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Birthdays this week: Dec. 5-11
These celebrities have birthdays this week. Dec. 5 Author Calvin Trillin is 89. Opera singer Jose Carreras is 78. Musician Jim Messina is 77. Golf Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins is 75. Football Hall of […]
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Mountaire Farms celebrates 30 years of “Thanksgiving for Thousands”
Siler City, N.C.— On an exceptionally frigid Saturday morning, hundreds gathered in the employee parking lot at Mountaire Farms in Siler City. An assembly line of volunteers of all ages, city officials, law enforcement and […]
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Purple Marble Circus to present ‘Silent Fright Circus Show’ in Durham
Purple Marble Circus puts on two to three shows annually featuring an array of circus and sideshow acts that includes burlesque, pole and chair dancing, drag, belly dancing, acrobatics, trapeze, juggling, contortion and more. The […]
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Book Review: Cook sets latest thriller in iconic Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital
The building on New York’s East Side that used to house Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital has inspired tales of horror from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and served as the model for Arkham Asylum in fictional […]
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Chris Myers looks back on his career in ‘That Deserves a Wow’
There are few sports journalists working today with a resume as broad as Chris Myers. From a decade doing everything for ESPN (“SportsCenter,” play-by-play and succeeding Roy Firestone as host of the interview show “Up […]
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The Stream: Michael Fassbender spies, yacht rock doc, Ben Stiller, the Beatles and Lindsay Lohan
The Oscar-nominated animated charmer “Robot Dreams” and Lindsay Lohan starring in the Christmas romantic comedy “Our Little Secret” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also, […]
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This week in history: Nov. 28 to Dec. 4
Nov. 28 1925: The Grand Ole Opry debuted on radio station WSM in Nashville. 1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean. 1942: Fire engulfed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people […]
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Birthdays this week: Nov. 28 to Dec. 4
These celebrities have birthdays this week. Nov. 28 Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is 95. Singer Randy Newman is 81. Musician Paul Shaffer (“Late Show With David Letterman”) is 75. Actor Ed Harris is […]
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The Word: A Thanksgiving Proclamation
“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.” More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims, after a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a special day upon which […]
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Book Review: Richard Price returns with another portrait of urban America, ‘Lazarus Man’
Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hard to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” “Lush Life,” and […]