NextNC.com - January 2009

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Wearing glasses has never been more stylish
Philip Meltzer is an optometrist. Some days, he's also a marriage counselor.

Living outside: Garden rooms offer a place to relax outdoors
For years, the side yard of Jay and Sylvia Gonzalez's Reedley, Calif., home was left bare and empty. When the couple went outside, it was usually to use the pool and covered patio in the backyard.

10 skills homeowners should have
From replacing a lock to using a caulking gun.

The grass is greener when it's indoors
Outside, buds are beginning to swell with new life, and grass is growing greener by the day.

David Schwimmer doesn't want any ‘Friends' to help him promote his latest project
The moment David Schwimmer walks into the small Ritz-Carlton conference room the urge hits to ask him all sorts of "Friends" questions. After watching him play Ross Geller on the NBC comedy...

Has HBO become edgy PBS?
It's a new day at HBO, and right now nobody is more aware of that than Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth. The Bloodworth-Thomasons were the go-to couple for CBS in the early 1990s, producing sitcom...

The week in cable babble
Political coverage is speculative, partisan, often, uniformed and uninformative

Harmony of the dancing chicken and dragon
"You don't hear guys going to a club saying to one another; 'Screw chicks tonight bro, I gotta dance!' " -Dane Cook Do we really need another

Alien Implants: kind of dumb but kind of interresting
The idea of alien implants is kind of dumb to me. It was pretty cool when Scully had one on the X-files and when they removed it she suddenly started getting cancer, when the re-implanted it, suddenly

Worst Hair Metal Lyrics
Hair metal was never known for its intelligent lyrics. But in a genre of some silly turns of phrase, some stand out above the rest.

Don't worry: He's still Tim
Country music icon records a rock song, but his sound isn't going to change.

Diamond Rio plays it tough
Band has seen hard times but new outlook has members singing praises.

Movie review: 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'
There were a dozen good reasons to not do a fourth Indiana Jones movie.

Chris Daughtry covered a Bon Jovi song; now he's touring with them
It was the world's first big glimpse of Chris Daughtry: the barely known, gritty-voiced singer performing a Bon Jovi cover song on "American Idol."

Oscar-nominated films: what to see and where to see it
It's just days `til Oscar time. Are you up to speed on your nominated films? It's not too late to catch up. Newsday's Jan Stuart and Gene Seymour offer a last-minute roundup of what to see and where t...

Ready or not ... the Spice Girls are back
Spice Girls and their roles in popular culture more than a decade after the came on the scene.

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