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 […]
Though the pharmaceutical company might not look too kindly on it, there’s a prominent mention of Wilmington’s own PPD in the Jan. 7 issue of The New Yorker.
It seems that Big Pharma companies have been hiring people to take experimental drugs — and paying handsomely for it — for several years now. It used […]
Perhaps inspired by the success of Harris Teeter, Lowe’s Foods and Fresh Market, word is out that Wilmington area Food Lion stores will feature great improvements in 2008. Some stores may even be converted into Blooms, which is a Food Lion brand store that features upscale goods and a wider variety of items. Typically, “renewed” […]
Love, betrayal, millions of dollars in the balance, and a guy living in a turkey coop! This is better than fiction.
Everything you wanted to know about Burt’s Bees and its recent purchase by Clorox, which we wrote about here a couple of months ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/business/06bees.html
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Sourcing Local and Seasonal Eats Via the Web
You’ve heard it—possibly ad nauseum by now—all the different ways to eat or buy locally grown seasonal food. At the risk of offending those that have been “eating green and local” for years, here’s a quick hit list of the four best […]
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 […]
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 […]
A great-looking PBS project to promote citizen journalism, to discuss practices and tools.
MediaShift Idea Lab is a group weblog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each author won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to blog on a topic related to […]
I’ve been checking out a local/national service after hearing an interview with one of the founders on netsquared: freecycle.org is “a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns.”
The stuff changing hands is interesting. So is the dialect that springs up around the quick […]
Would anyone care to contribute any good, bad or indifferent experiences with local health care providers? In 3+ years my doctor visits have fortunately been limited to a semi-emergency requiring a tetanus shot after being pierced by a rusty nail, and a routine physical. I endured a long wait and lengthy paperwork for the shot, […]
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