Kids & Family
“Extraordinary Adventures: A Novel” By Daniel Wallace Daniel Wallace (“Big Fish,” “The Watermelon King”) is known for crafting unconventional heroes, and Edsel Bronfman is no different. The 34-year-old junior executive shipping clerk, who thrills at mail addressed to his apartment’s Current Resident and still lists his mother as his emergency […]
FRESHLY BAKED Radius has a new oven and they aren’t afraid to use it. “We can now get a pizza out faster. Our new oven takes 180 seconds to cook,” says owner Kate Carroll. Though they serve salads and paninis too, the restaurant couldn’t keep up with the demand for […]
#1 ADD A STYLISH TOTE TO YOUR WARDROBE Blair Nance, a 2002 East Chapel Hill High School grad, studied fashion merchandising at the University of Georgia and worked in New York for nearly a decade before she launched Soeur du Maroc with a friend. “Influenced by a love of travel […]
“Jake the Fake Keeps it Real” by Craig Robinson and Adam Mansbach with art by Keith Knight Starting a new school is hard. But what about starting a new school where grades aren’t A’s and B’s, but purple dinosaurs, each of your classmates is extremely talented and being “normal” is […]
We are driving up 15-501 in the pouring April rain, toward the parking snarls of the Smith Center. Though I will be told several times throughout the next four hours that I am a good father – even a “great dad” – for letting my girls experience a Chapel Hill […]
Raised in the Philadelphia suburbs, Stacey Lange graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in English literature and language. She briefly lived in Durham while her husband Brian was in graduate school at Duke before heading north again. “Then the opportunity came up to move back and we […]
Olympian, former UNC running coach, three-time NCAA All-American at UNC and pioneer for North Carolina women’s high school cross-country … Joan Nesbit Mabe is a legend living right in our backyard. The Cedars at Bolin Forest, to be exact. Now the cross-country coach at Chapel Hill High School, Joan is […]
In a beautiful state like ours, you don’t have to travel far to escape the everyday. Here are some of our favorite places to go when we want to get away from it all (without having to drive too far). mountains [quote_box_center]“We’ve been up to Boone several times and loved […]
My kids are big fans of the animated film “Madagascar,” and of course, the main character, King Julien, the hyperactive, booty-shaking lemur with a penchant for belly laughs and dance parties. Not surprisingly, when I offered to take them to see a real-life lemur up close, they jumped at the […]
