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If you stopped by Durham’s Ultimate Comics in the days leading up to Halloween, you could pick up a coloring sheet that featured a mite-like superhero decapitating a bat-like one. To the uninitiated, it probably just looked like an unusually violent picture for children to color. But to local comics insiders who recognized the characters as Ultimite, the mascot of Ultimate Comics, and Acme Bat, the mascot of Greensboro’s Acme Comics, it sent a sharper message.

Ultimate Comics runs the NC Comicon, which returns to the Durham Convention Center this weekend, Nov. 9–10. Acme Comics hosted its first Comic Book City Con (CBCC) in Greensboro two weekends ago. Was the coloring sheet a declaration of turf war against Acme, whose timing looked like an attempt to kneecap a larger, more established convention? Or was this comic book contretemps just a friendly rivalry?

It depends on whom you ask.

If Comic Book City Con represents a threat to NC Comicon, it comes at a sensitive time. After drawing 4,000 visitors last year to the Durham Convention Center and turning away even more, NC Comicon organizers Alan Gill and Eric Hoover ramped up their offerings for 2013. They reserved twice as much space in the

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Press Release

River Arts District Artists Inc.

During the nationally known Studio Stroll, more than 180 artists from the River Arts District, open their studios to the public. Art collectors and enthusiasts come from around the world to view and purchase art as they tour studios in 25 of the district’s historic industrial buildings.

Some of this year’s highlights:
Odyssey Clayworks
Wheel throwing and handbuilding demos, paint your own raku for kids 12-4 Sat Sun

Potters Mark Studio @ Cotton Mill Studios
Wheel throwing demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

The Hatchery
Julia Fosson Encaustic painting 11-5 Saturday Sunday

Riverside Studios
Ongoing painting, mixed media, textile and outdoor sculpture demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

Jonas Gerard Studio Gallery
Live painting performance both Saturday and Sunday at 2pm

The Village Potters @ Riverview Station
Wheel throwing and handbuilding demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

Planet Art @ 375 Depot Studios Gallery
Ongoing chair caning demos both Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm

Free trolleys run approximately every 15 min, bringing visitors to gallery shows, kid’s activities, and art demonstrations, such as glass blowing, wheel

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — People who want to visit the Blue Ridge Parkway in the winter will be able to check weather forecasts made specifically for the road.

The Asheville Citizen-Times reported (http://avlne.ws/1hglvI1) the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation worked with the parkway and two other groups to set up BRPweather.com and BRPwebcams.org. They hope visitors will use the sites so they avoid being stopped by gates and signs reading “parkway closed for winter weather.”

“Weather along the parkway is a significant issue — for the visitor experience and also visitor safety,” said Carolyn Ward, CEO of the foundation, the parkway’s fundraising nonprofit. “We realized if we could install cameras and weather stations up and down the entire length of the parkway, we could create a fantastic weather tool to look at weather trends, get fantastic climate date, amazing opportunities for visitors and the traveling public, and a management tool so managers could see weather getting bad on a particular ridge and close the parkway in a much more proactive way for visitors.”

She began working on the websites about two years ago with Ray Russell, CEO of Raysweather.com and a

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Nothing says Fall like colorful leaves and seasoned woodpiles!

It’s Election Day! Hope that each of our readers is a registered voter in North Carolina and will make their wishes known today at the polls. Kudos as well to all who made use of Early Voting.

Bright blue skies and chilly temperatures let us know that fall is really here. Pumpkins have been relegated to the compost pile under mounds of raked leaves. This is great weather to be picking apples, watching formations of geese fly south or just enjoying a warm, sunny spot to relax while reading the news. Around Davidson travels today with Margo and Bill Williams in Italy, welcomes a new grandbaby for Bob and Mary Thornberry and congratulates Steve and Phyllis Justus on the marriage of their son, Luke.

Welcome to the World, Hazel Judith Haleberry (JessicaLK Photography)

CRADLE ROLL – HAZEL JUDITH HALEBERRY

Congratulations to first

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RALEIGH — The administration of Gov. Pat McCrory has spent $167,000 on renovations and repairs at the North Carolina Executive Mansion, including the additions of bullet-resistant windows, gas fireplace logs and outdoor fire pits.

The Associated Press reviewed public records of 2013 spending at the historic Raleigh manor after the Republican governor was forced to scuttle plans last month for $230,000 in bathroom remodeling following public outcry.

Department of Administration spokesman Chris Mears said he could not discuss whether a specific threat prompted the March addition of laminated ballistic glass to windows on the mansion’s lower floors, citing concern about disclosing precautions taken to ensure the governor’s safety.

“Terrorism is a real and active threat,” Mears said.

A notation in documents obtained through a public records request indicate that the old windows were “not operable” and presented “a safety hazard to (the) first family, employees and guests.” The windows and repairs to woodwork on the mansion’s balconies cost at least $72,000, according to records.

Mears said a few windows in the mansion were previously armored during the administration of Democratic Gov. Mike Easley, who had been the subject of death threats

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) – I voted Kentucky first in the Associated Press college basketball pre-season poll. A friend associated with the team laughed and shook his head when I told him that Monday night in Rupp Arena before the Wildcats defeated Montevallo, 95-72, in their final exhibition game.

“That’s too high,” he said. “We’re just babies. We have to learn how to play hard and be tough.”

Sure. Get out the Kleenex. There are first-round NBA Draft picks stashed on the Wildcats’ bench. What other team in America has that?

“Doesn’t matter,” he said. “It takes time. It’s too early.”

Maybe. But I’m betting that John Calipari would not trade rosters with anybody, not Tom Izzo, Bill Self, Rick Pitino or Mike Krzyzewski. So how high would you rank this group?

“Maybe eighth,” he said.

I think he was joking, trying to dial down the expectations surrounding Calipari’s fifth Kentucky team. It’s not easy finding a super-sized serving of joy in a season when expectations are to be great from the first dribble – and then keep improving. You’ve got to find reasons to high-five before March arrives. Enjoy the journey and all that motivational gunk. 

That’s difficult to do the way Calipari plays it, collecting more

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Danny in a field of sunflowers. Castle in the air. Top photograph by another pilgrim. Bottom photograph by Danny Bernstein.

Editor’s note: In this, part two of her series on walking Le Chemin de St. Jacques in France, Danny Bernstein travels the second half of her month-long journey along one of France’s national trails. If you missed the first story, you can find it here. On this second leg, fall is firmly setting in, painting its colors along the countryside.

I’ve been walking on Le Chemin de St. Jacques in France for about two weeks. So far I’ve covered 204 miles, with another 236 miles to reach the Spanish border.

Cahors to Condom

Fall has arrived on the trail. The countryside looks like a needlepoint tapestry. On this canvas, a mosaic of fields is laid out every which way. Sunflowers are drying on their stalks, ready to be harvested and turned into cooking oil. Sorghum and tobacco pepper the landscape. Other fields are freshly plowed, awaiting new crops. Fruit orchards and gardens

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