Guests at Taste’s BBQ, Beer and Bus Tour hopped on a Greenway Transit bus for an afternoon trip to three barbecue joints where they enjoyed the quintessential North Carolina meal paired with local brews. Led by All About Beer Magazine Publisher Daniel Bradford, the first stop featured beer samples from Hillsborough’s Mystery Brewing Company and food […]
Downtown’s new weekend pop-up wine bar, Rx Wine Lab, is officially open for business in Golden Belt. Sharing a space with Carrboro Coffee Roasters, the intimate, 16-seat wine bar will open its doors Friday and Saturday evenings from 6-11pm and feature a plethora of wines, offered by the glass or bottle, suitable to quench any palette.
Hopslam & Sexual Chocolate Draft Release – Thursday, 5-11pm *RESCHEDULED TO NEXT WEEK* – Sam’s Bottle Shop will be tapping into two beers from two breweries – Sexual Chocolate and Hopslam! Bring friends! Sam’s Bottle Shop, 1112 W. N.C. Hwy. 54; 919-973-2489 Artist-in-Residence Event: Anthony Braxton – Thursday, 6pm *CANCELED* – Duke professor and poet Nathaniel Mackey will talk with the legendary multi-instrumentalist and
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Durham Parks and Recreation wants you to play more. All you have to do is vote, vote, vote! Durham has the opportunity to win a free Imagination Playground. Designed by award-winning architect David Rockwell, the mobile play system consists of big blocks that come in many shapes and sizes, encouraging children to build a play space all
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Matt Kelly, the frenetic, big-bearded, salty-tongued owner of Mateo, is sick of butternut squash. “We love it, but we’re like, ‘Yo, let’s move on.’” This culinary wanderlust is at least part of the reason that Matt’s Five Points tapas restaurant has been buried in buzz since even before it opened last year. The menu changes
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Motown the Musical – Through Sunday, times vary – The true story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and more. DPAC, 123 Vivian St.; $40+; 919-680-2787 Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
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You don’t want to miss our VIP Event prior to the Grand Taste Experience on April 23 with James Beard winner Andrea Reusing of Lantern, who is also opening a restaurant/rooftop bar in The Durham boutique hotel, coming soon to Chapel Hill Street. At our reception, the chef/owner will please your palates with farm-to-table small
Can’t choose which events to go to? Go to them all – that’s six scrumptious events in four days! (Turn the page or go to tastetheevent.com to learn more about each event!) Event 1 VIP Reception Hosted by Andrea Reusing on April 23, prior to the Grand Taste Experience Event 2 Grand Taste Experience at
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Put aside the cruel irony of a chef being attacked by the stove of his dreams, and it was still bad. Like, really bad. Scott Howell, owner of Nana’s, is lucky to be alive, let alone walking with a cane, after a 1,200-pound Montague he’d ordered from eBay fell off the delivery truck and “went
Editor’s Note: This article was featured in our June/July 2008 issue. John Hope Franklin passed away in March 2009. John Hope Franklin is an elegant name, and the man fits the moniker. When shown into the combination dining room-study in his settled home on a curving, tree-shadowed street in the Rockwood section of town, I
