Cary Clarifies Rules for Public Comment Following Raucous Meeting
State law and the First Amendment allow towns to make their own rules for public comment, with some important caveats.
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Personal injury law is more about optimizing outcomes than promising big payouts
There are eight million licensed drivers in North Carolina, and not all of them are good drivers. So, a car wreck may be the most likely reason a person ever needs a personal injury attorney. And the last thing someone needs after a wreck is an overpromising, performative, combative lawyer promising outrageous settlements that can’t be delivered. Michele Cybulski takes…
Para los Residentes Evacuados de Chatham Estates, La Experiencia De Ser Evacuada Ha Sido Mezclado
Residentes de la ex comunidad de casas móviles en Cary han en gran parte asegurado nuevas viviendas, pero algunos están pagando mucho más en alquiler, han tenido que mudarse lejos o otros están lidiando con interrupciones en el trabajo, la escuela y el cuidado de niños.
Backtalk: “How could you not be sentimental about a place that transcends phases of life?”
And other things our readers told us.
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Hyperlocal Zines Help Make Durham Come Alive
The DIY booklets encourage readers to engage more deeply with the city around them—offering illustrated guides for how to safely bike, explore local history and ecology, or even find a good spot to cry.
After Thirty Years of Showcasing Art on the Edge, Bill Thelen Bids Goodbye to Lump Gallery
Since 1996, the small cinder block gallery has been Raleigh’s mainstay for experimental art. On August 31, owner Bill Thelen is closing its doors for good.
From Her Garden Post in Wilmington, Prolific Artist Minnie Evans Patrolled the Borders Between Worlds
A new documentary unspools the story of Minnie Evans, a North Carolina artist whose visionary work channeled a dialogue with the divine and broke through the art world.
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Carrboro Author Elisa Faison On Polyamory, Domestic Fiction, and Her Debut Novel ‘Skin Contact’
Released in June, ‘Skin Contact’ has the buzzy premise of a young couple navigating an newly opened marriage. But the novel is as interested in friendship and family as it is romance.
White Men and White Metal
How a small group of white men engineered the violent 1898 overthrow of Wilmington’s duly elected multiracial government.
At Raleigh’s Bright Side Books & Wine, Love Stories of Every Stripe and a Robust Community of Romance Readers
The romance genre has seen a publishing boom over the last decade. In Raleigh, a new genre bookstore hopes to make readers swoon—and stay for the social connections.
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“Creating the Conditions for Care”: Durham Native Andie Morgenlander On Making Her First Feature and Humanizing Film Sets
‘Whistle Down Wind,’ Morgenlander’s debut feature, is deeply rooted in North Carolina. It screens at this year’s OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival.
In New Documentary, a Moving Tribute to North Carolina’s First Openly Trans Homecoming King
‘What Will I Become?’, which plays August 13-18 at OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival, shines light on the legacies of Blake Brockington and Kyler Prescott, two trans teenagers who lost their lives to suicide.
Incoming! Celebrity Sex Passes, Professional Scenesters, and Greek Mythology
Zoey Deutch in a meta summer comedy, a documentary about the music producer Peter Asher, and more films coming to theaters around the Triangle.
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