Triad — McCrory is from Jamestown — is a real candidate, a professional politician with access to the kind of money it takes to win the seat. On Monday Joines said he wouldn’t be running, but remember the old adage: Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Okay, so the 2012 Democratic convention down in the Queen City isn’t until Sept. 3, but things are already bustling down there. Obama’s set to accept his party’s nomination for the 2012 election in front of 75,000 people at Bank of America Stadium, and we’ve already applied for press credentials.

The judges of the 2012 Miss America Pageant included Kris Jenner, mother of the Kardashian clan; Teri Polo, actress from Meet the Fockers; Mark Ballas of “Dancing with the Stars,” Lara Spencer of “Good Morning America,” “The Bachelor” executive...

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For example, rather than swearing off sweets for the rest of your life, create a weekly plan to allow yourself some wiggle room while continuing to work toward your goals. Commit to your nutrition goals 100 percent during the week, and establish one night a week to enjoy a decadent dessert.

Buzzfeed compiled a list of 45 things from the last 12 months that we should forget about, but what could anybody have against Iggy Pop in a dress or planking, not to mention more important cultural innovations like deep-fried Kool-Aid? Regardless, most of the items belong on the list, like the rapture or that anyone supported Donald Trump. Among the rest was heartbreaking news to me: Dippin’ Dots went bankrupt.

The 1966 animated short film directed by Chuck Jones features film icon Boris Karloff, who narrates and performs the role of the Grinch — the bitter and hateful hermit who hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos in Whoville. Karloff even sings a classic song, “You’re a mean one, Mr.

Ah, the hot toy: You’ll brave clogged mall park- ing lots, throw elbows at the bargain bin, scour out-of-the-way specialty shops and even resort to Craigslist to score one of these whatever-it-is for your kid, who’s just got her little heart set on seeing it under the tree.

Hopefully if you’re employed, you receive My final year at college, my roommates and some vacation time around the end of the year. I threw a huge Harry Potter-themed party at Students certainly do, leaving the city in droves the outset of winter. Our Yule Ball, taken from for nearly a month while others return.

Carolina History & Haunts offers ghost tours on Friday and Saturday nights beginning at 7:45 p.m. It costs $15 for adults but only $13 if purchased online, and the tour lasts 90 minutes. It sounds kind of hokey, but I’m interested nonetheless..

Researchers Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff conclude that “the residential isolation of both poor and affluent families has grown over the last four decades, though affluent families have been generally more residentially isolated than poor families during this period.

The Arts Council of Winston-Salem announced the results of a “vibrancy index,” stating that community activity has picked up significantly downtown over the past few years. Citing more businesses, events and other positive downtown rankings, the study says that efforts to revitalize the center city are working.

For the past two decades, the number of grandparents and other extended family members raising children has been rising dramatically.

It’s never too soon to start talking about the next presidential election — and never too soon to start parsing possible candidates. Let’s face it: There are some folks, regardless of their credentials or suitability, who will never be the leader of the free world, for various reasons.

PsychoAlfred Hitchcock was the master of capturing the terror of everyday life. Fifty years after its release in 1960, Psycho still sets the standard for psychological terror. The famous shower scene

October is the perfect time of year to get out and hike, and judging by the gridlock on the road ascending Pilot Mountain last weekend, lots of people in the Piedmont Triad know it. A couple reasons: The leaves begin to turn colors from a field of green to a brilliant kaleidoscope of yellows, oranges, crimsons and purples.

Author Naomi Klein said, You watch US media and the question is, Why are they protesting? where, everywhere else in the world, the question is, What took them so long? Millions of people have been negatively affected by our economic system since 2008, but many more have always been marginalized by the nations staggering inequalities.

The primary sponsor of North Carolinas Defense of Marriage Act, Sen. Jim Forrester (R-Gaston County), recently called Asheville a cesspool of sin. He later explained his reasoning, saying, They have a lot of very liberal people. They have a lot of homosexuals that live in the Asheville area.

Four candidates for mayor of Greensboro Robbie Perkins, Tom Phillips, Bradford Cone and Tom Phillips took questions in the Haywood Duke Room at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church during a lunch-hour candidate forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad last week.

Councilwoman Mary Rakestraw read a resolution honoring the memory of the late Wally Harrelson, who was appointed chief public defender for Guilford County by then- Gov. Bob Scott in 1970, and was continually reappointed to the position over the next four decades.