After two years I finally tried Catch, the award-winning casual restaurant featuring sparse hours (Mon-Fri, 11am-2pm) and a seafood menu. While its chef, the well-regarded Keith Rhodes of Deluxe fame, likes to mix traditional southern dishes with a curious medley of Asian influences, it somehow works.
My son, dog and I spend a lot of time out hiking, and one of our favorite places to go is Carolina Beach State Park. My son loves the visitor center so most of our hikes begin there.
To an impressionable young man, there is something remarkably fantastic about visiting a barbershop for the first time.
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.
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
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.
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