The story of my birth is contested in my family. It started with my 8-year-old sister, who five out of five professionals would agree was old enough to know better, running across the room and jumping on my mom, inducing labor a month early. It ended with bruising and my left ear being kind of weirdly shaped for the rest of my life.
My mom views this as a happy and super painful memory, I'm assuming. My sister should view it as a premeditated assassination attempt. I view it as the first and last time I was ever early for anything in my life.
And luckily for Alpine Bagel Cafe shift supervisor Michelle Ford, she and her newborn son got to experience the miracle of early, spontaneous labor on Friday, too. Except the role of my sister was kind of played by a bacon Parmesan bagel.
— Danny
QUICK HITS
- Saturday marked the 29th annual Carolina Indian Circle's powwow, one of the largest collegiate powwows in the country.
- Netflix star Diane Guerrero, who plays Maritza on "Orange is the New Black," came to UNC to talk about the struggles facing immigrants who are living in the U.S. illegally.
- Twenty-one days and $15,000 in fines later, He's Not Here is back in business. The bar celebrated with a cornhole tournament on Friday.
- Despite a hair-graying shooting average in Saturday night's 76-72 win, Marcus Paige and the rest of the Tar Heels proved they can pull through for us when it really matters.
IN UNC TRADITIONS
About 15,000 Tar Heels flooded Franklin Street after Saturday night's big win. We built huge fires, performed chants and generally did stuff that looked ironically like devil worship for people who were celebrating a win against Duke. Chapel Hill Police said they had not initially planned to have any extra officers on Franklin. lol.
IN FEEL-GOOD NEWS
An Alpine Bagel employee went into early labor at work Friday morning. After coming in and having a bacon Parmesan bagel, Michelle Ford started experiencing painful contractions. With the help of coworkers, she headed to Duke Regional Hospital, where she gave birth to her son Ja’kir Tyrise Ford. Mother and son went home on Sunday.
IN ARTISTIC NEWS
A 17th-century painting has been living a lie at the Morehead Art Gallery for six decades. The painting, somewhat appropriately named "Liesbeth," was originally linked to Rembrandt van Rijn. A research group discovered the misattribution in 1986, and the gallery updated its label 20 years later.
IN CIVIC DUTIES
We asked people why they've decided to get out to early voting, which ends on March 12. If none of their reasoning is enough to convince you to vote, just keep in mind that people you went to high school with are going to be voting. You owe it to us all.
IN THE BLOGS
One of our writers made a playlist to validate your inner womanhood. The original title is actually "15 forgotten girl power anthems," but I couldn't call it that here because every one of them is on my "Bachelorette Party" or "Not a Wedding Playlist" playlist that I listen to every week in the office.
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