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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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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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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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Best boondoggle

Jordan Lake is an incredibly vital resource for Wake and Chatham counties; it’s the source of their drinking water, and you don’t get any more vital than that. And yet, it’s also been terribly polluted by runoff from developers. In lieu of actually stopping those developers from polluting the lake, the legislature, in its infinite…

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Best building that shouldn’t be where it is

3100 Tower Boulevard, Durham Depending on your particular circle of friends, you either refer to the lonely skyscraper officially called University Tower as “The Pickle Building,” “The Green Weenie,” or “The Dallas Phallus.” That last nicknameour favoriteis a dig at Texas developer Tommy Stone, who apparently never got the news that his seventeen-story building looked…

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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…

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Best place to learn the difference between a sousaphone and a euphonium

1825 Chapel Hill Road, Durham (919) 402-0864 simonettitubacollection.com At a time when it feels like the small family business is an endangered species in Durham, it’s reassuring that one as unique as the Tuba Exchange has not only lasted for decades but lives on as a museum. Vince Simonetti built his hundreds-strong marching band of…

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