by Larry Greenfield | Sep 24, 2009 | Opinion
My younger daughter, Jessica, was watching TV in the family room of our third-floor apartment more than 30 years ago. At one point she yelled, “Daddy, Daddy, Mrs. Brown is on the show.” I looked carefully at the female characters on the TV, some white and...
by Mike Parnell | Sep 24, 2009 | Opinion
The apocalypse is the flavor of the month in the movies coming out in the next few months. No less than five will feature the end of the world as a backdrop of their stories. “9” is the only one that uses animation to tell its story. And it is very...
by Sam Davidson | Sep 24, 2009 | Opinion
I didn’t blog for a week. This isn’t something new. Usually when it happens, it’s because I’m lazy. This time, it was strategic. Of course, I didn’t know Matt Chevy was going to call me a Gen Y Rock Star. That meant a lot of people came...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 23, 2009 | Opinion
Starting October 1, putting plastic bottles in a landfill will be verboten in North Carolina.It’s about time. Earlier laws banned aluminum cans, tires, and large appliances. Now bottles join the forbidden list. An article in the News & Observer says the...
by Robert Parham | Sep 23, 2009 | Opinion
Jesus spoke in tweets before tweets became cool, if by tweets one means short messages. Think about his most memorable messages: Jesus’ moral imperative translates into only 34 characters: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” His Golden...
by Trey Lyon | Sep 23, 2009 | Opinion
After four days and 509 pages, I finally finished Dan Brown’s latest novel, “The Last Symbol,” over the weekend. Without going into too much detail or critical review, suffice it to say that the formula that made “The Da Vinci...
