It’s well known that parts of East Durham are not basking in the economic boom that much of rest of the city is enjoying. But now we have easily accessible, understandable data to show the extent of the neglect. The Durham Neighborhood Compass (compass.durhamnc.gov) provides information on housing, income, crime, transportation and access to amenities […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
Posted inFilm & Television
Durham’s Strange Beauty Film Festival combines the lovely and the weird
Strange Beauty Film Festival June 12–June 14 Manbites Dog Theater Weekend passes $40, individual tickets $5–$12 strangebeauty.org Strange beauty: a three-legged dog, an odd birthmark, peeling wallpaper. Paraphrasing a photographer whose name escapes me, to appreciate strange beauty is to see the crack in the window before you see the window. In its fifth year, […]
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A hitchhiker’s guide to leaving town
I found this sign in a grassy strip along West Main Street, across from Duke East Campus. “Anywhere But Here”: It could be a modern version of “California or bust!,” the mantra of fortune-seekers headed West during the Gold Rush. Judging from the drawing, this 21st century hitchhiker yearned for snow-peaked mountains and rolling byways […]
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Pittsboro town commissioners approve Chatham Park
By a 4–1 vote Monday night, the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners approved the controversial Chatham Park development. Bett Wilson Foley cast the lone no vote. A full story by INDY staff writer Billy Ball will be online tomorrow, and in Wednesday’s print edition.
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The future of Pittsboro hinges on tonight’s vote on Chatham Park
This could be the night Pittsboro residents remember for decades: The Board of Commissioners plan to vote tonight on the controversial 7,000-acre Chatham Park development that would forever change the culture, economy and way of life in the small town. Tim Smith of Preston Development Co. and Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, one of the […]
Posted inSoapboxer
Two black churches in Sanford offer a lesson in humility
I’ve recently spent a lot of time in Sanford, an old brick manufacturing town in Lee County. Like a lot of Southern cities and towns there are still remnants of segregation in Sanford—one side of town that is largely black and another, white. This is particularly evident in the churches. Many white churches in town […]
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Chris Gollmar to give listening tour Saturday morning in Durham
Love sounds? Looking for an immersive experience? Chris Gollmar, who started the Listening Point project in Durham, is giving two listening tours this week, the first one this morning (Saturday, June 7)—that’s today if you’re just getting up/going to bed—at 10. Meet at the I-85 overpass near the intersection of Club Boulevard and Washington Street. […]
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A favorite Durham downtown bar, Bull McCabes, as a work-in-progress
I finally got around to reading the full list of the INDY‘s Best of the Triangle winners. (Since the poll is run by the advertising department, I don’t have an inkling of who won until the day before the paper comes out, when I’m reviewing the galleys.) I saw that Bull McCabes won, or was […]
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Slow hand
Pittsboro is a town out of time. The vintage Coca-Cola clock hanging on the wall at 79 Hillsboro St. has stopped at 2:06. At a.m. or p.m., is unclear, but that’s the hour when someone pulled the plug in the abandoned antique store. Judging from the businesses that line the town’s main drag, you’d think […]
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A Durham man identifies public spaces for deep listening
Two strangers met beneath the Interstate 85 overpass at Club Boulevard and Washington Street. One of them brought a backpack filled with leaflets, a jar containing flour and water, and a gun that shoots staples. “I know this is a weird place to meet,” Chris Gollmar told me. “But it has a really unique soundscape.” […]
