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

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

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