It’s late. Maybe you should be calling it a night. Or maybe your night is just beginning. Whatever, the fact is, you’re hungry.

In Chapel Hill and Carrboro, it’s not a question of if you can get a

About Carrboro and Chapel Hill - the two are contiguous, one runs into the other, and often visitors don’t differentiate. But locals do. Here’s my perspective:

Chapel Hill has the University of North

New businesses, new stores, new restaurants pop up all the time around Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County.

Sometimes, all the newness can make you forget the places that have been here a long

My sister-in-law and her boyfriend were visiting. They had been here before and we had shown them all the main sites — the historic, beautiful campus of the University of North Carolina, the scene

Almost everybody notices it when they first fly into the area: how stunningly green Orange County is. Pines, oaks, cedars and (much) more.

Yes, the county has grown significantly in recent years, new

The past, as William Faulkner wrote about another Southern place, “is never dead. It's not even past.”

In fact, in Orange County, it’s all around us. In this very modern place, history is still

When I moved to Orange County more than 30 years ago, ethnic food meant … well, pizza. Oh, you might have been able to get a little chow mein here or maybe a limp taco there, but if you wanted exotic,

Everyone knows Franklin Street. It’s Chapel Hill’s main drag, the classic college town’s classic strip. But just a block away, parallel to Franklin, is a lesser-known thoroughfare, a street with a

The weather outside is not exactly frightful — in fact, in Orange County, NC that almost never happens — but let’s admit it: it’s getting cooler. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to get warm and

The burger is back.

Well, to be honest, it really never left. Perhaps the quintessential American food — contrary to legend, it was invented in the U.S., not in the northern German city that gave it