When I arrived in Durham nine years ago, two downtown buildings caught my eye: The Oprah Building, aka, the Jack Tar Motel, and the former Home Savings/ Mutual Savings Bank. Against all the early 20th century brick buildings, these mid-century oddities, well, I didn’t know whether to fall in love or feel aghast. Eventually I […]
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New brewery in Knightdale, new chef at James Joyce
What we’re eating: our weight in tomato sandwiches. Go minimalist with a thick slab of heirloom, slapped with mayo and a dash of salt on sourdough from Scratch in Durham. Or gussy up your seasonal treat at Ninth Street Bakery: Asiago cheese, cucumber, red pepper, onion and of course, mayo. Our more exotic palates are […]
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Does the American Tobacco Trail unite or divide us?
Read more about:Social Justice on the ATTEffects of the ATT I-40 bridge Hey, is that a boy or a girl?” I kept walking, and mumbled to myself: If you have to ask, you don’t need to know. “Goddam bitch? Why didn’t you answer?” My name’s not bitch. “Why are you getting all white on me?” […]
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True story: N.C. State scientists brew beer from wasps’ yeast
The lowly wasp. We swat it, curse it, kill it and shoo it away from our eaves. But where we see pain and swelling, John Sheppard sees beer. An N.C. State professor of bioprocessing science, Sheppard and fellow scientists Rob Dunn and Anne Madden have brewed six styles of beer using the yeasts of wasps […]
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Hmmm … the Durham City Council race is getting interesting
With about a week left to file for Durham City elections, the City Council race is shaping up to be the most interesting, especially with the departure of Incumbents Eugene Brown and Diane Catotti, who announced earlier this summer that they would not run for re-election. What’s not surprising is that Mayor Bill Bell and […]
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Join Raleigh’s Blackberry Brigade
What we’re eating: A mid-afternoon pick-me-up of Vietnamese coffee ice cream in a waffle cone from The Parlour in Durham. And since the weather has been so blazing, more ice cream, this time from lucettegrace in Raleigha salted-caramel ice cream macaron sandwich, in which the ice cream comes topped with massive macarons of the same […]
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Durham Historic Preservation Commission nixes (again) Greystone project
One of the few things more massive than the Greystone Apartments project is the headache that ensues after listening to the Historic Preservation Commission discuss it. That’s not to say the commission hasn’t raised essential points about what would be a game-changer for Morehead Hill. I’m just pointing out that a 20-minute discussion on the […]
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Durham Election 2015: Let the filing floodgates open
Candidate filing started Monday, which means the levee of lunacy has broken, flooding the election with every gadfly, nutjob and ax-grinder who can pay the $205.88 filing fee ($242.36 for mayoral aspirants). It may be democracy, but it ain’t pretty. In Durham, Steve Schewel is running for re-election for his at-large seat, but incumbents Eugene […]
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Yes, you do want five homeless, innocent, needy potbellied pigs
The Durham County Sheriff’s Office will auction off a family of five tomorrow morning. The five potbellied pigs— two unweaned boys, two unweaned girls and the mom, who is probably tired of the whole thing—have been chilling out at the animal shelter since May 18, but no one has come forward to claim them. Per […]