Not long ago I profiled the fledgling Berenbaum’s bakery, which sets up a table across the street from the Durham Farmers’ Market on Saturdays and is now offering what proprietor Ari Berenbaum calls a “CSB”—a community-supported bakery in the well-established CSA tradition. Berenbaum’s is unusual for multiple reasons. The first of them is quite obvious. […]
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Durham Bulls beat Norfolk Tides again: Full frames
File photo by Jeremy M. LangeDesmond Jennings has reasons to smile. DBAP/ DURHAM—The Durham Bulls finally put a substantial helping of runs on the plate last night, striking for four in the second inning and four more in the seventh. That was plenty to beat the Norfolk Tides, 8-3, the Bulls’ fourth straight win, giving […]
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You Say Tomato, I Say Tomorrow: produce in peril at the farmers market
photo: Jeremy M. LangeSara Broadwell at the Durham Farmers’ Market, November 2010 Nine years running, I’ve marked the arrival of spring by Sara Broadwell’s return to the Durham Farmers Market with her perennial crop of asparagus. Sara’s husband, Graham, used to come along with her, adorned in his trademark khaki coveralls, but these days Sara […]
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Alex Cobb, Durham Bulls blank Norfolk Tides in home opener
Photo by Al DragoDurham Bulls pitcher Alex Cobb in action, April 14, 2011 DBAP/ DURHAM—Last season, Alex Cobb was called up to Durham from Class AA Montgomery just as the International League playoffs were starting, after a strong year with the Biscuits. He made two starts for the Bulls in those waning days of the […]
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Durham Bulls, 2011: A glossary
Now that we’re entering our third full season of covering the Durham Bulls, Triangle Offense thought it might be helpful to accompany our 2011 season preview, which you can find over on the main Independent Weekly site, with a practical definition of some terms we often use in our daily coverage. The list that follows […]
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“The storytelling animal”: Salman Rushdie at Duke
Salman Rushdie’s lecture Tuesday night, at Duke University’s Page Auditorium, was technically “sold out,” although tickets were free. So it seemed appropriate that Rushdie began his engaging and witty talk, “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World,” the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute’s Distinguished Lecture, by talking about Charles Dickens. As […]
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Two books shed light on the 2011 Durham Bulls
The Durham Bulls‘ home opener against the Norfolk Tides is Thursday, April 14, 7:05 p.m. at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Follow the Indy‘s baseball coverage on our Triangle Offense blog and on Twitter @IndyweekSports. Imagine a Durham Bulls game this summer. Say, a Tuesday in July, the seventh inning of a slack gamethe score 6-1, […]
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A weekend at Topsail Island invokes Don DeLillo’s White Noise
Thursday, around dusk, my sister called from Highway 17 near the Camp Lejeune Marine base, just a few miles from Topsail Island. She was on her way to join our family vacation. Dense smoke on the road: Should she turn back? Everything’s fine here, we reported, deep in littoral oblivion, making a fish stock for […]
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“It’s just one of those nights”: Thoughts on Duke’s exit from the NCAA Tournament
Getty ImagesNolan Smith on the bench after Duke’s season-ending loss to Arizona With just under four minutes left to play in Duke’s stunning 93-77 blowout loss to Arizona last night, ending the Blue Devils’ bid to repeat as NCAA champions (they themselves are the last team to do it, nearly 20 years agoed. we meant […]
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It Happened on the Way to War: Rye Barcott’s book about his work with the Kibera slum in Kenya
It Happened on the Way to War By Rye Barcott Bloomsbury USA, 352 pp. Many children follow in or near the footsteps of a parent, but very few follow in those of both. Rye Barcott is the son of two university professors, one an anthropologist, the other a sociologist. The former, his mother, once worked […]