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The Art of Cool Festival and Moogfest have spent the past two years locked in comparison and competition for Durham resources. The festivals take place less than a month apart, but they attract different audiences and reflect different values. Themes of protest and resistance were central to both festivals this year, and their different manifestations were telling of their motivations.
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The Nasher Museum of Art in Durham paid tribute to the artist Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in April at age seventy-two. Hendricks was known for vivid yet stoic life-size oil paintings of black people. He became a retroactive icon and influenced a new generation of African American artists.
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Orange County Public Schools are being urged to ban the Confederate flag and other hate symbols on school property. In light of a recent mass shooting and racial hate crimes, the Board of Education will discuss the ban as well as potential changes to the dress code.
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North River Village, a proposed commercial and residential development, has been a topic of debate in Durham. Questions have arisen over the proposed zones, road improvements, school districts, and population density. Opponents fear that rezoning will lead to over-development and environmental devastation.
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A United Airlines flight attendant reported Henry Amador-Batten to Raleigh-Durham Airport police for cuddling with his adopted son. Amador-Batten and his husband are a gay couple who legally adopted a child in 2011. They have hired an attorney to open a dialogue with the airline about the way their employees treat gay men.
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Reorganization of the United States Department of Agriculture may have significant impacts to North Carolina farms and rural communities. The proposal combines USDA divisions in charge of farm subsidies and land stewardship, areas in which the department interacts directly with farmers. Reorganization would also eliminate the undersecretary for rural development, which worries small farm advocates.
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Controversy over the generations-old practice of hunting deer with dogs continues in North Carolina, even though a bill designed to regulate it has been stalled in a House committee since April. House Bill 648 was introduced to create a framework for resolving some disputes between hunters, landowners, and animal rights advocates.
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This summer, the American Dance Festival (ADF) celebrates four decades of bringing global modern dance to Durham and Duke University. To resituate ADF’s wide modern impact, INDY compiled an oral history of the festival, from its birth in Vermont to the development of the ADF brand to its pivotal move to Durham and beyond.
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The Quarter Horse Bar & Arcade is a new Durham bar opening in the basement space of the Merge Records building. Its three co-owners combined their hobbies and expertise in business, carpentry, gaming and software development to create the new concept bar. Quarter Horse will feature a mix of games, music, and beverages in a rustic-techno atmosphere.
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INDY’s Best of the Triangle 2017 is an annual comprehensive guide of all the best things and places in the area. The guide is based on the collective wisdom of INDY readers and their votes. The general categories presented are restaurants and bars, health and body, shops and services, local hangouts and organizations.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 21, June 2017,
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Last week, after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina’s legislative districts constitute racial gerrymanders, Governor Cooper ordered the General Assembly into special session to draw new maps. Lawmakers have not cooperated and now the issue is back with the district court.
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A Faith Advocacy rally was held in Raleigh to show opposition to anti-immigration legislation, including a bill that would deny tax revenue to cities that accept non-government IDs. Reverend William J. Barber II, a civil rights leader, spoke at the rally in support of an immigrant family threatened to be deported.
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Durham Mayor Bill Bell has attempted to reduce poverty and revitalize inner-city neighborhoods for the past sixteen years. During this time, Durham’s downtown has seen a renaissance but the poverty rate has risen. A new initiative called Transformation in Ten is a coordinated effort to address the causes and symptoms of poverty, including housing, finance, jobs, public safety, health and education.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 34 Issue 22, June 2017,
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Chicken Bridge Bakery is a business in Carrboro run by Rob and Monica Segovia-Welsh. They use their baked bread as a canvass for etching designs and messages of resistance and solidarity. Bread is also donated to the community and used to promote local foods.
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Four years after his death, Jason Molina and his music live on through a new book and a revived reunion. Molina was part of the band, Magnolia Electric Co., which began at The Pinhook in Durham in 2014. Former bandmates reconvened for several memorial shows, performing new material written by Molina before he died.
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