Now that winter is upon us in full bloom, it seems appropriate to reflect for a moment on the anticipatory first days of summer. Staring across the counter of the local coffee shop at the confused but eager barista - in - training last week I was reminded of my first high […]
In the last few years my wife and I have shunned movie-going in favor of the convenience, low-cost, solitude and vast selection of Netflix. Just the other day we broke that practice in order to see Juno, which is funny and different, at the Carmike Cinema 16 on Cinema Drive. Sharing the theatre with 8 […]
Ben Steelman discusses local novelist and UNCW staffer Clyde Edgerton’s book “Killer Diller” in a recent post to his Star News books blog. Edgerton is busy with a new novel, the movie rights to Killer Diller and some other projects.
I think I made a mistake reading Killer Diller last year as my Edgerton foray. Because […]
From Wilmington’s Downtown Business Alliance website, which features events and services for promoting business in downtown Wilmington:
The Downtown Business Alliance is set out to unite, promote and support businesses in downtown Wilmington, NC. We are very proud of downtown Wilmington and we’re hoping this site will help you get around and keep up to date […]
One of my friends is closing down a 15-year-old koi pond and has some fabulous fish free to good homes. I posted them on craigslist and have had several responses but thought maybe some of you here would be interested as well. Here’s a link to the craigslist post: http://wilmington.craigslist.org/pet/537221772.html
To reiterate what it […]
All you clever wordsmiths out there, check out this link:
www.freerice.com
It’s a great site where you test your lexicon mettle and feed the world at the same time.
For each word that you correctly match to a synonym, 20 grains of rice are donated to feed the poor. The folks at Snopes have apparently […]
Wilmington parade and march: Begins at noon today, Fifth Avenue and Castle Street. Lineup begins at 10 a.m. The parade will end at 13th and Church streets, followed by a step show and health fair.
Find more events in the area to celebrate the MLK jr. holiday at:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080121/NEWS/801210344/-1/RSS
Has anyone seen Encore’s Best Of ballot? You gotta love categories such as Best Dentist, Biggest Local Troublemaker, and my favorite — Best Plastic Surgeon, which begs the question: Who’s tried more than one? Here are category ideas for the weekly entertainment rag to add for 2008:
Best Place for a Vasectomy
Best Ice Skating Rink
Best Place […]
Is this a sly joke at Landfall’s expense or self-parody on the Star News’ part? Or a joke at our expense? The lead story in today’s paper us about a handful of posh Landfall residents who don’t like the sound of duck hunters nearby but don’t have any legal recourse.
Duke U. postmodernist luminary and literary critic Stanley Fish has a blog at NY Times, and has started a great conversation about the “use” of the humanities with his posting Will the Humanities Save Us? and its follow-up yesterday, The Uses of the Humanities, Part Two. Great discussion about “art for art’s sake”, the instrumental […]
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