Most helpful, skilled, non-venal, straight-talking auto service I’ve experienced. They’ve turned my car away a couple of times for specialized work they don’t handle, but they always help me know what the matter is (and don’t charge me for that(!)), suggest others who can do the work (whom I then take by association to be […]
Conventional wisdom says North Carolina will be the last refuge for smokers. No way will the state institute a ban on smoking in public places like restaurants, bars and bowling alleys. Not on Tobacco Road, the land of Winston and Salem and Duke University, named for the father of tobacco industrialist James B. Duke.
But there […]
This week is Writers’ Week at UNCW:
UNCW Writers’ Week 2008
The Creative Writing Department at UNCW will host the Writer’s Week Symposium February 25-29, 2008, with keynote guest Yusef Komunyakaa reading from his work on Thursday, February 28th at 8 p.m. in Kenan Auditorium on the UNCW campus. This event brings together visiting writers of […]
Star News Business Reporter Judy Royal started a useful thread in the Star News forums with a query about wi-fi in the Wilmington area. I think she’s writing an article about laptop users (?)
For those not familiar with the U.S. shrimp industry, the article Ballad of Miss Dorothy begins to paint a picture of some of difficulties that many local fishermen face and the uncertain future that lies ahead for those that stick with it. True, fuel prices and equipment have whittled away fishermen’s bottom line, but […]
It’s no secret the journalism industry is in dire straits. Looks like Star-News readers are in for more wire stories:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080215/NEWS/802150335/0/news01
From WECT:
Authorities: Rumble Likely a Sonic Boom
WILMINGTON — Local law enforcement officers say a rumble felt across the Wilmington area was likely a sonic boom.
We’ve received phone calls from viewers from around the area, including Wilmington, Bolivia, Southport, Navassa, Winnabow, Leland and Rocky Point, saying they felt the ground shake this morning.
A sonic boom is […]
When I visited Cosmo’s, the pizza restaurant on Oleander that debuted a little over a month ago, I was thrilled that I could barely understand the eponymous owner. Having grown up in suburban New York City, I developed into somewhat of a pizza snob. I despise the chains and in this area have really only […]
Creative Wilmington sent this event notice:
Pedestrian Art - Art Everywhere, Everyday, for Everyone
A few months ago I was watching an Oprah discussion with Michael Moore regarding his latest movie Sicco. I tend to appreciate Mr. Moore’s radical social graces but viewed his comments on health care with a degree of skepticism. I have been following the debate over “universal healthcare” within the […]
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