Design, design, design. That’s what it’s all about. Throw in a little creative marketing, a bit of zealous second-semester senior entrepreneurial job-hunting and a DIY embrace of the dinosaur artform of print media, and you have Six Degrees, this spring’s coolest zine. Editor-in-Chief Caroline Okun and a team of graphic design students from North Carolina […]
John Valentine
Bio: John Valentine lives in Hillsborough, where he's written about life on and off the farm for more than two decades.Email: [email protected]
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A girl named Haven
She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroics Acts from Mooreland, IndianaBy Haven KimmelFree Press, $24 Five books in six years is enough to give any writer pause and a chance to celebrate. Ever since her first memoir, A Girl Named Zippy, flew to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and […]
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Early spring
Those elementary school essays we had to write each season celebrating daffodils, apple blossoms, leaf piles and ice sickles have special meaning in North Carolina. Here, we get to two springs, two chances to notice and engage the wonder out the window, beyond the flat screen (14 inch or 52 inch, whatever…). January’s spring is […]
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Swag mags
The strongest magazine cover image of 1981 was an Annie Liebovitz shot. The nude photograph of Lennon hugging Yoko Ono on Rolling Stone won first place in the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Magazine 40/40 competition that ranked the top 40 covers of the past 40 years. A nude Demi Moore on the cover of […]
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The best local books of 2005
Around here, you just don’t need to go too far and wide to find a favorite writer. They’re our neighbors, they’re teaching our children, they’re next in line at the grocery store, they’re composing on a laptop in the coffeeshops. Hundreds of titles were published by dozens of local authors in the past 12 months. […]
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Craft projects
Howard Craft does his art every day. Last month, he taught high school and middle school writing workshops in a residency funded by United Arts of Raleigh and Wake County, interviewed Jaki Shelton Green, and taught a poetry and drama class for the N.C. Writers’ Network fall conference in Asheville. And every spare minute, he’s […]
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All ball
It is the best of times: when it’s over for the Yankees; when the best thing you can put in an end zone is a 90-foot-tall stage with a teleprompter; and when a field goal gets you two points. Hoops are in the house. Supermarket aisles and newsstand shelves overflow with light blue, red and […]
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The Gas Channel
“We’re live at the mouth of the Plantation Pipeline,” yelled Jim Cantore, the most popular live-remote broadcaster in the history of television. His trademark green slicker flapping in the tornado winds, Cantore has been on-screen 14 hours a day since the Gas Channel debuted in the spring of 2006. “No one cares about the weather […]
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September Blender and Gulf states remembered
The full emotional tableau of autumn greets us on the newsstand, from the giddy creative dynamo of Bynum’s Clyde Jones atop a colorful critter pile on the cover of The Rambler to Billy Solitario’s ominous, people-less, billowy Gulf Coast clouds filling the cover of The Southern Review, just published from Louisiana State University. The eight-page […]
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Stuart Albright
Blessed ReturnsBy Stuart Albright($17.95, McKinnon Press, 190 pages www.stuartalbright.com) Bodies were flying and testosterone was pumping on a hot, humid, late afternoon at Durham’s Jordan High. It was the first intrasquad scrimmage for the junior varsity–blue versus white. No one was sitting down. Chants were shouted by the kids at their teammates: “LB’s! Watch that […]
