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Open Letter to the Jacksonville Daily News: Double Shame on You for Shoddy Coverage of OOPS Reception and Art Show

Since it didn’t take the first time… Dear Jacksonville Daily News, Your blurb (at left and “blurb” is an overstatement) about the OOPS reception and art show at the Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts was pretty sad. Not only was it poorly written and only a sentence (and a fragment) long, but the photograph of [...]

Open Letter to the Jacksonville Daily News: Shame on You for Shoddy Coverage of Soup in a Bowl

Dear Jacksonville Daily News, Shame on you for only sending a photographer to the Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts‘ Soup in a Bowl event yesterday. And an even bigger shame on you for having a photograph and a slightly over-run sentence for your coverage in today’s newspaper. With a staff of over 30 professional journalists, [...]

Soup in a Bowl

As I’ve mentioned, the Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts held their 6th annual Soup in a Bowl fundraiser today (photos available here). I’d say it was a pretty rousing success, especially in the “Darned Good Soups” category. I had five hot soups plus one cold soup and two breads (there was a total of about [...]

Don’t be bored, there’s plenty to do!

911 Restoration (in Cedar Point) is hosting a collection of Patrick Keough‘s Ireland Photographs tonight from 5pm to 7pm. There will also be a beer tasting. Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts will be hosting the 6th annual Soup in a Bowl event on Saturday from 11am to 1pm. The cost is a $10 handmade pottery [...]

Jacksonville, NC: Let’s Stay Out of the News for a While…

In case you haven’t heard, Jacksonville, NC has been pretty big news lately. It started with the public inquiry into a Marine Special Operations unit’s questionable shooting on civilians in Afghanistan and ended with the murder of Marine Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach. I haven’t written about either because both of them are examples of serious [...]

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