Li'l ol' 'Sup, all grown up

[grady]

At some point Marisa moved from NYC to London, which means that a few
minutes ago I read a reference to "UK-based magazine 'Sup," which
startled me out of my Monday-morning stupor.

They've just published issue 18, and must be somewhere near a 10-year
anniversary.

It's all online at http://www.supmag.com

Parts of it are still kinda clueless, tho:

"Anyway, I digress -- back to Sunday night in Durham. Another thing I
couldn't understand was: "Why Durham, rather than Carrboro, clearly the
indie rock center of the North Carolina?" I was reluctant to drag my
lazy ass the 10 miles to the venue just to see a lackluster performance
from Spoon, and I admit it was the lure of meeting Britt Daniel and
shooting the interview with him that drew me more than the prospect of
the music to follow. After the interview, nearly an hour was spent just
walking around downtown Durham to find some food, to no avail. For
Chrissakes -- what a wasteland."

http://www.supmag.com/checkit/archives/2008/04/live_review_spo.html

Couldn't find food in Durham, clearly the foodie center of the North
Carolina? Oh dear.
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[James Hepler]

Well I mean, how do you know where to go? Sure, Bull McCabes is right
around the corner, and while the food there is good, it's not quite the kind
of place you look in through the window and say, I gotta eat here! You have
to know where Piedmont is. So you know, if you've been gone for 6 or 8
years, you wouldn't know what's where.

At the same time, not hard to do a little research either. I must have
spoken with a dozen people about food/drinks before going to Pittsburgh.

[grady]

Obviously their mistake was walking around downtown, instead of checking
stuff out ahead of time, or asking somebody, and I'll readily admit that
a random-walk in Downtown Durham looking for food on a Sunday evening is
likely to result in frustration.

But I don't think the person was an out-of-towner, given their stated
reluctance to drive the 10 miles from Carrboro. And sure, downtown Derm
isn't lined with shiny food-dispensing storefronts, but all one has to
do is pick up the Indy, or do some Googling, or just generally pay
attention for about 2 seconds,and one would then be hard-pressed to miss
Piedmont, Bull McCabe's, The Federal, Alivia's . . . and everything at
Brightleaf.

Which makes me wonder: where was the Merge PR "handler"? What kind of
rinky-dink operation are they running down there anyway? ;-)