“We listen to a lot of stuff in our earbuds and in private in our cars. And what I found is, stories hit differently when you hear them with others.”
Sam Bermas-Dawes
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Durham County Launches a Safe-Syringe Program and Will Offer Free Narcan Kits to Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Free sterile needles and safe methods of disposal are part of a new Durham County Department of Public Health program aimed at the opioid drug epidemic. Starting today, kits containing clean syringes, containers for used needles, and printed material on relevant health services are available through the Public Health Pharmacy, located at 414 East Main […]
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Soccer Is Booming in Durham—If Only Players Can Find Someplace to Play
Tom Wenger cuts a distinctive figure inside Durham’s W.D. Hill Recreation Center. With a head of shiny white hair, the seventy-two-year-old has been playing soccer in Durham longer than many of his teammates have been alive. But Wenger can hold his own. That much is clear from the bleachers of W.D. Hill’s indoor basketball courts, […]
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The Holloways Start a Food Truck Dynasty on Rigsbee Avenue
Frank Holloway’s night almost ended before it began. The acrid smell of burning fuel was thick in the Friday evening air, as a loud choking sound spit out of the generator beneath his food truck. Inside the red cabin of Urban Entrees, Frank has buns stacked for hot dogs and hamburgers, and chili and cheese […]
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Film Review: The Rise and Fall of Liberty Asks What Is Lost in Durham’s Urban Renewal
Walker Stone’s voice is gruff but flavorful, like the tobacco leaves that were once hauled into his auction warehouse in Durham to be sold to the tobacco companies that dotted downtown. “Durham was built on tobacco,” Stone says at the onset of The Rise and Fall of Liberty, a film by local documentary filmmaker Carol […]