The American Tobacco Trail got a bad rap in 2012 after a series of muggings, but all’s been quiet since city police stepped up their presence. The fitness freaks and nature enthusiasts far outnumber the miscreants, so invite a friend to walk, bike or run all or part of the six-mile paved route from downtown […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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Durham’s ghost streets
Housed in the former bus depot at 500 W. Main St., the Museum of Durham History is, like history, a work in progress. In addition to hosting events, the museum has a dynamic website with videos of Durham residents telling personal narratives; for example, Kelly Bryant’s memories of Black Wall Street are wonderful to hear […]
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Foodopoly lifts the veil on our food system
Wenonah Hauter and Foodopoly Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of the watchdog group Food & Water Watch, based in Washington, D.C. Her book, Foodopoly, examines the history and political machine behind agribusiness consolidation, the pharmaceutical industry, factory farming, food safetyeven the co-opting of the term “organic”which […]
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Contribute to the historical hive mind on Open Durham
Instead of scrolling through status updates on Facebook, get lost in the online world of Open Durham, a blog created by Gary Kueber. A “highly interlinked archive/inventory of information about people, places and history” in the Bull City, Open Durham features poignant photosblack and white and colorof bygone days: buildings that have since been demolished, […]
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Famous Durhamites you’ll rarely see in public
Celebrity obsessed? You’re either or a sad sack or a teenage girl. (Aren’t they the same?) If you’re determined to spot a star, hang around the stage door of the Durham Performing Arts Center, conveniently located across from the jail, where you’ll spend the night on stalking charges. That said, we saw Colin Firth once […]
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Finder: Guide to Durham County
A man strolls down Main Street at lunchtime playing a trumpet. Drumbeats ricochet off the windows in storefront churches downtown, where one Sunday morning a dozen or so congregants stand and sway to the music, their eyes closed, their right hands raised. Every spring, our neighbors, some of them dressed in kilts and codpieces, blasted […]
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Durham’s decadent dessert crawl
Pardon my heresy, but I don’t like doughnuts. OK, in some dystopic future à la The Road, before I would resort to cannibalism like our Jamestown forefathers, I would eat a doughnut. But not until. That said, I love dessert: pie, cake, brownies, cupcakes, gelato, ice cream. (My dentist is planning his next European vacation.) […]
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This week in disappointment: guns, housing and energy
Loaded lawmakers: An email came over the transom from the office of Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, announcing he and and Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, are hosting a Concealed Carry course for interested legislators and staff later this month. The hoedown was supposed to be held in the Legislative Building, but that didn’t, uh, work out, so […]
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Clean and green North Carolina
Number of energy facilities in N.C. 863 Photovoltaic 646 Geothermal 77 Solar thermal 12 Landfill gas 10 Biomass 9 Wind House Bill 298to be heard in the public utilities and energy committee Wednesday, April 24, at noonwould dismantle the state’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard and tax credits for clean energy. Yet a new report shows […]
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Duke removes four anti-immigration groups from Fred Stanback Internship Program
Where the environment and immigration meet Fred Stanback established his internship program at the Duke Nicholas School of the Environment in 1995. It began with 10 groups and expanded to the 45 that chose to participate this year. Stanback selects all of the organizations, most of which focus solely on the environment. However, four are […]
