Recently, residents of Flint, Michigan, learned their drinking water was contaminated by lead, thanks to state government incompetence and/or malfeasance. Bernie Sanders demanded Gov. Rick Snyder’s resignation. Filmmaker Michael Moore petitioned to have Snyder arrested. An emergency has been declared. Investigations are mounting. In other words, last week was not a particularly good time to […]
Danny Hooley
Bio: Danny Hooley lives in Durham, writes about television and music and plays in The Bastages.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/dhoohoo
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WRAL, WNCN to switch affiliations
Starting Feb. 29, WNCN (NBC-17) will no longer carry the NBC lineup of shows including The Blacklist, The Tonight Show and Saturday Night Live. Instead, the station will carry the CBS lineup (including The Big Bang Theory, Criminal Minds, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, etc.) that currently plays on WRAL. On that date, WRAL […]
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Neil Young’s live movie theater event comes to Cary
On Feb. 29, The Regal Crossroads Stadium & IMAX in Cary will be one of six North Carolina theaters to host a Neil Young double feature, followed by a transmission of Cameron Crowe’s live interview with the rock legend. The event takes place in theaters nationwide. The three-and-a-half-hour program “An Evening with Neil Young—Presented By […]
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Man tasered by Durham police at Harris Teeter no longer faces trespassing charges
Trespassing charges were dropped Wednesday against 24-year-old Deonte Holder, who was tasered by Durham police on Sept. 9 after he refused to leave the Ninth Street Harris Teeter for unspecified reasons. According to Bull City Rising, the charges were dismissed after witnesses—employees at the Harris Teeter—failed to show up in court. The arrest story went […]
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Guglhupf update: Back in the food donation business
This morning, The INDY reported that Durham’s popular Guglhupf restaurant, bakery and cafe was looking for volunteers to deliver day-old baked goods to people in need. As it turns out, on a day when executive chef David Alworth was emotionally wrecked — as we all are — by the death of David Bowie, there was […]
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Guglhupf wants to give away baked goods — can you help?
Guglhupf’s Executive Chef David Alworth can’t exactly pinpoint when the Durham restaurant, cafe and bakery began the daily practice of donating half-a-dozen-or-so large bags of day-old bread and pastries to poor people. He recalls that drivers for Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA) were already making pick-ups by the time Alworth joined the Guglhupf’ […]
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools: Now a living-wage employer
Sometimes, a little peer pressure is a good thing. Just two months ago, protesters gathered outside Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools’ Chapel Hill offices to protest negligent treatment of of minority students and workers. One thing CHCCS neglected to do was pay some of its workers — such as 72-year-old custodian Eugene Farrar, featured in a […]
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A new year, a new John Tarantino jam (with audio)
“Mr. Tarantino – where are you – you have two minutes for your presentation.” At Thursday’s Durham Council work session, Mayor Pro Tem Cora Cole-McFadden had the honor of “introducing” musical satirist John Tarantino, a local gadfly who’s run for council (twice), state senate and school board in recent years, and lost every time. But […]
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The ‘Canopener Bridge’ inflicts more whoopass, for NBC News (UPDATE: Video)
Freelance producer Shauna Williams thought her story for NBC News about Durham’s infamous ‘Canopener Bridge” was already going really well by late Thursday afternoon. And then it happened, for the 102nd time since April 2008, and the story got much, much better. The Canopener Bridge is hungry, and it must eat. Just before the 5 […]
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If Mama ain’t happy … The most honest News and Observer obit ever
Readers of the News & Observer obit pages were treated Thursday to an epic seven-paragraph tale of a life that “seemed like a soap opera … a modern day tragedy.” Whoever authored the obituary for Wilma Marie Voliva Black, who died Dec. 22 in Knightdale at the age of 94, definitely had Wilma’s back, and […]
