Chatham County’s business community and its slow-growth citizen groups have fought contentious battles over suburban sprawl and economic development priorities over the last decade, but members of both sides have allied behind one mission: A call for mixed drinks. During early voting now under way, and at polls on May 5, citizens have the chance […]
Jennifer Strom
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Anoop Desai Alert: Real men wear pink and sing Donna Summer
Time is running out for Chapel Hill’s hometown American Idol: Tonight, two of the remaining seven singers will go home, and the race is tightening at the top. With strong frontrunner Adam Lambert surprising and delighting the judges and the voting public week after week, it’s turning into a race for second place as the […]
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Raleigh restaurant Evoo possibly tied to food-borne illness
The 911 calls The names and phone numbers of the callers have been redacted. Call #1 (.wav, 3.7 MB) Friday, April 17, 9:48 p.m. from Evoo restaurant. Call #2 (.wav, 6.1 MB) Friday, April 17, 10:11 p.m. from an address in the 1000 block of Vance Street, where two people who had eaten at Evoo […]
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Raleigh restaurant Evoo possibly tied to food-borne illness
The 911 calls The names and phone numbers of the callers have been redacted. Call #1 (.wav, 3.7 MB) Friday, April 17, 9:48 p.m. from Evoo restaurant. Call #2 (.wav, 6.1 MB) Friday, April 17, 10:11 p.m. from an address in the 1000 block of Vance Street, where two people who had eaten at Evoo […]
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Anoop Desai Alert: Time to dirty up and get down
OK, Chapel Hill homeboy, here’s the deal: Now that you’ve been deked into thinking you missed a shot at the Top 12 (which turned out to be a Top 13, with you in it), and then stood, Wednesday night, in the spotlight of possible elimination as that field was narrowed to 11, it’s time to […]
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Yay for eBay
Technology has given me so many gifts in the last few years. Thanks to wireless phone service, anyone can call me anytime, anywhere: early in the morning, late at night, on the beach, in the hair salon. Friends can ring me up at Shea Stadium when my husband catches a foul ball and they see […]
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Anoop Desai alert: Lucky #13
He thought he was out. His friends back home thought he was out. With one spot allegedly left in the Top 12 last Thursday night, Chapel Hill’s Anoop Desai heard the other guy, Matt Giraud, called to take the final silver stool. But wait! Those drama-engineering producers of American Idol had yet another Season 8 […]
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Anoop Desai Alert: Last chance tonight
UNC-Chapel Hill grad student Anoop Desai snagged the last of eight wild card slots for tonight’s American Idol sing-off that will fill the remaining three seats in the hit show’s Top 12 contestants. Called from a group of two dozen last-ditch hopefuls at the end of last night’s competition, Desai was awash with emotional relief […]
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Indy Publisher on the radio today
Listen in as the Indy‘s head honcho, Sioux Watson, chats with WUNC’s Frank Stasio on The State of Things at noon today.
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Sign of the times: Hereghty’s locked out
Handcrafted pastries sit moldering in the display case as disappointed would-be customers stop at the door to Hereghty’s patisserie and cafe in Raleigh’s Glenwood Village Shopping Center. The owners defaulted on their rent, and the landlord changed the locks, according to a letter posted on the glass door, dated Feb. 25.
