Schadenfreude is, perhaps, too strong a word to describe that feeling we get when we hear that yet another hapless person behind the steering wheel of a tall truck fell prey to that confounded bridge. After all, we bear no actual malice toward these folks who fail to heed flashing low-bridge warnings about the 11-foot-8 […]
Danny Hooley
Bio: Danny Hooley lives in Durham, writes about television and music and plays in The Bastages.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/dhoohoo
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“It happens there, it happens here”: The demands of UNC’s student protesters
No one—including UNC’s chancellor and the evening’s moderator—was terribly surprised by the early interruption of Thursday night’s “Town Hall on Race and Inclusion” at UNC by a group of protesters. They had invited the media the night before. But what may have surprised and even dismayed many was the protesters’ persistence. It began with around […]
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A set of homes near downtown Durham is locked in a property dispute. The residents, meanwhile, remain in squalor.
It’s a sad Saturday morning for Jessie Gladdek. There was a time she and her family might have spent a day like this at their neighbors’ yard at 611/613 Oakwood Ave., pitching horseshoes or socializing over food as Gladdek snapped pics to capture the memories. Today, however, her truck is parked in a sloping driveway […]
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Duke University gets in the union-busting game
Duke University recently launched a new website, Duke One-to-One, that bills itself as a “repository for timely, factual information regarding the effort by the Service Employees International Union to organize/unionize ‘non-tenure track faculty.’” It all sounds helpful and friendlyprotective, even. But if the purpose is really to piss off faculty, alumni, students and labor groups, […]
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Does North Carolina give homeowners associations too much power?
The dented-up, desert-sand-colored Toyota Sienna in the driveway of Melissa and Michael Rooney’s South Durham home is spectacularly adorned with cheerful graffiti depicting flowers, stars, hearts, birds and trees in bright hues of red, blue, yellow and green. There are messages in support of the UNC Tar Heels and some ornamental squiggles, all created by […]
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Alton Brown, former Pop’s line cook, finds TV fame
“An Evening With Alton Brown: The Science of Cooking” N.C. Science Festival Thursday, April 18 $25-$65, 7:30 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center When Alton Brown’s awesome cooking show Good Eats premiered on Food Network in July 1999, a lot of viewers in Durham probably had the same initial reaction: “Hey, didn’t that guy used to […]
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Weekend Update’s Seth Meyers on the most venerable fake news desk
Seth Meyers Friday, March 29, at 8 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center $36.75-$47.25 Seth Meyers joined the cast of NBC’s Saturday Night Live in 2001 and quickly put his stamp on that long-running institution. By 2006, Meyers was sitting in the Weekend Update anchor chair alongside Amy Poehler and had been promoted to head writer. […]
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Vijay Iyer reinvents Stravinsky in a transcontinental, multimedia and cross-genre trip
RADHE RADHE: Rites of Holi Tuesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m. Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill $10-$39 Carolina Performing Arts When Emil Kang came to work in Chapel Hill as the university’s first executive director for the arts, he spent much of his first six months on the job talking to people about what he needed to […]
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Lizard Lick Towing’s Ron Shirley discusses his new book, Lizard Tales, and his future plans
Lizard Tales: The Wit and Wisdom of Ron Shirley By Ron Shirley Three Rivers Press 224 pp. Ron Shirley’s new book was published Nov. 6. He and the Lizard Lick Krew will appear at LickApalooza at Norris Creek in Louisburg, N.C., on Nov. 17, noon–7 p.m., with musical guests Locash Cowboys, Dee Jay Silver and […]
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The Wilmington-shot Revolution premieres
Revolution Monday, Sept. 17, 10 p.m. NBC Here in ol’ Cackalacky, the buzz around NBC’s new futuristic action drama Revolution is that it’s being shot in Wilmington. And just in time, tooThe CW’s One Tree Hill closed up shop in Wilmington earlier this year after nine seasons, so there’s bound to be plenty of fangirls […]
