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 [...]
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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), [...]
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 [...]
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