Month: December 2007

  • Dean Dome collapses from “jersey fatigue”

    CHAPEL HILL — The roof of the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center collapsed last night causing major damage to the facility where the University of North Carolina plays its…

  • Claus arrested in “Baby Jesus plot”

    CHAPEL HILL — On Wednesday, following the culmination of a months-long racketeering investigation, agents from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation arrested Santa “Knicky” Claus on a charge of…

  • Honky’s: “Just like eating at home”

    AMONG THE PLETHORA OF ETHNIC RESTAURANTS in the greater Chapel Hill/ Carrboro area, one would be hard pressed to find even a sliver of space that hasn’t long ago been…

  • Meet Time’s 2006 Person of the Year: Me!

    (Special to GaryGaddy.com, a column not heretofore published, but now, with newly lowered standards, available for public perusal, in a not-so-subtle bid to get Time to repeat me as Man…

  • Revisiting the presidential candidates

    SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, resting comfortably in my Orange County estate, I did a survey of the leading as well as lagging candidates for president of the United States. After some…