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Free Stuff and Contests
By: encore Staff - December 14th, 2009
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December concert contests:
win tickets to the SOAPBOX and the HOUSE OF BLUES in Myrtle Beach
By: encore Staff - December 14th, 2009
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encore Free Online Subscriptions
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By: encore Staff - June 10th, 2009
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Half-Off Depot
Visit your favorite places in Wilmington at 50% off retail
By: encore Staff - November 13th, 2009
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Visit your favorite places in Wilmington at 50% off retail
By: encore Staff - November 13th, 2009
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Best of Downtown Holiday Decorations!
Every year the businesses and historic homes downtown go above and beyond to create a holiday atmosphere like no other. You can see the shop owners battling it out, singing ‘nothing’s gonna stop us,’ wishing for their very own Hollywood and magic mannequin to help them in the windows. This year since the voting, for the first time ever, will be done by the readers of encore Magazine.
By: encore Staff - December 10th, 2009
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Every year the businesses and historic homes downtown go above and beyond to create a holiday atmosphere like no other. You can see the shop owners battling it out, singing ‘nothing’s gonna stop us,’ wishing for their very own Hollywood and magic mannequin to help them in the windows. This year since the voting, for the first time ever, will be done by the readers of encore Magazine.By: encore Staff - December 10th, 2009
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Humor
Naughty Stuffers:
Recently, I tried to persuade my 8-year-old to sit in Santa’s lap just one more time for a picture. I have been known to trick him in the past, just so I could have the mandatory miserable-kid-on-Santa’s-knee pose; then I can always remember what a manipulative, yet festive, mother I am. He rolled his eyes and said sarcastically, “Sure, Mom. Maybe I can pick up a little swine flu from all of the snotty little kids who got there first.”
By: Carolyna Shelton - December 18th, 2009
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Opinion
Live Local. Live Small.
At dinner a couple weeks ago, one of my friends, who had read the first column, said to me, “You know what the problem with this is? By buying only local, you are eliminating competition on price.” He goes on to say that he has to shop at Walmart—he has to, he has no other choice, can’t afford to shop anywhere else. Things are cheaper online, so why not buy them there?
By: Gwenyfar Rohler - December 18th, 2009
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Music
‘Rhode’ to Relaxation:
It was 2006, I suppose, when I met Tom Rhodes. Yes, definitely 2006—during the Superbowl, to be exact. I was preparing to head to New York for a Pogues show over St. Patrick’s Day. When Rhodes heard about my escapade, he immediately starting suggesting places in Brooklyn, where he was currently residing, to check out a bevy of more great live music.
By: Shea Carver - December 18th, 2009
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Encore Exchange
Work On Wilmington:Combine Ghandi’s popular ideology that we must “be the change we wish to see in the world” with the old adage that there’s strength in numbers, and throw in the great hearts of the Port City’s many volunteers, and one result is the community-service event Work On Wilmington, going strong since 2005.
By: Emily Rea - December 18th, 2009
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Art
The Art Patron’s Holiday Guide:Those few remaining names on our holiday shopping lists are staring up at us expectantly, waiting for us to buy them the perfect gift. These are the people who always seem to elude our brilliant and thoughtful ideas, demanding a mix of originality and style. (Damn them! It seems like they already have everything!)
By: Lauren Hodges - December 18th, 2009
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Movie Reviews
Wounded Soldiers:Tobey Maguire: “Best Actor”? Trust me when I say the words are as shocking to read in print as they were when this thought first crossed my mind. A talented actor, sure. An actor capable of laughable performances in the hands of the wrong director, absolutely. While he’s always been an interesting presence onscreen—for example, in films like Seabiscuit, Cider House Rules and the Spiderman films—he’s not someone I ever thought would have the chops to be a real actor. Brothers proves otherwise.
By: Anghus - December 18th, 2009
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Books
Vivid Recollections:As encore book club members stuffed their stomachs with turkey, pie and all the dressings over Thanksgiving, we also traveled into the heart and mind of Wilmington’s own award-winning author Brad Land. We gathered ourselves and our emotions, and despite the imposed-upon optimistic nature of the holidays, we prepared our souls to journey into his emotionally dark work, Goat. It was there that, for the first time, club members became a voyeur to actual accounts of a violent abduction, cold theft and horrific physical assaults.
By: Tiffanie Gabrielse - December 18th, 2009
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