Have Tuba, Will Travel, Blount St., Raleigh, NC, Hopscotch, Sept. 10, 2011
It’s over. Well, it’s been done for nearly a week, but I finally feel like I’ve recovered from Hopscotch. Going into this year’s festival I made what preparations I could based off last year’s experiences. Good running shoes, [...]
Hours before leaving for the World Horseshoe Pitching Tournament in Monroe, Louisiana, Clifton Jones washed his classic Pontiac Executive and loaded up his best horseshoes in a custom wood box made by his work mates in the masonry department at UNC. “It takes focus,” said Jones. [...]
Sacrificial Poets, Chapel Hill, N.C., July 2011
Once a year the Independent Weekly honors a handful of local individuals and groups who are due recognition for their endeavors in either promoting or contributing to the arts community. Part of this recognition includes a photograph to accompany the write-up. Since 2006 [...]
Grandpa Herb on the family farm near Ladd, Illinois – March, 2003
I was not surprised when my mom called early on Friday to say that Grandpa Herb had died. He was 91 years old and had been in deteriorating health for the past few years. There was [...]
HOG, Cleveland-Holloway, Durham, May 2011
These dudes are metal maniacs. All of them. They had been practicing for three hours straight before I showed up. It was hailing and thundering something terrible, enough that I stayed in my car until it was finally over. They had no idea what I was [...]
Zhane Perkins, left, and Shannon Burns, share a bench with Civil War re-enactor Bobby Allen, from Asheboro, NC, on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Raleigh, Saturday, May 21, 2011 — 150 years after North Carolina officially seceded from the Union.
For the Independent Weekly’s annual summer issue we [...]
