Stylin' Summer Shoes
To my surprise, a personable male employee at Lowe’s Home Center on Chapel Hill’s Fordham Boulevard recently took an interest in my shoes as I walked through the Lawn and Garden department. Who knew? Matt, the...
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A voice like Sheriff Andy
Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 5, 2012 | D.G. Martin
Who is going to take the place of Andy Griffith as North Carolina’s modest, aw’shucks, good-old-boy, mountain-accented celebrity? My nominee: Ron Rash. Maybe you don’t know about him yet. But this time next year, when the movie...
Read MoreDon't Know Much Biology
Posted by Jeff Danner | Jul 2, 2012 | Common Science
My oldest child enters high school this fall and, like most freshmen, will be starting her sequence of science classes with biology. From my perspective biology is not the logical starting point for high school science and it is...
Read MoreWho was that candidate who went to the wrong Rockingham?
Posted by D.G. Martin | Jul 1, 2012 | D.G. Martin
A few years ago I wrote a column about a mythic U.S. Senate candidate who showed up in the city of Rockingham, instead of Rockingham County where he was supposed to be campaigning. Lots of people have asked me, “Who was...
Read MoreScandal at UNC
Posted by The Commentators | Jun 29, 2012 | The Commentators
Once again, scandal has reared its ugly head at UNC. It seems that coincidentally 18 UNC football players were all enrolled in the same Black American Studies Class. That in itself might not raise eyebrows, but when lectures...
Read MoreSeven new books every North Carolinian should know about
Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 26, 2012 | D.G. Martin
There is no way to read them all. No, and we cannot even know about all of the more than 1,000 books about our state or by authors with North Carolina connections. But every year there are a few books that, for one reason or...
Read MoreHigh Fructose Corn Syrup, One Lump or Two?
Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 24, 2012 | Common Science
“Corn isn’t fit for pigs to eat.” Alvin Danner Between 1980 and 2010 the percentage of adults in the US who were obese more than doubled, from 15% to 33%. A number of root causes have been suggested for this “obesity...
Read MoreFavorite Summer Fashion Trends
Posted by Kristin Tucker | Jun 21, 2012 | The Fashion Plate
The official days of summer have arrived. That means beach trips, poolside parties and backyard bashes are in the mix. What’s hot this summer on the fashion scene? Bask in bright colors and bold prints. Fortunately...
Read MoreClyde Edgerton: Translating memories into fiction
Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 20, 2012 | D.G. Martin
Is he just writing about himself? The many fans of Wilmington-based author Clyde Edgerton often ask this question when they are reading his books a they come to parts that are just too real to be made up. As Edgerton explains on...
Read MoreHow to save a mountain
Posted by D.G. Martin | Jun 18, 2012 | D.G. Martin
There were lots of reasons some people in Avery County wanted to stop a rock mining operation on the beautiful Belview mountainside. *Tracy and her Aunt Ollie, because preliminary blasting operations had cracked the foundation...
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