Mary C. Curtis

N.C. Dance Theatre's season-opening program displays the versatility of Russian-born, American choreographer George Balanchine, the company's dancers and Traci Gilchrest.

Small-town America has always been held up as an ideal.

While there is stability on the men's roster for the new season at N.C. Dance Theatre, there are several changes among the women.

The note card and the magic marker printing were bright pink (I'm guessing that the author is a “she”). But if the words' meaning had a color, it would be gray.

Last week in Denver, the Democratic Party chose Barack Obama as its presidential nominee. No matter what happens at the end of a bruising campaign season, he has achieved what no other African American politician has achieved.

Send in the clowns! No, not the politicians, the political comedians.

Ashante Mayfield was more than a statistic.

“We change the oil in our car every 3,000 miles,” says Walter Burke. But when it comes to monitoring our health, men can be careless. They read the notices for free health screenings and put it off – for later.

Yang Peiyi, I feel your pain. So does everyone who has a grade school picture hidden away, the one you wish your parents had not pasted in the photo album.

Killing Demario Atwater won't bring Eve Carson back. But it might make a lot of people feel better.