As DPS Enrollment Drops, One Elementary School Grapples with Overcrowding
Just four years after it was built, Lyons Farm Elementary School in growing South Durham is over capacity.
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2027 Cary Mayoral Hopefuls Have Entered the Chat
While the election for Cary mayor is still a year out, two familiar figures in Western Wake politics are mounting early campaigns.
Epiphany on a Plane
How an oncologist’s sci-fi-inspired insight, layoffs at a pharma giant, and the unique culture of Research Triangle Park birthed a major cancer innovation.
Op-Ed: A Vote Against the Tax Amendments this Fall is a Vote for Public Schools
As a DPS graduate and a current DPS parent, we join the Durham Public Schools Board of Education in opposing two disastrous tax-related constitutional amendments on ballots this fall. This is why.
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What It Takes to Keep History from Fading, Shriveling, or Molding
Talking with Meg Brown, Exhibits Coordinator at Duke Library, about the three Declaration of Independence copies on display in Durham this fall.
Durham’s Cultural Roadmap Gets the Green Light
At the Thursday-night meeting, local arts workers celebrated the adoption of the plan, which has been in the works for four years, while calling for more clarity around funding initiatives and plan implementation.
CAM Is Selling Its Iconic Building. Could It Have Done More to Keep It?
The decision to sell comes after a 2020 rezoning made the downtown museum’s property much more valuable. CAM leadership maintains they want the institution to “be here for years to come”—but many in the art world feel skeptical.
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Adam O’Fallon Price’s Compelling Stories of Characters at Rock Bottom
If you’re someone who reads for a happy ending, you might want to sit “Objects of Desire” out. For everyone else who likes dark literary fiction with stripes of Denis Johnson and Ottessa Moshfegh: Welcome!
The Day the Priestess and the Poet Met in Asheville
Langston Hughes first met Nina Simone in 1949, when he visited her high school chapter of the NAACP. Their decades-long friendship would become a cultural cornerstone of the Black Power era.
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.
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Incoming! Surprise Documentaries, Conflicted Killers, and Murderous Crows
First up, the documentary film that everyone is talking about.
Boots Riley on Labor Organizing, His North Carolina Family Roots, and “I Love Boosters”
The filmmaker makes stops in Durham and Winston-Salem this week as part of a tour for his new anti-capitalist caper.
New Documentary Fest To Launch in Durham With All-Local Slate
Southern Doc Fest makes it debut at the Durham Arts Council on Oct 10 with two feature-length films and four shorts.
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