Rachel Lewis Hilburn talks ‘Fixing Congress’ series with Michael Johnson, a former journalist who worked on the Ford White House staff and served as press secretary and chief of staff to House Republican leader Bob Michel.

Welcome to Enconversation, Fixing Congress Part 3 with Rachel Lewis Hilburn. Listen or read the first two parts of this interview at FIXING CONGRESS PT. 1: Compromise, collegiality, and the shift to vitriol and FIXING CONGRESS PT. 2: Political power and the media.

Local poet Martha Afetse will join others this week at the Island Arts Poetry monthly open mic on August 6 from 6-8 p.m.

encore sits down to talk Common Ground with Tommy Oakes.

Splintered Stage presents “Love/Sick,” a one-act dark comedy play cycle by John Cariani. Instead of one through-line narrative, the play is a collection of short plays that explore how romance can go wrong. Each short features just two characters, ranging from love at first sight to long-ago ex-lovers.

As a Wilco fan of many years, Tom Dorgan says this latest show at GLA reminded him why he keeps coming back. Two sets, deep cuts, and Kotche's drums breaking loose in the middle of a ballad. Hard to ask for more out of an evening at Greenfield Lake.

Echoes of Heroes, a rock band based in Wilmington, has finally come full circle. Rooted in decades-long friendships, shared history, and music written early in their separate careers, the band as we know them now has had a unique evolution to reach where they are now.

From auras to shadows to walking-talking ghosts in haunted cities, Carmichael's literary debut is part memoir and part manual, aiming to give vocabulary, community, and structured practices to people struggling with experiences that can be hard to define and even harder to discuss.

While the script of ‘The Shark is Broken’ is tough to chew, Chase Harrison finds the production and cast do their best to deliver.

The Shark is Broken is a comedy about the filming of JAWS: feuding costars, unpredictable weather, and a mechanical shark that won't stop malfunctioning... is JAWS destined for failure?

Five hundred years after their deaths, the six wives of Henry VIII return to the stage to belt out their sides of the story—and to argue over which one had it worse—in ‘Six: The Musical.'

The completely volunteer-driven Wilmington Public Archaeology Corps (PAC) is out under the streets writing history from the ground up.

Taking on a classic is a daunting task, but Suellen Yates, with her cast and crew may have just staged Wilmington’s best musical of 2026.

Mark Herbert sits down with 98.3 The Penguin's Beau Gunn.

Songs of Peace returns for a second year at Waterline Brewing this Friday, June 19.