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The NY Times loves Durham

By Harold When we lived in Sunnyside, Queens, I don’t remember reading a single article about our neighborhood in the New York Times. So after we moved 500 miles south (or, as Google Maps puts it so exactly, 10 hours … Continue reading

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Homecoming Twenty Ten

by Laura The highlights: Playing anthropologist to check to out the new version of student “tailgate”, which apparently has nothing to do with the game or traditional pre-football rituals and everything to do with dressing in crazy costumes and jumping … Continue reading

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Truckin’ Along

by Laura On our way out of Durham, we couldn’t resist stopping by a food truck meet-up, glamorously headquartered in the parking lot of Sam’s Quik Shop.  We’d already tried the best known local lunch-on-the-go after tracking down OnlyBurger on … Continue reading

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A wine bar comes to Durham

By Harold If there’s any last indication that wine bars are sweeping the nation, there’s now one in downtown Durham. West End Wine Bar, which opened in Chapel Hill in 1997 (which says something about the demographics in Chapel Hill), … Continue reading

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Town Frown Relationships

by Laura Tonight I’m going to venture out with some grad school ladies for a bachelorette party, and we’ll be stopping by a few of the hotspots that Dukies used to frequent on a Saturday night. Back then, those places … Continue reading

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