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 […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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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.” […]
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Best of the Triangle 2014 Issue
Want to start an argument? Take a seat at the bar, open the Best of the Triangle issue and with your fellow imbibers, debate the Best BBQ, nightclub or burger. The Best of the Triangle is one of the INDY’s most popular editions of the year. Readers can see where their favorites rankand inevitably wonder […]
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North Carolina’s coal ash problem makes The New York Times—again
There’s so much bad political and environmental news coming out of North Carolina that The New York Times should probably have a bureau here. In today’s edition of North Carolina travesties, Derb Carter, director of the Chapel Hill office of the Southern Environmental Law Center, wrote a scathing op-ed “Smoke in the Water,” bout the […]
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People open their wallets for Open Durham
Durham is changing so quickly, buildings going up, buildings coming down, that it’s difficult to remember, for example, what was at the corner of West Chapel Hill Street and Vickers Avenue. Regain your sense of place than at Open Durham, an interactive archive of information about the city’s people, places and history. It’s one of […]
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Preservation Durham announces Top 5 Places in Peril
Flanked by statues of angels, Wendy Hillis, executive director of Preservation Durham, announced the group’s 2014 Places in Peril last night at the Julian Carr gravesite in Maplewood Cemetery. Cemeteries rarely rank near the top of budget priorities, and the state of the city-owned Maplewood and Beechwood cemeteries reflect years of underfunding: Broken gravestones, rutted […]
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A UNC grad’s mea culpa about working at Abercrombie + Fitch in Durham
The discriminatory practices of Abercrombie & Fitch have been well documented, especially in a 2003 groundbreaking lawsuit filed against the retail clothing company by several minorities and women (the company settled for $50 million). Now we have an inside view, a mea culpa, written for Salon by UNC graduate Oliver Lee Bateman. In 2002, he […]
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Duke doctor’s invention saving women’s lives
Cheap binoculars, reading glasses, a headband and a pair of battery-power LEDs: That’s all it might take to prevent women from dying of cervical cancer in Haiti. Over the weekend, The New York Times published an uplifting story about a Duke doctor’s invention that is saving lives of women in Third World countries. Dr. David […]
Posted inGuides
Über alleys
It all started at Alley 26. Not the bar, although I’ve spent many hours nursing a Brown Derby there, but the actual cut-through between Chapel Hill and Orange streets. I came to love the graffiti, the fire escapes and the mysterious red door that never seemed to open. I became obsessed with a tree that […]
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Starting line
Close your eyes among these 40 acres of pines and sycamores and you can imagine a sticky summer afternoon 65 years ago. Imagine the sound of 28 stock car engines snarling at the starting line. Imagine the 89 degree air filled with the scents of dirt and gasoline. Imagine the roar of 17,500 fans packed […]
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