The little old man from Upper Normandy was rather proud of his cigars, and he made sure to tell me just how proud he was.
I didn’t know him. I was minding my own business, eating a pain au chocolat on a bench by the seaside and thinking pensive thoughts — until he sat down next to me and started extolling the virtues of the cigar when compared to the normal cigarette.
I wish I could give a logical explanation as to why I found myself in the suburbs of Paris at 2:30 in the morning on a Saturday, listening to a ska-influenced brass band play a rousing cover of Coolio’s classic 90s rap anthem “Gangsta’s Paradise,” but I can’t.
A glance west down Rosemary Street confirms the progress of a controversial 10-story development among low-slung businesses and homes. Future occupants have purchased more than half of the units set to be built in the skeleton framework of the Greenbridge development.
This article was published in the 2009 Year in Review issue of The Daily Tar Heel.
When it comes to construction and real estate in Chapel Hill, things are moving -- tentatively. Construction projects in Chapel Hill are following a national trend of gradual rejuvenation. The town could see a flurry of construction and development in the next six months.
The music of Ravi Shankar breathes with a shifting, pulsing sense of color.
And in Shankar’s remarkable concert Tuesday evening in Memorial Hall, the sitar master’s changing musical fancies made for an ethereal, captivating performance of world music.
In the past six years, almost every aspect of UNC life has been influenced by a single 44-page document.
The 2003 academic plan, UNC’s comprehensive road map for more than five years of budgetary and higher education evolution, set the tone and climate of the campus.
A development agreement between Chapel Hill and UNC for Carolina North was approved in late June, setting in motion the next 20 years of work at the University’s new satellite research campus.
