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The Ice Has It More than just frozen water By Tony Cross Years ago, when I was thumbing through my first bartending book, I came to a short passage about ice. It was only a page long, quick and [...]

Photographer: Sarah Bell Photography Wedding Planner: Vision Events Wedding & Event Planning The whole world celebrated as Katie and Harrison tied the knot on a balmy New Year’s Eve. But for [...]

Kid Up a Tree Because of a father who loved the Old North State By Jim Dodson Half a century ago, my dad was on a creative team from a High Point–based ad agency that produced perhaps the state [...]

The Truck Guy And Marlena’s two cents By Renee Phile She dragged the mop over the sticky floor while I stood behind the register in my Chick-fil-A uniform — chicken breading smeared on my black [...]

FICTION No Exit, by Taylor Adams After reading this you might think twice before turning in to a rest stop ever again. No Exit is a heart-stopping, adrenaline rush of a thriller that builds [...]

Give Me That Old-Time Music The comfort of familiar hymns By Clyde Edgerton After New Year’s Eve is a good time to think over the past year — or maybe the past 75, especially if something pops up [...]

Black Drink Carolina Tea — the only caffeine native to the U.S. By Jan Leitschuh What better way to take the winter chill off than a nice cup of tea, and a dollop of history? Say, an energizing [...]

Pa and the Fish Reaching back to the 19th century By Bill Fields I love to ask people what year my maternal grandfather was born. It is a straightforward question, but no one has ever come within [...]

Facing Fate When the law of averages strikes By Stephen E. Smith Your risk for developing pancreatic cancer is about 1 in 65. The odds of your dying in a car crash are 1 in 100. If you’re about [...]

In Search of the Mighty Salamander The Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve will seek out the salamanders of the Sandhills on Sunday, Jan. 6, at 3 p.m. Free and open to land dwellers and [...]