Out & About
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 […]
‘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 […]
‘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 […]
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. […]
During Mayor Bill Bell’s final State of the City address, held at Bay 7 at American Tobacco Campus, Durham’s mayor of 16 years shared his thoughts on the city’s past, present and future. Gerald Owens of WRAL prompted the mayor in an interview during a lunch catered by the Angus […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Before she opened her downtown boutique, before she practiced psychiatry for 10 years in Durham, and before she studied medicine at UNC, Dr. Rebecca Kuhns, 35, was an international studies major at Yale. As an undergrad with an earnest interest in fashion, she was deeply moved when she learned of […]
‘Together’ Art Exhibit – Through Sunday – Pleiades Gallery artists each invited a guest artist based on mutual interest, appreciation or art medium. Each art pairing provides a view into the rapport we share with others. ‘This is Not a Novel’ – Through March 11 – An installation and work of […]
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