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  • Athleta four other retailers coming to Crabtree Valley Mall

    Athleta, the women's fitness apparel competitor to LuLuLemon, has signed a deal to open a second store location in the Triangle at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh. Athleta opened its first store in North Carolina at Durham's Streets at Southpoint mall in June of ...

  • Sanford hospital gets nod for $13M project

    Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford has received conditional approval from the state to expand its emergency department. The state, through ...

  • The banks with the most Triangle branches

    Despite the growth of mobile and other forms of electronic banking, the traditional brick-and-mortar branch office remains a key part of the industry. Regulators, both state and federal, methodically keep tabs of branch numbers and whether they are declining or growing. That counting continues even as industry experts debate the future of the branch, with its smiling tellers and coffee pot, ...

  • High Quality Core Services Drive Proposed Budget

    City Manager J. Russell Allen today submitted a proposed budget to the City Council that continues to promote fiscal sustainability and cost competitiveness, while maintaining high quality core services. The proposed budget does not increase property taxes or solid waste, stormwater or privilege license fees. It does include an additional $13.9 million in revenue for the City's Public ...

  • Charlotte buzzes with Hornets return tonight

    Call it a Snapback revolution . As in the retro-cool of Charlotte Hornets gear stirring sentiment as much as anything in recent years. Burying the Bobcats brand a decade after it arrived reminds me of a conversation I had with the then-newly hired marketing and public-relations ...


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Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD]

Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD]

Especially in Western culture, the term childhood comes laden with heavy associations--particularly innocence, comfort, and a strong sense of safety. As the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay described it, Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Thus, it is telling that director An ... ...

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  • Nostalgic Coca-Cola mural uncovered in Durham

    Durham has a not-exactly-new addition - a recently uncovered Coca-Cola mural on East Main Street. A team of workers, armed with fingernail files, have been delicately chipping away plaster for years, and their work is almost complete. The owner of the three-story building initially discovered the mural while stripping plaster off of the walls during the building's renovation. The image is ...

  • A Nonviolent Army of Love Rises in North Carolina to Face Down Rightwings Assault on Progress

    "We’re going to continue our acts of civil disobedience because the General Assembly has made a cruel attack on the most vulnerable people in this state," declared Rev. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the ...

  • Appeals court blocks workers comp settlement

    An appeals court agreed that the N.C. Industrial Commission can block a settlement that's not "fair and just." An employer and an injured worker cant agree to an unfair settlement once the North Carolina Industrial Commission gets involved, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision involves Exceptional Landscapes Inc., of Hillsborough, and employee Danny Allred, who was ...

  • Elster metering division names new president

    Mark Fronmuller as its president, the company said Tuesday. Fronmuller joins Elster from SAIC Energy, where he was its senior vice president for global utilities. Raleigh-based Elster Solutions is the utility meter division of Elster Group SE, which is headquartered in Germany's Ruhr Valley. That company is in turn owned by the investment firm Melrose PLC (LSE: MRO). Elster Solutions has ...

  • Pre-spinoff Mallinckrodt trims workforce by 100

    Mallinckrodt, the St. Louis-based pharmaceutical firm with two production plants in north Raleigh, has started cleaning house for its anticipated spinoff from its parent company Covidien on June 28. Mallinckrodt has confirmed that it eliminated nearly 100 job positions last week, but it was unclear whether any employees from the company's two production plants in Raleigh were impacted. ...

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