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Restaurant Week, Blackbeard's Pirate Jamboree and More!
The week ahead is so full of great events and happenings it's hard to know where to start. But my motto is, "When in doubt, start with food." And it IS another fabulous food week here on the Outer Banks. Following hot on the heels of last week's Outer Banks Seafood Festival is Fall Outer Banks Restaurant Week, nine... Read More
OBX Seafood Fest, a Dune Buggy Bash and More Hauntings!
Last year's first ever Outer Banks Seafood Festival was such an over-the-top success that the event organizers and participating restaurants and vendors have cooked up an even bigger and better Round Two set for this weekend. This year The Dunes Restaurant in Nags Head kicks off the festival on Friday at 6:30 p.m.... Read More
Hometown Tenor Aims High
You may not know the name Tshombe Selby, but if you've attended any number of local events over the past few years, you've likely heard him sing. And, wow, can he sing! Tshombe Selby is a young local man possessing a remarkable vocal talent, and he has repeatedly and graciously volunteered that talent at local events... Read More
The Jazzy, the Southern and the Ghoulish
October shows no signs of slowing down. Hot on the heels of the Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival come two, couldn't-be-more-different music festivals back-to-back in Corolla and Duck, a combination pig-picking and oyster roast, a production of Steel Magnolias and a bevy of ghost tours. Coastal CastlesFrom Thursday,... Read More
Fright Time, Bluegrass and Fishing for the Future
The Outer Banks is no stranger to mysterious events, disappearances and spooky stories. In fact, one of the world's greatest unsolved mysteries took place along these very shores more than 425 years ago when 117 men, women and children vanished forever from Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Island colony. Couple that... Read More