Bars in Chapel Hill

OK - Thursday night kickoff this week, and since the ZZW has arranged for a sitter for Thursday afternoon, your intrepid reporter and his beautiful and talented wife will be descending upon the Hill early as our parking space is not available until 5:30. We do sympathize with those UNC employees displaced by the Thursday game (we're all about academics, right?), but the important thing is that we are faced with a decision on pre-game festivites. Of course, we have the old standards - Bub's (shuffleboard and $2 pitchers - oops, that was 1993), Linda's (loaded fries...mmmmm), T.S. Eliot's (home of watching great hoops victories) and He's Not (blue cups...mmmmm). The question is what to do? Though the ZZW is partial to Carolina Brewery and its barbecue and Oktoberfest brew, it may be the time for an old school afternoon - Linda's for lunch (home to the Bush Push - sorry, Mark and The Book) and He's Not for a blue cup before heading south to our Park Place space...has anyone been to the "R&R Grill" that has taken the old Goldie's (or, for you 1990s grads, Papagayo's) space? That's where the Tar Heel Sports Network postgame show is originated - from whence legendary UNC tight end Deems May stated two weeks ago that UNC needs "wholesale personnel changes" on offense. No word as to where UNC will find new offensive linemen after having nine injured since the spring.