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• Wanted: Decent movie critic

  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 […]

• WAAV-AM 980 gets a not ready for prime time comment

  I sometimes listen to WAAV 980 am (The Wave) during my drive to work. The talk program from 8am-10am is hosted by Rhonda Bellamy, who I find fair and impartial and engaging. Her show focuses chiefly on local issues and she often interviews relevant guests, but she also might discuss national politics, gas prices, the […]

• The courage of one’s convictions

  Ann Wright is a pretty remarkable woman, what with 13 years of service in the Army/Army reserves and 16 as a diplomat in U.S. embassies as diverse as Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She retired from the Army with the rank of Colonel and in 2001 volunteered to re-open the U.S. embassy in Kabul. Like many Americans, she […]

• Tennis and community

  

  Known as the sport for a lifetime, tennis directly impacts a person’s health and quality of life. That’s a cheeseball cliché taken from some geeky tennis website, but one that is true for thousands of dedicated Wilmingtonians.

• Airlie Gardens summer concert series: Under the BAO

  Airlie Gardens, with its acres of natural beauty, is one of Wilmington’s great treasures. And its finest feature is the magnificent Airlie Oak, a tree that sprouted the same year Michelangelo became the chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica.

• Smoke-free Wilmington?

  Conventional wisdom says North Carolina will be the last refuge for smokers. No way will the state institute a ban on smoking in public places like restaurants, bars and bowling alleys. Not on Tobacco Road, the land of Winston and Salem and Duke University, named for the father of tobacco industrialist James B. Duke.
  But there […]

• Movies vs. Air Travel

  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 […]