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Some like it hot
I moved to Louisiana in August 1988 from the coastal, watercolor world of Long Island, where cross breezes from the Atlantic and the Long Island Sound swept the summer heat into a bearable scirocco that smelled, always, faintly of the sea.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
08-02-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: new orleans
The Dos and Don'ts of the Chinese Buffet
The Chinese buffet — all buffets, in fact — is a value proposition, costing a bit more than a regular lunch but if you do it right, you can get your money’s worth and then some.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
06-19-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Chinese Buffet
The Silver Ball
The AC/DC Limited Edition Let There Be Rock pinball table has two side ramps that trigger specials and jackpots.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
06-14-2012 |
Recreation
Tags: ac/dc pinball table
Art vs. History in Washington DCnew
We found Abner Doubleday in his final resting place, on the west side of Arlington National Cemetery beneath a grand marble obelisk amid more humble tombstones and slabs.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
04-26-2012 |
Commentary
Crashing Myrtle Beachnew
They call it Pirate Land, in Myrtle Beach, SC, a place predicated on family fun, seaside mirth and the pleasures of the outdoors: swimming pools, paddle boats, golf carts, all of it.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
04-20-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: myrtle beach
In the strip club with Vince Neilnew
By the time I get to the strip club, Vince Neil is already there, plushed out in the VIP section. He’s tucked into a banquette against the wall, surrounded by the kind of women guys like Vince Neil seem always to be surrounded by: leggy, buxom, mostly naked.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
04-05-2012 |
Commentary
Spanish Lessons in Downtown Winston-Salemnew
I took classroom Spanish for like six years, and I still suck at it.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-26-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: latin food winston-salem
What a Rushnew
Is it too late to pile on Rush Limbaugh, America’s most reviled and celebrated talk-radio host?
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-26-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Rush Limbaugh
Diggy makes Unexpected Arrival in Greensboro
I can hear the screams — high-pitched, sustained, the kind that pierce right through the eardrums and go straight to the brain — from outside the gymnasium of Kiser Middle School, and the kid’s not even inside the building yet.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-21-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: diggy simmons, Kiser Middle School
Leap Year by the Numbersnew
We say that a calendar year is 365 days, and it is, more or less. But it takes just a little bit longer for the Earth to make its lap around the sun, about 6 hours, making a full year 365.24219 days. So we add a day every four years, a process known as intercalation.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-04-2012 |
Features
Where Hot Dogs Become Haute Dogsnew
Hot dogs get no respect. You can buy them for a dollar on the street. They look like phalluses. Nobody takes them seriously.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
03-02-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: greensboro hot dog
Tales of an American Homeownernew
It started with the blinds in the dining room — thin, crappy, cheap ones that dangled from the window frames when we bought the house. Over the years they’ve been mashed by chairs, splattered with food flung from the spoons of infants, tattered by our oversized collection of cats.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-24-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: home ownership, house upgrades
A Many Splendored Thing
Love is beautiful.
It lets the heart sing, defies reason or intellect, makes the world go round.
Love is eternal. Love is a flame. Love is what we are all searching for, and what the lucky few of us have found.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
LGBT
Tags: gay couples, lesbian couples
The Winter of my Content
I shaved the beard off this morning.
It was a pretty good one, as far as my own history with facial hair goes: a coarse ruff that spread across the hollows of my cheeks with a reddish tinge, a disconcerting spot of gray on my chin. I let it go longer than any other beard I have ever worn, long enough that the spaces at the parentheses on either side of my mouth, the bald patches on my jawline filled in somewhat. My mustache of rusted wheat grew long enough to curl over my upper lip. And under my chin the hair darkened to a deep brown, the color of roasted coffee.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: beards
A Dream Deferred
Tonight the dream lives in the auxiliary basketball court at Winston-Salem State University, a perfectly serviceable expanse of seasoned hardwood, with rudimentary bleachers and old-school fiberglass backboards.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
02-16-2012 |
Sports
