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