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- Best of Wilmington 2007
Encore magazine’s list for 2007
- More Fun with Maps
The Star-News is now offering an interactive crime map (currently in beta testing), so fearful and paranoid Wilmingtonians can see where crimes have been committed in the last 30 days. Hey, is that a breaking and entering in my neighborhood? Better get a dog. Is that a bomb threat down the road? Better call Homeland […]
- Frank Capra, Jr. Dead
Heard from a friend yesterday afternoon, then saw this story from WITN:
Television and movie studio president Frank Capra Junior has died.
The executive vice president of Wilmington-based EUE/Screen Gem Studios, Bill Vassar, says Capra died last night in a Philadelphia hospital at age 73.
The son of “It’s A Wonderful Life” director Frank Capra helped build the […]
- Locavore Redux: Is it REALLY eco-friendly?
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
- Wilmington to Triangle rail system/Issues we care about
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 […]
- The Pullman Movie
Talking about the Pullman movie and book The Golden Compass, per Amanda Greene’s suggestion and blog post in yesterday’s paper, here (in Comments):
http://divine.starnewsonline.com/default.asp?item=704405
Also Ben Steelman’s review of the movie and the controversy surrounding it here:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20071129/COLUMNIST18/711290316/-1/opinion
- Re: Re: Kindle
I agree completely with local writer and book critic Ben Steelman (http://books.starnewsonline.com) that earlier versions of the e-book have seemed like so much grist in the mill of retro innovation (trackback):
- For the literary political junkie
Great “Catcher in the Rye” political satire in the Washington Post today. Check out http://blog.washingtonpost.com/stumped/?hpid=opinionsbox1
- It was the wine talking
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 […]