I decided to share a room with my friend Ethan in the mutual interest of cheaper rent, with Ethan agreeing to be the fourth person squeezed into our modestly sized three-bedroom apartment. “Of course, we’d have to share a bed,” Ethan said. “Your room isn’t big enough for two, and I’m not paying for bunk […]
Alex Henderson
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Great grub
Cosmic Cantina What’s one thing the Triangle can confidently claim it does better than New York City? According to Cosmic Cantina connoisseurs, burritos. Those who have dined at the chain’s Durham and Chapel Hill locations, as well as its affiliate branch in New York, agree the organic Mexican food available in the Triangle surpasses that […]
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Tune in, turn on
WXYC 89.3 FM @ UNC-Chapel Hill “Our disc jockeys harness the almighty power of the segue to draw musical linkages across time, culture and pure sound. For example, you might be humming along to the chorus of your favorite Jay-Z monster, only to hear it followed by the very Bobby “Blue” Bland mega-hit from the […]
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Rock ‘n’ roll is just kids music? Sandbox says OK
What do you do when you love playing rock music, but you can’t sacrifice a family for the risk of the road? Install a crib and playpen on the tour bus? Sure, if you’re making that sort of money. Record for a major label from a home studio and refuse to tour? Hilarious. Or you […]
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The Fiery Furnaces
Each Fiery Furnaces album sounds like the work of a different band or, at the very least, a band that’s getting progressively less concerned with the conventions of pop music every time it enters a studio. Their debut was optimistic blues and garage rock that earned misguided comparisons to The White Stripes. But 2004’s Blueberry […]