On Friday afternoon, eighteen-year-old Wildin David Guillen Acosta called his sister, Katherin, from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. As has been widely reported, the Riverside High School student and undocumented immigrant had been picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on January 28 and is now awaiting deportation proceedings. Katherin had just walked […]
Victoria Bouloubasis
Bio: Victoria Bouloubasis is the INDY Week food editor.Link: http://www.victoriabouloubasis.comEmail: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/thisfeedsme
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Now That’s Fresh: Take the Dive with Durham’s Adventurous M Sushi
M Sushi 309 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham www.twitter.com/msushidurham In my experience, regaling visitors to Durham with stories of an incredible, incredibly small sushi joint tucked into an alley raises eyebrows. Try telling a longtime resident that you’ve found a place that serves fresh fish direct from Japan and Korea in a spot that once […]
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Spend the season with Bowbarr’s Cabin Fever
I don’t want to pay $12 for a liquid cookie. Unless it’s a glass of straight bourbon, I prefer for my drinks to taste like cough syrup. A touch of sweetness is fine, but I need that rush of bitterness and the stinging sensation to know I’m indulging in a vice. This means Negronis and […]
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Three Sheets Cocktails, served up and cool by sneaky sphinxes
A sphinx cat creeps in from the right side of the square. Though scrawny and wrinkly, he invades the square with menace. He rests a paw on an ornate, round, mirrored tray, and his alien-like ears perk up on high alert. There’s a wine glass, accented by an orange Gerber daisy and filled with the […]
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Luna Rotisserie joins the esteemed area ranks of international appreciation and local application
Luna Rotisserie 112 W. Main St., Durham 984-439-8702 www.lunarotisserie.com Luna Rotisserie evokes the travel nostalgia that comes with tasting a memory. My first meal at downtown Durham’s welcome new attempt at South American-and-American South hybrids transported me to a moment in 2007 with my friend Mariana. The two of us sat in a Lima cafe, […]
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The secret of The Parlour’s labneh ice cream
It’s become a running joke among my friends. We go out to dinner and stare at a menu until someone inevitably looks my way and asks, “Are you gonna get the Greek salad?” I never get the Greek salad, but my friends get the Greek side eye. So when I walked up to the register […]
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With oxtail, coco and soul, Lee’s Kitchen has built a little island empire
Lee’s Kitchen 4638 Capital Blvd., Raleigh 919-872-7422 1100 North Raleigh Blvd., Suite 116 Raleigh 919-521-5957 www.leeskitchenjamaican.com Also at N.C. Jerk Fest Sunday Sept. 12, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. CCB Plaza, Durham A chef can hint at his way in the kitchen with the way he tells a story. It’s after hours at the first location of […]
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Un Buen Carnicero
Cada mañana, antes del trabajo, Tolo Martínez, alimenta a sus gallinas y se sienta al lado en una banca a pensar. La rutina se repite todos los días debajo de la sombra de los pinos tan distintos existentes en Carolina del Norte, donde escucha el ronroneo de las gallinas que gradualmente despiertan con sus cantos […]
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FARE Project mixes documentaries and food
Nora Mendez protects the secrets in her pot of bubbling chicken mole like one would guard a weapon.”Es mi machete,” she says. It is my machete. “Campesinos in Veracruz used to say that if someone takes your machete, they might as well take everything from you: your wife, your family. It’s all you have and […]
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Music and the half shell at Cat’s Cradle
N.C. Fresh Catch Oyster Tour Saturday, Feb. 15, 4–11 p.m. Cat’s Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro Tickets $6-$8 Seafood dishes provided by Neal’s Deli and Hickory Tavern; music by Big Fat Gap, The Dye Wells and more In Old North Durham last week, hundreds of people waited outside Motorco Music Hall for the NC […]