Around Town News

The front of the Weaver Street Market in Southern Village, shown here before renovations began, is being extended closer to Market Street to add more retail and dining space. (Photo courtesy of Southern Village Marketing read more...

In the mid-1980s, Bill Loeser and Linda Saaremaa decided to go into the bookselling business and bought the long, narrow building at 400 W. Franklin St. “Buying a building scared the pants off of me,” read more...

Generations of Tar Heels shopped at Fowler’s Food Store for groceries, produce, seafood and meat. Regarded as Chapel Hill’s first supermarket, the store opened on West Franklin Street in the 1920s and soldiered on through read more...

The Spotted Dog restaurant — in Carrboro’s version of a wedge-shaped “flatiron building” between Main and Weaver streets — doesn’t otherwise call attention to itself, but maybe it should. New owner Ed Corbell, who lives read more...

For more than a year, what alumni since the 1960s have known as University Square in downtown Chapel Hill has been undergoing a rebirth as Carolina Square, designed to offer a mix of retail, office read more...

Less than a decade shy of its 100th birthday, The Carolina Inn has reinvigorated its approach to food and drink at its Crossroads restaurant. Out went the formal dining room and the cramped bar tucked read more...

Rise Biscuits & Donuts, a growing franchise that began in Durham, has opened a shop on Main Street in Carrboro. On a recent Sunday morning, a line of breakfast diners cued up to the tune read more...

At Khushi, a restaurant recently opened by Raj and Pramila Khanal, the concept is Indian goes green, combining fresh ingredients with Indian spices and sauces. Diners create their own salads or rice bowls, choosing from read more...

When moviegoers at Chapel Hill’s new Silverspot Cinemas pick a flick, they also can reserve leather slouch seats, with plenty of legroom, or one of the front-row loveseats, each accompanied by an ottoman. It’s all read more...