Hartford Business - StatSheet

"Durham, N.C.-based StatSheet Network, a fan-centric sports site launched in November of last year, offers a free, downloadable Huskie Ball QR app, which contains a variety of information about the University of Connecticut’s beloved basketball team."

- QR Gaining Traction, Hartford Business.com

Mashable - McKinney and Urban Ministries of Durham

"It’s one thing to feel bad for homeless people; it’s another to be forced into their shoes. Advertising agency McKinney has teamed up with Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD), a non-profit based in North Carolina, to create SPENT, an online game that guides users through what it feels like to be homeless."

- New Website Guides You Through the Homeless Experience, Mashable

The New York Times - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

"The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, N.C., which instigated the road trip in the name of scientific outreach, first held a workshop where seven of its Ph.D.’s staged role-playing games and practiced debunking misconceptions about evolution without sounding confrontational."

- A Nationwide Day for Honoring Charles Darwin, but Handled With Caution, The New York Times

Garden and Gun - Scratch Bakery

"The masonry facade at Scratch, a new counterservice bakery and sandwich café in downtown Durham, North Carolina, is butter yellow. (Really, it is.) Walls and tables recall various shades of heritage-hen eggs."

- Sweet Spot, Garden and Gun

The New York Times - Locopops

"Without speaking Spanish, Summer Bicknell took her M.B.A. to the Mexican village of Tlazazalca, where she apprenticed in a paletería, learning how to transform fresh seasonal fruit into Mexican ice pops. She opened the first LocoPops near Duke University five years ago..."

- The Scene, The New York Times

The New York Times - Rock Paper Scissors Salon

"This Durham salon-cum-art gallery perfectly captures the Triangle ethos, beyond offering structural haircuts. The gallery is curated by the husband of one of the stylists, who works at Whole Foods and also brews the salon’s delicious Honey Basil beer from hops and herbs grown in his own backyard."

- The Scene, The New York Times

The New York Times - Merge Records

"McCaughan founded Durham-based Merge Records in 1989 with Laura Ballance from his indie-rock band Superchunk."

- The Scene, The New York Times

The New York Times - Only Burger

"But the widely acknowledged leader of this vehicular pack is a Durham-based chuck truck called OnlyBurger. Its ‘‘breakfast’’ special — tiered with fried green tomato, pimento cheese, fresh-ground beef and a gooey griddled egg — is a wonder of patty perfectionism."

- The Scene, The New York Times

The New York Amsterdam News - Tobacco Road Sports Cafe

"Although baseball and basketball are the king sports in Durham, you can still get your football on at several great bars in town. Among those is Tobacco Road Sports Café, an upscale restaurant/bar located at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park downtown, next to the Durham Performing Arts Center and the American Tobacco Historic Campus...One of the things that makes this place a unique sports-watching venue is that they have a patio (I know, maybe you don’t want to sit out there in the winter) that forms the top of the left field wall for the ball park, plus two walls of windows and great views of downtown. But wait, what gets my attention are the 40 TVs, about a dozen of which have corresponding recliners."

- Ebony Escapes! To get your Super Bowl on!, The New York Amsterdam News

Reunions Magazine - Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau

"...Pamela Williams attended the workshop...and took their ideas to the Durham (North Carolina) CVB, who staged a successful event in late January...Durham CVB demonstrates that CVBs can react to their constituents if there’s enough interest in a workshop."

- About Reunion Planning Workshops, Reunions Magazine

I'll Bite Blog - Durham Home to Foodies

"Durham is something else entirely. What Durham has is a food entrepreneur class, a lot of young people who came for college or fun and stuck around to do what they love."

- Special food report: Durham A Day, I'll Bite Blog