From start to finish, the entire demolition of the house took about as long as a lacrosse match.
Adam Sobsey
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Durham Bulls beat Norfolk Tides: Meritocracy
Photo by D. L. AndersonVirgil Vasquez in action earlier this year DBAP/ DURHAM—You could have probably won some money if you had bet, earlier this year, that by the All-Star break Brian Baker and Virgil Vasquez would have combined to earn a full fifth of the Bulls’ victories and been responsible for none of the […]
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Nic Brown’s impressive career takes off—and takes him away from Chapel Hill
Doubles By Nic Brown Counterpoint, 256 pp. See Related Events below for upcoming readings. A story: At a party on a pontoon boat, a guy works up the nerve to talk to a partially deaf woman who asks him to drive her somewhere else. They swim to shore and get in his old Dodge Dart. […]
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Gwinnett Braves shut out Durham Bulls: The Blur
photo courtesy of Durham BullsBulls’ pitcher Richard De Los Santos DBAP/ DURHAM—It’s usually Heather who waits patiently for me near the main gate after the game while I’m down in the clubhouses doing postgame interviews. But last night I got finished quickly and she was still watching the postgame fireworks, so I found a chair […]
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Louisville Bats swat Durham Bulls: All The Young Dudes
DBAP/DURHAM—Every summer I run an intensive two-week writing workshop for high school students. I really love doing it, and it’s happening right now. Our 39 young writers from all over the US (plus one from Mexico City) are all in the thick of self-designed prose or poetry projects, and I spend my days working with […]
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Durham Bulls edge Louisville Bats in ten innings: The finishing touch
Photo by D. L. AndersonThe Bulls’ Dan Johnson DBAP/DURHAM—Out beyond the center field wall at the DBAP, across Roxboro St., a crane kept sweeping across the sky for the first few innings of last night’s game. It was part of a massive downtown construction project. (If anyone knows what’s being built, please inform.) The distant […]
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Former Durham Bull Jason Childers faces retirement
It’s a warm June afternoon at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, and relief pitcher Jason Childers, who led the Durham Bulls in appearances in 2009, is taking a trip through his past. “When I was in rookie ball in ’97, I was in Helena, Mont., and we went to play in Great Falls. Before we […]
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Durham Bulls slaughter Lehigh Valley IronPigs: A little napalm in the night
Sgt. Slaughter DBAP/DURHAM—On Friday night, the Durham Bulls and Lehigh Valley IronPigs played a taut pitcher’s duel, won by the locals, 2-1. But don’t worry, the Bulls were just having some fun with you there, and they were back to their old brutalizing, beat-you-senseless selves in making the IronPigs squeal on Saturday, 10-3. Clad in […]
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Durham Bulls edge Lehigh Valley IronPigs: Charlie’s Angels
Photo by D. L. AndersonJeremy Hellickson on the mound earlier this year DBAP/DURHAM—After the Durham Bulls beat Lehigh Valley, 2-1, last night, Charlie Montoyo stood in front of the dugout, waiting to watch the Friday night fireworks. He doesn’t usually do this, but it wasn’t a usual night for him: He had with him his […]
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Theatre in the Park’s November
November Theatre in the Park Through June 20 David Mamet’s best plays, like Oleanna and American Buffalo, are so rigorously constructed, his dialogue so muscular, that the bad politics he fills them with leave audiences with challenging and exciting moral knots to untie. But when his art fails him, his plays are just the bad […]