Indy Week
Indy Week, formerly known as the Independent Weekly and originally the North Carolina Independent, is a tabloid-format alternative weekly newspaper published in Durham, North Carolina, United States, and distributed throughout the Research Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Cary) and counties (Wake County, Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County). Its first issue was published in April 1983. Indy Week is a member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and has a progressive, liberal political perspective. The Columbia Journalism Review has cited the newspaper for its "spine of steel."[citation needed] The print edition is published on Wednesdays.
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This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. It’s Saturday night at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and as fans make their way to their seats and raindrops begin falling from the night sky, Chris Ivy opens a secret door behind left field. The door is hidden from view by a pretzel stand. Ivy walks through a dingy corridor behind a giant video board, passing the fog machine that blows steam through the nose of the mechanical bull above. “It’s like a cave!” he exclaims, as water sprinkles...