“My girls brought me out here,” said Barbara Meeks, sitting on the bench on Saturday under the giant Christmas tree in the middle of CCB…
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Aside from the faint hum of fluorescent lights, the only sounds were the clicks of clocks, the scrape of chair legs and the rustle of…
The crowd gathered around the circle of canvases, quieting as the countdown began. “Five!” the host shouted. An older gentleman dressed in a frog onesie…
There are vanishingly few places today with a dress code that requires, rather than prohibits, an exorbitant amount of sparkle. During last Friday’s premiere of…
It’s Tuesday evening at the Velvet Hippo’s rooftop bar. From the wooded deck, a few dozen hipster bargoers admire a picture-perfect view of downtown Durham:…
At the edge of Duke Park, families unfold their lawn chairs as a warm June sun steams off the morning rain. Local singer Juliana Finch…
Every Tuesday night, up a creaky, sticker-covered staircase surrounded by black walls, you’ll find a dive bar lit by red-bulb chandeliers, the cartoon “Adventure Time”…
On a recent Tuesday night, on the center patio of Ponysaurus, a woman in a magenta tennis outfit juggles a pilsner in one hand and…
Rodney Medley stood framed by three tables stacked with jars of honey, amber and prismatic like a honeycomb. “They call me the ‘Halchemist’,” he said,…
On a Saturday night in early May, a grown man, known as “Pink Pony Clubber,” descends into the basement of Common Market, brushes past the…