Dr. Fulton T. Crews – director of the University of North Carolina Bowles Center     for Alcohol Studies – has shown, through experimentation on rats, that binge drinking not only makes you dumber, but does so for the long haul. Damn it.

Duke has a bunch of monkeys that can control robotic arms with their brains. I propose we steal them, train them to clap their mechanical arms when people around them clap, and then take them to the Dean Dome for the next Duke-UNC basketball game – thereby turning the countless dollars and hours of research Duke has poured into this project into

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Seeing as hip-hop has been sadly underrepresented in my recent posts on the local music scene, I thought I’d rectify that. Here are two and a half really good local rap acts.

Little Brother is from Durham and is kind of a big deal, even in national circles. (You can get their most recent mixtape in its entirety here).

Language Arts is from Dur

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The place on Franklin Street with the sign that says “Chinese Restaurant” – next door to the place called “Italian Pizzeria III” – has closed. Their food, though, will still be available at Asia Cafe, according to the informative note left on the door (see below).

At least a smiley face is the same in every language.

Wake Forest won the NCAA championship in soccer today. If you caught the game, you noticed the fans in Cary cheering WAKE – FOR’ST (like we do TAR – HEELS). Imitation is, of course, the highest form of flattery. But I don’t know how I feel about them stealing our mojo (the chant obviously leads to victory – even when South Carolina does it) or a

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No, the trumpet player is not Zach Galifianakis.
It's time for your daily / bi-daily local music update.

I talked to Casey Trela, the frontman and principle songwriter for Sweater Weather (in my opinion, the best band in Chapel Hll), recently. One thing we talked about was his philosophy of performance, which, as mentioned on the band’s websit

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