On Thursday morning, Leigh-Kathryn Bonner piled a bunch of beehives into her car and drove out to The Hub Farm, a seeming oasis of vegetable gardens, a pond, and crowing roosters off of Durham’s Roxboro Road. Once there, Bonner set up two hives on a patch of grass, donned a beekeeper’s hood, and unsealed the […]
Iza Wojciechowska
Bio: Durham's Iza Wojciechowska (@iza_woj on Twitter) has written for The New York Times, The Millions and others.
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Timothy Neill Talks Why He’s Closing Peccadillo and Bar Lusconi April 9
Bar Lusconi and Peccadillo will both close their doors next weekend. The bars were two of the area’s best-kept secrets: Bar Lusconi was tucked away in downtown Durham with mysterious light bulbs (and, for a long time, no sign) in the windows. Peccadillo was a veritable speakeasy behind an unmarked Carrboro door. But running rather […]
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Trophy Brewing’s larger second location on Maywood Avenue opens Monday
After outgrowing its nanobrewery almost as soon as it opened three years ago, Raleigh’s Trophy Brewing Company is finally unveiling its sprawling new location next week. Located in a 28,700-square-foot warehouse at 656 Maywood Ave., Trophy’s brewery and taproom will open Monday, Dec. 21, at 3 p.m., with 12 beers on tap. The taproom is […]
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The Click! Triangle Photography Festival aims to garner exposure and respect for its chosen medium
CLICK! TRIANGLE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL Triangle-wide, month of October, free www.clicktrianglephoto.org Hurricane Joaquin put a damper on the opening of the fourth Click! Triangle Photography Festival. Because of the heavy rain, what was supposed to be an outdoor kickoff party with food trucks and a photo exhibit projected on the wall at the Cordoba Center for […]
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Durham’s new craft distilleries should get a lift from shifting state liquor laws
Peer through the window of a former auto mechanic’s shop on Washington Street near downtown Durham, and you may be surprised by what you see. A large, gleaming, customized copper still dominates the room. Beside it sits a smaller glass contraption called a Buchi R-220 SE Rotavapor, a pricy piece of equipment usually found in […]
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A feast of authors, booksellers and publishers in the Durham debut of the Read Local Book Festival
Read Local Book Festival Friday, May 15–Sunday, May 17 Throughout downtown Durham www.readlocalnc.org It’s no secret that Durham loves the local: The city’s enthusiasm for homegrown food, beer and business proves it. This weekend, local writers, booksellers and publishers try to build on that trend at the inaugural Read Local Book Festival, designed to celebrate […]
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Zine-makers, comics artists and other print-lovers converge for the Zine Machine Festival
ZINE MACHINE: DURHAM PRINTED MATTER FESTIVAL Friday, Feb. 20, 3–10 p.m. Durham Armory 220 Foster St., Durham 919-560-4355 www.zinemachinefest.com Everett Rand was living in a tiny cabin in the woods of rural vermont with no running water and no electricity, manually cutting and pasting drawings, comics and poems into his first attempts at a handmade […]
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A doctor fiction writer and a poet of the working class reveal profound truths in the tools of their trades
Internal Medicine: A Doctor’s Stories By Terrence Holt Liveright Publishing Corporation 288 pp. A woman swallows needles. A man can’t remember that he’s been diagnosed with cancer. Another has a metal halo screwed into his skull. On the surface, these could be standard hospital storiesplotlines on a TV emergency-room drama. But in Terrence Holt’s capable […]
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A novel art hotel concept is coming to a historic downtown Durham building
One New Year’s Day a couple of years ago, I woke up groggy and hungry in Louisville, Kentucky. In search of brunch, I found Proof on Main, an ultra-modern restaurant and bar filled with art, including seagull sculptures suspended from the ceiling. Proof on Main is in the flagship 21c Museum Hotel, a hybrid establishment […]
