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23 May 2007

Monday. A day. I humped up into the BB&T, across from the PR, pulled around the building and had to stop short.
By Peter Eichenberger | 23 May 2007 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

18 Apr 2007

My new obsession takes me far afield: cable ferries.
By Peter Eichenberger | 18 Apr 2007 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

21 Mar 2007

Prepare a cold drink, find a comfortable place to sit down and brace yourself for a shock.
By Peter Eichenberger | 21 Mar 2007 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

14 Feb 2007

Today in North Carolina, Google gets $260 million in tax breaks and mental care gets $90 million a year, or $50.43 per person. Get out of your car and look. The results live in the street.
By Peter Eichenberger | 14 Feb 2007 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

31 Jan 2007

The owner's partner expressed a similar vision. "We don't know whether the land is going to go to North Carolina Land Conservancy, but it's going to go to a reputable organization.
By Peter Eichenberger | 31 Jan 2007 (Columns: Front Porch)

17 Jan 2007

James Brown sang of Agustuh, Gee Aay, as where he was from. Augusta was one of the poles of his most famed driving experiments. Barnwell, S.C., was the other, where he was slapped alive, stillborn in a shack in the woods. JB was "a complicated man."
By Peter Eichenberger | 17 Jan 2007 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

13 Dec 2006

In the quiet, non-toxic climes of the Morning Times on Hargett Street, I lingered over a dang good dollar cup of coffee.
By Peter Eichenberger | 13 Dec 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

15 Nov 2006

What do I make of this "dramatic" polar shift of the politik? I remain expectant and hopeful. But as any differences in the "parties" are incremental, illusory and contextual, I remain realistic, tempered. We'll see.
By Peter Eichenberger | 15 Nov 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

11 Oct 2006

Raleigh, bless its heart, is being dragged—blinking and stunned—into the light, judging from SparkCon, last month's symposium of artists and business people.
By Peter Eichenberger | 11 Oct 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

6 Sep 2006

Fidel Castro showed up at my house one sunny afternoon in 1959. It was daddy in a mask.
By Peter Eichenberger | 6 Sep 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

23 Aug 2006

Around 10 or so, to beat the heat, I went and grabbed my battlemate, 12-year-old Nathan Vargo, his mom, Carol, and headed for Gotcha Paintball out toward Rolesville on Capital Boulevard.
By Peter Eichenberger | 23 Aug 2006 (Special Issues: Annual Manual)

16 Aug 2006

In order to properly celebrate the opening of Fayetteville Street to cars, it was necessary to close it and allow only pedestrian traffic.
By Peter Eichenberger | 16 Aug 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

9 Aug 2006

The synchronicity is unmistakable. Last week, the new Raleigh was launched, and a legendarily irreverent and obscene slice of the old one, Bobby Hocutt, checked out.
By Peter Eichenberger | 9 Aug 2006 (Columns: Front Porch)

12 Jul 2006

Sitting at the Players Retreat talking with a bud of mine, a regular old hippie Freemason.
By Peter Eichenberger | 12 Jul 2006 (Columns: Front Porch)

14 Jun 2006

"The wolf is hungry. He runs to show. He's licking his lips."
By Peter Eichenberger | 14 Jun 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

24 May 2006

Business decisions and good salesmanship lubed with Cherry Bounce--good old-fashioned booze--led to Raleigh becoming the capital.
By Peter Eichenberger | 24 May 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

10 May 2006

Sadlack’s Heroes, the beer-music-sandwich institution on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, started as Baxley’s, a simple sandwich wagon back in the ’40s that was dragged in and assembled for former soldiers flocking to N.C. State on the heels of World War II.
By Peter Eichenberger | 10 May 2006 (Columns: Front Porch)

12 Apr 2006

What you get from the media is a manufactured product carefully calculated to enthrall you sufficiently as to allow yourself to be juked into being separated from your money via the advertising that finances the production.
By Peter Eichenberger | 12 Apr 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

1 Mar 2006

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A near-fatal bicycle accident puts our writer in touch with the cosmos and all humanity.
By Peter Eichenberger | 1 Mar 2006 (Ye Olde Archives: OPINION: Peter Eichenberger)

22 Feb 2006

Demo expert says Raleigh wanted buzz
By Peter Eichenberger | 22 Feb 2006 (News: Wake County)
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