During Black History Month, the News + Record is featuring discussions about issues related to the African American experience in our Chatham Chats. This week, we speak with historian Antonio Austin, …
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2/24/21
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The question? Irrelevant.
There are two absolutes concerning this confection.
Everyone who tastes it asks for the recipe.
And, every time someone makes it for the first time, they panic; …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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2/17/21
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During Black History Month, the News + Record is featuring discussions about issues related to the African American experience in our Chatham Chats. This week, we speak with W. Robert Pearson about …
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2/17/21
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Lying somewhere between anguish and admiration, “Nomadland” couches itself as a sober tour d’horizon of the contemporary American condition and enduring American …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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2/15/21
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I love a thrift store.
It’s like wandering into Aladdin’s cave. Sometimes that cave is empty and smells funny.
But sometimes …
Sometimes.
Sometimes that darn cave is chock-full of …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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2/10/21
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During Black History Month, the News + Record is featuring discussions about issues related to the African American experience in our Chatham Chats. This week, we speak with Mary Nettles of the …
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2/10/21
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During Black History Month, the News + Record will feature issues related to the African American experience in our Chatham Chats. This week, we speak with Chatham County resident David Warren, who …
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2/3/21
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“Warts and all.”
When I write a column that’s what I give you. Good or bad, embarrassing or not, you get it all.
Just sayin’.
On an unrelated note, if my house caught on fire and I …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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2/3/21
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In playwright/screenwriter Kemp Powers’ seminal “One Night in Miami,” Cassius Clay, mere hours removed from winning the heavyweight boxing title, mulls his impending decision to join the Nation …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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1/28/21
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Mike Zelek, the director of Chatham County’s Public Health Department, and his staff have been working non-stop to provide information to county residents about the vaccine ...
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1/27/21
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Because of the pandemic, but more compellingly, because when it ain’t quite payday and we’ve eaten all the flashy, expensive grub, I’ve taken it as a personal (and pecuniarily necessary) …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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1/27/21
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Compared to other counties across North Carolina, the numbers found on Chatham’s “COVID dashboard” look positive.
But don’t be fooled, says the county’s top physician.
Dr. Andrew C. …
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1/21/21
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A movie thriller for the #MeToo movement writ large, “Promising Young Woman” is like a bit of stale “Hard Candy,” the 2005 film also premised around vengeance against a sexual predator that …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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1/13/21
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“I like pork chops.”
For my particularly lowkey husband, that statement is the equivalent of a fireworks and marching band declaration.
I grew up eating chops made with the store-bought …
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1/13/21
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How are your New Year and life resolutions coming along? This week, we talked about that subject with Ashleigh Glover, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, whose personal experience …
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1/7/21
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For some reason, Petey doesn’t want me to sing “Happy Birthday” to him on his birthday. He does, however, want me to cook for him.
Every year I make him an easy, yet complicated dish: …
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1/7/21
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Mulligan a standout in potboiling revenge flick ‘Promising Young Woman’
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Grade: C +
Director: Emerald Fennell
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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1/7/21
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This week, Julie Jengali is our holiday dessert guru.
I gave her a list of common N.C. desserts and she, in turn, gave me some garnish ideas to turn the presentation up a few notches. She also …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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12/30/20
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Late in “Wonder Woman 1984,” during a climactic scene in which the titular Amazon warrior princess confronts the baddie de jour with the consequences of his diabolical actions, the soundtrack …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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12/30/20
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With a raw emotionality that leaps off the page, the prose of playwright August Wilson finds its apt allegory in Tennessee Williams. While Williams spoke from his Southern upbringing, Wilson lends …
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BY NEIL MORRIS
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12/24/20
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