The Lakewood 2022 Chapel Hill Road, Durham 919-402-8059, thelakewooddurham.com As Chapel Hill Road curves just past the Lakewood Shopping Center, the soft beams of street lamps shine through the windows of the old Davis Baking building, blending in with the dapple of candlelight inside the new restaurant now occupying it. The Lakewood is literally illuminating […]
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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Trump Is About to Kill DACA. What Will That Mean for North Carolinians Like Cinthia Marroquin?
Immigrants are worried about losing their work permits and driver’s licenses—and possibly being deported—if President Trump decides to rescind DACA. The Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program gave nearly eight hundred thousand unauthorized immigrants temporary work authorization and relief from deportation. But on the campaign trail, President Trump railed against Obama’s “illegal executive […]
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A Writer Walks Into a Bar: Raleigh’s FOUNDATION Hosts Essay Competition
Ernest Hemingway claims to have written The Sun Also Rises piss drunk. “Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless,” he notes in the book. FOUNDATION, Raleigh’s longtime cavernous refuge for whiskey lovers and cocktail connoisseurs, takes care of that feeling for you. But it also promotes local art and local […]
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DISHOOM Celebrates Four Years of Bringing Bhangra-Inspired Music to Durham Dance Floors
DISHOOM Saturday, July 22, 10 p.m., $10 Motorco Music Hall, Durham www.motormusic.com DJ Rang, or Rang Rajaram, has been rocking the decks long before the DISHOOM dance party series started in Durham four years ago. But after twelve years of deejaying and hosting parties, Rajaram’s bhangra-Bollywood mash-up is giving the local dance-party scene a different […]
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Before Greensboro’s Famous Lunch Counter Protest, Durham’s Royal Ice Cream Sit-In Quietly Sparked a Movement
Virginia Williams celebrated her eightieth birthday this year. She also quietly celebrated another milestone. June 23 was the sixtieth anniversary of the Royal Ice Cream sit-in, where Williams and six other African Americans demanded to be served inside the segregated Royal Ice Cream Parlor in north Durham and were arrested for it. A historical marker […]
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Eating in Traffic: Welcome to Our Dish Special Issue on All Things Food Truck
In 2010, I wrote the INDY’s first Dish feature on food trucks. A lot has changed since then, and a few of my favorite trucks don’t exist anymore. I can still taste the burst of fennel seed in Thao Beck’s meatloaf sandwich from Mom’s Delicious Dishes. My one long summer as a nanny was fueled […]
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A Year Ago, Wildin Acosta Was in Solitary Awaiting Deportation. Yesterday, He Graduated from Riverside High.
“Maybe I’ll go to the beach?” Wildin David Guillen Acosta has taken the week off. Yesterday, he graduated from Riverside High School, the first in his family to complete an American education. He should have graduated last June. Instead, this time last year he was being held in solitary confinement at Stewart Detention Center in […]
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All in the Family
During the day, the kitchen at Durham’s Mothers & Sons is a crashing cacophony of cooks. Prep cooks arrive around 8:00 a.m. to begin chopping and slicing through the day’s menu. Line cooks and chefs stroll in by ten, stoking the fire under the rotisserie and slamming through stacks of sauté pans sullied by a […]
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A Refugee Remembers
Jamil Kadoura doesn’t simply laugh. He bellows, in a deep, prideful, joyous baritone, awakening unexpected feelings of nostalgia for whoever is having a conversation with him. Because his immediate affection will somehow remind you of someone you know, even for a brief moment. Someone like family. Since Kadoura and his wife, Angela, opened Mediterranean Deli […]
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The Remixologists
Belly up to any cocktail bar in the Triangle, and you’ll get a gentle nudge from a bartender pushing a list of signature craft concoctions. And while these menus usually move beyond the classics, you can trace any contemporary drink back to a tried-and-true staple. We spoke to six local bartenders about their favorite riffs […]