Two arborists’ uncommon hobby takes them deep into the woods to look for the state’s leafy giants.
Jonathan Pattishall
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Iceland’s Kaleo Caught Flack at Home for “Inauthenticity,” So it Decamped to the U.S. Instead
KALEO Tuesday, June 13, 8 p.m., $24–$40 N.C. Museum of Art, Raleigh www.ncartmuseum.org Of all the clichéd controversies that have sandbagged rock ‘n’ roll since the beginning, probably the most persistent, after the sex and drugs, is the old idea that rock music is lowbrow. National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. once called The […]
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Shut up
I’m about to shut up, but before I do, I need to tell you to shut up. So, shut up! I mean you, you white Jordan High School lacrosse players. (But I don’t just mean you; I really mean all privileged, young, white males.) Shut up and listen. I’ve had enough of your ignorant “She […]
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Fair’s fair
So what if I’m white? I went to Shepard Middle School, too. I knew the very same Principal Julia Fairley that everyone else knew. I saw her handle most of the same situations that every other student there saw, and I know I saw her a lot more than many kids’ parents did. And what’s […]
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Are leaders really listening?
City and county politicians aren’t paying a lot of attention to hearing the concerns of young people right now. But for all the ruckus raised over “hooligan kids,” and with all the curfews set at malls and gang fights at schools, Durham’s city and county governments are having a hard time getting their act together […]
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Good-bye, Soul Good
For many who visit the YMCA in downtown Durham, the upcoming loss of the Soul Good Juice Cafe will be a sad experience. But for me, it will be much more than that. Its departure will mark the end of my connection with its owner, my former (and first) boss, and its employees, my former […]
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Dear Eligible Voter:
As a 15-year old, I want to have a future I can look forward to. I have hopes and dreams for my life, and for what I want to accomplish. But those dreams are beginning to resemble nightmares. If this country continues down the current political path, I don’t think I have much of a […]
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Not-so-cosmic kids
I went to The Lounge underneath the Cosmic Cantina in Durham last Friday expecting the usual night of good Mexican food, and most importantly, really good music. I returned home in disgust. Somewhere around 9 or 10 o’clock, a big disturbance (or a bloodless fight, whichever way you look at it) broke out between some […]
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Back to school with less
I still vividly remember all those days back in winter, walking to my second-period Spanish class. Instead of going into the unheated trailer where our class usually meets, we met in the back of my Durham middle school’s auditorium for the entire winter. Unfortunately, my classmates and I fared no better there than we would […]
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A good start
Last Wednesday, The Center for Documentary Studies hosted a forum on media literacy. It was, to say the least, an interesting experience. I saw many of my friends from the Youth Document Durham program, many other people from various organizations, and a handful of reporters. The reporters, they say, were there to give and receive […]