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Chris E. Fonvielle Jr will speak on his book Curious Tales from Old Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region: The Truth Behind the Legends.

Annie Marsh will reprise her role as Patsy Cline in Opera House’s musical revue, “Always … Patsy Cline.” (Port City Daily/Courtesy photo) WILMINGTON — For months Big Dawg Productions’ artistic director, Steve Vernon, has been preparing the local theater company’s return to the stage since Covid-19 shuttered its Cape Fear Playhouse home in March 2020. Though Big Dawg did three radio dramas throughout the pandemic, “The Lifespan of a Fact” will be the company’s first in-pers...

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SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — The USDA reports Americans consume 2.4 burgers a day — or around 50 billion a year. To say the handheld is popular nationwide would be a…

After a great disturbance in the force, Blockade Runner co-host Ryan Grove joins us again to talk Star Wars, but before then, we get to hear Ryans thoughts on Resident Evil Village and the series at large, then we go move on to Subnautica before following a wild ride that starts with Zombies Ate My Neighbors and takes a sizable detour through PSP collecting and Chrono Cross sealed copies on Amazon. At last, we discuss the new Star Wars show The Bad Batch. Be warned: we go into spoilers about th...

The Pork ‘n’ Stormy is chef Shaun Fenix Nelson’s personal favorite.  It’s a burrito filling modeled after the classic, gingery Dark ‘n’ Stormy cocktail. But you might also see the Bloody Mary Chicken (where Nelson chars celery, olives and other classic ingredients to make a mole sauce) on the menu at his Incognito Bar-rito pop-up.   Nelson is a familiar face in local restaurant kitchens and is currently working with chef Jessica Cabo at The Blockade Runner in Wrig...

A friend he was staying with in Wilmington dissuaded him from the notion of taking his show on the road, so to speak. Instead, he did socially distanced concerts for her neighbors several weeks running in her Glen Meade front yard.  "It was a way to get things out" musically, Whitted said. Theres a lot of music in him, as Kennedy -- whom he met in 1997 during a production of "Godspell" at Cape Fear Regional Theatre -- can attest. "Brian Whitted is a musical genius," Kennedy wrote in a Facebook...

3 North Carolina Resorts To (Re)Discover Editor’s Note: Before you travel during the pandemic, we encourage you to read the CDC’s most current travel recommendations and safety guidelines and practice all appropriate safety recommendations.  ********   If you are considering travel options for 2021, North Carolina’s mountains, beaches, four distinct seasons, and small-town cultural pockets make it a great state to visit any time of the year. Plus, some of the South’s most fabulous re...

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Is this the way? We dont know, but well follow this path anyway, even if it leads to the dark side. This week on the show, Ryan Grove (of NWR contributing and Blockade Runner podcast fame) joins John and Neal to talk about what wed like to see from Star Wars video games, the onslaught of new Star Wars movies and shows news, and also we do sometimes touch on Nintendo video games, most importantly Hades, Collection of SaGa, and, um, Star Wars Pinball. Be wary: we do get into spoilers for The Mand...