If Pat Robertson met artist Bill Fick, he just might change his mind about Hugo Chavez. Wait, who am I kidding. But Fick is one Venezuelan export–and Chapel Hill resident–who ‘s worth noting. Fick is this year’s artist-in-residence at UNC-Chapel Hill’s art department, and he’s also working on self-publishing his bilingual children’s book titled Pocasita’s […]
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‘A church exists to help the community’
Several cried, others just nodded in acknowledgement. At a book signing on July 22 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, author Mark Constantine read from his book to a crowd of 50 of the church’s parishioners. In it he highlights the work of a handful of church leaders, both Catholic and Protestant, in the South. One […]
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in your Aiken heart
If there’s one universal, redeeming quality about Fox’s American Idol, it’s that we’re more likely able to brag about knowing someone famous–or at least where the famous person used to eat lunch, pre-fame. What ever happened to 2003 American Idol winner Ruben Studdard, anyway? That’s the best part about the Clay Aiken story: He was […]
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Migrant housing bill hijacked
A bill that passed in the North Carolina House last month is meeting opposition from farm-worker advocates who say its original purpose–the improvement of poor housing conditions for migrant farm workers–was eliminated in the legislative process. The Enhance Migrant Housing Act, House Bill 697, narrowly made it through earlier this month after its precursor, The […]
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Boutique beer bill running dry?
A bill that would allow higher-alcohol specialty beers in the state hit a roadblock in the N.C. Senate last week. House Bill 392, which would raise the state’s legal limit on the amount of alcohol-by-volume in beer from 6 percent to 15 percent, went to the Senate floor on July 7. Senator John Kerr of […]
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Durham Farmers’ Market to break ground
One recent Saturday morning at the Durham Farmers’ Market, Nancy Hare Robbins watched her 7-year-old daughter Lily play her violin for passersby. She played her favorite tune, “Oh Susannah,” and a small pile of change accumulated in her violin case. The only thing not charming about the 6-year-old Durham Farmers’ Market on Morris Street is […]
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Biodiesel co-op expands
The last time Lyle Estill filled up his car’s tank at a regular gas station was more than two years ago. He, along with the other members of Pittsboro’s Piedmont Biofuels, runs his car on biodiesel, a once-upon-a-time backyard brew and now in-demand sustainable fuel source. Nowadays, Estill, as well as Rachel Burton and Leif […]
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Centro Hispano survives proposed Durham cuts
Durham leaders will not follow the advice of a citizen panel that recommended cutting funds for El Centro Hispano by more than three quarters, in part because the center’s services are too “Latino specific.” But the organization is still fighting for its full request. Last year, El Centro–one of North Carolina’s leading Latino organizations–received $33,920 […]