Triad City Beat This Week: June 28, 2017

In this week’s Triad City Beat cover story, produced in partnership with our sister alt-weekly INDY Week, Ken Fine and Erica Hellerstein examine the political clout of the hog industry in eastern North Carolina.

NEWS

• Newcomers and incumbents flock to city council election

• Hate crime doesn’t warrant police investigation, separate charge

 

 

OPINION

• Editorial: Growing pains on Eugene Street

• Unsolicited Endorsement: Nitro coffee

• Calling BS: ESPN doesn’t care about the WNBA

• Editor’s Notebook: In the dunk tank

COLUMNS

• Citizen Green: The last great North Carolina moderate

• Sportsball: A week of sports, literature and resistance

• Triaditude Adjustment: It ain’t easy being gangrene

 

 

CULTURE

• Food: Rolled ice cream craze hits the Triad

• Barstool: Covering the classics at After Hours Tavern

• Music: Laney Jones serenades crowd at High Point University

• Art: The tree’s the thing at Peppercorn Theatre’s production of ‘The Sky Game’

Triad City Beat This Week comes out every Wednesday with links to stories in that week’s paper.