2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (982+ words) Several years ago, Tressie Mc Millan Cottom drove her mother, Vivian Mc Millan, from Charlotte to Winston-Salem for a 50th anniversary party of the local Black Panther Party. Seeing her mother with fellow former Black Panther Party members'now in their 70s and…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (442+ words) Character Studies'is an INDY series about familiar faces around the Triangle'and the stories you may not know about them. If you frequently drive through downtown Durham or run around Duke University's East Campus, you know who Josh Morin is. He's…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (328+ words) If there weren't enough reasons to visit the Triangle already, the area can now proudly boast additional street restaurant cred for visitors. The inaugural awards for MICHELIN's regional guide to the South were handed out tonight, and the Triangle walked…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1079+ words) BENITA | Full Frame Documentary Festival | Thursday, April 16, 5 p. m. | The Carolina Theatre, Durham" The documentary BENITA, which screens this week at Durham's Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, unfolds through fragments of journal entries, images, and half-finished ideas. Somewhere inside all of this…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (654+ words) Gas prices are up. So is the cost of housing, utilities, education, healthcare, and'with the exception of a carton of eggs'food. The United States has entered a war with Iran and nobody seems to know why." Meanwhile, the year draws…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (942+ words) On a recent Sunday afternoon, the guests gathered at Durham's North Star Church of the Arts for a concert sang and stomped their feet as four women on stage led a most unconventional chorus: "She's wearing combat boots and glass…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (762+ words) Here's some trivia: The old maxim "Variety is the spice of life" actually comes from 18th-century English poet William Cowper. The exact quote: "Variety's the very spice of life / That gives it all its flavour." Go forth with this knowledge…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (17+ words) Laughter Is Medicine: Talking With the Creators of Bear Grease About Reimagining a Hit Musical'INDY Week...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (313+ words) INDY Week Your neighborhood"s our neighborhood. Keep up with it. Join 24, 000 of your neighbors who read the INDY Daily newsletter. There's an INDY newsletter for you. Find it here. - The Daily (Weekdays) The Triangle"s news, every morning. - Insider…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (952+ words) For about three hours on the night of January 30, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium transformed into Nagasaki at the dawn of the 20th century. Singing Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Caitlin Gotimer watched the harbor for a certain ship, her hope suspended like…...