Lena Geller

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Lunch Money: Hot Dogs Among the Pineapples at Tropical Delights

By: Lena Geller

A large lemonade, a bag of chips, and a two-dog combo at concession stand Tropical Delights at the Flow Volkswagen parking lot in Durham.

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To Protest the Met Gala, Activists Beamed a Raleigh Amazon Worker's Face Onto Jeff Bezos’s Penthouse

By: Lena Geller

72-year-old Mary Hill has spent years organizing Amazon’s RDU1 warehouse in Garner. Her now-viral message lit up Fifth Avenue during the Met Gala.

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Filmed in Durham, a New Movie About Cosmic Coincidences Has Flown Under the Radar

By: Lena Geller

Durham is somewhat of a main character in 'Everything & the Universe,' streaming since last year on Amazon Prime. Why has no one heard of it?

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How $4 Billion Came Off Durham’s Tax Rolls Last Year, Mostly Benefiting Corporate Landlords—and Blowing a Hole in the City Budget

By: Lena Geller

In an unprecedented and still-murky saga, landlords and companies like IBM and Blackstone won billions in property tax appeals. City leadership, banking on the revenue, didn’t know until April.

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Lunch Money: A Visit to the North Carolina State Legislature Cafeteria

By: Lena Geller

An order of beef soup, honey bun cake, and two different casseroles—while the General Assembly, upstairs, finally passes the budget.

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Durham Bulls Concessions, Ranked: A Hot Dog Monogamist Plays the Field

By: Lena Geller

Whiskey-glazed pecans, a cartoonishly thin chicken cutlet, and more Durham Bulls concessions, rated from strikeout to home run.

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Lunch Money: An Existential Crisis at Cosmic Cantina

By: Lena Geller

A visit to a Durham hole-in-the-wall prompts a reckoning with memory and change.

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Civil Rights Groups Argue No-Contact Order Violates Durham Activist’s First Amendment Rights

By: Lena Geller

The ACLU of North Carolina and other organizations are asking a state court to throw out a no-contact order issued on behalf of Durham’s social services director.

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Duke Students Scrambled to Shield a Garden From Demolition Next Door. Behind the Teardown? Their Own University.

By: Lena Geller

A community garden on Swift Avenue has grown hundreds of pounds of fresh food and helped to seed a fragile alliance between Duke and its neighbors. A demolition next door threatened both.

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Lunch Money: Breakfast for Lunch at Country Junction

By: Lena Geller

Nobody at the Carrboro diner needs a menu, least of all the 87-year-old regular who swears by the bologna sandwich.