By Harold
This wouldn’t be a Triangle-based web site without a discussion of the ACC tournament, which starts Thursday.
This is always the most difficult week of the year as a Duke fan. On the one hand, you want them to win every game, especially against the bigger rivals. On the other hand, you don’t really remember [...]
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March 10, 2010
Tournament time
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 that Canada [...]
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.
LAB! is UNC’s oldest and most active student theater group, and most importantly it puts on shows free of [...]
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 about 20 [...]
February 25, 2010
Comedy and Jazz at UNC
By Harold
There’s two big festivals coming to UNC this weekend — the Carolina Jazz Festival and the Comedy Fest.
The jazz festival features famous (i.e. I’ve heard of him) trumpeter Terence Blanchard (left), Jason Marsalis (the youngest of the Marsalis brothers, which include former Tonight Show bandleader Branford and 1998 BCC graduation speaker Wynton), and saxophonist [...]
February 23, 2010
A discussion on free speech
By Harold
Thursday night was the perfect time for Laura and I to go our separate ways. Laura went to see the educational documentary The Prep School Negro, while I saw Larry Flynt, who was brought to the UNC campus by the law school’s First Amendment Law Review.
Free speech is something a lot of people struggle with. As [...]
February 22, 2010
Finally, a dog park I can recommend
By Noodle
There are many things about North Carolina that I like more than New York City. For instance, grass. Also, the apartments are bigger, so there are more places to hide the things I steal from my owners.
But one big issue I’m having is the other dogs. In New York they’re mainly toy breeds and I’m [...]
February 16, 2010
Lace them up
By Harold
I think I saw the sun for 10 seconds yesterday, which means spring is eventually coming. So now is a good time to recommend Rainbow Soccer in Chapel Hill, which starts its spring season on March 1. It costs $80 to register and the season lasts 12 weeks.
Rainbow teams scrimmage twice a week, with games [...]
February 11, 2010
The Duke-UNC rivalry
By Harold
An interesting article came out the other day about how fewer than 20 percent of Duke and UNC fans actually hate their rival. Even Ol’ Roy and Coach K are liked more than hated by opposing fans.
This shows something I’ve written before. The best thing about the Duke-UNC rivalry is really the proximity of [...]
February 3, 2010
BBQ sandwich or better environment?
By Harold
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about in our day-to-day lives, Laura and I went to hear James Hansen’s lecture on global climate change Monday night.
Hansen is like the first version of Al Gore — he gave Congressional testimony in the 1980s and created one of the first models of climate change [...]
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