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A Short Train Ride From Durham to Raleigh Offers a Window Into the Triangle...

Light rail in the Triangle is a messy subject, as evidenced by this publication's stories and comments section on a fairly regular basis. The debates about its $2.5 billion price tag and the planned...

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Banks May Have Built Charlotte, But Restaurants Are Giving It a New Identity

When I boarded the train for my first visit to Charlotte, I had no preconceived notions about or great expectations for the Queen City. My INDY colleagues had found it curious that, of all the...

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Twenty-Four Hours on an Amtrak to Philly: a Horror Story, an Adventure Yarn,...

"The eleven-thirty Amtrak Silver Star bound for Tampa and Miami," announces a voice at Grand Central Station. Then Al Pacino shoots like seventeen people to death before being killed himself, his body...

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With a Half-Mile of Our Hotel, the Quintessentially Southern Southern Pines...

I first visited Southern Pines when I was living in Lumberton, a town of about twenty thousand in rural Robeson County. My time as a reporter there was rewardingI met earnest people and learned a...

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In the Triad, Our Writer Contemplates Furniture, Civil Rights, and Beer He’s...

Unlike many cheerful people in suits and fancy hats last Tuesday, I rode the 6:30 a.m. Piedmont-bound train as a way of actually getting somewhere.

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Trainspotting: To Mark the Opening of Raleigh’s Union Station, We Sent Five...

Last Tuesday, after three years of planning, two years of construction, and months of delays, Raleigh finally opened its much-hyped Union Station, a sleek, state-of-the-art, $111 million, multimodal...

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