As the clock approaches 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, the streets outside the Fruit, a Durham nightclub, lay mostly quiet. Inside, though, a haze…
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The Museum of Life and Science in Durham, North Carolina is closed every Monday. But this Monday, a young man wearing a maroon “Life +…
Two couples—one young, one middle-aged— took aim at a pair of unsuspecting ducks. The creatures waddled in the grass, oblivious to the people towering overhead.…
The hum of tuning tubas radiated from the base of Duke Chapel as a band got ready to play. Folding table legs snapped into place…
Wolfgang Stanek brandishes a sword and wears a blindfold. In any other setting, no one would approach him. But on a recent Saturday inside the…
On a recent Saturday morning, a tarp on the boardwalk by Durham’s Third Fork Creek in Southwest Durham revealed trash of all kinds — energy…
At seven o’clock on a Saturday night, a man lies on the stairs outside the Durham County Detention Facility, frantically grasping at the air and…
On an outdoor stage at Durham’s Golden Belt Campus, two young girls in bright pink T-shirts and pigtails, members of the Bouncing Bulldogs jump rope…
On a balmy Sunday afternoon at Beechwood Cemetery, Melva Rigel walked up to the grave of Viola Turner (1900-1988). Beneath the small stone marker on…
Story by Nicole Kagan, photos by Kulsoom Rizavi Major the Bull, a 10-foot, 2,500-pound, bronze statue who watches over downtown Durham from his brick pedestal,…