Independent Weekly, The; Durham, N.C.

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Staring at Chickens

During the days of "Eat the Rich," "Smash the State" and Kwai Chang Caine ("Yet, it is eyes that blind the man, Grasshopper"), a bunch of us moved into an old farmhouse on 60 acres and tried to share everything. Toward the end of the first summer, the house grew too crowded, so we started moving into l'le outbuildings. We salvaged windows and lumber from houses in Durham that were slated for demolition. One couple converted a tobacco barn into its quarters, while another moved into the smokeh...

After Bin Laden's Death, Many Are Asking, What's Next?

The late William Odom, a former three-star general who served as director of the National Security Agency under President Reagan, described terrorism as a "tactic," not an "enemy" and viewed it as a serious problem but not a "strategic" one. But while the Osama bin Ladens of the world cannot destroy the United States, our reaction to 9/11, while understandable on many levels, has done great damage to the nation's social fabric. It served as a "spectacular provocation," in the words of bin Lad...

Mythically Labeled

Churchkey is a small Durham operation with about about a dozen titles to its credit. Run by best friends Steve Jones and Kyle Miller as a hobby, it's understandably not the label of [Hammer]'s dreams or future. In fairness, it's worth noting the band has since contended that the comments about Churchkey Records were off the record, an assertion that [Joseph Chapman] and his editor have denied. Either way, the point stands: Over the past few years, I've heard the same woebegone tale from other...