
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.
It’s an 86-degree summer day in late June. Open the painted door of the refrigerator—this one set next to the garden bed at Lakewood bulk store Part & Parcel—and you’ll find stacks of rainbow chard, a few cantaloupes, two pints of blueberries, and a drawer full of beets. Fresh produce is abundant this season, but on another given day you might find the refrigerator stocked with premade sandwiches, containers of soup, loaves of bread, and much more. In October 2022, new local organization Durham Community Fridges (DCF) launched with its...