Had a new experience tonight: on hour one of a six-hour flight, I got up to use the bathroom and when I came back the guy beside me was wearing my sweatshirt
Sarah Edwards
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Sarah Edwards
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culture editor at @indyweek | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | [email protected] | eddysarah.substack.com
Durham, NC
Joined May 2012
- Replying to @eddy_sarahI think he was the type of mortified where you just act like nothing happened, so after I told him he said he thought it came with the free blanket and I was like “absolutely, planes can be so confusing” bc we had 5 hours left. hope he has a nice trip!
- Killers of the Flower Moon was incredible, as was the dog film festival shorts series that the Carolina Theatre accidentally put on instead of KOTFM — everyone was silent for ten min before the guy behind us spoke up and was like, “Is this the wrong movie?”
- The cutoff for fall tuition cancelation was 5 p.m. The email calling off in-person classes went out around 3:45.
- Roy Cooper has never lost an election
- the easiest way to tell if someone in new york comes from money is that they’ll venmo charge you for a miller lite
- much as I understand the instinct to instinctively dunk on the NYT's Southern coverage, this is an attentive feature on an attentive book by a Southern photojournalist on the food that local (not corporate) gas stations make and sell. Kate is the best in the biz : )NYT has discovered Gas Stations that serve food.
- I went to NYC a couple weeks ago and every time I socially had 2 beers told everyone that the Durham County Main Library is the most beautiful and inspiring public space and that the NYT should cover it (lol). But look! It’s perfect.
- everyone I know (including me) is freaking out about what this portends for ever being able to afford a home/life in the Triangle. seems a good indicator that the system isn't working for most people when Exciting Job News = Panic about not being able to build a futureApple is coming to Research Triangle Park. indyweek.com/news/northcaro…
- look I love college sports but Duke flying fighter jets over town for game day only affirms my deepest-held belief: Duke should be required to pay property taxes
- Replying to @RichChumneycongratulations on getting one of the least self-aware quotes of 2020 on the record! this is truly something.
- who can swoop in to save Linda's and thus the spirit of UNC and thus Chapel Hill and thus the great state of North CarolinaBREAKING: Linda's Bar and Grill will permanently close on Friday, Jan. 5, after 47 years of business. Christopher Carini, who purchased Linda's in 2011, said the restaurant is shuttering due to "a slew of things" that began with the COVID-19 pandemic. bit.ly/41G1Evb
- New for @indyweek: Yesterday Raleigh Starbucks worker Sharon Gilman, one of the 7 employees to put her name on a letter of union intent, was fired for "intentional misuse of company property." (A sink fell off the wall while she was washing dishes.)
