Fireworks in Chapel Hill
5:42 p.m.
Lots of fireworks coming from the stadium.
Downside: Yates in for X-Rays.
Update on Yates: nothing broken
Update on team: Ru-roh
Trouble in, uh, paradise
Lady preachers? Nooooooooooooo!
Bookstores pull gospel mag.
The group says women pastors go against its beliefs, according to its interpretation of the New Testament.
Oily issue
Fish or nutrient delivery system?
This Times article sets up the argument.
Superfood or Monster from the Deep?
Are we really that close to a world in which food functions as a nutrient delivery system, made possible by microencapsulation and fine-spray coating? And what would this mean for food and human nutrition?
Gas prices shooting up
Over on the corner of Main and Weaver gas prices have shot up by about 50 cents in the past hour.
Ike news seems to be getting worse. CNN video
Awful Ike
Reading the weather blogs this am, the intensity of Ike, which may increase tonight, is pretty stunning.
Jeff Masters wrote this:
Ike is larger than Katrina was, both in its radius of tropical storm force winds–275 miles–and in it radius of hurricane force winds–115 miles. For comparison, Katrina’s tropical storm and hurricane force winds extended out 230 [...]
Bon Appétit adores us
Good gracious this is a glowing review of the local food scene by BA’s Andrew Knowlton.
Imagine a place where foodies not only have a favorite chef, but also a favorite farmer; a place where the distance between the organic farm and the award-winning restaurant is mere miles; a place where a sustainable future is [...]
Local cheese
The Eater had a pleasant experience this past June with a summer cheese plate at Crook’s built around a gently melted round of Chapel Hill Creamery’s Carolina Moon. Brie-like but local and fresh. (If you try this trick at home warm it — don’t heat it.)
The Creamery, which last year hosted Slow Food’s big chef [...]
This week’s paper Sept. 11, 2008
Stories in this week’s Citizen include:
• Taylor Sisk continues our series on the breakdown in the state’s mental health system
• Ken Moore writes about spiders and flora
• Southern Village abuzz over new building plans
• Carrboro Board of Aldermen talks transportation
• Chapel Hill Council report
Sex, drugs and oil
More proof that the present administration is almost impossible to parody.
Via the NYT’s story on an investigation of the Department of the Interior:
The investigation also concluded that several of the officials “frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives.”
Coming soon
An entirely new version of The MILL Blog.
Starting Monday, September 8 on a screen near you.
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