Downtown Raleigh comes alive | 08.04.12
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Kathleen Durham performs with the Pickle Mamas hoop dancers before a crowd of more than a hundred during Raleigh's First Friday, August 3, 2012, in downtown Raleigh. Over the past decade, downtown Raleigh has evolved into a place where people want to hang out, work and live. Recent decisions by Citrix and Red Hat to expand their facilities to downtown may be validations of the Raleigh's new cache. TRAVIS LONG — tlong@newsobserver.com

