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 […]
Lisa Sorg
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Moral Mondays resume today at N.C. Legislature
Lawmakers, fresh from the Memorial Day weekend, will return to the Legislature today—and Moral Monday movement will be waiting for them. This afternoon, the Moral Monday movement is holding a People’s Lobby and Advocacy Day, in which volunteer lobbyists from across the state l visit lawmakers and ask them to undo the damage they’ve done […]
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Human Relations Commission issues DPD racial profiling report, but dissent is within the ranks
Did John Tarantino spend too much time in the heat yesterday? Tarantino, a former Republican candidate for state senate, city council and school board, often brings his acoustic guitar and serenades Durham City Council at its weekly work sessions. The musical interludes are occasionally entertaining and are not the oddest moment you’ll see at a […]
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Reggie’s Blues
I heard Reggie Best before I saw him. On Monday, Reggie, accompanied by “Grandma,” his acoustic guitar, was singing in a park behind Ninth Street Bakery in downtown Durham. He has a beautiful voice, one that belies his condition: a homeless veteran afflicted with lymphoma of the stomach—the same disease that killed his mother. Reggie […]
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These colors do run
I didn’t intend to read any symbolism into the condition of this flag that was hanging on the chain-link fence of Old Maplewood Cemetery in Durham. But then I met Reggie Best. On Memorial Day, we remember the people who died in American wars41 million service members and an untold number of civilians. There are […]
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Cocoa Cinnamon: the sequel
About 500 days ago, Leon Grodski de Barrera and Areli Barrera de Grodski, took an enormous risk. With their friend and artist David Solow, but with very little money, they revamped a service station at Geer and Foster streets into Cocoa Cinnamon. Since, the artisanal coffee shop has become one of Durham’s most thriving small […]
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Prick up your ears, Durham: Listening Point, where you can take in the soundscape
[This story was updated Wednesday morning.] Among the many reasons I love Ninth Street in Durham is because it’s the onIy place, with the exception of a university campus, where people still post flyers on kiosks and light poles. This old-school way of communicating—not via social media, which does not require you to leave your […]
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A rare and beautiful moment at University Tower—the Green Weenie—in Durham
The Pickle. The Green Weenie. The Dallas Phallus: For the past 29 years, University Tower has been derided for its resemblance to a fully erect male member. And with a leafy forest at its base … well, let’s move on. In 1985, when Texas developer Tommy F. Stone built the 17-story tower on Durham-Chapel Hill […]
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Shake your tree: It’s time to pick mulberries in the city
Urban hunter-gatherer alert: The boughs of the mulberry trees are heavy with fruit. And you don’t even have to trespass to forage for the delicious berries. While walking to work this morning, I spotted two trees, one accessible, one less so, that are—cliche alert—ripe for the picking. You could fill many baskets from the tree […]
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Good news for the goats and Prodigal Farm
Prodigal Farm in Rougemont is on its way to becoming one of the largest Animal Welfare Approved dairies in the country, thanks to a landowner who saw the INDY story about enterprise, published in March. In addition, Prodigal is still seeking contributions through its Kickstarter campaign which ends Sunday, May 18. That same day, Prodigal […]
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