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How a former nun found her true calling as a midwife By Dana Sachs Over lunch at San Juan Café, nurse-midwife Mary Slawter and I are struggling to find the verb that best describes her role in [...]

After 16 years as the head of Wilmington’s acclaimed film festival, Dan Brawley knows the people who make the movies are the real stars of the show By Dana Sachs Every year, Dan Brawley, [...]

At Gulfstream Restaurant, the inspiring founder of the National Center of Outdoor & Adventure Education digs in By Dana Sachs This summer, ten local teens will fly to Alaska, take a small [...]

Art Camp for Grownups While the Museum School at CAM can’t offer you the PB & J lunches, canoe races, or romance at a summer mixer with the neighboring camp, it can offer you a grown-up [...]

Over Cobb salad and virgin margarita, a free-ranging conversation with Wilmington’s home-grown news anchor By Dana Sachs People in Wilmington may not be surprised to learn that, as a child, [...]

Elsie Shields is always smiling, especially over spicy Thai salad By Dana Sachs When Elsie Shields and I meet for lunch one day at Big Thai Restaurant in Landfall Center, she describes the early [...]

The first Naismith female college player of the year — and acclaimed WNBA coach — bites down with gusto at Pine Valley Market By Dana Sachs For nearly three decades, Anne Donovan played a leading [...]

Medical ethicist David Schultz dives into the Great American Sandwich at Detour Deli Café By Dana Sachs Dr. David Schultz, an internist, began practicing in Wilmington in 2000. As a [...]

Food Network pioneer Judy Girard dives into a healthy buffet and the joy of public service at the Blockade Runner By Dana Sachs When Judy Girard first retired and moved to North Carolina in 2008, [...]

Groundwork Local individuals step in to help a world crisis By Dana Sachs One day, in the heart of Athens, Greece, my friend Stephanie Meyers and I walked into the storeroom of Jasmine School, an [...]