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Art Is Us
One of the defining characteristics of humanity is the creation of art. Whether it be tattoos, bodypainting or other personal adornment, jewelry making, the carving of fertility symbols and other religious iconography or scribing images of Stone Age beasts onto cave walls deep within the belly of the earth, our... Read More
"You Can't Take It With You" Takes The Outer Banks!
Sometimes a good idea seems to just be floating in the ether waiting to be actualized. When Theatre of Dare selected the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy You Can’t Take It With You for its first production of 2015, no one in the organization had any idea that Broadway moguls had plans for a revival of the show, or that... Read More
A Passion for Nature Nurtures a Photographer's Growth
What transforms a simple interest into a passion, a hobby into an art form, a youthful enthusiast into a professional-level artist? For 20-year old photographer Gordon Dimmig, his growth as an artist began with a love of the outdoors and the desire to visually record what he saw in nature, using picture-taking as a... Read More
Buffer Those Post-Holiday Blues With Learning
The holidays are over. The bangles, baubles, bells and bows packed up and returned to storage. The lights taken down and stuffed into boxes where, over an 11-month hibernation period, they will mysteriously metamorphose back into the byzantine coils and sticky tangles that drive previously mild-mannered holiday... Read More
Greetings of the Season
All of us at OuterBanksThisWeek.com want to wish you the happiest holiday season. However you celebrate this time of year, we hope you celebrate it well and pass the cheer on to the others around you and accept theirs back to you. It seems the time goes slowly as we anticipate the holidays, then it flies by once the... Read More