Inspired by Catherine’s interview with the folks who are helping to realize the cross-city bike trail, by a picture of Critical Mass-ers amassing on the front page of Saturday’s Star News, and by soaring gas prices and snarled weekend traffic, I rode my bike north through the UNCW campus yesterday morning
Siena’s Pizzeria is not good. It has taken the place of a beautiful open field there at the rounded, historic corner of Masonboro Loop and Masonboro Sound roads, just a few months ago now, along with some other retail and office ventures — a dry cleaner, a mortgage broker (?).
The pizza is thin and — [...]
WHQR will soon be announcing its first official concert series since… who knows when. The first Soup to Nuts: Live, a spin-off of Saturday night’s regular “Soup to Nuts” with George Scheibner, will take place in the WHQR Gallery on Thursday, July 31st. The show starts at 7pm and doors open at 6pm. [...]
One of the things the Star News piece this morning on the Pew Center’s recently published U.S. Religious Landscape survey didn’t mention was this surprising fact about how many Americans are meditating:
Almost two-fifths of Americans report meditating at least once a week. This practice is particularly common among Buddhists, but nearly half of evangelical Protestants [...]
I’m taking part in a community project that seems a little dormant right now. New Hanover County’s One Book, One Community, whose mission is to “promote literacy and a love for reading, celebrate diversity, and foster a community of readers by providing opportunities to explore and discuss a common text,” has chosen Kazuo Ishiguro’s unsettling novel Never Let Me Go for this year.
Although I can still recite the many lines from Julius Cesar I learned in high school, I am by no means an authority on Shakespeare. In Shakespeare: The World As Stage, author Bill Bryson reminds us rather poignantly through historical analysis that there are few authorities on this historical figure and much conjecture.
Local musicians have a new hope coming their way in the next few months as far as regional recognition. WHQR 91.3 FM–whose signal reaches all the way north to Jacksonville, west to I-95, and south to N. Myrtle Beach–will soon begin recording for a new forum at which local musicians will be performing live, Soup [...]
That kills me…. WHQR reports that the anti-tax (and anti-annexation) group “Americans for Prosperity” is staging a protest against Senator Julia Boseman at the NHC county offices…because she didn’t pay her taxes. All the sudden they’re soooooo pious about civic duties.
As I understand them, the AFP are zealously — incoherently! — anti-tax. Maybe something else [...]
I sometimes listen to WAAV 980 am (The Wave) during my drive to work. The talk program from 8am-10am is hosted by Rhonda Bellamy, who I find fair and impartial and engaging. Her show focuses chiefly on local issues and she often interviews relevant guests, but she also might discuss national politics, gas prices, the [...]
One of my favorite podcasts, an NPR show called the Bryant Park Project for the Manhattan park its “worldwide headquarters” overlook, just discussed a study from Northwestern University’s Department of Social Psychology, which found white people so nervous about being or seeming racist that “they indicated a preference for avoiding all contact with black people.” [...]
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