Features Edwards sells the South in New Hampshire
The News & Observer, Oct. 22, 2007
Politicians in New Hampshire rarely quote guys named
"Mudcat." But here was John Edwards on the stump, talking
about his buddy's take on No Child Left Behind.

Features Ode to Cherie Berry redefines elevator music
The News & Observer, July 7, 2007
Sometime last year, Dan Bryk found himself in an elevator,
humming a tune. He needed a subject. Then he saw a photo
of his muse: State Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry.

Features 'Catfish amendment' phrase caught on
The News & Observer, July 5, 2007
The exact day the first North Carolina politician hooked
his thumbs in his suspenders and referred to a "catfish
amendment" is probably lost to history.

Features Typo is Web page's windfall
The News & Observer, Dec. 16, 2006
To most people, a typo is an annoyance. To Aly
Khalifa, it's a (key)stroke of luck. His Web site is
just one letter off of the popular Gmail service.

Features This ice cream won't help beat the heat
The News & Observer, July 3, 2006
Scott Wilson's newest flavor of ice cream is so hot
that he makes you sign a waiver to eat it. He calls it
"Cold Sweat" — and it lives up to its name.

Features Another track, another time
The News & Observer, Dec. 11, 2005
The streetcar brought Raleigh into the modern era,
but it also created urban sprawl and segregation.
What can it teach us about commuter rail?

Features Toasting a tome
The News & Observer, June 13, 2004
James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the literary equivalent of
a Gideon's Bible -- everyone knows it's there, but few
people actually pick it up and read it.

Features Tell me how it ends
The News & Observer, July 23, 2003
In today's consumer-driven, have-it-your-way culture, it
might seem a good thing to offer an alternate ending, but
it could just be the end of meaningful films.

Features Trafficking in parking tickets
Newsday, Sept. 9, 2002
Finding a spot for a 20-foot delivery truck is always a little
difficult, but the combination of narrow streets and tall buildings
makes lower Manhattan one of the toughest places in the country.

Features A monumental challenge
Newsday, Aug. 28, 2002
From Hiroshima to Oklahoma City, memorials to modern
tragedies are expected to educate, enlighten and even attempt to
prevent similar tragedies. The World Trade Center is no different.

Features Feng shui experts examine WTC plans
Newsday, July 19, 2002
Though their reasoning is different, practitioners of the Chinese
art of feng shui have many of the same complaints about the
proposals for the World Trade Center site as urban planners.

Features Body waxing not waning among body-conscious men
Columbia News Service, July 7, 2002
When the Randee Elaine salon opened in 1989, manager Jodi
Perskin offered the usual complement of haircuts, manicures and
body waxing -- for women only. Then the men started to call.

Features Advertisers turn a deaf ear
Columbia News Service, Feb. 22, 2002
Though most new television shows are captioned,
for the hearing-impaired, only about half of the ads
that accompany them are.

Features The forgotten novels of Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Daily World, April 28, 2001
How did a small timber town in the Pacific Northwest
produce five novelists over the course of a decade?

Features The Wal-Martyrs
The Aberdeen Daily World, April 28, 2001
Did big-box retailing kill the mom-and-pop stores of
downtown Aberdeen? The answer may surprise you.

Features Young and gay on the Harbor
The Aberdeen Daily World, May 2, 1999
The graffiti was straightforward: "What is gay??"
Jeremy took out a pen. "Me," he wrote simply.