by Laura Tomorrow I depart for Vegas to celebrate the 30th birthdays of a few friends and sit by the pool doing a whole lot of nothing. Here’s how I hope to do Sin City research assistant style: Southwest is the only carrier that goes nonstop to Vegas from RDU. If you can snag advance [...]
Entries from March 2010
March 5, 2010
Making New Friends 101
by Laura One of Harold’s old co-workers also recently moved to a new state, and recommended joining Meetup groups to get to know other couples. We’ve long desired to cultivate some sort of hobby we can then crush other couples at, but there are a few issues with that scenario. Mainly, there’s nothing that we’re [...]
March 4, 2010
No grade inflation at UNC
By Harold My friend Zachary Pincus-Roth has written articles about how the list of top-grossing movies never takes inflation into account, so journalists can fall over themselves saying Twilight had the best opening weekend ever while Gone With the Wind actually sold twice as many tickets. The same thing is happening with all these reports [...]
March 3, 2010
The Daily Triangle Fan Club
by Laura Whenever we get a comment on the musings of The Daily Triangle, it usually falls into one of three categories: Relative obligated to check out our blog, demanding more Noodle commentary Friend we specifically mentioned in a post in hopes of gaining yet another loyal reader Someone in Saudi Arabia hawking both back [...]
March 2, 2010
Free theater (or theatre)
By Harold In my never-ending search for free entertainment, I’ve come across another good option — LAB! Theatre. As you can tell from the use of punctuation, capitalization and British English in the title, it’s very cutting edge.
March 1, 2010
Class with Black
By Harold As one of the most famous residents of Chapel Hill and a UNC alum, Lewis Black comes to campus every year as part of the Carolina Comedy Festival. This year I saw him in three different settings – a question-and-answer session with about 75 people on Friday, a workshop on comedy writing with [...]
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