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Nance’s New Release Is a Sensitive Meditation on “Making It”
Vulnerability is to hip-hop what a well-crafted sample is to beat-making—an essential element that provides depth, emotion, and authenticity to the final composition. After a five-year hiatus, rapper Nance, 32, injects more personal elements into his rap lyrics. On latest project Everydaydream, his conversational style—one which makes listeners feel as if they are listening in on a therapy session—allows him to demonstrate a genuine connection with his audience.
With the Closure of Pompieri Pizza, Durham Will Lose Bastion of the Neapolitan Style and Downtown History
A downtown Durham restaurant known for serving delicate wood-fired pizzas with kitchen shears tucked under the crust will close permanently next month due to an imminent and exorbitant rent increase. In a Monday release, Pompieri Pizza owner Seth Gross wrote that the restaurant’s landlord is primed to double the rent...
Historic St. Paul A.M.E. Church to Build Affordable Housing in Traditionally Black Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood
Since the Civil War era, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church has stood proudly at the junction between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The church has watched the towns around it grow and change. It saw the post-Reconstruction solidification of the white supremacist state, the Great Migration, and the Jim Crow era. In the past decade, it saw the saga of gentrification play out in the Greenbridge condos, the foreclosed modern towers of straight lines and glass panes just across the street.
Workers Stage Cyber Monday Demonstration at Garner Amazon Facility
Dozens of Amazon workers staged a protest for better working conditions outside a sprawling distribution center in Garner early this morning, with delivery trucks braking at the picket line to delay Cyber Monday shipments in a show of solidarity. The demonstration came at the onset of a hellish season for...
DEQ Will Intervene to Help Clean Up Lead in Durham City Parks
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. The NC Department of Environmental Quality will help clean up lead-contaminated areas in five Durham parks, city officials announced this week. The parks—Walltown, Lyon, East End, East Durham and Northgate—have qualified for the state’s Pre-Regulatory Landfill Program, which was established to remediate...
Eat Well, a Durham Program Fighting Food Insecurity, Receives $10 Million Investment
A Durham program that offers vouchers for fruit and vegetables announced Monday that it was allocated $10 million in North Carolina’s 2023 state budget, marking the largest investment ever made into a “produce prescription” initiative in the country. Eat Well will use the infusion of funds to...
In Durham, Million-Dollar Home Sales Are No Longer Outliers
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Not so long ago, a million-dollar home sale in Durham was rarer than a blizzard in the Bull City. No more. In 2010, just one single-family home in all of Durham County sold for more than $1 million. In 2022, 61 homes sold for seven figures.
They Were Go-To Dealers for College Students. Now They’re Headed to Prison.
This story originally published online at The Assembly. The weekend of March 4, 2023, was a big one in the Triangle. Big for thousands of students and alums because longtime basketball rivals Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were facing off. Big for crowded restaurants and bars that had the Saturday night game in UNC’s Dean Dome on their wide-screen TVs.
Durham DA Deberry: NC Needs an Attorney General Who ‘Believes in Democracy’
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. In a virtual forum Tuesday, Satana Deberry said North Carolinians need an attorney general who “believes in democracy” and is willing to fight for it in court — values that are especially pertinent as the state faces lawsuits over Senate redistricting and a voter ID law passed by the legislature earlier this year.
Durham Rolls Out New Electric Buses
This story originally published online at the 9th Street Journal. Noisy, gas-powered buses have some new competition on the Bull City streets. Durham is expanding its electric bus fleet this Thanksgiving, keeping the city on track to reach its goal of an all-electric bus system by 2035. Five new electric...
In Divided Vote, Durham Council Adopts Most SCAD Text Amendments
The Durham city council voted on Monday to adopt parts of the controversial Simplified Code for Affordable Housing (SCAD) text amendments by a vote of 4-3. After four hours of deliberation, and comments from nearly 50 members of the community, the council chose to move forward with items from the SCAD proposal that were recommended by the Planning Department during its most recent analysis of the privately-initiated text amendments.
Carrboro is First Town in NC to Call on Congress to Back a Ceasefire in Gaza
On Tuesday, November 14, the Carrboro town council became the first municipal government in North Carolina to officially call on the U.S. Congress to back a ceasefire in Gaza. Council members passed the resolution by a 4-3 margin, only a few weeks after rejecting a similar resolution. Council member Eliazar Posada, the swing vote, said he had previously voted against the resolution because of a misunderstanding over edits to its wording.
Op-Ed: Why I Support Durham’s Zoning Reforms
In 2019 and 2020, while working as a high school teacher, I built an ADU in my backyard. An ADU is an accessory dwelling unit—a backyard small home. Some neighbors who were being displaced moved in, and that ADU has been a home to housing insecure folks for three years now.
Faculty Members Surprised, Concerned as UNC Chancellor Weighs Exit
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. Members of the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty were blindsided by this week’s revelation that Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz is weighing leaving the university to become president of Michigan State University. As faculty members, staff, students and alumni await his decision, they are anticipating...
Triangle Cities and Towns Score High in LGBTQ Equality, Despite State Laws
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. Despite a legislative session that featured several broad assaults on LGBTQ people, their visibility and their allies, most North Carolina cities and towns scored high for LGBTQ equality measures in a new study from The Human Rights Campaign. The national LGBTQ advocacy...
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor “Weighing” Presidency at Michigan State
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. Kevin Guskiewicz could soon be the latest UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor to leave the university for a job in another state. Guskiewicz, who’s served as chancellor in Chapel Hill since early 2019, said in a statement released today by the school that he is “weighing” the opportunity to become president of Michigan State University.
The Glass Jug Brewery Makes Draft Cocktails a Permanent Fixture
In line with national trends that show slowdowns in craft beer sales and heightened demand for mixed drinks, The Glass Jug Beer Lab will make draft cocktails a permanent fixture on its menu starting in December, the Durham brewery announced this week. “Craft beer is maturing,” says Glass Jug owner...
DEQ, Cultural and Natural Resources at Odds Over Settlement Agreement with Wake Stone
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. The NC Department of Environmental Quality and Wake Stone have reached a settlement agreement regarding the controversial expansion of the Triangle Quarry next to Umstead State Park, but the agency still must pay $500,000 in attorneys’ fees. The case stems from...
Allegation that Durham Charter School Student Used Racial Slur, Flashed Gun on FaceTime, Raises Concerns
This story originally published online at NC Newsline. This story contains racist language that might upset some readers. A white seventh-grade boy who attends Discovery Charter School in Durham allegedly called a Black classmate a “monkey” and another racial slur, and then flashed a rifle to several students during a FaceTime chat, Arssante Malone, the father of the Black student, told NC Newsline.
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