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Half-Off Depot
Visit your favorite places in Wilmington at 50% off retail
By: - May 19th, 2010
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Visit your favorite places in Wilmington at 50% off retail
By: - May 19th, 2010
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Adopt a Pet
By: encore - July 26th, 2010
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Adopt a pet from the Pender County Animal Shelter
By: encore - July 26th, 2010
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Features
Studiously Fashionable:
The end of August, the beginning of September: Both are unique times of year, because only they can bring about the feel of anticipation that comes from embarking upon a new academic calendar. There are subjects to learn, pencils to sharpen, books to buy—all in the knowledge that a future is somewhere out there, waiting to start. Needless to say, it’s stressful, but the beginning of a semester doesn’t come without its perks. Is there any better excuse to go shopping than for a back-to-school wardrobe?
By: Carly Yansak - August 31st, 2010
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Live Local
Live Local. Live Small:In high school I was first introduced to the idea of a vegan diet for a variety of reasons—prevention of animal cruelty in factory farms remained at the top of the list. In the last 15 years, the factory-farm part of our “food system” has become a centerpiece to my own thinking about consumer habits. The variety of industrial food crises we have had in the last few years has certainly confirmed it: spinach, peanut butter, tomatoes, strawberries. Now, the truly far-reaching egg recall puts the final nail in the coffin. A recall on over a half-billion eggs? In 14 states? If this isn’t an argument for local food production as a necessary ingredient in food security, I don’t know what is.
By: Gwenyfar Rohler - August 31st, 2010
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Opinion
Tar-Anti-Gay?Target, Target, Target. What have you done? What was your PR and financial department smoking the other day? And, can you please pass it around, because it’s obviously quite strong!
By: Carly Yansak - August 31st, 2010
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Theater
When Love Has Its Way:“Shadowlands,” by William Nicholson, opened on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on November 11th, 1990. After staging over 150 productions, it closed in April 1991 and was nominated for the 1991 Tony Award for Best Play. Two years later, Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger took to the screen, showcasing a love story of two writers who crossed paths intellectually and surrendered to each other emotionally.
By: Shea Carver - August 31st, 2010
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Enchantment in the Hall:A novel, a movie, a play—”The Secret Garden” evokes so much through its pages, one medium was simply not enough to capture its elegance. Its words take the reader through a tale that holds it all: love, friendship, mystery, sorrow, redemption—and all through a lace veil of mysticism.
By: Carly Yansak - August 31st, 2010
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Art
Show Us the Money:Swiss composer Ernst Levy once said: “Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.”
By: Lauren Hodges - August 31st, 2010
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Movie Reviews
Testosterone Overdrive!Summer of 1997: I was a young man with a college degree in one hand and a six pack of beer in the other. Three hundred and forty dollars in the bank and ready to hit the open road. And that I did. I headed out west, spending the summer in the desert, on the border of Utah and Nevada. I spent time in a seedy little town called “Mesquite,” mostly gambling. Classic-rock blared through the blown-out speaker of an old Chevy with no air conditioning. It was the kind of place where old, grizzled characters sat at poker tables, scarred with tattoos and knife incisions, wearing eye patches and smoking five packs of cigarettes a day. “The Expendables” was birthed from places like this.
By: Anghus - August 31st, 2010
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Music
Ferocious Chemistry:BLACKS. From the first moment someone reads their name, an eyebrow may raise. Who are these guys? What the hell is that name about? The answer: Steven Vineis and Keith Kopka. And they aren’t going to tell us what it’s about.
By: Carly Yansak - August 31st, 2010
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ILMusic:Enthusisasm brims when encore’s autumn book club arrives. Just before the first chilled breeze of September, my inbox starts to flood; the multitude of suggestions for a great read begins. Like readers, I’m ready for the first leaf to float silently to the ground. I ache for the smell of pumpkin pie at holiday parties, and I’m ready to dig my sweaters out of hibernation. Most significantly, I’m ready to take my husband back (Marine Corps, your time is running out). I’m ready to deliver a new journey.
By: Justin Lacy - August 31st, 2010
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Books
Page Turners:Enthusisasm brims when encore’s autumn book club arrives. Just before the first chilled breeze of September, my inbox starts to flood; the multitude of suggestions for a great read begins. Like readers, I’m ready for the first leaf to float silently to the ground. I ache for the smell of pumpkin pie at holiday parties, and I’m ready to dig my sweaters out of hibernation. Most significantly, I’m ready to take my husband back (Marine Corps, your time is running out). I’m ready to deliver a new journey.
By: Tiffanie Gabrielse - August 31st, 2010
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