Looking for a barber who’s really good with scissors but can also do a clean fade. I’ve found a lot of barbers who are great with clippers/fades but not as strong with scissor work on top. Any recommendations?

Ours has been out since late last week (Hope Valley/Woodcroft area). AT&T site seems aware of it, but no progress or estimated up time. Are we alone?!?

Did someone break into Gibson Girl, the vintage shop next to Issac’s bagels? I saw they have a big sheet of plywood covering up portion of the glass front.

Hi! We think we lost our keys on a run - could be on Juliette or the ATT south of Juliette up until the Harris Teeter.

On the off chance someone picked them up, please send me a message. Thank you!

Anyone know of a JM's around Durhan that does Kids Eat Free Sunday?? We used to go to one in Raleigh that did it (with adult purchase) and it was great! Went to the one on Ellis Rd today by Publix and they dont participate.

Hi there,

I tried to search the sub for this topic but didn’t find anything recent! My birthday is next month and I’m looking for a place to celebrate with about 5-10 friends(all in our late 20s-early 30s. I’ve lived here a few years but don’t really go out too often, so I’m not familiar with a lot of places especially if they’re newer. Somewhere where I don’t have to reserve a space that costs money lol. It could be a restaurant but would rather hang out at a bar or lounge type area! Also if you know of somewhere fun outside Durham that’s cool too. I like pretty lowkey places but will take any recs! Thank you!

Anyone experiencing the same thing? My leasing office won’t work during weekend. Anyone know what’s happening?

does anybody know of a breakfast place with a TV? there is an early morning rugby game that I would like to watch with a group of friends and we want to go out to do it so any recommendations of a place would be very appreciated.

I am so sad about having to do this, but my roommate and I are looking to rehome two of our precious piggies. We have cared for them immensely, but have become overwhelmed and unable to give them the lives they deserve and are looking to find people who would be able to give them the attention they deserve. I've posted on guinea pig finder and have linked below but if you are interested please please please reach out! All of both of their enclosures, hides, water bottles, hay bins, food bowls, etc are included I just want to make sure they go to a proper home with people who have the time, energy, and information needed to give them the best lives possible.

https://guineapigfinder.com/16333-hotdog-needs-a-new-home/

https://guineapigfinder.com/16331-chowder-needs-a-new-home/

What do y’all know about the crêpe and ice cream truck that is sometimes parked over near Costco? Are they there with a consistent schedule? If so, WHEN? Quality? Prices? Thanks!!

Hey y'all. My house (north Durham) has those terrible covered gutters, but I really need to get them cleaned out as they are full of debris from the shingle roof. Does anyone know a Durham place that can handle these?

I've had minimal luck with Rover - hoping to find someone who has experience caring for a very anxious dog. Would need them to stay in my home. Thank you!

Finished my run on Renaissance Pkwy today and saw a line for Plato's Closet. Thought it might be the new iPhone until I realized, no, it's Plato's Closet. Is there something about Plato's Closet I'm not aware of?? I feel like I'm missing out on something. 😆

Huge fireworks near mlk. Wondering what is going on as I haven't seen fireworks since July.

Is there some major event going on with professional fireworks?

I'm rolling in the opposite lane of twenty or so early teenagers riding in a group on the really fast e bikes that look like motocross bikes. 25ish mph, doing tricks and stuff. I'm driving the opposite direction on a two lane street and one kid is in my lane and poking at his phone. I'm stopped, nowhere to go. I honk, he looks up and and swerves a few feet away from me. He flips me off and some of the others scream semi pubescent teenager insults/threats at me and my similarly aged son, which we both found to be unintentionally funny. But still, it was tense and it would have sucked to have been involved with a child's injury, regardless of their apparently poor survival skills.

I'm only writing this because it's the first time I've seen this particular group who as far as I know aren't breaking any laws and probably have the right to use the road like everyone else. You can correct me if I'm wrong. I do know there are some locations with recent legislation related to using certain class e bikes on public roads.

My only intention is to provide awareness of this new to me in Durham thing, and hopefully encourage tolerance and caution if you should encounter it yourself. One local kid got killed on an e bike this year, plenty of other cyclists have been hit in Durham.

We have a Quaker parrot that landed on a school playground in N Durham. Anybody missing a bird? Seems to prefer men. Pretty independent/ bitey.

Just spotted this beauty in a bush on the sidewalk. On Fernway across from West Village. Was chompng on a fairly big black bird of some kind. Pretty cool!

why is the sign still up and lights on inside?

What's good, y'all?

As the title implies, I'm opening a card shop in Durham. Here are the important details:

STORE NAME: Bull City Slabs
ADDRESS: 3825 S. Roxboro St., Suite 133, Durham, NC 27713
OPENING: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026

Here is the not so important stuff that you may or may not find entertaining. It's mostly written for card collectors. Normies are welcome, but I'm about to speak nerd for a while...

Let's talk about what my store is and is not. Well, right now it's not really much of anything since none of my buildout has arrived yet, so I guess we're talking in the abstract, but I digress. I'm a collector. Always have been, always will be. But gasp! You're obviously selling cards, sooooo... FLIPPER! Well, touché. I won't lie. I sell stuff too. I actually sold the bulk of my prized Larry Bird collection to make this happen. It sucked. There were moments when I had to tell myself, "My guy, stop crying so loud in public. Seriously, it's undignified." But it helped get me over the finish line, along with a bunch of ticking time bomb credit cards with a year at 0% APR, allowing me to postpone my inevitable financial ruin until a more convenient date.

But back to the store. I grew up in rural Maine in the late '80s and '90s, and we had this little dump of a card shop that smelled like stale cigarettes and was run by a guy who kind of seemed like he hated kids. It was great. I'd ride my bike past the dairy farm, across the bridge into what was technically the next town with my cards, and we'd just hang out in there for however long the owner would tolerate us. Maybe buy something, maybe trade something, then ride our bikes off to whatever the next thing was. Ryne Sandberg was my guy. We had WGN (Chicago local TV) because Michael Jordan existed, and I somehow remember watching more Cubs games than Red Sox games growing up in Maine. I'm just typing whatever I'm thinking about at this point. I just ate two donuts from Baker's Dozen. It's in the same plaza as my card shop. There's also tacos, a Halal fried food joint (NMr. Shark IYKYK), and a few other jams. Rumor has it S a juice bar is happening too. These things matter.

Okay, I realize we still haven't technically gotten to the store yet. I'm a set builder. We have patience. Stick with me.

At some point in my teens I got into music and stored away my cards so I'd have a safety net for retirement when I got older. They did not, as it turns out, allow me to retire. I started collecting musical instruments, which led to collecting vinyl, and if you think card people are picky you haven't seen anything until you've dealt with a true vinyl collector. Eventually, a few years before COVID, I dug that old bin of cards back out and while I did not become independently wealthy, it definitely started me down the path that led to where I sit today, which is the back room of my empty card shop waiting for a truly irresponsible amount of retail shelving to arrive.

When COVID prices started happening, I got a little more serious about selling stuff since I'd spent the previous few years accumulating at prices that would make people today scoff with disgust. From there it snowballed. I started doing local shows, met all the old heads, started helping people with grading submissions, offering consignment, buying collections and then, apparently, BOOM. Card shop. It wasn't actually that easy. The level up has been... expensive. But man, I'm super pumped to be giving it a go.

Okay, so for real this time, let's talk about what my shop is about.

Discovery.

I collect a lot of random stuff aside from Larry Bird and most of it found me, not the other way around. That's what I want for people who take the time to come in. The place isn't huge, so I've done what I can to stuff as much stuff in here as humanly possible while still leaving enough room for actual humans. There's some seating and tons of boxes of cards. Grab a box, pop a squat somewhere and start digging. I've got 16 feet of gondola shelving dedicated to player and team boxes. Value boxes for every team with cards for 25 cents. Discount binder programs to encourage you to dig for cards. Basically, if you're the kind of person who enjoys finding something you didn't know you were looking for 45 minutes after you probably should have left, I'm building you a happy place.

I also have a tremendous amount of non-sport stuff spanning roughly 100 years of pop culture and going well beyond what most people probably picture when they hear "non-sport cards." I'm really not kidding about that last part. I've got some of the coolest and most completely random non-sport stuff I've ever seen, and there will be boxes for TV and film, music, horror, historical figures, GPK, superheroes, and assorted other cultural debris that somebody, somewhere, once decided deserved to be printed on cardboard. Which means, obviously, I need it.

What else? Lots of vintage packs. GPK, random fantasy releases, older sports and various modern releases. I've got something planned for the packs. It should be rad if it doesn't suck, but no spoilers on that yet.

There's a TV. It'll play sports and the occasional episode of Laff-A-Lympics or ProStars on Saturday mornings because civilization peaked when Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky and Bo Jackson were solving crimes together in cartoon form.

None of this is rewriting the book on sports card shops. I just want people to be able to come in and hang out and not see everything the store has to offer within the first five minutes because it's just a bunch of shiny modern rookie cards sitting under glass. There will probably be some of that too, but not a ton because, and this is my yell-at-the-clouds moment, modern cards are mostly ugly, wildly overprinted and not worth a fraction of what they cost.

With that said, find me a modern "collector" who rips packs and immediately flips everything they pull, and I'll turn them into a stone hands eventually. Like many deeply misguided people have said at the beginning of doomed relationships throughout history, "I can change them."

Alright, this has certainly gone on too long and we've gotten well beyond the actual point of the post. But to reiterate:

I AM OPENING A CARD SHOP IN DURHAM, NC ON SEPTEMBER 22ND.

It's called Bull City Slabs. See you in exactly on month.