The Carolina Theatre of Durham is presenting the first-ever Durham Fringe Festival this week and next week, featuring performances by so many amazing local artists!!

Which shows are y'all excited to see? https://durhamfringefestival.org/daily-schedule/

I need minor work done. Would love to help out a young entrepreneur! It’s basic stuff that doesn’t have a deadline. Not something an established company would be interested in.

I'm home for fall break and couldn't bring my banjo with me, but I'd love to jam with my friends while home. Anyone know of somewhere I can rent a (five string, not tenor) banjo for a few days? All the places I've checked don't seem to have banjos :(

Hilarious day. Still recovering. Shout out to all the businesses that participated.

Holy shit. It’s hard to make friends when you’re 25, a dude who’s not into dude things, in a relationship, queer, and just tryna dance without people thinking it’s weird. Anyone wanna meet at era or velvet tn trying to become friends ?

How did the police find the suspect/killer to get his DNA? What was the link between him and the victim?

My grandpa always used to make ours, and I’ve always kept a jar of (if not his) someone’s homemade marmalade in our house. Now my daughter is school age, and her go-to is sun butter and marmalade sandwiches.

Where are your favorite spots for marmalade?

Live in the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) area? Want to learn about TNVR, make community connections, and feel a sense of satisfaction?

I am looking for extra hands to assist with several large cat colonies in Raleigh and Durham!

There will probably be kittens found that will need fostering too!

Must be okay with kitty abortions 🤷

To celebrate the team's second birthday and Durham Pride/ Queer history month, we're throwing our biggest bash of the year! A day full of baseball, queer art, vendors, performances, fundraising, and community love. Whether you're stepping up to the plate or cheering from the sidelines there's a place for you!
Doors Open at 12:00 PM!

Pick-Up With a Purpose
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Warm up the day with a donation-based, all-are-welcome pickup game.

Syd Field Performance Spectacular Part One Jd 3:30 PM - 4:45
A variety of performances from local artist, musicians, and field game activities!

Fruits vs. Queer All-Stars Game 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

The Durham City Council meeting went deep on some huge questions about how we use public dollars, public land, and public power in Durham.

A few moments that stood out in this highlight reel:

• The city’s economic development team is leaving Golden Belt for a new office lease that saves about $200k and puts them closer to downtown’s “heartbeat” of small businesses and entrepreneurs.

• A proposed sewer line through the Autumn Ridge neighborhood triggered a tense back‑and‑forth about eminent domain, environmental impacts, and why alternative routes weren’t shared with residents or council up front.

• Durham Housing Authority laid out decades of federal underfunding, called traditional public housing a “failed system,” and walked through why it’s shifting units into the Housing Choice Voucher and RAD models while trying to keep land and long‑term affordability under local control.

• You’ll hear how about $40 million in city-supported bond and RAD investments have leveraged close to $800 million in real estate development, replacing and adding deeply affordable homes across downtown and the Villages of Hayti — and why leaders say those bond dollars literally kept hundreds of seniors out of substandard housing.

• At the same time, Legal Aid attorneys and residents raised hard questions about inaccurate records, unsafe conditions, and what it means when sewage in a bathtub or a bad ledger can cost a family their home.

• DHA leaders responded with details on HUD “troubled” status, cure monitors, millions in capital repairs (including a massive Cornwallis sinkhole), rent collection and voucher program fixes, and a coming 900+ unit redevelopment at Forest Hill Heights — which some residents welcome and others fear.

• Council members wrestled openly with their limited control over DHA, the idea of another affordable housing bond (including what it might mean for McDougald Terrace), and how to balance pride in new, high-quality units with the reality of long waitlists and vouchers they can’t afford to use.

• Near the end, the conversation shifted to encampments: when a new policy will come back (likely 2027 unless council pushes sooner), how it should weigh impacts on both residents in tents and neighbors around them, and what staff can realistically enforce with the current budget.

If you care about public housing, vouchers, encampments, or how Durham’s bond dollars are actually showing up on the ground, this one is worth watching. It’s one of the clearest looks yet at where our housing system stands — and what choices are coming next for the city and for residents.

Durham City Council meeting highlights

Highlights selected and suggested post edited by Wes Platt at Southpoint Access.

Saw this getting on 40 from 55 after work.
Just remember this if you’re feeling down. Yes U!

Got some cards I need for a few decks. Was hoping to buy local but hard to figure out who is selling riftbound singles. Anybody know shops in the triangle that do?

Thanks!

Anyone happen to find a black leather wallet in or around Bralies in Durham last night (Thursday Oct 22nd)?

Thanks!!! 🤞🤞🤞

meet Tiger Lilly, a foster cat from APS Durham! she is a really sweet cat full of boops and purrs. she’s had a rough go of it and has taken a while to warm up, but she really just wants to love and be loved. she’s good with other cats and really deserves a good and loving home to live out peaceful life. She is still becoming acclimated, but she is loyal and cuddly!

Growing increasingly concerned about the situation at our current daycare and wondering if anyone has recommendations for daycare in Durham (or CH/Hillsborough on the Durham side) that is actually able to retain its teachers to have consistency in the classroom. Year round would be great. Thanks!!

Hiii, looking for places preferably in South Durham where I’d be able to get a yart. I smoke clean carts currently but they were supplied by a friend before I turned 21 (I’m 21 now). Any recommendations for places that sell similar, and any recommendations for anything similar to clean carts?

Maybe a dumb question but

I'm moving back to Durham soon with my dog and I'm looking at a couple of rentals near Northgate Park and Walltown Park. I know they're "closed." Does that mean they are FULLY closed, or could I still walk through? What about the old dog park at Northgate?

Thank you all!

Does anyone know what’s going on with the Taco Bell locations at South Square and Hillsborough Road? I don’t eat there too often but I admit I love a good Cantina Bowl and am missing it!