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Nov 15, 2021
Cam Newton once had a shot to be featured on the front of the biggest NFL video game. But the first Panther to get the honor never actually made the regular season roster.
Nov 11, 2021
Pawpaws grow wild in the woods all over the eastern United States. I decided that I had to eat them. Grow them. Share them. There was just one problem: I'd forgotten what they taste like.
Nov 8, 2021
In this edition of Tiny Rabbit Holes: Another town's getting in on this fake river business. Also, an election where nobody ran and nobody voted, a glistening Kenny Chesney, and an elk-a-vator.
Nov 4, 2021
James Tate Hill grew up with '80s movies like Risky Business and One Crazy Summer. Decades later, he got the most memorable actor from those films to provide the voice for his memoir. How?
Nov 1, 2021
A roundup of the random in North Carolina, including the Cook Out state flag, a very specific Hornets fit, and Wright Brothers beef.
Oct 27, 2021
The world's largest ten commandments! A cryptocurrency mine! Murders! Many murders! The last town before you hit Tennessee has, um, a lot going on.
Oct 21, 2021
Betty Lynn, who died this weekend, played an Andy Griffith Show character named Thelma Lou. Then she moved to the town the show is based on, where the line between fiction and reality gets blurry.
Oct 15, 2021
A famous prop from a famous sketch was auctioned off in Roanoke Rapids. Or, maybe not. Which version of the story is real? And which one's more likely to be legendary?
Oct 7, 2021
Earlier this week, the world's largest social network didn't work. So how *does* it work exactly? I got a peek inside Facebook's North Carolina nerve center years ago, and found out what's changed.
