There’s little excuse for eating at Taco Bell anymore. Our borders are porous, and as more immigrants and workers from Latin America enter the United States, the country’s population demographic and cultural profile are changing at the speed of light. Locally, one of the fringe benefits of the migration wave is chowing down at Carrboro’s […]
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell
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Fall-ternative: World Music
Globalization ain’t all bad: Who would have thought, 10 years ago, that acts from all over the world would be making pit stops in the Triangle and particularly, the N.C. Museum of Art? The museum’s outdoor amphitheater is becoming the destination for world music performers and their fans. Besides sponsoring Africa Fete in ’99, which […]
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Simplification and Satori
“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.” –Henry David Thoreau Seeing all your belongings barely fit into a U-Haul roughly the size of Rhode Island is faintly shocking. That experience, while I was moving from a large two-bedroom apartment with a wealth of closets and a […]
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Self-Studies
Summer camp evokes images of swimming pools and romping in athletic fields. But for about 60 Durham teens, a local program introduces them to a field of a different sort: documentary photography. Youth Document Durham, sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies, is a three-week day camp where 13- to 15-year-olds who live in Durham […]
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Riding a Wave
Durham’s John Riddick and Dominique Grosvenor take the term “husband-and-wife team” seriously. Riddick, 29, and Grosvenor, 36, are the brains and will behind Sadorian Publications, a small Triangle-based press they founded together, and the Black Writers Emerge Conference that took place July 6-8 at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh. Riddick and Grosvenor operate the publishing […]
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Tales From the ‘Hood
Think Shakespeare and the language is exalted, the setting is the Globe Theater, and the principals are, with the exception of Othello, white. Think hip hop, and the language is vernacular, the setting is the ‘hood, and the principals are young and black. But for Rennie Harris, founder and director of the Philadelphia-based Rennie Harris […]
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Singular Style
The sounds of sewing machines puncture the air in Nighisti’s Fashion with staccato bursts and a gentle, mechanical hum. The storefront at The Shoppes at Lakewood in Durham is bustling. Customers begin calling even before the doors open at 10 a.m. The owner of the alteration and clothing design shop, Nighisti Selby, is a master […]
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Double Shot of Soul
Check the best-selling lists at area Millennium Music stores, and the names are mostly familiar: Janet Jackson, Destiny’s Child, ex-Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks and Enya. And then there’s local entry YahZarah, a 21-year-old newcomer who was hanging on in the No. 4 slot in last week’s sales tally in the Durham store. Since the […]
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Tomorrow’s Citizens?
In the ongoing national debate about immigration, much of the controversy focuses on groups that are technically “nonimmigrants”: laborers who sign contracts for temporary work in the United States. H-1B workers are highly skilled professionals and H-2A visa holders provide agricultural labor. While only 200,000 to 250,000 H-1B and H-2A workers enter the United States […]
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Fall-ternative
When singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading came to Durham’s Carolina Theatre earlier this year, a friend asked who she was. The reply: “She was Tracy Chapman before Tracy Chapman.” This cleared things up. On Sept. 20, fans will get a taste of Armatrading’s legacy when Tracy Chapman comes to Raleigh’s The Ritz as part of her Telling […]