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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Last Wednesday, Governor McCrory signed a law ending the ability of cities to create their own nondiscrimination measures, eliminating workplace-discrimination lawsuits, forbidding local governments from raising the minimum wage, and codifying anti-LGBT animus into state law. McCrory’s office dispatched a press release in response to backlash. However, it appears that most of the items in the release are false of half-truths.
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In late January, several teens in North Carolina, referred to as the NC6, were targeted by Immigrations Customs and Enforcement agents and taken away for deportation. Among the undocumented immigrants was David Acosta, who was sent to Stewart Detention Center in Georgia. Soon after his arrest, the Durham community rallied around him and Acosta now has a case under review for an exception to immigration rules.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 13, March 2016,
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Duke University’s adjunct faculty members celebrated a vote to join the Service Employees International Union last Monday. Many of non-tenured, non-rank faculty members who favored the vote felt underpaid and treated as disposable. Modern-day universities run like a business and faculty struggle to gain tenure.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 33 Issue 13, March 2016,
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Picnic is Durham’s new craft barbecue restaurant, which claims to offer the perfect compromise between North Carolina’s two vernacular regions of smoked pig. The owner, Wyatt Dickson, gets meat local from Bahama’s Green Button Farm, and honors the state’s cuisine by slow cooking over hardwood coals.
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Ari Berenbaum is the owner of Ninth Street Bakery in downtown Durham. The bakery’s latest product is the Asiago scone made by hand by Maria Rivera and baked overnight by her husband Jose Cortez. For the past two weeks, every batch of scones has sold out.
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Skylar Gudasz didn't give up when record labels didn't respond to her songs. Instead, she used the extra time to make them better, to finish one of the most exquisite local records in recent memory. With the help of renowned producer Chris Stamey in Chapel Hill, she is releasing her album Oleander.
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This weekend's Festival on the Hill, which occurs at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, explores the interactions between music and science. Launched in 2002 by the Department of Music, this biennial festival fosters discussion between scholars, composers, and performers. This year’s theme is Music, Science, & Nature, which stems from the work of UNC composition professor Lee Weisert.
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The roles of women in theater have come under increasing scrutiny in recent years as they face discrimination and inequality. In response, Ashley Popio, a Raleigh-based stage artist and producer, is organizing the Women’s Theatre Festival. In August, the festival will present full-length works written and directed by women, with women composing at least half of the casts.
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