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Inside sources reveal that downtown gallery Corporate Canvas is closing. Couldn’t pay their bills, apparently. Too bad—that was a really nice space, and kind of a bellwether for the south of Market area. We’ve been to a bunch for events, for Fourth Friday Gallery nights.
To continue an earlier tirade against inconsiderate behavior, this all-too-common affliction is by no means limited to individuals. Clueless businesses also dispense poor taste. The scene: Nikki’s Steakhouse and Sushi Bar near Mayfaire. The time: Noon. The objective: Sushi for two. The offense: A blaring radio. True, a radio station playing soft music […]
While acknowledging that eating local food has gained significant “momentum” and “is all the rage,” a Sunday New York Times article cites a report by a team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, posing provocative questions about the environmental impact of those who choose to eat this way.
Check it out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/business/yourmoney/09feed.html
Most of my friends think I don’t like kids, and for the most part, they’re right. But really when I get to the heart of it, it’s bad parenting I don’t like. And you all know what I’m talking about - the three kids just the other night at Nikki’s Sushi Bar who ran around […]
It’s nice to see that Charlotte added a light rail system last week. And while I don’t think Wilmington is big enough to command such a system, it would be nice for the area to consider passenger rail service between Wilmington and the Triangle. I Googled this topic and came up with the following report […]
New York has its 5th Avenue and Washington DC’s got Pennsylvania Avenue. Travelers to San Francisco usually visit the famous steep road called Lombard Street. Likewise, Wilmington has its popular haunts, places like Market and Water and Front Streets.
But look deeper into […]
You heard it here first: Lazeeza Mediterranean Grill, barely hanging on with everybody else in the moribund, basically empty shopping center across from New Hanover County Hospital, is apparently moving downtown to the corner of Princess and Front, where the bar Sin Sin is biding its time. The owners of Sin Sin, who also own […]
We went last night to a distributor wine tasting that the Wilmington Wine Shoppe has every Thursday night and quickly fell into conversation with a wonderful, tipsy Russian named Luba, who was living in Sunset Beach, who loved Checkov and Putin and followed Turgenev’s footsteps around Baden Baden, where the great writer desperately pursued his […]