Somewhere in the back of our minds we all know that America does not look the way it should. The year is 2001. We ought to be lounging around in Mylar jumpsuits under glass bubbles, or living in saucer houses stuck atop towers like Seattle’s Space Needle, or down in an underground city. Throughout the […]
Matt Jones
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Singular Diversity
ith the opening of Trin-B’Ago in June, Elizabeth Martinez began dividing her time between working as a traveling nurse practitioner and as a full-time restaurant owner. Her business, located on Fayetteville Street in Durham in view of both the downtown tobacco warehouses and N.C. Central University, offers diners a chance to sample the unique, multicultural […]
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Tienda Time in the Triangle
People driving down the curvy stretch of Mt. Carmel Church Road near the Governor’s Club about five years ago were doubtless curious about the Mexican flag fluttering in front of the Britz BP station. At the time, the owner simply intended it as a sign to say “Mexican products sold here,” but it also was […]
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Passion and strife
Through the filter of recent popular opinion, the tobacco industry has come to be viewed as an obscene force of 20th-century-style greed and malevolence, and tobacco use itself at best a pitiable vice, at worst a sin. That leaves the city of Durham in an interesting spot, with its history retroactively interpreted as a city […]
