Author: Matt Artz

May The 4th Be With You: Star Wars Day Hits Outer Banks [Video / Photo Gallery]

May the Fourth be with you! For fans of the Star Wars movie franchise, the date of May 4 each year has been adopted as the official holiday celebrating all things that we love...

Sue Artz with Outer Banks Brewing Station owners Aubrey Davis and Eric Reece on the set of 'OBXE TV' on April 30, 2015 (photo by Matt Artz for OBXentertainment.com)

‘OBXE TV’ Ep. 44 – Outer Banks Brewing Station Owners [Video]

Season 2 of our original Outer Banks entertainment news series OBXE TV continues with Episode 44, featuring special guests Aubrey Davis and Eric Reece, owners of the Outer Banks Brewing Station in Kill Devil Hills. ...

Kill Devil Derby Brigade Roller Girls Win At Home [Video / Photo Gallery]

Roller derby night returned to the Outer Banks when the Kill Devil Derby Brigade‘s home team, Blackbeard’s Revenge, claimed a hard fought victory over the Riptide Wreckers at a recent event at home at...

Outer Banks Relay For Life 2015 Raises Over $10,000 [Photo Gallery]

The annual Outer Banks Relay For Life fundraiser returned to Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo on Saturday, May 2, with live entertainment and events happening throughout the day. The Relay For Life of...

Outer Banks Spring Restaurant Week 2015 Begins

Outer Banks Spring Restaurant Week 2015 begins today (May 1), with more than a dozen local favorites serving up special dishes at extra low prices for the next nine days. Anytime between Friday. May...

Spring Wildlife Art Expo Opening Reception Announced

The Opening Reception for the Spring Wildlife Art Expo is scheduled for Friday, May 8, 2015 from 5 – 8 PM at the National Wildlife Refuges Visitor Center on Roanoke Island.  The reception is...

Kelly Hu is Lady Deathstrike 'X2: X-Men United'.

Tidewater Comicon Returns To Virginia Beach [Interview]

The region’s biggest event of its kind returns to Virginia Beach in May, when Tidewater Comicon takes over the Virginia Beach Convention Center with a ton of celebrity guests, top name comic book creators,...

Hugh Jackman Blackbeard Movie ‘Pan’ Retreats To October

Hugh Jackman (X-Men, The Wolverine) brings a new spin and an entirely new look to the Outer Banks’ most infamous pirate Blackbeard, who was killed off the coast of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, in...

May The 4th Be With You: Celebrate Star Wars Day in Kitty Hawk!

May the Fourth be with you! For fans of the Star Wars movie franchise, the date of May 4 each year has been adopted as the official holiday celebrating all things that we love...

Brew and Arts Series Returns To Outer Banks Brewing Station

The popular Brew & Arts summer art show series benefiting Outer Banks Children at Play Museum returns to the Outer Banks Brewing Station in Kill Devil Hills on Mondays this June through August. Kids and...

David McCullough Wright Brothers Book, Tom Hanks HBO Miniseries Preview

The subject of the next miniseries event from HBO and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goatzman hits close to home, as HBO has acquired the rights to The Wright Brothers, the new book...

Outer Banks Weekend Movie Update – May 1, 2015: ‘The Avengers’ Return

The Avengers reassemble in theaters this week in Disney and Marvel’s action-packed superhero sequel Age of Ultron (rated PG13), opening this Friday locally at the historic Pioneer Theatre in Manteo and R/C KDH Movies 10 in...

Hatteras Wildlife Protection Environmental Assessment Released

Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) released today, for public review, the Seashore plan which reviews wildlife protection buffers for public access.   This environmental assessment (EA), prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy...

Outer Banks National Parks Tourism Creates Economic Benefits

A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2014 shows that over 2.8 million visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial spent more than $170...

Mike Love To Play Outer Banks Brewing Station [Concert Preview]

National recording artist Mike Love will be live in concert at the Outer Banks Brewing Station in Kill Devil Hills in May. Love was born and raised on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii...

‘OBXE TV’ Ep. 43 – Outer Banks Bike Week 2015 [Video]

Season 2 of our original Outer Banks entertainment news series OBXE TV continues with Episode 43, filmed on location at various events throughout the area during Outer Banks Bike Week 2015, celebrating its 13th year...

Jefferson Starship Headlines Lost Colony Outer Banks Concert Series

Jefferson Starship, featuring two of the original members of the iconic rock band Jefferson Airplane, is coming to the Outer Banks for the first time, live on stage at the historic Waterside Theatre on...

National Park Service Updates Cape Hatteras ORV Management Plan

National Park Service Outer Banks Group Superintendent David Hallac announced this week that, consistent with 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, a legislation-driven review and analysis of the Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Management Plan for Cape...

New Dolphin Signs Installed At Jennette’s Pier And NC Aquarium

The North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, Jennette’s Pier, and the Outer Banks Community Foundation have teamed up with the Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research (OBX CDR) to develop and install informational graphic...

Outer Banks Weekend Movie Update – April 24, 2015: Ageless ‘Adaline’

Adaline is ageless in theaters this week, and an animated alien just wants to get Home at the historic Pioneer. Here’s your Outer Banks Movie Update for the weekend of April 24, 2015! At the historic Pioneer Theatre in...