Come One, Come All, Come Sunday Bring your own blanket or lawn chairs for an outdoor jazz concert on Sunday, Sept. 25, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring internationally renowned artists [...]
My Poetic Summer Vacation Like dessert, the sweetest endings are meant to be shared By Jim Dodson Whenever our friend Joe comes to supper, he helps himself to a slice of my wife’s carrot cake [...]
The Feature Is Female The future might be, too By Wiley Cash Photographs By Mallory Cash Erika Arlee and Kristi Ray, co-founders of Wilmington’s Honey Head Films, grew up on sets. For Erika, [...]
Songster in the Shrubs The Eastern towhee hides to survive By Susan Campbell “Drink your tea, drink your tea,” the loud, emphatic call comes from dense shrubbery right outside our front door. It [...]
Field of Dreams Rekindling an old love affair By Tom Bryant “The future ain’t what it used to be.” — Yogi Berra The baseball World Series had the New York Yankees battling their archrivals, the [...]
September Books FICTION We Spread, by Iain Reid Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the [...]
Cardinal Like a spot of blood against the blue sky, a Cardinal perches on the shepherd’s hook where I hang suet and a cylinder of seed-feeders I gave Sylvia for her last Mother’s Day. The birds [...]
Little Press Success Big things can come in small packages By Stephen E. Smith Since its founding by professor Ronald Bayes in 1969, St. Andrews Press at St. Andrews University in Laurinburg has [...]
Virgo (August 23 – September 22) Before a Virgo bakes a pie, they have already sliced it a dozen times in a dozen different ways. They have considered everything: how the vegan butter might [...]