The Grove Project

Hail Hadiah!

To an impressionable young man, there is something remarkably fantastic about visiting a barbershop for the first time.

Front Street Inn

The Front Street Inn couldn’t be better.

Biking locally

Shoot! I missed Wilmington’s Critical Mass again. It was last Friday, and happens on the last Friday of every month, though according to a post on local bike site sirbikesalot.com, it may be losing some of its steam.

New neighbors: Ospreys

Meditations on Mayfaire

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

One Book, One Community…One Reader?

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.

At Home With Shakespeare

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.

Drought mascot named!

GOV. EASLEY ANNOUNCES DROUGHT MASCOT IS “CONSERVIN’ IRVIN”
Exceptional Education Class in Sanford Wins Statewide Contest

Tennis and community

Known as the sport for a lifetime, tennis directly impacts a person’s health and quality of life. That’s a cheeseball cliché taken from some geeky tennis website, but one that is true for thousands of dedicated Wilmingtonians.

Get Flamingoed

Even those of us who don’t live in “a flaming hot pink bungalow beside the steamy jungle-o” can still enjoy the spectacle of a flock of flamingoes from the comfort of our own homes.