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A GUIDE TO THE WONDERS AROUND US

by Vicky Dickson

The view out an airplane window changed the trajectory of Joe Miller’s career. Specifically, the view of Umstead State Park. To a visitor from Dallas, that expanse of green in the midst of the Triangle’s urban sprawl looked pretty enticing.

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FAUNA – Pileated Fever

By Mary Parker Sonis
Now is the time for sighting pileated woodpeckers in the Bolin Creek Forest. The branches are bare of leaves and the largest woodpecker in North America can be seen daily,

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From mill town to mecca


When you live in one town for 66 years, you get to know it pretty well. Especially when you grow up next door to a man who used his ever-present camera to document town life for more than 40 years.

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Big Star’s Third

By Ashley Melzer • Photos by Ash Crowe

“Big Star’s Third,” a live recreation of Big Star’s Sister/Lovers record, which debuted at Cat’s Cradle in December, is coming to UNC’s PlayMakers Theatre on Feb. 15 for an acoustic encore. The performance, like the first, will be a faithful recreation of the album, with the original string and wind orchestrations – formerly regarded as lost or destroyed – intact.

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SWEET MYSTERY


What is this thing that sets the heart a flutter? This mood that blooms in the cold of winter, lifting our hearts and promising, perhaps, immeasurable joy?

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FAUNA – The Big Nights

By Mary Parker Sonis
The Big nights are coming. In late January and early February, spring will come early for our spotted salamanders.

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The treasure he left us


By Vicky Dickson
There’s an irony attached to achieving great renown as a writer. In a way, such writers become like landmarks, those places everyone intends to visit … eventually.

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A GUIDE TO EATING


Oyster education
Tip of the hat to the folks at the Seaview Crab Company (the first blue fish place you pass on Carolina Beach Road as you’re heading south out of Wilmington toward Pleasure Island) for an education on the characteristics of various local oysters.

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GIMME FIVE: Local bands get grilled

Ashley Melzer asks local bands five probing questions.

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Community Food

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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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.