Jugfishing: The basics • Save your old jugs. • Lash them together with twine or monofilament. • Affix about 6 feet of heavy monofilament line to the cluster, with a large hook and lead sinker at the bottom. • Bait hook with something smelly, drop whole thing in lake. • Sit back and wait. • […]
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Tom Tancredo’s second coming
Tom Tancredo broke his middle toe the last time he visited UNC-Chapel Hill. His now-infamous visit almost exactly a year ago erupted into a rowdy protest, and in the tussle a campus police officer trying to shield the former Republican congressman and presidential candidate from student activists accidentally stomped on Tancredo’s foot. On Monday, April […]
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Should North Carolinians elect jurists?
It’s easy to mistake Chris Shella for a politician. On a cool spring Saturday morning in March, the Durham attorney hit Club Boulevard in a pinstriped suit to go door-to-door canvasing for votes. Shella is a natural campaigner. If a wary resident opens the door an inch, Shella has him on the porch talking about […]
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Attorney Ken Lewis whomps competition in Durham For Obama vote
After a forum for Democratic primary candidates for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Richard Burr, Durham For Obama activists voted overwhelmingly to support local attorney and political newbie Ken Lewis. Lewis, not to be confused with the former CEO of Bank of America, pulled in nearly 58 percent of the 182 votes […]
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For Rep. Sue Myrick, Islamic moderates are extreme, Christian extremists are moderate
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) is one of North Carolina’s staunchest defenders from Islamic extremism. When it comes to Christian extremism, though, the record is more mixed. Myrick held a forum on Thursday, Feb. 25, with about 200 of her Charlotte-area constituents from the Muslim community to address what many see as a record of offensive […]
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Urban Bush Women at Duke
The Nov. 12 performance by Urban Bush Women at Duke’s Reynolds Theater began with a lone dancer, her arms and shoulders rippling with muscles, standing under a misty spotlight as someone offstage read the names of African-American leaders and activists from Sojourner Truth to Malcolm X. It set the tone for the evening. Though Urban […]
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Tucker Max plugs I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell at NCSU as protesters fume outside
Tucker Max, a 34-year-old writer and blogger from Florida, could be the most infamous Duke Law graduate since Richard Nixon. Max has built a career as a frat boy nonpareil, writing and blogging about sex, bodily functions, alcohol and his personal fetish for handicapped women. As a wordsmith, he falls somewhere between a bad romance […]
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Free speech “zones,” police crackdowns threaten to muzzle debate
⇒ Read the rest of this year’s Annual Manual: A guide to campus activism Haley Koch is a senior at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a Morehead-Cain scholar and a graduate of Sidwell Friends, a northeastern high school that counts Chelsea Clinton and Gore Vidal among its alumni. Koch has received numerous UNC-CH awards for […]
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Live: Flatts & Hootie, turning uncool around
Darius Rucker & Rascal Flatts Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek, Raleigh Sunday, August 1 When I was in high school, three guys I knew started a band. These guys were not cool: They wore socks with sandals and went to church about 17 times a week. Maybe one of them had smoked […]
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ADF comes to DPAC. Finally.
On Thursday, June 18, Shen Wei Dance Arts will inaugurate the new home of the American Dance Festival‘s big-ticket actsthe Durham Performing Arts Center. The performance will mark a milestone in both the long, proud history of ADF and the unfolding history of DPAC. For many local arts observers, the idea of a large, publicly […]