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It speaks to the quality of “Hustlers” that the 50-year-old Jennifer Lopez’s show-stopping turn as a nightclub pole dancer isn’t the most surprisingly fab part of …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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9/14/19
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There’s an old bit of wisdom that maintains that “seeing is believing,” but it’s not always so simple. And I’m not talking about politicians channeling “Saturday Night Fever”-era John Travolta in a silly viral video which anyone can tell is fake.
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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9/13/19
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Ever notice how sometimes we just sort of say things without really thinking much about what we say?
Take “Have a nice day,” for instance. How do you “have” a nice day?
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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9/13/19
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Begrudgingly, I had a revelation this weekend. Actually, that’s 100% false. I just finally admitted my to myself this revelation, possibly due to my continued beat downs as a Tennessee Volunteer football fan, as well as the suffering, four decades now,as a lifelong Miami Dolphin fan.
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BY DON BEANE, News + Record Staff
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9/13/19
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There are things I’m good at — I’m especially proud that I can include “juggler” on my resume, for instance — but preparing for emergencies isn’t one of them.
It’s a skill that, …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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9/6/19
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By now the annual frenzy known as “Back to School” is a memory, since most folks who go have been back for a few weeks or at least, a few days. Labor Day, that last summer holiday, is now a thing …
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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9/6/19
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The most likely scenario for this column, according to the newest computer models, is that it will stall as it approaches the coast and then turn sharply south. Readers in low-lying chairs are …
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My record in high school and college math classrooms is the stuff of legends – and not very good ones.
It was a subject in which I never did very well. As a matter of fact, I’d almost bet the …
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Of the long list of books Mark Twain wrote, his later novel “The American Claimant” (1892) doesn’t occupy the same lofty perch as his better-known works.
Although author Bobbie Ann Mason, in …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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8/30/19
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It wasn’t so long ago youngsters were getting out of school for the summer and singing such favorite ditties as “No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks,” which is, of …
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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8/23/19
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The entertainment industry has forever and successfully mined a deep well of “fish out of water” stories.
From “The Odyssey” to “Gulliver’s Travels,” “A Connecticut Yankee In King …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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8/23/19
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The cancellation request arrived in the mail without much fanfare or much written explanation — just a simple message which read: “Please cancel our subscription immediately! Send any …
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BY BILL HORNER III, Publisher
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8/23/19
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I try to avoid scoffing — it just doesn’t seem a nice or proper thing to do — but scoff probably best describes my reaction to the controversy, in the early ‘90s, that bubbled up at the …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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8/16/19
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Did Chatham County just blow its chance to be a shining example of creative and cooperative problem-solving in an increasingly divided, divisive culture?
Yes and no.
We say “yes” because we …
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8/16/19
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Throughout my years of tying the knot for couples young and old, I have had the opportunity to perform that task in a wide variety of places. Among them are the Duke Gardens, small living rooms, big …
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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8/16/19
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At the risk of losing any more of my regular readers (assuming there still are some) or at the very least annoying them, I’d like to make one more reference to my recent operation.
Granted, I …
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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8/9/19
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I love contrasts, and in this I’m in good company because don’t we all?
Contrasts — black and white, peace and war, negative and positive, salt and pepper, fire and ice, good and bad, yin …
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BY RANDALL RIGSBEE, News + Record Staff
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8/9/19
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The early Democratic primary debates for the 2020 presidential election are usually described afterward by major news outlets as battlegrounds for “winners” and “losers.”
It’s not …
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8/9/19
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With the Vin Diesel-starring “The Fast & the Furious” franchise having mostly run out of fuel, it seemed natural and wise to spin off the two newest and popular side …
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BY NEIL MORRIS, CN+R Film Critic
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8/4/19
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News flash: Don’t look now, but summer is over.
Not officially. It’s not September 21, when the calendar says autumn starts. We haven’t hit Labor Day yet. Folks are still going to the beach …
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BY BOB WACHS, News + Record Staff
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8/2/19
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