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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Pouring One Out for Bowbarr, a One-of-a-Kind Carrboro Artist's Dive

5 days ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

John Bowman and Amanda Barr want to finish their barâs fifteen-year run in style. âDid you watch White Lotus?â Barr asks over the phone, referring to the popular HBO show. âYou know who died, our favorite couple?
The skaters of Graveside DIY

6 days ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

Before February, when the excavators came, Raleigh was home to a vibrant skate park. Known as Graveside DIY, the park fostered a diverse community of skateboarders who raised thousands of dollars to pay for ramps that they built themselves. Local skaters likened the park—a concrete-and-asphalt expanse, surrounded by evergreen trees and tucked along a side street just south of Tryon Road—to a community garden, a second home, a place to freely fail.
Former DPD Deputy Chief Files Discrimination Charges Against Durham

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Lena Geller

Former Durham Deputy Police Chief Shari Montgomery today filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging she was systematically sidelined and ultimately fired for being Black and raising concerns about her boss. Montgomery, a 25-year veteran of the department who became deputy chief in early 2021, claims in her EEOC filing that her troubles began that year when then-City Manager Wanda Page sought her input on police chief candidates.
A Raleigh Software Engineer Will Lose Her Job in Medical Research Due to USAID Cuts

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

After working for private sector companies like Cisco and IBM, Raleigh resident Paige Sullivan took a position as a software engineer on an orthopedic trauma research team at Johns Hopkins University five years ago. The job came with good benefits, including the option to work remotely, but also a $40,000 pay cut. Sullivan felt it was worth it.
Despite a 200 lb Cheese Loss, Wedgewood Forges Ahead

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Elliott Harrell

Does the Triangle like cheese enough to have a cut-to-order cheese shop? That’s the question Michelle and Stevie Webb asked themselves when they moved to the Triangle in the fall of 2020. While several local businesses made and sold cheese—Boxcarr Handmade Cheese, Chapel Hill Creamery, and Hillsborough Cheese Company, among others—there wasn’t a stand-alone shop where people could choose from a wide array of cut-to-order cheese products.
INDY Selects: What to Do in the Triangle This Week

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

Musical duo Larry BellorĂn and Joe Troop may have the distinction of being the Triangleâ€™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.
Protesters Rally in Durham against Cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Lena Geller

Dozens of protesters lined the sidewalk in front of Bank of America at the corner of Gregson Street and Club Boulevard in Durham Monday evening, waving signs to defend the agency responsible for regulating the institution looming behind them. The demonstration comes amid the Trump administrationâ€™s ongoing crusade to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which employs a number of Durham residents, including four federally appointed financial regulators.
Raleigh Aims to Create 1,345 Affordable Housing Units, Reduce Unsheltered Homelessness to "Functional Zero" by 2030

1 week ago | indyweek.com |

Nine years ago, the City of Raleigh set an “aspirational goal” of creating 5,700 affordable housing units by 2026. Today, with less than a year to go before the deadline, the city is about two thirds of the way there with 3,848 units. Creating and preserving affordable housing in Raleigh has gotten harder since 2016 thanks to a steep rise in both property values and the cost of building.
For Rhiannon Giddens, Music Is All About the Throughline

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Sarah Edwards

âIâm interested in the throughline. Thatâs always what Iâm interested in.âRhiannon Giddens is speaking from her home office in Ireland, stacks of books and skeins of yarn piled on a shelf behind her. Sheâs speaking about reviving traditional music from the pastâspecifically, in this conversation, songs honoring German student protester Sophie Scholl, who was beheaded in 1943 for distributing anti-Nazi pamphletsâand finding its resonance in the present.
Durham’s Pauli Murray Center Told Its Federal Grant “No Longer Serves the Interest of the United States”

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.