Greetings from Carrboro, It was just too tempting; I had to find out. So, following the instructions exactly, I sent my unadulterated spit off in a little, plastic vial. God knows where it went. Regardless, the results are in. Drumrollllll, please. It seems that I’m 52% Irish, 28% Western European, 15% Scandanavian(!), and 5% other. […]
Mardi Gras – tonight thru Tuesday
Greetings from Carrboro, We worry about certain traditions. As our world hurtles forward, there’s an inevitable amount of hand-wringing over cultural upheaval. We’ve all seen those stories on TV; “once a crucial part of life here, this woman may be the last person on earth who still remembers how to make fishing nets out […]
Italian Wine Dinner 2/27
Greetings from Carrboro, Charlotte only had one Italian restaurant. OK, there was a pizza place on South Boulevard but that was primarily for kid birthdays and end-of-season sports parties. But the Italian restaurant was fancy. It was next to Ovens Auditorium and all the waiters wore red vests and black bow ties. And whatever you ordered […]
WATER = OPEN!
Greetings from Carrboro, Hallelujah! The gods of water have opened their generous taps for the myriad faithful of Carrboro. And, believe it or not, that includes all of us at Acme. Accordingly, we will be open tonight starting at 5:30. Needless to say, we are thrilled to have the chance to do what we love. Again. So, join […]
Alternative Valentine’s Day
Greetings from Carrboro, So what if it’s on my iPhone. Completely could be hacked. You must admit that under some honest scrutiny, this “idea” that Valentine’s Day is truly on the 14th starts to fall apart like a bad perm on a rainy day. For one, it’s not called “February 14th day.” And wouldn’t you call it that if […]
Game of Thrones Dinner 2/1
Greetings from Carrboro, Good thing the Starks didn’t choose to make Orange County home. Somehow Carrboro’s a town more suited to an optimistic familial mantra of ‘coexist’ than to something quite as bleak as ‘winter is coming.’ And then there’s the eternal problem of where exactly do you put a bloody broadsword in a Prius? […]
Mama, I made it.
Greetings from Carrboro, The earliest photographs of me are sincerely prophetic. In them, I more closely resemble a rather jolly bag of potatoes packed into a woefully undersized romper than an actual child. If that didn’t speak to the seriousness of baby-me’s appetite for pleasure, my seven chins certainly did the trick. It makes […]
We’re open all weekend!
Greetings from Carrboro, Snow, shmow. Whether a lot or a little, Acme will be open. All weekend long. Even if you share with us that decidedly southern genetic defect to purchase large quantities of sliced bread and gallons of milk at the mere mention of icy precipitation, you shouldn’t really want to eat any of it. Because, […]
New Year’s at Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, It couldn’t hurt. Really. The way I see it, anything that purports to provide a yearlong spate of health, luck, and wealth is worth a shot. You with me? And it’s not like you have to eat a bowl of fire ants or light your hair on fire to be the beneficiary […]
Acme Feast of the Ribs
Greetings from Carrboro, Gold. Franckincense. Myrrh. Ribs. That was the original lineup as described in the Dead Sea scrolls. I swear. You can look it up. The ancient story goes that along their epic route, the wise men got wise. And sort of had an epiphany on the way to Epiphany. Basically, they ate the ribs. Every […]
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