This month, the Brawny Man – red and black plaid flannel, ax wielding, muscular – is off the paper towel packaging for the first time since his inception in 1974. No, he didn’t tire of the monotony of watching grocery shoppers, or feel trapped in a dead-end job (though we wouldn’t be surprised if he’s using […]
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‘The Bodyguard’ – Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday, 8pm; Saturday, 2pm & 8pm; Sunday, 1pm & 6:30pm – Catch the-award winning romantic musical at DPAC! The show tells of a former Secret Service Agent turned bodyguard as he falls in love with the superstar he has been assigned to protect, set to the sound of classic songs
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‘Building Worlds’ Exhibit – Through Saturday – Jenny Blazing’s artistic process, which she’s named “Artistic Propagation,” is featured in an exhibit of paintings at the Durham Art Guild’s SunTrust Galleries. ‘Sabungeros (Cockfighters)’ Exhibit – Through Saturday – Your last chance to experience Douglas Vuncannon’s photographs taken in the Philippines between 2014 and 2016 is this
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Chloe Rockow and Xander Madsen adore this city, whether they are grabbing a beer at Motorco, sipping coffee at Cocoa Cinnamon or taking their Corgi, Fionna, to the Piney Wood Dog Park. Yet they’ve spent most of their three-year relationship apart, with Chloe working in politics from Washington, D.C., Minnesota and New Hampshire while Xander
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A crowd of 1,100 hungry participants gathered at the Durham Convention Center for Urban Ministries of Durham‘s 10th annual Empty Bowls event. Many attendees picked out a locally crafted bowl to take home and sampled soups from 15 restaurants, including Bleu Olive, Bull City Burger and Brewery, Dashi, Luna Rostisserie & Empanadas and Mothers and Sons Trattoria. The judges awarded Croasdaile Village the winner, while Mad
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Ella Bess Bumgarner and Durham native George Marshall met through Teach for America while working on Henderson Collegiate Middle School’s fourth grade team in Henderson, N.C. “It was our shared love of teaching that brought us together and continues to play a large role in our lives,” Ella Bess says. In August 2015, on the
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When Chas Pippitt started what is now Baseball Rebellion – a multi-faceted baseball training company that is about to open a 13,000-square-foot facility on Bennett Memorial Road in August – it was just “me, a bucket of balls and a prayer,” he says of his days giving lessons out of barns and backyard batting cages
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Recently, Duke University President Richard Brodhead wrote in a column for The News & Observer about the university’s intentional relationship with Durham. “Duke and Durham chose each other, and our destinies are still entwined,” he wrote. Over the last several years, Duke and Durham have continued to join forces on exciting projects that will shape
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Every now and then – usually as she dangles from a rock face or climbing wall – 27-year-old Tatiana Birgisson stops thinking about how she’s going to take MATI, the energy drink company she founded, to the next level. These moments are fleeting. For someone whose company motto is “Do More. Be Better.”, Tatiana relentlessly
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Jennifer Covington and Austin Emory both grew up in Durham; Jenny graduated from Durham School of the Arts and Austin, Riverside High. They recall attending the same summer camp, Ventures, but don’t remember meeting until mutual friends brought them together during college (Jenny was at St. Mary’s College of Maryland while Austin attended Western Carolina
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