarleton’s new book, a (smart, engrossing!) case study of two co-op housing programs weighing the decision to privatize. I’m his layman interviewer, should be fun! https://t.co/7wH48CqzpM

Sarah Edwards
Sarah Edwards @eddy_sarah
9 Apr 25

RT @jdcmedlock: “America is fighting a trade war while begging for eggs” is such a sick burn https://t.co/NigQRRWpa1

Sarah Edwards
Sarah Edwards @eddy_sarah
9 Apr 25

RT @renLarson_: BREAKING -@TheAssemblyNC spoke with families of two N.C. fathers legally in the U.S. apprehended by ICE & deported to El S…