Q. I have a home remedy that is amazing. I used to have severe psoriasis on my knees, elbows, eyes, forehead, wrists, feet and scalp. It would crack and bleed, itch and flake.
They were mostly UNC fans, but I really enjoyed speaking to and answering questions from the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club last week. My topic was Duke football and basketball history, which is a subject I teach, write and speak about quite often. I talked about some of the great Duke basketball teams before Coach K came to Duke, such as the teams of coaches like Eddie Cameron and Vic Bubas, and we also talked about how football used to be the big sport on the Duke campus, not basketball.
Wanting pork to be as lean as chicken (“the other white meat”) may have led to drug-enhanced leaner pork; here’s the round-about way I learned about this.
For some reason, Petey doesn’t want me to sing “Happy Birthday” to him on his birthday. He does, however want me to cook for him.
It was tough when Caitlin Liles first had to sell a lamb that she had raised.
Mercury Studio opened last year downtown as a co-working, meeting and events space. Now the organizers of Mercury are accepting applications for creative or community-minded projects. Visitors who come to Mercury Studio Jan. 22 will get to see several project presentations and vote on them. The presenter whose project is chosen will take home all the money from the $5 entry fee.
Eliot Conte is a complex and troubled man. A private investigator by trade, he also is a former adjunct professor and could-have-been Herman Melville scholar, and an aficionado of the great Italian operas. Conte also is divorced, estranged from his ex-wife and his two daughters, whom he left 20 years previously, and from his father, Silvio Conte, a powerbroker and kingmaker in northern New York politics.
Since the American Revolution and before, when North Carolina was a British colony, the state’s governors had their own old boys’ network and their wives were the first ladies. That changed when Beverly Perdue (2009-2013) was elected to office. She broke the glass ceiling and became the state’s 68th governor and the 28th one to live in the Governor’s Mansion. Experts on protocol had to rename the category of the governor’s spouse and so her husband, Robert Eaves Jr., became the first gentleman, and from now on, the spouse of the sitting governor will be referred to as first spouse.
In 2010, N.C. State University’s Emerging Issues Forum discussed the importance of creativity to the modern economy. Everyone from politicians to artists extolled the virtues of innovating by thinking outside of the usual norms – also called “the box.”
Inspirations for the dance scene this spring come from the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s seminal work “The Rite of Spring,” the percussive dance called tap, and the ever-evolving modern dance.
We live in North Cackalacky. Why’s it called that? There is no consensus, but UNC has been on the case for years. Theories vary as to the origin, but there’s no question we know Cackalacky – and Cackalack – refers to this state. (No need to mention South Cackalacky.)