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9:00 am
Fri December 23, 2011

Triangle Ripe for Gaming

Credit Lab Rats Studio
MUSE Agent Sid Tripp in new Lab Rats Video Game

Video Games of all kinds are top sellers this time of year – and North Carolina is quickly becoming a major player in the industry. The Triangle has become a new mecca for gaming software and design.

Leoneda Inge: "So, you’re going to play the game for me?"

Shadie El-Hadad: "Yeah, I’m going to play the game for you. So this is MUSE the first episode, we are doing episodic content."

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Arts & Culture
7:05 am
Tue December 20, 2011

Special Donation in Wake Red Kettle

The Salvation Army staff in Wake County is celebrating a successful year.  But it was another close one.   Gifts and donations from the last couple of weeks made the difference, including a special donation over the weekend. 

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Arts & Culture
6:25 am
Fri December 9, 2011

Looking for Black Santa

Credit Leoneda Inge
Black Santa figurine sits on a mantel at the Matory Home in Durham, NC.

Durham, North Carolina is one of the most diverse communities in the state. Mayor Bill Bell likes to say it’s the city with NO racial majority. Then why is it so hard to find an African American Santa Claus?

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Arts & Culture
3:30 pm
Mon November 28, 2011

UNC Stumbles on Buried 19th Century Building

Credit unc.edu
Crews uncover the buried structure

Archaeologists at UNC-Chapel Hill say they've uncovered a structure on campus that is an underground cellar from the early 1800s. Construction crews ran into the buried structure last month while building a new drainage pipe underneath McCorkle Place.

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Arts & Culture
5:00 am
Wed November 23, 2011

WUNC's Youth Radio Club Talks Thanksgiving

Credit David Brower
WUNC's Youth Radio Club on the job

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  To celebrate, we check in with WUNC’s new Youth Radio Club. It’s a group of 7th and 8th graders from the Durham Nativity School. The club was formed as a part of WUNC’s American Graduate Project. Each Friday after school, the students take the bus over to our studios to learn a little about what it takes to produce a public radio news piece. Thanksgiving is on their minds this week.

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