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.

Nov 11, 2021

I became obsessed with North Carolina's largest native fruit. Then I ate one.

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.

Jeremy Markovich

Nov 8, 2021

The Great Greensboro River and the Amazing Empty Election

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.

Jeremy Markovich

Nov 4, 2021

An oral history of how an author from Greensboro got "Booger" from Revenge of the Nerds to narrate his audio book

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?

Jeremy Markovich

Nov 1, 2021

Tiny Rabbit Holes: Biscuits and, I'm sorry, what now

A roundup of the random in North Carolina, including the Cook Out state flag, a very specific Hornets fit, and Wright Brothers beef.

Jeremy Markovich

Oct 27, 2021

Meet Murphy: North Carolina's westernmost and most metal city

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.

Jeremy Markovich

Oct 21, 2021

The woman who moved from Mayberry to Mount Airy

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.

Jeremy Markovich

Oct 15, 2021

So did Will Ferrell's SNL cowbell end up in North Carolina or not?

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?

Jeremy Markovich

Oct 7, 2021

What it's like inside a Facebook data center

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.

Jeremy Markovich

Sep 30, 2021

Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him

One of the world's most recognizable men walked into a beer joint and nobody recognized him. Here is how that happened, according to the people who were there and the owner who's mad that he wasn't.

Jeremy Markovich

All Known Rabbit Holes, In Descending Order

I became obsessed with North Carolina's largest native fruit. Then I ate one.

The Great Greensboro River and the Amazing Empty Election

An oral history of how an author from Greensboro got "Booger" from Revenge of the Nerds to narrate his audio book

Tiny Rabbit Holes: Biscuits and, I'm sorry, what now

Meet Murphy: North Carolina's westernmost and most metal city

The woman who moved from Mayberry to Mount Airy

So did Will Ferrell's SNL cowbell end up in North Carolina or not?

What it's like inside a Facebook data center

Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him

North Carolina Rabbit Hole