June 2011
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Reliable Cheese
Hello Readers,
Craig here. Matt invited me to start posting on this blog now that I’m an official Durhamite. We’re hoping to cover a wide range of topics with The Durhamist but seeing as I have a large love of all things food my posts will likely be gastronomic in nature. Introductions aside - let’s get into this shall we?
Reliable Cheese opened this past Thursday (6/16)....
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I See Durham →
There’s a great new Durham blog making “terrible drawings of wonderful things in Durham, N.C.”
There are only a few posts up right now, but this could be a Durham blog staple.
http://iseedurham.tumblr.com/
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Bring Back the Fourth [of July]! →
Liberty Mutual is hosting an online contest until June 14th, the winning municipality will receive $10,000 in grants to be used for the city’s Fourth of July Celebration!
Follow the link above and answer an eight question quiz to help Durham win $10,000!
Liberty Mutual
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Fund this Project!
Bound Custom Journals is one of the new businesses being incubated by Durham’s Startup Stampede and they’re looking to raise $10,000 to buy their machinery, etc. If you pre-order your custom journal today you’ll be helping an awesome new business set-up shop today. And with Kickstarter you only pay if the project get’s fully funded.
The journals let you...
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March 2011
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Bull City Beer & Burger
Last night my significant other and I went to Bull City Beer & Burger’s opening night. It was a mad house, and it was awesome. We unfortunately had a long wait for our burger, because they had run out of their fresh baked rolls for the second time that night. We didn’t mind waiting though, because there was plenty of beer and the communal table prompted a conversation with the...
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Durham Drivers are the Worst
This was the aftermath of a driver treating the neighborhood streets of Durham like a Rally Car Race. The driver had been screeching around corners and doing donuts before somehow bouncing off the telephone poll, into the tree, and into the fence. This driver was also operating a motor vehicle on an expired or revoked license, (I didn’t quite overhear what the police officers said).
This...
November 2010
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There’s so much energy here,” he said. “It’s very...
– Keith Flynn, talking about the Cleveland-Holloway Neighborhood.
Read more: The Herald-Sun - Cleveland Holloway Neighborhood ‘Renaissance’ tour is a hit
There have been a number of great articles written about the C-H neighborhood recently and their 3rd annual home tour, here are a collection of...
January 2010
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August 2009
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Herald Sun finally redesigns Website, Hell freezes...
The Herald-Sun in Durham has finally redesigned its website so that it is both usable and attractive. Here’s hoping it’s a sign of other good things to come at the paper.
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