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SPOTLIGHT: Traditional Southern New Year’s Day


Head over to Fullsteam Brewery at 726 Rigsbee St. in Durham this Saturday for Slow Food Triangle’s third annual Traditional Southern New Year’s Day. The celebration of regional culinary traditions, local farmers and artisan food producers will take place from 4 to 7 p.m., with a meal featuring collard greens, cornbread, hoppin’ john, sweet potato pie and more served at 5. Vegetarian options will be available.
Admission is $15 for Slow Food members, $18 for non-members and free for children 10 and younger. Event proceeds will benefit a new healthy snack program at Club Boulevard Elementary School in Durham.
Attendees are kindly asked to bring their own plates, and to consider carpooling, to minimize waste and ease parking.

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Meandering through winter

Photo by Stan Lewis.

You can’t say you weren’t warned.
The last issue of MILL contained an ironclad prediction of the recent deluge and its consequences.

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A GUIDE TO EATING


Winter veggies on parade

You may not wander down to the local farmers’ market as much these days. It’s understandable, given the cold and the fewer pickings and attendant growers.

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Sparking conversations about silence

Photo by Mary Noble Ours

By Vicky Dickson

It has to be daunting to discover in the midst of a book project that you’re working on the wrong book. That you feel compelled to write something quite different from what you told your boss and editor you’d be coming out with.

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Arts & Music

Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 12/20-26

Don’t let frightful weather get you down, here are a few delightful places to find yourself this week when not toasting by the fire with your loved ones. Happy holidays!

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Arts & Music

Swinging times in Orange County

Here’s a short video of the performance featured on the front of today’s Carrboro Citizen of Jennifer Curtis, Margaret Dyer and Dexter Romweber playing at a house show on Dec. 11.

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Arts & Music

Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 12/13-19

Here because you can’t be trusted to know where to find the good stuff every night of the week.

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Arts & Music

Small Wonders at FRANK

There’s nothing big featured at FRANK Gallery this month. The gallery drew the line at 20 inches for its featured show, Small Wonders, which runs through Jan. 9.

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Arts & Music

SPOTLIGHT: A Trekky Christmas

Trekky Records will welcome a very special guest to its Dec. 16 Christmas at the Cradle show – legendary local jangle/power-pop band The dB’s. The lads will join an impressive array of North Carolina performers for this fifth-annual gala to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, an event that’s already well established as a Yuletide classic.

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Arts & Music

Tree Show at The ArtsCenter opens Dec. 10th

A show dedicated to the importance of trees with a book to match opens during the 2ndFriday Artwalk with an event at The ArtsCenter on Dec. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. The book and show by the Paintbrush Forest collective – a mix of 30 local emerging and established artists – will raise funds for the Haw River Assembly. The project was funded by the Orange County Arts Commission.

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Arts & Music

Holiday Trolley Tour Friday Dec 10th

Eastgate, Womancraft and FRANK Gallery have teamed up to run a holiday trolley between the Franklin Street gallery and Eastgate Shopping Center, the home of Womancraft, on Dec. 10 during openings and meet-the-artist events at both locations. Four loops this evening, along with refreshments at each stop, are planned, starting at Eastgate at 6 p.m.