Sorry if these are too obvious:Great tacos at NanaTaco, or troll the taco trucks up and down Hillsborough Street near 15/501 after about 9.
My favorite Chinese is Happy China on 15/501 near University.
Italian: Pop's off Main St downtown, or Bocci Trattoria on the southern side off Fayetteville.
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Elmo's is a very different place from Watts, but it's perfectly good as a restaurant with breakfast anytime, beer on tap, and crayons for my toddler. I get the biscuits and gravy with a side of country ham, which is salty as hell and always makes me think of that Kids In The Hall sketch about…salty ham.

I live in Durham. I invite her to enjoy some sit-down biscuits and gravy on a plate (so she can sit down) at Elmo's, Dain's (when it's on the brunch menu) or Watts Grocery.

CORRECTION: "Branded amazing branded amazing branded amazing band brand band amazing band amazing branded band."

When I was a snotty teenager in high school (class of '95), my friend and I used this very song for a class project as an example of vapid, catchy pop songs that rule the charts while thoughtful alternative stuff (represented in our presentation by Concrete Blonde) stays relatively underappreciated.

You're thinking of 1996, when the Telecommunications Act of 1996 opened the door to mass consolidation of ownership and the homogenization of playlists.

*Jumps out of North Korean closet with hands full of Badge-O-Matic parts*

This show has really stayed with me over the years. Even if I'm at the self-scan checkouts buying Advil PM and a case of Molson, when I hear the beep I STILL think of the fun I could have on Supermarket Sweep.

I'll take this opportunity to drag out an hilarious chestnut from five years ago:

Easier: Make two planar slices in one bagel instead of simply slicing it in half. Imagine you're trying to separate the middle third of the bagel, and you'll end up with three spreadable surfaces of more or less the same size.

He's the unsung hero of Swingers.

The dancing is herky-jerky alright, but he's no Choo-Choo.

My younger brother, born in 1979, has "Steve Martin" as his first and middle names. My dad was/is a big fan.

I like to call him Jesse P. Lemons. Try it - you'll like it!

Good Feeling and The Man Who will forever be in my Top 10 of all time. I really can't say enough about how much they had to do with my life from age 21 through 24 or 25. I even had the same haircut Fran is sporting in the headline photo.

"Pull Together" is another one that lasts from that record.

Alton Brown. It takes a certain sort of character to watch a cooking show that gives more on-camera time to foam rubber or finger puppets than to actual foodstuffs.

If you're looking at the overall 2013-14 season, Sunday Night Football and the winter Olympics had a ton to do with the 18-49 success. The Voice was always going to be strong in the demo but Blacklist was a pleasant surprise/huge relief to a network that doesn't have a lot of talented arms in the bullpen, to continue…

I took a History of Rock & Roll class at Ohio University (Marah probably took the same one) and I'll always remember the nebbish hippie professor pointing out the subtle true meaning of "I'm like a one-eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store" from Shake, Rattle & Roll.