Ninth Street Bakery 136 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham When I first told Ari Berenbaum I wanted to talk about the Asiago scone he’d just unveiled at the downtown Durham institution Ninth Street Bakery, he balked. “Why?” the unassuming and soft-spoken baker wondered over the phone. “Chefs are doing scones with yuzu, all kinds of […]
Grayson Haver Currin
Bio: Grayson Haver Currin was the music editor of INDY Week and the co-director of Hopscotch Music Festival.Twitter: http://twitter.com/currincy
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Scott Crawford Will Leave Standard Foods in May, Nash Tavern Plans Scrapped
Well that didn’t last long: Less than six months after the long-delayed but since-celebrated Standard Foods opened its doors near Raleigh’s Person Street, chef Scott Crawford is planning not only his exit at the restaurant but also the end of his partnership with developer and Standard owner John Holmes of Hobby Properties, which included a […]
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Sad About Phife Dawg? Need to Feel Better About Yourself? Watch Margaret Spellings Scratch Records.
As you have likely already heard, A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg has died, presumably late last night after a prolonged battle with diabetes and a kidney transplant eight years ago. He was only forty-five, an age that seems much too soon, especially for someone who had such a pioneering impact on music. Speaking of […]
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Record Review: On Damager, Body Games Makes Beautiful, Broken-Hearted Electronic Pop
BODY GAMES DAMAGER self-released Perhaps it’s the pitch-shifted and beaming Ladysmith Black Mambazo sample that opens the record. Perhaps it’s the floating harmonies and ebulliently snapping beat that end the finale, “Perfume,” an ostensibly hopeful number about the strength of friendship despite a geographic distance. Or perhaps it’s the woozy splendor of “Matchstick,” the trunk-rattling […]
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The Lawyer and the Label Head: Cory Rayborn Reflects on Sixteen Years of Running the Psychedelic Syndicate Three Lobed
Three Lobed Recordings Sweet 16 Spectacular Kings, Raleigh Saturday, March 26, 1 p.m., $28-$35 The survival of Three Lobed Recordingsor for that matter, any such small independent labelduring the last sixteen years is in and of itself a significant story. Founded, helmed, and operated almost entirely by Cory Rayborn, a business lawyer based in Jamestown, […]
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DRINK: Have a Drink—And Tip Well
If you’re passing the evenings alone at home by forming a mountain of crushed domestic beer cans or polishing off the last little bit of that prized bottle of single-malt Scotch that’s as aged as the Old Testament, you can be as cranky or convivial as you’d like. You’ll only bother the pets, maybe the […]
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That Moogfest Map You Might Have Seen Today Isn’t Quite Right
Early Friday afternoon, a map of Moogfest’s proposed footprint for the festival’s inaugural iteration in downtown Durham in May began to circulate through social media. That map, sourced from The Herald-Sun reporter Lauren Horsch, enumerated twenty-two venues for the event, with some strange surprises, including the barbecue restaurant The Pit, the erstwhile clothing boutique Dear […]
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SXSW 2016: The Triangle’s Watch List
The music portion of Austin’s South by Southwest has begun and will overrun Austin, Texas, through week’s end. Though it’s easy to gripe about the congestion and corporatization of the event, especially during the last decade, hordes of bands still make the southward pilgrimage in hopes of being heard at showcases both official and unofficial. […]
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Record Review: Clark Blomquist’s Wonderful Late-Night Listening Session as Tegucigalpan
TEGUCIGALPAN THE FIFTH OF SHE self-released When the fourteen tracks of The Fifth of She, the beguiling and bewildering debut cassette of Clark Blomquist as Tegucigalpan, spool to an end, you may feel like you’ve made a new friend. More specifically, it may seem that you’ve sat in Blomquist’s living room late at night, a […]
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Fearrington Village Wine Director Max Kast Wants You to Eat Your Vegetables With Wine
Max Kast Southern Season, Chapel Hill Sunday, March 20, 4 p.m. Max Kast does not mind the interruption. On a Thursday morning, the thirty-six-year-old wine director of the rural Chatham County outpost Fearrington Village stands at the bar of the gargantuan Chapel Hill grocer Southern Season. He swirls a glass of Chianti Rufina in his […]