The Historic Preservation Society of Durham's 5th annual Old Durham House Tour, which will spotlight the innovative spaces that downtown dwellers call home, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 5. New and creative residential spaces above historic commercial structures on Main, Foster and Parrish streets will be featured, along with the newest apartments in West Village. Easing pain Dr. Irene Higginson, a British physician and one of the world's leading specialists in palliative care, will be at Duke April 30 - May 18 as a visiting scholar at the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. The 2001 Durham Earth Day Festival will take place on Saturday, April 28, from 1 to 7 p.m. at Durham Athletic Park. Activities include live music, story-telling, toys and exhibits from The Scrap Exchange and the Museum of Life and Science, technology displays, puppets and African drumming.
Admission is free.
The Duke Center for Living is looking for healthy men and post-menopausal women who are moderately overweight and want to participate in an exercise training study. Participants must be between the ages of 40 and 65, be non-smokers, have no history of heart disease, hypertension, or diabetes, and not be regular exercisers. DoubleTake on film DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, the largest documentary film festival in the United States, will take place May 3-6 at the Carolina Theater in downtown Durham. The festival will include more than 100 films, with special tributes to Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and Oscar-winning filmmakers Barbara Koppple and Mira Nair. Festival passes can be purchased from the DoubleTake office, or during the festival at the Carolina Theatre.