⇒ Background: “Where should Orange County stick its garbage?” (cover story, March 11, 2009) Building and operating a waste transfer station would cost Orange County taxpayers roughly $55 million over 20 yearsless than the cost of paying private companies to haul trash over the same time period, according to a draft report issued by the […]
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City Council (sort of) slams the gate on Duke’s street-closing proposal
Plans by Duke University to close off two public streets in order to accommodate a $50 million development project faced an icy reception among neighborhood groups and Durham officials at Monday night’s City Council meeting. Duke officials want to convert Maxwell Avenue and Sumter Street, near East Campus, into private parking lots restricted to students […]
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Council opposes Duke’s plan to close public streets for private parking lots
Duke University’s plans to permanently close two public streets to accommodate a $50 million development project faced an icy reception among neighborhood groups and Durham officials at Monday night’s City Council meeting. Duke officials want to convert Maxwell Avenue and Sumter Street near East Campus into private parking lots restricted to students and faculty. And […]
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William Gates: ‘This is your NCAA Tournament’
William Gates, the subject of Steve James’ genre-defining basketball documentary HOOP DREAMS, told a panel of filmmakers that attending this year’s Full Frame Film Festival (his first, by his count, and just the fifth time he had watched the film) “reminded me of how I pursued the game of basketball– I wanted to be the […]
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And the winners are…
BURMA VJ–the story of underground reporters who risked their lives to capture video images of a military crackdown in Burma–cleaned up at this year’s festival, picking up a total of three awards, including the Grand Jury Award. THE WAY WE GET BY, UNMISTAKEN CHILD, VOICES FROM EL-SAYED, LOVE ON DELIVERY and the shorts OIL BLUE […]
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Three movie stars walk into a bar in Durham
Intrepid Indy culture editor/Full Frame blogger/celebrity spotter David Fellerath reports that Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth and Patricia Clarkson are enjoying a few drinks together at the Durham Marriott. The three actors will star in the film project known as Main Street, which is set to begin production in Durham after the festival. We’ve got the […]
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What Would Vance Do (W.W.V.D.)? Durham asks for Jordan Lake advice
We know where Chatham County stands on the controversial, developer-funded survey of Jordan Lake. Now, Durham County officials want to know what five other counties would do, if they were faced with the “difficult zoning issue.” Of the five counties, none rely on Jordan Lake for drinking water. Call it an independent survey, if you […]
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Iowa Supreme Court unanimously approves gay marriage
The ruling upheld a decision by a Polk County judge that found state law defining marriage as between a man and woman to be unconstitutional. Iowa now joins Massachusetts and Connecticut as the third state that allows gay marriage, which the court ordered to begin in 21 days. The Des Moines Register has the wrap. […]
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Total Knock Out: SONS OF CUBA more butterfly than bee
Before presenting the world premier of SONS OF CUBA at Full Frame last night, British director Andrew Lang announced he had completed the final cut just three days earlier. “You spend weeks in the editing room and you wonder if anyone’s going to see it,” he said, gazing out at a packed Fletcher Hall audience. […]
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Chatham Co. asks state to reconsider Jordan Lake decision
Chatham County’s elected officials have called on the N.C. Environmental Management Commission to “reconsider” a decision by state regulators to approve a controversial survey of Jordan Lake. In February, the Division of Water Quality–which acts as a watchdog on behalf of EMC–approved the survey, which was paid for by a private developer who owned land […]