INDY Week, the Triangle's alternative weekly newspaper, has started this podcast to give our readers another way to enjoy the latest news and culture from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

This week, Raleigh City Council at-large candidate Zainab Baloch joins us to discuss why millennials are stepping up to challenge the council's incumbent, sixty-plus-year-old majority. Staff writer Sarah Willets discusses a heated debate in Durham over a plan to increase density critics say will fuel gentrification and writer Leigh Tauss talks about how Raleigh churches are fighting a global ban on gay marriage within the United Methodist Church. We also premiere a new track from Ellis Dyson & The Shambles as part of our Triangle First series.