Blue Point Yoga will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, but 2015 has exciting developments in store for the Durham yoga community. Located on Erwin Road, a short walk from Duke Hospital and West Campus, Blue Point Yoga has always had a “strong interest in learning and growing as a community,” says owner Sara Doyle. […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [dropcap type=”2″]E[/dropcap]xpect to be “Thanksgiving full,” as one patron described it last year, at the Grand Taste Experience! You’ll spend the evening savoring dishes created by 20 of the best chefs in the region! Meet local beverage makers producing your favorite beer, soda, coffee, and spirits. You are sure to try something new. And,
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Triangle Restaurant Week – Thursday through Sunday – The good eats are back! This weekend marks the end of Triangle Restaurant Week so don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate the wonderful eateries that the Triangle has to offer. Many Durham restaurants are offering special fixed-price, three-course meals. For $15 at lunch or $20-$30 at dinner, diners
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Ninth Street is getting a facelift. The City of Durham‘s Office of Economic and Workforce Development began accepting grant applications in September 2014 and has now awarded sign and façade grants to 13 businesses along the commercial corridor. The grants, totaling $70,932, are designed to improve the pedestrian environment and shopping experience in this area,
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The start of 2015 means fulfilling your resolutions, and members of the Durham Rotary Club are no exception. The organization is celebrating its 100th year, and members have created a plan to expand community service. Affirming the international organization’s motto of “Service Above Self,” Durham’s oldest and largest Rotary Club is dedicated to carrying out 100 local
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Each week, we share – through pictures – what the folks behind Durham Mag have been doing around town. We’re always out and about, just because we love this place; we hope you’ll comment with what you’ve been doing, too! It was a great week for the staff here – we did a lot of hard work on
On April 24, Chef Ricky Moore of Saltbox Seafood Joint and Chef John Eisensmith of Six Plates Wine Bar will team up to present a four-course, Basque-inspired dinner paired with The New York Times’ “America’s Favorite Cider Award Winner,” Foggy Ridge Cider from Dugspur, Virginia. The evening will begin with a cider-inspired cocktail on the greens of the gorgeous Sarah P. Duke Gardens, which will be made even
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Hello, 2015! Through our Taste event series, Durham Magazine hosted a carnival-themed New Year’s Eve bash at The Cookery that featured games, readings by Psychic Millie, food stations with gourmet corn dogs and liquid-nitrogen popcorn, wine (including bubbly, of course) from Total Wine and dancing. Look for more events in February, March and April – from a Foggy Ridge Cider dinner at Sarah P. Duke Gardens to a burger
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]One of the driving forces behind The Art of Cool Project, a Durham nonprofit that promotes “jazz-influenced music” and hosted its first citywide jazz festival last April, is a statistician who can’t play an instrument. And yet Cicely Mitchell brought a convert’s zeal to the organizations’ two-fold mission of preserving and celebrating old-school jazz while finding a new audience
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Musician Amelia Meath happened to cross paths with producer Nick Sanborn a few years ago when they were each on the road pursuing separate careers (Amelia as a member of trio Mountain Man and Nick as a producer under the name Made of Oak). She asked Nick to have a go at mixing one of her melodies, and the result was so
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