There’s a lot of good car washing in the area, but I think Coastal Car Wash, on Carolina Beach Road right at Monkey Junction, stands out.
The owners seem like great people, and spread it around by hiring, in my experience, serious and extremely hard-working young washers, by writing irreverent and funny and sometimes useful [...]
I wonder how lame the movie reviews in Encore Magazine can get. Have you even made it through a piece by Anghus Houvouras? This week, for example, is supposedly devoted to Will Farrell’s new flick, Step Brothers. You’d never know it, though, because Fungus has keyboard diarrhea for seven paragraphs and a review of the [...]
I want to like the Park By Phone service at Wrightsville Beach. I’ve rhapsodized about it before, and it’s so convenient when it works:
You register your cell phone with the service and can then dial an 800 number, enter your the slot where you’re parked and the number of hours. You can even refresh your [...]
In the ongoing tradition of community service, the Wilmington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is on the cusp of presenting its vision to the city of Wilmington and interested government agencies a plan for adapting the historic trolley line as a continuous dedicated multiuse trail connecting downtown Wilmington to Wrightsville Beach. Having [...]
Most helpful, skilled, non-venal, straight-talking auto service I’ve experienced. They’ve turned my car away a couple of times for specialized work they don’t handle, but they always help me know what the matter is (and don’t charge me for that(!)), suggest others who can do the work (whom I then take by association to be [...]
In the last few years my wife and I have shunned movie-going in favor of the convenience, low-cost, solitude and vast selection of Netflix. Just the other day we broke that practice in order to see Juno, which is funny and different, at the Carmike Cinema 16 on Cinema Drive. Sharing the theatre with 8 [...]
Beautiful weekends like the last one are great times to go downtown. In winter, the air is clear and bright, there are people out strolling but not the jean-short hordes you see in summer.
The Children’s Museum of Wilmington, which moved downtown from its original location farther east on Market St., has really grown on this [...]
I love this store. Every time I leave Pomegranate I feel happy. Its a small independent bookstore that offers a unique community experience. The staff always remembers who I am if not by name then certainly by the last book I read. Because the shop is smaller than some of the big ugly guys they [...]
Just got back from a lunch meeting at The Connection Internet Cafe on Racine with a friend with whom I’m doing some web development consulting.
This place is really nice. May even be a surplus of good here (?): Among the services they offer are windowed and wired conference rooms you can reserve for meetings, wi-fi [...]
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