I don’t get it! With so many ways to make the Raleigh > Charlotte argument (our anchor bank wasn’t recklessly imploding the economy , traffic isn’t nearly as awful, watching college basketball is far superior to the Bobcats, no disturbing crime rate, we don’t have to listen...

Know what a collateralized debt obligation is? Care to explain it? How about the securities market in general? Don’t feel bad if you can’t…even with a college degree and Dr. Wikipedia’s assistance, I’m still at a complete loss. It’s fitting that the incredibly convoluted...

Curb is back! Season 7 premiers tonight on HBO, and it oddly made me recall an interview Richard Lewis did while he was in town last year (odd because even with a stellar memory, I’ll most likely be too stoned to remember to watch or tape the premiere). Lewis was performing at Charlie Goodnight’s,...

Social media site Mashable chronicled the beauty of the then-new Foursquare application at SXSW, explaining “Many of us have been anxiously awaiting a smarter Twitter that not only lets us update our status and connect with friends online, but also lets us find our Twitter friends — in real-life...

So Dan Aykroyd made an afternoon appearance Tuesday at the Triangle Town Center ABC store. While being interviewed for NBC17, Aykroyd was asked about other celebrity vodka pitchmen. His response (starting at 3:38): “You know, like anything else, like a butterfly knife, a Glock 15, or a Ferrari,...

Sometimes a story comes along that’s so good it doesn’t NEED to be punched up. This was the case yesterday when the N&O knocked it out of the park describing the gun bungling of state Alcohol Law Enforcement officers: Every agent at the N.C. Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement has a state-issued...

For the 99% of Raleigh Craigslist surfers who would never ever post in missed connections, navigating that portion of the site for a potential secret admirer is like wading through an ocean of piss: endless YMCA m4m posts, insecure creepers outing themselves (”I wanted to approach you, but didn’t...

There’s no voice I’d rather hear on Election Day 2010 than Jordan Murphy’s: Sorry, Richard Burr, you’re just a tool. But is Elaine Marshall the one to unseat him? Marshall, NC’s first female secretary of state, announced her Senate candidacy today. Her claim to fame was...

The Indy warned us back in June that our state Senate had passed a bill outlawing the “manufacture, sale, delivery, or possession” of Salvia divinorum. But it was the summer: you probably forgot all about the potential ramifications while having fun at the beach or hanging on Glenn Beck’s...

Former Raleigh mayor, current N.C. GOP chair and “public record heterosexual” Tom Fetzer is slick: dumping a late press release on the evening of NCSU’s boozy season opener. But he just couldn’t wait to drop his completely rational, non-controversial opinion that every school...