I am loving the Tiki Bar at the Ocean Grill in Carolina Beach. I have been hearing good things about the place for a while now, but have only recently ventured down there to check it out. Ian, Eli and I went last Sunday for lunch and were surprised and delighted to find a band […]
I got a nasty email at work yesterday that was so excessively rude I couldn’t lower myself to respond at all. It’s got me thinking about inconsiderate behavior in general and I wonder if we.re going through an unprecedented time of rudeness — from poor driving and littering to improper tone in conversation, vocal impatience, […]
I’m happy to report that lunch today at CiCis was more than adequate. Not so happy to report that a good meal is continually overshadowed by a general lack of luster in local service industries from cell phone companies to city government. When available, smiles seem only to disguise dubious and distorted self-interest. Spoiled by […]
Looks like WHQR has begun to publish subscriptions to podcasts of its content
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That’s great! I was actually looking around for the Front Porch podcast that the Star News does, featuring Si Cantwell and News Director Catherine Welch. Had a little trouble searching for those on the Star News site, and don’t see […]
Riverfest is going on this weekend, so no Water Street Farmer’s Market. Too bad — Rachel and I are trying to buy a bigger, more real portion of our food from the local vendors there each week — eggs, greens, cheese — and kind of stockpile our needs for the market.
I think we.re going […]
Just got back from a lunch meeting at The Connection Internet Cafe on Racine with a friend with whom I’m doing some web development consulting.
This place is really nice. May even be a surplus of good here (?): Among the services they offer are windowed and wired conference rooms you can reserve for meetings, wi-fi […]
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