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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 Wrightsville Beach. But for the past eight years, spontaneous burrito making has been another part o...

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. There's 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 message. "I do not use that term lightly. Pianist. Singer. Arranger. Comedian ... He is a beautifu...

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 resorts call North Carolina home. Today we’ve rounded up three very different ones — Pinehurst, B...

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Is this the way? We don't know, but we'll 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 we'd 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 Mandalorian Season 2 (everything except the finale - which is out now but we recorded earlier this we...