On Sundays and Mondays between 6 and 9 a.m., most Durham residents are snoozing their alarms, brewing coffee and skimming their inboxes. Meanwhile, at unmarked…
Posts published in “Life in Durham”
Bob Marley tunes and the scent of fresh popcorn wafted through Durham Central Park on Saturday in celebration of the city’s sixth annual Refugee Day.…
Bruce Bair emailed or called his senators every three days for five months straight. When that wasn’t enough, the 73-year-old veteran journeyed from Durham to…
On a recent Saturday evening an eclectic group clad in technicolor patterns and bold silhouettes gathered around a massive velvet throne draped with baby dolls…
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 Tuesday, March 18, Ryan Sailstad, recreation and operations supervisor for Durham Parks and Recreation, received an unexpected text message: a UPS shipment had arrived.…
It was 2 p.m. on a Sunday, and Isaiah Jernigan, 25, and his father, Shane, 51, were three hours into their usual kitchen rhythm. They…
On Saturday, energy ran high in downtown Durham as around 1,000 community members, chanting and waving posters reading “Hands Off Our Democracy” and “Resist, Resist,…
On Wednesday afternoon, the sidewalk in front of the Durham VA Medical Center swelled with more than a hundred demonstrators rallying against the Trump administration’s…
Toni Hall faces herself in a wall-length mirror, moving her arms and legs in rhythmic motions. Fourteen women follow behind her. There’s no music, just…