tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257163762011-10-04T13:12:39.293-04:00Musings on life in Durham, North CarolinaBull City Boosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717838913358334293noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25716376.post-10469636169931842752007-03-09T20:09:00.001-05:002007-03-09T20:43:00.934-05:00

Seems like a great time to resurrect the old local blog. Been spending most of my time at my ScienceBlogs.com gig at Terra Sigillata, so it's always nice to come back and sing the praises of the Bull City.Through my friendship with Catherine Edgerton and Chaz Martinstein of Chaz's Bull City Records, I learned of efforts of find a local community gathering space, in part, to keep Chaz's

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This is kind of a homer version of The Friday Fermentable (from Terra Sigillata), but I think that it has enough international interest that I am putting it here and on the oft-neglected local blog, Bull City Bully Pulpit.Many themes will come together here that involve science blogging and this will be our first discussion of beer since this feature began. To be honest, when I began making my

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In a new feature on the Bully Pulpit, I'd like to reprint the best Op-Ed essays from our hometown, Durham Herald-Sun. Since the links expire quickly, within about 10-14 days, I'll put the link here, but will reproduce the text below for the sake of posterity:A big boost for Duke-DurhamThe Herald-SunOct 1, 2006As a former vice chairman of Goldman Sachs & Company, Robert King Steel has surely made

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From the forum of the Trinity Park neighborhood comes this encouraging synopsis by Susan Kaufmann of beginning of the year activities for new Duke students, as sponsored by Durham merchants, neighborhood groups, and all individuals interested in planting the seeds of understanding and mutual respect:Thank you for welcoming first-year students to their new home town of Durham. About 500 students

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Dear Mayor Bell,I read with interest last Saturday's N&O article announcing a major effort to improve the perceived image problem of our great Bull City: "Make !T Durham."But, sir, $105,000 per year? I know some individuals who spend more on their own personal self-promotion. Surely we can do better than an outlay of 53 cents per resident.In fact, if you look at our own promotional web info,

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As a fan of women in science and medicine and father of a little girl, I get periodic updates from one of the country's best academic personal development programs for young female scholars: The Baldwin Scholars Program at Duke University. Named for Alice M. Baldwin, the first female faculty member at Trinity College (the forerunner to Duke University), the Baldwin Scholars program provides a

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Yes, I know that I'm promoting a Raleigh establishment. However, the merger of Helios Coffee and Six String Cafe has my blessing as something that it of wonderful benefit to the greater Triangle music scene.From the Six String Café mailing list:Here is the weekly calendar for music at Helios Coffee Company in Raleigh. Look for the opening of The Six String Café at Helios with the addition of the

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Has it really been 10 days since I last climbed into the bully pulpit?Yes, in fact, I had a whole post worked up about the great May 24th issue of The Independent Weekly regarding their cover story, "What's So Scary About Durham?" I figured they might catch some grief for the cover photo of two young African-American boys goofing for the camera with hands stained with mulberry juice, but as

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I've been dabbling on this post for 3 months or so, partly because I was unsure of my goal or message. I'm still not sure but I know that I just want to tell a story. Learning of journalist Anton Zuiker's StoryBlogging effort helped me commit to finishing it.Let it suffice to say that I have been blessed to meet a number of prominent people as of late, mostly outside of my scientific discipline.

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As a big fan of acoustic-based music, I had been hoping the David Sardinha would launch a new version of Cary's defunct Six String Café over here in the Bull City, maybe downtown or in the American Tobacco Historic District. Well, as announced earlier this week on the Six String Yahoo listserv, Raleigh wins:Helios Six String CaféHelios Coffee Company413 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh, NCis merging

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I just saw this link posted by Bora at Science & Politics. A truly heart-warming story about the kind of things that go on at Duke University 99.9% of the time:Patient's Family Says 'Thank You' For Saving LifeDURHAM, N.C. -- For three years, Ara Everett has been treated for Stage 4 breast cancer and a brain tumor. But she has survived longer than she and her family ever expected.They give the

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Cross-posted from Terra Sigillata.....Okay, so this is turning into Bora Zivkovic week at Terra Sigillata. I can't help myself because he is one of the most influential bloggers in my short career.Today's is Bora's 40th birthday - go on over and wish him a happy birthday. Bill Hooker's lead in the shout-out for assistance to Bora and his family has resulted in some very nice posts and

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Welcome to the weekly reader of North Carolina, Tar Heel Tavern!It's been a rough month with the news media here in the Triangle and from the mountains to the ocean, so I asked for stories regarding the best things about living in or visiting North Carolina.My personal new best thing about living in NC is the new record shop that has been so badly needed in the Ninth Street business district of

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We'll be hosting the Tar Heel Tavern blog carnival here on 30 April 2006.So, I'm shouting out to all NC bloggers to e-mail their submissions to me by Saturday evening, 29 April, at 8 PM EDT (0100 GMT 30 Apr): bullcitybooster AT gmail DOT com.I note the GMT conversion because I'd also like to solicit posts on the best things about living in, or visiting, North Carolina from anyone who has ever

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FYI - the bicycle edition of Tar Heel Tavern #61 is now live at Nicomachus, appropriately a cycling blogger (tagline: "the velorution will not be motorized").Before this local blog gets rolling, as it were, I wanted to make one last change before we get our chance to host the Tar Heel Tavern next week.Since I use Bull City Booster as my nom de plume here, I wanted to change the blog name to

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I was happy to pick up Wednesday's N&O to find my old friend, Ben Bergmann ("the Eggman"), cited in an article on local farmers. Together with Noah Ranells, Ben's Fickle Creek Farm over in Efland provides free-range, hormone-free, antibiotic-free organic eggs for sale on-site as well as at high profile outlets like Weaver Street Market in Carrboro.I came to know Ben when I bought eggs from him

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Having been up most of the night working on a grant proposal, I saw the expected arrests come through just after 5 am.I'd stay tuned to Signifying Nothing for local updates.

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Hodding Carter III, will be interviewed today at noon by Frank Stasio on The State of Things. Carter has a quite notable history having served as a Jimmy Carter campaign manager, advisor, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy-winning Mississippi journalist and, most recently, as executive director of the Knight Foundation. Live streaming audio is available to those outside the North Carolina Public Radio

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Each day, the Duke men's lacrosse team scandal grows so much more disturbing that each new revelation overshadows all of the great things going on in the City of Durham and at Duke University. Today, I'd like to share with you some things you're not hearing about - the activities of fabulous young folks at a great American university.First, props to David Fiocco for telling us some good news

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We are huge fans of women's collegiate basketball, particularly the teams of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Since we come from Colorado, we are particularly fond of Duke's kickass sister team of Emily and Abby Waner who, we assure you, will rise to the level of fame of unanimous All-American J.J. Redick before they leave the Bull City. Heartiest

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We've really come to love living in the Bull City.That pretty much says it all.We have a culturally-rich community in the arts and sciences, much of it centered around Duke University and the North Carolina Central University. Heck, I'll even admit that we have one of best state universities in the US, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, just down the road apiece.Even without the

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Given my love for a finely crafted American microbrew or European ale, I was a little surprised when moving to North Carolina to learn that some of my favorite beers were not available here. Seems that an archaic law still sits on the books that forbids the manufacture and sale of beers containing greater than 6% alcohol by volume. So, while one can buy grain alcohol at the state ABC store, or

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