There's a plethora of things to do around the Bull City this weekend, none of them perhaps more high-profile than the Troika Music Festival, which started last night with a free concert at Durham Central Park among other venues. Festival organizer...

It's a double-sized edition of the Fishwrap, since yesterday was a ... well, let's just say it was a Thursday, and leave it at that, shall way? Rolling Hills Accelerates Planning: Hoping to grab federal stimulus dollars to pay for the effort, the City...

The long process of getting the Durham County Courthouse's new site underway took a big step forward this week with the announcement that African-American community institution Scarborough & Hargett has vacated its site at the corner of Dillard and...

Recent bond issues dating back to the mid-1990s have given Durhamites a chance to shake the rust and ruin off of a number of City parks, which had been some of the biggest losers of deferred maintenance over the years. And even if some of the projects...

Downtown Durham Inc. has commissioned a new video short that looks at downtown Durham; the video, available via YouTube (and embedded here below) does a nice job of profiling downtown residents, business leaders and stakeholders. And in the process,...