Star News blogger Ryan Tuck’s piece about the word ‘locavore’ has got me thinking about the concept. I was unfamiliar with the ‘locavore’ movement until we moved here to Wilmington. Ironically, without knowing quite what I was up to, I experienced the joy of eating locally grown foods while living in the densely agricultural coastside […]
Great “Catcher in the Rye” political satire in the Washington Post today. Check out http://blog.washingtonpost.com/stumped/?hpid=opinionsbox1
New York has its 5th Avenue and Washington DC’s got Pennsylvania Avenue. Travelers to San Francisco usually visit the famous steep road called Lombard Street. Likewise, Wilmington has its popular haunts, places like Market and Water and Front Streets.
But look deeper into […]
My Wilmington magazine profile of Ruth Funk, head of the Alliance for a Regional Concert Hall (archwilmington.org), looks like it was just published.
Ruth Funk just laughs dismissively when her husband Frank says she is the world’s foremost authority on performance halls. But she may be. As she describes what a larger, high-quality venue would bring […]
Yesterday at Tidal Creek, grocery manager Craig Harris peered into my basket and spotted the bottle of 2005 Excelsior Cabernet Sauvignon from South Africa I was buying then suggested I try a Cabernet from Washington State with a price tag of $6.99 ( half the cost of the Excelsior). I am delighted […]
A buddy of mine just sent this “Applicant’s Personal Statement” from the university where he works. The student has not been accepted, I don’t think, for what should seem to be obvious reasons. But grab some tissues, take a deep breath, and hang on for dear life regarding the future education of our children. More […]
It’s a crying shame but it appears that the Hollywood East Cinema Grill on Shipyard Blvd has closed for good. No more pitchers of Ying Ying and a pizza or a burger while watching Tinseltown’s latest assaults on our senses. It closed in the spring with a vague notion of renovating. Shortly after that the […]
You heard it here first: Lazeeza Mediterranean Grill, barely hanging on with everybody else in the moribund, basically empty shopping center across from New Hanover County Hospital, is apparently moving downtown to the corner of Princess and Front, where the bar Sin Sin is biding its time. The owners of Sin Sin, who also own […]
I think I lost a little tread from the sole of my shoe when I skidded to a stop to check out the freshly opened Gourmet Market on Front Street downtown. I have lived in Wilmington for three years and have been absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of a grocery store downtown. Rationales I’ve […]
We went last night to a distributor wine tasting that the Wilmington Wine Shoppe has every Thursday night and quickly fell into conversation with a wonderful, tipsy Russian named Luba, who was living in Sunset Beach, who loved Checkov and Putin and followed Turgenev’s footsteps around Baden Baden, where the great writer desperately pursued his […]
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