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- Siena Restaurant
Siena’s Pizzeria is not good. It has taken the place of a beautiful open field there at the rounded, historic corner of Masonboro Loop and Masonboro Sound roads, just a few months ago now, along with some other retail and office ventures — a dry cleaner, a mortgage broker (?).
The pizza is thin and — […]
- Greenfield Lake: Festival Muse
The 61st Annual N.C. Azalea Festival brings many visitors back to it’s source of inspiration this April, Greenfield Lake. Dr. Houston Moore planted the roots for this celebration of beauty and history in 1934.
- Zone 8 is great
“When You’re Serious About Gardening” reads the marquee of the pleasantly obscure garden and landscape center on South College Road. And while I can’t say that I qualify as a “serious” gardener, I can say that I am a serious Zone 8 fan.
- Downtown Wilmington “Vagrants,” Ontologically Speaking
The issues brought to light in Downtown Wilmington: A vagrant’s paradise? reside in waters much deeper and murkier than a tourist’s observations can possibly shed light on (not to mention observations from one who comes to us from a city/state with one of the largest homeless populations in the world). It is no secret that […]
- Downtown Business Alliance
From Wilmington’s Downtown Business Alliance website, which features events and services for promoting business in downtown Wilmington:
The Downtown Business Alliance is set out to unite, promote and support businesses in downtown Wilmington, NC. We are very proud of downtown Wilmington and we’re hoping this site will help you get around and keep up to date […]
- Basics Gourmet Soul in the Cotton Exchange
Star News article about Basics Gourmet Soul restaurant, from November:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20071118/NEWS/711180364
In the spirit of Ian’s post about local restaurants (Being and Being Local), I thought I’d post about my visit today to this new addition to the roster. It’s on the northeast corner of the Cotton Exchange - with entrances on Front Street as […]
- Being and Being Local
If you think the only thing Wilmington’s Indochine has over Ruby Tuesday is its food, you’re a dummy. Or a philistine.
- 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 […]
