To Marcus Hall, the time a client spends in his barber chair is sacred. A haircut is a ritual, a relationship between barber and client.…
9th Street Journal
The first question for Revenge Tour was easy: Why did they want revenge? “Last year, we suffered incredible heartbreak, and we haven’t forgotten about it,”…
On the last night in November, the smell of mint hot chocolate wafts through downtown Durham, and the distant ringing of bells carries on the…
At 618 Foster Street, around the corner from Motorco Music Hall, stands a brick building whose side is covered with a scene straight out of…
It is a Wednesday afternoon in October in suite 4700—the Durham County Public Defender’s Office. A woman sits in the corridor, Face-timing a friend. Minutes…
Ping! The silver pinball ricochets off a triceratops’s horns. Ping! It bounces back with the flick of a stegosaurus’s tail. Ping! The ball rebounds off…
Kellie Smith wants to spend the holidays with her children. “I missed my kids having their first steps, them crawling for the first time, them…
During Thursday’s Durham Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Pascal Mubenga applauded billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s $18 million donation to the school district, but urged patience…
On a recent Sunday morning, I went to therapy feeling optimistic and left smelling like goat pee. To get my therapy, I drove 25 minutes…
In Durham County Courtroom 7C recently, prosecutor Mary Jude Darrow scans a docket of first appearances, bond hearings, and probation violations. Outside, a pair of…