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• Wilmington Twestival – February 12th downtown

  I’m not quite sure I know what it is, but it sounds fun! (Something to do with twitter?)
  Grove Project reader Bill L. sends along this notice about Wilmington’s first Twestival, to be held downtown at Port City Pub on Grace, and featuring lots of musicians and other artists performing in a benefit for charity:water.

  Update: Here’s [...]

• Gifts from our Port City

  

• The Myth of Eshelman

  

  For me, the right context for understanding developments like this one about RightChange.com (PPD’s CEO bankrolls ads attacking Obama), a conservative counter-punch to MoveOn.org created by local businessman Fred Eshelman, or this recent letter to the editor decrying Eshelman’s politics as unbecoming a local “philanthropist” (Politics v. Parks), is the mythology of Eshelman himself and his relationship to Wilmington.

• Fresh produce, fresh air

  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 [...]

• Dixie Grill: It’s good

  We went downtown this morning to try the Basics breakfast and maybe take part in the conversation, but were thwarted by the 10:30AM opening, and so went instead to the incomparable—the institutional—Dixie Grill on Market St. right near Front.

  

• Honoring Martin Luther King jr.

  Wilmington parade and march: Begins at noon today, Fifth Avenue and Castle Street. Lineup begins at 10 a.m. The parade will end at 13th and Church streets, followed by a step show and health fair.
  Find more events in the area to celebrate the MLK jr. holiday at:
  http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20080121/NEWS/801210344/-1/RSS

• The Children’s Museum, downtown Wilmington

  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 [...]

• Gourmet Market Opens Downtown

  I think I lost a little tread from the sole of my shoe when I skidded to a stop to check out the freshly opened Gourmet Market on Front Street downtown. I have lived in Wilmington for three years and have been absolutely dumbfounded by the lack of a grocery store downtown. Rationales I’ve [...]

• Interesting discussion of killing near New Hanover last week

  WWAY’s got a user forum where people respond to new items. Here neighbors and others are describing and decrying:
  http://www.wwaytv3.com/node/4169
  Killing was here: map, which one user calls the among the most dangerous areas in Wilmington. City council candidate Ronald Sparks also quoted as a neighborhood resident.