All Known Rabbit Holes, In Descending Order

Browse all of the newsletters, stories, podcasts, and otherwise that we’ve published here, from newest to oldest.

Three Hole Punch: When School and Summer Collide

Solar Power

Aug 22, 2023

Three Hole Punch: When School and Summer Collide

Three stories about solar power, back-to-school drama, and a mistake that cuts people deep.

Jeremy Markovich

Three Hole Punch: Summer Road Trips for Snakes, Bulls, and Wieners

Travel

Aug 15, 2023

Three Hole Punch: Summer Road Trips for Snakes, Bulls, and Wieners

This week: Weekend getaways and vacation plans involving a dead fast-food restaurant chain, a seafood-loving snake, and a freedom-loving cow.

Jeremy Markovich

A Guide to "The Fugitive's" North Carolina

Whitewater Rafting

Aug 10, 2023

A Guide to "The Fugitive's" North Carolina

Thirty years ago, Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones starred in a big time action movie. The film's props and locations are still out there in the mountains to this day, but for how much longer?

Jeremy Markovich

The only motel in the state with a swimming pool inside a damn bubble

Plastics

Aug 8, 2023

The only motel in the state with a swimming pool inside a damn bubble

North Carolina once had... this! So what happened to this place? And did the bubble actually work?

Jeremy Markovich

Charlotte

Aug 4, 2023

Charlotte's tearing down a 91-year-old building with, uh, quite a history

One of the city's oldest buildings is being demolished, and its full story hasn't been told until now. So, was it historic? Or was it just old?

Jeremy Markovich

White Supremacists

Aug 1, 2023

3 Hole Punch: Cooter reacts to last week's newsletter

The former Dukes of Hazzard star turned Democratic congressman was one of several people who wrote in about my story about North Carolina's white supremacist statues in the U.S. Capitol.

Jeremy Markovich

White Supremacists

Jul 27, 2023

Why's it taking so long to get rid of North Carolina's white supremacist statues at the U.S. Capitol?

Statues of Zebulon Vance and Charles Aycock have represented this state in Washington, D.C. for about a century. One of them was set to be replaced, but eight years later, it's still there.

Jeremy Markovich

News

Jul 20, 2023

The Ballad of the Wiener King

Once upon a time, a hot dog joint based in Charlotte was the fastest-growing fast food chain in America. Then it vanished. Today, there's one Wiener King left in America, and it's barely hanging on.

Jeremy Markovich

Three Hole Punch: I went chasin' waterfalls

State Parks

Jul 18, 2023

Three Hole Punch: I went chasin' waterfalls

Here are three waterfalls in North Carolina that, according to me, are pretty great.

Jeremy Markovich

All Known Rabbit Holes, In Descending Order

Three Hole Punch: When School and Summer Collide

Three Hole Punch: Summer Road Trips for Snakes, Bulls, and Wieners

A Guide to "The Fugitive's" North Carolina

The only motel in the state with a swimming pool inside a damn bubble

Charlotte's tearing down a 91-year-old building with, uh, quite a history

3 Hole Punch: Cooter reacts to last week's newsletter

Why's it taking so long to get rid of North Carolina's white supremacist statues at the U.S. Capitol?

The Ballad of the Wiener King

Three Hole Punch: I went chasin' waterfalls

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