Soup to Nuts: Live’s First Concert

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 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

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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.

A Li’l Music Buzz: “Soup to Nuts: Live”

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 […]

WAAV-AM 980 gets a not ready for prime time comment

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 […]

Drought mascot named!

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

Sharks Season Opener goes wah wah waahh

When I got home on Tuesday I could hear the music at Legion Stadium in the distance. It was sunny and warm outside, and nothing makes watering the garden more fun than the common 80’s montage you get with minor league baseball. O you know, a little Bon Jovi circa big-hair and Alan Jackson twanging […]

The courage of one’s convictions

Ann Wright is a pretty remarkable woman, what with 13 years of service in the Army/Army reserves and 16 as a diplomat in U.S. embassies as diverse as Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She retired from the Army with the rank of Colonel and in 2001 volunteered to re-open the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Like many Americans, she […]

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

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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.