In 2010, when Ian Burris was in ninth grade at Riverside High School, he started selling homemade cold-cut sandwiches to classmates in gym. The next summer, he launched a lawn-mowing business. Then he opened ShrimpandPasta’s Boutique, an Instagram-based clothing store where he resold customized jerseys and limited-edition sneakers he ordered online. His next venture landed […]
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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Listen to Anne-Claire’s Slick New Single, “Behind Me”
At the end of 2017, singer-songwriter Anne-Claire Niver—better known as just Anne-Claire—ran a month-long Kickstarter campaign, raising money to fund the production of her second full-length album. She exceeded her $15,000 goal and set off to record the nine songs on her new album, I Still Look For You, which comes out next weekend. Today, […]
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Friday Night Bites: TerraVita Food & Drink Festival, Hummingbird’s Heirloom Tomato Dinner, Taste of Soul NC, and More
Welcome to Friday Night Bites, your weekly roundup of local food and drink news and events. Have a tip for us? Email [email protected]. NEWSSean Umstead Advances to Bedlam Vodka Cocktail Competition Quarterfinals Sean Umstead—owner of craft cocktail bar Kingfisher, which is set to open this fall in downtown Durham—is a quarterfinalist in BAR FIGHT!, Bedlam […]
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Through This Lens Hosts an Exhibit and Flash Sale of Colectivo Liminal Photos to Benefit Local Migrant-Support Organizations
Colectivo Liminal Silent Auction Friday, Jul. 20, 6–9 p.m. Through This Lens, Durham At Through This Lens on July 20, Colectivo Liminal is holding a flash sale of fifty photographs that document issues of immigration, migration, and refugee crises in the global South. The photos are the product of Colectivo Liminal’s network of journalists and […]
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Friday Night Bites: Al’s Burger Shack Voted Best Burger in America, PickleFest 2018, the Whiskey Kitchen Supper Club, and More
Welcome to Friday Night Bites, your weekly roundup of local food and drink news and events. Have a tip for us? Email [email protected]. NEWS Morgan Street Food Hall to Open This August A sprawling European-style food hall—basically, an upscale food court—is finally making its way to the Triangle. With more than twenty different restaurant and […]
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A Transformative Time Abroad Taught Felix Obelix’s Wendy Spitzer to Play Well With Others
WENDY SPITZER’S CO-LABOR-ATORY Saturday, July 14, 9 p.m., $7 Nightlight, Chapel Hill www.nightlightclub.com Wendy Spitzer asks questions about the things that everyone experiences but nobody talks about. How do we make friends in adulthood versus other parts of our lives? How do we work together, and how do emotional issues arise and get resolved when […]
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Independent Venue Week Comes to Motorco
This week, fourteen venues across the country, including Durham’s Motorco Music Hall, are partaking in the stateside debut of Independent Venue Week, which runs July 9-15. Billed as “Record Store Day for venues,” it’s designed to commemorate independently run music venues through a series of shows, spotlighting smaller clubs and giving them the chance to […]