Filming will take place inside the North Carolina Supreme Court building on Monday and in and around the State Capitol and grounds on Tuesday. Look for traffic to be delayed or detoured on Wilmington and Fayetteville streets.
Anyone looking for a glimpse of Claire Danes or her "Homeland" cast mates might get that chance on June 3 or June 4.
Crews will film scenes for the Showtime series in downtown Raleigh on those dates, and there will be no parking available on Monday or until 8 p.m. Tuesday at the following streets:
• Both curbsides of South Wilmington Street between East Morgan Street and Hargett Street
• Part of the east curb lane of the 100 Block of Fayetteville Street
On June 3, equipment trucks will park…
This fantastically pink slug, Triboniophorus aff. graeffei, is only found on Mount Kaputar, a mountaintop in New South Wales, Australia. According to scientists, the slugs and several other strange species are from the days when this region was a damp rainforest. When Mount Kaputar erupted 17 million years ago, it preserved a very unusual ecosystem. "A series of volcanos and millions of years of erosion have carved a dramatic landscape at Mount Kaputar National Park, creating a fascinating world with some very colourful locals," writes the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service on its Facebook page. More info in the Sydney Morning Herald. (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)
Weasel: You should check the internet because remember yesterday when that one person on the internet was wrong and it made you so mad, but not actually mad enough to register to leave a comment. Go see if someone else left a comment calling them out.
me: No. I don’t care.
Weasel: LIAR. And check your blog because there might be a secret comment from Doctor Who asking you to go time-traveling with him.
me: That’s not...possible.
weasel: You hesitated. You totally think it’s possible. Quick – check twitter.
me: No.
weasel: Just once. And check your replies. And check that girl you hate. And check that girl you want to be more like. And check that girl who used to be on that show who’s totally crazy now and is posting insane shit that you can’t look away from.
me: No. I don’t remember her name.
Weasel: Then IMDB her. And then IMDB all the Anchorman quotes. And then go look up all the trivia on the Mythbusters site. And then go see if you were right about how many times the Vulcan mind-meld was used in the last movie.
me: I already know it was two.
Weasel: Victor says you’re wrong.
me: UGH. Fine. I’ll just look that one thing up, but then we work.
**FIVE HOURS LATER.**
Weasel: And those are all the ways in which you can die in a Disney park. Now let’s wikipedia the most unusual ways to die ever.
me: NO. I HAVE REAL WORK TO DO AND I HAVE TO-oh my God, someone died from being smothered in cloaks? Is that for real?
Weasel: WIKIPEDIA IS ALWAYS RIGHT. NOW CHECK PINTREST. SUPERHEROES DOING FUNNY THINGS. CATS IN BOXES. OPEN YOUTUBE. SOMEONE IS FALLING IN A FUNNY WAY AND YOU’RE MISSING IT.
me: SHUT UP. SHUT UP. I NEED TO WORK.
Weasel: What if someone just found a Sasquatch? Quick – check the news.
me: STOP IT.
Weasel: Checking the news is mature. It is immature to not keep a news website up all the time to keep up with breaking news. WHAT IF THERE IS A FIRE MADE OF OGRES?
me: You have a point. Sort of.
Weasel: Breaking news. Someone called Kim Kardashian fat. See if you think she looks fat.
me: I DON’T CARE IF SHE LOOKS FAT. I’VE NEVER EVEN SEEN ”THE KARDASHIANS”. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THEM.
Weasel: You should probably see if their show is on netflix. That seems like a big pop culture reference you probably need to know about.
me: NO. NO MORE TV.
Weasel: Knowing pop culture is part of your job. Just bookmark it for later.
me: FINE.
Weasel: Ooh! There’s a new “Bob’s Burgers”! If you don’t watch it it will go off the air and it will be all your fault and then it’s “Arrested Development” all over again. Just leave it running in another window while you work.
me: No.
Weasle: It’ll be one thing you can check off your to do list.
me: FINE. But I’m only doing it while I answer emails.
Weasel: Your computer just froze. You can’t run that many things at once. Go watch regular TV and eat a bunch of cake with your hands.
me: No. This is a sign that I need to stop watching tv on my computer. WORK, DAMMIT.
Weasel: You sound stressed. You totally need cake.
me: I DON’T HAVE ANY CAKE. SHUT UP.
Weasel: You should get some cake. Can you order cakes like you order pizza? Is that a thing?
me: I have no idea. But it should totally be a thing.
Weasel: OMG, THAT SHOULD BE OUR NEW BUSINESS. GO BUY “IWANTSOMECAKELIKEYESTERDAY.COM”.
**FIVE HOURS LATER**
me: What am I doing? I don’t even know how to cook.
Weasel: I think it’s called “baking” when you do it with flour.
me: I’m pretty sure it’s called “cooking” no matter what.
Weasel: You should look it up on the internet. Hey, did you know it’s 3am?
[tweetmeme]For this week’s “120 Minutes” Rewind, we travel back to 1988 for a Kevin Seal-hosted “120 X-Ray” segment on former Soft Cell frontman Marc Almond, who discusses his then-new album The Stars We Are and its single “Tears Run Rings,” as well as his next project, Jacques, which would be released in 1989. Watch the clip below via dpallen.
Around Memorial Day weekend four years ago, Ars Technical Director Jason Marlin was simply minding his own business in a new home office, enjoying Carolina thunderstorms after recently moving to Asheville, North Carolina. He'll never forget what happened next. Since our pals at Mosaic recently dug deep into the aftermath of lightning strikes, we thought we'd share Jason's first-person account once more. This story from our archives first ran in May 2013.
"Sir, look at me—did you have any shoes on?" asked the emergency medical tech. "Were you wearing shoes when you were struck?"
"Huh?" I wondered, a little dazed. "What's with the shoe obsession?"
Image courtesy of University of Michigan Health System
The infant's 3-D printed trachea will fully absorb into his body in two to three years.
We've seen plenty of 3-D printed medical implants for patients that require replacement tissues, but this use of 3-D printed biopolymer to augment and correct an existing tissue highlights just how amazing the convergence of 3-D printing and medicine is (and will be). Kaiba Gionfriddo was born apparently a normal, healthy baby, but at six months of age he stopped breathing. Regularly. Due to a condition known as tracheobronchomalacia Kaiba's windpipe was collapsing during regular breathing, and he had to be hooked to a ventilator to be kept alive.
Short of conventional options, Kaiba's doctors contacted researchers at the University of Michigan who had been experimenting with 3-D printed bio-absorbable polymers. Using high resolution imaging to build a digital picture of Kaiba's trachea, they were able to print a customized biopolymer tracheal splint for the infant using a 3-D printer.
The splint was surgically sewn around Kaiba's airways in February of last year. Just 21 days later he was taken off the ventilator and hasn't been back on it since. His trachea is now growing normally around the splint, which will fully absorb into his body after two to three years. With a little ingenuity, a condition that could've plagued Kaiba for his entire life--and likely would have had he been born ten years ago--has been cured.
One of the doctors who worked on the 3-D printed tracheal splint called Kaiba's case "the highlight of my career so far." Given the vast potential for 3-D printing to work what used to be considered miracles in medicine, that may not remain the case for long.
No we're not kidding, and yes that's a good thing.
Moore, Okla., is currently running at Waffle House Index Level Yellow, and that's not a joke. Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has created his own informal system of rating disasters in a humanizing way, using the status of the local Waffle House as a measure of the impact of a natural disaster on a region or neighborhood. And if that sounds patronizing or nonsensical, read on, because it makes a lot of sense.
After a disaster--especially one of the magnitude of a Hurricane Katrina or the tornado that struck the southern Oklahoma City metro area on Monday--it takes a while to really gauge the state of things on the ground and to assess the overall level of damage. There are aerial photos of the devastation, sure, as well as anecdotal accounts of what's happening on one block or the next, but a snapshot of the real impact on a community is hard to come by until an official accounting of the damage--both human and economic--can be made. And that takes a while.
Then there's Waffle House. Waffle House is known--along with Home Depot, Wal Mart, and Lowe's--for its resiliency during and in the days following a disaster. The company maintains pretty serious disaster planning year-round, as it sees itself and the service it provides--hot meals and hot coffee for first responders and affected members of the community--as important for helping communities get back on their feet. As such, Waffle House takes pride in its ability to remain open, or to quickly reopen, after disaster strikes a region. Fugate allegedly first used the phrase back in 2011 following the Joplin, Mo., tornado, stating to the Wall Street Journal that if you arrive at a place and the Waffle House is closed, you know the disaster is bad.
Moreover, Waffle House's 1,600 locations are spread across 25 states in hurricane- and tornado-prone states, from Florida to Arizona and throughout the Midwest, as far north and east as Pennsylvania. And the restaurants are remarkably consistent throughout the country, in their construction, their menus, and their disaster-readiness. They all require basic utilities like electricity, water, and gas, though they can run at limited capability without them (by trucking in generators, propane, and clean water). All that makes for a good measure of comparison across the nation.
Fugate's system is three-level color system. Waffle House Index Green means the Waffle House is still operational and serving a full menu. Yellow denotes a Waffle House running at limited capacity, usually on a generator and serving only a partial menu. A closed, badly damaged, or completely destroyed Waffle House draws a red rating.
During Katrina Waffle House had to close 100 restaurants, earning it red status. But within 24 hours 60 were up and running again, upgrading many neighborhoods to yellow almost immediately (seven locations were fully destroyed). But it's important to keep in mind that the index is more a measure of the status on the ground after a disaster--the availability of generators or grid electricity, or of clean water, for instance--than a measure of the disaster itself. The 2011 tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., closed none of the areas Waffle Houses. So the region remained yellow and green even though 162 people were killed.
The yellow rating for Moore is something of a courtesy rating at this point, as the power at the single Waffle House location there remains cut and the generator was still in transit last we heard. So Moore's Waffle Hosue is technically still closed (level red), though it should be up and running shortly (by the time you read this we may already be at a hard Waffle House Yellow). And while hot meals and hot coffee can't make up for everything that was lost in Moore on Monday afternoon, if you're going to rebuild a community it can't hurt to start on a full stomach.
J.P. LaRussa and his wife, Gwynne, opened Acme Pizza Co. (204 Village Walk Drive; 919-552-8800; acmepizzaco.org) last week in the former All Aboard Pizza space. Theyre still offering the New York style pies that were that restaurants calling card, but Acmes specialty is Chicago-style deep dish stuffed pizzas.
Lovers of eastern North Carolina barbecue know all about the Skylight Inn, a little joint in Ayden, about 100 miles southeast of Raleigh. And now, so do a lot of other folks. The Skylight has been declared among the nation's 10 best barbecue restaurants by National Geographic at its online site.
Of the Skylight, the editors write: "At Skylight Inn you can order only two things: a pulled pork sandwich topped with coleslaw or a pulled pork dish with corn bread and coleslaw. Whole pigs are slow-roasted…
The Oak City 7 concert series at City Plaza in downtown Raleigh will return in a few weeks to kick off their second season of free concerts every other Thursday from May 30 until August 22.
Headliners this year are Orchestra GarDel, Rosco Bandana, Cracker, Yarn, Southern Culture on the Skids, Big Something and Toon & The Real Laww. Other acts will include Hammer No More the Fingers, Toddlers,
I lost my Society of Imperial Heralds conical cap somewhere near downtown.
The cap is red velvet and about two feet high. It has symbols which clearly indicate
I have achieved Master of Symbology, First Class, as well as membership in the
Grand Or [...]
Located on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin (i.e., Sint Maarten) is the famous Maho Beach. While it has the characteristic white sand and turquoise water of a Caribbean paradise that is not what makes Maho Beach such a popular tourist destination.
Arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 due to the short runway length of 2,180 meters (7,150 ft), resulting in aircraft on their final approach flying over the beach at minimal altitude.
Watching airliners pass over the beach is such a popular activity that daily arrivals and departures airline timetables are displayed on a board in most bars and restaurants on the beach, and one bar even has a speaker on its outside deck that broadcasts the radio transmissions between pilots and the airport’s control tower.
It’s important to note there is a danger of people standing on the beach being blown into the water because of the jet blast from aircraft taking off from runway 10. The local government warns that closely approaching and departing aircraft can “result in serious injury and/or death”. An additional fence has been added recently behind runway 10 to prevent people from hanging on to the main fence surrounding the runway in order to experience being blasted by the jet flow. [Source]
Saint Martin is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km2 island is divided roughly 60/40 between France (53 km2) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km2). It is one of the smallest sea islands divided between two nations, a division dating to 1648.
The southern Dutch part comprises Sint Maarten and is one of four constituent countries that form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The northern French part comprises the Collectivité de Saint-Martin (Collectivity of St. Martin) and is an overseas collectivity of France.
On January 1, 2009 the population of the entire island was 77,741 inhabitants, with 40,917 living on the Dutch side, and 36,824 on the French side. Collectively, the two territories are known as “St-Martin / St Maarten”; sometimes it is referred to as SXM, which is the airport code for Princess Juliana International Airport. [Source]
We are delighted to welcome King Khan & the Shrines to Merge! The band will release their Merge debut later this year.
We asked King Khan for a few words to mark the occasion:
Rumors have been flying about me being taped to three swans and traveling the world. Well, it was a rough ride but someone had to do it. After being called the “Beetlejuice of rock ‘n roll,” I have decided to join forces with the underworld and in doing so have reached a new all time low. Hell hath no fury as a swan taped to a fat Indian man.
I have finally found my new family in Merge records and as always I would much rather work with southern folk than city slickers (fuck Bill Crystal and his plastic face). It is a pleasure working with folks who eat ribs while they cure buffalo meat and sell rekkids. If I get a fair shot on the plantation of Merge maybe i will save Brunhilda and show my Indian penis to the world. Tell Quentin Tarantino that he should have let DiCaprio show the world his junk too to make the movie balanced . . .
—King Khan
Information about the new album and new tour dates are coming soon! In the meantime, keep up with King Khan & the Shrines at their website.
The first ever Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit has just announced their lineup for 2013. The festival takes place in Asheville, NC on October 25th through the 27th. Mountain Oasis is programmed and produced by AC Entertainment, the company that helped put together MoogFest. Towards the end of last year, Moog Music and AC Entertainment split up when Moog declined to renew its licensing agreement with AC. Mountain Oasis now takes the place of MoogFest as AC Entertainment’s presence in North Carolina. The Mountain Oasis festival will take place the same weekend and location as previous MoogFests. This however will not be the end of MoogFest. Moogfest just recently announced a new partnership with Paxahau along with a new logo. Along with it they stated that MoogFest will not be taking place in 2013, but will return April 25th through the 27th in Asheville for MoogFest 2014.
So set aside all your worries, North Carolina will not be losing a music festival. Instead we will be gaining another one and after looking at the intial lineup announcement, it looks to be a damn good one. The lineup, despite not being completed yet, is full of some big names and rarities. Neutral Milk Hotel will be playing one of their first shows in fifteen years together at this year’s festival. Trent Reznor will be playing twice with How to Destroy Angels as well as Nine Inch Nails who are just coming off their hiatus. Other notable artists include Animal Collective, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Chromatics, Tricky, Zola Jesus and JG Thirwell, Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, and Bosnian Rainbows. Many more artists will be announced in the coming future. The festival will also feature talks, seminars, panels, interactive experiences, exhibitions and more by artists and other esteemed members of the musical community. Tickets will go on sale Thursdau, May 2nd at 12:00 pm Eastern Time. Stay tuned for more details as the full lineup will be announced.
On April 22, 2013, the Oklahoma Historical Society in partnership with the First Lutheran Church unearthed a 6-ft x 3-ft x 3-ft (1.83m x 0.91m x 0.91m) chest, buried in the church’s basement exactly 100 years prior.
Dubbed the ‘Century Chest‘, the project was created in 1913 by Virginia Sohlberg of the Ladies Aid Society as a fundraiser to help the church purchase a new pipe organ which is still in use today! Space inside the chest was auctioned off to the public to raise money.
The Century Chest’s artifacts were impeccably preserved in airtight, waterproof containers. The chest itself was buried under a 12-inch (30.5 cm) slab of concrete. Removing the chest took over 11 hours and involved removing two 600-pound chunks of concrete and using an engine hoist to get the chest out of its ‘tomb’.
The contents of the chest were unveiled at a live event and Downtown OKC, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, documented the entire experience and posted the photos to an 81-picture gallery on Facebook.
The complete contents will be preserved and exhibited at the Oklahoma History Center later this year. It will be fascinating to discover the content located inside the countless sealed packages and envelopes, as well as going through the box of recorded messages.
Flag made for the Century Chest by Mr. W. R. Clement, originator and designer of the official Flag of the State of Oklahoma. Also included: certificate of adoption of the flag and message of greeting from Mrs. Clement to the city of 2013. [Source: Downtown OKC, Inc.]
3. Desk telephone, Pioneer Telephone and Telegraph Co.
The First English Lutheran Church Century Chest was the idea of Virginia Sohlberg. Sohlberg had heard of a similar undertaking in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and proposed the idea to the church’s pastor, Newton H. Royer. He approved. The church’s Ladies Aid Society led the project with Virginia Sohlberg as President. The project was to be a fundraiser, offering the public the chance to include their name in a ledger and quilt, purchase space in the chest, or buy tickets to the Century Chest service. The fundraiser would benefit the church which needed funds to cover the cost of a new organ. The full price of the organ was $3,200, half of which was paid by Andrew Carnegie.
The project was embraced by the community as an opportunity to celebrate 1913 Oklahoma and reach out to future generations. Citizens, businesses, community organizations, and legislators participated. The planning of the chest was covered in local newspapers. The project grew beyond the church, beyond Oklahoma City, to the entire state.
This is but one of many found from a sealed box of recorded messages.
Inside the Century Chest
The chest contains a variety of objects honoring Oklahoma’s heritage. Included are American Indian artifacts and documents, historical photographs, paintings, poems and musical compositions, coins, family histories, local histories, clothing, various clippings, a special flag, popular technology of the day such as a telephone, phonograph, and camera. A special “Century Chest Edition” of The Oklahoma News newspaper was printed and copies placed in the chest. The chest also includes special messages from the Oklahomans of 1913 to our present-day community. Click Here to view a list of contents.
11. Constitution, Treaties and Laws of the Chickasaw Nation
The burial of the Century Chest was marked with a special service on the evening of April 22, 1913. The service included various musical performances, and addresses from Governor Lee Cruce, Oklahoma City Mayor Whit M. Grant, and Reverend Newton H. Royer, D.D., Pastor of the First Lutheran Church. A recording of the ceremony was made and included inside the chest. [Source: Oklahoma Historical Society]
Each year since the chest’s burial, the members of the First Lutheran Church have pledged their commitment to the chest and its creators. The pledge was created by the church members of 1913 to ensure the chest would be protected and honored for future generations of Oklahomans. [Source: Oklahoma Historical Society]
The summer camping season is starting to heat up and for those Tiny House Blog visitors who are lamenting the loss of the tiny Retro Traveler, the Toad Camper is a nice and affordable alternative to the ultra lightweight trailer. Toad Campers are built by hand in North Carolina with the best American-made products and can be towed by most 4-cylinder vehicles. What I thought was a typo, was that the campers start out at $2,999 for a basic streamlined weekend trailer.
The company offers four basic models: the Micro, Micro XL, Tadpole, and 20-foot Bull Frog. Each of these models have very flexible floor plan arrangements including small bathrooms with showers, full or queen beds or bunk beds. They also come with the following features:
Heavy duty axle with bearing buddies
Insulated frame
13″ Radial tires
Laminate flooring
Various color choices
Microwave, refrigerator, air conditioner and flat-screen TVs
Wash station or full kitchen
Central roof vent
Durable rubber roof
The Toad Camper company also offers their trailers as rentals so you can test drive their different sized options. They also build custom trailers for just about any other kind of use including kayak trailers, refreshment trailers and restroom trailers.
Four months after he was shot in the back during a violent home invasion that left him in a wheelchair, Jason Beyer is back at work and full of hope that he will someday walk again.
Facebook is considering buying GPS company Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, Israeli daily newspaper Calcalist reports.
The talks are in an advanced stage, Calcalistclaims. The two companies started talking started six months ago, due diligence is underway and a term sheet was signed
Waze, whose turn-by-turn navigation app uses crowdsourcing to gather real-time conditions on the road, has had 44 million users in April 2013
The two companies are partners; Waze already lets users share their drive with Facebook friends. Buying a social, mobile app with a strong user base makes sense for Facebook; if the acquisition happens it'll be interesting to see what Facebook's plans are in the GPS/location space Read more...
Three women who went missing about 10 years ago were found alive in a house in downtown Cleveland Monday
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight are "in good health," Cleveland police said in a release. The women, who disappeared in their teens and early 20s, were taken to a hospital for evaluation, and to reunite with relatives, the Associated Press reported
5/6/13 7:31 PM Confirmed Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry & Michelle Knight found alive, talking, appear to be ok.
Henry Hargreaves is a New Zealand still life, art and fashion photographer working out of his studio in Brooklyn, NYC. While he has always had a passion for photography, he actually worked as a high-end fashion model for four years before switching to the other side of the lens full-time.
In a recent feature on Vice, Hargreave’s went through the concert riders of the some of the world’s biggest musicians and decided to photograph what he found were the most interesting/ridiculous demands.
As Hargreave’s explains:
“I initially thought I would try to shoot all of the items listed on the catering riders but quickly realized that this would become an exercise in wasting money. So I decided to focus on the quirkiest requests and shoot them in a Flemish Baroque still-life style because I felt that there was a direct connection between the themes in these types of paintings and the riders”
One bottle each: Absolut, Jack Daniel’s, Chivas Regal, Courvoisier, Beefeater Gin, White wine, Red wine. Twenty-four chilled jumbo shrimp, Life Savers, Cough drops.
The Netflix competition heats up, for the 55+ demographic.
An expiring contract for Netflix means the streaming video service will lose 1,794 pieces of content, according to Mashable. Netflix’s agreement with Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal expired Wednesday, meaning customers will lose the ability to watch such morsels as Cruel Intentions and Big Daddy.
The contents of Netflix’s instant streaming catalog wax and wane all the time, but it’s rare that there is such a mass exodus from the service. Starz let its own contract with Netflix expire in February 2012, which resulted in the loss of titles like Amélie and around a thousand others.
Warner Bros. Is taking its business to its own streaming service, WB Archive Instant, which is priced at $9.99 per month. If the service’s best offerings are placed front and center on the home page, shown above, we’re not entirely sold.
Maple View Farm is voluntarily recalling pint containers of Cookies & Cream, Carolina Crunch and Cookie Dough ice cream because the products contain allergens that were not declared on package labels. Some or all of the products contain wheat,soy, almonds and peanuts, which can cause serious allergic reactions in people who have an allergy or sensitivity to these ingredients.
Kevin Spacey reprised his House of Cards character in a hilarious six-minute video that opened the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, also known as "Nerd Prom," Saturday in Washington, D.C
In the skit, Spacey uses his character's Machiavellian maneuvers to complete the seating chart at the dinner and, in the meantime, pokes fun at a long list of personalities attending the dinner. A number of them even participated in the spoof, including Sen. John McCain and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Spacey even makes some tongue-in-cheek criticism. Referring to the night's host, comedian Conan O’Brien, he says that "it must be so hard to write jokes about a town that already is one."
"Democrats, Republicans, the White House, Congress, you all came together to make this spoof. That's what real bipartisanship looks like," he says at the end, addressing the camera. "I may lie, cheat and intimidate to get the job done, but at least I get the job done. So I hope some of you are taking notes." Read more...
Filming will take place inside the North Carolina Supreme Court building on Monday and in and around the State Capitol and grounds on Tuesday. Look for traffic to be delayed or detoured on Wilmington and Fayetteville streets.
Vollis Simpson, a self-taught North Carolina artist famed for his whimsical, wind-powered whirligigs, has died. He was 94.
Anyone looking for a glimpse of Claire Danes or her "Homeland" cast mates might get that chance on June 3 or June 4.
Crews will film scenes for the Showtime series in downtown Raleigh on those dates, and there will be no parking available on Monday or until 8 p.m. Tuesday at the following streets:
• Both curbsides of South Wilmington Street between East Morgan Street and Hargett Street
• Part of the east curb lane of the 100 Block of Fayetteville Street
On June 3, equipment trucks will park…
A red-ruffed lemur escaped from the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, taking a five-hour jaunt about town before it was corralled in someone's garage.
Lovers of eastern North Carolina barbecue know all about the Skylight Inn, a little joint in Ayden, about 100 miles southeast of Raleigh. And now, so do a lot of other folks. The Skylight has been declared among the nation's 10 best barbecue restaurants by National Geographic at its online site.
Of the Skylight, the editors write: "At Skylight Inn you can order only two things: a pulled pork sandwich topped with coleslaw or a pulled pork dish with corn bread and coleslaw. Whole pigs are slow-roasted…
We are delighted to welcome King Khan & the Shrines to Merge! The band will release their Merge debut later this year.
Four months after he was shot in the back during a violent home invasion that left him in a wheelchair, Jason Beyer is back at work and full of hope that he will someday walk again.
Cedrick Swinson, 37, had promised the family a Disney Cruise, Swinson told investigators, so he made a split-second decision that landed him in jail.
The Netflix competition heats up, for the 55+ demographic.
