From an NCWN press release, which you can see at ncwriters.org:
Registration is now open for the 2008 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference, which takes place Saturday, April 26, from 8 a.m. until 5:45 p.m. in the Elliott University Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The annual event draws hundreds of writers […]
If you leave your computer on 24 hours a day it could be responsible for releasing up to 1,500 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. That’s not good.
But Dave Connell, a marketing manager for The Nature Conservancy, suggests a way to turn it into something good: By joining climateprediction.net, a distributed computing network […]
Our great friend and Grove Projector Betsy Ervin, the Christopher Hitchens of cancer, writing an absolutely powerful, sacred-cow-tipping piece in the Star News opinion pages a couple of days ago:
Everyone diagnosed with cancer deserves to experience the disease in his or her own way. Some choose to be upbeat, refusing even to entertain the possibility […]
Apropos of a conversation our very sophisticated wine group took up last night about race, in which both overt racism and deeper-down race fear sublimated into other parts of our lives figured prominently, the Sunday NY Times has a really well-written short history of race in the arts—and of race as itself a kind of […]
Blogger William Lang joins the Cape Fear placeblogging crowd at Port City Cynic, a new, good-looking weblog about the area, also featuring a map of things.
Off to a good start with this little tidbit from the first post, about the South College Sandwich & Deli
…DO NOT try to get ranch AFTER they bring out your […]
“We recently rented a Carolina Beach condo and enjoyed it very much. Unfortunately, when we went to the downtown Wilmington area (as we’ve done many times before) we were VERY dismayed to be aggressively approached by multiple vagrants asking for handouts of money. There were quite of few of them, mostly on the riverwalk at the bottom of Market Street, but also on the surrounding sidestreets.”
Though we didn’t really travel to Italy last Wednesday night, mentally and sensually we were traipsing through the volcanic ash-enriched vines of Taburno and tasting the dark, rich cherries of Puglia as they burst in our mouths, all while attending an Italian Wine Class hosted by the Wilmington Wine Shoppe.
News items have had users searching the Grove Project a lot in the last few days:
Silver alert: Man Missing In Wilmington In Need Of Medication Found Safe
Fatal helicoper crash: Video of helicopter crash scene
Fire destroys apartments off Kerr
Continued from Why People Play Golf, Actually (Part 1)
Reason #4:
You don’t have to be “good” to enjoy the game. And here’s something I think every golfer, regardless of skill, can agree with. Golf is like heroin… it only takes one good shot to get hooked. I’ve seen new players hack and hack for 16 holes, […]
Gareth McGrath writes about the construction of a new megachurch, Port City Community Church (PC3), in the College Acres neighborhood of Wilmington, between Eastwood and Market east of College:
Despite concerns, neighbors give big hello to megachurch
(From Si Cantwell’s news wrap-up.)
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