Amid an anti-LGBTQ climate and bans against transgender athletes, deadlifting offers queer lifters a sense of self and safety.
Lena Geller
Lena Geller is a reporter for INDY, covering food, housing, and politics. She joined the staff in 2018 and previously ran a custom cake business.
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New Documentary Fest To Launch in Durham With All-Local Slate
Southern Doc Fest makes it debut at the Durham Arts Council on Oct 10 with two feature-length films and four shorts.
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Lunch Money: Breakfast for Lunch at Country Junction
Nobody at the Carrboro diner needs a menu, least of all the 87-year-old regular who swears by the bologna sandwich.
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Duke Students Scrambled to Shield a Garden From Demolition Next Door. Behind the Teardown? Their Own University.
A community garden on Swift Avenue has grown hundreds of pounds of fresh food and helped to seed a fragile alliance between Duke and its neighbors. A demolition next door threatened both.
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Civil Rights Groups Argue No-Contact Order Violates Durham Activist’s First Amendment Rights
The ACLU of North Carolina and other organizations are asking a state court to throw out a no-contact order issued on behalf of Durham’s social services director.
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Lunch Money: An Existential Crisis at Cosmic Cantina
A visit to a Durham hole-in-the-wall prompts a reckoning with memory and change.
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Durham Bulls Concessions, Ranked: A Hot Dog Monogamist Plays the Field
Whiskey-glazed pecans, a cartoonishly thin chicken cutlet, the Mezcalito nachos, and more concessions, rated from strikeout to home run.
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Lunch Money: A Visit to the North Carolina State Legislature Cafeteria
An order of beef soup, Brussels sprouts, honey bun cake, and two different casseroles—while the General Assembly, upstairs, finally passes the budget.
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How $4 Billion Came Off Durham’s Tax Rolls Last Year, Mostly Benefiting Corporate Landlords—and Blowing a Hole in the City Budget
An INDY investigation found that in an unprecedented and still-murky saga, a county board granted billions in property value reductions to landlords and companies like Blackstone. City leaders, banking on the tax revenue, didn’t know until April.
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Filmed in Durham, a New Movie About Cosmic Coincidences Has Flown Under the Radar
The Bull City is somewhat of a main character in the indie rom-com ‘Everything & the Universe,’ streaming since last year on Amazon Prime. So why has no one heard of it?
