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iPhone 5 has just been announced (because you didn’t know!) and it’s pretty amazing from the point of view of a ten-year-old. Why? Well, all of the new features for adults can also benefit kids.   How? Well, the...

Karl Rove has stated that the Republicans can win swing states like North Carolina by “reducing black turnout by one-quarter of one. In a column he wrote in the Wall Street Journal in June of 2011, he said, “even a small drop in...

Well, rumor has it that a Y: The Last Man movie is back in the works, and I really wish this is a project that would just die already. Not because I don’t love the series — it’s one of the best series of the 2000s, and...

Normally I talk about how awesome it is to try something new, but today, I’m here with a cautionary tale about trying something old. This is the tale of the Jumanji Twizzlers. A quick refresher on what Jumanji is: The rhyming...

You know that feeling where you are just so proud of yourself? Where you feel like you are floating above the world? Well, I’ve recently experienced that, and it’s wonderful.   I have been working on something very,...

I’m going to be honest with you guys—I’m not sure I’m qualified to be writing this column anymore. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Don’t worry; she is.] I participated in bar trivia at Pinhook in Durham this week, and did very...

Since the phrase “economic development” has become the primary mantra of local political discourse, I’ve been trying to understand exactly what we think we mean. It is like the proverbial tale of the three...

There are few, if any, factions more maligned than “Tar Heel sports fans”.  A maligning I have always considered greatly exaggerated and quite unfair.  “Fairness” is never a consideration in the take no prisoners world of rival...