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NEWS>>live local

live local, live small:

The gentrification of North Fourth Street and who’s getting left behind how the powers that be perceived this particular neighborhood. I did not yet know about the Wilmington 10 or 1898, but I clearly understood someone really feared this place.

by: gwenyfar rohler

I shouldn’t say nothing has changed.

Taylor Homes was torn down and rebuilt.

The police department moved their headquarters to North 4th. Rankin Terrace is going through an overhaul, and DREAMS Center for Arts Education has moved into the neighborhood. However, streets aren’t getting repaved and property values are not improving.

The day Jock and I had our conversation we were on our way to Detour Deli for lunch. I have to admit: Though the food is awesome, it is their ongoing efforts to screen film noir movies outside on Thursday nights that endears them to me.

Detour’s owner Allister Snyder started the Brooklyn Free Libraries, and its Little Free Library outside the door and walls lined with books inside (Freud, Hemingway, Herbert, Bellow, Gunter Grass, Plato, Joyce, Alan Watts, etc.) captivates. But good taste in books and film aside, after a few visits, I found myself wanting to ask Snyder a bit about his experiences in the neighborhood—because they have clearly been so different from mine. Raised in Wyoming, Snyder moved to Red Cross Street in 2005.

“There is so much potential in the area,” he says. “I walked down 5th Avenue: the median, the beautiful trees ... I was confounded why there wasn’t more interest in the area. The property prices made it worth the investment.”

CONTINUALLY ON THE RISE: Gwenyfar Rowler talks about the 20-year rise of North Fourth Street, which includes the opening of the Brooklyn Arts Center in 2011. Photo by Chris Brehmer Photography

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hat are you thinking?” Jock asked.

“I’m thinking I used to ride the school bus down this street everyday in 1992 and it hasn’t changed much. It looks pretty much the same.”

We were steering down Red Cross Street and I pointed at Ruth’s Grocery. “I mean, look: Ruth’s is still there and I bet we could take a picture from 20 years ago and hold it up next to this, and it would look almost the same.”

For the three most miserable years of my life, I attended DC Virgo Middle School in the early ‘90s and rode the school bus past Rankin Terrace to Red Cross, to Nixon to the school that had clearly been built to be a fortress in the event of city war. I recognized the design immediately from my early childhood fascination with castles—which, contrary to popular childhood belief, were not meant to be beautiful and elegant but rather defendable fortresses.

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Snyder also notes the beautiful historic homes in the area, its proximity to the river, access to MLK Parkway, and central location would seem like an area desirable for business and residents alike.

With the rise of North Fourth Street, what surrounds it becomes the next point of discussion. It might come as a shock to recent transplants that the excitement about North 4th in recent years was starting to sound like a country western song to locals. At least for me, it started around ‘93 or ’94: “North Fourth is on the rise...

That’s the place to buy property... It’s going to be the next hot thing.”

When I looked at my new school—or the first time I understood clearly that I was looking at a building designed to withstand a siege—the main building was up on stilts, and its windows were all slits designed to protect a shooter while allowing a shotgun to protrude. (In the Middle Ages, it would have been long bows instead of guns, but the principal was the same.) It was in a part of town that, up It was almost on a two-year loop tape. until that moment at 11-years-old, I had never seen. In that instant, something Then PPD built their headquarters in was clearly communicated to me about 2007, the Brooklyn Arts Center opened

in 2011 and CFCC expanded their campus and opened the Cape Fear Stage in 2015. Now it is the hot ticket that the last 20 years promised it would be. So what does that look like for the expanding neighborhoods around it?

Snyder observes there are a number of pieces that need to come together for the next leap in the neighborhood. Much of the surrounding area is vacant: unoccupied homes, buildings and lots. City services feel absent from the neighborhood, and eventually there has to be some substantial investment.

“Big money has to come in to do some of the heavy work,” Snyder notes. “But city planning is incredibly important. We want the neighborhood to be mixed use: low-income, median income and upscale housing.”

He points out if someone pays $500,000 for a piece of real estate they aren’t going to put low-income housing on it. Perhaps it is the entrepreneur in me that enjoys chatting with Snyder. There is a reality to how money works in the world, and with small business it is a very immediate and pressing reality that impacts the way I interact with the world: I become a walking cost/benefit calculator.

One of the intangibles that is hard to quantify is perception. Are the quality of

homes in Landfall really worth the price tags? Are they made with better or different materials than other homes on Eastwood Road? Much of what people are paying for in the price is the gated community, the name and perceived value that comes with it. Red Cross Street suffers from the reverse perception. Snyder recounts his experience getting a special use permit in order to open the deli.

“I had city council members question my business acumen,” he tells, “city officials talking down a neighborhood— expressing implausibility that a business would consider this neighborhood.”

He shakes his head and points out that, since then, Fly Trap Brewing and Palate have both opened. More so, the surrounding area is gaining momentum.

But the idea of gentrification is one that weighs my mind during our discussion.

How does this neighborhood weather such without changing its historic makeup? Thus far the pattern for gentrification here largely has been to push people of color out of areas as they become desirable. People of color steadily have been removed from an area that increasingly is perceived as valuable waterfront property. Snyder points back to city planning and the importance of a long-term vision—they’re also must be immediate increased attention from city

officials, better access to city services and change in perception as first steps. “It’s not what the reputation would make it seem,” Snyder says.

I have to agree: Looking around the area, it seems ripe for entrepreneurship and investment. But I have wonder if it is going to be another 20 years of talking about how hot the potential is before it takes off? Once that happens, will it be in a way that embraces the neighborhood and lifts everyone up economically?

Or will it only come by pushing residents elsewhere, and making it a hipster playground for the nouveau riche?

I got my freedom from DC Virgo shortly after Bill Clinton was elected presi-

dent. Since, the U.S. saw vast economic swings, and Wilmington has grown exponentially. We have yet to learn how to grow our city together instead of at each other’s expense.

“Wilmington isn’t segregated, it’s separated,” is a comment I hear frequently— apparently it exonerates us from guilt. I don’t have an answer for how to do this.

I just know it is long overdue to have a serious discussion about economic disparity and creating a path that benefits everyone, instead of continuing the historic cycles of taking from our historically African-American neighborhoods for others’ benefit.

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NEWS>>op-ed

Flower Power!

Blossoms for bombers

by: MARK BASQUILL

“D

id you hear that?” I asked after an Azalea Festival commercial during one the NCAA Tournament games.

“Is the Azalea Festival donating $90,000 dollars to the military?” I asked. “That’s barely enough to buy a military grade toilet.”

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“It does sound odd,” my wife, the master gardener, remarked. “The Azalea Festival funds scholarships and celebrates spring blossoms. They don’t build bombers.”

Though, it does make sense.

The financial gain or “profit” is at the front end, arming the world—not at the back end, caring for the human exhaust spewing from the tailpipe of our war machine (like spent shells from a semi-automatic). We won’t raise the minimum wage, provide universal health care or forgive student-loan debt, but shout “national security” or “war on terror” loud enough, and we’ll willingly shred the Bill of Rights and feed our children into the great maw of the war machine.

I don’t question the Azalea Festival’s efforts to help nonprofits. It’s our nation’s vision “Blossoms for bombers!” I echoed. “Our I question. Are we Americans so baptized in military is running partly on flower power! our hyper-masculine culture of blood that we Who knew?” have become blind to how odd it is to fund We loved taking the youngsters to the Aza- any part of history’s largest military machine lea Festival to get their faces painted, eat fun- with proceeds from a flower festival? nel cake and enjoy azaleas in full bloom. But I Questioning the wisdom of endless war had trouble with the idea that Azalea Festival is rarer than being sexually assaulted in a was painting faces to pay for Marine sniper public restroom by a man posing as a womteams (and $90,000 actually would pay an- an. For a man to question Mars in America nual salaries of a couple of two-person lance- means to be suspected of wearing a dress corporal-led Marine sniper teams). and having no balls. In our hyper-masculine It’s almost tax day. Don’t we send a lion’s culture, many people still believe it’s weak share of our tax dollars to the Pentagon—and to wear dresses and have no balls, Jessica have a military budget more for than the next Jones and Beyonce be damned.

20 or so countries combined? What’s next, a GoFundMe page for a fleet of next-generation bombers that won’t be needed unless the Klingons and Sith form a cross-mythical alliance? (In that case, we better start a Kickstarter campaign for warp drive, too.)

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As difficult as it is to be a member of the LGBT community in America, LGBT groups were permitted to march in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Veterans for Peace (a military nonprofit) has routinely been denied entry because their refusal to pray to the RoIt’s sacrilege to question military spend- man god of “War is un-American.” ing in America, but since I’ve been ex-comIn 1917 President Wilson convinced a pacmunicated from most churches anyway I ifist nation to enter WWI and begin a centuryfigured I’d email the Azalea Festival folks. long American crusade to “Make the world Officials confirmed the festival does gener- safe for democracy!” But in 1916 his camate more than $90,000 in donations to “mili- paign slogan was, “He kept us out of war!” tary nonprofits.”

In 2016 no candidate could win a primary But what’s a military nonprofit? by being anti-war. Hillary Clinton is the most Military nonprofits appear to focus on qualified candidate but also hawkish. She filling gaps for a range of veteran services can’t afford to look “soft on defense.” Bernie that our tax dollars can’t or won’t fund. De- voted against Iraq and advocates for veterspite Wounded Warriors’ recent troubles, ans, but he doesn’t question the war industry most are staffed by noble people on noble itself. And our Christian values, cost-cutting missions, serving a cause greater than GOP candidates, are embroiled in a schoolthemselves. (Sounds like a recruiting ad.) yard slap fight for the keys to our big, honking Military.com has instructions to start a non- American tank! profit. Militaryoneclick.com lists over 75 military-focused nonprofits.

Our military machine is not just big business; it’s small business. And it’s a nonprofit—a charity like the Sisters of Mercy or United Way. I figured war was a racket but never guessed it could be a charity.

I don’t care how the Azalea Festival donates its money. I do hope at the dawn of the 2nd century of the American crusade to “make the world safe for democracy,” we begin to see the business of war is actually “nonprofit” for everyone.

The Power of Precedent Department of Veterans Affairs employee Elizabeth Rivera Rivera, 39, was fired after her arrest (followed by a February guilty plea) for armed robbery, but when she was sentenced only to probation, an arbitrator ordered the VA to rehire her — and give her back pay she “earned” while sitting in jail awaiting trial. (She had been the driver for a man arrested for a street robbery in San Juan, Puerto Rico.) Rivera’s union had demanded the reinstatement without salary penalty — for “fairness” — because the same Puerto Rico VA office had earlier hired a convicted sex offender, and the office’s hospital director, recently charged with DUI and drug possession, avoided VA discipline because of technicalities about the traffic stop.

Compelling Explanations — Urges: (1) Ms. Ashton Barton, 33, charged with shoplifting a vibrating sex toy from a CVS pharmacy in Largo, Florida, in February, tried for police sympathy by explaining that she was in a troubled marriage. “My husband doesn’t want to touch me anymore,” and “I would rather do this than be unfaithful.” (2) Neighbors of a loudly frisky couple in a Stockholm, Sweden, apartment building were so frustrated by the noise that they reached out to the country’s health minister, Gabriel Wikstrom — who took the side of the randy couple (according to a translation by Stockholm’s The Local): “Sounds nice for them, I think.

Good for their wellbeing and thus public health as well.”

— Nice Tries: (1) Benjamin Grafius, 39, charged with several instances of indecent exposure to Amish people near New Holland, Pennsylvania, told police that he targeted them because he knew they would not use phones to call police (March). (2) Valerie Godbout, 33, visiting Orlando from Montreal and charged with drug possession after alerting police with erratic driving, told the officer that she was on the wrong side of the road because that’s the way traffic works in Canada. (It’s not.) (March). (3) Emily Davis, 21, caught by police displaying her recently deceased grandmother’s handicap-parking badge, explained that she was merely “using it in her honor.” (Portsmouth, England, February).

Breakthroughs in Science — German researchers, publishing in March, revealed that female burying beetles uniquely discourage their mates from pestering them for sex after birth — thus explaining how the male of this species is observed actually helping with child care.

The females apparently release a chemical “anti-aphrodisiac” to the father’s antennae.

Said the lead researcher (a woman), “They are a very modern family.” Said another biology professor (also female), “Burying beetles are supercool.”

— Science magazine called the “butthole” “one of the finest innovations in the past 540 million years of animal evolution” — in that, until it developed, animals’ only channel of waste removal was through the same opening used for food intake. However, the recent discovery, announced at a March conference by a University of Miami biologist, that gelatinous sea creatures called comb jellies can excrete via other pores, was labeled by the magazine as “stunn(ing).”

— The Emerging American “Right” of Rejecting Science: In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that measles had been eliminated in the United States, but by 2014 Americans had resurrected it (677 reported cases), and researchers from Emory University and Johns Hopkins set out to learn how — and recently found the dominant reason to be the purposeful decision by some Americans to refuse or delay widely available vaccinations (especially for their children). (The researchers found similar, but less-strong conclusions about whooping cough.)

Least Competent Criminals Albuquerque police encountered Leonard Lopez, 26, inside a Chevy Cobalt car (that was not his) just after midnight on March 30 after neighbors reported a man screaming inside, flashing the car’s headlights. A panicked Lopez was upside down, with his feet on the dashboard and his head and shoulders wedged under the steering wheel, hands and arms tucked inside his sweatshirt. He was charged with burglary, and police guessed he was probably going through opiate withdrawal.

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Vinyl Community:

Record Store Day events abound throughout Wilmington stores still here, despite the odds stacked against them.”

by: shannon rae gentry

Keen has a long-standing relationship with RSD, which has improved drastically in filling actual ordered quantities for his store. As fun and exciting as Record Store Day is, Keen urges folks to remember independent record stores are open another 364 days a year and need the community to support them as hubs of the local music scene.

“It’s hard to keep going year after year when people are buying their records online and through big-box retailers, who just recently decided that vinyl was cool enough again to try to capitalize on profiting from it,” he notes.

While Keen has invited bands to play throughout the day in years past, it sometimes makes it difficult for shoppers to actually be able to find and purchase releases they are looking for. Therefore, he doesn’t have much planned in-store per live music this Saturday. “This year the focus is strictly on the releases and helping our customers with any questions they might have about them,” he adds.

Visit Gravity’s Facebook event page for more details and updates.

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COUNTDOWN TO RSD: Gravity Records (above) is getting ready for another Record Store Day of special vinyl releases. Courtesy photo.

ince Record Store Day’s inception in 2008, its releases and popularity amongst the people have grown exponentially. Moreover, it’s become an occasion; a gathering of a community within a community each year, as folks line up and down streets, waiting for doors to open at the first of what may be several stops throughout the day.

While waiting, sometimes in the cold or rain or both, folks casually talk about the records they’re hoping to snag—in some cases, getting a feel for the friendly competition around them. Others excite over upcoming concerts, ones they’ve seen recently or the general gossip in the local music scene.

Last year’s RSD line at Gravity Records was

where I first heard about a downtown amphitheater, which has almost come to fruition at Pier 33. A few weeks back my husband and I were grabbing a six-pack one evening and heard from nearby, “Hey, I know you guys …

Record Store Day!” (Same guy who told us about the amphitheater.)

Record Store Day is the most wonderful time of the year for music and vinyl fanatics. It’s a special day for independent record stores who participate, as they stock their shelves with special vinyl releases from popular industry mainstays and the sonically obscure. And the fun part is: No one really knows if a store is going to have the records they’ve been vying for from the RSD list (found at www.recordstoreday.

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com). The “hunt” is part of the fun, and hunting grounds span across four local record stores in Wilmington.

Gravity Records, 612 Castle St. Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m.

Gravity Records has been participating in Record Store Day since its second or third year. Owner Matt Keen says it only continues to get bigger. “There are better titles being released every year, and more and more people coming in to help us celebrate independent record stores,” he tells encore. “I think the draw is not only the cool limited-edition vinyl releases but also people trying to show their support for the mom-and-pop record

Yellow Dog Discs 351 S. College Rd. #1 Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m.

Yellow Dog Disc owner Tim Freeman remembers his first low-key Record Store Day four years ago and admits he was a bit overwhelmed by the response. “Ever since then we have stepped it up,” he says. “We only had about 40 titles the first year and this year we will have over 200 in stock.”

Freeman says Record Store Day not only offers up something special for loyal customers but welcomes newbies and like-minded folks as well. Freeman has been an avid fan of ‘70s psychedelic rock and is looking forward to this year’s releases by The Doors and Creedence Clearwater Revival. “As the customers of the store know, I am also a huge fan of film soundtracks and there are some really cool titles being released for that as well,” he adds.

Freeman has planned out RSD giveaways and live entertainment for this year.

There even are a few special things to be announced only on RSD. “We have teamed with some local businesses to have some cool giveaways on RSD,” he tells. “Battlefield

Live, Fanboy Comics, Diligent Tattoo, Ziggys By the Sea—also Jimmy Johns will be supplying mini subs during the lunch hours to customers in the store.”

Yellow Dog will sell locally printed T-shirts designed by Freeman’s wife. The first 25 customers in the door will receive a free swagbag of goodies from RSD, local sponsors and some other surprises from Yellow Dog. “Let’s just say our mascot, Rusty, is involved,” Freeman hints.

Freeman’s still putting together a full schedule of bands, but so far on the bill will be Randy McQuay, Colton Leighton, Xan Callihan, and Aaron Cowan, as well as a guest appearance by IAMDYNAMITE around lunch hours.

“They will be in store signing autographs and taking photos with fans,” Freeman says. “We might even be able to talk them into a quick mini-acoustic concert before their big show at Wing Fling downtown later that day.”

Yellow Dog fans can stay up to date with all things Record Store Day through Facebook and Instagram.

Reggie’s Records, 1417 S. 42nd St. Saturday, April 16, Noon This is Reggie’s Records’ second year participating in Record Store Day and owner Matt Hearn says they’ve got a bunch of cool stuff coming in—and not just RSD releases.

They’ll have 20 percent off all new records, and a buy two, get one free (equal or less value) deal on used albums. As far as RSD releases go, there are several Hearn will have an eye out for.

“Mission of Burma is doing a split with Metz; Swami has a compilation coming out; The New Melvins, Sonic Youth,” he lists.

“NOFX is doing the Sex Pistols’ ‘Sid and Nancy.’”

Reggie’s will have live music out back of shop this year, featuring the Nuclear Twins, The Lupine, Interstellar Eagle, and Jason Ward. Hearn’s favorite “BBQ dude” Adam Thomson from Southern Wonders BBQ will be providing food around noon. “Buy Adam a beer and you might get a better hunk of meat,” Hearn jokes.

BBQ, music and beer aside, Hearn thinks people just dig what RSD stands for: “A great day for music lovers to get into new shit. . . .

It celebrates the record store and gives shop owners an opportunity to make a couple extra bucks to keep the doors open. People support it because it helps keep cool shit going in the community.”

Follow updates and details for Record Store Day on Reggie’s Records Facebook page.

Squidco, 928 N. 4th St. Saturday, April 16, 11 a.m.

Squidco will celebrate RSD this year with store-wide discounts, live music and other

new-media presentations throughout the day.

“The draw for those coming is the chance to see and hear performances that are quite different from other music presented in Wilmington,” says Squdico owner Phil Zampino.

This year will be his store’s fifth Record Store Day since their first in 2011. The growing number of releases available and more participation of major labels in the event have been the most notable changes.

“As a shop specializing in improvised music, avant-compositional and avant-rock forms, we carry only a fraction of the releases that are available,” he says, “Over the years we’ve found more potential in the day to draw community together for a large day of music performance, video displays, interactive sound events, transforming our store into a fun and fascinating focal point for experimental sound.”

Zampino is hoping to sell albums on the Swedish Moserobie label, like free-improvising band Nacka Forum with saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar. “We’re also excited to carry the Record Store Release from local artist Mr. Stonecipher, AKA Ryan Lewis, who also runs Obscura Films,” he adds. “He will be the headline for our concerts that day.”

Experimental live music throughout the day also will include performances by Carl Kruger and an interactive-sound environment from Kruger and Zampino himself. New releases in the store will be 15 percent off, with a large set of used jazz CDs and LPs made available especially for the day. Every purchase allows the customer to select a free CD from a large set of interesting titles as well.

“We’re also viewing a movie from the UK Matchless label of Alexander Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, John Edwards, and Eddie Prevost ‘3 NIghts at Cafe OTO,’” he says, “which is a superb example of modern improvisation.”

Squidco regularly presents shows with local artists, particularly from the 910 and 919 Noise scenes, but Record Store Day is a good opportunity to see what they present on a regular bases. Visit their Facebook page for details and updates.

Details:

Record Store Day

April 18 Squidco 928 N. 4th St. Gravity Records 613 Castle St. Yellow Dog Discs 351 S. College Rd. Reggie’s 42nd St. Tavern 1415 S. 42nd St. www.recordstoreday.com

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UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM:

Dave Rawlings talks songwriting, returning to MerleFest 2016 and Lifetime Achievement Award seven tracks, but they tend to run longer than average songs (especially “The Trip,” clocking in at 11 minutes). Nevertheless, they manage to include a good percentage of new material when touring, at least six in a set nightly.

by: shannon rae gentry

“That’s something Gillian and I have always been interested in when we make a new record,” he says—“seeing how many of the songs we enjoy playing and the audience enjoys hearing on a new record. You don’t want to tire people out or give them more new material than what they’re comfortable hearing.”

“Short Haired Woman Blues” is adapting surprisingly well to live performances, according to Rawlings. It has more string instrumentals than what some may expect to hear from the Machine. It’s less orchestral than the recording and more string-band live.

Rawlings arranged it for roughly 10 strings, but says Hobbs playing her five-string fiddle is able to cover a couple parts at once. Kowert on bow and bass also can grab some cello parts now and again.

“It is sort of a lot to do,” he admits, “and it’s taken a number of performances for us to all feel like we understand what we’re doing on that song, to give it the feeling of that size but with a smaller band … I think, in a live setting, maybe we play it a little harder and dig into it in a way that you don’t normally dig into it when you’ve first written it and you’re in the studio for the first time. I like where it is, actually.”

A HOMECOMING: Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch will return to MerleFest 2016 with new music for the main stage. Photo by Brian Lima

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very festival has a personality and it’s interesting to see what that is,” Dave Rawlings says over the phone.

We’re talking about various festivals across the country, one of them being MerleFest, which takes place April 28-May 1 in Wilkesboro, NC. “We definitely cut our teeth on MerleFest, and we came up there in a lot of ways,” he continues. “Some of our first performances outside of Nashville had to do with that . . . I’m really interested to go back and see what this festival is at this moment.”

Dave Rawlings Machine—made up of Rawlings, Welch, Willie Watson (guitar; formerly of Old Crow Medicine Show), Paul Kowert (bass) and Brittany Haas (violin)—will take over the Watson main stage at 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 30. It’s been more than 20 years since Rawlings’ long-time partner Gillian Welch won one of MerleFest’s initial Chris Austin Songwriting Contests. Afterward they routinely played the festival for several years, but this 2016 marks their return after a few years hiatus.

Before the “big festivals,” like Bonnaroo and Coachella, there was MerleFest. From its start in 1988, Rawlings says the MerleFest community was a thrill for musicians and fans alike when he and Welch entered the scene.

“That was an amazing audience of acoustic-music fans at that time in those mid ‘90s,” he remembers. “A lot of people discovering a ton of new music but also there was this community for it, and I don’t think in that region there had been something like that in a while, of that scope.”

Playing music for the first time to a festival audience, often made up more of people who had never heard the artist before, offers a different perspective not necessarily found at a show where almost everyone in the room is singing along. The latter comes with a feeling the people there are those who are most interested in what the band has to offer.

“That’s fun because you can draw from a deeper catalog sometimes—playing something special or rare can be the most exciting

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part of the show,” Rawlings explains. “At a festival you kind of have to consider what part of the country you’re in, and in some ways, figure out what [the people] want to hear.”

The Dave Rawlings Machine—now with two albums under its belt (“A Friend Of A Friend,” 2009, and “Nashville Obsolete,” 2015)—comprise sets from previous album releases over their two-decade career (“Time (The Revelator),” “Soul Journey,” “Revival”).

They also include covers they’ve mastered (“I’ll Fly Away,” “Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby”) to find an eventual “sweet spot” of songs uncovered and rediscovered.

“It ebbs and flows because we’ve been playing some songs for a lot of years, and the better the song the easier it is,” Rawlings says. “Sometimes there is a song you take time off playing and then, when you return to it, you can feel it again.”

Since releasing “Nashville Obsolete” in September last year, Rawlings says it has been a great album to play on the road. There are only

“Pilgrim” has changed a bit since its initial recording, as well. Rawlings plays mandolin on the record but has stowed the instrument for his guitar, with which he is more comfortable playing on the song. Also, “The Trip” tends to develop on a nightly bases, one way or another.

“The feel of that song will shift and go through different rhythmic claves and musical feels through that,” he tells. “The dynamic of that piece, the ups and the downs, usually shift nightly . . . and you have to figure out what that means for the rest of the story.”

In a way, Rawlings says there’s less time than ever to complete projects in between touring, writing and producing music. Going back a couple of decades, it was the norm to have a new record out every year or less. However, it was also a time when record sales were how artists essentially made their living and live shows existed only to support the album. Now musicians make records when they can manage it between tours.

“The world has just decided that musicians will be fine, ‘They can just make money on the road,’” he quips. “I don’t think people realize

they’re going to hear a lot less recorded music from everybody out there because of this. . . .

Even in the world of much bigger artists than we are, that seems to be true.”

Luckily, Rawlings and Welch love playing live. The stage is where Rawlings says he started and he’d never want to stop touring.

Regardless, they have to be judicious with their time in order to get new music out and complete projects they’ve been working on. Whether they’re writing new material, producing a record with Willie Watson or mastering previous albums for vinyl, time, in fact, is a revelator. “I open my eyes in the morning and notice there’s a shortage of time but no shortage of activities,” he says with a laugh.

Since the beginning of their writing collaboration, Rawlings and Welch have become more focused over the years. What hasn’t changed is how they tend to agree on the songs they write. He knows other teams of people infuse a give and take, where sometimes someone has to be dissatisfied with a part of a song, or even a song entirely.

“With us, we tend to dislike the same things,” he continues. “It’s a huge thing, [and] it’s the same when we’re recording a record. We tend to align as far as what moves us and what we think is the best take, best line or the best rhyme of a song. This is true when we’re listening to other people’s music, too.”

Ironically, songwriting also is one of his most difficult ventures for these wordsmiths. Trying

to compile lyrics and instrumentals into something cohesive to stand the test of time is no easy task. To Rawlings, writing a song isn’t much different than writing a novel, in terms of the time and energy put into it.

“Sometimes I almost think [writing a novel] would be easier,” he states. “In songwriting there’s a constant need to parse what you’re saying down to these little verses and a chorus.

It’s an interesting process.”

There’s always a natural ability in good writing, but also there’s an homage to the greats who have come before—who have paved the way—that one must recognize. Rawlings’ own list of favorite and inspirational writers isn’t an obscure one: Neil Young, Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earl, and Emmylou Harris. Also, it could be boiled down to Shakespeare and Bob Dylan, whose catalogs are big enough to keep anyone busy for a while. And in term of traditional folk songs, passing through hundreds or thousands of hands, according to Rawlings, they’re like a stone “rolled in a river until they’re this perfect thing.”

“A lot of the music in this culture that we draw from goes a long way backward,” he acknowledges. “Ten years ago I remember the first time I discovered Conor Oberst of ‘Bright Eyes,’ and there’s where you can see the folk tradition moving forward with his writing. A lot of times, you’re either going upstream or downstream. You’re hiking up the mountain, trying to find that place where the water comes out of the rock. Other times you’re down the

river, looking at how the music is combining and then going off into new directions.”

Rawlings and Welch were up for a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association a few years back. However, he wasn’t too convinced it was their time. It always seemed to represent a milestone to stop and reflect, whereas Rawlings just wants to continue the route forward. “I just said, ‘No way, I don’t even know what you’re talking about,’” Rawlings notes with another laugh. But in 2015, the inevitable happened. Welch and Rawlings received a much-deserved recognition for their already impacting contributions to folk music.

“One of the things I don’t want to happen is contemplating the past or the amount of time we’ve been doing this,” he continues. “It’s way more important to make new things and play new shows and introduce your music to new people than to just sit back and think about the time that’s gone by.”

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Wednesday, April 13 James Jarvis (7pm; Free; Jazz Piano)

—The Blind Elephant, 21 N Front St. Unit F

Keith Butler (8:30pm; Free; Jazz)

—Burnt Mill Creek, 2101 Market St.; 910-599-4999

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Griffin Limerick (9pm; Free; Guitarist, Singer) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666

Karaoke Night w/ Party Gras (9:30pm; Free) —Fox & Hound, 920 Town Center Dr.; 910-509-0805

Mykel Barbee (6pm; Free; Eclectic)

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

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Trivia with Jim and Glenn (6:30pm; Free)

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Barry & Jill (7pm; $3; Acoustic)

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—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Nash and Fair (7pm; Free; Country)

DJ Slim Deluxe (9pm; Cover TBD)

Fire and Drums (8pm; Free)

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

The Cactus Blossoms (8pm; $10-$15; Folk) —Bourgie Nights, 127 Princess St.

Thursday, April 14 Iration, Hirie, The Expanders (5pm; $25-$100; Reggae)

—Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, Amphitheater Dr.

Eric Miller (6pm; Free; Americana)

—Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.

Nicole Thompson (7pm; $2; Vocalist

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

—Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

2 Docs and a Box (8pm; Free; Acoustic) —Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

The Hornitz (8pm; $10; Horns, Dance) —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave.

Trivia Night w/ Party Gras (9pm; Free) —Fox & Hound, 920 Town Center Dr.; 910-509-0805

Thirsty Thursday Karaoke (9pm; Free)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Treehouse (9pm; Cover TBD; Reggae, Jam, Rock) —The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

Bass Station (10pm; Free)

—Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

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Friday, April 15

Sunday, April 17

Iration, Hirie, The Expanders (5:30pm; $25$100; Reggae)

Books, Beer, & Jazz Piano (3pm; Free)

—Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, Amphitheater Dr.

—Old Books on Front Street, 249 N. Front St.

Mozart Requiem (4pm; Free)

Emily Marriott (6pm; Free; Acoustic) —A Tasting Room, 19 S. 2nd St.

—CFCC Humanities and Fine Arts Center, 701 N. Third St.

Tony Barnes (6pm; Free; Country)

Joe Zimmerman (6pm; $16-$20; Comedy)

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

—Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

Joe Zimmerman (7pm, 9:30pm; $16-$20; Comedy)

Future Trip And More (9pm; Cover TBD)

—Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

Christine Martinez (7pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 N. Lumina Ave.

Sally Barris (7pm; $3; Singer-Songwriter) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Wilmington Dance Festival (8pm; $15-$18) —City Stage Co., 21 N. Front St.

Folkstone Stringband (8pm; Free) —Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

Villain, Sacred Cash Cow Fatesealer, and A Bottle Volcanic (8pm; $5; Rock)

—Reggies 42nd Street Tavern, 1415 S. 42nd St.; 910-799-6465

Tyler Mckaig (9pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.

ElectroChemical (10pm; $3; Drums, Visuals; Original Music)

—Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; 910-763-2223

DJ UK (10pm; Free)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Dubtown Cosmonauts (10pm; $5-$7; Funk) —The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

Monday, April 18 Music & Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm; Free) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

Crystal Fussell Duo (9pm; Free; Country) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666

Brewtal and Friends (9pm; Cover TBD; Electric) —The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

Tuesday, April 19 Phil and Mark (6pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.

Open Mic (7pm; Free)

—Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.

Marcus Roberts Trio (7:30pm; $5-$50; Jazz)

—Kenan Auditorium UNCW, 601 S. College Rd.

Cape Fear Blues Jam (8pm; Free) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.

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Jazz Piano on Front St. (6pm; Free) —The Calico Room, 107 S. Front St.; 910-762-2091

Mike Blair (6pm; Free; Americana) —A Tasting Room, 19 S. 2nd St.

Joe Zimmerman (7pm, 9:30pm; $16-$20; Comedy) —Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

Mike O’Donnell (7pm; Free; Classic Rock)

—Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 N. Lumina Ave.

Dance Festival (8pm; $15-$18)

—City Stage Co., 21 N. Front St.

Jesse Jewell & Richard Welsh (8pm; Free; Acoustic) —Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

Jim Ashley (8pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Bellas Bar LoCAL, 19 Market St.

Wildlights, Walpyrgus and Children of the Reptile (8pm; $5; Heavy Rock)

—Reggies 42nd Street Tavern, 1415 S. 42nd St.; 910-799-6465

Elena Woodard (9pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.

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—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666

DJ Battle (9pm; Cover TBD)

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

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Steven Compton (6pm; Free; Acoustic Rock)

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

Trivia with Jim and Glenn (6:30pm; Free)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

James Jarvis, Jazz Piano (7pm; Free)

—The Blind Elephant, 21 N Front St. Unit F

Laura McLean’s Songwriter Showcase (7pm; $3) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Tribal Seeds (8pm; $17-$22; Reggae)

—Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; 910-769-4096

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Keith Butler (8:30pm; Free; Jazz)

—Burnt Mill Creek, 2101 Market St.; 910-599-4999

Brooke Thompson (9pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666

Dubtown Cosmonauts (10pm; $5-$7; Funk)

Karaoke Night w/ Party Gras (9:30pm; Free)

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

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—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

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—Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

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—Fox & Hound, 920 Town Center Dr.; 910-509-0805

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$2.75 Yuengling Draft $2.75 Domestic Bottles 65 Wings, 4-7pm

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LUKE COMBS FRI, APRIL 22nd

APR. 17th EYEHATEGOD

MAY 11th MUSHROOMHEAD

APR. 20th TRIBAL SEEDS

MAY 15th INSANE CLOWN POSSE

APR. 21st CILVER FIT FOR RIVALS

MAY 20th SAY ANTHING

APR. 22nd LUKE COMBS

MAY 22nd WHITECHAPEL

APR. 23rd TUESDAY’S GONE: LYNARD MAY 25th BEEBS AND HER MONEY MAKERS SKYNARD TRIBUTE APR. 26th COLEMAN HELL

MAY 26th PERPETUAL GROVE

APR. 30th MATOMA

MAY 27th TAB BENOIT

MAY 7th STATE CHAMPS

JUNE 22nd COLT FORD

MAY 10th THY ART IS MURDER

JUNE 25th BADFISH: TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME

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MOTORCO MUSIC HALL 723 RIGSBEE AVE., durham, NC (919) 901-0875 4/13: David Wax Museum and more 4/17: Cash’d Out 4/18: Little Green Cars and John Mark Nelson 4/19: La Santa Cecilia 4/21: Araleigh with Mike Garrigan & Scott Carle 4/22: Tokyo Police Club with From Indian Lakes

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A HISTORY OF CAPE FEAR FILM: Cape Fear Museum opens new exhibit, ‘Starring Cape Fear’

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by: ARNOLD ESTRADA

ilm runs deep in Wilmington. Citizens have relied on it for jobs for years— and not just crews. Everyone involved, from extras, to local restaurants and shops, hotels and grocery stores, and tourism boards benefit from its influx of people in the area. Film has been an integral part of Wilmington’s community since Dino DeLaurentiis went in search of locations for the 1984 film “Firestarter.” Once in Wilmington, he and Frank Capra Jr. established DEG Film Studio the year of the film’s release.

Now, the embers lie in wait for another fire starter, since Pat McCrory significantly has decreased tax incentives in our state (let’s hope the kindling will burn anew in 2017).

However, the indelible imprint this industry has left on us isn’t over. Cape Fear Museum is celebrating the opening of a new exhibit centered around the industry in “Starring Cape Fear!” It will open to the pub-

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by New Hanover County in 2014, showing how film is integrated into the community and a larger part of our culture. On the tour are interactive games, like how to add sound to film or learning about DeLaurentiis’ efforts to create the largest sound stage this side of the Mississippi. It also explores how film incentives changed the industry in the Cape Fear, and quizzes those who dare take the challenge.

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to go through a committee, doing the research, and gathering objects, as well as culling money, the Colonial section at the Cape Fear Museum took over five years to get on display. There’s a plethora of obstacles to jump over, so to get “Starring Cape Fear!” up and running in a year is quite a feat. Raleigh’s exhibit helped put it on the fast track.

lic on April 21 and run through Feb. 26, 2017. The exhibit traces the Lower Cape Fear region’s last 30 years of over 400 film productions through displayed artifacts. Several artifacts come from various locally made productions include “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Super Mario Bros,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Muppet’s from Space,” “Iron Man 3,” “Sleepy Hollow,” “Under the Dome,” “One Tree Hill,” and “Eastbound and Down.”

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Research from Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of History exhibit, “Starring North Carolina!”, helped make possible “Starring Cape Fear!” Raleigh covered 100 years of filming across the state, while the Cape Fear begins in 1982 and goes through the current day in and around Wilmington.

“We didn’t plan [the exhibit to open at] this point in our history,” Cape Fear Museum curator Barbara Rowe says. “We just took advantage of the (N.C. Museum of History) exhibit, and it just happened to be now when we’re going through this turmoil.”

When Rowe started organizing the objects by production date, she noticed she had plenty from the ‘80s and ‘90s, but items were weak in the aughts. “Production companies used to be a little more generous, but now, as soon as it’s a wrap, they sell everything off, so getting a donation isn’t as easy.”

It took a local community’s love for film, especially those directly involved, to keep the history coming. Thus, CFM appealed to the film industry community, all of whom have happily loaned several objects to the exhibit, to help promote and celebrate what the Cape Fear has produced.

Even stars gave a helping hand. After a tweet from public relations specialist Amy Mangus about “Eastbound and Down,” Danny McBride’s assistant quickly got in touch and offered to loan the jet ski and mariachi costume with the mullet. Preserving and keeping exhibits such as this alive and interesting will keep generations to come pushing the film culture forward. But to get exhibits up and running, they must first be approved—and it isn’t always easy. Having

When the N.C. Museum of History asked to borrow various props and objects, Cape Fear Museum gladly lent over 100. In fact, they were the biggest lender. In return, Cape Fear Museum asked for Raleigh’s research and licenses.

Currently only two productions are helping keep film alive locally: TNT’s drama series “Good Behavior” and the second is History’s military drama series “Six.” However, after the passing of NC’s HB2 bill a few short weeks ago, Turner Broadcasting’s “Good Behavior” already has said it’s considering filming the second season elsewhere to boycott the legislature. It makes everyone wonder if NC legislators really care how much money film brings to the state—not just during production, but its aftereffects as a tourist destination. Put quite simply: Film equals jobs.

“If the film industry totally crumbled, what would they do with all those [EUE Screen Gems] buildings on North 23rd Street?” Rowe asks. “Keeping the business going makes us different from the next coastal town.”

The opening night of the exhibit, an adults-only event, will be April 21, 6 p.m.

- 9 p.m. It is free for members or $30 for non-members. There will be light appetizers, drinks and live music by the Cape Fear Jazz Society.

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Starring Cape Fear!

Cape Fear Museum 814 Market St. Opening night: Apr. 21, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.; runs through Feb. 26, 2017 Free for members; $30 otherwise www.capefearmuseum.com

what’s hanging around the port city

galleryguide Artfuel.inc

2165 Wrightsville Ave. Mon. - Sat., noon - 7pm www.artfuelinc.com • (910) 343-5233 Artfuel is pleased to host Vol. 42, featuring work by Dennis Schaffer, Kyle Page, Mimi Logothetis, and Tuki Lucero. Hangs for eight weeks.

ArtExposure!

22527 Highway 17N, Hampstead, NC (910) 803-0302 • (910) 330-4077 Tues. - Sat. 10am - 5pm (or by appt.) www.artexposure50.com We have over forty NC artists here at ArtExposure. Come visit and view the work.

Artists may rent wall space and/or studio space. Come meet the artists working in their studios. A Plein Air Workshop with Karen Crenshaw on beautiful Topsail Island will be held April 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. Details can be found on our website.

Deadline to sign up is March 31st. Check our website for more available classes.

Art in bloom

210 Princess St. Tues. - Sat. 10am - 6pm (or by appt., Sun. and Mon.) (484) 885-3037 www.aibgallery.com Established in 2015, the Art in Bloom Gallery is in a renovated, 19th-century horse stable at 210 Princess Street in downtown Wilmington. The gallery focuses upon international and national fine art.

The current exhibit of oil paintings, “Debra Bucci: Living in the Moment”, runs through May 27th. Join us for receptions in April: 1) “Courtyard Opening and Celebration of Sculpted Gate by Dumay Gorham,” Sunday, April 17th, 2-5 pm; 2) Fourth Friday Gallery Night, April 22nd, 6 - 9 pm; and 3) Art Opening for DREAMS students, Friday, April 29th, 6 - 8 pm.

CRESCENT MOON ART AND STYLE

24 N. Front St. • (910) 762-4207 Call for new hours or appointment!

This Fourth Friday, join the community of Wilmington to celebrate the Life & Art of Linda A. Hartman. Tommy J is back, too— featuring his beautiful and limited sterling silver Galion “Hook and Double Hook Bracelets” and designer jewelry. Alos presenting Papa Froosh as our musical artist, a duo, here at “The Moon.”

Charles Jones African Art

311 Judges Rd., Unit 6-E cjart@bizec.rr.com • (910) 794-3060 Mon. – Fri. 10am - 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm - 4 pm Open other hours and weekends by appointment www.cjafricanart.com AFRICAN ART - Museum quality African Art from West and Central Africa. Traditional African art for the discerning collector.

Current exhibition: Yoruba beadwork and Northern Nigerian sculpture.

Appraisal services, curatorial services and educational exhibitions also available.

Over thirty years experience in Tribal Arts. Our clients include many major museums.

New Elements Gallery

201 Princess St. (919) 343-8997 Tues. - Sat.: 11am - 6pm (or by appt.) www.newelementsgallery.com Striking A Balance is open at New Elements Gallery. This exhibit features new works from printmaker Donald Furst and painter Bob Rankin. Both artists share a clean, linear aestheric, but they differ in palette. Furst works predominately in black and white where Rankin plays with primary hues. Striking A Balance will remain on view until April 16, 2016.

pottery; oil paintings, watercolors, mixed media, pastels and acrylics; plus awardwinning metalworks, wood pieces, handblown glass, fiber art, artisan-made jewelry and more. Sunset River Marketplace has become a popular destination for visitors, a gathering place for artists and a center of the community, thanks to its onsite pottery studio, complete with two kilns; a custom master framing department; and art classrooms for workshops and ongoing instruction.

WILMA W. DANIELS GALLERY

200 Hanover Street, CFCC parking deck First level • (910) 362-7431 Tues.- Fri., 10am - 5:30pm; Sat., noon - 5:30pm CFCC’s Wilma W. Daniels Gallery is pleased to present the Annual Student Exhibition, a juried group showing featuring over 100 original works of art by current CFCC student, April 5th – May 6th. A

Fourth Friday Reception and Awards Presentation will be April 22nd from 6-9pm.

The Arts Council of Wilmington’s Executive Director, Rhonda Bellamy, served as this year’s juror. She selected work from almost 200 submissions. The Arts Council of Wilmington/NHC, in association with Cape Fear Community College’s Humanities & Fine Arts Department, will present the inaugural Wilmington Arts Summit, April 15-16, 2016 at CFCC. The kickoff for this event will be held on Friday, April 15th from 6-9pm in CFCC’s Wilma W. Daniels Gallery. This event will provide networking opportunities by discipline and other focus areas, as well as provide an additional opportunity to view the Annual Student Exhibition. For additional information on the Summit, please visit www.artscouncilofwilmington.org.

Admission is free and the exhibition is open to the public. Sarah Rushing: srushing278@mail.cfcc.edu.

River to Sea Gallery

225 S. Water St., Chandler’s Wharf (free parking) • (910) 763-3380 Tues.- Sat. 11am - 5pm; Sun. 1- 4pm River to Sea Gallery showcases the work of husband and wife Tim and Rebecca Duffy Bush. In addition, the gallery represents several local artists. The current show will enthrall visitors with its eclectic collection of original paintings, photography, sculpture, glass, pottery and jewelry.

“Morning Has Broken” features works by Janet Parker. Come see Janet’s bold use of color and texture to reveal local marsh creeks and structures.

SUNSET RIVER Marketplace

10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999 • Tues.- Sat. 10am - 5pm www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com In the historic fishing village of Calabash, NC, over 10,000-plus square feet of fine arts is showcased. Clay art and

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A NIGHT TO REMEMBER: Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’ is not to be missed

by: Gwenyfar Rohler

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ig Dawg Productions has put together a really imaginative season this year. Working with pairings of shows as his inspiration, artistic director Steve Vernon has made several of my dreams come true with his spring offerings: Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” followed in a few weeks by Tom Stoppard’s parody, “The Real Inspector Hound.”

“The Mousetrap” is one of the most famous plays in the world: It holds the record for the longest running original production in London. Slightly less well-known is that Christie gave the rights to the show (or the financial interest) to her grandson, Matthew, for his eighth birthday present.

Though I have read it many times, and I am a huge Agatha Christie fan (I even had a dog named in her honor), I had not yet seen the show staged. There cannot be a film made until the show in London has closed

for six months. So, in spite of the incredible marketing efforts of Agatha Christie Limited (the entity that owns much of her estate), “The Mousetrap” has yet to be filmed.

The set-up is classically Agatha Christie: A group of people find themselves snowed in with no hope of rescue or escape in a remote, newly opened guest house. The proprietors Mollie Ralston (Tamica Katzman) and Giles Ralston (Alex Warf) are newly married and very nervous about their leap into business. Their first guest, Christopher Wren (Andrew Liguori), charms Mollie and repels Giles, which sets up a mirror for their divergent personalities.

Katzman and Warf’s Ralstons make a great team: She charms and soothes while he handles practicality and heavy lifting (both physically and metaphorically).

Somehow they have jumped into the deep end of the pool with the hospitality business and have landed themselves with some very unlikable guests: Miss Casewell (Heather Lindquist-Bull), a rather prickly

spinster with lots of secrets and angry, hurt eyes; Mr. Paravicini (Steve Rassin) a flamboyant, mysterious, foreign visitor who appears suddenly in the night; and the most unpleasant of them all, Mrs. Boyle (Laurene Perry), a retired magistrate who cannot open her mouth without complaining or finding fault. The only remotely likable one of the bunch is Major Metcalf (Craig Myers), who manages to smile and try to build up morale.

Our new innkeepers struggle through their first day in business, a snowstorm and then an ambush arrival of a police detective (Kenny Rosander) via snow skis. Apparently, there was a murder in London (of course), and a notebook found at the scene of the crime has led the police to this address. Someone in the inn is a murderer and someone else will be the next victim.

Cue scary music.

The crux of the mystery rests with events that happened years earlier: three children who were abused (one of them fatally) at a farm in the area. Part of the conceit of “The Mousetrap” is a request made from the stage at the end, and it asks the audience not to give away the story when they leave the theatre. So, in honor of that, I won’t talk too much about what happens.

But the performances are really quite lovely.

Warf, Katzman, Meyers and Perry especially grapple with the unfolding events and information quite convincingly. Warf and Katzman have the difficulty of having to run the gamut of young love, to complete distrust, to reconciliation and a new day together in the course of the evening. That’s a lot handle, but they play it really naturally, and find the ebbs and flows within the relationship. Rosander revels in his role of puppet master—pulling the strings and making everyone dance with each new revelation or accusation.

captures what Christie fans want: cozy, terribly British, elegant and very much country estate. Costumer Shawn Sproatt must have had a lot of fun dressing Ligouri’s Christopher Wren in his outrageous, clashing clothes. All fun aside, she hits the mark with the 1940’s look for the women, especially Katzman’s suits.

Aside from the excitement of seeing this famous show and trying to solve the mystery before the characters on stage do, “The Mousetrap” still explores some important issues for us today. Child abuse, unfortunately, has not been eliminated from our world. We just passed what would be the 84th birthday of the real-life boy who inspired Jimmie Corrigan in “The Mousetrap.” Though the case that Christie based the Corrigan children on led to substantial overhauls to the foster-care system in the UK, the most vulnerable in our society still remain without voices. Vengeance as a motivation for murder is also a very relatable proposition.

For Agatha Christie fans, this is a great opportunity to see one of her most famous works without having to leave the country. The Queen of Crime has endured as a writer for a century because her work continues to speak to the darker, secretive and personally frightened reaches of the human mind. She shows us this side of our psyche in a world of elegance, class and above all civility.

In an Agatha Christie mystery, there might be danger of being killed—but at least the murderer will be polite about it. Also, rest assured that all the surviving suspects will be gathered into one room for the denouement.

Director Chris Brown and cast have mounted a production that pays homage to that tradition. For Christie fans, and those new to her work, this is guaranteed to be a Dallas LaFon and Terry Collins have put night to remember. together quite an elaborate set that really

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SHAKESPEAREAN MAGIC:

Dram Tree Shakespeare opens ‘The Tempest’ ... with puppets

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by: Shea Carver

orcerers. Shipwrecks. Spells. “The Tempest” portrays an extraordinary world crafted by Shakespeare in the 17th century, which follows themes of love, forgiveness, deception, and magic. Dram Tree Shakespeare will be debuting the show at McEachern’s Warehouse this week, but they’re taking the romance of the story to new heights for Wilmington.

Directed by Emmy Award winner and former Wilmingtonian Michael Granberry, “The Tempest” will be enacted by local performers and puppets filling out a multitude of roles.

It’s not a new concept with Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”; just last year the Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC did the production with colossal puppets. Granberry is an animator and puppet maker in the stage and film world, most well-known for his work on “Anomalisa,” “From Beyond” and “Zombies VS. Ninjas: The Web Series.”

“Every puppet in the show was custom built by hand for this production,” he tells encore. “I designed and either built or supervised the building of all the three-dimensional puppets with the help of a wonderful army of volunteer puppet makers.”

He has derived input from local shadow-puppet artist and WHQR radio personality, Gina Gambony. She designed and built all shadow puppetry for the play.

“Gina was instrumental in creating a zone of the theatre we call ‘Shadowland,’” Granberry explains. “Shadow puppetry serves to illustrate several crucial scenes that are described happening offstage during the show. The effect is almost like looking into the characters’ minds and seeing their thoughts.”

Voicing some of the characters offstage is former WHQR radio personality Jemila Ericson.

In fact, audiences used to hearing Ericson’s soothing tone will be a bit surprised by a different dynamic of spirited vocals. Ericson will take on the voices of Ariel, Harpy, Ship’s Master, and Goddess Juno.

“I am having a blast doing all my characters,” she says. “It’s always more fun to play a villain than a heroine, so I really look forward to the scene where Ariel becomes the Harpy. That’s not a role that most people would give me to portray . . . This character’s voice is way outside the box for me, which is great fun.”

Ericson has found that working behind the curtain literally has been most liberating. Aside

from feeling freer to express her acting chops, she screeches outside of her normal speech patterns as Harpy.

the world are veiled to a certain degree; she only has ever known her father and the magical creatures of the island.

“I find myself reacting to the puppet’s actions, which influences my vocal choices,” Ericson details. “And I know the puppeteers are similarly reacting to my voice.”

“She’s purely driven by her natural emotions and isn’t bound by the self-consciousness society imposes about how a girl or woman ‘should act’ or what she ‘should want,’” Zermani says.

“She’s bold, she trusts herself, but that doesn’t make matters of the heart without great risk and requiring a leap of vulnerability.”

Mirla Christe is doing the puppeteering for Ericson’s Arial. Christe will dance the puppet’s movements. “I have had to go beyond what’s naturalistic—especially since Ariel is a magical creature and has to elevate gesture beyond human expression,” Christe details.

“The puppet, the puppet’s voice (Jemila), and I—all three—inhabit one body, and I therefore tend to refer to Ariel as ‘we.’ The three of us are parts of a whole. I can’t speak for the others, but I don’t feel in any way separate from them.”

Granberry says choosing this route for the show actually frees storytellers from the confines of realism. And that’s even more appropriate for “The Tempest,” which takes place over a three-hour timeline. The story follows a sorcerer, Prospero, who wants to wrestle back power from his brother, Antonio, who forced Prospero out of his title, Duke of Milan. Antonio sent Prospero and his daughter to a deserted island to live for a decade or so, only left with books and a few others things for survival. From studying, Prospero learns the ways of magic, and so he cast a spell over his brother’s fleet at sea to shipwreck and manipulate his return to power. In the process, curses are traded by the two sides, and Prospero’s daughter falls in love with an enemy. The reality of their past lives surface throughout the enchanting story and the characters become more bewitching in their entanglements. The puppet element of the show becomes metaphorically and thematically imbedded in the whole experience—even elevating the story.

“When Shakespeare mentions characters who can fly like the wind, we can actually show what that looks like because puppets aren’t affected by gravity or other physical limitations,” Granberry explains. “Part of the conflict in ‘The Tempest’ comes from the different expectations of the human characters, led by Prospero, and the nonhuman characters who are all bound into servitude by them. The use of puppetry allows us to highlight these differences even more.”

Isabel Zermani will be playing a human character, Miranda, Prospero’s daughter. Though she isn’t overseeing the motions of puppets, interacting with them has been eye-opening for her as an actress.

Filling out other characters in the cast are John Stafford as Prospero, Alyssa Fetherolf as Trinculo/Nyad, Noah Harrell as Boatswain, William Li as Ferdinand, Justin Smith as Sebastian, Kim Pachecho as Ceres, Tony Rivenbark as Gonzalo, Ashley Grantham as Alonso, among many more. Sam Robison will be playing the villainous Antonio.

innocent beauty: “Ariel” (puppeteer, Mirla Criste), “Ferdinand” (William Li), “Miranda” (Isabel Zermani) in Dram Tree’s ‘The Tempest,’ which opens this week. Photo by Belinda Keller Photography

“Being very, very bad can feel very, very good,” Robison says. “The cast is brimming with heavy-hitters. Take all that talent, plus over 200 hand-made puppets—who make my job easier; instead of imagining the phantasmagorical, all I have to do is open my eyes and there it is—and put them into the brilliantly imaginative hands of Michael Granberry is a moving, hilarious, and mind-blowing experience you will never forget.”

“The Tempest” opens April 14; tickets are only $10 on opening night for all film and the“If the intention of the operator is there, the ater professionals. emotion comes through [the puppets] quite cleanly,” she tells. “As an actor, I have to adjust my expectations of how that puppet is going to move or respond to me. You just have to accept The Tempest the parameters; they are going to fly, they are April 14 - May 1, Thurs.-Sun., 7:30 p.m. slow-moving, whatever it is, and just make that Doors open at 7 p.m. • $10-$25 your reality.”

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Faulty but impactful:

‘American Idiot’ resonates despite flawed sound quality

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by: Shea Carver

he beauty of “American Idiot,” Green Day’s rock opera, is it speaks to a generation. My generation, to be specific. As a ragtag group of friends open the show in a basement in suburbia, ranting and rioting, “Can you hear the sound of hysteria?”, any audience member who grew up in the ‘90s/early aughts of America will feel the ethos Billie Armstrong and his band wrote about on their 2004 platinum album.

The transformation of “American Idiot” into an award-winning stage musical in 2009 sends a message about society post 9/11, in the George Bush era of the Iraq War. Its lyrics throughout the album string together free-flowing thoughts of dissent and confusion, packed by a heavy-hitting pathos. It questions our nation’s brainwashing mass media, government morality, societal sheeps, and the authenticity of living out a life alternatively to what our culture has taught us.

When put to the stage, its message becomes clear by creative loafers—early adults who are ready to take on the world outside of their hometown, by moving to the big city. The protagonist, Johnny, a.k.a. Jesus of Suburbia (Richard Frank Rosario), and his two best pals, Will (Christian Dionne) and Tunny (Will Roden), lie around in a basement, listen to punk rock, drink beer, smoke dope, hang out with chicks, and dream about their escape. One day, they decide, rather than amble, they’ll aspire to something greater, and so begins their journey into adulthood—rife with growing pangs, roadblocks and generally debauchery that learning youth tend to endure.

In a bold move, Thalian Association has opened the local premiere of “American Idiot” at Thalian Hall. The show speaks to a modern-day audience of theatre-goers who easily will see and feel the clear impact of live theatre with Rosario as our freedom fighter, Johnny. Rosario is a perfect match for Jesus of Suburbia. He has the look and the attitude: long, curly tresses, ripped leather pants, an elusive allure. At the onset of the show, I knew this character from my own my life (I may even have dated him). Johnny carries the show with his string of correspondence to his family and friends back home, in all his trials and tribulations.

Though his intent is to amount to something, his loneliness and solitude lead him down a different, dangerous path.

Rosario emotes rather perfectly almost at every corner in “American Idiot,” from his opening number in “Jesus of Suburbia” to his finale, “Whatshername.” Highlights include his moving solo in “When It’s Time” and perhaps one of my fave songs in the show, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” Also, his vocal pitch actually parallels

Billie Joe Armstrong quite strongly. Rosario showcases natural instincts in forming this character— from the subtleties of so forcefully singing and talking that spit follows his every word unintentionally, to the numerous eye rolls and bashing/throwing of props to induce an enormity of feelings that let loose when he isn’t flying high on smack to keep his demons at bay.

What really invigorates the stage in “American Idiot” is the presence of Brendan Carter as St. Jimmy, the drug dealer—and a vessel to bring to light all the figments of Johnny’s imagination.

Carter simply shreds this show to pieces. He is the energetic force with which to be reckoned. He has a cockeyed, maniacal charisma that is so hypnotic to watch, it’s understandable how he represents drug addiction. His debut appearance comes with him standing tall and proud on a stage ladder, which twists and turns about, physically showing his power of persuasion over Johnny in “St. Jimmy.” He is a sex angel in his performance in “Last Night on Earth” with Whatshername, Heather and company—one of the most provocative songs in the show, both aurally and visually.

Speaking of the ladies, as a whole they strengthen “American Idiot” in their side plots.

LaRaisha Burnette’s Whatshername embodies a free-spirited persona who easily falls into the clutches of the bad boy—a prerequisite of any young gal exploring everything safe and dangerous in life. Her vocals are mesmerizing in “21 Guns” and “Letterbomb.” Burnette brings a soft sexuality to the role and the understanding that when we throw caution to the wind, a heartbreaking learning experience will arise inevitably.

Caitlin Becka as The Extraordinary Girl mesmerizes in her dream scene with Tunny, an injured soldier returning from war in the Middle East (“Extraordinary Girl,” “Before the Lobotomy”). I applaud the choice that co-directors David Loudermilk and Anthony Lawson’s made to have Becka arrive on the shoulders of two ensemble members rather than “fly” her in, as done on Broadway. Dressed in a hijāb and veil, we get the backstory of she and Tunny without it being forcefed in dialog. It’s something this show does beautifully: keep the talk to a minimum in order to show us what’s happening.

Becka’s strong voice adds to the majestic sounds that cross paths between punk rock, Middle East lullabies and dreamy rock.

While so much is wonderful about “American Idiot,” I would be remiss if I didn’t fully disclose some of its misfortunes—one of which is major.

The sound quality of the show on Saturday did no justice to the power of this music. A punk-rock show must be loud. I could hear my theatre companion literally whisper without being anywhere close to my ear during what should have been a

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Though not new to the stage, Katie Jones Villecco as Heather—Will’s pregnant girlfriend— showcases the most level-headed outlook of all the castaways and we feel her plight in “Dearly Beloved.” Her soprano hits the notes in “Too Much Too Soon” and “21 Guns,” but sometimes they’re too high-pitched and don’t infuse enough grit for the catalog of music created here.

The set design of this show is astounding, thanks to Terry Collins. It’s industrial, run-down, dirty, edgy, and sets every backstory into motion: We are entering a world of alternatives—and it won’t be pretty. The show opens with a transparent screen flashing images of George Bush speeches, 9/11 and the rigmarole of banal news feeds, as our cast emerges, fists and middle fingers high in the air. Various imagery comes over the projected screens above the industrial city apartment, which WALKING A LONELY ROAD: Caitlin Becka, transitions beautifully to a run-down basement, a Will Roden, LaRaisha Burnette, Brendan Carter, city street, an office, and more, thanks to scaffoldRichard Frank Rosario, Christian Dionne, and Katie ing and stage ladders making everything move Janes Villecco. Courtesy photo fluidly. The lighting creates a staccato vibe to cast an anxious energy over what we’re watching unloud “Know Your Enemy.” The band is outstand- fold—flashing red, white and purple illuminate the ing, don’t get me wrong; they nail every track show’s emotion most brilliantly. without fail. However, when they aren’t loud, it As well the ensemble’s costuming help set time doesn’t translate that this ensemble of castaways and place with all the right visible cues to propel are punking out onstage because they’re hearing the storyline. Jen Iapalucci’s eye for dressing the best riffs ever. It’s like watching them thrash them as punks naturally is a steal (David Bowie to Beethoven. Somewhere in the show, the tables shirt on Johnny in the opening scene included). turn; mic fails are constant and we can’t hear vo- But their costume changes are super during all cals over music, which never really get louder. of Tunny’s scenes: fatigues during war (“Give Me A few newbies have joined the show in making Novocaine”), flashy red, white and blue sequins their stage debut. Tunny’s role offers a powerful to represent the false magic of signing up for the side story in “American Idiot,” as he carries the military (“Favorite Son”), and white skivvies during politics Billie Joe Armstrong penned throughout a boot-camp scene.

the album. He’s the vanilla kid from the ‘burbs who joins the military because he doesn’t have a clear path to follow in life. While first-time actor Will Roden gives it his all and plays a great guitar (another superb staging choice to have some main characters actually play instruments), there was not as much emotion coming forth here to fully make Tunny relatable. More so, his vocals languish off key on songs like “When It’s Time” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.” While that would be OK if it were coming from Johnny or St. Jimmy, as punks revel in off-kilter pitch, it didn’t work for this role at all.

Loudermilk’s choreography doesn’t go without notice either. My theatre-companion pointed to Ty Matt during “Holiday” as a standout. “He’s doing more than merely counting through the motions,” she said. She’s right. Most of the ensemble step it up fully. I especially like the choice to have Will and Heather dance through their ups and downs, a clear push and pull of young love gone awry.

Though it’s not without its faults, “American Idiot” is a must-see—especially for anyone who loves rock ‘n’ roll and grew up in the time frame which these kids represent: being twentysomething during post 9/11. It’s not a perfect show, but Christian Dionne, another first-timer to the somehow that’s also its point, which makes it all stage, as Will gives a perfect play on the pouty the more symbiotic. It resonates—more than any slacker whose life’s been turned upside down, modern rock opera has in decades. and he just doesn’t have enough tenacity to turn it around for the better. Dionne has a beautiful singing voice (“Nobody Likes You”) and is so solid on American Idiot guitar throughout the night, it’s apparent his debut April 21-24, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. in the acting seat is a success. However, again, mic troubles plague his songs—an unfortunate Thalian Hall • 310 Chestnut St. mishap for someone getting their feet wet onstage. Tickets: $15-$30

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April 11-13 (additional showing April 13 at 4 p.m.): Nicolas Hytner’s film “The Lady in the Van” tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) and the singular Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith), a woman of uncertain origins who “temporarily” parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

(Rated PG-13, 104 mins)

’m not a fan of gimmicks. Gimmicks can get folks into a theater to see a movie, but they can rarely sustain interest for 90 minutes. The original “Cloverfield” was the ultimate gimmick movie: a found-footage folly that tried to create a realistic survival horror where New York was plagued by a rather nasty city-stomping monster. The marketing was slick enough to get audiences excited, but the actual film was a creative disaster. So when I heard about another film spawned from the idea of “Cloverfield,” my expectations were lower than a clinically depressed scuba diver in the Mariana Trench, suffering from an iron deficiency, who’s also a fan of every sports team from Cleveland.

“10 Cloverfield Lane” can only be considered a sequel in two ways: First, it’s another sci-fi story with a gimmicky premise. Second, it’s a film marketed more on what audiences don’t know about the story than what FUN TWIST: ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ offers a they do. Thankfully it’s not a direct sequel. l o t o f t e n s i o n a n d g r e a t p e r f o r m a n c e s .

The “Cloverfield” aspect of the title feels Courtesy photo. more like an attempt at creating an anthology of science-fiction stories of terror.

The surprises in “10 Cloverfield Lane” are This installment tells the story of Michelle good enough to warrant omitting them from (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who gets in an a review that could detract from readers’ enauto accident while heading to Houston. joyment. There are some fun twists in store When she wakes up, she’s locked in a bun- for those patient enough to wade through a ker with a busted leg and a sinking feeling baby pool of grade-A bullcrap to get there. she’s been kidnapped by a crazy person.

“10 Cloverfield Lane” is a great little clausHer instincts are spot on. This particular trophobic thriller with some fantastic percrazy person is named Howard (the great formances from Goodman and Winstead.

John Goodman), who claims he has actu- There’s a constant state of tension bleeding ally saved her life because an attack of un- through every frame. It’s the perfect setting known origin has poisoned the air and killed for a super-tense potboiler. It drags a little in everyone outside his bunker. It’s a convethe middle, but Goodman is so convincingly nient story when trying to keep someone insane he helps carry the film through some docile and uninterested in escape. Michelle rougher patches. While it swerves in and is naturally skeptical. The whole scenario out of mediocrity, it’s ultimately redeemed seems implausible and she immediately beby an absolute sucker punch of an ending. gins plotting her escape.

Even though the film ends up being a lot Howard doesn’t make her attempts easy. of set-up, the eventual payoff is so satisfying He’s paranoid, delusional and convinced I’m able to forgive it for being the slow burn the outside world has been transformed into that it is. “Bullcrap” might be a bit strong, but an uninhabitable toxic wasteland. Trapped like its predecessor, “10 Cloverfield Lane” in between Howard’s apocalyptic narrative is a movie with a very visible gimmick: Eiand Michelle’s skepticism is Emmett (John ther Howard is a crazy madman who is the Gallagher Jr.). He’s a local who helps shed architect of a devious plot to hold Emmet some light on Howard’s penchant for panic. and Michelle against their will, or he’s actuIt turns out there’s more to his past than ally protecting them from a potential worldplanning for the end of days. There’s a certain mystery surrounding what happened to ending event that has all but ended the huhis family that lends itself to the idea that man race as we know it. It’s fun delving into maybe it wasn’t the world that ended—but the psychology of Michelle and Emmett as they try to figure out what to believe. The Howard’s world. truth is nebulous and they struggle to figure

out which hell is better—the bunker or the potential devastation of the outside world.

Director Dan Trachtenberg makes an impressive feature-film debut with a movie far better executed than the absolute monstrosity from which the film derives its title.

This is an above-average thriller and has some real fun with an extremely tense and over-the-top premise.

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10 Cloverfield Lane ★★★★★

Rated PG-13 Starring John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg

April 18-22 (additional showing April 20 at 4 p.m.): Playing in the Ruth & Bucky Stein Theatre, “Son of Saul” is a powerful and gripping Holocaust drama. It follows concentration-camp inmate Saul (Géza Röhrig), who is tasked with burning the dead. When he discovers the body of his young son he must choose between participating in the clandestine uprising being planned among the prisoners, or securing a proper Jewish burial for his child.

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Enjoy spectacular panoramic views of sailing ships and the Intracoastal Waterway while dining at this popular casual American restaurant in Wrightsville Beach. Lunch and dinner are served daily. Favorites include jumbo lump crab cakes, succulent seafood lasagna, crispy coconut shrimp and an incredible Caribbean fudge pie. Dine inside or at their awardwinning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sunday April - October.

Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC. (910) 256-8500.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Fri 11a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sat & Sun 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining ■ MUSIC: Music every Sunday in Summer ■ WEBSITE: www.bluewaterdining.com

Blue surf cafÉ

Sophisticated Food…Casual Style. We offer a menu that has a heavy California surf culture influence while still retaining our Carolina roots. We provide a delicate balance of flavors and freshness in a comfortable and inviting setting. We offer a unique breakfast menu until noon daily, including specialty waffles, skillet hashes and unique breakfast sandwiches. Our lunch menu is packed with a wide variety of options, from house roasted pulled pork, to our mahi sandwich and customer favorite, meatloaf sandwich.

Our dinner features a special each night along with our favorite house entrees: Braised Beef Brisket, Mojo Pork and Mahi. All of our entrees are as delicious as they are inventive.

We also have a full beer and wine list. Come try the “hidden gem” of Wilmington today. 250 Racine Drive Ste. 1, Wilm-

ington 910-523-5362.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Monday to

Saturday 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Breakfast served until noon each day!

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily Specials, Gluten Free Menu, Gourmet Hot Chocolates, Outdoor Patio, New Artist event first Friday of every month and Kids Menu.

■ WEBSITE: www.bluesurfcafe.com

CAM cafÉ

CAM Café, located within the CAM delivers delightful surprises using fresh, local ingredients. The café serves lunch with seasonal options Tuesday thru Saturday, inspired “small plates” on Wednesday nights, an elegant yet approachable dinner on Thursday and brunch every Sunday. Look for a combination of fresh, regular menu items along with daily specials. As part of dining in an inspiring setting, the galleries are open during CAM Café hours which makes it the perfect destination to enjoy art of the plate along with the art of the museum. 3201 S 17th St. (910) 777-2363.

■ SERVING LUNCH, BRUNCH & DINNER: Hours: TuesSat: 11am – 3 pm; Wed-Thurs: 5 – 9pm; Sunday Brunch: 10am – 3pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.camcafe.org

the district kitchen & Cocktails

A new addition to the Brooklyn Arts and downtown area, The District Kitchen & Cocktails is serving fresh, seasonal menus in a polished casual atmosphere. We feature locally sourced ingredients when available. For lunch, we offer delicious burgers and sandwiches, while dinner features steaks, chops and seafood all handcrafted by executive chef Chris Corona. Within blocks of CFCC and the Riverwalk, The District welcomes diners to enjoy inspired wines, craft cocktails and NC draught beers at their renovated bar and restaurant, located at 1001 N. 4th St. 910-796-6565

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■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues.-Thurs.11am-9pm,

Fri.-Sat., 11am-10pm. Lunch menu served ‘til 4pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Brooklyn Arts District ■ WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/thedistrictnc

elijah’s

Since 1984, Elijah’s has been Wilmington, NC’s outdoor dining destination. We feature expansive indoor and outdoor waterfront dining, with panoramic views of riverfront sunsets.

As a Casual American Grill and Oyster Bar, Elijah’s offers everything from fresh local seafood and shellfish to pastas, sandwiches, and Certified Angus Beef selections. We offer half-priced oysters from 4-6 every Wednesday & live music with our Sunday Brunch from 11-3. Whether you are just looking for a great meal & incredible scenery, or a large event space for hundreds of people, Elijah’s is the place to be.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11:30-10:00; Friday and Saturday 11:30-11:00 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington Kids menu available

eternal sunshine cafÉ

Wilmington’s new unique restaurant, Eternal Sunshine Café, is conveniently located between downtown and Wrightsville Beach, also close to UNCW. It is a great spot to savor a gourmet breakfast, like cinna-swirl pancakes with coffee cream cheese syrup or a southwest benedict with chipotle hollandaise on a made from scratch biscuit. The lunch menu is filled with fresh delectable salads, sandwiches on house baked breads, and pitas. Come experience the innovative twist on breakfast classics and a casual lunch guaranteed to make you a regular customer. May the tranquility of Eternal Sunshine Cafe’s atmosphere shine upon your face and reinvigorate your day. Serves breakfast all day.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: MondayWednesday 7-2, Thursday-Friday 6:30-2, Saturday 7-2, Sunday 8-2 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington

■ WEBSITE: www.eternalsunshinecafe.com

HENRY’S

A local favorite, Henry’s is the ‘place to be’ for great food, a lively bar and awesome patio dining. Henry’s serves up American cuisine at its finest that include entrees with fresh, local ingredients. Come early for lunch, because it’s going to be packed. Dinner too!

Henry’s Pine Room is ideal for private functions up to 30 people. 2508 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington, NC. (910) 793.2929.

SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun. - Mon. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Tues.- Fri.: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.; Sat.: 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily blackboard specials.

■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com

Holiday Inn Resort

Oceans Restaurant located in this oceanfront resort is a wonderful find. This is the perfect place to enjoy a fresh Seafood & Steak dinner while dinning outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Chef Eric invites you to experience his daily specials in this magnificent setting. (910) 256-2231. 1706 N. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.-Sat. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining ■ WEBSITE: www.holidayinn.com

HOPS SUPPLY CO.

The combination of chef-inspired food and our craft bar makes Hops Supply Co. a comfortable and inviting gastropub that attracts guests of all types – especially a local crowd who can feel right at home whether ordering a classic favorite or trying a new culinary delight! At HopsCo, we are dedicated to the craft of excellent cuisine and delivering hops in its most perfect form, exemplified by our selection of craft beers. As hops are the heart of flavor for beer, our local seasonal ingredients are the soul of our culinary inspired

American fare. 5400 Oleander Dr. (910) 833-8867.

■ OPEN: Mon-Thurs 10:57 am - 10 pm; Fri-Sat 10:57 am - 11 pm {Serving Brunch 10:57am – 3pm & bar open until midnight}; Brunch ALL DAY Sunday 9:57am – 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.hopssupplycompany.com

JohnnyLukes KitchenBar

Good eats, good drinks, and great times is what JohnnyLukes KitchenBar is all about. JohnnyLukes KitchenBar serves Wilmington, NC a variety of 19 rotating craft beers on tap, a hand selected eclectic American wine list, fun cocktails, and of course, exceptional food. Our two-story layout brings the best of both worlds under one roof. Downstairs at JohnnyLukes KitchenBar pair your beer or wine with our Parmesan Crusted Pork Chop, Chicken Pot Pie, Ribeye, or one of our many main entrees and sharable plates. Or, join us upstairs at JL’s Loft and pair a beer with one of our multiple burgers, JL’s roast beef sandwich, meatball sandwich, or one of our many appetizers (we recommend both!). So next time you are looking for a new and exciting restaurant in Wilmington, NC where you can experience both great craft beer and amazing food, be sure to head over to JohnnyLukes KitchenBar and JL’s Loft! 5500 Market Street, Suite 130. (910)-769-1798 ■ OPEN: JohnnyLukes KitchenBar: Mon to Sun: 11:30am to 10pm; JL’s Loft: Mon to Sun: 11:30am to 2am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.johnnylukeskb.com

The little dipper

Wilmington’s favorite fondue restaurant! The Little Dipper specializes in unique fondue dishes with a global variety of cheeses, meats, seafood, vegetables, chocolates and fine wines. The warm and intimate dining room is a great place to enjoy a four-course meal, or indulge in appetizers and desserts outside on the back deck or in the bar while watching luminescent jellyfish. Reservations are appreciated for parties of any size. Located at the corner of Front and Orange in Downtown Wilmington. 138 South Front Street. (910) 251-0433.

■ SERVING DINNER: 5pm Tue-Sun; Seasonal hours are open 7 days a week, Memorial Day through October ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Tasting menu every Tues. with small plates from $1-$4; Ladies Night every Wed; $27 4-course prix fixe menu on Thurs.; “Date night menu,” $65/couple with beer and wine tasting every Fri. and half price bottles of wine on Sun. ■ MUSIC: Mondays and Memorial Day-October, 7-9pm ■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

low tide pub

Located across from UNCW’s campus, Low Tide Pub serves up delicious fare and great drink specials in a fun atmosphere. Enjoy the biggest and best wings in town for only $0.50 on Sundays, a $5 daily lunch special, $2 daily beer special, and even taco Tuesdays. Their Mother Clucker is served just in time for the holidays: slow-roasted chicken with cranberries, housemade stuffing, lettuce, and tomato.

Their Thai or Buffalo shrimp wrap, famed Monte Cristo and

1945-family secret cheesecake recipe will keep customers coming back for more. Karaoke Saturdays begin at 9:30 p.m., and trivia Tuesdays get underway weekly at 7:30 p.m.

Low Tide has a beautiful, private deck, perfect for hosting parties and events. It’s midtown Wilmington’s favorite pub— ”where on the rocks is a good thing.” 4540 Fountain Drive, beside of PT’s. 910-313-2738.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER AND LATE-NIGHT: Mon., 6 p.m. - 1 a.m.; Tues.-Thurs., 11 a.m. - 1 a.m.; Fri., 11 a.m. - 2 a.m.; Sat., noon - 2 a.m.; Sun., noon - 9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown Wilmington, near UNCW ■ FEATURING: Daily specials, Saturday karaoke and Tuesday trivia night.

■ WEBSITE: www.lowtidepub.com

pine valley market

Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encore’s Best-Of awards in catering, gourmet shop and butcher. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest ingredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger to classic Reuben, Italian sub to a grown-up banana and peanut butter sandwich that will take all diners back to childhood. Served among a soup du jour and salads, there is something for all palates. Take advantage of their take-home frozen meals for nights that are too hectic to cook, and don’t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it. 3520 S. College Road, (910) 350-FOOD.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Fri.10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Sun. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: South Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals ■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com

the pub

A true public house. A gathering place. In house fresh ground burgers made with short rib, brisket and chuck on Sweet n Savory’s, made from scratch, bread along with 40 other sandwiches and meals under $12. 32 beers on tap, friendly service and a relaxed atmosphere where you can hang out with friends and enjoy live music, your favorite NFL game or the BEST burger you’ll ever eat! 2012 Eastwood Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, (910) 679-8101, Hours: 11am-2am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Causeway ■ WEBSITE: www.sweetnsavorypub.com

spicoli

“In crust we trust.” Spicoli specializes in classic NY style pizza with a totally unconventional (AND DELICIOUS) sourdough crust. We also feature one-of-a-kind burger creations, Jumbo wings complete with our perfect, house-made blue cheese or ranch. Or enjoy any of our unique vegan or glutenfree options. But Spicoli is not just amazing food. We keep it awesome with a killer juke box, classic arcade games, and great deals on everything at our full bar. Share some brews over PacMan or enjoy the area’s only 20in pie on our outdoor patio. Just make sure you are having fun. Don’t worry!! If you can’t come see us, we also have the largest delivery radius in town!! 1978 Eastwood Road, (910) 256-0339.

Downtown Wilmington > 115 N. 2nd Street

Book your next event at Ironclad Comfortably holds more than 400 people Stage, sound system & 12 ft. HDTV 2nd St parking deck is across the street No cost to use the space for events www.ironcladbrewery.com 910-769-0290

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■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach

sweet ‘n’ savory cafÉ

The Real Wizard Behind the Food. Anyone who has seen the Wizard of Oz knows that the wizard was just a scared old man hiding behind the curtain. Restaurants are no different.

Making incredible food is not magical or mystical and instead just requires heart (Tin Man), brains (Scarecrow), courage (Lion) and love (Dorothy). At Sweet n Savory we have pulled back the curtain because we don’t believe that we need smoke, mirrors, over inflated prices or pretentiousness to offer you the best and freshest food your money can buy. 1611 Pavillion Place, Wilmington, NC 28403, (910) 256-0115 Hours: 7am-10pm.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, BAKERY & CATERING ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Causeway ■ WEBSITE: www.sweetnsavorycafe.com

the trolly stop

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1978 Eastwood Rd • (910) 256-0339

Trolly Stop Hot Dogs is a five-store franchise in Southeastern North Carolina. Since 1976 they have specialized in storemade chili, slaw and various sauces. As of more recently, select locations (Fountain Dr. and Southport) have started selling genuine burgers and cheese steaks (Beef & Chicken).

Our types of hotdogs include beef & Pork (Trolly Dog), allbeef, pork smoked sausage (Carolina Packer), Fat Free (Turkey) & Veggie. Recognized as having the Best Hot Dog in the Best of Wilmington Awards in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Call Individual Stores for hours of operation or check out our website at www.trollystophotdogs.com. Catering available, now a large portion of our business. All prices include tax. Call Rick at 297-8416 for catering and franchise information.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ LOCATIONS: Wilmington, Fountain Dr. (910) 452-3952

Wrightsville Beach (910) 256-3921 Southport (910) 457-7017 Boone, NC (828) 265-2658 Chapel Hill, NC (919) 240-4206 ■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

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If you’re ready to experience the wonders of the Orient without having to leave Wilmington, join us at Indochine for a truly unique experience. Indochine brings the flavors of the Far East to the Port City, combining the best of Thai and Vietnamese cuisine in an atmosphere that will transport you and your taste buds. Relax in our elegantly decorated dining room, complete with antique Asian decor as well as contemporary artwork and music. Our diverse, friendly and efficient staff will serve you beautifully presented dishes full of enticing aromas and flavors. Be sure to try such signature items as the spicy and savory Roasted Duck with Red Curry, or the beautifully presented and delicious Shrimp and Scallops in a Nest. Be sure to save room for our world famous desert, the banana egg roll! We take pride in using only the freshest ingredients, and our extensive menu suits any taste. After dinner, enjoy specialty drinks by the koi pond in our Asian garden. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues.- Fri. 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.; Sat. 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. for dinner.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.indochinewilmington.com

kabuki korean cafÉ and sushi

Family-owned and operated, Kabuki Korean Café and Sushi is Wilmington’s only authentic Korean restaurant, freshly renovated and boasting a brand new menu! They feature delectable Korean BBQ, and are best known for traditional items like their bibimbop and bulgogi. But they also feature a large variety of Asian cuisine, from fresh sushi to fried rice to teriyaki dishes, dumplings, edamame and more. Open daily, Kabuki welcomes diners for lunch from 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and dinner 4:30 to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. Stop by

Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 10 p.m. 4102 Oleander Drive, Suite 2, at the corner of 41st Street, behind the Hess gas station. 910-350-3332.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Mon-Fri, 11am-2:30pm; Sat-Sun, noon-10pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, off Oleander Drive.

■ FEATURING: Wilmington’s only authentic Korean restaurant!

■ WEBSITE: www.kabukikoreancafe.com

KYOTO ASIAN GRILLE

Kyoto Asian Grille specializes in crafting mouth-watering food and providing superb customer service. We serve a plethora of Asian cuisines, from Chinese to Japanese to Thai, and have an unwavering commitment to flavor. All of our ingredients are fresh, cooked to order, with artistic culinary flair. We also serve everything from sushi to traditional Chinese dishes, a plethora of curries to Pad Thai, hibachi and teriyaki dishes, and more. Come give us a try where you will find nothing in the freezer but the ice cream. Open for lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday. Located at 4102 Market Street, (910) 332-3302.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon - Thu: 11am - 3pm and 5pm - 9:30pm or Fri - Sat, 11am - 3pm and 5pm - 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: An array of Asian cuisines, from Japanese to Chinese, Thai and more.

■ WEBSITE: www.kyotoasiangrille.com

Okami Japanese hibachi Steakhouse

We have reinvented “Hibachi Cuisine”. Okami Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse in Wilmington, NC is like no other. Our highly skilled chefs will not only cook an incredible dinner, but they will entertain you on the way. Our portions are large, our drinks are less expensive, and our staff is loads of fun. At Okami Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse, we are committed to using quality ingredients and seasoning with guaranteed freshness.

Our goal is to utilize all resources, domestically and internationally, to ensure that we serve only the finest food products. We believe that good healthy food aids the vital functions for well-being, both physically and mentally. Our menu consists of a wide range of Steak, Seafood, and Chicken for the specially designed “Teppan Grill,” to the taste bud tingling Japanese Sushi, Hand Rolls, Sashimi, Tempura dishes and Japanese Noodle entrees. This offers our guests a complete Japanese dining experience. Check out our all you can eat sushi menu and daily specials at www.okamisteakhouse.com!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday - Thursday 11am 2:30pm / 4pm - 10pm; Friday 11am - 2:30pm / 4pm - 11pm; Saturday 11am - 11pm; Sunday 11am - 9:30pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.okamisteakhouse.com

szechuan 132

Craving expertly prepared Chinese food in an elegant atmosphere? Szechuan 132 Chinese Restaurant is your destination! Szechuan 132 has earned the reputation as one of the finest contemporary Chinese restaurants in the Port City.

Tastefully decorated with an elegant atmosphere, with an exceptional ingenious menu has deemed Szechuan 132 the best Chinese restaurant for years, hands down. 419 South College Road (in University Landing), (910) 799-1426.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch Specials ■ WEBSITE: www.szechuan132.com

thai spice

From the flavorfully mild to the fiery spiced, Thai Spice customers are wooed by the dish that’s made to their specifications. Featuring a tasteful menu of traditional Thai standards to numerous delectable house specials, it’s quickly becoming the local favorite for Thai cuisine. This family-run restaurant is sure to win you over. If you haven’t discovered this gem, come in and be charmed. Whether it be a daytime delight, or an evening indulgence, your visit will make you look forward to your return. Located in Monkey Junction at 5552 Carolina Beach Rd., Ste. G. (910) 791-0044.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tue.-Th.: 11:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat.: 11:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.; Sun.: 11:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: South Wilmington

■ WEBSITE: www.ThaiSpiceWilmington.com

yosake downtown sushi lounge

Lively atmosphere in a modern setting, Yosake is the delicious Downtown spot for date night, socializing with friends, or any large dinner party. Home to the never-disappointing Shanghai Firecracker Shrimp! In addition to sushi, we offer a full Pan Asian menu including curries, noodle dishes, and the ever-popular Crispy Salmon or mouth-watering Kobe Burger.

Inspired features change weekly showcasing our commitment to local farms. Full bar including a comprehensive sake list, signature cocktails, and Asian Import Bottles. 33 S. Front St., 2nd Floor (910) 763-3172.

■ SERVING DINNER: 7 nights a week @ 5PM; Sun-Wed until 10pm, Thurs until 11pm, Fri & Sat until Midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: 1/2 Price Sushi/Appetizer Menu nightly from 5-7, until 8 on Mondays, and also 10-Midnight on Fri/Sat. Tuesday LOCALS NIGHT - 20% Dinner Entrees.

Wednesday 80S NIGHT - 80s music and menu prices.

Sundays are the best deal downtown - Specialty Sushi and Entrees are Buy One, Get One $10 Off and 1/2 price Wine Bottles. Nightly Drink Specials. Gluten-Free Menu upon request. Complimentary Birthday Dessert.

■ WEBSITE: www.yosake.com - @yosakeilm on Twitter & Instagram. Like us on Facebook.

Dinner Theatre theatrenow

TheatreNOW is a performing arts complex that features weekend dinner theater, an award-winning weekly kids variety show, monthly Sunday Jazz Brunches, movie, comedy and live music events. Award-winning chef, Denise Gordon, and a fabulous service staff pair scrumptious multi-course themed meals and cocktails with our dinner shows in a theatre-themed venue. Dinner theater at its best! Reservations highly suggested. 19 S. 10th Street (910) 399.3NOW (3669). Hours vary.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington and Greater Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Dinner shows, jazz brunches, and more ■ WEBSITE: www.theatrewilmington.com

Healthy NEMA LOUNGE and EATERY

Open since the summer of 2015, NeMa Eatery and Lounge boasts the delicacies of Chef Borkowski. Serving bold flavors in a variety of menu items form grass-fed burgers to artisan pizzas to small plates, the NeMa team takes diners across the world through palate pleasing menu items, including their “fancy fries”, doused with truffles and Parmesan.

Borkowski takes pride in hand-crafted food, while the NeMa staff offers helpful, friendly knowledge. They offer vegan, gluten-and-allergy-friendly fare and Wine Down Wednesday (1/2 off glasses and bottles of wine). 225 S Water St. 910-769-3709 ■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER AND BRUNCH: Closed Monday, Tuesday 12pm -9pm, Wednesday-Friday 12pm -10pm, Saturday 10am - 10pm, Sunday 10am - 9pm, Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10am - 2pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown, Chandler’s Wharf ■ FEATURING: Worldly eats, including vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free items ■ WEBSITE: www.nemalounge.com

Indian kabob and grill

Welcome to Kabob and Grill, downtown Wilmington’s only fine Indian restaurant. Located on Water Street, overlooking the Cape Fear River, Kabob and Grill innovatesexotic flavors of Indian kabobs and curries. Kabobs are baked to perfection in our “tandoor” clay oven fresh, daily. We take pride in offering a great selection of vegetarian entrees made with healthy spices, vegetables and herbs. We also serve vegan and gluten-free items, all aromatic and full of flavor. Our professional chef ensures our lavash and extensive menu appeals to all palates, whether choosing vegetarian, chicken, lamb, goat, or seafood. Our dining area is modern and up-

scale, yet steeped in Indian tradition. We have a full-service bar and are open seven days a week. We do take-out, delivery and welcome private parties. Live music and dance every Saturday. Please, check our website or facebook page for more information. www.kabobandgrilldowntown.com - 5 S. Water Street, (910) 833-5262.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Lunch Sunday through Saturday 11am-3pm. Dinner Sunday through Thursday 5-10pm, Friday & Saturday 5-10:30pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Innovative Indian recipes, made fresh daily.

■ WEBSITE: www.kabobandgrilldowntown.com

tandoori bites

Located on College Road, just opposite Hugh MacRae Park, Tandoori Bites offers fine Indian cuisine at affordable prices.

Try one of 74 dishes on their lengthy menu, featuring a large range of side dishes and breads. They have specialties, such as lamb korma with nuts, spices and herbs in a mild creamy sauce, as well as seafood, like shrimp biryani with saffron-flavored rice, topped with the shellfish and nuts. They also have many vegetarian dishes, including mutter paneer, with garden peas and homemade paneer, or baingan bharta with baked eggplant, flamed and sautéed with onions, garlic and ginger.

Join their cozy eatery, where a far east escape awaits all diners, among a staff of friendly and helpful servers, as well as chefs who bring full-flavored tastes straight from their homeland. Located at 1620 South College Road, (910) 794-4540.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon. - Fri. 11-2:30 pm (Lunch Buffet) & 5-10 pm (Dinner), Sat. - Sun. 11:30 -3:00 pm (Lunch) & 5-10 pm (Dinner) ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet ■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net

Lovey’s Natural Foods and Café

Your Independently Owned Health Food Grocery Store

irish Halligan’s public house

“Failte,” is the Gaelic word for “Welcome,” and at Halligan’s Public House it’s our “Motto.” Step into Halligan’s and enter a world of Irish hospitality where delicious food warms the heart and generous drinks lift the spirit. Be sure to try Halligan’s house specialty, “The Reuben,” number one with critics and of course our customers. One bite and you’ll understand why. Of course, we also serve a full selection of other delicious entrees including seafood, steak and pasta, as well as a wide assortment of burgers, sandwiches (Halligan’s Cheese Steak), and salads. And if you are looking for a friendly watering hole where you can raise a glass or two with friends, new and old, Halligan’s Public House boasts a comfortable bar where fun-loving bartenders hold court daily and blarney fills the air. Stop by Halligan’s Public House today, “When you’re at Halligan’s....you’re at home.” With 12 beers on tap and 16 flat screen TVs, you can watch your favorite game and enjoy your favorite drink. Enjoy two locatons: 3317 Masonboro Loop Rd., and 1900 Eastwood Rd. in Lumina Station.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 7 Days a Week Monday-Wednesday 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Masonboro Loop & Lumina Station ■ FEATURING: The Best Reuben in Town! $5.99 lunch specials, Outdoor Patio ■ WEBSITE: www.halligansnc.com

THE HARP

Experience the finest traditional Irish family recipes and popular favorites served in a casual yet elegant traditional pub atmosphere. The Harp, 1423 S. 3rd St., proudly uses the freshest ingredients, locally sourced whenever possible, to bring you and yours the most delicious Irish fare! We have a fully stocked bar featuring favorite Irish beers and whiskies. We are open every day for both American and Irish breakfast, served to noon weekdays and 2 p.m. weekends.

Regular menu to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. weekends.

Join us for trivia at 8:30 on Thursdays and live music on Fridays – call ahead for schedule (910) 763-1607. Located just beside Greenfield Lake and Park at the south end of downtown Wilmington, The Harp is a lovely Irish pub committed to

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bringing traditional Irish flavor, tradition and hospitality to the Cape Fear area.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Greenfield Lake/Downtown South ■ FEATURING: Homemade soups, desserts and breads,

free open wifi, new enlarged patio area, and big screen TVs at the bar featuring major soccer matches worldwide.

■ WEBSITE: www.harpwilmington.com

Italian eddie romanelli’s

Eddie Romanelli’s is a family-friendly, casual Italian American restaurant that’s been a favorite of Wilmington locals for over 16 years. Its menu includes Italian favorites such as Mama Romanelli’s Lasagna, Baked Ziti, Rigatoni a la Vodka and, of course, made-from-scratch pizzas. Its American influences include tasty burgers, the U.S.A. Salad and a 16 oz. Marinated Rib Eye Steak. Romanelli’s offers patio dining and flat screen TVs in its bar area. Dine in or take out, Romanelli’s is always a crowd favorite. Large parties welcome. 503 Olde Waterford Way, Leland. (910) 383.1885.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.- Thurs. 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South/Leland ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials ■ WEBSITE: www.RomanellisRestaurant.com

Fat Tony’s Italian Pub

Fat Tony’s has the right combination of Italian and American influences to mold it into a unique family-friendly restaurant with a “gastropub” feel. Boasting such menu items as Veal Saltimbocca, Eggplant Parmigiana, USDA Prime Sirloin, and award-winning NY style hand-tossed pizzas, Fat Tony’s is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Their appetizers range from Blue Crab Dip to Grilled Pizzas to Lollipop Lamb Chops.

Proudly supporting the craft beer movement, they have an ever-changing selection of microbrews included in their 27-tap lineup – 12 of which are from NC. They have a wide selection of bottled beers, a revamped wine list, and an arsenal of expertly mixed cocktails that are sure to wet any whistle. Fat Tony’s offers lunch specials until 3pm Monday through Friday and a 10% discount to students and faculty at CFCC. They have two pet-friendly patios – one looking out onto Front Street and one with a beautiful view of the Cape Fear River. With friendly, excellent service and a fun, inviting atmosphere, expect to have your expectations exceeded at Fat Tony’s. Find The Flavor…..Craft Beer, Craft Pizza!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday-Thursday 11 am10 pm; Friday-Saturday 11 am-Midnight; Sunday Noon10 pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.fatpub.com ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials until 3pm and late night menu from 11pm until closing.

mamma bella pizzeria

Mamma Bella’s is Wilmington’s latest pie palace, offering fresh and unique pizzas, strombolis, sandwiches, salads, wings, and more. Diners can enjoy eating in their quaint dining space or have Mamma deliver to their doorstep ($10 minimum, three-mile radius). Nothing is frozen, and everything

is made with top-notch ingredients, from the house meatballs to the pesto, salad dressings to marinara sauce, and beyond! Mamma bakes bread fresh several times daily and helps produce the most scrumptious cinnamon and/or pizza knots. In fact, through Feb. 29, either flavor of knots are free with the purchase of any large pie; or customers can get 12 free wings when ordering two large 2 topping pizzas (dine-in or delivery; offers cannot be combined). With a knowledgeable staff providing excellent customer service—all of whom “respect the pie”—every order is cared for from placing it to picking it up. 3926 Market St. 910-399-6723.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon - Thurs 11am - 10pm; Fri - Sat 11am - 11pm; Sun 11am - 9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.mammabellapizzeria.com

restaurant provides a relaxing blend of Caribbean delights – along with reggae music – served up with irrepressible smiles for miles. From traditional Jamaican breakfast to mouth-watering classic dishes such as curry goat, oxtail, jerk and curry chicken, to our specialty 4-course meals ($12.00) and $6.99 Student meal. Catering options are available.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tuesday - Saturday 11:45am - 9:00pm and Sunday 1:30pm - 8:00pm. Monday - Closed.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown – University Landing 417 S. College Road #24 ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials updated daily on Facebook ■ WEBSITE: www.jamaicascomfortzone.net

Slice of life

CEVICHE’S

“Slice” has become a home away from home for tourists and locals alike. Our menu includes salads, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, homemade soups, subs and, of course, pizza. We only serve the freshest and highest-quality ingredients in all of our food, and our dough is made daily with purified water. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”All ABC permits. Visit us downtown at 125 Market Street, (910) 251-9444, in Wrightsville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and in Pine Valley on the corner of 17th and College Road, (910) 799-1399.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11:30 a.m.-3 a.m., 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, Downtown and Wilmington South.

■ FEATURING: The largest tequila selection in Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.grabslice.com

a taste of italy

Looking for authentic Italian cuisine in the Port City? Look no further than A Taste of Italy Deli. Brothers, Tommy and Chris Guarino, and partner Craig Berner, have been serving up breakfast, lunch, and dinner to local and visiting diners for twenty years. The recipes have been passed down from generation to generation, and after one bite you feel like you’re in your mamas’ kitchen. Along with the hot and cold lunch menu, they also carry a large variety of deli sides and madefrom-scratch desserts. Or, if you’re looking to get creative in your own kitchen, A Taste of Italy carries a wide selection of imported groceries, from pasta to olive oils, and everything in between. And last but certainly not least, allow them to help you make any occasion become a delicious Italian experience with their catering or call ahead ordering.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday-Friday 8:00am8:00pm, Saturday 8:30am-7:00pm, Sunday 11:00am6:00pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.ncatasteofitaly.com ■ FEATURING: Sclafani goods, Polly-O cheese, Ferrara Torrone and much, much more!

Jamaican JAMAICA’S COMFORT ZONE

Tucked in the corner of University Landing, a block from UNCW is the hidden gem of Wilmington’s international cuisine scene - Jamaica’s Comfort Zone. This family owned

Latin American Come enjoy the tropical flavors of Panama and Central America...from our fresh fish to our handmade empanadas, traditional arroz con pollo to fresh inspired salads, We hope you will be transported to simpler time with warm, friendly service, and festive vibe. Large selection of beer and wine, including red and white sangria, tropical mimosas, drink specials daily. Just before the bridge at Wrightsville Beach. 7210 Wrightsville Ave. (910) 256-3131.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & BRUNCH: Mon-Sat 11am9pm, Sunday Brunch 9am-3pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ WEBSITE: www.wbceviche.com

san juan CafÉ

Offering the most authentic, gourmet Latin American cuisine in Wilmington. With dishes from countries such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba you’ll be able to savor a variety of flavors from all over Latin America. Located at 3314 Wrightsville Avenue.

910.790.8661 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter for live music updates!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon - Sat. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and from 5-10 p.m. Closed Sunday.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Nightly specials ■ WEBSITE: www.sanjuancafenc.com

Mexican EL CERRO GRANDE

In January, El Cerro Grande will celebrate 25 years serving authentic, delicious Mexican cuisine to the greater Wilmington area. With an ever-evolving menu, they have introduced eight new exclusive soft tacos as part of Taco Fiesta! They churn out mouth-watering enchiladas, fajitas, quesadillas, chef specialties, and more, in a colorfully inviting dining room marked by a friendly staff and attention to detail. Check out El Cerro’s daily drink and food specials at their three different locations, including $3.50 margaritas on Tuesdays off Military Road, on Wednesdays at 341 S. College Road, and on Thursdays at 5120 S. College Road.

Mondays feature fajita dinners for 10.99 at all locations, and they even have karaoke every Wednesday at 341 S. College Rd, starting at 6 p.m. Serving lunch and dinner daily.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Fri., open at 11 a.m.;

Sat-Sun., open at 11:30 a.m.

■ LOCATIONS: 341 S. College Rd., 910-793-0035; 5120

S. College Rd., 910-790-8727; 1051 Military Cutoff Rd., 910-679-4209 ■ WEBSITE: www.elcerrogranderestaurant.com

la costa mexican restaurant

With three locations to serve Wilmingtonians, La Costa is open daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m with lunch specials. Their full dinner menu (from 3 p.m. on) offers the best in Mexican cuisine across the city. From top-sellers, like fajitas, quesadillas and burritos, to chef’s specialty items, like molcajete or borrego, a taste of familiar and exotic can be enjoyed. All of La Costa’s pico de gallo, guacamole, salsas, chile-chipotle, enchilada and burrito sauces are made in house daily. Add to it a 16-ounce margarita, which is only $4.25 on Mondays and Tuesdays at all locations, and every meal is complete.

Serving the Port City since1996, folks can dine indoors at the Oleander and both Market Street locations, or dine alfresco at both Market Street locations. 3617 Market St.; 8024 Unit 1 Market St.; 5622 Oleander Dr. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs until 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. until 11 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown and Ogden ■ WEBSITE: www.lacostamexicanrestauranwilmington.com

San Felipe Mexican Restaurant

At San Felipe, we pride ourselves in offering the best Mexican cuisine combined with a Mexican inspired dining experience that will instill a sense of “familia” with our patrons.

Ditch the regular fare and try one of our Mexican inspired favorites such as our sizzling Certified Angus Beef Fajitas or our Carolina Chimichanga. Visit any of our 10 North Carolina locations to see for yourself and while your at it, try one of our delicious Margaritas! See you soon Amigos!

Independence Mall, 3522 Oleander Dr - Wilmington, NC (910) 791-9277 and 1114 New Pointe Blvd - Leland, NC (910) 371-1188.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington, Leland & Southport ■ WEBSITE: www.sanfelipenc.com

Organic lovey’s natural foods & cafÉ

Lovey’s Natural Foods & Café is a true blessing for shoppers looking for organic and natural groceries and supplements, or a great place to meet friends for a quick, delicious and totally fresh meal or snack. Whether you are in the mood for a veggie burger, hamburger or a chicken Caesar wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte Lovey’s Cafe’ menu. The Food Bar—which has cold, organic salads and hot selections—can be eaten in the newly expanded Lovey’s Cafe’ or boxed for take-out.

The Juice Bar offers a wide variety of delicious juices and smoothies made with organic fruits and vegetables. Specializing in bulk sales of grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices. Lovey’s has a great selection of local produce and receives several weekly deliveries to ensure

La Costa Mexican Restaurant

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5622 OLEANDER DR, 910.392.6006 • 3617 MARKET ST, 910.772.9000 • 8024 - UNIT 1 MARKET ST, 910.686.8210

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freshness. Lovey’s also carries organic grass-fed and freerange meats and poultry. wheat-free and gluten-free products are in stock regularly, as are vegan and vegetarian groceries. Lovey’s also carries Wholesome Pet Foods. Stop

by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 am to 6 p.m..

Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Rd in the Landfall Shopping Center; (910) 509-0331. “You’ll Love it at Lovey’s!”

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Café open: Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.(salad bar open all the time). Market hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington in the Landfall Shopping Center ■ FEATURING: Organic Salad Bar/Hot Bar, Bakery with fresh, organic pies and cakes.

■ WEBSITE: www.loveysmarket.com

whole foods market

Wrightsville Beach, Oceanic is one of the most visited restaurants on the beach. Choose from a selection of seafood platters, combination plates and daily fresh fish. For land lovers, try their steaks, chicken or pasta dishes. Relax on the pier or dine inside. Oceanic is also the perfect location for memorable events, such as wedding ceremonies & receptions, birthday gatherings, anniversary parties and more. Large groups welcome. Private event space available. 703 S. Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256.5551.

ies with a bit of tropical fun. 2804 S. College Road, Long Leaf Mall. (910) 769-3939.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mon-Fri; 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sat-Sun ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, at Shipyard Blvd. and College Rd. ■ WEBSITE: www.tropicalsmoothie.com

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & SUNDAY BRUNCH:

Casey’s Buffet

Mon – Sat 11am – 11pm, Sunday 10am – 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Dining on the newly renovated Crystal Pier.

■ WEBSITE: www.OceanicRestaurant.com

The pilot house

Seafood

The Pilot House Restaurant is Wilmington’s premier seafood and steak house with a touch of the South. We specialize in local seafood and produce. Featuring the only Downtown bar that faces the river and opening our doors in 1978, The Pilot House is the oldest restaurant in the Downtown area. We offer stunning riverfront views in a newly-renovated relaxed, casual setting inside or on one of our two outdoor decks.

Join us for $5.00 select appetizers 7 days a week and live music every Friday and Saturday nigh on our umbrella deck.

Large parties welcome. Private event space available. 910343-0200 2 Ann Street, Wilmington, NC 28401 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11am-9pm, FriSat 11am-10pm and Sunday Brunch 11am-3pm. Kids menu ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Riverfront Downtown Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Fresh local seafood specialties, Riverfront Dining, free on-site parking ■ MUSIC: Outside Every Friday and Saturday ■ WEBSITE: www.pilothouserest.com

catch

SHUCKIN’ SHACK

Whole Foods Market offers one of the most expansive freshly prepared foods options in the city! With 4 bars featuring hot dishes & salads, a sandwich station, sushi station, and pizza station, you are apt to satisfy everyone in your group. All of the ingredients are free of any artificial colors, flavors or preservatives so food is fresh and flavorful from farm, ranch, or dock to your fork! Dine in the cafe or carry out. On any given day the selection offers an array of organic, local, vegan/vegetarian, and healthy options. Voted Best Salads by encore readers.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week. Monday - Sunday. 8am - 9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Seasonal, healthy, organic, vegan/vegetarian ■ WEBSITE: www.wholefoodsmarket.com

Serving the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina.

Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee, 2013 Best of Wilmington “Best Chef” winner, Chef Keith Rhodes explores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer. We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Seafood. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch. Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010.

Dubbed “Modern Seafood Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Seafood & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Potato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, & Seafood Ceviche to name a few. Larger Plates include, Charleston Crab Cakes, Flounder Escovitch & Miso Salmon. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Allergies) Hand-crafted seasonal desserts. Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405, 910-799-3847.

■ SERVING DINNER: Mon.-Saturday 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List ■ WEBSITE: www.catchwilmington.com

Dock Street oyster bar

oceanic

Voted best seafood restaurant in Wilmington, Oceanic provides oceanfront dining at its best. Located in

smoothies and more Tropical smoothie cafÉ

Tropical Smoothie Café’s menu boasts bold, flavorful food and smoothies with a healthy appeal, all made to order from the freshest ingredients. Our toasted wraps, sandwiches, flatbreads and gourmet salads are made fresh with highest quality of meats and cheeses, topped with fresh produce and flavorful sauces, available for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The fun atmosphere and unparalleled hospitality brings customers back to Tropical Smoothie Café again and again. At Tropical Smoothie, we are guided by one simple belief: When you eat better, you feel better and when you feel better, all is better. It’s part of our mission to inspire a healthier lifestyle by serving amazing food and smooth-

In Wilmington, everyone knows where to go for solid country cooking. That place is Casey’s Buffet, winner of encore’s Best Country Cookin’/Soul Food and Buffet categories. “Every day we are open, somebody tells us it tastes just like their grandma’s or mama’s cooking,” co-owner Gena Casey says. Gena and her husband Larry run the show at the Oleander Drive restaurant where people are urged to enjoy all food indigenous to the South: fried chicken, barbecue, catfish, mac‘n’cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, chicken‘n’dumplings, biscuits and homemade banana puddin’ are among a few of many other delectable items. 5559 Oleander Drive. (910) 798-2913.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesdays.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Pig’s feet and chitterlings.

■ WEBSITE: www.caseysbuffet.com

Rx Restaurant & bar

Located in downtown Wilmington, Rx Restaurant and Bar is here to feed your soul, serving up Southern cuisine made with ingredients from local farmers and fishermen. The Rx chef is committed to bringing fresh food to your table, so the menu changes daily based on what he finds locally. Rx drinks are as unique as the food—and just what the doctor ordered. Join us for a dining experience you will never forget! 421 Castle St.; 910 399-3080.

■ SERVING BRUNCH & DINNER: Tues-Thurs, 5-10pm; FriSat, 5-10:30pm; Sun., 10am-3pm and 5-9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.rxwilmington.com

pembroke’s

A seasonally inspired and locally sourced Southern cuisine dining experience, Pembroke’s was created by the owners of downtown’s Rx Restaurant. Pembroke’s focuses on the same values and excellent service as its sister restaurant, purveying local companies for the best in seafood, proteins and produce.

They work with local fisherman and farmers to ensure your meal will be freshly grown and hand chosen. A new dinner menu is churned out daily to ensure the chefs are working with the freshest ingredients. Plus, the bartenders are creating new drink menus daily as to never bore your taste buds. 1125 A Military Cutoff Rd. 910-239-9153.

■ SERVING BRUNCH & DINNER: Open for dinner Tues-Sun, 5pm-close, with live music Fri-Sat nights. Sunday brunch, 10am-3pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.pembrokescuisine.com

Sports Bar Carolina Ale House

Voted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010 in Wilmington, Carolina Ale House is the place to be for awardwinning food, sports and fun. Located on College Rd. near UNC W, this lively sports-themed restaurant. Covered and open outdoor seating is available. Lunch and dinner specials are offered daily, as well as the coldest $2 and $3 drafts in town. 317 South College Road. (910) 791.9393.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11am-2am daily.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: 40 HD TVs and the biggest HD projector TVs in Wilmington.

■ WEBSITE: www.CarolinaAleHouse.com

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A new way to play with your food.” It isn’t just a catch

hell’s kitchen

This is downtown Wilmington’s Sports Pub! With every major sporting package on ten HDTVs and our huge HD projection screen, there is no better place to catch every game in every sport. Our extensive menu ranges from classics, like thick Angus burgers or NY-style Reuben, to lighter fare, such as homemade soups, fresh salads and vegetarian options. Whether meeting for a business lunch, lingering over dinner and drinks, or watching the game, the atmosphere and friendly service will turn you into a regular. Open late 7 days a week, with free WiFi, pool, and did we mention sports?

Free downtown lunchtime delivery on weekdays; we can accommodate large parties. (910) 763-4133.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & ■ LATE NIGHT: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: 1/2 priced select appetizers Monday

- Thursday 4-7 p.m.

■ WEBSITE: www.hellskitchenbar.com

vegetarian/Vegan sealevel restaurant

Shop for gifts while you’re waiting on your to-go order or for the cook to fix your food. How about a lentil patty melt with fresh, handcut potato chips or a crisp salad for lunch?

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BEER. FUN. FANNY.

Local food writer celebrates cookbook release at Goat and Compass

by: Shea carver

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hen Fanny Slater was a wee-bit—3 years old, to be exact—she stood on a stool beside of her father at the stove, as he prepared to make her the fluffiest egg sandwich ever. Unbeknownst to small Fanny, it would be the founding path to her career with food. And writing.

Fanny Slater will do another book signing with AJ Tata on Castle Street for Cape Fear Living Magazine’s Relaunch Party on April 30.

Plus, she’ll be a judge as part of the upcoming Wilmington Wine and Food Festival in May.

Cheddar Wraps.’”

Though not culinary trained, Fanny’s experience in the food industry comes from waiting tables (“an experience I think everyone should have once in their life,” she notes). As well, during college she did one of her internships at Margaux’s Restaurant. She staged in the kitchen and wrote about it.

“It was like being on the other side of Oz’s curtain,” Fanny describes. “It fueled me toA graduate from William Peace Univer- ward a very authentic passion for creating sity in English (with a focus on creative writ- food of my own, but not toward wanting to ing), Fanny entered the Rachael Ray Great be in the restaurant industry. Those are two American Cookbook Competition in 2013 at different things. . . . I like playing by my own the suggestion of her grandmother. “She’s rules. I don’t want to be burnt out by the resnearly 90 years old and texts, Facebooks, taurant industry, and I don’t want to lose my emails, and Ubers,” Fanny says. “She told me passion for cooking because it becomes like I should consider submitting a video.” a job. Some people love the high intensity and Fanny thought back to her father’s egg pressure of a hot kitchen but not me. I have sandwich, made with sharp cheddar and to find my own way to do what I love, and I’m sage, on an English muffin. Though simple, cool with being different.” its nourishment filled her soul. She decided to And so she is. Fanny is known locally for make a video in her family’s kitchen in north her numerous musings and quips in print. She Raleigh, but upped the ante on the sandwich writes recipes for Wrightsville Beach Magaby topping it with her homemade orange, lav- zine, as well as food columns for encore’s ender and fig jam. Along with an essay, three sister publication, Devour, not to mention she recipes, her concept of a cookbook—which at freelances for Wilmington Magazine, North that time was called “Tastes Like Childhood” Brunswick Magazine, Ideal-Living Magaand would be centered on Fanny’s favorite zine, Cape Fear Living Magazine, and blogs childhood food memories—and video, her for a wine-cork company called Nomacorc. submission made it to the top 20 out of thou- However, the pen(wo)man originally had her sands. Interview processes continued as they sights on an acting career—not surprising to pared down contestants; Fanny made it. “On anyone who is impacted by Fanny’s infectious April 1—yes, April Fool’s Day—Rachael Ray humor and personality. called me herself to tell me I made the top “I knew, one way or another, I wanted to five,” she remembers. perform in front of lots and lots of people,” she Fanny flew to NY to tape the finale of the tells. “Once my passion for cooking completecompetition in May 2014. She won and soon ly revealed itself, and I realized I could be in was given a four-month deadline to write her front of the camera just by being Fanny, evmanuscript. It took a year and a half to test erything fell into place. Future cooking show, more than 100 recipes, get all measurements here I come.” exact, write 30 stories, and fly back and forth While she’s currently being vetted for a to NY for the cover shoot and stylizing food show, also she’s been thrust into the world for pictures—not to mention edit and copy edit of a book tour. Fanny started the promotions the entire book. In March 2016, “Orange, Lavlast month. “I kicked things off in New Jersey ender and Figs” hit the shelves. where my grandmother lives so she could en“All of my recipes are my own interpreta- joy the first part of this crazy ride with me,” tions of my childhood food memories,” she she says. She had a launch party locally at tells. “I would scribble down random words Wilmington Homebrew Supply and has made like ‘rainbow chard’ on napkins or my hand stops in Raleigh and Cary before moving on when something popped into my mind. I once to Chapel Hill, Richmond and Charleston woke up with a recipe for guava butter sauce in coming months. Then she’ll return to her in one of my iPhone notes. I have no idea how home camp in the Triangle. it got there. When I ran out of ideas, I started “I’ll do a luncheon, speech, signing, and an email chain with my family, who reminded me of how I used to run around the house demo in Holly Springs, a potluck event in with bologna on my face. That led to recipes Wake Forest, and a speaking and signing like ‘Parmesan Crusted Prosciutto and White event at Peace,” she says.

“My love for cooking came from being in a family where we nurtured each other through food,” Fanny explains. “My dad and I love to do the cooking, while my mom and sister love to be surrounded by wonderful food. When we plan a vacation together, each day is based around the meals we’ll eat. Those are our activities. My family’s favorite pastime is food. It’s just who we are.”

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This weekend, Saturday, April 16, Fanny will stop in at her favorite neighborhood watering hole in the Brooklyn Arts District. Goat and Compass will host another book launch party.

“When I started planning my East Coast book tour, I thought very carefully about my events in Wilmington,” she says. “I wanted to make sure I planned signings at locations that had meaning to me, and also partnered with and promoted as many local businesses as possible. Goat and Compass is the epitome of home for me. It’s our neighborhood living room. I moved to Wilmington four years ago (Azalea Festival weekend, to be exact) and lived in the Mercantile Building on North 4th. For weeks I would watch crowds gather outside of the homely bar across the street.

When I finally got the courage to walk in one rainy Tuesday night, I met Scott Wagner (then-bartender, now co-owner). He was the first friend I ever had in Wilmington and treated me like family from day one.”

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Fanny also reached out to Funky Fresh Food Truck to churn out some of her recipes to go along with Fanny-inspired cocktails that will be served. “This means all-things Coors Light, whiskey and hoppy IPAs,” she says. “[Funky Fresh] was ready to rock and roll out a menu of dishes straight from my cookbook.“ A rep from Pomegranate Books will be onsite selling “Orange, Lavender and Figs,” and Fanny will be armed with her Sharpie to sign everyone’s copy. “Bring your friends, neighbors, grandmothers, and farm animals; it’s going to be a damn good time,” she promises. encore | april 13 – 19, 2016 | www.encorepub.com 33

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CARPE LIBRUM:

Murder on the country-music scene

by: GWENYFAR ROHLER

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elcome to Carpe Librum, encore’s new biweekly book column. Every other week I will dissect a current title with an old book— because literature does not exist in a vacuum, but emerges to participate in a larger, cultural conversation. I will feature many North Carolina writers; however, the hope is to place the discussion in a larger context and therefore examine works around the world as well.

This week’s edition of Carpe Librum is presented in honor of Maddie Hasson. Our hometown heroine is currently appearing on the big screen as Billie Jean Green, Hank Williams’ last wife, in “I Saw The Light.” The film drove me back to “A Case of Lone Star” by Kinky Friedman and “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler.

A Case of Lone Star

By Kinky Friedman Beech Tree Books 1987, 189 pages The Big Sleep

By Raymond Chandler Knopf, 1939, 277 pages

tentions (and methods for each death) by sending his victims sheet music to Hank Williams’ songs. Though the joke and references are modern (and incredibly erudite), the voice is Phillip Marlowe from Raymond Carver—if Marlowe was on the other side of a country-music career.

The world was first introduced to Philip Marlowe in the 1939 novel “The Big Sleep.” Honestly, Marlowe is not the greatest detective; he isn’t bothered by loose ends. He has his own ideas about right and wrong, and double crosses are all game. But what he lacks in bonafides he makes up for in storytelling skills. Basically the voice that has come to exemplify the Sam Spade detective shtick from film noir is Marlowe’s voice. He speaks in first person directly to the audience and always has women trouble, a drink and a bad taste in his mouth where humanity is concerned. In spite of all that, he does have his own personal moral code and a tendency to side with the underdog.

Friedman appropriates the voice (or pays homage to it, depending upon the reader’s perspective) for the voice of his narrator in the mystery series. It is actually a pretty fair appropriation. Aside from his hard-drinking, womanizing smart-ass exterior, Marlowe loves chess, poetry and philosophy. In real life Friedman was a young chess champion and anyone who writes country music understands poetry, so the appropriation of the character isn’t really much of a stretch.

Country rock-cult celeb Kinky Friedman began writing mystery novels with a fictionalized version of himself as the main character. In “A Case of Lone Star,” a psychotic serial killer, who believes himself to be Hank Williams, starts killing country music singers who play the Actually, Kinky Friedman is an endLone Star Café, a country music club in lessly fascinating topic: His satirical Manhattan. The killer announces his in- country-music career and mystery nov-

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One of the plot points turn on a missing photograph that is described as showing two little boys standing in front of a BBQ restaurant with a very tall man wearing a white cowboy hat, and looking at the camera with the saddest eyes the viewer had ever seen. Combined with murders linking two dollar bills, highways and dances never seen before, the book

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els are just the tip of the iceberg. He has run for elected office in the state of Texas as a Republican, Democrat and an Independent. He launched his own cigar line, served in Peace Corps and opened an animal sanctuary at his Texas ranch. Part of what makes his mystery novels so fun and wonderful is the way he brings all these elements of his life to the page. The writing is witty, fast-paced and smart, all while holding to the rules of the genre. He clearly honors Raymond Carver, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout, and of course Dasheil Hammett. But all his joking aside, he really does love music—country music specifically. I’m not sure how one could pursue a career in that industry without admiring Hank Williams. Kinky certainly is cognizant of the enduring power of Williams’ catalog and legacy.

ramps up with an intensity that mirrors Williams’ music and life.

Both Chandler and Friedman came from far more prosperous and advantageous backgrounds than Williams. Chandler certainly lived through his share of hard times—some of it self-imposed through his own hard drinking, womanizing, hard living, and some through uncontrollable circumstances (The Great Depression). Though Friedman came from a very supportive family and had the advantages of an education, anyone who has seriously tried to launch an arts career understands that anything would be easier to accomplish.

Williams’ debut at the Grand Ole Opry claims to have been the first performer to receive six encore calls. Friedman, always joking on the straight, claims to be the first Jewish performer at the Opry.

Friedman never will achieve Williams’ level of success or influence as a performer, but in “A Case of Lone Star,” he pays beautiful homage to the man and his enduring place in the hearts and minds of many (not just the deranged killer in the novel): “In a far more important sense, Hank Williams, like Jesus or Joe Hill, in random haphazard order, never really died.

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GOING ALOFT:

Chapter 8, Crossing the Gulf Stream

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by: JOHN WOLFE

he waters of the Gulf Stream were a deep purple hue I had never seen before. The colors of the sea changed from the sand-filled coastal muddiness I was used to into a filtered color: Deep true blue of the ocean refracted through suspended particles of sand in the water column, stirred up by wave energy near the shore.

Yesterday afternoon, as we passed the drop off of the continental shelf, we could look down from the bow and see the deepness of the water in its color alone.

It was deep and undisturbed for fathoms and fathoms down—a kind of blue that couldn’t be interrupted by waves on the surface. A true blue that originated from light swallowed up as far down as you could hold your breath, providing a backdrop of shadow. The feeling was similar to looking out into space—amidst the clouds and stars, a glimpse of eternity exists down there.

The current of the Gulf Stream was a conveyor belt to the north, and if we weren’t careful, it could tick us along silently until we were far off course.

Captain, pondering his chart in the pilothouse, said, “Our strategy is this. We’ll keep heading south, and when we reach the main axis of the current, we’ll turn to the east and cross it. Once on the other side, we’ll steer for Nassau again.”

Taking us out across the stream meant going into truly open ocean—more than 100 miles from the coast. This was further than the big fishing boats ventured out in my town—their powerful diesel engines and heavy rods built to slay the mightiest of sea beasts. A small voice in the back of my brain reminded me, if we got into trouble, there would be no chance of rescue.

But that was the way the Captain lived his life; he was confident in his own abilities, and took careful and calculated risks in his tireless pursuit of greatness.

He once told me he carved figureheads on his boats to “dare the gods to make trouble with him.” The concept of rescue had been pushed out of his mind when he was young and played pirate in the Leeward Islands. He had to be self-reliant, had to make it happen alone. Yet,

he, too, was reliant on the help of others—his family, for instance, whose resources allowed him to build his boats.

His friends were financing our sailing trip in the hopes he would repay them once the charter service became profitable. And we were with him, too, for better or worse: pulling his lines, steering his ship. There was something magnetic about Captain—his calm manner in the most harsh of environments instilled people with a sense of great trusting confidence. We had gone far enough to literally trust him with our lives, out in the middle of this vast ocean.

I took the helm. As we neared closer to the arrow on the chart, which marked the main axis of the current, the waves grew steeper and pitched higher. The tops began to crumble, like white ghosts that slid down heavy purple-blue mountains.

The waves were steeper than normal because the wind was blowing against the current.

“You can really get into trouble out here,” the Saint said, seated next to me. “I’ve heard of guys out here in fishing boats that came up to waves 20-feet high, but with only 10-second intervals between each crest.”

I tried to picture what that would feel like. Silently, I thanked the schooner for seeming so big and indestructible.

Still, our boat was pitching and yawing in the steep waves and my head began to feel light. The Saint sounded like he was talking to me through a faraway tunnel. My arms and forehead broke into a sweat. I turned pale and clammy, and that familiar nausea began to burble in my stomach.

“Are you feeling all right, man?” Saint asked. “Want me to take the wheel?”

I quickly nodded yes. As soon as he grabbed the spokes, I catapulted myself over to the caprail and released my breakfast into the sea. I felt weak and could barely crawl back into the cockpit to lie down. As I pulled myself back in, I saw Passenger emerge from the forward hatch and give the same salutation to the ocean as I just had. It was the first time we had seen him on deck since we left.

“Damn this boat!” he wailed. “Captain, turn around and take me back to shore.”

“I’m sorry, but we can’t do that,” Cap-

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we all knew to keep the wind just off to the side from directly behind us.

tain said. “The wind is out of the north, “Here it’s more important to steer by and we can’t sail against it.” the wind than by the compass,” he spoke loudly over its roar. “Because the wind “Then start the engine!” shifts a little, you know? It’s more impor“We don’t have that much fuel,” Cap- tant that we don’t accidentally jibe and tain replied. “I’m sorry, but you’re just go- risk breaking something than to steer an ing to have to try and relax until we get exact course.” to Nassau.”

Artist, growing more and more confiPassenger groaned miserably and dent in her abilities, steered the big ship gave a final heave over the side. He through the charging sea. The wind blew disappeared again, back to his sodden her hair wildly. Rows of waves followed bunk. us from behind. Captain and I ventured “I don’t know why he doesn’t stay up back to the stern pulpit, the furthest aft here,” Captain said. “The movement is we could go. We watched the big ship in way worse down below, and up here you front of us do the work she was meant to do. can feel the fresh air on your face.”

After another visit to the railing, I started to feel better. I could even stomach a little rice and beans and salad for lunch.

We crossed the current without any more difficultly; by the time we reached the other side, the wind had picked up. The waves had grown in size, but they were spaced further apart. It made it a much more comfortable ride. We changed course to the south again and ran with the wind.

Captain and Artist tied little strips of old pennant to the standing rigging. We used these telltales to determine from which direction the wind came. We were running downwind as far as she would point, the big mainsail boom hanging way out over the side, almost perpendicular to the ship. Captain made sure

“A schooner is the best rig for this kind of downwind sailing!” the Captain crowed. I could see he was enjoying himself. He was truly in his element.

“This is great!” I cried.

Together we watched the giant ship spread her enormous canvas wings and, like a magnificent frigatebird over the stampeding waves, fly full speed toward the mystery that awaited us to the south.

John Wolfe is a licensed captain who still gets seasick in rough weather, but goes sailing anyway. He holds a BFA in creative writing from UNCW. When he’s not writing, he can be found on the water, playing music or drinking beer. “Going Aloft” is Wolfe’s nonfiction serialized piece, to be published in encore every other week in 2016.

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to-do calendar events STARGAZING PARTY

4/15, 7-10pm: Cape Fear Museum, Carolina Beach State Park and other community partners for a fun-filled evening of stargazing and astronomy-themed activities at Carolina Beach State Park (1010 State Park Road, Carolina Beach). Theme is “Finding Your Way in the Night Sky.” Statewide Star Party is part of the 2016 NC Science Festival.

Be part of an event that is happening statewide!

And, bring a flashlight! At this free event, visitors can do laser-guided tour of the stars and planets, see close views of the Moon, stars, planets and

more using a variety of telescopes, experience a planetarium show for a fun orientation to the night skies, and more. Rain or shine. www.capefearmuseum.com/programs/starparty HEALTHY LIVING FESTIVAL

4/16, 10am: The Healthy Living Festival is an incredible event featuring all things that improve and embrace your lifestyle. We will have vendors who will motivate you and get the family outside and in shape. Acupuncture, MMA, essential oils, paintball, boats, you name it we have it! All ages welcome and it’s a free admission event, there really is something for everyone. Great food, fun

music and live demonstrations! Battleship Park, 1 Battleship Rd NE cape fear COMIC CON

4/16, 10am: The Cape Fear ComicCon will provide individuals and families with a great day of fellowship celebrating comics, fantasy and science fiction. We will have special guests, vendors and cosplay (including a cosplay contest). There will be an auction at 5PM to benefit the Cape Fear Literacy Council.Wilmington Moose Lodge #343, 4610 Carolina Beach Rd.

charity/fundraisers 2016 Audi Cabriolet RAFFLE

Wilmington Symphony Orchestra is raffling a 2016 Audi Cabriolet convertible, in partnership with Audi Cape Fear. Only 999 tickets will be sold! The drawing will be held on May 7. Audi Car Raffle: $125 + $3.75 transaction fee. Raffle ticket to win the new 2016 Audi Cabriolet 2.0. Raffle tickets will be sent to buyer via U.S. mail. Must be 18 years old to participate. You need not be present to win, but we hope you will join us at the Kentucky Derby Party and drawing event on May 7, and all ticket sales benefit the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra. The $125 purchase price of the ticket is not tax-deductible, but any amount in excess of $125 per ticket will be considered a contribution to the WSO. 600 tickets must be sold for the raffle to take place. In the event that the minimum is not met, you may choose to make this a tax-deductible donation to the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra or receive a full refund. wilmingtonsymphony.org.

POLITICS AND PARS GOLF TOURNAMENT

Politics and Pars Golf Tournament at Magnolia Greens Golf Course in Leland, NC, features local and state politicians in a benefit for Step Up for Soldiers. The event includes a raffle, awards ceremony, and an opportunity to mingle with fellow competitors and the politicians who will be in attendance all while enjoying a low country boil.

One lucky player will win a Tag Heuer watch valued at $2,000 from REEDS Jewelers. Players will have a chance to win a brand new Volvo from Parkway of Wilmington in the hole-in-one challenge. 1800 Tommy Jacobs Dr.

BOCCE BALL TOURNAMENT

4/16, 10:30am: Brigade CORPs (Club of Rising Professionals) is gearing up for their 10th Annual Beach Bocce Ball Tournament to be held, Saturday, April 16th at Dig & Dive. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Brigade Boys & Girls Club, which serves over 2,400 youths annually, providing after- school and summer programs to children and teens in grades K-12. $60 per each two-person team and includes a tournament Tshirt and a swag bag. Teams will choose to play in either the 10 am or 2 pm flight. With more than 250 players participating, the tournament provides maximum exposure for your company and the perfect opportunity to engage both employees and clients. Sponsorships are available! tAngie Hill at 910-392-0747 or email her at ahill@brigadebgc.org. Free for spectators. Dig and Dive, 3525 Lancelot Ln.

TINTED TURTLE TROT

4/16, 8:30am: 5K/1 Mile race with a color twist!

Proceeds will benefit the Island Montessori School FSA, which benefit teachers, students, and parents at Island Montessori School - the only free public Montessori education offered in New Hanover County. www.tintedturtletrot.com.

PAWS FOR PEOPLE

Wilmington’s official dog race! Paws4people is hosting its 8th Annual 5K and 1 Mile Fun Walk at Empie Park, Sunday April 17 at 3 p.m. Prizes

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UPCOMING EVENTS THURSDAY, APRIL 14 | 2:00 P.M.

Women’s Tennis vs Mt. Olive FRIDAY, APRIL 15 | 6:00 P.M.

Baseball vs ETSU

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 | 2:00 P.M.

Baseball vs ETSU

SATURDAY, APRIL 16 | 1:00 P.M.

Softball vs College of Charleston (DH) SATURDAY, APRIL 16 | 6:00 P.M.

Men’s Soccer vs Duke (Harry’s game) SUNDAY, APRIL 17 | 2:00 P.M.

Baseball vs ETSU

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Softball vs College of Charleston TUESDAY, APRIL 19 | 6:00 P.M.

Baseball vs Campbell

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awarded to top runners and dog/runner teams in each age category! Race Day will also feature Trolly Stop Hotdogs, raffle prizes, and dog giveaways. paws4people is a local non-profit that places highly trained Assistance Dogs with children and veteran clients at no cost! Donations: www.paws4people.org/donate $20 walkers. $30 runners.

FORE THE CHILDREN GOLF TOURNAMENT

4/18, 10am: Join The Children’s Museum of Wilmington as we host one of our biggest fundraisers of the year at Cape fear Country Club. Play 18 holes of luxury golf, and for a little extra attend the pre-party at Eagle Point where we will have a celebrity guest speaker to entertain you. Practice and Registration: 10 am - 12 pm. Shot Gun: 12pm. Tournament & Eagle Point Social Player: $250. Tournament Player: $150. Foursome: $600. Includes golf cart, access to the practice range, beverage cart, and lunch. Cape Fear Country Club, 1518 Country Club Rd.

music/concerts MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO

Known for its virtuosic style and new approach to jazz, the trio returns to UNCW with Marcus Roberts on piano, Rodney Jordan on bass and Jason Marsalis on drums. $5. Kenan Auditorium UNCWilmington, 601 S College

theatre/auditions BUYER AND CALLER AUDITIONS

Thalian Association will hold auditions for the first show of their 2016 Red Barn Season, Buyer and Cellar. Auditions will be held Monday, 4/11-12, 7pm, the Community Arts Center, 120 S. 2nd St. Directed by Benedict R. Fancy, show runs June 9-26 at Red Barn Studio Theatre. Available Roles: Alex Moore, Male, Age 20-40, All Ethnicities. A struggling actor in LA takes a job working in a megastar’s Malibu basement (which is fitted out as an old time shopping street). When the Lady herself comes down to play, it feels like real bonding in the basement, but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? An outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs.

MAD FOREST

In playwright Caryl Churchill’s play, realism mixes with the surreal in this tale about the Romanian revolution. The first act follows a young Romanian woman engaged to an American and the ensuing Romanian secret police investigation of their relationship. The second act uses the same actors to recount the events of December 1989 in Bucharest. The third act follows a character from Act I and their recovery from injuries sustained during the fighting. Runs at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. 4/14-17 and 21-24 on the Mainstage Theatre in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building. Tickets are $15 for members of the general public, $12 for seniors, UNCW employees, and alum, and $6 for students (sales tax included.) Kenan Box Office: 910.962.3500 or http://uncw.edu/arts/boxoffice.html. UNCW Cultural Arts Building, 601 S. College Rd.

CRIMSON SHADOW

From Pineapple-Shaped Lamps, the people who brought you History of Comedy Part I and SEX (a.k.a. Wieners & Boobs) comes a brand-new original stage production, written and directed by Devin DiMattia. The year is 1941. The world is at War, President Theodore Eisenhoover continues

to ask all Americans to do their part, and every Thursday night, boys and girls gather around their radios to hear of the heroic tales of daringdo by their favorite masked vigilante, The Crimson Shadow! But what those boys and girls don’t get to hear each week on their radio dials is all the backstage drama happening at their local radio station. April 14 - May 1 at Red Barn Studio Theatre. Thurs-Sat performances are at 7:30, Sunday matinees at 3. $20 GA, $18 students/seniors, $15 Thursday performances. 1122 S 3rd St. (910) 762-0955 MOUSETRAP

A group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm; A newly married couple who run the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. Soon after someone is killed and as the policeman probes the background of everyone present he rattles a lot of skeletons.

MOUSETRAP

Written by Agatha Christie and directed by Chris Brown, a group of strangers is stranded in a boarding house during a snowstorm; A newly married couple who run the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. Into their midst comes a policeman, traveling on skis. Soon after someone is killed and as the policeman probes the background of everyone present he rattles a lot of skeletons. Admission: $15 Thursdays, $18 Seniors/students/military, $20 General Admission April 14-17, 21-24, 8pm; Sunday, 3pm. Cape Fear Playhouse, 613 Castle St.

comedy DEAD CROW

4/15-16, 9:30pm: Joe Zimmerman has been touring all over the country with Brian Regan, and returns with his new 1-hour show to Dead Crow.

Praised for an accessible style pairing absurdism with a wide-eyed, aw-shucks demeanor, 2013 was a big year for New York City-based comedian Joe Zimmerman. In addition to making his Comedy Central debut on John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show, he made his late night debut on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and was chosen as one of the acclaimed New Faces at Just For Laughs Montreal. Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St. Tickets: www.deadcrowcomedy.com

dance CONTRA DANCE

Evening of energetic, contemporary American country dancing—exercise that’s actually FUN, done to live music by Box of Chocolates band—fiddle, percussion, guitar, dulcimer, bass, mandolin and more! Dress cool & comfortable, soft-soled shoes. 2nd and 4th Tues each month. All ages welcome. United Methodist Church, 409 S. 5 Ave.

UNCW AND FRIENDS

4/13, 7pm: Join us for a performance by UNC Wilmington faculty, students and guest artists offering a varied repertoire of piano music, strings, and guitar. Sure to be a musical treat! Musicians include Dr. Barry Salwen, piano and The Accidentals, a student string ensemble. Purchase seats

on CAM’s website: www.cameronartmuseum.org, by phone and at the door.CAM Members and Students with valid college ID: $5, Non-Members: $10. Cameron Art Museum, Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall. 3201 South 17th St. wilmington dance festival

4/15-16, 8pm: Wilmington Dance Festival featuring a special performance by Gaspard & Dancers! Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Dance Coop! Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door. Admission: VIP tix available, silent auction.

City Stage Co., 21 North Front St.

BURLESQUE SHOW

4/16, 9pm: Come early for best seating w/ the Flirty Dozen Burlesque Revue! Spring is here!

Get ready for a wild evening with a very special night of Burlesque, Variety and Comedy with The Flirty Dozen. Featuring Hurricane Velvet: Spinning fire and light, with a wicked sense of humor. Coffee Brown: Tap dancing nightengale with moves like Jagger. Fae Rae: Contortion and aerial hoops, silks, and flow. Juggling Gypsy Cafe & Hookah Bar, 1612 Castle St

art gallery talk: uncw art students

Join the conversation with students of UNCW Associate Professor Andi Steele giving their responses to the exhibit The Bones Of Sculpture by Dustin Farnsworth (on view through June 5). CAM Members: Free, Museum Admission for all others.

Hughes Wing. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th St.

NIKI HILDEBRAND GLASS WORK

PORT CITY PLAYWRIGHTS

Port City Playwrights’ Project, a community of writers for stage and screen, meets Saturday, 4/16, 11am, Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd. Newcomers at all levels of development are welcome to attend the session, which includes the reading of new works. For additional information, write to portcityplaywrightsproject@gmail.com. https://portcityplaywrights.wordpress.com. Northeast Regional Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

AUDITIONS FOR EXTRA EXTRA MUSICAL

Big Dawg Productions, in conjunction with Frank Trimble, are pleased to announce auditions for the musical “Extra! Extra!” on Sat., April 16th from 2-5 and Sun., April 17th from 7 to 10 at the Cape Fear Playhouse, 613 Castle St., Wilmington.

Performance dates are June 2-5 and 9-12, 2016.

Roles are available for multiple men and women, all ages and ethnicities. Roles are also available for two to four children, ages 10 to 14. Prepare a brief a cappella song, no need for accompaniment, sheet music or a monologue. Frank Trimble, at trimblef@uncw.edu

UST LIKE YOU ONLY PRETTIER

TheatreNOW is looking for actress between the ages of 20 and 60 to audition for the upcoming adaptation of Celia Rivenbark’s book “We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier.” Also seeking males between the ages of 25 and 55. Auditions are Monday, April 18th from 7:30 until 9:30. If you can’t make this audition, contact Artistic Director Zach Hanner (zach@theatrewilmington.com) to attempt to schedule another time. Rehearsals begin in May and the show runs Fridays and Saturdays from June 10th through July 30th. Paying gig.

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Annie Moses Band: Rhapsody in Bluegrass Saturday, April 30th at 7:30pm

Annie Moses Band is remaking the genre of bluegrass with influences of folk, jazz and classical.

Tickets available through the Thalian Hall Box Office by calling 910.632.2285 or online at ThalianHall.org Media Partners “Your alternative weekly voice”

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TICKETS: 910.632.2285 • 800.523.2820 • WWW.THALIANHALL.ORG 310 CHESTNUT ST •WILMINGTON, NC 28401

Through 5/15: Hildebrand’s work spans ideas of memory, transience, collective consciousness of humans and the earth. Thoughts of energy, beliefs and existence flowing through, of what we don’t see and the connections of them. Engaged with the human condition and often the human body, her work captures sensory parts of existence, creating a play between the physical presence of solid visuals and the awareness of the nonphysical indefinable matter. The ArtWorks, 200 Willard St. cape fear paint and wine

4/16, 5:30pm: River to Sea Gallery hosts Cape Fear Paint & Wine’s newest class - Mandala: An Artful Meditation. This is a mandala painting class, led by exhibiting gallery artist Adelia Spivey. Participants will be guided through the simple rhythmic painting techniques to create a mandala - a sacred form of circular art which can be used as a powerful tool for meditation & creative self expression. Classes are $40 per person and will be held 5:30-7:30. Saturday’s class includes two glasses of wine, a gorgeous view and a finished painting for you to take home. Space is limited. RSVP: 910763-3380.

ALL STUDENT SHOW

Annual, juried exhibition features student work.

Traditionally over 75 pieces are submitted, including drawings, watercolors, oils, photography, acrylics, ceramics, sculptures and experimental media. A UNCW alumnus/alumna or community member is selected to juror the show and selects the awards, including Best of Show, which is purchased for the University Union Permanent Art Collection. UNCW Boseman Art Gallery, 601 S College Rd.

topher alexander

Flytrap Brewing presents “Varied States” from local artist, Topher Alexander. He currently serves as the Assistant Gallery Director at UNCW CAB Art Gallery and teaches printmaking at the Cameron Art Museum School. Alexander’s artwork is driven by experimentation, and grounded in raw materials. On display through April 30. Flytrap, 319 Walnut St.

AZALEA FEST CHILDREN’S ART SHOW

TACT is proud to exhibit the top 54 entries from the elementary and middle school divisions of the 7th annual North Carolina Azalea Festival Children’s Art Contest. Free; public invited to attend. NC Azalea Festival Children’s Art Contest is open to all public, private, charter and home elementary and middle-school students from New Hanover and Pender counties with almost 900 entries from talented young artists. Artwork from the top entrants in each division may be viewed in the HBHUSO/CAC Community Gallery with the ceramic art of the renowned Orange Street Pottery.

Children’s artwork will be on display at the Hannah Block Historic USO/Community Arts Center through Azalea Festival until Fri., 4/29.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT

Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, Wilmington’s premier after-hours celebration of art and culture, is held 6-9 pm on the fourth Friday of each month.

Fourth Fridays feature art openings, artist demonstrations, entertainment and refreshments.

Administered by the Arts Council of Wilmington & New Hanover County, Fourth Fridays have made downtown Wilmington an arts destination as artsavvy locals and visitors flock to our art spaces, said Rhonda Bellamy, executive director of the Arts Council of Wilmington/NHC.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Call for Artists by Wilmington Art Association for 2D Visual and 3D Heritage Arts adults 50 and over—Statewide Art Competition plus Exhibition

and sale for three days. -$15 to enter 5 pieces of art. No uploading images Deadline to enter April 25. www.wilmington-art.org STRIKING A BALANCE

Striking A Balance opens at New Elements Gallery features new works from printmaker Donald Furst and painter Bob Rankin. Both artists share a clean, linear aestheric, but they differ in palette.

Furst works predominately in black and white where Rankin plays with primary hues. It will remain on view until 4/16. at 201 Princess St.

PLEIN AIR PAINT OUT

Visitors to the Azalea Garden tour will discover artists working in locations throughout the featured gardens. The artists will move from place to place, following both the sunlight and their imagination.

Most of the artists will be working all three days of the tour and some may make it to several of the featured gardens during that time. Spectrum Gallery will host a showing of the resulting artworks at The Forum, with an artists’ reception on Thursday, 5/5, 6-9pm. Refreshments and live music. In the time between the paint out in April and the gallery show in May, many of the artists are expected to develop more detailed paintings from their original sketches. Collectors will be able to see the evolution of certain paintings alongside the more spontaneous creations painted during the Garden Tour. 910-256-2323. Spectrum Gallery, 1125 J Military Cutoff Rd. spectrumartandjewelry.com.

CELIA MCGUIRE OPENING RECEPTION

4/14, 6pm: My World on Canvas, exhibition by artist Celia McGuire presented at the Leland Cultural Arts Center. Visitors to the Center can enjoy her works from April 1st through 4/30. Leland Cultural Arts Center, 1212 Magnolia Village Way

TINTYPE PORTRAITS DAY

4/17, 9am: Local photographer, Harry Taylor, will create tintype portraits the way they were done in the 1860s with an antique camera and historic processes. Harry’s work is widely collected and is featured in the Cameron Art Museum collection.

Reserve your session today! $80 for 5” x 7”/$175 for 8” x 10”. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Burgwin-Wright House and Gardens, 224 Market St. www.burgwinwrighthouse.com. 910762-0570.

working studios in this presentation of the original front curtain unveiled October 12, 1858 during the premier opening of Wilmington’s Thalian Hall. The 32’ curtain painted by Russell Smith, Hudson River-inspired Pennsylvania artist, undergoes conserva?tion treatment while local artists paint a 19’ x 32’ replica of the venerable scene, featuring arrival of Viking long ships to Apollo’s temple, as oracles are read on the eve of the Olympic games. • Through 9/11: She Tells a Story celebrates the work of women artists from CAM’s permanent collection and connects the art forms of visual and literary arts. Fifteen Wilmington-area women writers contribute text (of their chosen format) on select works from the exhibition. The juxtaposition of the artwork with the written word will illuminate how these artists and writers explore their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium. • Through 7/17: Patchwork North America: Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson: From extensive travel by road and by air, Wright-Frierson has created over 100 paintings framing scenes, as if looking through a window, across the US and Canada. • She Tells a Story: Celebrates the work of fifty-two visual artists from CAM’s permanent collection and connects the forms of visual and literary arts. Exploring the catalytic relationship between visual imagery and text, CAM invited fourteen Wilmington-area writers to compose new work inspired by these selections. This juxtaposition of visual with word illuminates how artists communicate their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium. CAM Café hrs: Tues,Sat,, 11am-3pm; Sun., 10am-3pm; Wed.-Thurs.

5-9pm. 910-395-5999. www.cameronartmuseum. org. 3201 S. 17th St. WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM

Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in the turn of the century Myers Cottage, exists to preserve and to share the history of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early days of the beach including Lumina Pavilion, our hurricane history and information about the interaction between the people and our natural environment which have shaped the 100 year history of WB. (910) 256-2569. 303 W. Salisbury St. www.wbmuseum.com.

WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM

Explore railroad history and heritage, especially of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for 125 years. Interests and activities for all ages, including historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively Children’s Hall, and spectacular model layouts. House in an authentic 1883 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level. By reservation, discounted group tours, caboose birthday parties, and after-hours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mondays at 10:30am, only $5 per family and access to entire Museum. Admission only $9 adult, $8 senior/military, $5 child age 2-12, and free under age 2. Northend of downtown, 505 Nutt St. 910-763-2634. wrrm.org.

LATIMER HOUSE

Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the restored home features period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am. $4-$12. The Latimer House of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society is not handicapped accessible 126 S. Third St. 7620492. www.latimerhouse.org

CAPE FEAR SERPENTARIUM

SCULPTED GATE BY DUMAY GORHAM

Join us at Art in Bloom Gallery on April 17th, Sunday, 2 – 5 pm to celebrate our sculpted gate by Dumay Gorham and to officially open our courtyard created by Herb Bailey, Arty Seabury, and Dave Nathans of Urban Building Corporation.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at approximately 2:15 pm. Refreshments will be served. http://aibgallery.com/events/courtyardopening-celebration-of-sculpted-gate-by-dumaygorham. 210 Princess St.

museums CAMERON ART MUSEUM

Exhibits: Through 6/5: Bones Of: Sculptures by Dustin Farnsworth: New acquisition to the permanent collection in context of seven other works by this rising artist. Inspired by 19th century architecture of the theatre, Farnsworth reflects, “I create a lush, emotionally-charged rabbit hole to fall into and explore. These sculptures act as anthropological studies of cultural, familial and social heredity of a culture in the interim of post-industry and the coming age.” Farnsworth, a recent resident artist at Penland School of Craft (2012-2015) is now continuing his studio practice as a Windgate resident and Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015-2016). • Through 7/10: Raise the Curtain: Galleries become two

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World’s most fascinating and dangerous reptiles in beautiful natural habitats, feat. a 12-foot saltwater crocodile, “Bubble Boy.” and “Sheena”, a 23ft long Reticulated Python that can swallow a human being whole! Giant Anaconda weighs 300 lbs, w/15 ft long King Cobras hood up and amaze you. See the Black Mamba, Spitting Cobras, Inland Taipans, Gaboon Vipers, Puff Adders, and more! Over 100 species, some so rare they are not exhibited anywhere else. One of the most famous reptile collections on earth. Open everyday in summer, 11am-5pm (Sat. till 6 pm); winter schedule, Wed-Sun. 20 Orange St, across from the Historic Downtown Riverwalk, intersecting Front and Water Street. (910) 762-1669 or www. capefearserpentarium.com.

BELLAMY MANSION

One of NC’s most spectacular examples of antebellum architecture, built on the eve of the Civil War by free and enslaved black artisans, for John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896) physician, planter and business leader; and his wife, Eliza McIlhenny Harriss (1821-1907) and their nine children.

After the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865, Federal troops commandeered the house as their headquarters during the occupation of Wilmington. Now a museum, itf ocuses on history and the design arts and offers tours, changing exhibitions and an informative look at historic preservation in action.910-251-3700. www.bellamymansion.org.

503 Market St.

BURGWIN WRIGHT HOUSE

18th century Burgwin-Wright House Museum in the heart of Wilmington’s Historic District, is the oldest museum house in NC, restored with 18th and 19th century decor and gardens. Colonial life is experienced through historical interpreta-

tions in kitchen-building and courtyard. 3rd and Market St. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Last tour, 3pm.

(910)762-0570. www.burgwinwrighthouse.com.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

Mon, Little Sprouts Storytime, 10am, and Go Green Engineer Team, 3:30pm. • Tues., Kids Cooking Club, 3:30pm • Wed., Preschool Science, 10am; Discover Science, 3:30pm; and Mini Math, 4pm. • Thurs. StoryCOOKS, 10am; and StART with a Story, 3:30pm • Fri., Toddler Time, 10am; and Adventures in Art, 3:30pm • Drop off gently used books at our museum to be used for a good cause. Ooksbay Books uses book collection locations to help promote literacy, find a good use for used books, and benefit nonprofits. www. playwilmington.org 116 Orange St. 910-254-3534

kids stuff SUPER SATURDAY FUN TIME

Appropriate for ages 4-10, but all ages welcome.

Dock the Dog and Dock Street Kids for 10 exciting episodes of Super Saturday Fun Time, TheatreNOW’s live theatrical show featuring local history and mystery and super guest stars, hosted

by Captain Coy T. Plunkett (Zach Hanner). Live music, games, cartoons, short films, and his favorite surf “nuggets.” Dock Street Kids and their always-hungry dog, Dock, solve adventures. Parents can even drop off kids ages 5+. Kid-friendly snacks and drinks available for purchase. We also do custom birthday packages with a chance to interact with all the characters and even step onstage and be a part of the action. /26: Mystery of Blackbeard

Story Explorers

Cameron Art Museum, every Thurs., 10-10:30am:

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Admission by donation. Bring your infant, toddler or preschooler for story time, gallery exploration and an art project! georgia@cameronartmuseum. org for more info. 3201 S. 17th St. HAMMERHEADS SOCCER

The goal of the Wilmington Hammerheads and the Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation Department is to provide the highest quality soccer coaching program to the youth of our community.

Hammerhead Players and Youth staff will teach the fundamental skills and advanced technical and tactical play necessary to enhance each player’s game. Continues through May 3. 1 Bob Sawyer Dr.

LITTLE EXPLORERS: BEAUTIFUL BUGS

4/14, 10am: Explore the world around us with hands-on activities, experiments and fun in Museum Park! Enjoy interactive story time, exploration stations and play related to a weekly theme.

In event of inclement weather, program moved inside. Perfect for children ages 3 to 6 and their adult helpers. Parental participation is required.

Free. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

summer rollout kids at cam

Check out summer camps and classes for all ages offered through the Museum School while enjoying live music with Mark Herbert, family friendly food truck menu with Steviemack’s International Food Company and lots of fun activities and stations. All Ages Welcome. No pre-registration necessary. Parental supervision required at all times. Kids @ CAM is fun for the whole family!

For more information contact georgia@cameronartmuseum.org or dmoore@cameronartmuseum. org. Admission by donation. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th St.

lectures/readings GOING GREEN BOOK CLUB

First Tues of ea. month, 6pm. 2016 will feature a nice range of themes, plus a couple of back-ups just in case obtaining any turned out to be problematic. 4/5: Speaking for Nature: The Literary Naturalists, from Transcendentalism to the Birth of the American. Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St.

PEDALING FOR PAGES BOOK CLUB

Arrive by bike to receive the bicycle discount everyday. We do have a bike rack just outside the door and two more on the block. The group will read a selection that includes, fiction, biography, history, and memoir. Open to all levels of bicycle interest and ability. Meetings are last Thurs. of mo. at 6pm. March-Mud, Sweat and Gears by Joe Kurmaskie (bicycle tour across Canada with his family!); April-Fat Tire Flyer by Charlie Kelly (history of early days of mountain biking by those who lived it); May-Joyride by Mia Birk (National Bike Month so its a book about advocacy and working towards a more cycling friendly world); June: Half Man, Half Bike. The Life of Eddy Merckx by William Futheringhom; July: The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hurne; August: Rusch to Glory: Adventure, Risk, and Triumph on the Path Less Traveled by Rebecca Rusch; Oct: Two Wheels: A Cycling Murder Mystery by Greg Moody; Nov: Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by BikeSnobNYC. Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St.

FRIENDS OF LELAND LIBRARY

Friends of the Leland Library will hold their Second Saturday sale on Sat., 4/9, 10am-2pm at the

Magnolia House II on Town Hall Dr. just before the new town hall. This month is our Member Appreciation Sale! FOLL members will receive 50% off their entire purchase. You may become a member at the door and benefit from the sale. Everyone is welcome and non-members can enjoy purchases at our regular low prices. Ellie Edwards, (910) 8332322. www.friendsofthelelandlibrary.com STAND BY ME

4/13, 6:30pm: Jim Downs is an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellow at Harvard University and associate professor of history and American Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. His other books include: Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Why We Write: The Politics and Practice of Writing for Social Change (Routledge, 2006) and Taking Back the Academy!: History of Activism, History as Activism (Routledge, 2004). He has published articles in Time, New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education,The Lancet, and others. King Hall Auditorium, UNCW, 601 S. College Rd.

COASTAL SPEAKER SERIES

4/13, 7pm: Bees are important to the health of the planet and are vital pollinators for crops around the world. The effects of climate change have had negative effects on population levels. Warmer temperatures are causing flowers to bloom earlier, before bees are able to pollinate the plants.

Parasites in bees are also becoming a bigger concern, as they are more prevalent in warmer conditions. Deborah Flora, backyard beekeeper and prominent New Hanover County Beekeepers Association member, will show how backyard beekeeping can help improve bee populations

and pollination. Free. Fred and Alice Stanback Education Center, 309 West Salisbury St. READING FESTIVAL

4/16, 10am: Activities, games, giveaways for youth and their families storytelling, costumed literary characters, music and more. Bring a book to donate...a book to swap...a blanket to picnic.

910-341-7866. Event is free! MLK Community Center, 401 S. 8th St.

USGBC RENEWABLE ENERGY LUNCHEON

4/19, 11:30am: USGBC NC Cape Fear Branch for a Lunch and Learn on Renewable Energy in North Carolina. Attendees will discover what renewable energy options are viable in our state from large scale distribution perspectives as well as smaller, home owner installation options. Lunch will be catered by Chops Deli. www.usgbc.org/usgbcnorth-carolina. Cape Fear Community College Union Station, 502 N. Front St.

classes metal work and jewelry classes

Metal and wire work jewelry classes held every Tuesday morning, 10:00am - 12:00pm , at the Hannah Block Community Arts Center at 2nd and Orange Streets. $30.00 per 2 hour class (includes all supplies and tools for use in class) Preregister by contacting the teacher directly: Karen Keffer Pridemore at: takeyourpickdesigns@yahoo.com.

INTEGRATIVE HEALING ARTS

Gentle Beginner Yoga, 8:30-9:15am, with Lisa Keating. Bring yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing. Lisa will lead you through gentle yoga postures and breathwork as you find and connect

with your inner self. • Workshops 9:30am-4:15pm: Delve into information provided by knowledgeable teachers and learn about yourself through self-hypnosis, hand analysis, psychic and intuitive practices, physical movement, meditation, massage, and more. Learn to maintain the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body in a timeless condition of vibrant natural harmony. We offer four session with 19 different workshops to choose from. unitywil.com. Unity of Wilmington, 717 Orchard Ave. PILOXING SSP

Thurs, 6:30pm: A high-energy interval workout that uniquely blends the power, speed, and agility of boxing with the targeted sculpting and flexibility of pilates. Supplemented by the use of weighted gloves, further toning the arms and maximizing cardiovascular health. Add to that fun dance moves for a workout that will tone muscle, burn fat and empower you both physically and mentally.

31 Fitness, 4209 Oleander Drive Suite 8

ART CLASSES

Four weekly sessions; 2 hours, $80. • Tues, 10amnoon: Collage—Create beautiful collages from found papers in a series of fun collage lessons including textures, color gradation, paper dynamics, content, photo portrait and more. • Wed. 10am-noon: Drawing w/Pen and Ink—Learn to shade to depict light and shadow, line drawing and how to draw anything. • Thurs, 10am-noon: Acrylic Painting—How to paint light and shadow, color and brush dynamics, mixing colors, mediums and choosing a painting style. For beginners or experienced students that want to refresh their skills. Beginners or experienced students. Sunroom Studio, 6905 Southern Exposure

MUSCOSKELETAL ASSESSMENT

4/14-17, 8:30am: Learn a functional, integrated approach to evaluation through looking at movement and asana as well as specific muscle testing techniques. You will learn techniques to help you “read” your student’s body through their asana practice. This course will give you a more functional understanding of what is going on in the body and how certain imbalances may lead to pain and dysfunction. The development of a personalized plan of care and personalized asana practice for your student based on this evaluation will be taught. After this course, you will be able to help students with musculoskeletal dysfunctions (for example: back pain, neck pain, arthritis, tendonitis) by finding their imbalances and helping them to find a yoga practice to restore balance as well as modify asanas as needed. Wilmington Yoga Center, 5329 Oleander Dr., Ste. 200 Pine Needle Crafts: Trivet

Enjoy crafting in a small class with personalized instruction by local craftswoman Melanie Walter.

When the class is over, your hand-sewn creation is yours to keep or give as a gift! three-hour class will teach you how to use locally-harvested longleaf pine needles to hand-sew a pine needle trivet (hot pad). Cost: $55 per person, including all materials. No prior experience is needed, but participants must have enough visual acuity to thread a needle and distinguish individual stitches. Limited Space Available! Pre-register: www.cfcc.edu/ communityenrichment or 910-362-7572. CFCC Emmart Building, 401 N. Water St.

begin the conversation clinic

4/15: Lower Cape Fear Hospice will host free Begin the Conversation clinics from 10-11 a.m. the third Friday of each month, at Phillips LifeCare & Counseling Center, 1414 Physicians Drive

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Storage Dept. 910-791-4337 We Install Trailer Hitches For All Vehicles

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in Wilmington. These sessions, which are free to all adults age 18 and older, will provide attendees information and resources to think about and plan for future healthcare decisions. Jason Clamme at 796-7943 or jason.clamme@lcfh.org.

SUP Yoga Teacher Training

Winners are Charles Craft ‘79, David Pirrung ‘90, and Maurice Smith ‘79! Meet the recipients along with alumni and faculty at the CSB Outstanding Alumni Recognition & Speaker Breakfast Wed., 3/30. Tickets are $5/person. Reg: https://giving. uncw.edu/csbalumnibreakfast2016 • Winners breakfast: 3/30, 7pm: Meet the recipients along with alumni and faculty at the CSB Outstanding Alumni Recognition & Speaker Breakfast. $5/ person. Reg. https://giving.uncw.edu/csbalumnibreakfast2016. alumni@uncw.edu. UNCW’s Warwick Center Ballroom, 601 S. College Rd.

4/15, 7am: Looking to extend your teaching or practice outside of the studio? Learn to guide students through the ultimate outdoor yoga-class experience Standup Paddleboard Yoga! Longwave Yoga & Wrightsville SUP bring you a first-class training in SUP, water safety and how to appropriately adapt and sequence yoga on the water. CF SIERRA CLUB MONTHLY MEETING 4/18, “Explore and Enjoy the Planet” at a travel25 hour training with CEU’s available. Training is ogue featuring trips to Alaska, Dominica, Panopen to all adventurous yogis! However, must ama, Newfoundland, and a bike tour in Europe be a 200-Hour RYT and CPR certified to receive presented by Sierra Club members plus a guest. certification once course is complete. Longwave Free pizza at 6:00PM followed by the travelogue Yoga, 203 Racine Drive #200 at 6:30pm. Halyburton Park, 4099 S. 17th St. heart above head workshop 4/16, 1:30pm: Mary, co-facilitator of Longwave PROJECT PUFFIN PROGRAM/PLANT SALE Join Wild Bird & Garden for a free program on Yoga’s 200-hour Teacher Training and 300-hour the National Audubon Society’s Project Puffin Advanced Teacher Training, will hold a 2-hour presented by Derrick Z. Jackson, co-author of workshop focused on the healthy and mindful Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a ways to approach inversions, whether basic or Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock. Learn all advanced. Learn the fundamentals of yoga inverabout how this striking seabird was restored to sions including handstand, headstand, forearmlong-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine stand & shoulder-stand, and discover ways to use coast. After the program, check out the native props so that any physical body can experience plant sale. Joyce and Mindy from Slatestone the joy of inverting in a safe manner. Experience Gardens will be here with a super variety of nathe benefits of these postures and the intention tive plants for your garden and yard! Talk: 9:15behind including them in a daily practice. Open to 10:30 and Plant Sale: 10am-12:30pm. 3501 any level of practitioner. $20 advance; $25 day of.

Oleander Dr. (Hanover Center).

Longwave Yoga, 203 Racine Dr., #200

clubs/notices 2016 CSB Outstanding Alumni Award

MASTER GARDENER PLANT SALE

4/14-17: One of the largest in the southeast and it opens to the public and features over 450 varieties of greenery including but not limited to;

azaleas, Japanese maples, ornamentals, herbs and vegetables, annuals and perennials. All our plants are locally grown and acclimatized to our area. Event benefits NHC Cooperative Extension’s educational programs, the Arboretum, and other community based programs. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday the sale will open at 9am-5pm. Sunday, 1-5pm. NHC Arboretum, 6206 Oleander Dr. HSTI Awards Scholarships Luncheon

April luncheon of the Historical Society of Topsail Island at the Assembly Building on Thurs., 4/14, 11:30am. Scholarship Luncheon. Scholarships are awarded to graduating students from Topsail and Dixon High Schools from HSTI. Lunch, prepared by The Beach Shop, will include: BBQ Chicken, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Salad, rolls, dessert, and tea. Remember that reservations are required for the luncheon. There is no charge for attending the program only. Cost is $12 ($10 for attendees 70+) to be paid at the door.

RSVP: hstiluncheons@gmail.com/910-389-8776

HUMANISTS AND FREETHINKERS

Humanists and Freethinkers of Cape Fear will meet on Fri., 4/15, 6pm, YWCA Bridge Center, 127-40 S. College Rd., for general membership monthly meeting. Special guest speaker is Vykie Garrison, a former member of Quiverfull to most recently The American Atheists Association’s current Atheist of the Year! Join us to hear her journey from Christian fundamentalist to atheist. Free and open to the public. RSVP: www.meetup.com/humanism-182

OPEN WATER SCUBA

4/15, 5pm: If you have always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure, and see the world beneath the waves,

start here. Earn your scuba diving certification with the NAUI Open Water Diver course – one of the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba courses. Each course includes classroom, pool, and open water experience. Equipment and book are provided, but students will need to provide their own mask, fins, and snorkel (details provided at first class). 23 contact hours. April 15 23, 2016, Fri/Sat, Locations and times vary. http:// cfcc.edu/ce/schedule-of-classes/?term=scuba.

Reg: www.cfcc.edu or at the Community Enrichment department in the G bldg, 402 N. Front St. CPR/AED TRAINING COURSE

4/15, 1pm: Learn infant/child/adult CPR & AED. This 2 hour certification will teach you how to respond to cardiac and breathing emergencies in adults,infants, and children including the use of automated external defibrillators (AED). 2 year certification. Longwave Yoga, 203 Racine Dr.

autism takes flight

4/16, 8am: The process of going to the airport and taking a flight can be overwhelming for any family, but there are unique challenges when traveling with a child with special needs. This event will provide families with the opportunity to complete a trial-run airport experience, including: getting a boarding pass, checking a bag, going through security, waiting at the gate and viewing a plane. Board Certified Behavior Analysts will be on hand to provide families with assistance, tips for success, and materials they can take home for future use. Current graduate students from UNCW’s Clinical Psychology program will also be volunteering at this event. Space is limited; preregistration at www.capefearaba.com or email AutismTakesFlight@gmail.com. Wilmington International Airport, 1740 Airport Blvd.

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ASSOC. OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN

4/16, 9:30am: American Association of University Women invites all women to join us for our Annual Open House for Prospective Members.Join us for coffee and refreshments and find out who we are and what we do in our community. Dr. Amanda Lee, President of Cape Fear CC will be our featured speaker. AAUW promotes equality for girls and women through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. All women holding an Associate Degree or higher are eligible to join. St. Andrews on the Sound Episcopal Church, 101 Airlie Rd.

11TH ANNUAL SPRING FLING

4/16, 10am: Come out and join us for the 11th Annual Spring Fling: It’s a Small World. This is Parents’ Community Preschools biggest fundraiser and full of family fun. Activities will include: games & crafts, cake walk, face painting, photo booth, live music, silent auction and more! Parents’ Community PreSchool, 4944 Wrightsville Ave.

UNCW OPEN HOUSE

4/16, 10am: UNCW’s College of Arts and Sciences opens its doors for a day of family-friendly fun and entertainment. See what college is all about!

Specific events include a marine animal touch tank, a fossil sifting exhibit, musical performances, art showcases, face painting, on-camera performance taught by students and much more!

This family friendly event is open to the public and is free of charge. Wagoner Hall will be open to the public for only $5. 601 S. College Rd.

ST AUGUSTINE’S ALUMNI CHAPTER

St. Augustine’s Univ. Alumni Coastal Carolina Chapter meeting for Sat., April 16 at 2:00 will be held at the Northeast Library 1241 Military Cutoff.

culinary PC BREW BUS

Port City Brew Bus offers public brewery tours that are open to anyone 21 years or older. Eat a hearty breakfast before the tour. We will have pretzels, snacks, and water but there isn’t a stop for lunch.

Visit three breweries to experience their facilities, understand the brewing process unique to their beers and enjoy samples of their offerings. $55. www.portcitybrewbus.com. (910) 679-6586

SUNDAY SUPPERS: PINPOINT

PinPoint will launch a new Sunday Supper dinner series on Sundays to showcase area farmers and purveyors. Dinners will benefit area charities for the entire month they are offered. For the first month. Showcasing local farmer Wholesome Greens—an artisanal suburban farm in Wilmington. Three-course menu will feature some of the microgreens, herbs and produce grown by the

ARIES (Mar. 21–April 20) “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free,” novelist Ralph Ellison said. Would you consider making that a paramount theme in the coming weeks? Will you keep it in the forefront of your mind, and be vigilant for juicy clues that might show up in the experiences coming your way? In suggesting that you do, I’m not guaranteeing you will gather numerous extravagant insights about your true identity and thereby achieve a blissful eruption of total liberation. But I suspect that at the very least you will understand previously hidden mysteries about your primal nature. And as they come into focus, you will indeed be led in the direction of cathartic emancipation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) “We never know the wine we are becoming while we are being crushed like grapes,” author Henri Nouwen said. I don’t think that’s true in your case, Taurus.

Any minute now, you could get a clear intuition about what wine you will ultimately turn into once the grape-crushing stage ends. So my advice is to expect that clear intuition. Once you’re in possession of it, I bet the crushing will begin to feel more like a massage—maybe even a series of strong but tender caresses

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your sustaining mantra for the coming weeks comes from Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer: “I am not empty; I am open.” Say that aloud whenever you’re inclined to feel lonely or lost. “I am not empty; I am open.” Whisper it to yourself as you wonder about things that used to be important but no longer are. “I am not empty; I am open.” Allow it to loop through your imagination like a catchy song lyric whenever you’re tempted to feel melancholy about vanished certainties or unavailable stabilizers or missing fillers. “I am not empty; I am open.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22) According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are close to tapping into hidden powers, dormant talents and future knowledge. Truths that have been off-limits are on the verge of catching your attention and revealing themselves.

Secrets you have been concealing from yourself are ready to be plucked and transformed. Now, I will tell you a trick you can use that will enable you to fully cash in on these pregnant possibilities: Don’t adopt a passive wait-and-see attitude. Don’t expect everything to happen on its own. Instead, be a willful magician who aggressively collects and activates the potential gifts.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) This would be a perfect moment to give yourself a new nickname like “Sugar Pepper” or “Honey Chili” or “Itchy Sweet.” It’s also a favorable time to explore the joys of running in slow motion or getting a tattoo of a fierce howling bunny or having gentle sex standing up. This phase of your cycle is most likely to unfold with maximum effectiveness if you play along with its complicated, sometimes paradoxical twists and turns. The more willing you are to celebrate life’s riddles as blessings in disguise, the more likely you’ll be to use the riddles to your advantage.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Right about now you might be feeling a bit extreme, maybe even zealous or melodramatic. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were tempted to make outlandish expostulations similar to those that poet Arthur Rimbaud articulated in one of his histrionic poems: “What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lies am I supposed to believe?” I encourage you to articulate salty sentiments like these in the coming days—with the understanding that, by venting your intensity, you won’t need to actually act it all out in real life. In other words, allow your fantasy life and creative artistry to be boisterous outlets for emotions that shouldn’t necessarily get translated into literal behavior.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

crazy wisdom is just what you need to hear right now. “Whatever you resist you become,” he says. “If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but, actually, they are there because we resist them.” Can you wrap your imagination around Adyashanti’s counsel, Libra? I hope so; the key to dissipating at least some of the dicey stuff that has been tweaking you lately is to stop resisting it!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) During every election season, media pundits exult in criticizing candidates who have altered their opinions about important issues. This puzzles me. In my understanding, an intelligent human is always learning new information about how the world works, and is therefore constantly evolving his or her beliefs and ideas. I don’t trust people who stubbornly cling to all of their musty dogmas.

I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an especially ripe time for you to change your mind about a few things, some of them rather important. Be alert for cues and clues that will activate dormant aspects of your wisdom. Be eager to see further and deeper.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Friedrich Nietzsche published his first book, “The Birth of Tragedy,” in 1872, when he was 28 years old. In 1886, he put out a revised edition that included a preface entitled “An Attempt at Self-Criticism.” In this unprecedented essay, he said he now found his text “clumsy and embarrassing, its images frenzied and confused, sentimental, uneven in pace, so sure of its convictions that it is above any need for proof.” Yet he also glorified “The Birth of Tragedy,” praising it for its powerful impact on the world, for its “strange knack of seeking out its fellow-revelers and enticing them on to new secret paths and dancing-places.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to engage in an equally brave and celebratory re-evaluation of some of your earlier life and work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) “Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.” So advised Thaddeus Golas in his book “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment.” I think that’s exactly what you should do right now, Capricorn. To undertake such a quest would reap long-lasting benefits. Here’s what I propose: First, identify three dreams important for your future. Next, brainstorm about how you could return to the roots of your relationships with them. Finally, reinvigorate your love for those dreams. Supercharge your excitement about them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) “What am I doing here in mid-air?” Ted Hughes asks in his poem “Wodwo.”

Right about now you might have an urge to wonder that yourself. The challenging part of your situation is you’re unanchored, unable to find a firm footing.

The fun part is you have an unusual amount of leeway to improvise and experiment. Here’s a suggestion: Why not focus on the fun part for now? You just may find that doing so will minimize unsettled feelings. I suspect as a result you will also be able to accomplish some interesting and unexpected work.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) How many fireflies would you have to gather together in order to create a light as bright as the sun? Entomologist Cole Gilbert estimates 14,286,000,000. That’s probably beyond your ability to accomplish, Pisces, so I don’t recommend you attempt it. But I bet you could pull off a more modest feat with a similar theme: accumulating a lot of small influences that add up to a big effect. Now is an excellent time to capitalize on the power of gradual, incremental progress.

Adyashanti is my favorite mind-scrambling philosopher. One of his doses of

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farmer and will be served in a family-style offering.

Sun., 5-8pm for special Sunday Supper menu— $25/person and $10 for kids 3-12. Limited seating at 6:30pm for guests to dine specifically with the farmer and a representative of the charity at a special long table in the restaurant, served family style. 10 percent of all money raised during the March Sunday Supper series will benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina at Wilmington. www.pinpointrestaurant. com. 114 Market St.

the event and donating the fish and produce for the competition. The chef won’t know what’s available to cook until moments before the cook off starts. Each and every charity will receive the money they have raised, it’s not a winner takes all! Battleship Park, 1 Battleship Rd NE NATURE’S WAY GOAT FARM

Nature’s Way Goat Farm tour! Nature’s Way supplies the co-op with a variety of goat cheese.

Learn about the farm, meet the farmers, and feed and play with the baby goats. Tickets must be purchased in advance at Tidal Creek, $5-$10. Visitors can arrive at 10am and play with the baby goats, with the feeding starting at 11am. Farm tour will follow and wrap by noon.

Farm fresh products available for purchase after the tour. 115 Crystal Ct., Hampstead.

FARMERS’ MARKET

Wednesday, 8:30am, at Poplar Grove Plantation. Vendors vary weekly w/locally grown fruits and vegetables, free-range egg, Poplar Grove’s own chickens; artisan vendors w/handmade jewelry, candles, wind chimes, bird feeders, cutting boards, coffee tables, just to name a few. Bath and body products are available in a wide selection of all-natural items, with specialty items for him and her. Locally prepared foods and drinks will keep you satisfied while you’re here, and make an easy lunch or dinner when you leave. Poplar Grove Plantation, 10200 US Hwy 17 N • Riverfront Ogden Farmers’ Market opens 4/13, 8am-1pm: Shop for locally grown and produced vegetables, baked goods, eggs, meats, seafood, NC wines, jams & jellies, plants for the garden & home, plus artisan soaps, woodwork, jewelry, candles and much more.

Ogden Park • Downtown Riverfront Market opens 8am, 4/16. Water St.

CHARITY CHEF’S CHALLENGE

4/16, 10am: The charity Chefs challenge is similar to the popular TV show Iron Chef! We will have 10 area chefs and they will each represent a charity. Carolina Farmin’ will be sponsoring

FERMENTAL

Free tasting ever Friday, 6pm. • 4/13, 6pm: Gibb’s Hundred continues to craft both quality and consistency in their daily brews as well as their seasonal and limited offerings. Meet the owner and lead brewer from Gibb’s Hundred along with live music from local funk/folk artist Mark Herbert, accompanied by Vittles Food Truck and multiple beers on tap from our Greensboro friends. Free. • Family Funk Day, 4/16, 2pm: Bring out the family for an afternoon of fun, funk, and food featuring local funk-soul trio, BOBA FUNK accompanied by the deep southern flavors of Poor Piggy’s Food Truck and plenty of wine & beer offerings from Fermental.

Free. Fermental, 7250 Market St.

TASTE CAROLINA FOOD TOURS

Sample an eclectic assortment of downtown restaurants, enjoy food and drink, and meet some of the city’s best chefs. Public parking available. Saturday tours include a 2:30pm

MOZART REQUIEM www.capefearchorale.org

Sunday, April 17 - 4:00 p.m.

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Tasting History Tours of Pleasure Island; guided walking tours. From its beginnings as a tourist destination, the island has weathered destructive fires, tragic hurricanes, naval battles and more. Tasting History takes you through the streets of Carolina Beach and into a few of the restaurants to taste some of what the locals have to offer. Join us for an afternoon of interesting history and tasty eats. $32.50. tastinghistorytours.com. 910-622-6046.

tours LITERARY HISTORY WALKING TOUR

Ever wanted to meet authors living and dead, and tour locations from books, poems, and plays? Explore the rich culture of our talented Southern town with a 90 minute walking tour of the literary history of downtown Wilmington, NC. Visit “The Two Libraries.” Walk the streets of your favorite novels, and stand where Oscar Wilde did when he lectured here. Saturdays, 1:30pm, Old Books on Front St. 249 N. Front St. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1282390

CONFEDERATE WALKING TOURS

Experience Wilmington’s people, history and architecture in the late antebellum period and during the conflict, conducted by noted Wilmington historian Bernhard Thuersam. Walk in the footsteps of George Washington, James Monroe, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens and more. In-depth 90-minute tours are by appointment only, Sunday through Saturday, call 910.619.4619 or bernhard1848@gmail.com for current prices. Step-on and personalized tours downtown and local forts available. Tour begins at foot of Market St. www.cfhi.net.

6:30pm & 8:30pm. Costumed guides lead visitors through alleyways with tales of haunted Wilmington. Nightly tours at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Admission charge. Meets at Water & Market streets. Reservations required: 910-7941866; www.hauntedwilmington.com

Cape Fear Chorale

New Hanover County Unrestricted Endowment, which is administered by the North Carolina Community Foundation

TASTING HISTORY TOURS

GHOST WALK

Presented by

with orchestra Guest Conductor, Dr. Welborn Young Music Director, Jerry Cribbs

Downtown Afternoon Tasting Tour ($50/person) and a 3pm Downtown Dinner & Drinks Tour ($65/person). A 10am Farmers’ Market Tour ($75/person) and cooking class available. tastecarolina.net

The North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts

HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE TOURS

Narrated horse drawn carriage and trolley tours of historic Wilmington feature a costumed driver who narrates a unique adventure along the riverfront and past stately mansions.Market and Water streets. $12 for adults, $5 per child. (910) 251-8889. www.horsedrawntours.com

OAKDALE HORTICULTURAL TOUR

Saturday, 4/16, 10am. $10 for non-members.

Free for members. Tours are cancelled in the event of inclement weather. Tour will last about two hours and will be led by Eelco Tinga and Eric Kozen, Superintendent. Combined, these gentlemen have over 50 years of horticultural experience and will delight you with their knowledge of the flora of Oakdale. There are truly magnificent specimens found in Oakdale Cemetery. Both Eelco and Eric will tour the grounds showing off the true gems of a rural garden cemetery. Oakdale Cemetery, 520 N 15th St.

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KAREN KANE MUSIC PRODUCTIONS

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200 album credits

4weeKS - ONlY $50

33 year veteran Producer/Engineer

Dreaming Of A Career In The Music Industry?

AUDIO ENGINEERING CLASSES Music Recording, Mixing, Pro Tools, Studio Production Classes offered in Jan., Apr. and Sept.

(910) 681-0220 or mixmama.com

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A Night ON the tOwN For Executives and Refined Gents Brunette Model/Social Companion 5’5”, 36DDD, Very Assertive

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FREAKY TIKI

Your Late Night Cocktail Bar Open Until 2am

FREE POOL

as much as you want while enjoying the FULL Menu Til MIDNIGHT Every Night At the Brewery!

across from Goat & Compass

Cape Fear Stage’s Closest Cocktail Front Street Brewery 910.251.1935 Bar ~ Concert Night Specials 9 North Front Street, Downtown Wilmington Open 2am nightly

FrontStreetBrewery.com

FREAKY TIKI PRIVATE PIANO corner of 4th & Brunswick

FANTASIZE

Pianist Barbara mcKenzie an expert, dedicated artist-teacher

PERSONAL TRAINER On Your Neighbors Lawn or Wherever It’s Comfortable

From Deconditioned to Sports Specific

Call Will at 735-513-2618 for Complimentary Session

Ed. M., NASM Cert., ACSM Affil., Cert. Bosu Swiss Ball, Bands, Kettlebell Instructor

www.kettlebellconcepts.com

GET INSPIRED!!

Now Hiring Acoustic Jazz Piano on Front St. DON’T TRY TO CHANGE SPARK YOUR SKILLS! THE WIND OR THE SEA. FABULOUS ENTERTAINmENT with James Jarvis Exotic Dancers Adults or Students Wednesday @ The Blind Elephant In-Out Calls • Casual Events JUST CHANGE Two Girl Show • Bachelor Parties Saturday @ The Calico Room CONTACT: 24/7 Dancers • Serious Inquiries Only THE SAIL. Sunday @ Old Books on Front St. Always Hiring www.facebook.com/JamesJarvis13 BarbaraMcKenzie2008@gmail.com CALL NOW: 910-343-1171 910-726-5323

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