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Grady’s BBQ.

Other inductees included Charles Hursey of Hurseys Bar-B-Q in Burlington, Mebane and Graham.

LEXINGTON — The cover of the newest issue of a magazine focused on North Carolina attractions features an eye-popping image of a freshly made barbecue sandwich at Lexington Barbecue.

The president of Buffalo City Surfing, Kevin O’Brien, has stepped down and new president Tyrell Johnson has taken over. He steps up to the platform and announces “I only have one change to make — from now on all selection trials will be held in Gonubie” — and we all had a good belly laugh at that.

LEXINGTON – Five new names were added to the Barbecue Wall of Fame in Lexington on Wednesday.

Lexington, Piedmont, Western. Whatever you call it, it’s North Carolina’s most well-known barbecue. And it all started here.

Eight North Carolina locations made the 2023 list of best barbecue spots in the South, compiled by Southern Living.

Here’s what I’ve concluded after all those thousands of miles and pound after pound of smoked meats: the South has a lot of really, really good barbecue, and it just gets better each year. It also seems that the South’s brisket fever is finally starting to break. Yes, many new barbecue restaurateurs, regardless of where in the South they are working, still look to Texas for inspiration, often unabashedly branding their operations “Texas style.”

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Tom Lindhorst set up his SA Champs well. He surfed every morning before the contest started and every evening after the contest finished so that he knew the break intimately.