For Becky Sims of Old Lynchburg Road, the biggest problem on her block is “feeling safe. It’s the traffic. Obviously, the police can’t keep up with the speeding, and the traffic violations. We have huge speeding issues,” she says. Old Lynchburg Road at the JPA intersection. Sims is one among many of the road’s residents […]
As during a full moon, strange things happen when Phish comes to town. Glow sticks burst forth from hidden sources. Clumps of hair mysteriously clump into dreadlocks. On Friday night, I met a man who came to a party wearing a kooky hat. Nobody knew him. He carried with him a case of Mexican beer. […]
Even as freezing rains tear autumn’s last leaves from branches, things in the city and county seem to be getting greener. Local greenies are jazzed about a $500,000 grant that’s bankrolling the Local Energy Alliance Program, an initiative that will offer loans to one out of every two homeowners to pay for efficiency upgrades—and will […]
ALLYSON MELLBERG and JEREMY TAYLOR Artists and advocates of nontoxic art materials If it’s not enough that Allyson Mellberg and Jeremy Taylor’s art focuses on the dysfunctional relationship between people and nature, consider what else they’re doing. According to Mellberg, most books about visual art focus on the kinds of toxic materials that artists should […]
About the last thing that comes to mind when you think of yoga is the image of 30 prisoners at the county jail sitting in the lotus position. Kate Hallahan is not trying to change the image of yoga, per se. She is trying to change one aspect of it: availability. “I have a belief […]
The “perfect” apology, if there is such a thing, can be whittled into three pieces, each of which is well illustrated in a letter that Emily Post dreamt up for 1922’s Etiquette. READ MORE Regrets only 10 things (of dozens) that deserve an apology Dear Mrs. Neighbor, My gardener has just told me that our […]
1 Moderators for the conservative blog Free Republic allowed readers to post a slew of horrific comments on their website directed at a picture of Malia Obama. Obama was pictured in Italy, wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on it. One comment mused that the 11-year-old looked like “ghetto street trash,” where someone else […]
With 20 murders in a population of 750,000, El Paso, Texas was one of the safest cities in America in 2008. Across the border lies Juarez, a city roughly twice the size of El Paso, which in the same period saw 1,600 of its citizens murdered. This is just one among many statistics that begs […]
If mistakes were made, why not apologize?
The Old Carolina Road remains much the same as when it was a popular thoroughfare for Algonquins, Iroquois and colonists traders, who traveled to posts on the North Carolina border. “If Lee or Stonewall Jackson came back to life, they wouldn’t say, ‘Where are we?’” says Bob Coyner. “They’d say, ‘What am I doing in […]