Indy Week

Indy Week, which was initially called the Independent Weekly and originally known as the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-style alternative weekly newspaper based in Durham, North Carolina. It is distributed across the Research Triangle region, including Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary, as well as in nearby counties like Wake, Durham, Orange, and Chatham. The newspaper made its debut in April 1983.

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INDY Selects: What to Do In the Triangle This Week

3 days ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards |Daneen Khan |Eva Flowe

Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic comes to life in musical form this month, with a Theatre Raleigh production directed by Tia James. Beginning in turn-of-the-century Georgia, The Color Purple follows Celie—Black, poor, and abused by men time and time over—through a series of letters that trace her evolution across 40 years as she gains confidence and is able to heal and challenge the forces of her oppression.
Wake County Passes Budget with Small Tax Increase to Support Schools

3 days ago | indyweek.com |

The Wake County Board of Commissioners passed its $2.1 billion budget for fiscal year 2026 last night following a monthslong process that involved a good deal of hand-wringing and compromise. The final total includes a last-minute $5 million increase to the appropriation for Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS), prompted by weeks of advocacy and public pressure.
Lunch Money: Cajun Food and Pleasant Chaos at Imbibe

4 days ago | indyweek.com | Lena Geller

Before I even set foot inside Imbibe, my restaurant experience is off to an endearing, slightly chaotic start: While trying to preview the menu on their website, I click a link that inexplicably opens the FaceTime app on my laptop. Imbibe is located just off Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. The restaurant has been through some identity shifts since opening in 2016: at some point, it started incorporating “Rougarou”— “werewolf,” in Cajun French—into its name.
Chapel Hill High Students Walk Into Woods for Palestine Protest Following Dispute with Admin

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Lena Geller

The 50 Chapel Hill High School students who walked out of class Thursday morning and marched across the street, a quarter mile into the woods, to protest what they called the âintensification of Israelâs genocide in Gaza,â wouldâve preferred to stage their demonstration on campus. âWe wanted to work with the administration to hold the walkout on campus and make the event as safe as possible,â says sophomore Finn McElwee.
Katie Myers, Author at INDY Week

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Katie Myers

An interview with author Denali Sai Nalamalapu on storytelling, fossil fuels, and the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
Line Dancing and Fear Over Funding Cuts: Raleigh Chamber Hosts State of the City, County, and Schools Event

1 week ago | indyweek.com |

The tone of Thursday’s Raleigh/Wake State of the City, County, and Schools—an event put on by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce to spotlight local government’s accomplishments—vacillated wildly between fun and serious. There was a multi-course luncheon, complete with fudgy chocolate cake. There was a flash mob in which Raleigh’s mayor line danced shoulder-to-shoulder with municipal workers in cowboy hats. And there was some downright somber discussion about public school funding.
Tyrone Mason’s Family, Lawyers and Local Activists Speak Out Against Wake DA’s Decision Not to Charge Troopers Who Lied About Fatal Crash

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman was shaking as she told Henrietta Mason that the state trooper who chased her son, Tyrone Mason, before Mason fatally crashed his vehicle on Capital Boulevard last October, and then conspired with his supervisor to lie about it, wouldn’t face criminal charges.
At Pints & Pups Night, a Durham Beer Garden Brims With Activity

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. On a recent Tuesday night, on the center patio of Ponysaurus, a woman in a magenta tennis outfit juggles a pilsner in one hand and a tawny puppy in the other. One table over, a little girl with two vertical blond pigtails totters across a picnic bench like it is a balance beam.
“Somehow, Fiddles and Banjos Have Become a Genuine Economic Driver”: New Festival Announces Details

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

Last September, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) annual World of Bluegrass festival fell on the same weekend that Hurricane Helene swept through the Southeast. Several of the artists coming down from Western North Carolina had to cancel, as the festival trudged through its last year in Raleigh under rain and somber conditions. World of Bluegrass has since decamped to Chattanooga, lured by support from Tennessee’s Special Event Fund.
Buc-ee's Opponents Still Gnawing Away at Mebane's Coming Gas Station

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Lena Geller

A small group of activists gathered in a Mebane park Tuesday morning to say that their fight against a Buc-ee’s location coming to the town is not over, despite the city council’s approval of the project over a year ago. The gathering was pegged to the release of “Buc-ee’s Burden,” a 34-page report examining the health, environmental, and economic impacts of mega gas stations.