Convicted of soliciting a fourteen-year-old girl for sex, Jamie Greaves says he was catfished by an undercover cop and “had a lapse in judgment.”
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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After a Disastrous Oral Surgery, a Baker and Food Journalist Learns to Eat with her Eyes
“The complication giving me the most grief was painless—in fact, it was free of any feeling at all.”
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Hopscotch 2018: Thundercat’s Ferocious, Freewheeling Experiments Launch him Toward Exciting New Universes
From his music to his outlandish fashion sense to his sometimes too honest Twitter feed (“These farts are getting pretty violent,” read one dispatch from April), Steven Brunerbetter known by his stage name Thundercatis unapologetically himself.
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Young Bull Does Durham Proud With Its Inventive Fusion of Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Soul
BEATS N BARS FESTIVAL Friday, Aug. 24-Sunday, Aug. 26, Free-$26 Various venues, Downtown Durham www.beatsnbarsfestival.com
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Food Trucks Are So 2016. The Now Thing in Mobile Food is on Instagram, and Its Name Is the Dankery.
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 […]
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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
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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].
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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 […]
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