A woman who saw our Trader Joe’s bag said she’s received an email petition about letting Trader Joe’s know that we do in fact want them here. Apparently — the petition doesn’t mean this is true, of course, and others who’ve received the email can’t confirm either — specialty grocery store Trader Joe’s is looking […]
One of the things the Star News piece this morning on the Pew Center’s recently published U.S. Religious Landscape survey didn’t mention was this surprising fact about how many Americans are meditating:
Almost two-fifths of Americans report meditating at least once a week. This practice is particularly common among Buddhists, but nearly half of evangelical Protestants […]
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.
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 […]
That kills me…. WHQR reports that the anti-tax (and anti-annexation) group “Americans for Prosperity” is staging a protest against Senator Julia Boseman at the NHC county offices…because she didn’t pay her taxes. All the sudden they’re soooooo pious about civic duties.
As I understand them, the AFP are zealously — incoherently! — anti-tax. Maybe something else […]
One of my favorite podcasts, an NPR show called the Bryant Park Project for the Manhattan park its “worldwide headquarters” overlook, just discussed a study from Northwestern University’s Department of Social Psychology, which found white people so nervous about being or seeming racist that “they indicated a preference for avoiding all contact with black people.” […]
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 […]
We had someone else’s paper delivered to us this morning in a rain sleeve. I’m glad we did. We’re about to resubscribe to the paper after a long period of thinking it’s just too much paper, especially with no curb-side recycling in our area (yet; we’re working on it).
There’s an interesting, high-level editorial from Thomas […]
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.
I want to draw special attention to the article Catherine Welch, news director of WHQR, recently posted on the news wire: “Titan Cement Meeting in Hamstead”.
Titan Cement is being wooed by New Hanover County Commisioners to build a giant cement plant in Castle Hayne. While new industry and jobs are good for the community, a […]
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