Durham (North Carolina) Sights

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• Duke University, www.duke.edu

• Watch a Durham Bulls www.dbulls.com minor-league baseball game. Tickets are $5 and up.

• Go watch a Duke men's basketball game if you visit during basketball season. Tickets are hard to get. Your best bet may be between December 15th and January 1st, when students (and some locals) are gone.

• See an independent film or a play at the historic Carolina Theatre www.carolinatheatre.org.

• See the largest collection of lemurs outside of Madagascar at the Duke Lemur Center www.duke.edu/web/primate. Tours are by appointment only. Scheduling your tour at least two weeks in advance is recommended, but they can sometimes accommodate last-minute additions.

• See world-class art at the Nasher Museum of Art www.nasher.duke.edu at Duke University, located at the corner of Anderson and Duke University Roads. Don't miss the giant face-mask.

• Listen to live music at Broad Street Cafe www.thebroadstreetcafe.com, Historic American Tobacco Campus www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com or other local venues (the www.indyweek.com Independent Weekly is a good source of local happenings.

• Watch a local live theater performance at Common Ground Theatre www.cgtheatre.com or Manbites Dog Theater www.manbitesdogtheater.org.

• For the morbid, explore the site where local author Michael Peterson murdered his wife: [16].