Bullcityrising.com is a great way to start getting familiar with goings-on in Durham… but if you send me an email and let me know a little more about what you’re looking for, maybe I can help! jessie at jgkphotography dot com.

*rufs – Honey’s is on Guess Road at the junction of I-85. Old style diner, huge breakfasts, pretty good biscuits, open all day.

*durhamagyar – I just drove by Thrift World today and saw that it has closed down :( Still lots of great thrifting in Durham as you and other posters have mentioned.

Events:

Festival for the Eno – 3 day music festival weekend of July 4th

American Tobacco Campus – Music on the Lawn, free outdoor series throughout the summer months

Music Maker Relief Foundation – Warehouse Blues Series at West Village apt’s – free outdoor music series throughout summer

Duke Gardens – free lovely gardens, Summer Music in the Gardens series by Duke Perfomances

Durham Cinematheque – elcectic film collector Tom Whiteside curates film themes and shows film under the stars at Central Park, info 688-0965 or see http://www.durhamcentralpark.org

Central Park Strawberry Festival (May)

Beaver Queen Pageant (June)

Centerfest (September)

Blogs:
BullCityRising.com
for “real” news about what’s going on in Durham

CarpeDurham.com
about eating and drinking in Durham. Includes a google map of all reviewed locations.

I’m sure there is much, much more. Love the community that contributes and continues to grow the comments!

The violent crime rate in Raleigh, per thousand, is actually much worse than Durham’s.

Though the co-op is closed (alas), steam is gathering behind the Durham Central Market (http://www.durhamcentralmarket.org) — I love the farmers’ market already and i’m SUPER excited to see that get started.

I didn’t see Sushi Love mentioned anywhere — it’s on Erwin, and it’s AWESOME.

For late-night pancake fixes, try Honey’s — out on Hillsborough, I think, but I can’t keep the -borough and the -andale straight, nor the panoply of 15-501s. :p

I’ve lived in D-ham for two years now after having been a Midwesterner my whole life … the longer I live here, and the more other places I visit, the more I realize that my adopted hometown really is the best place on earth. :)

Perhaps you would be kind enough to donate them also to the WikiMapia project:

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=35.9969572&lon=-78.901695&z=17&l=0&m=h&v=2

I’ve helped tag many Durham locations, and provided hundreds of pictures, but I just don’t have a way with words like that, to describe them.