MinorLeagueBaseball.com - Durham Bulls Athletic Park

"Durham Bulls Athletic Park, built in 1995, is one of the crown jewels of Minor League Baseball."

-  Bulls' innovation on display in TV booth, MinorLeagueBaseball.com

Ethnolust - SeeSaw Studio Summer Photoethnography Intensive

"For most of us, the first time we had the opportunity to engage with the discipline may have been in our first year of college... But why not start earlier? That is exactly what a group of teens is doing at SeeSaw Studio during a summer intensive.  They are exploring the different ways that people around them in the city of Durham, NC define and construct community in a variety of ways.  And they’re doing it with photoethnography."

- If Kids Were Anthropologists, Ethnolust

LGBTQNation - Durham, NC Opposition to Ban on Gay Marriage

"The Durham, N.C. city council on Thursday passed a resolution stating its opposition to a proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage... Because of its location in the North Carolina Research Triangle, Durham has been attempting to market itself as a prime location for gay and lesbian couples to live and raise a family... Not only did the city pass a resolution in 2009 expressing its support for marriage equality, but it is also one of three cities in North Carolina — the others being Chapel Hill and Carrboro — which extend domestic partner benefits to gay and lesbian couples."

- Durham N.C. city council passes resolution opposing anti-gay marriage amendment, LGBTQNation

The New York Times - 'The Uncommitted' at American Dance Festival

"'The Uncommitted,' by the choreographer Paul Taylor at the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C., is a haunting work with so many moments of beauty that the music, while familiar, becomes a pure, new voice for the body."

- Ending Up All Alone, And Making it Beautiful, The New York Times

The Detroit News - Durham Bulls

"A series against the Durham Bulls at the Bulls' home field would, for most baseball lovers, seem like an idyllic way for a visiting minor league prospect to spend a weekend. Unless you're Casper Wells."

- Toledo OF Casper Wells takes anger out on pitchers, The Detroit News

US Airways Magazine - Chef Sara Foster

"The South is taking center stage for some of the best creative and fresh eats around the country... Chef Sara Foster, having worked with Martha Stewart, moved back to North Carolina and opened Foster’s Market in Durham in 1990... 'I don’t think of my style as new South. I like to think of it as old South. It’s about going back to basics — fresh, local ingredients, simple preparations, and a deep appreciation of the seasonal. I feel we have come full circle: For our grandparents’ generation, “farm to fork” was a necessity. Now it is a movement,' [says Foster]."

Eat It, North Carolina - Full Steam Brewery

"Fullsteam Brewery is Durham is one of the hippest breweries in North Carolina right now. They are brewing great craft beer and it has been a consistent spot to find the greatest food trucks in the Triangle. The brewery has won multiple national awards for its beer and they continue to be innovators in the craft beer industry while being advocates for the North Carolina craft beer movement. Did I mention that everyone that works there are incredibly nice and welcoming? It is just a great place to hang out with friends and drink good craft beer."

- Wanderlust: Fullsteam Brewery's Cherry Imperial Stout - Durham, Eat It, North Carolina

Ad Age - McKinney's 'Boot or Bust' Campaign for Lenovo

"Lenovo is about to take product demonstrations to a whole new height -- about 30,000 feet. A new marketing campaign for its laptops shows one being dropped out of airplanes attached to an unopened parachute. The only way the computer can "save itself" is by booting up in fewer than the 10 seconds it takes to hit the ground... The high-flying "Boot or Bust" campaign created by McKinney, Durham, N.C., is an extension of an effort running since May."

ESPN.com - Changes to Duke Blue Devils Football Program

"Things are quietly changing in Durham, N.C., as David Cutcliffe has shaken things up a bit entering his fourth year as the coach for the Duke Blue Devils... When Cutcliffe arrived on campus, the Blue Devils were the only team in major college football that didn't have a 100-yard practice field. They practiced on a 70-yard field. That was changed quickly. Now they are less than a month away from completing an indoor practice facility. They added a media center and full training facility and other things were giving face lifts. Basically, there's been a complete renovation and restoration of the Duke football program, including the roster."

- Recruits noticing changes at Duke, ESPN

Al Dente - Pizza Chef Gray Brooks

"Gray Brooks, one of my favorite chefs in Seattle is hitting the road, heading back to his roots in Durham, N.C., where he'll eventually own his own pizza place."

- A Little Tribute to Departing Serious Pie Chef, Al Dente

ESPN.com - Duke's Top Recruit, Austin Rivers

"[North Carolina's Harrison Barnes and Duke guard Austin Rivers] will be the centerpieces of two teams with yearly aspirations at national titles. As you might have heard, both will play in the same basketball-berzerk corridor of central North Carolina. As you might have heard, both are backed by respective fan bases that prefer to reserve their most spirited disdain for members of the other... This fall, both will carry that weight onto the college court. Once there, both will meet all the scrutiny, intensity and intrigue of the promise of a new season -- not to mention a new season in the 11-mile stretch that separates Durham, N.C., from Chapel Hill -- entails."

- Another top recruit enters Tobacco Road, ESPN.com

Garden & Gun - The Banjo Room

"In his professional life, musician Jim Mills spent fourteen years as the Grammy-winning, banjo-playing sideman to bluegrass great Ricky Skaggs. But in the inner circles of the music world, he’s even more famous for his banjo room, a walnut-paneled, 1,000-square-foot space in a house in Durham, North Carolina, that’s home to the world’s largest privately owned collection of Gibson flathead five-string Mastertone banjos made between 1930 and 1942."

-  The Banjo Room, Garden & Gun