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Matinee Idyll A screen shot from the good ol’ days By Deborah Salomon I miss the movies. Not art films, or chick flicks, or computer-generated blockbusters. Certainly not superheroes or chatty [...]

Of Palettes and Perps From landscapes to wanted posters By Jenna Biter Walk up a narrow flight of stairs and hang a left into the corner studio above Eye Candy Gallery & Framing in downtown [...]

In the Beginning A grande dame, an old beech and other memory-keepers on the path to this gardener’s genesis By Jim Dodson Fifteen years ago, a grande dame of English gardening named Mirabel [...]

Three options at one address By Deborah Salomon   •   Photography by John Gessner Houses can be 3-D textbooks chronicling history or sociology. The first cottages built by the Tufts family were [...]

We arranged to meet inside the Welcome Center on the north side of the train station in Southern Pines. “I’ll be the guy with the red scarf,” I said. “I’ll be the guy with the camera,” Joseph [...]

Story Time Classic voices and classic memories By Lee Pace I was merely a babe in the pines in 1990 when the powers that be at Pinehurst Inc. put their historic life in my hands. Why anyone would [...]

Hardy Hummers Rufous hummingbirds are midwinter guests By Susan Campbell It may sound odd, but this is a good time to talk about hummingbirds. I have been fielding reports of these tiny, winged [...]

How I Learned to Skate By Nancy Roy Fiorillo One night not too long ago, I dreamed I was roller skating. The rink was big, and I was all alone except for my dad. He was standing at the railing. I [...]

Year of the Fox The subtle magic of a different kind of circus By Ashley Wahl My sweetheart and I share a birthday in February. Last year, same as the year before, we took each other to the [...]

Feeling a Bit Eel A deep dive into mystery By Stephen E. Smith When asked why women found him irresistible, heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson responded in the first-person plural: “We eat [...]