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  • Carlos Lemus Sr. is Raleigh’s #CakeJefe
  • PBS NC Announces Voluntary Separations
  • ICYMI: Heritage Square Rezoning Pulled
  • The Man Behind NCCU’s Campus Echo
  • Rare Midcentury Home at Risk in Chapel Hill
Credit: Photo by Matt Ramey

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A few weeks ago I got to spend a Sunday morning at LaGana, Raleigh’s buzzy, fine-casual burger joint. Though it’s less than a year old, the restaurant has already built a cult following around its wagyu beef hamburgers, exclusive monthly omakase dinners, and decadent, seasonal cakes.

As a vegetarian, wagyu beef and omakase aren’t really my areas of expertise. My visit to LaGana was purely motivated by the cakes—and more specifically, by their baker, Carlos Lemus Sr.

Lemus has become a local micro-celebrity since LaGana opened. In-person, people ask him for selfies and beg him to bake their wedding cakes. Online, they’ve dubbed him Raleigh’s Cake Jefe. Lemus never expected this adoring fanbase—he just wanted to work with his son, Carlos Jr. (who manages the restaurant’s operations) and to develop the ultimate chocolate cake recipe. Which he did.

At the link below, keep reading about Lemus in the latest installment of INDY’s Character Studies series. And have a good Wednesday.

—Chloe

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Media Matters

Following federal funding cuts, PBS North Carolina, headquartered in RTP, will offer separation agreements to most of its permanent employees, INDY’s Jane Porter reports.

Rezoning Reversal

The developer behind a controversial proposal to rezone and redevelop the Heritage Square shopping center in the Hayti neighborhood abruptly withdrew its application on Monday, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.

Credit: Photo by Angelica Edwards

End of an Era

Students and colleagues say Bruce dePyssler, who retired this summer after leading NCCU’s student paper for 26 years, built an award-winning newsroom that was like a family, INDY’s Justin Laidlaw reports.

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DURHAM COUNTY: The Chicken Hut got the $3,400 it was owed by CJF America, a local foundation accused of not paying its employees, ABC11 reports.

WAKE COUNTY: An “AI-powered” private school—where there are no teachers and students are guided by software—is coming to Raleigh, Carolina Public Press reports.

STATE: One in four people released from North Carolina prisons face homelessness. North Carolina Health News reports on how the state is working to reduce that number.

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  • Preservation NC is trying to find a buyer for a rare, metal midcentury home (known as a Lustron house) in Chapel Hill before it gets demolished.
  • Rev. William Barber II and Durhamite Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove have a new book out this week on breaking down myths about race and class to unite working class people. Time has an excerpt.
  • The people of Reddit want to know, does anyone play mahjong in the Triangle?
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