Everyone from the 2012 USA Olympic swim team to US Army Infantry Soldiers in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, have posted YouTube remakes of Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song, “Call Me Maybe.” Now North Carolina’s own newspaper, The Pilot, gets in on the act with a toe-tappin’ video linking more than 70 employees from The Pilot’s entities, including The [...]
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“Freak Capital” Asheville Ranked #10 Literary Borough
Monday, July 30, 2012
Ploughshares Literary Magazine has named Asheville, North Carolina, the Number Ten “Literary Borough” in the country. From the press release: Asheville, the “Paris of the South,” is home to thousands of artists, including painters, dancers, sculptors and writers. The mountain town has been called both a “freak capital” and “the torn notch of the Bible [...]
Pauli Murray Named a Saint
Monday, July 23, 2012
North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee Pauli Murray was named a Saint last week by the Episcopal Church. Murray was raised in Durham, and is best known as an author for her memoir Proud Shoes. But her legacy includes her inspirational work as a “feminist, civil rights activist, lawyer, and the distinction of being [...]