The director of the annual Troika Music Festival. The founder of 307 Knox Records. The former heavy-hitting drummer of The Dirty Little Heaters: Since moving to Durham seven years ago, Melissa Thomasor Mel, as her friends call herhas become an anchor of the local music scene. On this Wednesday night, though, she’s fighting the 10-degree […]
Rebekah L. Cowell
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Broad Street Cafe fights for volume
If it’s too loud, shut it down: Durham’s The Broad Street Cafe is collecting petition signatures in preparation for a hearing before the Durham Board of Adjustment Wednesday, Dec. 9, that could limit the venue’s late-night music. Acting on complaints about noise coming from the venue first filed in March, the City investigated the cafe, […]
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The Jazz Loft Project spotlights a hidden jazz realm
⇒ Read an excerpt from the book For historian Sam Stephenson, his interest in photographer W. Eugene Smith began innocently enough. Two decades ago, his wife, Laurie Cochenour, gave him a camera for Christmas. While visiting her family in Pittsburgh, Stephenson snapped copious pictures of the city. Back in North Carolina, the owner of a […]
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A conversation with the operators of Flyleaf Books, a new bookstore in Chapel Hill
In 1998, Chapel Hill lost the Original Intimate Bookshop, the city’s flagship independent bookstore. Since then, the Bull’s Head Bookshop has been the closest thing to a prominent, nonchain store for new books, but its location on the UNC campus and the lack of parking space makes it hard to access for the casual book […]
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Pittsboro considering its third development moratorium
There will be no new development in Pittsboro until the town can provide adequate sewer service to new homes and businesses: That was the sentiment last week among the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners, which heard evidence from the town planner and manager supporting the extension of the town’s development moratorium through 2011. The moratorium, the […]
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Cadillac Man finds home at N.C. Literary Festival
In the prestigious author lineup of events at the North Carolina Literary Festival, one session stood out at the University of North Carolina’s Gerrard Hall. Speaking to the packed auditorium on Sept. 12, an author who spent nearly 15 years living on the streets told his story. His name is Thomas Wagner, but he seems […]
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Daniel Wallace, Nic Brown and Matthew Vollmer on new Southern voices
To sit down with Daniel Wallace, a storyteller of mythic proportions, and Nic Brown, a recently published author making his own waves, is similar to listening to two contrasting musicians trading runs. In short, you’d be wise to sit back and enjoy. Eleven years ago, Wallace’s Big Fish made its literary splash; a splash big […]
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Talking Southern lit with Elizabeth Edwards
Long before she was a practicing lawyer and a mother, Elizabeth Edwards was a reader and writer working on a doctoral degree in English at the University of North Carolina. The 59-year-old Edwards calls herself lucky to have been a part of the UNC English department in the early ’70s, when professorial giants like Louis […]
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The North Carolina Literary Festival returns
Daniel Wallace, Nic Brown and Matthew Vollmer on new Southern voices The prolific R.L. Stine Triangle author Jill McCorkle Talking Southern lit with Elizabeth Edwards Here in the Triangle, we know that if you throw a rock you might hit an author or two. This weekend, you might hit a dozen. Or more. After a […]
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Dems enter U.S. Senate race with a Burr under their saddles
A lawyer, a former state legislator and the N.C. Secretary of State: With Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy, they are the initial go-getters trying to unseat U.S. Sen. Richard Burr in 2010. And, according to a recent poll, any of them has a good chance to win next year’s Democratic primary. But whether they can […]
