Monday, July 30, 2012

Travel Channel: Baggage Battles, Durham NC

"The auction specialists head to North Carolina to bid on some unusual items, including a vintage car and coffin, at a freight auction...[Duke Homestead"is where America's first cigarette company was born. The team uses it as a location for one of the appraisals."

- Baggage Battles: North Carolina, Travel Channel

Jane's World - The Scrap Exchange

"Most original. Most fun. Most memorable. The Scrap Exchange on Franklin St., in Durham. It’s a huge, un-airconditioned, jammed-packed warehouse of barrels, shelves and stacks of materials just waiting for a second and third use: shoe parts, plastic trays, single eye lens, sheet music, cardboard tubes, vintage patterns, wheels on casters, bubble wrap, artificial flowers, black strap rings, corks, bottle caps and beads...Everyone’s in there to have fun and do something cool with what they buy."

- Best of show in Durham, N.C., Jane's World

The New York Times - Olympian, Duke Diver Abby Johnston

"The medals were silver, but the smiles of Abby Johnston and Kelci Bryant showed that they meant much, much more than that. Johnston and Bryant finished second in the women’s synchronized 3-meter competition Sunday, claiming the first United States diving medal since 2000."

- U.S. Pair Earns Silver Medal in Diving, The New York Times

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Philanthropy Roundtable - The Duke Endowment

"Tobacco made [James B. Duke] one of the richest men in the world, and he created a worldwide market for North Carolina’s signature crop...although he had a Fifth Avenue mansion in New York, although he had tobacco interests around the world and hydroelectric projects as far afield as Quebec, when he turned to philanthropy, he remained a man of the Carolinas."

- Duke of Carolina, Philanthropy Roundtable

Southern Living - Downtown Durham / Central Park

"Downtown Durham is fertile ground for homegrown epicurean businesses. Their ace in the hole: a bounty of empty tobacco warehouses waiting for conversion to artisanal bakeries and microbreweries."

- South's Best Neighborhoods: Downtown-Central Park, Durham, Southern Living

Monday, July 23, 2012

Tech Crunch - Bound Custom Notebooks

"One interesting manufacturing start-up we met in Durham last week was Bound. This small printing company offers notebooks in multiple styles (including a vegan leather Moleskine-esque number) but with a twist. You can, if you so desire, have something different printed on every page. You can make a little notebook for just a range of dates or add a map, some tic-tac-toe boards, and a musical staff. You can pop in an iPhone design template or some graph paper."

- Bound: If Custom Notebooks Be The Food Of Love, Print On, Tech Crunch

Tech Crunch - Organic Transit

"Our week in the Southeast gave us plenty of memorable moments, but perhaps my favorite of the entire trip was when I stumbled upon the Elf — a pedal-solar electric hybrid vehicle from Organic Transit in Durham, NC. It’s one of those products that — given the right financing and marketing — could be completely disruptive in Urban areas."

- Hands-On With Organic Transit’s Pedal-Solar Electric Hybrid Vehicle, “The Elf”, Tech Crunch

Charlotte Observer - Fullsteam, Bull City Burger & Brewery

“From a visitor perspective, Fullsteam is a wonderful place to hang out with the local beer-loving community. These breweries do that generally, but Fullsteam does that very well...Quite a few craft breweries use chocolate – cocoa nibs, which aren’t as sweet and give beer an earthy flavor. One that’s in season right now and which is delicious is Wonka Wash, at Bull City Burger & Brewery in Durham.”

- Your guide to cool microbreweries in North Carolina, Charlotte Observer

Thursday, July 5, 2012

The New York Times - American Dance Festival

"Were Monica Bill Barnes a more venomous artist, you might suspect her of laughing at her audience’s expense. During her performance at the American Dance Festival here on Monday she got the crowd in the Reynolds Industries Theater to applaud her for — among other cheap tricks — balancing a chair between her teeth."

- Chair in the Teeth, Feathers on the Head, Maybe Feet on the Floor, The New York Times

Sports Illustrated - Duke Divers

"The U.S. Olympic diving team will have a decidedly Duke flavor to it. Two Blue Devils are on the Americans' roster for the London Games: Abby Johnston qualified in the women's 3-meter springboard synchro, while Nick McCrory made it in both the men's individual and synchro events on the 10-meter platform."

- Duke University well represented on U.S. Olympic diving team, Sports Illustrated

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Carolina TravelPlanner - The Brothers Vilgalys Baltic-Style Spirits

"As artisan distilled spirits are becoming all the rage, we knew it wouldn't take long for the trend to catch on in North Carolina. The newest entry into the handcrafted liquor scene is The Brothers Vilgalys Baltic-Style Spirits with their Lithuanian honey and spice liquor called Krupnikas in Durham, North Carolina...in keeping with many of Durham's core values, they intend to feature local sourcing with a commitment to sustainablity and carbon neutrality."

- Spirits Coming to Durham, North Carolina, Carolina TravelPlanner

INC - Rachel Weeks, School House

"Starting a company with a social mission was always important to Rachel Weeks.  She launched School House, which manufactures fashion forward college-branded clothing, while she was in Sri Lanka on a Fulbright Grant, and insisted that the factory pay its female workers livable wages. Weeks no longer manufactures in Sri Lanka, but she still has a social mission, and it involves a commitment to manufacturing right in her own backyard...'We’re rebranding “Made in the USA” for a new generation.'"

- Fashionable, Fresh ... & Made in USA, INC.