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Entertainment
By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com Fair warning: “The Producers” is tacky, tasteless, not politically correct, and the opening night audience laughed and clapped their way ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Friday, March 16, 2018 9:42 am
Local
The weekend probably won’t be a total washout, but we’ll have showers Saturday and Sunday night, with more on Monday and Tuesday. Today will be ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Friday, March 16, 2018 8:35 am
Local
We’ve had snow, rain, days in the 80s and nights in the teens. Now we are in danger of fast-spreading fires. With low humidity and ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:57 am
Local
We’ll see more sunshine today, but it’s going to be cold and windy. We should reach a high of 43, but west northwest wind will ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:50 am
Local
Today will be much calmer than Monday, but it’s a cold start and the winds are still blustery. It will be sunny and 48 today, ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:50 am
Food
Little did we know we’d have snow Monday. Somehow that makes pie day or Pi Day, depending on what you’d like to celebrate, a little ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Update: At 2 p.m., the National Weather Service lifted the winter storm warning for Rowan County and we have now been placed back under a ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Monday, March 12, 2018 7:43 am
Books
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. The Hush, by John Hart. 2. An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones. 3. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng. 4. 12 Rules for Life, by ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Sunday, March 11, 2018 12:00 am
Books
“Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories,” by Kelly Barnhill. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2018. 288 pp. By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com Kelly Barnhill’s “Dreadful ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Sunday, March 11, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Today will be almost calm, compared to what the weekend and Monday will bring. We’ll be dealing with west wind today at 6-11 mph, with ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Friday, March 9, 2018 7:50 am
Local
We’ll have another windy, cool day today, with partly sunny skies. The high will be 46, with west southwest winds shifting to the west at ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Thursday, March 8, 2018 7:50 am
Education
SALISBURY — After participating in a national qualifying tournament, Livingstone College will compete against fellow historically black colleges and universities at the 29th annual Honda ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Thursday, March 8, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Cool temperatures will stick around for a while but we’ll get a break from the rain for a few days. Today will start out foggy ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 7:50 am
Local
The weather continues to throw a little bit of everything at us this week, and on today’s menu is rain. We have an 80 percent ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:50 am
Local
It’s been a surprisingly cold morning, with the low dipping to 26 degrees. It will be a sunny day with a high of 58 and ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Monday, March 5, 2018 7:50 am
Books
John Hart was so busy signing books Thursday night that we didn’t get a chance to talk. That’s a good problem for an author to ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Sunday, March 4, 2018 12:00 am
Books
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. The Hush, by John Hart. 2. The Monk of Mokha, by Dave Eggers. 3. The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn. 4. Wonder, by ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Sunday, March 4, 2018 12:00 am
Local
We are under a wind advisory until midnight tonight. A wind advisory means winds will be strong enough to make driving difficult, especially high-profile vehicles. ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Friday, March 2, 2018 7:50 am
Books
SALISBURY — Everyone was laughing at Thursday’s Brady Author Symposium at Catawba College. A smaller-than-usual crowd was enjoying authors George Singleton and Tom Cooper, who were ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Friday, March 2, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Today will be soggy and could become dangerous, with the possibility of strong to severe thunderstorms this afternoon. The thunderstorms will begin around 3 p.m. ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Thursday, March 1, 2018 7:52 am
Local
You’ll see plenty of rain this afternoon and tomorrow, and then Friday will be a very windy day, but clear. Today we have a 70 ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Wednesday, February 28, 2018 7:50 am
Local
The sunshine has returned for a day, but it’s going to be cooler. You probably had to scrape heavy frost off your windshield. Today’s high ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Tuesday, February 27, 2018 7:50 am
Local
The week ahead is going to be cooler and likely wetter than last week, but we might have a little more sunshine in between. And ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Monday, February 26, 2018 7:52 am
Books
“The Hush,” by John Hart. St. Martin’s Press. 2018. 418 pp. By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com “The Hush” is very John Hart. His writing style ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Sunday, February 25, 2018 12:00 am
Books
Rowan bestsellers South Main Book Co. 1. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee. 2. The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin. 3. Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult. 4. Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Sunday, February 25, 2018 12:00 am
Local
Today will actually be partly sunny instead of mostly cloudy, and we’ll have a high of 74, with south southwest wind at 5-7 mph. Tonight’s ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Friday, February 23, 2018 7:52 am
Entertainment
By Deirdre Parker Smith deirdre.smith@salisburypost.com Over here are the Joneses, Bob and Jennifer. Over there are the Joneses, John and Pony. They’re very different. John ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:55 am
Local
It will be another mostly cloudy day, but we should see the sun now and then like we did on Wednesday. The high will be ...
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by Deirdre Smith, Thursday, February 22, 2018 7:52 am
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