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Apartments for Rent in Wilmington, NC - 127 Rentals

Wilmington's residents are able to enjoy living in an area that has a mild climate. In fact, the average temperature throughout the year ranges from 53 to 74 degrees, making this the perfect environment for individuals who do not tolerate extreme weather conditions . As a port city that has also been dubbed "A Coast Guard City ," there are several employment and recreational opportunities that involve the water, and it is easy to find high quality apartments in Wilmington, NC that have views of the river. Wilmington Attractions The city boasts a long list of museums and other cultural opportunities, including the Cameron Art Museum , the Hannah Block Historic USO and the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science. Wilmington is also the home of the largest movie and television studio outside of Hollywood, and there are six different performing arts stages within the city limits. There are Wilmington apartments located near each cultural hot spot , so it will be easy...

The rise of ‘three-car garage rock’

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In the summer of 1995, Doug Robb and his friends snuck into Agoura High School in the middle of the night. Dressed in all black, they found the set of portable stages their alma mater used for its commencement ceremonies and wheeled them through a dirt track and onto the beds of pickup trucks they’d borrowed for the occasion. The next day, they set up the foldout stages in Robb’s parents’ backyard to play their first show as Hoobastank, a metal- influenced band they’d formed about six months prior. Robb eventually returned the stages to the school, but not before using them during a massive rager that attracted teens and 20-somethings from all over the area. Among them were the then-unknown members of Incubus and Linkin Park—bands that, along with Hoobastank, would go on to produce some of the biggest hits of the next century. What could’ve easily been just another house party thrown by bored kids in a wealthy LA suburb turned out to be the beginning of a rock-music scene that was...