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Twenty-Four Hours on an Amtrak to Philly: a Horror Story, an Adventure Yarn, and a Lesson About Embracing Life’s Rails

“The eleven-thirty Amtrak Silver Star bound for Tampa and Miami,” announces a voice at Grand Central Station. Then Al Pacino shoots like seventeen people to death before being killed himself, his body sliding down the dull silver hull of a coach-class train. My sojourn on Amtrak’s Silver Star line wasn’t quite as dramatic as that […]

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North Carolina Militia Activists Take Up President Trump’s Fear of a Migrant, Muslim Planet

Inside the Greensboro Coliseum on June 14, 2016, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump unleashed one of his more memorably over-the-top campaign promises: “We are going to start winning again. We’re gonna win at every single level. We’re gonna win so much that you’re gonna beg me: ‘Please, Mr. President, we’re winning so much. We cannot stand […]

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Hundreds of Liverpool FC Fans Crammed Into a Raleigh Bar to Watch a Soccer Match Five Thousand Miles Away. To Make It to MLS, North Carolina FC Needs That Kind of Devotion

Casey Peterson’s job was to sing. We’ve conquered all of Europe. We’re never going to stop. The Cary native looked around at the seventy others singing alongside him, maneuvering down Hargett Street in Raleigh past Saturday-morning shoppers and families who probably wouldn’t like the next lyric. From Paris down to Turkey, we’ve won the fucking […]

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Best of the Triangle 2018: Health and Body

Best Acupuncturist in the Triangle Kristin Ten Broeck The Fountain Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine 109 Brady Court, Cary fountainacupuncturecary.com Finalists: Jennifer Spain, Quinn Takei., Mary Clark Best Aesthetician in the Triangle Mariah Ewald Posh The Salon 610 West Main Street, #101, Durham poshthesalon.com Finalists: Lindsey Westendorf (Smoothe LLC), Brooke Johnson (All About Aesthetics), Kim Forster […]

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