Our readers’ favorite places to run, hike, people watch, and more.
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Best of the Triangle 2021: Local Color
Our readers’ favorite hiking spots, politicians, and more.
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Best of the Triangle 2019: Local Color
Let’s love on lemurs, hate on ICE, and dunk on Thom Tillis.
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Best of the Triangle 2019: Your Comprehensive Guide to Everything Awesome in the Triangle
Our Best of the Triangle issue has many imitators, but there’s a reason it stands apart: you.
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Best of the Triangle 2018: Local Color
Best charitable group TROSA 1820 James Street, Durham trosainc.org Finalists: Saving Grace NC, Hope Animal Rescue, GiGi’s Playhouse (Raleigh) Best local activist group Hope Animal Rescue hopeanimals.org Finalists: Durham for All, SONG, Defend Durham Best local Facebook page Fuquay-Varina Memes facebook.com/fuquaymemes Finalists: Duke Lemur Center, Hope Animal Rescue, New Raleigh Best local Instagram account RDU […]
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Best of the Triangle 2017 Voting Results – Local Color
Best of the Triangle 2017 – Local Color Best Charitable Group TROSA 1820 James Street, Durham trosainc.org Finalists: Planned Parenthood, Durham Rescue Mission, LGBT Center of Raleigh Best-Kept Secret Funny Girl Farm 504 Erwin Road, Durham funnygirlfarm.wixsite.com/funnygirlfarm Finalists: Cedar Creek Gallery, Emerald Doulas, LLC, Triangle Rowing Club Best Local Activist Group Moral Monday Finalists: Equality […]
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The Best of the Triangle 2017: Your Comprehensive Guide to Everything Awesome
You wanted the best. You got the best. Welcome to Best of the Triangle 2017, our annual reader-guided tour through 353 of the best things—restaurants, bars, people, places, activities, doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, yoga studios, hiking trails, bike shops, auto repair shops, florists, basically anything and everything that you could possibly be looking for—in the […]
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The 425 Best Things in the Triangle (According to You)
The people have spoken. Between the two rounds of our Best of the Triangle contest, we logged more than six hundred thousand votes from more than twenty thousand voters in more than three hundred categories, far more votes than in any previous contest. In the end, our hive mind produced a definitive compendium of cool […]
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Best place to smoke weed in public
2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh ncartmuseum.org This will no doubt get us in trouble, but is there a better public place to have your head above the clouds than the North Carolina Museum of Art’s park on a sunny day? There’s a “cloud chamber,” a tiny, round, dark room through which a pinhole in the […]
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Best place to find the worst people in the Triangle
facebook.com/WRALTV Living in the Triangle, it can be easy to forget you exist in a mostly progressive and politically corrector at least politically politebubble. Racism, homophobia, sexism, and good old-fashioned ignorance are not welcome here. Or so we imagine. These qualities persist, however, in the comment sections on WRAL’s Facebook page, along with the requisite […]