It’s March Madness! Oh, my! I appreciate Michael Koh’s excellent reporting about the men’s and women’s matchups. On air with Andrew Stuckey, he even discussed our opponents’ school names and mascots.
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A simple, time-tested, four-step process to maximize your chance of 1-winning your NCAA Tournament bracket contest and/or office pool, and 2-having a lot of fun along the way.
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The Carrboro Django Reinhardt Festival is a fantastic semi-annual event that offers a solid crash course in gypsy jazz. The festival’s fifth edition is set for March 20-22, 2026, mostly at Cat’s Cradle Back Room, with a cast of great musicians from as far away as The Netherlands.
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If you’re reading this and you’re not out in a garden enjoying daffodils, then well, I don’t know what to tell you. The chill that rimes the morning, the donning and shedding of layers to keep pace with prevernal energy flows, the anticipation and outright joy that follows the time change and we get our hour back and we’re not driving home in the dark.
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Daffodils bloom their sunshiney faces in early spring, though a cold snap is sure to come. Their cheerfulness makes me turn my face toward the sun.
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Since the league’s creation in 1953, the Tar Heels have the second-most ACC championships (18) in men’s basketball, and they’re the only league member that has never competed in the ACC Tournament for any 10-year period without capturing at least one title.
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This week’s show was a conversation with Judith Pacht, an award-winning poet who has become one of my favorites. I offer you here some quotes from poets about poetry.
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America’s illegal war against Iran has become the most recent example of how Trumpism resembles Napoleonic authoritarianism by launching foreign military assaults during a time in which the government continues to arrest and imprison people who live within the nation’s political borders.
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Instead of Greensboro, the ACC planted its basketball flag in Duluth, Ga. for its 2026 women’s basketball tournament. How has it worked out?
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It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. We’ve all heard this life advice at some point or another, and it really is useful – in a world that is more focused every day on the next milestone, the next challenge and the next news cycle – appreciating what is going on along your path is essential.
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