Deeply rooted in environmentalism, Paperhand Puppets has made a name for itself around the state and across the country as an activist art-making organization.
Sayaka Matsuoka
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Chapel Hill Whole Foods Had Coronavirus Case in Early March But Didn’t Disclose It, Employees Say
“It was a month ago, but customers still deserve to know. When the initial person was diagnosed, that was before we had any regulations in place. We didn’t have regulations on social distancing or anything like that.”
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The Podcast 1st Gens, By and About First-Generation Americans, Expands the Map of National Identity
When Perrine DeShield and Skye Wilson launched their 1st Gens podcast in January 2017, the timing was apt but coincidental. While planning it, they had no idea of the added relevance their storytelling would gain in Trump’s America. The two Liberian-American women, who both graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill, are cousins, and they wanted to start […]
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Drink This: Videri’s Cocoa Tea is the Perfect Antidote to Holiday Indulgence
Videri Chocolate Factory 327 West Davie Street, Raleigh www.viderichocolatefactory.com If you walk down the aisles of a grocery store this time of year, it’s hard to miss the dozens of brands and boxes of hot chocolate beckoning as you pass by. They’re hard to resist; I have at least two boxes in my cupboard from […]
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Starting Tonight, Local Businesses Are Supporting Immigrant Community With Various Food-Related Events Through October
Triangle restaurants are no stranger to supporting urgent community causes. From the closing of restaurants during “A Day Without Immigrants” earlier this year to the rush of fundraisers to support victims of Hurricane Harvey just last week, local establishments are quick to mobilize. It comes as no surprise that many are also rallying to support […]
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Slingshot Coffee Proves There’s Nuance in Cold Brews at Counter Culture’s Weekly Cupping
To some, summer tastes of sweet tea and lemonade against a backdrop of freshly cut grass. For others, the epitome of the season comes in the form of a summer tomato sandwich with juicy slivers tucked between slices of soft white bread. But for me, summer tastes like cherry, like tobacco, like citrus, and sometimes, […]
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You Eat Local and Shop Local. So Why Not Move on from Settlers of Catan and Play Local, Too?
Your guests are beginning to arrive, and you start corralling them into cliques. You know that some of them are going to get along swimmingly, while you’d like to keep others apart. Small talk and the clinking of glasses fill your ears as you make your rounds, making sure everyone is entertained. You glimpse the […]
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The Southern Oral History Program Noticed a Lack of Asian-American Voices in Its Archive. Southern Mix Is the Fix.
Growing up Japanese in the American South, I was often the only Asian kid in my classes. My eyes were perceived as being too small. My skin was too tan and my food was icky. Characters on TV hardly ever looked like me and no one pronounced my name correctly. This experience is common among […]
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A Former Harlem Globetrotter Settles in North Carolina to Open a Louisiana Food Truck
By the time one o’clock rolls around on a Wednesday afternoon in Cary, Anthony Greenup is close to locking up his food truck, Baton Rouge Cuisine. The white, minimally decorated truck sits in the parking lot of a group of office buildings much like those found in RTP. Inside, Greenup stands tall, his head barely […]
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For a Woman of Color, Seeing Renée Ahdieh, Roshani Chokshi, and S. Jae-Jones at One Signing Was Extra Inspiring
Renée Ahdieh: Flame in the Mist In conversation with Roshani Chokshi and S. Jae-Jones Wednesday, May 24 Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill By six-thirty last Wednesday evening, the rain had picked up its pace. People shook their coats and closed their umbrellas as they sought shelter in Flyleaf Books. Renée Ahdieh, a UNC-Chapel Hill grad and […]