Tech Crunch - The Smoffice

"Durham (a city in North Carolina) is looking to vitalize their already burgeoning startup scene by giving away the “World’s Smallest Office,” a moniker I once reserved for my attic bathroom but can now be rendered unto a bit of space in the front of a Cafe in Durham’s beautiful Downtown. Although the office shown above appears to be more like a monkey cage than a formal workspace, the Smoffice (as it’s called) will be available to one small startup for six months."

- Startups: Durham Wants You In Their Smoffice, Tech Crunch

Garden & Gun - Big Spoon Roasters

"We’ll admit it. Sometimes we get nostalgic for the lunch pails of our youth, and nothing screams childhood like a good old peanut butter and jelly. But thanks to two North Carolina-based outfits, Big Spoon Roasters and Farmer’s Daughter Preserves, you can give the classic PB&J a grown-up Southern revise... Big Spoon owner Mark Overbay spent a decade searching grocery shelves for the perfect peanut butter before deciding he could do better."

- PB&J Grows Up, Garden & Gun

Tech Journal South - The Smoffice

"Sometime in May, you’re going to be walking down Main street in Downtown Durham and pass by a glass-encased habitat at the front of a well-known coffee shop where a single entrepreneur or team of entrepreneurs will be feverishly working for your enjoyment... You’ll be peering through the glass at The Smoffice, a so-crazy-it-has-to-work partnership between the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Durham Inc., Beyu Caffe, and a host of other local sponsors."

- Durham to stuff the next big thing in a tiny little office, Tech Journal South

Small Market Meetings - Entertainment Options in Durham, NC

"Tobacco warehouses and textile mills have become entertainment options in Durham, home of Duke University. In the past decade, this city of 235,000 has revitalized its downtown by restoring historic buildings and creating entertainment districts filled with baseball stadiums, breweries and ballet."

- Southeast: That's Entertainment, Small Market Meetings

Washington Post - Philip Freelon

"On Tuesday morning, architect Phil Freelon will watch a symbolic shovel break ground on a five-acre site for a new museum adjacent to the Washington Monument...The museum’s design is the result of an intense collaboration among Freelon and two other architects: David Adjaye and the late Max Bond... Freelon, now the museum’s architect of record, specializes in designing spaces that weave together the nation’s history, fabric and culture."

- Philip Freelon, Lead Architect of the Smithsonian's African American Museum, Washington Post

About That Car - Durham, NC

"Lexus has never dispensed an egg, in my view, and there’s no hen in the DNA of its RX 350... used during a recent excursion around delightfully quirky and creatively cool Durham, N.C. This is a Lexus, for sure... Drive-wise, the sport-ute ably carted friend and me to the sticks to Elodie Farms, where we first-class noshed on — famished? turn away now — three courses including a delicate goat cheese salad and sublime vinaigrette; pan-seared yellowtail snapper with candied yams, brussel sprouts and beets; and braised pork leg with mushroom and corn risotto plus an exquisite flower salad. Awesome... This is a nice in-and-out, easy-parking about-town car, as evinced during a congested run to the popular Durham Performing Arts Center, in a revived downtown, to see the vaunted Rockettes. Later, vehicle agility and a good steering ratio got us easily parked at Duke University, where renown classical pianist Greg McCallum put on a fine — and free! — recital."

Huffington Post - Luchadoras

"More than 500 spectators cheered the little "Golden Eagle" on as she launched herself against her opponent in Durham, N.C., in January. They were witnessing the final conflict between 10 luchadora women competing in traditional Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling. But these women were fighting for more than just cheers.

Members of the North Carolina Dream Team are used to taking on fearsome foes, whether demonstrating for the DREAM Act, the federal legislation that would allow students without papers to attend college and get legal, or organizing campaigns to keep undocumented youth from being deported. Now female members are donning masks to get in the ring and literally grapple with their opponents to help raise support for their cause."

- Female "Lucha Libre" Wrestlers Fight for a Dream in North Carolina, Huffington Post