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Doo-wop legend who sang ‘Money Honey,' other R&B hits, to get NC marker
Clyde McPhatter, a falsetto-voiced pioneer of early rock-and-roll, who launched his highly influential but short career in the churches of Durham, will soon grace an North Carolina historic marker on the streets where he first learned to sing. Born in 1932, McPhatter grew up in a Baptist family in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood, where he sang solos in the choir at his preacher father’s church, Mount Cavalry Baptist, but he soon moved to New York, formed a gospel group based in Harlem — The Mount Lebanon Singers. Like many crooners of his era, McPhatter followed the powerful draw of secular music, and he lent his voice to the early 1950s blend of rhythm and blues. This combination of gospel soulfulness and free-spirited, sexually charged energy led the country into a new rock and roll era. A young Ernie Barnes would recall sneaking into the segregated Durham Armory to get a glimpse of McPhatter with his doo-wop Dominoes, describing the scene he saw on the dance floor, so bold for the era it seemed sinful, but not so audacious he didn’t move along. “What I observed was the no inhibition, no self-consciousness or rigidity, just fluid movement while the music punctuated every
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The North Carolina Fried Chicken Counter That Kept Its Recipe While Every Food Trend Came and Went
Some of the best meals in North Carolina hide inside buildings you would drive past a hundred times without a second look. I almost did, until a line of hungry people wrapped around an old brick corner caught my eye at lunchtime. Inside, the smell of hot, crispy chicken and...
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Durham Shelter Says Viral Photos of Dead Dogs, Mold Are Not Current Conditions
Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club — Venue For APS Holiday Fundraiser. A Facebook post showing unsanitary kennels, moldy pet food and dead dogs piled into an incinerator at the Durham County animal shelter began circulating Wednesday afternoon, shared more than 100 times before the organization that runs the shelter pushed back on what the images actually show. The Animal Protection Society of Durham, which operates the East Club Boulevard facility, says the photographs are historical and do not reflect current conditions inside the building.
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📻🐾 WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, NC – Historic Art Deco Landmark That Inspired Stranger Things!
Simba and I visited the historic WPTF AM Radio Building in Cary, North Carolina, an incredible Art Deco-style radio transmitter station that helped inspire the fictional WSQK radio station in Netflix's Stranger Things! With its rounded corners, streamlined windows, vintage lettering, and towering broadcast antennas, this unusual building looks like something straight out of another era.
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Cooper’s Hawk Brings Its Wine-and-Dining Playbook to Cary
An Illinois-born restaurant-and-winery concept is coming to Parkside Town Commons. In an exclusive conversation, general manager Heidi Williams explains why the wine is only part of the attraction. Cary isn’t exactly short on places to eat or enjoy a glass of wine. So when Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants announced...
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REVIEW: Durham’s Janora McDuffie Delivers Love, Laughter and Hard Truths in ‘Earth, Wind & Car Fire’
DURHAM, N.C. — I expected to laugh. I expected to be entertained. What I didn’t expect was to find myself fighting back tears as a woman onstage described an experience I knew all too well. Waiting for cancer test results. That agonizing period between undergoing medical tests and...