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Space Invaders Invade Raleigh


Several people on the outskirts of the beltline were lucky enough to witness this scene last Autumn. A rigid formation of invaders (space invaders) began their formulaic pattern of destruction only to be stopped by a quick thinking tank with precision shooting abilities. Many who missed it said they’d have paid a quarter to have seen this.
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Pac-Man at the Old Building

How good of a detective are you? Goodnight Raleigh tries its hand at making a riddle wrapped around a trivia question for you in this post-snowpocalypse Raleigh world.
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Heavy Metal Sunset

Not all visitors to Raleigh take the R-Line. Sunset means the end of another day of conventioning for this group of Freddy Krueger fans.
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