Greetings from Carrboro, My parents somehow got a cat. And a dozen downed trees in their front yard. That was Hurricane Hugo. And three days after Katrina, Acme got a talented sous chef (and family) for a month or so after their home and livelihood in New Orleans was destroyed overnight. They packed everything they […]
buh-bye baggy chile pepper pants
Greetings from Carrboro, The baggy chile pepper pants are gone. Along with the equally fashionable pasta pants. Thankfully. And I haven’t seen someone wearing kitchen clogs in a hot minute, though Crocs continue to make regular appearances. The tall poofy toques – à la Chef Boyardee – never were a thing in any restaurant where […]
At The Lumina, It’s Always a Good Day for a Movie
Here’s the deal. The Lumina is now part of the Acme community of businesses. Along with Atlas, our cocktail bar, The Lumina highlights our belief that great towns deserve great, local places to gather and to celebrate and to be entertained. Places that are as unique and wonderful as the community that they serve. We want The […]
Did somebody say oysters?
You either do or you don’t. There really isn’t a middle ground. Anyone professing a waffling appreciation of raw oysters has obviously decided that their instinctual “away from me, Satan” aversion doesn’t align with how they’re supposed to respond to something that has such a rapturous fanclub. And I get it; I certainly fell into […]
Almost Friday $15. And three is definitely not a crowd
My father drove Fords. Always. Though I’m pretty sure that he would have been happy to drive most anything. But the fact was that he couldn’t walk and needed a wheelchair. And the larger Ford two-door sedans allowed him just enough room to pull his folded chair into the car by himself once he’d slid […]
It’s that time of year.
Going up on Sunday will be the easy part. It’s the return trip on Monday that I’m not looking forward to. At all. Driving alone for 13 hours is not my idea of a good time; I’d either be a woefully depressed or frightfully expensive long-haul truck driver. But taking my youngest back to college […]
Martha’s Chile Rellenos are BACK
People do crazy things. Period. And often for apparently no clear-eyed reason. Swimming the English Channel. Free climbing El Capitan. Running a 135 mile road race through Death Valley. There is no question that in each of the above tableaus I can easily forecast my death to be both rather quick and equally brutal. Eaten, […]
Crab Cakes This Weekend! Plus Every Entrée, Every Thursday, is $15
Saccharine as it may be, I get the sentiment. Life provides unwanted lemons and then, voila!, you make lemonade and everybody’s happy. Simple. But from where I stand, lemons are hardly ever unwanted. And there are numerous better uses for them than just assembling a nostalgic, over-rated beverage. Though, I somehow imagine, putting “when life gives you […]
Bodacious Biscuit Pop-up Party THIS SUNDAY
Don’t get me wrong; Sundays are fine. Fine. As days go, they certainly are one of them. But you gotta admit that Sundays seem to have lost their mojo the past couple of years. Remember Sunday funday? It fell off a cliff about the same time those kids did while enmeshed in Pokemon GO. And seriously […]
Thursdays Just Got an Upgrade
For some reason I want to blame Ben Franklin. Or my 3rd grade teacher. Either way, somebody has to be the fall guy. All those pithy one-liners that have been trotted out as time-honored wisdom by ‘capital-A’ Adults since forever are the chicken pox of Americana. “A watched pot never boils” is just not true. And the […]
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