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Arts & Culture
11:00 am
Sat December 8, 2012

Pop-Up Music Club: Tshombe Selby

This weekend and next, we’re trying something new here at WUNC. We’re calling it the Pop-Up Music Club. It’s a kind of mobile performance adventure, where we hit the road to hear from working North Carolina musicians — up-close and in their element.

We’ll hear them play impromptu gigs on their home turf. We’ll hear the stories they tell in church, and at the bar. And we’ll hear how the culture of the places they call home shapes their music.

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Arts & Culture
9:27 am
Sat December 8, 2012

Pop-Up Music Club: Tshombe Selby


Audio FileThe first installment in the WUNC Pop-Up Music Club features Tshombe Selby from Manteo, NC.Edit | Remove

 

This weekend and next, we’re trying something new here at WUNC. We’re calling it the Pop-Up Music Club. It’s a kind of mobile performance adventure, where we hit the road to hear from working North Carolina musicians — up-close and in their element.

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State of Things
11:25 am
Thu December 6, 2012

Highway 12

Credit Western Carolina University
Highway 12 wash out

In the past two years alone, it has cost the state and federal governments more than $22 million to repair Highway 12. The iconic road on North Carolina's Outer Banks is a lifeline for permanent residents and an economic boon to the region and the state during tourism season. But the shifting sands of the barrier islands may make a permanent road impossible in the near future.

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Environment
8:20 am
Thu November 8, 2012

Repairs Underway On Outer Banks

North Carolina Department of Transportation officials will find out this morning if the Nor'easter that skirted the Outer Banks yesterday added to the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. NC 12 was washed out in several places and covered with sand in others. There was also damage to the tension cables on Bonner Bridge. Dara Demi works for the DOT. She says repairs could take several weeks.

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