So far, more than a million people from North Carolina have voted early in this year’s election. Only one of those people cast a ballot from Antarctica. I had questions. Like: Who is this voter? Is it ...

I didn’t choose this Wiener King tweet. This Wiener King tweet chose me. This particular request was aimed at nobody in particular, but it floated into my feed this morning. I felt obligated to answer ...

That request—find me the audio of someone reading the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools lunch menu from the late 1990s—seemed like a bit of a tall order. After all, we’re talking about an era of answering ...

Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country.

Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country.

A Chinese restaurant next to the Food Lion in the Raleigh Oaks shopping center (Photo by James Willamor) Here’s a fun game that you can play right now. Go to Google Maps. Look up any Food Lion in ...

This shot has it all. A car on fire. A yard sale of vehicles. A woman nonchalantly making a phone call, as if she ordered the hit. If you want to make the point that Southerners can’t drive in the ...

For months, the company said nothing. At all. Hence, to fill the vacuum, plenty of people wrote their own obituaries for Neese’s. They reminisced about their favorite recipes, many of which called for ...

Folks, it’s time for some Cary discourse. Well technically, it doesn’t matter what you call it. In North Carolina, a municipality can refer to itself however it wants. Siler City, officially, is “The ...

A reader asked what was up with an old sign on a two-lane road up in the mountains. It may be the last of its kind! Unless you can prove me wrong. But! Lindsey Sullivan, who actually lives in Meat ...