More seismic shifts at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences: Brian Rosborough, founder of Earthwatch, one of the earliest environmental groups, has resigned as the head of the museum’s 24-member Citizen Science Council, the INDY confirmed Tuesday. Five other council members also reportedly resigned, although the INDY is not listing their names until they can […]
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More tumult at natural sciences museum
There have been more seismic shifts at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. Brian Rosborough, founder of Earthwatch, one of the earliest environmental groups, has resigned as the head of the museum’s 24-member Citizen Science Council, the INDY confirmed Tuesday. Five other council members also reportedly resigned, although the INDY is not listing their names […]
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Third Fork Creek is in trouble
Third Fork Creek in Durham, which, if followed to its final destination, dumps into the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the city’s dirtiest waterways. It is nearly a dead zone for fish and aquatic life, which may explain in part why I haven’t seen as many herons along its banks in Forest Hill Park. The […]
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Hey readers, are these boxers from the old Ringside?
On a recent dingy day, I spotted these boxers plastered to the facade of the building at 715 N. Washington St. It’s just north of the old Durham Athletic Park, and houses the Durham Bike Co-op and The Shadowbox. It seemed like I had seen the boxers before, but I couldn’t place them. It’s a […]
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Kitchen gadgets that are alluring but useless
At certain specialty stores, you can browse an armada of cooking implements that promise to enrich yet simplify your culinary life. Why else would you buy a deglazing spoon, tomato corer, grapefruit knife or an instant marinator? (Instant marination: Wrap your head around that oxymoron.) Before your plunk down $15 for a stainless steel zucchini […]
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What the bulldozers leave behind
By mid-December, bulldozers had razed the West End Community Center and All My Children day care, and had uprooted the community garden plots, where tomato vines had borne the last of their fruit earlier this fall. Rechristened Kent Corner, this lot will include green space and two new buildings: The Center for Child and Family […]
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A win for civil rights; Hatgate resolved
Justice for Brandy Creek: The UNC Center for Civil Rights, attorney Bettina Roberts-Flood and 19 residents of the Brandy Creek neighborhood in Halifax County scored a major legal victory last month. The Halifax Board of Commissioners approved a settlement with Brandy Creek, an African-American neighborhood situated in the shadow of the failed $21.5 million Roanoke […]
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A scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, if staged by grade school kids
On this porch in Durham, it appears that Stanley Kowalski left his calling card. Lisa Sorg is the editor of the INDY. Her blog documents the small moments of life in the Triangle in photographs and stories—as a reminder to why we live here.
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From the Kress Building to the corner, 30 feet separates the haves and the have nots
The historic Kress Building in downtown Durham epitomizes luxury and elegance: The condos, the largest of which, at more than 1,800 square feet runs nearly $500,000, feature bamboo wood floors, penthouse views, private terraces, 10-to-12-foot ceilings, and, as a real estate website detailed, “handsome quartz counters in the kitchen and bath.” Directly across Main Street […]
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Golden Belt for sale?
Rumors that Golden Belt in Durham is on the market appear to be true, according to an online newsletter by Cassidy Turley, a real estate firm. The first page of company’s third-quarter newsletter states that “Supported by strong institutional investor interest in the Raleigh/Durham area, a number of investment properties will be out to market […]
