Charlie Montoyo’s new job is getting players to home. The esteemed and winning manager of the Durham Bulls Montoyo is now in the big leagues joining the Tampa Bay Rays as third base coach, the teams announced today. Montoyo is the second departure from the Bulls; Neil Allen left to become the pitching coach of […]
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Old Havana hosting toast today to recognize new era in U.S.-Cuba relations
Old Havana Sandwich Shop in downtown Durham is known for its excellent Cuban dishes—such as a roasted pork, ham, cheese, salami, mustard, pickle tower of power. Today, Old Havana, 310 E. Main St., will celebrate what could become a New Havana—a new era of potential goodwill, or at least something more than malicious indifference—between the […]
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From the archives: Raleigh’s Cuban community
The good—and it’s-about-pinche-time—news broke this morning that after 53-plus years, the U.S. and Cuba are discussing normalizing their relations, including opening an embassy in Havana and lifting the embargo. Cuba has freed an American prisoner, a contractor in jail for five years; and in return, the U.S. is releasing three Cuban spies, and, according to […]
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Latinos, part-timers, under-educated at risk
A few months before the November election, the state legislature and Gov. Pat McCrory conveniently announced they, once staunch opponents of Medicaid expansion, were reconsidering their decision to deny affordable health coverage to 300,000 to 500,000 North Carolinians. Since then, McCrory has not set a timetable for that discussionthe election is over, after all, with […]
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Poppies: A concrete field of fallow development
Like most large developments, University Marketplace had a grand vision: 300 apartments and 110,000-plus square feet of retail space, including a gourmet grocer, Poppies, in southwest Durham, near SuperTarget and Sam’s Club. That was in 2008, shortly before the Great Recession tanked the credit markets. And since then, University Marketplace off Shannon Road between U.S. […]
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Today in good news: The Parlour in downtown Durham expanding
Fans of The Parlour (such as yours truly) know that lines to buy joy in a cup can extend onto the sidewalk. Now the popular Durham ice cream shop is expanding into the former Playworks space next door, which will add 1,000 square feet. While The Parlour now seats 24 people, with the addition of […]
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From the archives: Stop Torture Now protests rendition flights out of Johnston County Airport
Congress may be surprised that the CIA using rendition flights to essentially smuggle terrorism suspects to black sites where agents brutally and systematically tortured them, this revelation would not surprise the members of Stop Torture Now, an activist group based in Raleigh, Smithfield and Fayetteville. As Bob Geary has reported, since 2005, the Stop Torture […]
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Rumors are true: Pop’s Trattoria closed
The silverware is still rolled in the napkins. A half-used bag of onions sits in a window. The phone still works. At night, the neon sign is brightly lit. But Pop’s Trattoria, once a mainstay of the Durham dining scene, has closed. The rumors started shortly after Thanksgiving, when each night the restaurant at 605 […]
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Body cameras for cops only part of the solution
The actions of Durham police last Friday night were yet another disappointment for our city. The best outcome for a protest is that the point is made, the demonstrators feel heard and that no one is injured or arrested. It was unnecessary to arrest Adrienne Harreveld, one of 31 demonstrators arrested for failure to disperse […]
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Ground has been broken on new office building in a nook off Alley 26
As regular INDY readers might know, I’m obsessed with Alley 26 and its offshoot nooks. It’s my favorite spot in Durham—a throwback to an earlier time, that, with its brick and sharp angles and narrowness, feels vaguely European. So I keep track of what’s happening back there, whether it’s the tree that was cut down […]