In addition to covering news, 9th Street Journal reporters delivered memorable tales in 2020. They discovered and developed these pieces while reporting on the pandemic,…
Posts published in “Life in Durham”
At 3:17 a.m. the Rev. Ben Johnston-Krase jumped out of bed, scrambled for his iPad and started Googling — somebody must have thought of this…
Nearly every Saturday morning since 2007, Durham Farmers’ Market transformed Durham Central Park. Usually, vendors rolled into Central Park Pavilion early, 6 or 7 a.m. …
From the moment I wandered onto Ninth Street as a clueless Duke freshman experiencing her first days of August humidity in the Southeast, I never…
COVID-19 has claimed its next holiday victim in Durham: trick or treating on Halloween. Donning a witch’s hat, Steve Schewel announced last week that Oct.…
Braggtown, like many predominantly Black neighborhoods in Durham, was settled by formerly enslaved people. Liberated from the vast Stagville plantation at the end of the…
“VA 2-211-685” is scrawled in black marker across a sheet of paper. Wade H. Williams, artist at his own company Artist at Large, holds up…
After more than three years of renovations, Durham Main Library was slated to reopen in April. But the coronavirus pandemic threw a wrench in those…
From the outside, the Bull Durham house at 911 N. Mangum St. looks pretty much the same as it did in the famous 1988 baseball…
A few months ago, Durham’s Mystic Farm & Distillery decided to expand beyond its well-known line of gin and bourbon liqueur and make a completely…