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The city council voted to bring a bike-share program to downtown Raleigh, a proposal that has enjoyed support from many downtown residents and businesses. The lone dissenter was council member Kay Crowder, who argues that the program will serve only eight-percent of the city’s population. She thinks that money would be better spent on upgrading existing infrastructure.
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Josh Fox’s returns to North Carolina with his latest film, How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change. The film looks into environmental issues such as fracking, sea level rise, and pollution. Fox believes grassroots organizations are the only way to effectively deal with these problems.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p13, por Periodical Website
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Bernie Sanders was brought to a halt as Hillary Clinton racked up big wins in North Carolina, Florida, and Ohio during last week’s primaries. But his political revolution prevailed by pushing Clinton to the left, eliciting firmer commitments on things like immigration, free trade, and environmental policy than Clinton would have made otherwise. The coalition he built will define leftist politics into the foreseeable future.
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Hank Williams has served as the doorman and bouncer for a long list of Raleigh restaurants, bars, and clubs. These days, he sits in the alcoves of the new dive bar Ruby Deluxe and near the elevated threshold of Capital Club 16, checking IDs and sometimes checking attitudes. Behind the scenes, he books some of the best heavy-metal shows in the Triangle.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p15-16, por Periodical Website
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Fiona Matthews is a bartender at Carrboro’s Bowbarr, a place known for specialty cocktails made with local ingredients. A typical night out with Fiona entails leisurely drinks at the Cave, the Nightlight, and the Social Club, which are some of her local favorites.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p17-18, por Periodical Website
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Tony Ursone is a bartender at Bittersweet, a drink-meets-dessert destination in downtown Raleigh. Some of the drinks he makes uses rizzo bitters and gin, both of which are made from local North Carolina companies. Other local bars Tony suggests are Ruby Deluxe and the Foundation.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p19-20, por Periodical Website
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Adrian Lindsey was a longtime bartender at the fancy Main Street restaurant Revolution, but now serves at Nana’s in Durham. Lindsey, a Winston-Salem native, has seen Durham’s evolution both from a distance and from behind a bar, for better and for worse. He also says that cocktail trends are forever changing and laments the current popularity of frozen drinks.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p20-21, por Periodical Website
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Zog’s is a weird, quirky dive bar located close to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus. Due to its location, under-aged students often try to use fake identification. This jeopardizes staff livelihoods because the consequences tend to fall on the bar, rather than on the falsifier.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p22, il Periodical Website
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North Carolina has fifty-two distilleries, the most of any state except Kentucky. TOPO, located in Chapel Hill, produces highly rated wheat-based products including vodka, gin, and whiskey. There are also places in the Triangle that produce mead, including Starrlight Mead in Pittsboro and Durham’s Honeygirl.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p23-24, il Periodical Website
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Three Lobed Recordings is a small independent label founded and operated almost entirely by Cory Rayborn, a business lawyer based in Jamestown, North Carolina. This weekend, Rayborn throws an all-day Sweet-Sixteen party for the Three Lobed. Many of the label’s standbys, including Bardo Pond and singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, will be on hand, making somewhat rare appearances in support of the rare label.
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Indy Week (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 12, March 2016, p29-30, por Periodical Website
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