The moon was bright enough for me to meander around the graveyard without tripping over Celtic crosses. It was Halloween and I was studying in Ireland. I had bussed north out of Dublin, accompanying Will, a fellow Tar Heel abroad, on his quest to discover a long-lost lineage near the town of Donegal. Feeling bored […]
Colin Warren-Hicks
Bio: Colin Warren-Hicks is a freelance writer based in New York City and a graduate student in the literary reportage program at NYU's Journalism Institute.
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Crossing the border
A hundred miles and a million degrees of political correctness away from the Triangle is roadside attraction South Of the Border, a 200-acre park filled with tacky souvenirs, exotic reptiles, fair rides and legal fireworks. The border it’s south of (just barely) is North Carolina’s, though it takes a stereotype of Mexico as its theme, […]
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Durham’s Rhine Research Center, one of the country’s last parapsychological institutes, seeks to quantify the ethereal
PK, MIND-MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS Stedman Auditorium on the Duke Center for Living Campus Friday, May 23, 7 p.m. $10–$20 The man throws open a door and swings his arms like a maître d’ presenting his finest table. He’s wearing a bright purple button-down shirt and a neatly kept beard. “Step inside,” he says. Through the […]