I wrote at the end of my first post that, for the first Lenten week of not drinking, I was very, very hungry. No real surprise there: I was using alcohol less as an intoxicant than as fuel. It’s got lots of calories in it, so a drink can substitute, to some degree, for food. […]
Adam Sobsey
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Stop Wining!
I love wine. I love to drink wine, think about wine, read about wine, talk about wine. I have a modest but thoughtfully curated cellar in my house. One of my jobs involves selling wine, so I not only enjoy knowing about it, I have to know about it, and I do. Although wine is […]
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Wayne Caldwell’s mountain novel Requiem by Fire evokes a vanished heritage
Requiem by Fire By Wayne Caldwell Random House; 352 pp. A few years ago, I hiked in an Ecuadorian jungle preserve. The park was bursting with energy: trees gleaming with rain and wild nesting bromeliads, jacamars and hummingbirds zooming and flitting, the river bursting with vivacity. It was a place of unspoiled, green and gushing […]
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John Temple’s The Last Lawyer
The Last Lawyer By John Temple University Press of Mississippi, 224 pp. Just before the exciting climax of The Last Lawyer, Ken Rose, the titular hero, steps down as director of the Durham-based, Indy Citizen Award-winning nonprofit Center for Death Penalty Litigation. His staff throws him an exit party, and someone asks aloud, rhetorically, “So […]
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Holy chandeliers, Phantom!
The Phantom of the Opera Durham Performing Arts Center Through Dec. 20 The Phantom of the famous opera is basically Batman: a lonely, masked megalomaniac, a control-freak genius with fabulous powers and resources who lives in a world of darkness but is on a crusade to give his gift to the public, even though his […]
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Durham Bulls’ stalwart Jon Weber signs with New York Yankees
Fortunately, it’s Thanksgiving and we have an abundance of things to be grateful for—because, sadly, everyone’s favorite Bull, Jon Weber, is no longer a Durham ballplayer. In fact, he will be playing against the Taureaux in 2010. Weber has signed a minor-league deal with the New York Yankees, who are sure to install him as […]
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Durham Bulls Manager Charlie Montoyo wins Coolbaugh Award
When it rains (which it is now doing, again) it pours. Soon after winning the Triple-A Baseball Championship, and then announcing a historic DBAP partnership with the Duke University baseball team, the Bulls chalked up more good news: manager Charlie Montoyo has won the second annual Coolbaugh Award, which “is presented to an individual who […]
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Durham Bulls, Duke University announce Blue Devil baseball team to play at the DBAP in 2010 and beyond
DBAP/ DURHAM—Standing right under the snorting Bull just beyond the DBAP’s Blue Monster, a.k.a. the left-field wall, grand poobah Jim Goodmon surveyed the crowd gathered at yesterday’s press conference and led off with, “This is another really great thing that’s coming to downtown Durham.” The thing in question is a three-year agreement between the Durham […]
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Durham Bulls to hold championship celebration tonight at the DBAP
Apparently just discovering that they won the Triple-A championship a full month after it happened, the Durham Bulls are throwing a party tonight at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, from 6-8 p.m. Highlights: The trophy will be on display, as will the International League Governor’s Cup trophy, which the Bulls also won. Bulls utilityman Elliot Johnson […]
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Durham Bulls Beat Memphis Redbirds in extra innings, win Triple-A Championship
ESPN 2—And that’s that: the Durham Bulls took a 4-0 lead early, squandered it in the middle, and got help at the end to beat the Memphis Redbirds, 5-4, in 11 innings and claim the Triple-A Championship. It’s kind of amazing, really. (What’s really great is that the Bulls’ own Web site has the winning […]