Editor's note: This column was written before Monday's announcement that new owners plan to reopen the Varsity Theatre next month.
Published: Oct. 28, 2009 11:13 AM | Full story
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I've been feeling rather gluttonous lately; there's so much amazing fresh food available at this time of year that I spend my days pondering the next meal and then devouring it. The garden is overflowing with tomatoes, squash, beans, eggplant, p
Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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Imagine 20 senior citizens sticking around for two hours and becoming intensely involved in a seminar about driving. It happens, but you may be surprised by what ignites their concern.
Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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I found the days getting longer and my friends getting fewer as my husband's illness became worse. The friends I had made years ago stood by me, but the more recent ones faded away like leaves in the autumn. It was the autumn of our lives. Those of u
Published: Aug. 16, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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"This is the story of how a person gets radicalized."
Published: Aug. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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GUEST COLUMN: "I like drawing with crayons best. They never run out of ink," pony-tailed Dolly of Family Circus says in Saturday's comics.
Published: Aug. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the 2009 summer edition of the LOG, the bulletin of Duke Forest.
Published: Aug. 10, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
A bomb threat last Thursday is the latest in a series of pranks against Greenbridge in Chapel Hill. The mayor called me to express his dismay and to commend us on a "visionary project." Neighboring merchants and residents called or stopped by to
Published: Aug. 5, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
Having an Insurance Commissioner who is willing to stand up to the insurance industry can save consumers tens of millions of dollars.
Published: Aug. 2, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: "If I die tomorrow, my only regret will be that I read that book," said my 12-year old son, in all seriousness, referring to Stephanie Meyer's runaway bestseller, "Twilight."
Published: Jul. 29, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The end of an era came in Chapel Hill this month. Quietly, with no fanfare, press coverage or flashbulbs, David Miller's tenure as head coach of Chapel Hill High School's baseball team came to an end. Most would be surprised to learn he is being
Published: Jul. 26, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The Jewish Community Foundation of the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation sponsors an annual Holocaust Remembrance Essay Contest for local students. This year's first prize recipient is Chris Wolfe, a student at East Chapel Hill High School.
Published: Jul. 26, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: A baby boy was recently born in a local hospital to a mother who took cocaine, benzodiazepine, THC, methadone and other drugs throughout her pregnancy. He arrived prematurely, and throwing up. He's got what the doctors call prolonged QT interval. Sim
Published: Jul. 22, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: "It's sad. It's sad. It's sad how people have been manipulated." Those were the last words Mrs. Rebecca Clark said to me as I walked out her door a month before she passed away in early January.
Published: Jul. 19, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The Town of Chapel Hill's stormwater management staff occasionally receives reports of paint flowing into creeks. Because latex paint labels instruct painters to "wash up with soap and water," residents and contractors are left to their own
Published: Jul. 19, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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GUEST COLUMN: "Painted Furniture Workshop" caught my attention as I thumbed the Durham Tech Community College catalog looking for an art experience. This was it!
Published: Jul. 15, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: North Carolina representatives have a serious but easy decision to make this week: will North Carolinians tolerate life and death decisions being made based upon a person's skin color?
Published: Jul. 12, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: As I was celebrating Independence Day, I couldn't help but think about the most fundamental tenet of our democracy -- a government truly of, for, and by the people. Even as the economic debacle we're experiencing can make this ideal seem all too
Published: Jul. 8, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: "one more thing" when we e-mail each other. It seems that there is always one more thing going on with our kids. They either have an ear ache or virus or some unexplained sickness. I guess you never stop worrying about your kids.
Published: Jul. 6, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The N.C. House Appropriations Committee is now considering the "Racial Justice Act," previously passed by the Senate. The bill is "an effort to ensure race isn't a factor in any death penalty case." It would allow "those on d
Published: Jul. 6, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: Editor's note: Emily Weinstein recently completed the new mural on the Jade Palace restaurant wall in downtown Carrboro. Here's how she did it.
Published: Jun. 22, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The Chapel Hill News editorial of May 19 laid out very well, starkly, the potentially destructive impact of UNC's planned Carolina North development on the town of Chapel Hill, and criticized the "silence" of our citizens in response to the
Published: Jun. 10, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: With all that money in Chapel Hill, you would think the town could afford some manners for its mayor. Yet here we are, considering a waste transfer station site proposed by Mayor Foy, conceived without consulting the Town Council, commissioners or ci
Published: Jun. 8, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: As our economy worsens, there seems to be no way out. If we don't use the government stimulus to create jobs and demand we risk a deeper recession. Yet any government spending increases the deficit, which must be paid off in future taxes.
Published: Jun. 3, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: The daunting task of landing a full-time job is increasingly difficult during the current economic climate, as the national unemployment rate climbs to 8.9 percent, and nears an all-time high of 11 percent in North Carolina. Taking this into consider
Published: Jun. 3, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: Transplant: To remove a plant from the place where it is growing and replant it somewhere else.
Published: Jun. 1, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: No one can deny that the Orange County commissioners have a very difficult budget situation this year. We all face cuts as they balance the budget. But some areas are targeted disproportionately, especially the branch libraries in Carrboro and cedar
Published: Jun. 1, 2009 12:00 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: I would like to comment on the proposed closure of the Carrboro Branch Library and the Cedar Grove Branch Library. I worked at at the Carrboro library from 1996-2003 and at Cedar Grove in 2007-08. My experience gives me unique insight into the vital
Published: May. 27, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
GUEST COLUMN: After reading August Cho's My View column "Exclusion by Design" (CHN April 15) and then Sara Johnson's response "Exclusion by Necessity" (CHN April 29), I surmise that Ms. Johnson missed his point.
Published: May. 27, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
When my boys were about a year old, we strolled down to our neighborhood bank. Two tellers greeted us and asked if I was playing Mr. Mom. When I explained I was a stay-at-home dad, I was surprised to see a look akin to abject horror, as if I had said
Published: May. 24, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story
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