August 2018

A literary beacon plants its flags on Wrightsville Avenue By Virginia Holman This past spring, I received an invitation to the grand opening of Athenian House, the new home of Athenian Press and [...]

By William Irvine • Illustrations by Steven Guarnaccia It all started when I discovered the mysterious connection between TUMS and SMUT. This childhood revelation (and the fact that I can read [...]

In the height of Leo season, August brings a little bit of everything August birthdays for Leo and Virgo are something special. Even the stars will twinkle brighter! There’s a partial solar [...]

Birds of eternal summer By Susan Campbell The group of birds that more often than not makes most birdwatchers cringe is sandpipers. Small, often fast-moving birds with longish legs and streaky, [...]

Where Beauty Blooms A visit with two of Wilmington’s finest gardeners I must say I’ve been mopping my allegedly ponderous brow with great frequency so far this sultry summer here in this coastal [...]

Remember meeting that first giant? Being dazzled beyond words by its radiance and splendor, gasping as if you’d just entered a world alive with magic beans and singing harps and ornate birds with [...]

And in record time, to boot By Susan S. Kelly My sister thinks I’m OCD, but it’s not that at all. Now, I’ll admit to, in my young mother days, putting a notepad at the top of the steps to write [...]

A flavored gem from Durham Distillery By Tony Cross In the past, I’ve complained about North Carolina ABC stores rolling out the red carpet for copious bottles of flavored vodkas. Though I still [...]

Legendary twins who called North Carolina home By D. G. Martin If I asked you to name our state’s best-known citizen, living or dead, who comes to mind? What if I said to think of people of who [...]

How an eccentric Alabama spinster collected folktales and living voices — human and animal alike — from an age that is gone with the wind By Nan Graham We scrambled flat on our stomachs, [...]