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  • Heather Leah Unearths Raleigh’s Hidden History
  • Local Millionaire Shortbread Company Goes National
  • Films Coming to Triangle Theaters This Month
  • ICYMI: A New Resource for Your Durham Housing Debates
  • Durham’s Sylvan Esso Pulls Catalog from Spotify
Credit: Photo by Chloe Courtney Bohl

Good morning, readers.

Heather Leah began blogging about Raleigh history on a whim in 2012.

One of her first viral posts was about the Village Subway, an abandoned underground mall beneath the Village District and a hub for Raleigh’s punk music scene in the 1970s and ’80s. Leah couldn’t find many photos of the Village Subway in its heyday, so she gathered oral histories from the people who used to work and play down there. 

“That became a crystallizing moment where I saw how history can create community,” she says. “People who hadn’t seen their friends in 50 years were finding each other in my comment section. Bands that hadn’t played together since the ’70s reunited.”

Leah’s blog took off, and she became a full-time local historian, author, and tour guide. For the latest installment of INDY’s Character Studies series, I spoke to her about Raleigh’s forgotten landmarks and what history can teach us about the present. 

Read the story below, and have a good Wednesday. 

—Chloe

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Sweet Success

Artie Bars started as a home baking experiment. Now, Raleigh residents Artie and Nicole Januario are working to make their millionaire shortbread business a household name.

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Incoming! Films

October is traditionally the time for scary movies. Our monthly film column from Glenn McDonald has both horror films and some alternative options coming to the area this month. 

Credit: Illustration by Nicole Pajor Moore

On the House

A new Durham Housing Dashboard and accompanying report provide in-depth data and recommendations on one of the Bull City’s top issues, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw writes.

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STATE: Cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates go into effect today. North Carolina Health News reports on how we got here and what it means for residents’ health care.

STATE: Political scientist Chris Cooper writes for The Assembly about North Carolinians leaving the Democratic Party, who’s benefiting, and why it’s happening.

STATE: A federal judge says Republican legislators did not improperly dilute Black votes in creating new districts in northeastern North Carolina, NC Newsline reports.

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  • Raleigh’s Smoky Hollow turns in to Spooky Hollow for a special First Friday featuring acrobats, tarot reading and trick-or-treating.
  • GoRaleigh is holding open houses this week to learn more about the city’s planned bus rapid transit system.
  • The final Jazz in the Square is tomorrow. The free music series is held at Moore Square in Raleigh.
  • Sylvan Esso is removing their music from Spotify and releasing their first new music in three years.
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