Outer Banks This Week Blog

Outer Banks information comes in many forms, but there’s no better way to learn it than through conversations with a local. The OuterBanksThisWeek.com blog is that local friend … even if you already live here! Every week, Molly Harrison gives the run down on Outer Banks activities, Outer Banks events, Outer Banks shopping – all the Outer Banks information needed to ensure that you have the best possible experience. And she does it in a conversational way that’s easy to read and entertaining. Outer Banks activities are numerous, and this blog gives you an insider’s scoop to help you plan your day. She leads you to all the Outer Banks events you won’t want to miss – sports, annual functions and holiday festivities. She gives you her input on the most exciting Outer Banks activities – the ones she loves, the ones she thinks you should love. If anything exciting or out-of-the-ordinary is happening during your visit – and there definitely will be something – this blog is your trusty guide to figuring out the whats, whens and wheres.

Nightlife, for example, is detailed here – what band is playing where, which scene is wild, which is chill. Festivals are also described – the ones that are old and loved and the ones that are new and anticipated. The amount of Outer Banks information offered here will keep you busy and in the know. You can find out what would be fun for you, your family or even your pets.

A fun touch of this blog is its conversational element. Hannah Lee always wants to hear from you! In fact, reader input can influence the basis of her next blog’s focus. So if there’s a topic or question you’re craving an answer for, let her know. Sit a spell and read through present and past OuterBanksThisWeek.com blogs. With all the Outer Banks information detailed for you, you’ll be the trusted source to all your friends!

Make Your Plans: Food|Drink|Fun Coming Up!

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Foodies take notice! Tickets for the 2015 Taste of the Beach are now available for purchase and event listings are now being posted on the event website. The four-day epicurean extravaganza begins Thursday, March 19 and continues through Sunday, March 22, featuring multi-course dinners, theme dinners, special... Read More

Art Is Us

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 28, 2015
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!

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 21, 2015
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

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 14, 2015
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

By Michael Lay | Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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