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Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
Well, I might throw up in my mouth a little bit, but I do have to give Lomax Properties points for improvement. Since last year, Lomax, based in Greensboro, has been trying to convince the city and the historic Morehead Hill neighborhood to approve, even welcome, its plan to build apartments on three acres of […]
Wait, what’s that smell? Oh, it’s the sweet scent of the 2016 election. Could that explain Gov. Pat McCrory’s inching toward the center with his two laudable vetoes? The ag-gag bill got the big V, as did the measure allowing God-fearing, Jesus-quoting magistrates (wait, Jesus said nothing about homosexuality) to discriminate against gays and lesbians. […]
OK, compared to the two most horrific bills of the week—one allowing God-fearing magistrates to discriminate against gays and lesbians, and the other to force womenfolk to wait three days before getting a legal abortion—the killing-Bambi-on-the-Lord’s Day legislation seems minor. But this ridiculous bill provides yet another glimpse into the minds of the gun-lovin’, gay-hatin’, […]
Alert: spoiler ahead. In the winter of 1970, I was sitting with several of my fellow students at the yellow duck table, I believe, in Miss Ludwig’s afternoon kindergarten class, when the subject of Santa’s existence came up. My mother was volunteering that day. A classmate at the table, whom I can’t remember (but his […]
Summary of public comments and responses Whatever you do, don’t call it a “road diet.” That implies drivers are being deprived of something like total dominance over the road ways. Instead, let’s just say we’re sending a part of Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard to a spa for sculpting and contouring. Under a new plan, this summer […]
Five years ago, several people who lived along Dollar Avenue in Durham’s Trinity Park neighborhood learned they may have been exposed to a toxic chemical used in dry cleaning. At best, long-term exposure to the chemical, tetracholoroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene or perc, can cause liver and kidney damage. At worst, cancer. Tonight, residents can […]
It’s late May, so that means two things to an urban naturalist: It’s time to sniff the honeysuckle and to embark on the annual mulberry forage. Durham is rife with mulberry trees that are in the public right-of-way—or their branches hang over it—and thus, the fruit is free and for the taking. On my way […]
What you said about the loop: Only been advocating for it for about 13 or 14 years now. Roxboro is a horrible and dangerous moat that cuts off the east side of downtown from the rest of it. I really don’t know about the town square idea—kind of looks like yet another public space that […]
Because of the relentless snow last winter, Urban Archaeology had to go on temporary hiatus. But come the spring rains, Durham’s streets became strewn with artifacts, like mammoth bones emerging from an ice melt. It was a trashpicker’s dream. Since last fall, I’ve been collecting CDs (and one cassette tape!) that had been discarded in […]
