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Jul 9, 2021
Shibumi Shades were invented and made here in North Carolina, and they're all over our beaches this summer. Why?
Jul 2, 2021
Biscuits! Fire ants at Pinehurst! VENOM-SPITTING COBRAS! Ease into July 4th with a few bits of North Carolina miscellany.
Jun 25, 2021
Why doesn't North Carolina have more cattle? And why can't every new neighborhood here be flourishing with parks, bike paths, schools, and more? Maybe *you* know?
Jun 17, 2021
The Big Rock Fishing Tournament is underway out at the coast, and MJ is in it, and everybody is trying to see him in the wild.
Jun 11, 2021
It was started here. It grew here. North Carolina still tries to claim it as its own. But as the doughnut company prepares to go public (again), is it REALLY ours?
Jun 3, 2021
Also: A Facebook Marketplace deal made via plane, a strange North Carolina-related story about big money behind a small deli, and a tribute to Rick Bonnell.
May 27, 2021
Is there a nuclear bomb in the ground near Goldsboro? Why do Ocracokers talk like that? Gastonia: What is it? Here is the status of some old mysteries in a modern, Google-able era.
May 21, 2021
Last week, I asked you all to come up with some distinctly North Carolina incentives to encourage more people to get their COVID shots. Here are your replies.
May 19, 2021
A decade after Charlotte's first social media controversy erupted over a restaurant, The Penguin is coming back. Sort of. I talked to the old owner about what that means for him. And for me.
