Posts by designloud

A trio of unconventional artists work with joy and purpose Artists from Picasso to Jasper Johns have historically experimented with the possibilities of paint and canvas pushing the limits of conventional practice.Today increased access to materials and information and a greater appreciation for diverse creative modes grant painters more freedom.Three artists with roots in the…

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Dale Varnam insists he is not crazy. He makes that abundantly clear up front. And in the middle. And at the end. “I don’t want you to think I’m crazy” is a repeated phrase during a typically long visit with the proprietor of Fort Apache the quirky roadside attraction/museum/junk store near Supply in Brunswick County.…

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Amy and Ben Wright’s coffee shop is a stable safe and positive work environment for employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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What is our coastline made up of? If you scoop up a handful of beach sand you will be mostly looking at quartz-rich clear-to-milky sand grains that are often 90-plus percent of the composition with some whole shells but mostly shell fragments broken by wave energy. If you could go back in time the island…

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Nostalgia and storytelling in the work of Nicole White Kennedy One could argue that all visual art is narrative; that a time place context and subject are implied once brush is set to canvas in both representational and abstract art. And yet there are those images that take this experience a step further. Like a…

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When you live and breathe fishing it’s important to keep an ample supply of bait on hand. Time spent running to the store is time that could be spent on the water. Sammy Corbett found a simple fix to the problem. “I remember he used to live on Pelican Drive in Wrightsville Beach ” says…

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“It was just dreamy ” homeowner Donna Aldredge says. “Everything we chose had to meet that criteria.” As the walls went up and the windows were placed the panoramic view out the front of 316 Beach Road North on Figure Eight Island gave inspiration to a name. Aldredge quickly took to Instagram to share the…

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The best way to deal with invasive and venomous lionfish? Put them on the dinner plate.

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From the Beach to the Hall One of the newest members of the Greater Wilmington Sports Hall of Fame (GWSHOF) is former Wrightsville Beach resident and former professional golf standout Bruce Fleisher. His family moved to the beach in 1957. He was a pitcher for the town’s Little League team and bodysurfed with his brothers.…

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You hear the players before you see them. On any given day at one of the county’s public tennis courts it’s likely you will catch a chorus of distinctive hollow rounded notes produced when thick paddles meet perforated plastic balls. The sport is pickleball. It’s been around since the summer of 1965 when a politician…

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