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Adam Sobsey
Bio: Adam Sobsey (@sobsey) writes about wine and culture for INDY Week.Twitter: http://twitter.com/sobsey
Posted inMusic
To Hell and Back: The Many Deaths and Lives of Squirrel Nut Zippers
On the “Lost Songs Of Doc Souchon,” the legendary Chapel Hill band is reborn yet again in New Orleans.
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The Coronavirus Is a Disaster to Everyone But Insurance Companies
In Durham and across the country, restaurants and recreation businesses are fighting back.
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Chapel Hill’s Best Wine Shop Is Hidden Away in a Hair Salon
“You find things that you like, and you do them.”
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Remembering the Passion, Precision, and Whimsy of Magnolia Grill’s Karen Barker
The late chef was a James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, cookbook author, and co-owner of the seminal Durham restaurant Magnolia Grill.
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You Can Eat a Tarantula at Bull City Burger, But There Are Other Ways to Grow Your Palate
“Eat things you’re not used to. We’ve got to get away from the skinless, boneless world. It’s not like we’re selling eyeballs.”
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Dish: How Two Philosophy Ph.D. Candidates Quietly Revitalized Ninth Street Bakery’s Artisan Bread Program
Alex Ruch’s baking has a deeper philosophy: that bread is a proper food, not merely an accessory to it.
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Come Hell or High Water, Iconic Durham Restaurant Nana’s Was a Force of Nature. A Longtime Bartender Pays Honor to Its Unique Culture on Its Final Night.
By the time final toasts were made at Nana’s following its last night of service on June 30, the calendar had rolled into July. The dozens of late-night revelers in the bar were a mix of present and past employees whose years of service stretched in a near-continuous timeline all the way back to the […]
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As Bull Durham Taught Us, Baseball Is a Precarious Balance of Confidence and Caution. Thirty Years Later, the Lesson Also Speaks to a Transformed, Growing City.
When Bull Durhamthe greatest baseball movie ever made, don’t bother arguingturned thirty earlier this month, it was feted locally in fine style. Writer-director Ron Shelton (a former minor-leaguer himself, it should be noted) threw out the first pitch at a Bulls game and commandeered the team’s Twitter feed for a public Q and A. Bulls […]
Posted inArt
Deep Listening Is Yoga to Our Ears at Global Breath Studio in Durham
Deep Listening Workshop Saturday, Nov. 18 & SATURDAY, DEC. 9, 1 p.m., $20 Global Breath Studio, Durham www.globalbreath.org What’s the difference between hearing and listening? That’s the question Lindsay “L. Cooper” McKenzie explores in her Deep Listening workshops at Durham’s Global Breath Studio. Deep Listening is derived from the praxis of experimental music pioneer Pauline […]