February 2026 Archives

Spring into events for all at Dix Park

February 26, 2026 Elizabeth Lincicome

RALEIGH — As spring kicks into full swing, Raleigh’s newly revamped Dorothea Dix Park will be a popular destination for locals and tourists alike. The 308-acre site underwent a massive renovation last year that ranged […]

Hall wants to focus on affordability in second year as speaker

February 26, 2026 A.P. Dillon

This is Part 2 of a two-part interview. Read Part 1. RALEIGH —North Carolina Rep. Destin Hall (R-Granite Falls) has plenty on his plate heading into his second year as speaker of the North Carolina […]

HILL: The competitive advantage of nations

February 26, 2026 Frank Hill

Watching news coverage of the Winter Olympics made it impossible to not know that “little” Norway absolutely crushed it by winning 18 gold medals and 41 total. By comparison, the USA garnered 33 total medals […]

Trump’s State of the Union: US is ‘winning so much’

February 25, 2026 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an economic boom at home and imposed a new world […]

Christian Siriano invites New York Fashion Week guests into surrealist dream

February 23, 2026 Beatrice Dupuy

NEW YORK — Christian Siriano barely had 48 hours to design his finale gown for his New York Fashion Week show. The iridescent green liquid fabric Siriano had ordered from Italy was stuck in customs […]

Music Review: A post-‘Brat’ Charli xcx broods on the ‘Wuthering Heights’ soundtrack

February 23, 2026 Maria Sherman

Charli xcx’s soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” is a brooding collection approximating some image of gothic romanticism. Its enjoyable if not revelatory 12 tracks are a collaboration with songwriters and […]