The building is empty and the sun-bleached paint is peeling, but the wall of Ninth Street’s now-defunct clothing store, Native Threads, is still alive with…
Posts published in “Life in Durham”
Ever since large chain bookstores and Amazon took over the bookselling market, popular culture has often relegated the independent bookstore to a thing of the…
When the Scrap Exchange moved into Durham’s Lakewood Shopping Center in 2014, the mall had fallen far from its days in the 1960s as a…
Durham native Wilma Liverpool walked into Stagville State Historic Site on a recent Saturday with a single piece of paper in her hand and many…
A thin, black folding wall cut U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Durham rally in half. On one side was the Durham Convention Center’s main ballroom, filled…
All who entered NorthStar Church of the Arts one night last month passed an artist’s rendering of Colin Kaepernick. A halo-like shape circled the activist quarterback’s…
Sidney Brodie holds his iPhone to his mouth. “What is 103 times 8 minus 1?,” he asks. “823,” Siri answers. Brodie and helpers have sewn…
As Rebecca Newton prepares to end her short tenure leading the Carolina Theatre of Durham, she is satisfied with what she accomplished for the downtown…
By Cameron Oglesby and Kathleen Hobson Ask random people to compare tap water from Durham and Chapel Hill and expect results as clear as mud.…
A familiar sign on the gallery that helped ignite downtown Durham’s arts scene is gone. What was once Pleiades Gallery is now 5 Points Gallery.…