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Coffee, Mexican Brunch, and Mother's Day: The Triangle's Best Food Events

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Race Home

I was a block away from the final turn toward the finish line when, at last, I veered off course.

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Durham Is Totally Fine with Its New Top Cop’s Past

Incoming Durham police chief Cerelyn Davis held her first Bull City press conference Monday morning, and she was about as specific as a Bill Belichick post-game interview. Swap "one game at a time" for...

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“It Seems Like Raleigh Isn’t Raleigh Anymore”

At a public meeting last Thursday at the John Chavis Community Center in southeast Raleigh, one resident lamented the ongoing changes to some of the city's historic neighborhoods, areas where old...

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The General Assembly Doesn’t Want You to Know What’s in Your Water

Remember when North Carolina's health department told people their coal ash-contaminated water is now totally fine to drink, because the state changed the standard of what it considers "acceptable"...

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A McCrory Benefactor Wins a Key State Appointment

Governor McCrory has never shied away from appointing his political funders to top positions. Early cabinet members Art Pope and Aldona Wos can take more credit than most for helping Republicans,...

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Southeast Raleigh Residents Want the City to Finally Fix Chavis Park

At ninety-eight, Milly Dunn Veasey is undeniably frail. But speak with her, and it becomes clear that her memory is vivid, her mind still sharp.

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Ruffin Hall Is Raleigh’s Most Powerful Person You’ve Never Heard Of

The key is finding a balance.

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The DHA Weighs a More Lenient Approach to Section 8 Applicants with Arrest...

Last Wednesday's discussion of a routine agenda item ended with Durham Housing Authority commissioners voting to delay opening the housing-choice voucher wait list for one month.

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Though Durham’s Nice Price Books Is Gone, There’s Cause for Hope as Well as...

I'm sad because my bar is closing down. It's not the place I drinkI'm talking about Nice Price Books in Durham, which just shuttered for good. I'm a regular there. I browse lightly, but mostly I talk...

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The Audience Must Act in Beertown, a Theatrical Experiment in Civil Society

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NC Theatre Somehow Wrests a Strong Show From Casting Calamity in Wit

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Food Triangles: The Inaugural INDY Food Awards

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Eco Farm and Lil' Farm Sort Through the Rewards and Outrages of Small-Time...

When George O'Neal decided to become a farmer more than a decade ago, no one told him it was going to be easyespecially not his mentor, John Soehner.

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Thanks to Immigrant Populations, Curious Chefs, and Risky Farmers, the...

One curious difficulty in defining local food comes from the fact that many of the fruits and vegetables we grow at homeeven those so commonplace they seem to be a part of the region's very lorearen't...

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The Local Food System is Thriving, and its Aspirations Are Only Growing

Teddy Klopf just wants to cook a French fry.

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The Local Food Question: How Did We Get Here, and Where Is It Going?

When I was an elementary-school kid, I never questioned the origins of the food on the family table.

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Out of the Woods: Foraging Steps into the Clear

But for a man in a rowboat fifty feet from shore, all is still on Raleigh's Walnut Creek Greenway.

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The INDY's Food Triangles: Katherine Gill of Durham's Hub Farm

The sun could barely peek through the thick cloud cover on a chilly Thursday morning in early March. Still, a group of thirteen teachersa capacity crowd, actuallyhad gathered on Durham's Hub Farm for a...

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The INDY's Food Triangles: April McGreger of Farmer's Daughter

April McGreger is surrounded by sixty pounds of sunchokes. They are beige and knobby, dusted with earth, drenched in afternoon sunlight. It is Tuesdayproduction dayat Farmer's Daughter headquarters, or...

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The INDY's Food Triangles: Vansana and Vanvisa Nolintha of Bida Manda

Vansana and Vanvisa Nolintha do not have long work commutes.

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Our Favorite Things: Ten Outstanding Food Artisans and Their Wares

It's not just the Triangle's population that is expanding; in recent years, our local food culture has bloomed and evolved, too. Consumer demand seems to be at an all-time high for local, responsibly...

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How Area Roasters Are Working to Make "Local Coffee" More Than a Marketing Term

Scott Conary needs you to know something: He has been to the farms where much of what his company, Carrboro Coffee Roasters, sells, actually grows. He has sat with the farmers in the high reaches of...

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The Morning Roundup: About Those Teacher Raises...

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Introducing EATS, the INDY's 112-page Look at Local Food

For the last five years, the INDY has issued an annual food magazine, EATS. In previous editions, EATS largely pulled together our favorite food-and-drink stories of the last year or spotlighted...

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Jordan Lake Report Revised, Criticism of SolarBees Removed

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Richard Burr is #NeverHillary, Will Support Donald Trump

The now-assured Republican nomination of Donald Trump poses a dilemma for candidates around the country. The choice is to either distance yourself from his campaign and hope that inoculates you from...

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Live: N.C. Symphony Handles Beethoven—and Addresses HB 2—at Memorial Hall

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Video: Watch Durham's Monica Byrne Turn Into a Hologram in Vancouver TED Talk

Durham author and playwright Monica Byrne is known for raveling disparate strands of gender, race, and love in speculative social orders, from the acclaimed novel The Girl in the Road to the ambitious...

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NC DEQ Will Actually Remove SolarBees from Jordan Lake, Because They're Not...

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The Morning Roundup: Bathroom Segregation Now, Bathroom Segregation Forever!

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Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest Using Official Letterhead, Office to Get...

Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has been sending generic letters to pastors and churches around the state in an attempt to get them to invite him for a "Q+A session" to "probe into my faith history,...

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The Art of Cool Festival Starts Today—Here's What Eric Tullis Says You Have...

For our complete preview of Art of Cool 2016, here's quite a lot to read. Below, critic Eric Tullis weighs in on the five unexpected acts you must see. Tickets are still available here.

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The Morning Roundup: Judgment Day

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Erykah Badu, Beach House, Television, Andrew Bird Top Hopscotch 2016

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***DUPLICATE: Erykah Badu, Beach House, Television, Andrew Bird Top Hopscotch...

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North Carolina Files Federal Lawsuit To Declare HB 2 Not Discriminatory

Well, we knew something like this was coming: as the U.S. Department of Justice's Monday deadline passes for Governor Pat McCrory to confirm that he won't implement HB 2, McCrory filed a federal...

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Updated: Attorney General Loretta Lynch Lays the Smack Down on McCrory

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is set to speak on the lawsuit Pat McCrory filed against her and the DOJ earlier today. Those following along live can watch below.

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Read Remarks by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Civil Rights Division...

Here are the full remarks Attorney General Loretta Lynch gave today about the Department of Justice's lawsuit against North Carolina.

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The Morning Roundup: Human Decency vs. Patrick Lloyd McCrory

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PPP: Trump Has Higher Approval Rating Than Hemorrhoids, Cockroaches; But...

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The Art of Cool Festival

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Oops, NC DEQ: Thirteen SolarBees Got Loose During the Jordan Lake Pilot Program

Last week, Secretary Donald van der Vaart of North Carolina's Department of Environmental Quality admitted what we all pretty much already knew: SolarBees have been a spectacular failure in cleaning up...

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Moogfest Announces Partnerships Against HB 2

You may be aware that, yesterday, Gov. Pat McCrory and Republican leaders in the state legislature filed a lawsuit against the federal government, arguing that the Department of Justice's demand that...

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The Morning Roundup: Bernie, a Bad Santa, Coach K, and More

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House Democrats Introduce "Equality For All" Act

Add another to the list anti-HB 2 bills floating around the General Assembly that, unfortunately, will probably never see the light of day: this morning, Reps. Chris Sgro (Greensboro), Pricey Harrison...

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Updated: McCrory Spokesman Confirms Taxpayers Footed the Bill for Governor's...

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Environmental Management Commission Approves Earlier Versions of Reports on...

In a triumph of science over politics Wednesday afternoon, the Environmental Management Commission's water-quality committee approved earlier versions of a report on SolarBees that says the devices...

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NC Chamber of Commerce: HB 2 Is a "Distraction," Match NC Anti-Discrimination...

After nearly two months of radio silence from the most influential lobbying group in North Carolina politics, the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce has finally released a statement on HB 2.

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Report: McCrory Administration Breaks State Law

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