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Hip-Hop Meets Television for Zoom Culture Series

By Daniele Eubanks | July 26

Lounging around tables or moving to the pulsing music, an eclectic blend of hipsters and suits filled Michael Jordan's 23 last Friday night at the premiere party for "Hip-Hop Nation: Notes from the Underground," which will air on NBC-17 on Saturday. Business interests and hip-hop culture converged to produce the show, a collaborative effort between Zoom Culture, a Chapel Hill-based company that produces and distributes digital video content for TV and the Internet, and NBC-17.

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Double Dutch: Breaking Up

By Daniele Eubanks | July 26

In the seventh grade, I began and ended my musical career as a member of the choral group at my middle school called "The Ambassadors." I'm not sure to whom we were ambassadors, since we never left campus. For our winter concert, we had to sing this song called "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do." It was not age-appropriate. Most of my classmates (myself included) had never even been on a date, much less had any idea if breaking up was hard to do or not. I've learned a lot since then, and on this, our last date, I thought I'd share some thoughts with you.

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Double Dutch: Hooking Up

By Daniele Eubanks | July 19

It all started with this book my mom gave me in sixth grade along with a package of Gillette daisy razors and lip gloss. As I thumbed through the faded pages, I knew I?d finally been entrusted with a family heirloom. The Purple Sex Book was my parents? definitive answer to all things sexual, and had been ceremoniously presented to all three of my older siblings.

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`Scary Movie' Sequel Spoofs Spooks

By Daniele Eubanks | July 12

Remember that show we used to watch as kids called "You Can't Do That on Television"? If the sequel to the Wayans brothers' "Scary Movie" parody is any indication, you can do it on the big screen. The "In Living Color" veterans' latest comedy is a lot like the old Nickelodeon television show, in that someone gets slimed in nearly every scene. Also, the acting is equally contrived and exaggerated. But "Scary Movie 2" leaves Barf and Alanis in the dust as it boldly breaches the boundaries of propriety and wallows in sexuality, obscenity and excrement.

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Double Dutch-Gyms

By Daniele Eubanks | July 12

daniele eubanks Before these glorious college years, my exercise portfolio was not ... traditional. Other than cheerleading conditioning, which consisted of lunge-walking through the football practice and push-ups when we dropped someone on her head, I'd never really "worked out." Unless you count some Mousercise I tried at age five or MTV's "The Grind" workout video, which was decent preparation for school dances. Unfortunately, none of the boys had discovered this instructional gem, so we were subjected to the white-boy wiggle for several years.

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Double Dutch: fireworks

By Daniele Eubanks | July 5

A celebratory event that guarantees body-shaking explosions, breathless "oohs" and "aaahhs", and smoke-shrouded bodies is a sure way to get people together. Flashing and rumbling, fireworks are Viagra in a bottle (rocket). Men may as well mainline testosterone. In fact, they've become pretty essential to American life. Who wants to go out on date number two if number one was, "fine, but no fireworks"? I'm a huge fan. When else can every man in America be convinced to venture into the great outdoors and spend some time gazing up at the stars with women?

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Double Dutch

By Daniele Eubanks | June 13

When the sidewalks start sizzling and the nights stop being nippy, it gives a girl a hankering for something new. We just couldn't be seen in last year's fashion doing the Franklin Street stumble! Seems like summertime unites the women of the world on a mission like no other: we've got to shop. Sweat shops, though, have really got to go. I'm not talking about factories employing youngsters in the third world, but rather most every store in the mall. Anyone who's been lured in by those leggy plastic figures swathed in the latest snazzy getup will know exactly what I mean.