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 […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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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 at Open Durham, an interactive archive of information about the city’s people, places and history. It’s one of the […]
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Places in peril
The Central Park Historic District topped Preservation Durham’s annual list of Places in Peril, as developers have swooped in to either buy or redevelop several key buildings, with a plan to build condos and apartments. The most notable landmark in the district is the historic Liberty Warehouse, which is scheduled to be demolished. Roger Perry […]
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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 […]
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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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Roads to nowhere
I spent part of the last two weeks strolling the alleys of Durham. During my journey, a woman offered me tomato plants, a man told me, in Spanish, about his daughters’ success in college and a restaurant worker politely inquired why I was standing behind the downtown eatery with a digital recorder. I wrote about […]
