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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Daily Harold’
March 4, 2010
No grade inflation at UNC
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 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 [...]
January 29, 2010
Ye Olde Waffle Shop
By Harold
Eating breakfast at home is a pretty easy way to save money. It’s relatively easy to make, the ingredients are cheap and it actually requires less effort than to fully wake up, get in the car and drive somewhere.
So that helps explain why Laura and I hadn’t made it to the popular Chapel Hill [...]
January 24, 2010
A new downtown Carrboro
By Harold
Like the yolk inside an egg, the town of Carrboro is surrounded entirely by Chapel Hill, but still maintains its own character.
I heard Carrboro mayor Mark Chilton speak on Friday, and one example of the difference between the towns that he gave was that he has very similar (liberal) views as new Chapel Hill [...]
January 18, 2010
A tribute to cover bands
By Harold
The Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro is famous for hosting up-and-coming rock bands, like Pearl Jam and Nirvana before they were famous. But for whatever reason, it’s also becoming a place for cover bands this month — first Who’s Bad (Michael Jackson), then the Last Waltz Ensemble (The Band/Bob Dylan), and then Cosmic Charlie (Grateful [...]
December 19, 2009
Winter in Raleigh
By Harold
While we’re enjoying our first North Carolina snow storm (estimated accumulation: less than one inch; number of schools that closed early: every one within 200 miles), what better time to recap our trip earlier this week to Raleigh Winterfest, a skating rink next to the state capital building.
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