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Filmed in Durham, a New Movie About Cosmic Coincidences Has Flown Under the Radar

Seventeen minutes into the offbeat indie rom-com Everything & the Universe, a woman walks into a hotel to check in for a weekend stay. The hotel lobby is bright and airy, with a wall of glass windows near the reception desk and a cream-and-crimson carpet underfoot. It was here that...
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Families in Durham say they’re barely getting by; New report says Americans are saving...

For many, shopping at thrift stores have become the norm.
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Cary homeowners push back on proposed property tax increase, cite rising costs

Cary residents are pushing back against a proposed property tax increase, saying rising costs are already stretching their budgets too thin.
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A New Downtown Durham Movie Theater. A New Cinema Community To Help Light Up...

About 300,000 people. Maybe two dozen screens. That’s the moviegoing situation in Durham, where 17 of those screens carry mainstream fare at AMC Southpoint and three focus on first-run indies at the Carolina Theatre. You can eke out a few more by including the likes of Duke University’s Griffith Film Theater or the for
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Where North Carolina’s Backcourt Ranks in ACC

Here is a look at how the Tar Heels' revamped backcourt compares to their conference rivals.
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Duke University develops non-humanoid robot Argus that can see and respond in any direction

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke scientists in Bull City are trying a new approach to robotics design. Instead of trying to copy symmetrical shapes from nature by building robots that look like people, dogs or insects, engineering professor Boyuan Chen and his team focused on uniformity in action, or what he calls “dynamic sym
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In Durham, the Journey of a Plastic Bottle

This story originally published in The 9th Street Journal. Inside a concrete bay at Durham’s Waste Disposal and Recycling Center on East Club Boulevard, a plastic water bottle lands with a dull crack against a pile of cardboard and glass, quickly swallowed into a growing heap of mixed material.
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Orange Habitat opens applications for Weavers Grove

CHAPEL HILL — Beginning June 1, Orange Habitat will accept applications for seven homes in Weavers Grove, its new mixed-income community in Chapel Hill: one two-bedroom duplex, two three-bedroom duplexes, two three-bedroom townhomes and two four-bedroom townhomes.
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Scott Forbes rolls the UNC dice with bold pitching gamble for Chapel Hill Regional

The Tar Heels' starting rotation won't look the same as we all expected it to for the upcoming Chapel Hill Regional.
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‘Come get loved on:’ Student-owned coffee shop The Grounds opens on Franklin Street

The best word to describe the past month of UNC-Chapel Hill students Emily Lutgring and Allison Travis' lives is synchronicity. In the fall, both Lutgring, 20, and Travis, 21, said they had separate conversations with friends about starting a coffee shop. Months later, the duo stood behind the counter making lattes and

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