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newgrass pioneer sam Bush brings his immaculate talent to the Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre on the 2nd. Be sure to treat yourself to a true Americana celebration, just in time for the Independence day celebrations. Check out Bush’s down-toearth interview on pages 14-15. The two talk about Kentucky, the Grande old opry and musical heroes.

All sam Bush photos by david McLister

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“President Obama is in a tough spot because he fired Gen. McChrystal and right away, the Republicans blamed him for increasing unemployment.”—David Letterman “Mexico has filed a brief in U.S. Federal court to stop Arizona’s new immigration law.

And while they’re at it, they also asked the court to stop Taco Bell from calling itself Mexican food.”—Jay Leno “It’s a great day for former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. He’s getting his own talk show.

They wanted him because they knew he could get the most out of an hour.”—Craig Ferguson “The iPhone 4 is $499 to buy outright, $199 to upgrade your existing iPhone, and if you don’t want one at all, it’s $99.”—Jimmy Kimmel “McChrystal’s clearly been hitting that sweet Afghani heroin. Because you would have to be higher than Keith Richards to criticize your commander-in-chief at a time of war in front of a reporter from Rolling Stone.”—Stephen Colbert on General Stanley McChrystal

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All of our readers should be aware that the encore exchange, our classified paper, will now run the first and third weeks of the month in encore.

On the off-weeks of the exchange, the crossword and horoscopes will be printed in the calendar section of encore. The Pet of the Week will be featured somewhere throughout encore pages, too!

news & views .......... 4-9

4 live local campaign: Gwenyfar Rohler finds true local spending avaialble with local currency.

6 food not bombs: Christina Dore spreads compassion, just in time for Independence Day. 7 independence day: Need to make July 4th plans? Madison Kiger explores many events taking place this weekend.

8 news of the weird: Chuck Shepherd reports on news of the strange and odd.

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10 theater: Lisa Huynh dishes some theatre news of the week.

12 art: Lauren Hodges talks to Darren Mulvenna about his upcoming show, ‘Metamorphosis,’ opening Friday.

13 gallery guide: Find out what exhibitions are hanging in our local art galleries.

14-15 music: Adrian Varnam interviews Sam Bush about his life on the Americana trail; Lisa Huynh talks to Jaffar Obi of Coup de Grace about their upcoming bill, Night of the Living Shred.

16-19 soundboard: See what bands and performers are playing in venues all over town.

20-21 livin’ locally: Meet the folks at Chris’ Cosmic Kitchen 22-23 film: Shea Carver talks to the Cucalorus crew about their upcoming Independence Day membership drive; Anghus takes an existential look at “Toy Story 3.”

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Evan Folds explores the depths of nutrition and learning about healthful living in our local schools.

27-29 dining guide: Need a few suggestions on where to eat? Flip through encore’s dining guide, and read about our featured restaurant of the week.

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30 books: Tiffanie Gabrielse previews the next encore book club read: “Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Continuously Live-In House.”

31 crossword: Test your mind with Stan Newman’s Newsday Crossword. (Answers posted on page 38.)

32-33 fact or fiction: The Lower Cape Fear Historical Society showcases the winner of their annual Historical Fiction Contest, Carol Worth’s “Color Me Blue.”

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ive Local went on the road recently (is that an oxymoron?), to the land of the Berkshires. Located in western Massachusetts, this community has got it together for the Live Local vision. When driving drive down the street, there are signs every where on community-focused Live Local ideals: farm stands for the myriad of local farms; lots of small businesses advertising locally made products; restaurants touting their locally grown menus; and signs that read “BerkShares accepted here!” (www.berkshares.org).

Since 2006 small businesses in and around the Berkshires have had the option to trade in a local currency known as “BerkShares” in exchange for federal dollars, which are issued by five local banks, with a total of 12 branches between them. There is a 5 percent handling fee for BerkShares exchange (in other words they trade for $0.95 against the dollar). Merchants may chose to accept any percentage up to 100 percent of a payment in BerkShares. As a consumer there are more than 350 merchants currently accepting BerkShares, including churches that will take them as membership dues, private schools that will accept as tuition, farms, grocery stores, doctors, and, of course, restaurants and retail merchants. The bed and breakfast where we lodged, The Inn at Sweet Water Farm, accepts BerkShares, too.

We chose The Inn at Sweet Water Farm because of this statement from their Web site (www.innsweetwater.com): “All baking is done at the Inn. With the exception of the

by: Gwenyfar Rohler organic sugar, the coffee and tea and the oranges, the food on your breakfast table is from local farmers and providers.” Innkeepers Lynda Fisher and Andrei Vankov have a deep commitment to local foods and the slow food movement (www.slowfood.com or www.slowfoodusa.org). Making the world a smaller place, we were delighted to discover they had owned a farm in Clarkton, NC. Things were going swimmingly until Jock and I met the warren of baby bunnies in the yard, and I made the mistake of asking Fisher why she had so many rabbits. Having had littertrained house rabbits much of my adult life, I missed the obvious connection between their dedication to eating only local food promise and the sweet bundle of 12 cuddly bunnies in front of me.

As notes, The Inn at Sweet Water Farm accepts BerkShares, and I asked Fisher what her experience had been like.

“No one has paid with BerkShares yet,” she answered. Her business being a bed and breakfast, and naturally catering to tourists, this did not comes as a surprising answer.

Even when traveling abroad and exchanging money, a hotel room most likely still gets charged to a credit card. Lodging is usually too expensive not to choose that option.

“We joined the program because we support it philosophically; we are there,” she continued. “I think if anywhere in the country can make this work, it’s here.”

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MONEY MATTERS: BerkShares work as currency in the town Berkshires, located in western Massachusetts. Folks can spend at BerkShare-supported local businesses as easily as with the federal dollar. Photo courtesy of BerkShare

area around Great Barrington consists of a lot of producing farms and wind energy turbines. “I really think the key to success and taking it to the next level would be to get the local utility company to accept (payment in) it,” Fisher observed. “If we could do that, it would really make the system work.”

She points out that as an innkeeper she can’t pay her mortgage or her utilities, two of her biggest expenses, with BerkShares.

Developed by the E. F. Schumacher Society, a nonprofit that seeks to implement the ideas of E.F. Schumacher, a statistician

and economic guru who served as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. His long but astounding read, “Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered,” can be found at any local independent bookstores (If by some miracle they are sold out, just ask if they can order a copy, and keep the money local!)

Local currencies have been used several times throughout the history of the Untied States but reached their height during The Great Depression. Sinking communities produced currencies to keep money in circulation and keep it from fleeing their areas.

In North Carolina, around the Pittsboro area, NC Plenty (www.ncplenty.org) has been circulating since 2002. “The Plenty helps people who want to dedicate their dollars to local spending,” NC Plenty member Liz Gilson Aaron said. “Because it can’t go to the chains, it has to be spent locally.” Her household has used the Plenty for several years.

Her husband, a local chiropractor, accepts NC Plenty as payment at his practice and was one of the founding board members.

“For us, who are already so focused on this and committed to local, it is not really necessary,” Liz observes. “But for others who are tempted not to go local, it is a way of committing their dollars here.”

Gwenyfar is the author of “The Promise of Peanuts: A real-life fairy tale about a man, a village and the promise that bound them together.” Available at www.OldBooksonFrontst.com. Profits benefit Jock Brandis’ life changing work.

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Compassionate Freedom: Food Not Bombs plans July 4th food distribution for the hungry and homeless

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uring the summer of 2008, I remember walking around the Really Really Free Market and noticing the crowd was the biggest I’d seen yet. I was taking a break from serving soup, which was made the night before, checking out the goods people were giving and taking. A 20-something woman I had served earlier came up to me, pointing to a pile of clothes, asking if they were mine.

“No, but it might be part of the free trade market,” I replied. “You can go through it and ask around.”

“Do you work here?” she wanted to know.

“No, I help with some things here, but no one really works here. It’s just a community thing we try to do every month.”

“Well, whoever does it, I just wanted to say thank you, because I was able to find some nice clothes for my girl,” she responded. “It’s this cute dress, and I know she’ll love it ‘cause she doesn’t have many dresses.”

She walked away before I could tell her that it was all right—no problem whatsoever.

And before I could disclaim that it was her community that helped feed her lunch and provide a gift for her daughter.

For some people “Food Not Bombs” stands as a positive anti-war slogan that might be spray-painted on brick walls or stitched as a patch on someone’s messenger bag. Aside from being a motto, slogan, lifestyle or staunch belief, Food Not Bombs actually is part of a worldwide organization that campaigns against militarism, and instead promotes the concept of ending world hunger and homelessness by giving out free food.

The organization spreads across the map, forever expanding still today. While they consider themselves a non-violent organization, Food Not Bombs isn’t without its own dose of controversy. Although they hold peaceful protests and distribute free food to everyone they can, they have been listed by

by: Christina Dore

Food Not Bombs At the Really Really Free Market Sunday, July 4th, noon - 2 p.m.

Wooster Street, between 4th and 5th

the FBI as a terrorist organization and have had many members of the group thrown in jail and charged with various offenses. For instance, in 2007 the Florida chapter was charged with violating a city ordinance — by feeding more people in a public park at once than is allowed without a permit.

Food Not Bombs may unintentionally skirt certain policies, but the greater good remains at heart. To list its people “under investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Pentagon and other intelligence agencies,” as noted on its Web site, seems preposterous. Yet, like many mass organization reaching the hearts and minds of its nation’s citizens, Food Not Bombs’ allies have as much pull: “Amnesty International states it will adopt those Food Not Bombs volunteers that are convicted as ‘Prisoners of Conscience’ and will work for their unconditional release.”

Back in the 1980s, the founders of Food Not Bombs concluded that all the money spent on militarism and nuclear weapons could be used to feed every hungry person on the planet. Through peaceful protests, Food Not Bombs continues setting up in public places, whether a city park or outside the Democratic National Convention, and distributes vegetarian and vegan food (this is due to the ultimate belief that these eating lifestyles are healthy and non-violent) to anyone who wishes to eat it.

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tuating existence in Wilmington. Originally, in the early 2000s, it flourished by creating and serving food at Wilmington’s Really Really Free Market, an event where people gather to socialize, play music and, more importantly, give away and take things without any cost. After some time, both the market and Food Not Bombs went on an unspoken hiatus, until the nonprofit organization Be Yr Own Hero started in 2007 and revitalized it.

Now mainly coordinated by Chris Currituck and Maria Ortado — reluctantly, each accepts the term “leader” — both Currituck and Ortado have been sustaining Wilmington’s Food Not Bombs chapter with the local community. They have done so by maintaining the Really Really Free Market every month. As of late, they have begun collaborating with Castle Street’s Community Garden and RAS (Reclaiming Agricultural Science) Community Garden to attain more produce for Food Not Bombs so there can be an influx of events and more food to give to those who need it.

“Right now, we’re really focusing on building and launching an essential awareness campaign,” Currituck, who has been involved in other Food Not Bombs chapters in Elizabeth City, NC, and Richmond, VA, says.

“We really want to step out of our current boundaries and reach out to more of the homeless and hungry people here in Wilmington,” Ortado adds.

One of the present goals of the local chapter begins with the “weekly serving” concept, wherein food gets distributed more than once a month. The locations of the Really Really Free Market have changed over time from Greenfield Lake Park to outside the apartments of Wooster and 5th streets. Now, Food Not Bombs and the market are settling down on Wooster, but instead of locating at the apartments, more events will take place in between 4th and 5th streets at the RAS Community Garden.

“It’s not that far from the building at all,” Currituck says.“You can find it easily, and we’ll have signs posted for the next market. We really think the garden is a great location for the market just because it’s going to contribute so much to Food Not Bombs in the near future.”

Both Currituck and Ortado have praised the Wilmington community for their dedication and support. With a recent yard sale fund-raiser, Food Not Bombs raised over $100 to obtain soil for the garden.

“It really has been going smoothly, and we are so thankful to the people who helped with the yard sale and with everything Food Not Bombs has been doing,” Ortado says.

“Still, we are always actively looking for volunteers to cook, post flyers, clean up and [help with] basic outreach. We always want to do more for the community.”

On Sunday July 4th the next Food Not Bombs event will be at the Really Really Free Market at RAS Gardens on Wooster Street, between 4th and 5th. Music may be played, food will be given out, and anyone who wishes to participate in the market, lasting from noon to 2 p.m. can. Just bring gently used items for trade. Cooking begins that morning for those who wish to help.

“The name says it all,” Currituck says.

“We feed people and spread the idea that food is more crucial to human beings then nukes. It’s a great, giving organization.”

Celebrate this Independence Day by giving, sharing, eating and remembering how organizations like Food Not Bombs makes this country better, and a little more well-fed in food, dissent and information.

For more information on how to get involved, e-mail singlewidedistro@yahoo.com.

Coastal Celebrations: July 4th brings fireworks, cruises and a nationalization ceremony

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very year, I circle Independence Day on my calendar usually in a bright color, surrounded by sloppy sketches of fireworks and American flags. The date serves as a reminder of why I absolutely love living in America, particularly in the South.

In North Carolina, especially on the coast, there remains a variety of ways to celebrate our nations’s independence.

Naturally, encore keeps readers happily singing about our grand nation, thanks to one of many July 4th events.

Riverfront Celebration Downtown Wilmington, 5 p.m.

For those who enjoy the water, but would rather stay out of the sand, a Riverfront Celebration begins at 5 p.m.. Water Street will play host to a street fair that will include food vendors and music from the 440th North Carolina National Army Guard band. There will be activities, such as a speed texting contest sponsored by U.S. Cellular. Food Lion, another sponsor, will have booths with different activities to partake in as well.

At 9:05 p.m., the fireworks begin as part of the 14th annual Battleship Blast.

At Battleship Park, across the river from downtown, Pyro Technics will put on the show. Viewers can even set their radios to 102.7 FM to hear patriotic music synchronized to the show.

The event and street parking are free, while most decks will be charging $5 or more.

Words to the wise: Come early for parking; it gets as packed as any Azalea Festival.

by: Madison Kiger until after the fireworks end over the Cape Fear River. To say it’s the best view in the house could be a vast understatement.

Adult tickets are $59, and children (212) can board for $39. Tickets may be purchased in advance on their Web site: www.cfrboats.com/index.php.

Pleasure Island July 3rd, 6:30 p.m.

For a pre-fourth of July celebration, folks can head to Pleasure Island on Saturday, July 3rd, where music and fireworks go hand-in-hand with good times.

“Where else can you enjoy a Britt’s donut, ride a ferris wheel and listen to a free concert while watching the sky being illuminated with a spectacular fireworks show?” Gail McCloskey, Pleasure Island executive director, asks. “Pleasure Island, that’s where! This year’s Independence Day fireworks, which are always held on July 3rd, will be the biggest show we have ever had!”

Also on the bill: the Power Posse, who will perform funk and R&B tunes live at the Boardwalk Gazebo from 6:30 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Both the concert and fireworks will be free to all patrons.

As a bonus, Pleasure Island continues with fireworks every Thursday during the summer months.

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What’s July 4th without a picnic or a cookout? The Henrietta III riverboat takes the concept to sea, guiding patrons on a three-hour cruise, and serving traditional picnic and cook-out essentials along the way. The meal will consist of baked chicken, BBQ pork, green beans, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw and dessert. The boat will depart at 6:30 p.m., but boarding begins a half-hour prior. The cruise lasts

Southport represents our state’s patriotism by holding an over 400-year-old celebration. As many locals know, it is the festival of festivals when pledging allegiance, honoring servicemen, new citizens and everything that makes our country wonderful.

Something for people of all ages will be found here, from handmade crafts to fair food, a patriotic parade (beginning at 11 a.m. on the 5th, at the corner of E. Moore Street and Atlantic Avenue) and even a

MARK ROBERTS AND BREEZE will play Southport’s annual July 4th festival, held July 1st through the 5th. Most major Independence Day celebrations take place on the 5th. Photo courtesy of band.

naturalization ceremony.

“The city of Southport has been celebrating this festival since 1795, so we’ve got a lot of experience with celebrating our independence!” Chamber of Commerce representative Karen Sphar says. “Since the fourth of July falls on a Sunday, many of the events will be moved to Monday, July 5th.”

One of such is the all-encompassing fireworks show, which will be launched form a barge on the Intracoastal Waterway at 9 p.m on the 5th. “It’s one of those events you can bring your family to year after year,” Sphar notes.

Music will play Saturday, Sunday and Monday, including acts like Liquid Pleasure, Key Lime Pie, The Dixie Driver Band and even the Unites States Army band.

One of the most coveted events will be the Rose of Thanks. Here, folks have an opportunity to write notes of thanks to the troops overseas, taking place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., on the 5th.

Southport will also be welcoming new citizens to our country as part of their annual naturalization ceremony, which takes place on the 4th at the waterfront. Folks can watch new brethren take their U.S. oath. Also appropriate, a flag retirement

ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. the same day, showing spectators how an American flag is properly disposed.

“We’re going to have the 27th annual Firefighters Competition, too,” Spahr adds.

“There will be a lot of different contests for the different squads to compete in. They’re great, old-time fire-fighting techniques that encourage team building.”

Sphar particularly seems excited about the unique opportunity for patrons to visit the Chapel of the Cross church at St. Phillips. “There’s so much history there,” she informs. “It was built by the troops at Ft. Johnston.”

Many events take place throughout the five-day celebration, from Brunswick County jail tours, to opportunities to register for voting, to shag dancing (with entertainment from the Mark Roberts and Breeze) and even sand castle-building contests. A complete schedule can be found at www.nc4thofjuly. com or by calling (910)457-5578.

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Chuck Shepherd digs up the strangest of the strange in world news

LEAD STORY In the midst of World Cup fever, readers might have missed Germany’s win over host Barbados in June for the Woz Challenge Cup, following an eight-team polo tournament with players not on horses but Segways. The sport is said to have been created

by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, whose Silicon Valley Aftershocks competed again this year in Barbados (but last won the Cup in 2007). Wozniak told ESPN.com that his own polo skills are fading, but the San Jose Mercury News reported in May that Woz’s fearlessness on the Segway seems hardly diminished. (The Mercury News report, on the Aftershocks’ local, nerd-populated league, described the players as “the pudgy and the pale” and “geek chic.”)

The Continuing Crisis Stories of epic sportsmanship warm the public’s heart, but there is also epic “cutthroat,” such as by Monrovia (Calif.) High School girls’ track coach Mike Knowles.

Knowles’ team had just been defeated for first place in the last event of the April league championship meet by a record-setting pole vault by South Pasadena High School’s Robin Laird, edging her team over Monrovia, 6661. But then Knowles noticed that Laird was wearing a flimsy, string “friendship” bracelet, thus violating a national high school athletics’ jewelry rule. He notified officials, who were forced to disqualify Laird and declare Monrovia the champion, 65-62. “This is my 30th year coaching track,” Knowles said later. “I know a lot of rules and regulations.”

Universal health insurance cannot come soon enough for uninsured Kathy Myers, 41, of Niles, Mich., who, suffering an increasingly painful shoulder injury, has been continually turned away from emergency rooms because the condition was not life-threatening. In June, as a last resort, she took a gun and shot herself in the shoulder, hoping for a wound serious enough for ER treatment. Alas, she missed major arteries and bones and was again sent home, except with even more pain.

Britain’s Countess of Wemyss and March, now 67, is a hands-on manager-fundraiser for the Beckley Trust UK’s leading advocacy organization for legalizing marijuana, according to an April profile by the Daily Mail. However, she has not forsaken an earlier psychotropicpromoting campaign. In her early 20s, when she was Amanda Feilding, she extolled the virtues of trepanation (to “broaden ... awareness” by increasing the oxygen in the brain, directly, by drilling a hole in one’s head).

Feilding’s first boyfriend wrote the book on the process (“Bore Hole”), and her husband, the flamboyant 13th Earl of Wemyss,

has also been trepanned. The Countess still expresses hope that the National Health Service will eventually cover trepanning.

Great Expectorations People who live or work in New York City believe themselves to be among the world’s toughest and hardiest, but at least 51 of them are apparently legendarily soft: the 51 city bus drivers who between them took 3,200 days of paid leave last year to “heal” over the single workplace “injury” of being spit on by passengers. (Thirty-two other spitupon drivers did not request leave.) An official with the Transport Workers Union called spitting “physically and psychologically traumatic” and requiring “recuperat(ion).”

The prominent Howrah bridge in Calcutta, India, has become a serious safety risk, according to a May report for the Calcutta Port Trust, because the steel hoods protecting the pillars holding up the bridge have been thinned by 50 percent in recent years. Engineers believe the corrosion has been caused almost entirely by the chemicals in gutkha, the popular chewing tobacco/herb concoction, which produces expectorants routinely hocked onto the bridge by the 500,000 pedestrians who cross it every day.

Fine Points of the Law Inventor Jiro Takashima, 75, maintains that his Pro-State massager is a serious medical device (retailing for about $80), but his daughter-partner Amy Sung, 35, simultaneously markets it as a prostate sex-play toy called the Aneros at adult novelty stores (retailing for about $50). According to a June Houston Chronicle report, Takashima’s booth at medical conventions is popular, but at sex expos, he and his daughter are “rock stars.” However, since the Pro-State/Aneros was intended as a medical device, competing sex-toy makers have felt free to copy Aneros’ design, and Takashima’s lawsuit to stop them is now before a federal court in Houston.

The District(s) of Calamiity Washington, D.C., Attorney General Peter Nickles ordered an investigation in June after learning that the city’s payroll office had, over a seven-year period, failed to remit the life-insurance premiums deducted from the paychecks of at least 1,400 employees. Already, one employee had been told that her policy had been canceled because of the unremitted premiums. (Until the investigation is finished, it is impossible to say which of the two usual explanations of chronic D.C. bureaucratic dysfunction theft or “large-scale human error” is applicable.)

Vying in recent years with Washington, D.C., as the nation’s “district of calamity” is Detroit, whose previous mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was in May ordered to prison to serve 1-1/2 to 5 years after repeatedly violating his probation on his conviction for obstruction of justice. In June, Detroit’s school board president Otis Mathis resigned under fire, then tried to un-resign by offering to cure himself of the behavior that started his downfall, specifically, Mathis’ touching and fondling himself during several one-on-one meetings with the school system’s General Superintendent, Teresa Gueyser.

The Aristocrats!

In the space of about 30 minutes on a June morning, according to a Dayton Daily News report, Brian Horst, 35, shoplifted several packages of meat and a jug of Mad Dog 20/20 wine from a store, inexplicably rolled a stainlesssteel tank of carbon dioxide on wheels away from a restaurant, and disabled an ATM by pounding it with a rock (after several witnesses spotted him in conversation with the screen, apparently trying to reason with the machine or possibly with an imaginary employee inside it).

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hile local theatre companies regroup for upcoming performances (check out encore’s calendar for listings), we got the scoop on thespian news and upcoming shows taking place outside of our area. Wilmington continues to represent staggering talent onstage; check it out!

Thalian associaTion awards Thalian Association celebrated its annual theater awards gala June 18th, shining the spotlight on last season’s most memorable acts. The nonprofit membership organization maintains itself the official community theater of North Carolina, and it continues making our great state proud by hosting contemporary and traditional shows, all performed by outstanding actors, singers, dancers and crews behind the scenes.

Among the association’s many honors, highlights include Mike O’Connell’s win for

by: Lisa Huynh Outstanding Actor, thanks to his transforming portrayal of Fagin in the Charles Dicken’s classic, “Oliver!” Likewise, 11-year-old Dru Loman scoops up the trophy for Outstanding Supporting Actor as Dodger. Outstanding Actress nominees celebrate in a tie, with Katherine Rudeseal’s performance as Nancy in “Oliver!” and Lori Winner as Penny Sycamore in “You Can’t Take It With You.” Honors also go to Tom Briggs’ executive direction and Laurene Perry’s transformation as the humorous Grand Duchess Olga in “You Can’t Take It With You.”.

Dorothy Cowan Jennifer Czechlewski, Emily Graham and Alecia Bell Vanderhaar deserve applause for Outstanding Ensemble “The Taffetas.” Outstanding Production goes to the musical “Phantom,” along with Debra Gillingham’s choreography and Lynn O’Connell’s Outstanding Supporting Actress.

While the awards are voted on each year

by Thalian Association members only, the organization gives out an annual scholarship to a talented high-school senior who wishes to pursue an education in the performing arts. The third annual Pat Hingle Scholarship in Theater Arts goes to Blaine Allen Mowrer, a frequent performer in Wilmington who will be pursuing a dance performance major at the University of Oklahoma City in the fall. ‘rEnT’ on ThE road Several miles away from home, City Stage and Broadway Series South will co-produce their version of the highly acclaimed hit musical “Rent,” in Raleigh, North Carolina, starting this week. The shows run July 2nd-3rd, 8th-10th and 15th-17th at the Progress Energy Center Fletcher Opera Theatre, downtown Raleigh.

The Tony Award-winning sensation debuted in Wilmington at Thalian Hall last summer, and

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Based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La Boheme,” the play features a series of rockopera hits by Jonathan Larson, including the popular “Seasons of Love,” the romantic “Light My Candle,” and the fast-paced, witty and sardonic ballad, “La Vie Boheme.”

For those who missed the performance last summer, make the mere two-hour drive to our capital to see “Rent”—it’s a journey worth embracing. All performances will be at 8 p.m., and tickets can be bought at ticketmaster.com, or call 800-745-3000. Wilmingtonians can use the code ILM10 for a discount; tickets are $25-$35.

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The Process of Change: Darren Mulvenna expands his surreal collection

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girl floats on a bed of butterflies in Darren Mulvenna’s current workin-progress. Behind her, flames and smoke envelop a mystical forest. Neon, bright colors captivate the attention of the viewer thanks to the painting’s depth: The flame redhead wears a dress that seems to be melting on her, as trees smolder behind her. She seems consumed only by the butterflies. “I put a lot of detail into this one,” Mulvenna says. “And there is still a lot more to do.

It’s not done yet.”

“Metamorphosis,” the piece of which he refers, reflects Mulvenna’s focus on change and growth for his next exhibiton, opening at The Calico Room this Friday. Most of his art conveys a personal yet universal feeling, whether it be a struggle, a lesson or a subconscious experience. In September of last year, encore listed him as one of Wilmington’s most notable creative minds.

Since, his collection of surrealist paintings have hung at Caffe Phoenix and the Wilmington Wine Shoppe, among other downtown spots. Each piece showcases a dif-

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“Everything I paint represents a very personal time in someone’s life,” he says. “It’s personal for me, of course, because they are inspired by my own feelings, but what I hope is for others to see the paintings and relate them to their own experiences.”

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bination of burning trees, butterflies and a model might otherwise look too busy. Yet, Mulvenna’s eye for aesthetic pulls it all together in a harmonious blend.

“If I paint something heavy, like a big black dot on one side, I make sure to put a similar one on the other side,” he says.

The example he uses calls attention to his fixation of Yin and Yang. “If you look at some of my work, you’ll notice that I like to shape things like an ‘s,’” he explains. “The models are usually posing in a curved position.”

The red-headed vixen in “Metamorphosis” attempts no exception to the pattern.

Even though it exists in a world of fantasy, the entire painting has a more relatable message. It speaks of renewal and change, something that Mulvenna often experiences as an artist.

“One difference that I can definitely see is in my painting process,” he says. “When I was younger and just getting started as an artist, I would let the brushstrokes come together as I worked. It would be more about the action of painting and letting whatever was inside me come out and work itself into an image.”

Now, as a more seasoned painter, Mulvenna admits to have more of a plan in place. “I have a direction [now],” he says.

“When I sit down to paint, I know what I’m trying to do.”

While the word “maturity” seems out of place in Mulvenna’s artistic vision, his robust imagination and reflections gear toward a romantic side, which assuredly can make a fan out of any dreamer. Though he does take one learned lesson very seriously: “Always make prints before you sell an original,” he says.

Mulvenna’s latest collection opens to the public Friday evening. To view more of his work, visit www.facadedesign.org.

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Hampstead, NC “Beautiful; lots of variety.” “Love the place.” “Beautiful art work.” “Very nice.”

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These are just what a few customers had to say about Hampstead Art Gallery. Come and tell us what you think.

Affordable prices on prints and originals. Local artists with various styles and taste are just excited about having the opportunity to share their work with all art lovers. Our artists offer different sizes from what we have on display and low rates on commissioned work.

Owner Charles Turner invites all artists and art lovers to just hang out in our new Artist Lounge any time. Look for our upcoming Expos and Open House. Hampstead Art Gallery is located in Hampstead on the corner of Factory Road next to CVS Pharmacy.

511 1/2 Castle Street (910) 251-8886 •Tues.-Sat. 11am-5pm www.pattersonbehn.com pattersonbehn will be featuring the work of Michelle Connolly. Michelle is a remarkably, prolific artist who has managed to stay connected to her inner child by channeling it through her artwork.

Though so much of her work comes from her personal memories and her very active imaginationthere is also a strong sense of depth and maturity to many of her pieces.

The gallery also carries works by Bob Bryden, Virginia Wright-Frierson, Rachel Kastner, Pam Toll, and Katherine Webb, as well as a large selection of works on paper in numerous media.

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Mandolin Mastermind:

Legendary newgrass pioneer Sam Bush plays Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre

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he label “living legend” gets thrown around too much these days; however, a musician who best embodies such goes by the name “Sam Bush.” Known to even the most casual bluegrass listener as a master on the mandolin, Bush has spent most of his 57 years as a respected multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and innovator. Responsible for taking traditional bluegrass to new heights with his ground-breaking band New Grass Revival in the 1970s, Bush and his contemporaries made “newgrass” its own genre of Americana. They ushered in a new era of experimentation and excitement that continues today.

As part of Bush’s latest tour, he makes a stop at Greenfield Lake come July 2nd=. Recently, encore caught up with the musician, who was back to business in his office in Nashville after his return from the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival—a residency he’s held since 1974. encore: After 36 consecutive years at Telluride, does each year have its own flavor or do they begin to run together?

Sam Bush: Yeah, I’ve thought about that a lot.

Over the years, of course, it’s hard to single out one year as a personal highlight, but, usu-

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16 Taps • 127 Princess St • $5 ally, if everything has gone well, the most recent year [tends to be my] favorite.

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SB: It’s hard for me to look at myself that way, so I don’t know if there was ever a defining moment when I realized that we were influential. I guess, when you’re reading articles or something, where young mandolin players, fiddlers or bands say they were influenced by New Grass Revival, then maybe I realized that we were getting somewhere, and people were listening and liking it.

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Later ... I decided that I’d never heard anybody do “Maggie May,” by Rod Stewart.

So, we did that, and when the mandolin ending came, we had all kind of mandolin pickers out there: Drew Emmitt, Tim O’Brien, Chris Thile, Sarah Jarosz, and I’m probably leaving out a few. e: It’s a cool life, isn’t it?

SB: It sure beats working on the farm. I say that because I grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky, with beef cattle and hogs, so yeah, I know what real work is. I mean, yes, this is work, but it’s really, really, pleasurable. e: What’s the feeling you get knowing that you can play with practically anyone that you desire?

SB: It’s gratifying. I mean, there are musical heroes I haven’t had the opportunity to play with yet, but there are an awful lot of contemporary heroes that I have gotten to play with. It comes through the combination of hard work and being fortunate sometimes to be in the right place, but really it comes from practicing and loving music, and meeting other people that feel the same way. e: Was there a moment in your career when you realized that you had gone from being a kid from Kentucky who had musical heroes

e: Recently, you were honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Association. How special was that moment?

SB: I was very honored. The awards they hand out are really cool; they’re Gibson guitar head stocks. And because Gibson makes a Sam Bush model mandolin, unbeknownst to me, the Americana Association had gotten one of the mandolins from Gibson, and the artist totally did all of this incredible artwork on this Gibson F-5 mandolin.

It was really neat, because [contemporaries and former band members] John Cowan and Darrell Scott did the introduction for me to come up and get the award.

When I got the award, it totally overwhelmed me because it was a Sam Bush model. Right now—and this is another honor—that mandolin in residing in the Country Music Hall of Fame in an exhibit, so that’s pretty great. e: Do you think you would’ve taken this amazing path if you didn’t grow up in Kentucky?

SB: I don’t think it was so much Kentucky, I think it was my parents’ love of music that influenced all of us kids. But, I do think it was fortunate that I grew up outside of Bowling Green, which is about 60 miles outside of Nashville, because we got great reception to listen to the Grand Ole Opry, which my parents loved to do. Driving around, we could listen to the same channel, WSM 650, and also we got Nashville television if my father climbed on the roof and adjusted the antenna properly.

So, I got the chance to not only to listen to the great musicians, but I got to watch them do it, too—how their hands worked, how they worked the microphones, and just the whole thing. In that way I think it was very fortunate that we grew up close to Nashville and were able to experience that first-hand.

Because I thought that everybody got to do that, it wasn’t until I went elsewhere in the country that I’d find people [who had] never even seen Bill Monroe play, and I got to watch all these greats on the Nashville TV station.

(Bush continued next page)

Zombie Stakeout:

Champion of the Sun joins forces for a frightful EP release party

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alloween’s coming early! Take out the white paint, the fake blood and the tattered clothes; everyone will have a chance to bring out their inner gore and screaming abilities. The scary occasion? None other than Champion of the Sun’s extended play release party.

Joining forces with bands What’s Good?, Mortal Man, Salvacion, Hellbroth, Colossal Abyss and Coup de Grace, the classic medley of metal and Southern rock bands hold a fun humor for the undead that only can be logically let loose in the form of a party/concert. Perhaps wanting for this absurd but addictive energy to catch, encore sat with Jaffar Obi, bass guitarist of Coup de Grace and Carlos Perez, guitarist and singer for Champion of the Sun, to find the mystery behind the madness. encore: So, is it true that the dress code is zombies?

Carlos Perez: [chuckling] We encourage people to dress like zombies; the more zombies there, the better. The whole thing is themed. The set is going to be made up kind-of crazy and horror movies will be playing in the background. e: Will the bands be dressed as zombies as well?

Jaffar Obi: Depends, a lot of the face paint will wash off.

CP: Yeah, I’m sure everyone will end up looking like a zombie in the end, though.

JO: There always are good things just under the radar.

CP: I think it is up to the bands [if they want to be] remembered. They just need to find something that works, like anything that evokes new feeling, not the same old crap.

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Night of the Living Shred Also playing: Missy Raines & the New Hip July 3rd, 8 p.m. • $5 Soapbox, upstairs •255 N. Front Street www.thesoapboxlive.com e: What do you believe is the bands’ best talent. Why do they work so well together?

JO: A lot of energy, hard rock, funk and whatever else we try to do for a scene.

CP: Honestly, the band that we lined up, we had to ask ourselves, ‘Who would bring out the hardest, who is the most creative or righteous in general?’

JO: We have a really interesting blend of bands in general.

CP: There’s progressive metal with Coupe de Grace, and What’s Good? is not really metal but they can still rip your face off [laughs].

What’s Good? plays with the most metal bands they can find because they know they can blow them away—even though it’s our release party, we would open up for any of these guys.

JO: Basically, just being as dangerous as possible, having little to no respect for our instruments and our own bodies. It’s hard for people to stand close because we are just literally wielding our instruments, doing half flips, rolling on the ground, jumping into the audience. If you get hurt ...

(Bush continued)

set out to change music. Honestly, we were just playing it the way that we felt it.

e: When you guys started pushing the envelope and playing newgrass, was it a conscious decision or did it just simply evolve?

SB: Well, it was kind of a conscious decision, I guess, in the way that we wanted to play. I remember our first New Grass Revival practice, when we decided that us four guys were gonna have a band, and I think our bass player just started playing this riff, and we all just started jamming on this riff. Then, [banjo player] Courtney Johnson would break into a fiddle tune out of that riff after everybody played solo. That became the arrangement that was on our very first album; the Vassar Clements’ tune, “Lonesome Fiddle Blues.” So, we were just having fun and that’s the way we played. It was exciting to us. We brought in bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, maybe a little jazz, but we didn’t

e: Do you think experimentation to that degree could still happen today in Americana music?

SB: I think it does happen. Different people press the envelope in different ways. There are certain bands that make new music by exploring the styles of old-time music. There are bands like the Punch Brothers who incorporate almost classical styles within what they do, and we know they can play bluegrass. My stuff was maybe a little more rockoriented, but I think there’ll still be a lot more experimentation done for years. e: Do you have more experimentation left in your tank?

SB: I sure hope so. Well, I mean, hey, I just started a set the other night with “Blazing Saddles.” If that’s not experimenting, I don’t know what is.

CP: Well then, there should have been a mosh pit in there anyways. e: What would you say are the main influences for the music that you guys make?

CP: Everybody is kind of varied, but I think we all draw from almost the same kind of primal bands that started to influence people. Everybody has a bit of Iron Maid in them or Jimmy Hendrix.

JO: Honestly, a lot of what I listen to is just straight-up pop music [laughs to himself]. e: Speaking of pop music, how do you feel about the music of today?

e: Is there anything else that you would like to say to readers?

CP: To people that like face-melting music, horror movies, zombies, apocalypses: It’s going to be kind of a join night of dark silliness and really good music.

JO: Yes, despite us having really serious musicians, we don’t really take ourselves very serious.

Champion of Sun and friends celebrate Independence Day early with a line-up that might actually “rip your face off.” Expect high-energy intensity and beware of random kittens—if only to just “throw people off” in midst of the gruesome horror clips on set. Oh, and mortals dressed as zombies will be rewarded with an admission discount.

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WEDNESDAY, jUNE 30 DJ FreDDy/KaraoKe (country) —Coconut Jacks; 5027 Market St., 202-8288 BiBis ellison anD tiM BlacK —Aubriana’s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773 open Mic W/ gary allen —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 ZyryaB —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269 open Mic W/ sean gerarD (9pM) —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 DJ tiMe —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington JereMy norris —Sunset Cafe, 5500 Market St.; 791-1900 KaraoKe —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 KaraoKe W/ DJ BiKer roB —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 piano shoW —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 the Bill Murray experience —Soapbox Basement; 255 N. Front St., 251-8500

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BareFoot creeK —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S., (843) 272-7794 Benny hill —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc., 910-256-0115 the Fustics —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 paul griMshaW BanD —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 eric anD carey B. —El Zarrape Cantina, 103 Lake Park Blvd., 458-5255 DJ Juice —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 JaMes Jarvis & FrienDs (7pM-8pM), JiM ashley’s open Mic —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 DJ p. FunK —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 KaraoKe With BoB clayton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 nutt house iMprov —Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500

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KaraoKe —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 DJ —High Tide Lounge, 1800 Carolina Beach Ave., Carolina Bch; 458-0807 open Mic night —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 5th WeDnesDay BanD —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737

THURSDAY, jUlY 1 open Mic W/ gary allen —Brass Pelican; 2112 N. New River Dr., Surf City, NC 328-4373 DJ eyecon —Mansion on Market; 6317 Market St., 395-5028 KaraoKe Kong —Orton Pool Room, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 DJ stretch —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 top 40 DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301

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DJ Big DaDDy (country) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Coconut Jacks; 5027 Market St., 202-8288 DJ Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Slick and Reds, 2501 S. College Rd.; 798-5355 acoustic Duo (7-10), Brett Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s JaM (10-?) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 live Music â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Carolina Ale House; 317-c College Rd., 791-9393 DJ â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Flat Eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; 5400 Oleander Dr., 799-7000 DJ Dane Britt â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 DJ Be extreMe KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269 DJ coMpose â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Port City Pub, 121 Grace St.; 251-3791 open Mic night â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 ron Dallas (7pM-10pM) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395

KaraoKe W/ lori Beth â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Griffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern @ George St.; 6320 Market St., 793-2628 KaraoKe W/ DJ steve â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Toolbox, 2325 Burnette Blvd.; 343-6988 JaMes Jarvis & FrienDs (7pM-8pM) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 nantucKet â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kefi, 2012 Eastwood Road; 256-3558 paco stricKlanD â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Aubrianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773 BraD Benson â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Black Horn Bar, 15 Carolina Beach Avenue N.,458-5255 grenolDo FraZier â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cameron Art Museum; 3201 South 17th St., 395-5999 villanova â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 live Music â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Romanelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Leland; 383-1885 the casserole â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 S. Lake Blvd; 458-2000 selah DuBB â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776

sea pans (on the veranDah terrace) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Holiday Inn Resort (Gabbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lounge), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 Fortch (9-12aM) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Harbor Masters, 315 Canal Dr., Carolina Beach; 458-28200 Josh Brannon BanD â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 FranKie allen â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S., (843) 272-7794 nutt street open Mic â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 DJ richterMeister â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 FaMily KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alfieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 2528 Castle Hayne Rd.; 251-5707 toM rhoDes â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Front Street Brewery, 9 N. Front St.; 251-1935 classy KaraoKe With ManDy clayton â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Remedies, Market Street; 392-8001

100 S. Front St. Downtown 251-1832 1/2 priced select apppetizers m-f 4-7pm MONDAY $10 Bud/Light Buckets $4 Jack Daniels â&#x20AC;˘ $3 Capt. Morgan TUESDAY $1 Tacos 4-7pm â&#x20AC;˘ $3 sauza $15 margarita pitchers $3 Mexican Beers $5 Top Shelf Tequila â&#x20AC;˘ $7 Patron WEDNESDAY $3 Pints (10 Drafts) $5 Jager Bombs â&#x20AC;˘ $2 wells THURSDAY Mug Night $2 Domestic Drafts w/HK MUG $5 Bombers â&#x20AC;˘ $4 Jim Beam $3 pinnacle flavored vodkas $3.50 MicroBrews FRIDAY $3 Select Draft $4 Fire Fly Shooters $5 Red Bull Vodka SATURDAY $2.50 Miller Lt or Yuengling Draft $8 Pitcher â&#x20AC;˘ $3 Kamikaze $4 Well Drinks SUNDAY $2.50 Bud/Light Draft $8 Pitcher â&#x20AC;˘ $5 Crown Royal $4 Bloody Mary

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1/2 PRICE APPS. 4-6pm LIVE MUSIC FROM JOHNNY ACOUSTIC $ 2 White Wolf $250 Redstripe $ 50 3 Wells 35¢ Wings at 8pm 8&%/&4%":

1/2 PRICE APPS. 4-6pm LIVE MUSIC FROM ROB RONNER $ 50 2 Blue Moons $ 50 2 Corona/Corona Light 1/2 Priced Wine Bottles 5)634%":

LIVE MUSIC FROM MIKE Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;DONNELL $ 2 Domestic Bottles, â&#x20AC;˘ $275 Import Bottles, $ 3 Rum and Coke '3*%":

LIVE$ MUSIC IN THE$ COURTYARD 3 Landshark â&#x20AC;˘ 3 Kamikaze $ 5 Bombs 4"563%":

LIVE MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD Rooftop open by 6pm Dance floor open by 10pm 46/%":

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Monday through Saturday.

friDAY, julY 2 DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 DJ turtle —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 DJ —Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 DJ sCooter fresh —Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 KaraoKe Kong —Slick and Reds, 2501 S. College Rd.; 798-5355 Melvin anD sayer —El Zarrape Cantina, 103 Lake Park Blvd.; 458-5255

Piano show —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 DJ (hiP-hoP/DanCe) —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 JaMes Jarvis & frienDs (7PM-8PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 DJ —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 DJ hooD —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401 DJ Be DanCe Party —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269 shine —Grand Union Pub, 1125 Military Cutoff;2569133 ron etheriDge & Jason woolwine —Barbary Coast; 116 S. Front St., 762-8996 DJ Country —Coconut Jacks; 5027 Market St., 202-8288 DJ —Black Horn Bar, 15 Carolina Beach Avenue N.; 458-5255 KaraoKe with BoB Clayton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 JaM sanDwiCh —Buffalo Wild Wings, Monkey Junction; 392-7224 DJ CeD —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206

DJ —The Toolbox, 2325 Burnette Blvd.; 343-6988 roBBie Berry —Southpaw Sports Bar, 123 Princess St.;338-1886 3 go t —Holiday Inn Resort (Gabby’s Lounge), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 sCi fi —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 fortCh (6PM-10PM) —Thai Grill, 13500 NC HWY 50 #107, Holly Ridge; 329-4424 aCoustiC Mentality (10PM-12aM) —Java Junkies Coffee Bar; 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 399-6977 Blivet, DJ Dane Britt —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 Bag of toys —Green Light Lounge; 21 N. Front St., Basement the iMitations (6-8PM) —Airlie Gardens; 300 Airlie Rd., 798-7700 Daniel Parish —Little Dipper, 138 S. Front St.; 251-0433 CosMiC groove lizarDs —Mayfaire Music on the Town, Mayfaire Town Center oyster Boy —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400 BraD stoCKton —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866

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KaraoKe with BoB Clayton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 DJ CeD —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 KaraoKe —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 DJ “Mr lee” —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 fireDanCe & DruMs @ DarK, DJ Mit PsytranCe (11PM) —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 BiBis ellison anD the sPare Change BanD —Carolina Beach Boardwalk; 910-458-8434

Eric linDEll: Brings his “Blue-eyed soul” to kefi on July 3rd.

girlz, girlz, girlz (80’s hair BanD triBute) —Downtown Sundown; riverfront downtown, 763-7349 sai Collins —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 liquiD PlatinuM —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 KaraoKe w/ DJ val

—Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 root soul ProJeCt —Murphy’s Irish Pub; off I-40 @ exit 385 (at the Mad Boar Restaurant), 285-8888 DJ tiMe —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 DJ stretCh —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 latino night with DJ —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595

Johnnie aCoustiC —Henry’s, 2806 Independence Blvd.; 793-2929 the organix —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 Dragon seeKs Path —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 franKie allen —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S., (843) 272-7794

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the Breakfast CluB —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 lloyd doBler effeCt —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 the Clams —Front Street Brewery, 9 N. Front St.; 251-1935 sam Bush —Greenfield Lake Amphitheater

Saturday, july 3

dJ turtle —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 dJ P. money —Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 dJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 dJ —Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 Classy karaoke with mandy Clayton —Remedies, Market Street; 392-8001 iamhuman —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 dJ stretCh, live Jam with Benny hill —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 dJ sCooter fresh —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 Piano show —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 karaoke —Java Junkies Coffee Bar; 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 399-6977

dJ —Ronnie’s Place, 6745-B Market St.; 228-8056 a full dish —Buffalo Wild Wings, Monkey Junction; 392-7224 dJ —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401 Jeremy norris —Grand Union Pub, 1125 Military Cutoff;2569133 dJ —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington live Country musiC —Coconut Jacks; 5027 Market St., 202-8288 BeaCh & shag night —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 karaoke with BoB Clayton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 karaoke —Griff’s Tavern @ George St.; 6320 Market St., 793-2628 live musiC —Oceanic, Oceanfront Wrightsville Beach; 256-5551 dJ dane Britt —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 roBBie Berry —Smileys Tavern, 723 N. 4th Street; 399-1669 leigh ann’s BeaCh Party —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776

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david tyson —Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.; 452-1212 frankie allen —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S., (843) 272-7794 mighty mCfly —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 CouP de graCe, what’s good, ChamPion of the sun, hellBroth, mortal man, salvaCion, Colossal aByss —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 karaoke w/ dJ val —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 gogglez Pizano —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 Blivet —Carolina Ale House; 317-c College Rd., 791-9393 fletChers grove —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 eriC lindell (Photo) —Kefi, 2012 Eastwood Road; 256-3558 fred flynn —Murphy’s Irish Pub; off I-40 @ exit 385 (at the Mad Boar Restaurant), 285-8888 d&d sluggers —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 daniel Parish —Little Dipper, 138 S. Front St.; 251-0433

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Cindy rhodes —Carolina Beach Farmer’s Market; Lake Park Blvd., 28428 the stragglers —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 fortCh (7Pm-10Pm) —Holiday Inn Resort (Gabby’s Lounge), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 will revo —Francesco’s, 839 S. Kerr Ave.; 793-5656 matt ham —Brixx Pizza; Mayfaire Towne Center, 6801 Main St. 256-9677 the noseriders —Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 S. Lake Blvd; 458-2000 Brad stoCkton —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400 Bald fury —Gilligan’s; N.C. Hwy. 50, Surf City 910-328-4090 steven gossin —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866 Perry smith —Riverfront Farmers’ Market; Water St. Wilmington soul Power Posse —Carolina Beach Boardwalk; 910-458-8434 el Jaye Johnson —Front Street Brewery, 9 N. Front St.; 251-1935 the Phantom PlayBoys —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133

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Sunday, july 4 dJ Country / family day —Coconut Jacks; 5027 Market St., 202-8288 susan savia (10am-2Pm) —Havana’s; 1 N. Lake Park Blvd. Carolina Beach, 458-2822 karaoke —Sunset Cafe, 5500 Market St.; 791-1900 karaoke w/ dJ Battle —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 Jam with Benny hill —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 dJ P. money —Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 steadffast —Grand Union Pub, 1125 Military Cutoff;2569133 dale “fully automatiC sound maChine” dJs —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 roger davis (BrunCh) —Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395 dJ dane Britt —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 dJBe karaoke —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 the BiBis ellison Band —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 fortCh (6:30Pm-10:30Pm) —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S.; (843) 272-7794

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SUNDAY 1/2 price wine list TUESDAY Twosome Tuesday - 10% off entrees for two $5 Wine Feature WEDNESDAY Ladies Night - cheese and chocolate, $8/lady THURSDAY $25 four-course menu, $2.50 drafts and $6 martinis FRIDAY 70’s night - good vibes and great prices

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maChine gun —Kefi, 2012 Eastwood Road; 256-3558 mason smith Band —Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 S. Lake Blvd; 458-2000 doug irving Quartet (Jazz 4-7Pm) —Bellamy Mansion; 503 Market St., 251-3700 the fustiCs —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400 heart & soul —Bluewater Grill, 4 Marina St.; 256-8500 the design —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 “Behind the garage” musiC —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 galen on guitar (BrunCh) —Courtyard Marriott, 100 Charlotte Ave., Carolina Beach; (800) 321-2211 dJ Ced —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 sunday night fever —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 the Bil krauss show (1Pm), soul funCtion (7Pm) —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 maC & JuiCe —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 sCi fi —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269

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TUESDAy, JULy 6 KaraOKe W/ DJ BiKer rOB —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 JereMy nOrriS —Griff’s Tavern @ George St.; 6320 Market St., 793-2628 KaraOKe —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 reggae tueSDayS —Green Light Lounge; 21 N. Front St., Basement traviS SHallOW & JaSOn WOOlWine —Wrightsville Grille, 6766 Wrightsville Ave.; 509-9839 BiBiS elliSOn anD tHe SPare cHange BanD —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 rOn DallaS (7PM-10PM) —Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395 OPen Mic nigHt —Surf’s Bar & Grill; 5500 Market St., 791-9021 Dane Britt KaraOKe —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219

WEDNESDAy, JULy 7

OPen Mic W/ Sean gerarD (9PM) —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 DJ P. funK —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 BiBiS elliSOn anD tiM BlacK —Aubriana’s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773 JereMy nOrriS —Sunset Cafe, 5500 Market St.; 791-1900 DJ tiMe —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington ZyryaB —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269 OPen Mic W/ gary allen —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 DJ freDDy/KaraOKe (cOuntry) —Coconut Jacks; 5027 Market St., 202-8288 JaMeS JarviS & frienDS (7PM-8PM), JiM aSHley’S OPen Mic —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 KaraOKe —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 KaraOKe W/ DJ BiKer rOB —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 BarefOOt creeK —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S.; (843) 272-7794

Concerts around the region HOUSE OF BLUES 4640 HWy 17 S., Myrtle BeacH, Sc 843-272-3000 7/1: Bruce in the USA (Bruce Springsteen Tribute) 7/2: Corey Smith, Tyler Reeve 7/3: Adam Lambert

TWC ARENA 333 eaSt traDe St. cHarlOtte 704-522-6500 7/10: Michael Buble

THE ORANGE PEEL 101 BiltMOre avenue, aSHeville 828-225-5851 7/1: Framing Hanley 7/3: Red, White & Brew featuring The Campaign 1984, If You Wannas, The Enemy Lovers

LINCOLN THEATRE 126 e. caBarruS St., raleigH 919-821-4111 7/1: Lady Marcia Griffiths, Ms. Tanya Stephens 7/8: Perpetual Groove act ii —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 WHat’S gOOD, arBOretuM anD gueStS —Reggie’s, 1415 S. 42nd St. frienDS uniteD Benefit —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 PianO SHOW —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 eric anD carey B. —El Zarrape Cantina, 103 Lake Park Blvd.; 458-5255 nutt HOuSe iMPrOv —Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 KaraOKe WitH BOB claytOn —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 OPen Mic nigHt —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 DJ —High Tide Lounge, 1800 Carolina Beach Ave., Carolina Bch; 458-0807 DJ Juice —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 KaraOKe —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 All entertainment must be turned in to encore by noon every Thursday for consideration in the weekly entertainment calendar. Venues are responsible for notifying encore of any changes, removals or additions to their weekly schedules.

VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE 707 PaviliOn BlvD., cHarlOtte 704-549-5555 7/2: Phish 7/11: Toby Keith with Trace Adkins and James Otto

CAT’S CRADLE 300 e. Main St., carrBOrO, nc 919-967-9053 7/2: Islands, Steel Phantoms, Active Child 7/4: Victor Wooten 7/5: Delta Spirit, David Vandervelde, The Romany Rye (Photo) 7/6: Sleigh Bells, Nerve City, PO PO

TWC PAVILION AT WALNUT CREEK 3801 rOcK Quarry rD., raleigH 919-831-640 7/1: Phish 7/10: Toby Keith with Trace Adkins and James Otto

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OPen Mic nigHt —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 DJ Dane Britt —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 OPen Mic nigHt —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 DJ eyecOn —Mansion on Market; 6317 Market St., 395-5028 OPen Mic nigHt —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866 OPen Mic W/ Beau —16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 iWreStleDaBearOnce —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 MOnDay MayHeM —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 franKie allen —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S.; (843) 272-7794 OPen Mic nigHt —Port City Pub, 121 Grace St.; 251-3791 OPen Mic WitH viva —El Zarrape Cantina, 103 Lake Park Blvd.; 458-5255 DJ tiMe —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 DJ ricHterMeiSter —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 JaMeS JarviS & frienDS (7PM-8PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 nicK anDOlOra —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647

Show Stoppers:

THE FILLMORE CHARLOTTE 820 HaMiltOn Stree, cHarlOtte, nc (704) 549-5555 7/2: Adam Lambert

BOJANGLES’ COLISEUM 2700 e inDePenDence BlvD, cHarlOtte, nc (704) 372-3600 7/8: Aventura

KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE 8003 regency ParKWay, cary 919-462-2052 7/4: Cary Town Band, North Carolina Symphony

N. CHARLESTON COLESIUM 5001 cOliSeuM Dr., cHarleStOn, Sc 843-529-5000 7/11: Boz Scaggs

AMOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 SOutH tryOn St., cHarlOtte, nc (704) 377-6874 6/30: Framing Hanely, The Veer Union 7/1: Joy In Tomorrow, Jonas Sees In Color, The Decour, Bruised But Not Broken 7/2: Lyra Shines, Lights Flourescent And Carson 7/3: Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, For Today, Blessed By A Broken Heart, A Plea For Purging, The Color Morale, The Crimson Armada, I The Breather, The Great Commission, In The Midst Of Lions, Hundredth 7/9: Candlebox with Drop D 7/10: S.O. Stereo 7/11: Rooney

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KaraOKe WitH BOB claytOn —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 tHe Bil KrauSS SHOW —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 lOng Drive —Dick’s Last Resort, 4700 HWY 17 S.; (843) 272-7794 Benny Hill —Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.; 452-1212 live MuSic —Henry’s, 2806 Independence Blvd.; 793-2929 live MuSic —Oceanic, Oceanfront Wrightsville Beach; 256-5551 fOrtcH (10PM-2aM) —Tangerine’s Caribbean Grill, 300 N. Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach; 707-0202 DefiBrulatOrS —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 tOP 40 W/ DJ val —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 caPe fear BlueS JaM —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 nutt HOuSe iMPrOv —Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 JaMeS JarviS & frienDS (7PM-8PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 raDiO HayeS anD ecHOPOint21 —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400 DJ eyecOn —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401 KaraOKe KOng —16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 DJ “Mr lee” —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 rOOt SOul PrOJect —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866

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JP: The movie industry was waning, and I was not interested in moving out to Los Angeles and leaving Wilmington, so I looked around for an opportunity. There wasn’t a decent adult store in town, one where you could be comfortable being an adult and treated as such when you walked in, so I started Thee View. I had never started or run a business before this experience, and was pleasantly surprised at the assistance from the local and state agencies. e: Have you worked corporately or globally, and how do you compare that job with a locally owned business?

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companies in the film industry and noticed how the “suits” on the award shows were claiming all of the accolades. I would always think, I never saw him/her picking up a sand bag or hauling cable or carrying a camera. When you own your business, the employees and customers see the work you put into the store every day.

The accountability is immediate and there is no hiding from that fact. One has to be self-motivated because that store isn’t going to run itself.

I learned in the film industry that the best ideas usually come from a blending of several ideas.

The best directors would listen to Thee View staff. Photo courtesy of John Perkison. all of the ideas and make a decision based on that information. I try to do that with Thee toys, novelties, DVDs, oils and lotions than any View. I listen to customers, and employees about other store in the area. We are the only store the needs and desires of the community and try to that stays open until midnight every night, and we satisfy those needs. I don’t always succeed, but that have the best prices in town. If you are looking for sometimes comes from changing tastes. any particular item that we do not carry, we will e: What products does your store offer that be glad to order it for you. Our staff is the best in stand above others in town? customer service and knowledge of the products JP: Thee View has the largest selection of adult we provide.

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JP: What day is it? There are dozens that I will share personally — not here. e: If you had a magic wand to better the current businessscape in our area, what would you do to make changes?

JP: My magic wand would be filled with basic conservative economic common sense, and I would hit every politician over the head with it. People think it is weird that I am conservative and own an adult store, but it is just a store and I get hit with taxes like everyone else. I would like the Democrats out of my wallet and the Republicans out of my bedroom. e: How are you staying relevant, fresh and topof-mind against your competitors?

JP: Staying relevant in this industry is just like any other, with reading, customer feedback and customer service. Sometimes you can’t fulfill the customer’s request, but you have to make the effort. The effort sometimes will lead to another and better solution that the next place has not figured out. e: Your extra-curricular activities consist of what?

JP: Theater. I have had the pleasure of being in several shows over the past six years. I just finished “The Madness of May,” which opened in the newly renovated Thalian Hall, and I am currently in “Fiddler on the Roof” for Opera House Theater Company. I have also worked with the Thalian Association, Guerilla Theater, BUMP Productions and City Stage, to name a few.

Wilmington is blessed to have such a large theater community, and the only way we do is because of the support of Wilmingtonians.

Theater support by the local community shows the depth of generosity and character of a city, and we are second to none an where. I am proud of Wilmington for that fact. e: Your favorite place in Wilmington to visit is where, and why?

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One Cuc-y Frenzy: Cucalorus holds Independence Day membership drive

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ireworks, schmireworks—July 4th will sparkle and sizzle thanks to Wilmignton’s Cucalorus Film Festival. Now in its second year of celebrating the U.S.’s independence as part of its membership drive, the organization welcomes chickens, flame-throwers and bike-riders to Jengo’s Playhouse this Sunday—all in the name of creative freedom!

Wilmington’s most beloved independent shebang—slated for November 10th through 14th—Cucalorus brings together like-minded people to bask in the art of cinema. From stunning visuals to heartfelt acting to idiosyncratic innovation, the film festival screens a slew of enigmatic and enveloping shorts, features, documentaries and even music videos. More importantly, they remain a viable and representative part of Wilmington, thanks to a burgeoning, freewheeling group of artists and allies who attend their drives and fund-raisers, as well as volunteer time or even submit their own works of art to the festival annually.

“Cucalorus is a place where you meet your best friends,” Courtney Bridgers, operations manager, told encore last week.

“We hope that the festival brings creative minds together so that people can exchange ideas and help each other in the future.”

Their second annual Freedom Frenzy membership drive offers a precursor to the festival. It will provide a safe haven for clever chickens to flock, figuratively and literally speaking. “You can frolic outside in the backyard with Nevi,” Bridgers assured of the feathered Cucalorus mascot. Those hesitant of barn raisers need not worry; other events will be as enticing.

“There will be badminton, cupcakes, horseshoes, hula hoops, pies, a handstand contest, flame-throwers, sidewalk chalk, cooking things on the grill, singing and eating, just to name a few,” she continued.

The drive encourages communal participation, so all attendees must bring a dish to the potluck to “share with all of [their] new friends,” Bridgers said. There will also be a “freedom grill” provided for the hot dogs and hamburglers out there. Cucalorus will have booze for of-age participants, and music will be playing thanks to the sonic masterminds of MixGrott—a philanthropic group of musicians who record local bands onto a CD each month and throw a release party at area venues, donating raised monies to charity.

“Everyone in attendance will be able to take home a free CD of some of Wilmington’s and its surrounding areas’ finest music,” Joselyn McDonald, who often helps with Cucalorus events, said. Bands include Justin Lacy and the Swimming Machine (with whom McDonald plays) Libraries, and local acoustic music.

by: Shea Carver

Freedom Frenzy Cucalorus Membership Drive July 4th, 6 p.m.

Jengo’s Playhouse • 815 Princess Place $10 or $8, members/students

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CUPCAKE, ANYONE? Joselyn McDonald will offer a cupcake and a dose of entertainment, thanks to her band, Justin Lacy and the Swimming Machine, who will be playing the Cucalorus membership drive.

As the hour of the blasting sky nears, everyone will hop on their bikes (oh, yeah, twowheeling peddlers are a must!) and head downtown. “We’re having a bike parade to watch the fireworks [over the Battleship NC]!”

Bridgers said.

The party gets underway at 6 p.m. at Jengo’s, located at Princess and 9th streets. The cost is only $10 for nonmembers or $8 for members and students, available at www.etix. com or at the door the day of the event. Cucalorus memberships will be sold on the 4th only for a mere $30.

“This includes a year’s worth of magical fun,” Bridgers promised, “like new friendships, insight into the future and discounted passes for the festival! If you purchase a membership, you can also submit up to four films for free—that’s crazy!”

To help support and ensure Wilmington’s coveted film fest keeps on keeping on, come to the Freedom Frenzy membership drive.

Wear the best of red, white and blue, and be ready for an evening of ... who knows what!

“I know last year Joselyn called Obama to come down,” Bridgers remarked on any impending celebrity visits. “But he already had a cookout planned for the White House. I’m sure she’s got something or someone up her sleeve, though.”

To find out who or what it may be, come, play, and frenzy like a Cuc, freedom-style.

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have to hand it to the guys at Pixar: They can make even the crankiest, most cynical son of a bitch well up like a teenage girl at a Justin Bieber concert. “Toy Story 3”persists in being a movie I find practically indescribable. It’s a warped, twisted and downright dark look at what happens to a kid’s toys once he has outgrown them.

This is such an interesting film because it takes a very predictable route but manages to veer off into hellish territories.

Our story begins with our old friends Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and Woody (Tom Hanks), each of whom have a hard time dealing with change as Andy prepares to go to college. They sit in a box, unnoticed and uncertain about what happens once Andy leaves. Will they end up tucked away in the attic, or sit on the curb to be picked up by the garbage man?

There’s a strange subtext to “Toy Story 3,” kind-of like an existential undercurrent.

I’m not sure what its intentions are, but I found myself in a movie theater questioning the meaning of life—all during a film about personified children’s toys. After three Toy Story movies, I began to see the toys as something other than cute little characters. I began to see their lives as a hellish prison, the worst kind of eternal damnation, where death would almost seem like a sweet release.

Think about it: You’re a toy, a wonderfully animated thing that makes children happy. When the kids aren’t around, you can goof off, have fun and interesting conversations, maybe even embark on a few madcap adventures. But when the kid comes around, you go limp; you pretend to be dead, in a comatose state where the kid whips you around and makes you into whatever he wants. You have to pretend your own being and feelings are non-existent. The most interesting time in your day is when the kid isn’t around, but all you pine for are the stolen moments when your owner shows up and plays with you. You’re this little thing made of plastic, desperate for validation, waiting for the day when your owner puts you in the attic or throws you in the trash.

So, in my analogy, the toys are people.

People are God. Heaven is an attic, and hell is at the bottom of a dumpster. This is a far more interesting process of thought than the recycled plot of “Toy Story 3.”

The characters are funny; the comic timing, pitch-perfect. Yes, Tim Allen still hilariously voices Buzz Lightyear. Tom Hanks’ Woody now rubs me raw; he’s such a bossy little shit. “Do this!” he says. “Do that!” he shouts. If I was one of the other toys, I

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Toy Story 3 Starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen

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would have been eagerly plotting his demise. Woody is such a wet blanket. If Andy is God, Woody would be the little plastic Pope. He follows his order, tries to convince the others that “The Way of Andy” is the right way. No matter how much the other toys protest, Woody has this creepy dream of a world where all the toys reunite with their God and live happily for all eternity.

The movie gets more interesting when our group of toys get donated to the local daycare center, where there is a hierarchy in place. Lotso, the hug-filled teddy bear, has the voice of a sweet old man. He plays the wise, sage-like leader of day care. His group consists of a Ken doll, a couple of action figures, and the creepiest babydoll ever. As it turns out, not all is well in Lotsoland, and the toys soon learn of his dark past. When they try to challenge his authority, he locks them away in bins—kind of like if Auschwitz had been made by Mattel.

Toward the third act, the story thickens in its mire. When Lotso learns he once belonged to a little girl who accidentally lost her favorite toy, and replaced him with a new one, it leaves him without faith. Thus, his life as a twisted heretic, who could no longer believe in the infallibility of his Gods, began. (If, at any time during “Toy Story 3,”

Lotso would have screamed, “Why have you forsaken me?!”, it would have made perfect sense.)

In the final act, the toys rush to get back to Andy. They’re accidentally scooped up in a garbage truck and headed to the incinerator. This is where the movie becomes much more nefarious. When the toys descend into the fire, they realize the fate they have been relegated to. They look one another in the eye, hold hands and prepare to die.

It’s a kids movie, so it doesn’t happen; however, in that moment, I felt something for the little bastards. Somehow, through this existential journey, I empathized for the plight of the little toys and their horrible existence.

Dare I say: A Pixar film has challenged me more than any other movie this year? I don’t think the goal of the movie was to make an aphotic, existential comedy that opens Pandora’s Box to a theocratic world. Still, “Toy Story 3” could be the most subversive animated film of the decade. I think kids will enjoy the film—but the hell if I know.

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this week in film Twilight: New Moon Carolina Beach Lake Park Sunday, July 4th, dusk • Free (pictured) Following Bella’s (Kristen Stewart) ill-fated 18th birthday party, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleep-

walks through her senior year of high school, numb and alone, she discovers Edward’s image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. Her desire to be with him at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks. Runtime: 130 min. PG-13

Knight and Day Regal Mayfaire Cinemas 900 Town Center Drive • (910) 256-0556 Call for times • $6.50 - $9.50 A wholesome, Midwestern woman accidentally gets involved with an international super spy and is forced to flee the country with him while he protects a dangerous new piece of technology. Starring Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. Runtime: 130 min. NR

George Carlin: You Are All Diseased Subversive Film Series Juggling Gypsy •1612 Castle St. (910) 763-2223 Sundays, 8pm • Free George Carlin had a long, mutually beneficial relationship with the cable company HBO. ‘You Are All Diseased’ is a 1999 special, feature Carlin firing away at religion, airport security and the ridiculousness of American culture. Runtime: 65 min. R

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The Education in Growing Food: Officials should consider adding it to the curriculum

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hat if we actually learned the things that we needed to know from school? You know, things like balancing a checkbook or how to start a compost pile. Maybe even how to grow and cook our own food? The No Child Left Behind Act established “standards-based” education, but what happens if the people creating the standards are misguided?

In order to grasp the logic herein, we must come to grips with the fact that we are indoctrinated from birth to be materialistic and consume. Our president tells us to do so, as does the TV, but when McDonald’s starts advertising on elementary school report cards, there needs be no doubt (look it up): What if we educated ourselves, not to be consumers, but to be producers instead?

Don’t get defensive, every single one of us is conditioned and materialism is arguably inevitable (look up Rudolph Steiner and Ahriman). That’s what it means to be human; there’s no one out there to tell us when we’re off track. We make up our own minds.

The goal here is not to disparage humanity, but to illustrate our inanity.

For instance, who defines school curriculums? If anyone out there knows, please share. We shouldn’t overlook the fact that soil is alive, and microorganisms are beneficial and not to be feared. When we do not learn these concepts in school, it becomes possible to overreact with sanitizer every time our children get their hands dirty or react to a TV commercial because it says that Miracle Gro is good. We don’t realize that every time we use an herbicide or a synthetic fertilizer, we are killing the soil and making it harder on ourselves to be healthy. By acting this way, we disrespect what sustains us, as the soil is responsible for our food, even our existence.

How our kids can go through any level of schooling and not understand these basic realities, or even how to prepare a meal for themselves, is simply not good enough. We should be learning these concepts long before we teach ourselves some false history of Christopher Columbus.

Where are our priorities?

Jamie Oliver’s latest show “Food Revolution” is worth watching (reruns available at abc.com) It illustrates how our school lunch

by: Evan Folds

Owner of Progressive Gardens

rooms are backward and based around budgeting. It shows the processed junk foods that get served, and how officials pay no mind to the deadful, unhealthful habits created from it. At one point in the show, Oliver presented a room full of kindergarteners with a visual pop quiz on produce; not one kid named an item, not even a tomato or a potato.

When Jamie showed the kids all of the repulsive ingredients contained in chicken nuggets, the kids squealed in disgust. As soon as he breaded and molded the ingredients into “nugget-looking” shapes, they still came running to try them. This is indoctrination and conditioning at its finest.

How has this happened? It’s a fair question, without an easy answer, but here’s a clue: We are controlled by the scientific method. Every child is taught this concept in grade school as a definition of how the modern world learns. We are instructed to start with a hypothesis, then we tell ourselves that it can only become a “law” if the theory is proven replicable over and over again.

Nevermind that these “laws” do not apply to anything other than human perspective.

The fact is, nature does not work in straight lines and redundant data points, only in chaotic spirals. From a natural perspective, a hypothesis should happen a different way every time. Bottom line, we’re only teaching ourselves half the story.

It seems impossible to quantify the destructive nature of this mindset, which, in a wicked irony, is why it is allowed to subsist. When ideas do not reach the textbook, they rarely reach a classroom, and we grow up imagining that the only way to produce food is through the materialistic means now espoused by the USDA and Big Ag, for instance. In a real-world context, the “master gardeners” at the Extension Service tell us to use Round Up and 10-10-10 in the same manner in which doctors prescribe us pills rather than challenge us to change our diets.

The human body is not meant to be sick, neither is a plant. Very literally, we create the problems we are trying to control, and we’re

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paying for it in more ways than one.

Here’s another clue: In the mid-1800s, a German chemist named Justis Von Liebig ashed some plants and upon analysis found the major minerals (macronutrients) to be nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, or the modern-day NPK found on the front of fertilizer labels. This foolish idea that a plant only needs what is found in its tissue has come to define the last 150 years of agronomy and has crippled us all. It’s interesting to note that Liebig went to his death bed regretting his declarations, saying: “The art of agriculture will be lost when ignorant, unscientific and short-sighted teachers persuade the farmer to put all his hopes in universal remedies, which don’t exist in nature.”

With living systems there is always more than meets the eye. Sadly, the majority of

people look only at the NPK when evaluating which foods to feed their plants. This static materialism is alive and well in agriculture, and results in us growing plants for what they need rather than what we need from them—a simple but profound idea.

For the record, a plant must have at least 17 elements to grow. It’s not hard to imagine the effect of feeding plants a synthetic fertilizer with only six elements in it. What happens to us when we eat fast food every day? We make movies out of it.

Evan Folds owns Progressive Gardens and works on projects with classrooms in over 10 schools, from hydroponics to worm farms. Working with living systems makes connections across the educational spectrum — math, science, writing, problem solving, etc. Teachers interested in utilizing the local garden center for programs can

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e d i u g g n i din Brixx Wood Fired Pizza A short drive from the beach, Brixx Wood Fired Pizza in Mayfaire Town Center is a fun, friendly neighborhood restaurant. Serving the best brick-oven pizzas around, Brixx also offers a fine selection of signature focaccia sandwiches, pastas, fresh salads and desserts. Stop in for a quick lunch, or kick back on the patio with one of 24 beers on tap or 14 wines by the glass. Brixx is also a late-night destination, serving 2-for-1 pizzas and appetizers after 10pm Open until 1am Monday through Saturday and 11pm on Sunday.6801 Main Street, Wilmington, NC 28405. (910) 256-9677. www.brixxpizza.com.

BLUeWaTer 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 award-winning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sunday during the summer months. Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC . (910) 256.8500.

cHriSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coSmic KiTcHen cosmicKitchenonline.com Serving breakfast all day as well as lunch and handmade cheesecake, Chef and Owner Chris Lubben loves to make many of his menu items from scratch. Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the mood for a fluffy 3-egg Omelet, Shrimp & Grits, Prime Rib Sandwich or Andes Mint Cheesecake, Chrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cosmic Kitchen is your â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of this Worldâ&#x20AC;?

Breakfast/Lunch Destination. Evening restaurant rental is available, as well as a Personal Chef service. Chrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cosmic Kitchen is located at 420 Eastwood Rd, Unit 109, on the corner of Racine Dr. and Eastwood Rd. OPEN: Tuesday-Saturday 7am-4pm & 5pm-9pm. Sunday Brunch 9-2. Closed Monday. Take-out calls welcome, 792-6720. Follow us on Twitter @ CosmicKitchen.

c.G. daWGS For great traditional New York style eats with Southern charm look no further than C.G. Dawgs. You will be drawn in by the aroma of fine beef franks served with witty banter and good natured delivery from the cleanest hot dog carts in Wilmington. Sabrett famous hot dogs and Italian sausages are the primary fare offered, with a myriad of condiments for all of your mid-day or late night cravings. You may find them daily at their new location on the boardwalk of Market and Water St. from 11am

to 5pm. Saturdays at the farmers market.

Thursday-Saturday nights they are on Market St. between Front and 2nd St. from 10pm to 3:00am. Then they finish the week off at Fibbers on Sunday nights until 3am. To busy to leave the office? Ask about their lunch time delivery service for downtown!!

FLaT eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Are you ready to eddie? FLAT eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upbeat, modern dining room & bar makes eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the new â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;? place to dine in Wilmington for New American Cuisine. Why FLAT eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s?

Their signature flatbreads!

These flavorful creations start with scratch-made dough, stretched thin and piled high with ingredients like roma tomatoes, succulent shrimp and luxurious cheeses. All sandwiches and burgers are under $8 and their entrees are unique and bold. FLAT eddieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bar serves up $2 and $3 beer and cocktail specials daily. Private dining area available. Large groups welcome. Familystyle meals to go available. FlatEddiesRestaurant.com. 5400 Oleander Drive, Wilmington .

(910) 799.7000.

HeLLS KiTcHen This former Dawsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Creek stage set has been turned into a lively pub in the heart of Downtown Wilmington. Their extensive menu ranges from classics like a thick Angus burger 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 on the big screen, the atmosphere and friendly service will turn you into a regular. Open late 7 days a week, with a pool table, darts, weekly trivia, and live music on the weekends. Offers limited lunchtime delivery during the week and can accommodate large parties. M-Sat 11am until late, opens Sundays at noon. 118 Princess St, (910) 763-4133.

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experience his daily specials in this magnificent setting. Open daily for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner. (910) 256-2231 Wrightsville Beach.

KeFi Kefi, founded in 1981 by a group of friends, has a long-standing tradition as a favorite local watering hole. This Wrightsville-Beach eatery is open at 6am for breakfast, offering everything from omelets and pancakes, to shrimp and grits. Take a break from the beach and visit Kefiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, where their menu features a variety of salads and sandwiches. There is even a â&#x20AC;&#x153;working manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lunch,â&#x20AC;? served Monday through Friday, all for under $6. At night Kefi comes alive by serving dinner with a Southern flare. From the fried pickles appetizer to their the shrimp or oyster Poâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;boy to their nightly dinner specials, there is something that will make your taste buds sing. Then stick around for live music on Friday, Saturday and Sunday; nightly drink specials are offered. Go online at www. kefilive.com for more info and full music schedule. Open 6am-2am, seven days a week, with full ABC permits. Lunch deliveries available in the Wrightsville Beach area. Located at 2012 Eastwood Road, (910) 256-3558.

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Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is home to live music, wine & beer dinners and other special events. Check out their calendar of events at HenrysRestaurant. com for details. 2508 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington, NC. (910) 793.2929.

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Wilmingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Open TuesdaySunday, serving dinner at 5pm. Reservations are appreciated for parties of any size. Located at the corner of Front and Orange in Downtown Wilmington. 138 South Front Street â&#x20AC;˘ (910) 251-0433

Pine VaLLeY marKeT Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best-Of awards in catering, gourmet shop. 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 donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it. Mon.-Fri. 10am-7pm; Sat. 9am-6pm; closed Sunday. 3520 S. College Road, (910) 350-FOOD.

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Mellow out and relax in the comfortable atmosphere that Mellow Mushroom offers.

From the giant psychadelic ‘shroom located in the bar area to the Cadillac hanging on the wall, this restaurant is far from ordinary. The open kitchen brings live entertainment as pizza dough flies in the air. Their hand-tossed, spring-water dough brings new meaning to pizzas and calzones—healthy!! With 20 drafts and an array of microbrews, domestic and import bottles, Mellow Mushroom has an extensive beer list and full bar. Also, check out their lunch specials and variety of sandwiches. Their menu also caters to everyone and offers many vegetarian dishes. Live jazz on Wednesdays. Hours: Mon-Sat, 11am-10pm; Sun., 12pm-9pm. 4311 Oleander Drive, (910) 452-3773.

What better way to celebrate a special occasion or liven up a dinner out than to dine in a place where every meal is an exciting presentation. Knowing that a meal should be more than just great food, Hiro adds a taste of theatre and a amazing atmosphere to everyone’s dinning experience. Also serving sushi, Hiro surprises its guests with a new special roll every week and nightly drink specials to complement it. From 4-7pm enjoy half-priced nigiri and half-priced regular makimono. Nigiri makimono combos are only $7.50, while early-bird specials last from 4-6pm, where diners can choose two: shrimp, chicken or steak. Open Monday thru Thursday 4pm-10pm; Friday and Saturday 4pm-10:30pm; and Sunday 11am10pm. Located at 222 Old Eastwood Road (910) 794-1570. Please visit the Web site at hirojapanesesteakhouse.com.

TROLLY STOP Trolly Stop Hot Dogs are family owned with six locations. Since 1976 they specialize in homemade chili, slaw and sauces. Dogs include Smithfield (beef & pork), Southern Dog, Sabrett (all beef), Northern Dog, Carolina Packers Pork Dog (smoked sausage), Oscar Mayer 98% Fat Free Dogs (turkey) and Light Life Veggie Dog (soy). Locations are: 126 N. Front Street Open six days including Thurs., Fri., and Sat. night from 10pm-3am; 3432999, 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach 11-5pm 7days a week, 6pm-9pm Sun-Wed, and 6pm-3am Th-Sat. 256-1421; 4502 Fountain Dr., 452-3952. Open at 11am on Sat.; South Howe St. in Southport, 457-7017; 103A Cape Fear Blvd in Carolina Beach, 4585778. Catering cart available all year from $300. (910) 297-8416.

aSian DOUbLE HaPPinESS Double Happiness offers the Port City fine Asian dining at reasonable prices. Now under new management, the restaurant will serve flavorful dishes, prepared by the cultural richness of authentic China. Serving items like traditional dim sum and gourmet home-style cooking, Double Happiness is still dedicated to branding the exotic flavors of fresh ingredients and a romantic spice in all of their cooking. Their friendly staff will always go the extra mile to help diners enjoy their experience. Beer and wine is served for lunch and dinner, and Double Happiness is open Monday through Saturday, from 11am to 3pm and 5pm to 10pm; closed Sundays. 4403 Wrighstville Avenue; (910) 313-1088.

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.

inDOCHinE RESTaURanT anD LOUngE 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, or be entertained every Friday night with a Balinese dancer. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229. Indochinewilmington.com.

EURO FUSiOn PRESS 102 Espresso. Panini. Martini.

Rome and Paris meet Manhattan and San Francisco in this new Euro-American eatery and martini bar in the heart of historic downtown Wilmington. Nestled inside the Hotel Tarrymore on the corner of Second and Dock streets, Press 102 offers the finest espresso and French press coffee made exclusively from locally roasted beans and more Panini creations this side of Tuscany.

Boasting more than a hundred different wine labels and an endless variety of freshly pressed fruit and herb inspired martini cocktails foodies also enjoy a sophisticated evening menu that includes shrimp and grits made with red-eye gravy and a perfectly grilled New York strip bathed in a basil caramel and white balsamic reduction. Glass tile and eclectic mirrors make for a cozy bar and

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bistro seating at Press 102 and up to 60 guests can also enjoy outdoor patio seating surrounded by flowers and passersby.

Large parties of up to 120 are welcome in the Veranda Room overlooking Dock Street.

Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner Tuesday through Saturday 7am – close and Sunday brunch from 10am til 2pm. Takeout calls welcome. 399-4438. Press102.com.

FREnCH CaPRiCE biSTRO Wilmington’s finest French cuisine can be found at Caprice Bistro, a small informal neighborhood restaurant, serving hearty food in generous portions at affordable prices. Simple is the atmosphere in the bistro, as plain white plates and tables dressed in white paper make up the decor. However, the food is far from simple, as a combination of fresh ingredients and innovative preparation delight the taste buds with a plethora of unique appetizers, entrées and desserts. The service is fast, efficient and non-intrusive, and the ambience is friendly and unpretentious. After dinner, be sure to venture upstairs into their cozy and relaxing sofa bar for an after-dinner martini, or enjoy your meal there, as a light-fare and full menus are served.

Art is always on display in the sofa bar, so be sure to inquire frequently about their artist show receptions. Voted “Best French Restaurant” three years in a row! 10 Market Street, downtown Wilmington, (910) 815-0810.

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 diverse menu includes Italian favorites such as Mama Romanelli’s Lasagna, Baked Ziti, Rigatoni a la Vodka and, of course, madefrom-scratch pizzas. Its American influences include tasty burgers, the U.S.A. Salad and a 16oz. 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. RomanellisRestaurant.com. 503 Olde Waterford Way, Leland. (910) 383.1885.

giORgiO’S iTaLian RESTaURanT Giorgio’s is a locally owned, one-of-a-kind restaurant. Offering age-old traditions and timeless recipes, perfection is accomplished by combining the perfect cuisine and atmosphere for a dining experience that is not soon forgotten. With over 50 years of cooking experience under one roof, the smells of old-fashioned home cooking float through the air creating that comforting feeling of homeaway-from-home! From old world style dishes to modern day creations, the menu showcases multiple flavors that will tempt the palate of the most discriminating connoisseurs. A Monkey Junction landmark for over 12 years! www. giorgios-restaurant.com. 5226 S College Rd.,Wilmington (910) 790-9954.

SLiCE OF LiFE “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. We have the largest tequila selection in Wilmington. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”

Stop by for lunch dinner, or a late-night treat, open from 11:30am until 3am, seven days a week, 365 days a year, all ABC permits. 122 Market Street between Second and Front, downtown Wilmington. 251-9444. Visit our 2nd location at 1437 Military Cutoff Rd., next to PT’s! (910) 256-2229 www.grabslice.com.

jaMaiCan jaMaiCa’S COMFORT ZOnE Jamaica’s Comfort Zone is Wilmington’s Authentic Caribbean Restaurant conveniently located at 417 S. College Road in University Landing. We offer exquisite Caribbean cuisine to satisfy your taste buds, whether they are for spicy Jamaican jerk chicken, mellow flavors of our curry chicken, curry goat or our ox tail skillfully flavored by our Jamaican chefs. Come in and enjoy our many menu selections, our warm décor, atmosphere, excellent service and our smooth reggae music. Operating hours are: Sunday 3:00pm – 8:00pm; Wednesday – Saturday 11:45am – 9:00pm (Closed Monday and Tuesday). Jamaica’s Comfort Zone is family owned and operated. Check us out at www. jamaicascomfortzone.com or call us (910) 399-2867.

LaTin aMERiCan San jUan CaFE San Juan Cafe offers the finest authentic Latin American cuisine in Wilmington. Our laid-back bar is the perfect spot to relax, watch surfing movies and listen to the music of the islands, while our candle-lit dining room creates a great atmosphere to bring a date for a romantic evening. With dishes from countries such as Puerto Rico, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela to name a few, we have something for everyone! Tues-Sat, 11am-2:30pm and 5pm-10pm; Sun., 11am-4pm brunch. Closed Mondays. 3314 Wrightsville Avenue (910) 790-8661.

ORganiC LOVEY’S MaRkET Lovey’s Market is a true blessing for shoppers looking for natural and organic groceries, or just a great place to meet friends for a quick, delicious, and totally fresh snack.

Whether they are in the mood for a veggie burger, a bean burrito or a chicken Caesar wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte café menu at Lovey’s. The food bar—which has cold salads and hot selections that can be

eaten in the café seating or boxed for takeout—can be enjoyed all day long, while the juice bar offers a wide variety of juices and smoothies made with organic fruits and vegetables.

Specializing in bulk sales of produce, grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices, Lovey‘s also carries grass-fed and free-range meats and poultry. Wheatfree, gluten-free, products are in stock regularly, as are vegan and vegetarian groceries and wholesome pet foods. For anything shoppers want that is not in stock, Lovey‘s will be happy to find it.

Stop by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday, 9am to 7pm; Saturday, 9am to 6pm; and on Sundays, 10am to 6pm. Café hours: Monday-Friday, 11am–6pm; Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm. Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Road; (910) 509-0331. Online at www.loveysmarket.com.

tidal creek co-oP Tidal Creek Deli offers a wide array of exceptional and unusual organic foods, all of which taste as good as they are for you. The salad bar and hot bar incorporate flavors from around the world; each item is prepared by hand using only fresh and local ingredients. The chefs are constantly experimenting to create new and exciting dishes.

Choose from made to order smoothies with almond butter and hemp milk, salads with locally grown greens or, special order a wedding cake made from scratch to your specifications. Whatever your tastes, Tidal Creek Deli is a place to rejuvenate the mind and body while enjoying the company of a friendly and relaxed organic community. Located at 5329 Oleander Drive, (910) 799-2667; www.tidalcreek.coop.

seafood dock street oYster Bar Voted Best Oysters for over 10 years by encore readers, you know what you can find at Dock Street Oyster Bar. But we have a lot more than oysters! Featuring a full menu of seafood, pasta, and chicken dishes from $4.95-$25.95, there’s something for everyone at Dock Street. You’ll have a great time eating in our “Bohemian-Chic” atmosphere, where you’ll feel just as comfortable in flip flops as you would in a business suit. ! Located at 12 Dock St in downtown Wilmington. Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days a week. (910) 762-2827 www.dockstreetoysterbar.net.

east at tHe Blockade rUNNer Hotel The Blockade Runner offers an array of seasonal seafood specials, certified Angus beef, lobster menu on Friday evening plus a spectacular Sunday brunch. Romantic al fresco dining is available on our dinner deck located in the center of a lush garden overlooking the ocean far away from the traffic and noise. We offer live entertainment on Saturday evening and Sunday brunch.

Our lounge is eco-friendly and offers light fare nightly. 275 Waynick Blvd. Wrightsville Beach.

(910) 256-2251.

HieroNYMUs Proving that excellent seafood isn’t just for the eateries at Wrightsville Beach, Hieronymus Seafood is the stop for midtown Wilmington seafood lovers. In business for 27 years strong, Hieronymus has made a name for itself by consistently providing excellent service and the freshest of the fresh in oceanic cuisine. Complete with a full-service bar and a fireside oyster bar, it’s the place to be if you are seeking top-quality attributes in atmosphere, presentation, flavor and ingenuity.

Signature dishes include Oysters Hieronymus and the Scallops Fra Diavlo. Hieronymus has all ABC permits and also provides catering.

Voted “Best Seafood” in 2007. 5035 Market Street; (910) 392-6313.

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

Located in 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 wedding receptions, birthday gatherings, anniversary parties and more. Large groups welcome. Private event space available. Family-style to go menu available. OceanicRestaurant.com. 703 S. Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256.5551

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Hall’s troPicaNa restaUraNt Hall’s is a Wilmington tradition! Originally opened in 1901 as a drug store, Hall’s has been serving the Downtown community for over 100 years. We serve traditional Southern fare, including a classic breakfast with the accompaniments you’ve grown to love. Lunch includes a Southern buffet Monday-Friday with pork, chicken, all the fixin’s, and a special addition every day!

Don’t forget our unique menu, which includes everything from specialty sandwiches to fried seafood. Most importantly, at Hall’s everything is fresh! Open Monday-Friday, 7am-2pm (buffet 112), and Saturday from 7am-12:30pm with breakfast and menu items only. 421 Castle St. (910) 762-2210.

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 award-winning food, sports and fun. Located on College Rd. near UNCW, this lively sports-themed restaurant is home to over 40 HD TVs and the biggest HD projector TVs in Wilmington. 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. Carolina Ale House serves its full menu from 11a – 2a daily.

CarolinaAleHouse.com. 317 South College Road, Wilmington, NC. (910) 791.9393.

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hat makes a house a home? I find myself wondering this almost everyday now that I’m back in Boston, staying with family until my husband returns from overseas. Years ago, I never would have thought about this question. Until the age of 25, Massachusetts is all I ever knew to be home. Then the journey to North Carolina presented itself on my doorstep.

As a military wife, I should get use to the constant shuffle of shelters. Surely home is where the heart is, but what if my heart is 1,000 of miles away? Does this mean I can never be truly at home? This is what I struggle with each day living in my parents guest house. Many other military families struggle with something similar. They wres-

by: Tiffanie Gabrielse Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Continuously Live-In House

by Sarah Messer Penguin $15 Available at Pomegranate Books and Two Sisters Books with 15 percent discount to encore book club readers.

tle with the ghosts of previous residents as they move in and out of government housing, and try to make it their household.

This July Sarah Messer, UNCW professor and poet, will to do more than identify with the aforementioned feelings of struggle and heartache. She will, without a doubt, send encore book club members into another emotionally deep and widening horizon of expression known as, “the memoir.” Above all, Messer will take us home.

It is honest to say that we do not voyage forward with Messer without some debate.Many readers are weary of memoirs because they exaggerate depictions of tortured truths and center around creating gusto rather than earning it. Contributing to these feelings are our own encore readers.

Almost immediately after our summer preview was released, readers wrote in, weary, confused and very skeptical. Why had I selected two memoirs this season? Honestly, despite the controversy that encapsulates the genre of memoir, I feel as Messer feels: They are a very powerful machines.

Memoirs are about in-depth, raw uncensored emotion. Undeniable moments of immense and incontrovertible honesty can be found in nearly every memoir. It’s a very rare trait that needs to be respected and enjoyed as a genre.

More than any other vehicle, memoirs allow the reader an opportunity to travel deeper into the world around us. Through utilizing her New England roots, Messer will share with us the world of her childhood and strive to marry our historic Port City with one of Massachusetts’s oldest pieces of architecture within “The Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England’s Continuously Lived-in House”.

Built by Walter Hatch roughly around 1647, Red House was one of the first houses in the coastal community of Marshfield, Massachu-

setts, 30 miles south of Boston. The will of the house stipulated it was to be passed down through the Hatch family, never to be sold or mortgaged away from children and grandchildren.

But when Messer’s parents purchased the Red House in 1965 from Richard Warren Hatch, the great-great-greatgreat-great grandson of Walter, they gained much more than a colonial home, benevolently preserved. They gained a duel family identity.

Best known to have a poet’s eye for bright and intelligent detail and an ear for the tempo of place and choreography of language, Messer based “Red House” on an award-winning article featured in Yankee Magazine. Within she asked the important question: When does refuge become first a home and then an identity?

Promised to be a story of America from its wild beginnings in colonial New England, “Red House” hopefully will be a deep dive into America’s irresistible enthrallment, with history, family and extraordinary houses. Through Messer’s revealing first-hand account of sudden, often bizarre and enlightening consequences, it provides a chance to witness the power a home can exude as it shapes its inhabitants. Optimistically, “Red House” may also satisfy the secret voyeur within, allowing us a first-hand look at what it’s like to be in a home coated with 300 years of history.

Reviews from “Red House” will be due to on the 25th for publication in encore at the first of August.

Wilmington Restaurant Week returns October 20-27, 2010 Mark your calendar and get ready to enjoy the most delicious week of fall.

www.WilmingtonRestaurantWeek.com

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58 As well 59 Gstaad gear 61 Refine, as metal 63 Bran source 64 Freedom from care 66 E-mail address parts 68 Literary technique 70 Administrator 72 Wheel of Fortune host

74 Daughter of Mohammed 78 Inventor Sperry 80 Overdo the gloating 82 Beyond the __ (inappropriate) 83 Early afternoon 86 “Attack!”

88 Happens to 90 Atty. __ 91 Candidate’s commissioning 93 Sheltered spot 94 Peace goddess 95 Artist Matisse 97 Complete, as the author intended 99 Splendidly stately 101 Cause hostility in 103 “Me too!”

104 Clinical-trial need 107 Designer Mizrahi 108 Pharmacy inventory 110 Gather again 112 Cartoonist Addams 115 Japanese religion 117 Go quickly 119 Month, in Mexico 120 Speaker’s rise in pitch 122 Mediterranean bread 123 What the eight long answers all are 127 Slugging stat 128 A ways away 129 Put under contract 130 Takes the show on the road 131 Ballet pivot 132 Nearly invisible 133 Conned 134 Engage in __ of wills 135 Early hrs.

DOWN 1 Sphere of influence 2 Certain sense 3 Source of children’s stories 4 Elvis’ middle name 5 Mayflower passenger 6 Opp. of 29 Across 7 Canon competitor 8 Join the club 9 Sermon subject 10 Hymn cry 11 Valhalla VIP 12 Like some profits 13 French article 14 Tortellini topping 15 Emollient source 16 Where Carlsbad Caverns is 17 Pitchfork part 18 Pert talk 25 Garfield dog 28 Speechless, perhaps 32 Hearty partner 35 Camaraderie 36 50th-anniversary celebration 37 Marines motto 39 Rumple 41 Grates on 42 Supermodel Campbell 44 West Coast sch.

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Color Me Blue: First place winner of Lower Cape Fear Historical Fiction Contest

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e could not have known. None of us could have imagined the tragedy that was beyond human understanding and belief. On an icy February day in the year 1862, soldiers gathered at the train depot for their departure to join General Lee’s army in Richmond. One lone soldier stood apart from the crowd. Somewhat disheveled, this slightly-built, odd sort of fellow wore an ill-fitting uniform on which was sewn a worn emblem. The patch had to be against regulation, but no one seemed to care anything about it at that moment.

Weighted down by a heavy outdated Revolutionary War musket, the young soldier unsteadily stood at the edge of the loading platform. Staring fixedly into the murky and foreboding waters of the Cape Fear River, his searching gray eyes seemed to rest on something none of us could see. Gasping for breath, he plunged into the frigid depths of the river. As he emerged from the unwelcoming waters, the young soldier held a limp form covered by the formidable purplish-blue cloak, draped over his shaky arms.

An eerie silence spread among our ghostlike faces as the figure of a fragile woman appeared from the folds of a faded frock. *

* * Mamie and I had been best friends since we shared the same slate when schooled alongside the warm hearth in her mama’s crude kitchen. Trudging along cobblestone streets and hiding amidst barrels of tar and pitch, we shared life and love, secrets and stories. Older than myself by a few years, dark-skinned Mamie spoke with authority and conviction. I believed every word she uttered.

As an only child, I became her devoted tagalong. Mamie seemed to enjoy my endless chatter and attention. No one questioned the difference in our skin color. Brown and white seemed to melt together as soft butter on warm toast. Mamie and I were inseparable companions.

When my own mother, Mama Grace, died from “the fever” after my birth, Mamie’s Mama Lou became my caretaker. Mama Lou was what people called a free slave. She cooked for some wealthy white folks nearby who “teached” her to read and write. She lived in a shabby shanty at the back end of our property. Papa let her stay there, and no one asked any questions about it. Folks said that Mama Lou was a “kept” woman. I didn’t know about any keeping ‘cept it seemed like Mama Lou “kept” the fire warm in papa’s heart many a cold, lonely night. I reckon white folks thought Mama Lou “kept” our home and stoked the fire in our wood stove. Quite

by: Carol Worth the contrary. The only fire that Mama Lou ever stoked was the fire of love she kindled in our hearts.

After my Mama Grace’s untimely death, her older spinster sister Martha came to live with us to take care of household matters.

Grim Aunt Martha remained distant and uninvolved when it came to raisin’ a young’un.

The barren old woman did little to make our home warm and welcome. Forlorn and friendless, she found solace in keepin’ the books for Papa’s business at the railroad.

Things were plenty busy at the Wilmington and Weldon depot, with soldiers a comin’ and a goin’ day and night, and military supplies from blockade runners “ridin’ the rails” to supply the Confederate Army. While formidable Aunt Martha kept the books, Mama Lou kept me safe. *

* * So, on that gray bleak day of February, we stood frozen to the ground as we stared at the distorted face of the woman I called “Mama Lou,” who was held in the arms of a shaken young soldier. Town folk say that Papa had to carry me all the way home. I do not recall that, but I do remember the penetrating screams that echoed between the seven hills of Wilmington that sorrowful day. I hear them even now. Screams from a familiar voice, in an unfamiliar way. Shrieking sounds of terror. Screams that curdled our blood and ripped heartstrings apart.

I remember the smell of the paint in the gully between our house and Mama Lou’s shanty in the backyard. A milk-based mixture with a powdery lime substance added. A tint of blue from some “indie” plant along with a hint of resin from the pine trees to make it stick. The blue was splashed along the rickety porch, underneath the floorboards, and around the window trim and door posts.

Haint blue it was; and little was spared.

Haints were haunts, and the color blue kept them away. Aunt Martha said it was a custom carried to our country when Africans came over on slave ships. Smearing haint blue paint was believed by the slaves to protect the entryways to their homes from the evil spirits who lurked around whenever there was an untimely death or an expected birth.

After free-slave Marcus fell from his horse, the woodwork around the windows and doorways of his shanty were spattered with the blue mixture to ward off impending death.

Floorboards in the nursery were smeared haint blue when our black-wash lady Zoe delivered twin boys. The negroes painted what-

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ever the resin would stick on when the sting of death was near or when the stork was due to arrive. I did not see any stork.

When I was little, I wondered if that large imaginary bird had anything to do with blue haint at all, or if the sticky blue substance fell from his pouch as he delivered new babies to protect them from the “haints” looking for a resting place. Mamie said it had to be. Evil spirits didn’t cross water, and that is what the haint blue color represented.

Mamie fervently avowed, “Iffen de wood wuz bare, dem spirits come into dem chillun and takes dem away, if dey wuz not protectid.”

Despite the dab of blue that perpetually covered her porch, Mama Lou was not protected from death. Must have been a “heap o’ haunts” trapped between here and the next world. Haunts that wouldn’t let go of Mama Lou, no matter what. I wondered if haunts got Mama Grace, too. I didn’t know about spirit matters, but I believed Mamie. I believed her soft spoken Mama Lou as well.

The mama whose convictions and love had been buried deep within the warmth of my heart. The same loving mama who had been buried deep within the cold ground that icy week. At the impressionable and young age of 12, I struggled with the reality and finality of death. Slowly, death’s tentacles wrapped about me. I felt as if I would strangle in their icy grip.

Later that night, I felt the grip of death approach when a cold blue hand slithered through my bed sheets to suffocate me.

Awakened, I sat bolt upright and said, “Dear Jeezus” just like Mama Lou did in times of danger. The ominous hand instantly went away. I wondered if Mama Lou had come to take me away with her. But then Mama Lou was no haunt—just a real life person with a real big heart. Everyone knew that about her.

Maybe Papa should have dipped his horsehair brush in that indigo-dyed insect repelling resin and slathered it over our house as well. When I mentioned that to Aunt Martha, she said, “Now never you mind, we ain’t no black folk.” But I wished I had been as darkskinned as they were. I wished I lived with Mamie and could rest cradled in her mama’s soft arms forever.

Doc Anderson said there had to be an “inqueery.” I didn’t know what that meant, except it was real “queer” the way it all happened. I asked Papa, but he was silent. I reckon he was too busy counting the soldiers who were boarding the train for Richmond, including the young man with the tattered badge who had braved the icy waters to retrieve lifeless Mama Lou. The dreadful drowning event was not what men seemed to be concerned

about, but rather the war and the cause of the Confederacy. Even when the black carriage came to take Mama Lou’s body down to the burial grounds along Greenville Sound, I begged Papa to let her rest beside Mama Grace in the graveyard behind the church. But, he did not say anything or do anything at all.

All the while, Aunt Martha had this funny smirk on her wrinkled old face. That puzzled me, cuz she never showed any feelings at all, not when I was around, at least. Once I found a little box hidden under the stairway.

It had a lock of hair inside—blond hair like Mama Grace’s. Aunt Martha turned pasty white in her face when she saw me with that little box. She grabbed it outta my hand and I was afeared that she’d whoop me good.

But she did not. She pushed her rage inside instead. I wondered if Mamie would find a lock of her mama’s hair in a box under her stairway as well.

Well, it all seemed to pass with time. The sounds of screams echoing in the night.

The icy blue hand creeping through the bed sheets and Papa’s long silence. But Aunt Martha did not change at all. The only thing that was constant over the years was her icy stare and cold heart.

I grew to be a young woman with long blond locks, resembling those in the forbidden box. Locked in my heart were songs of solace, the ones that Mama Lou had chanted to me as a child. Mamie found a man and moved out of the shanty behind our house not too long after her mama died. Some say that she has a score of young’uns who scamper and play among barrels of turpentine along the wharves.

Mamie never chose to come back to her home place to visit while Papa was alive. I reckon some of her memories were not as favorable as mine were. Perhaps there are some secrets locked inside of Mamie that are better left unknown.

Shortly before the end of the war between the States, I visited the union hospital located within St. James Episcopal Church. Even though I was barely 16 years old that spring of 1865, I was permitted to write letters for the soldiers and do some light chores. Wounded soldiers were lined up in cots where sturdy wooden pews once were fastened. Most of them were Yankees, whom I suspected were just as lonely and homesick as our own soldiers in hospitals up north. My heart went out to their barren hearts in that deconsecrated sanctuary that seemed so empty in spirit.

My eye caught the stony stare of a slightly built man with a torn uniform. As he handed the uniform to me for mending, I noticed a patch loosely hanging by a single thread. He

motioned to me, speechless. As I sewed the emblem on his faded uniform, Mamie’s screams of fright echoed within the chambers of my heart. I saw the murky water of the Cape Fear River and the folds of a faded blue cloak wrapped around the lifeless body of a loved one.

“Dear Jesus,” I cried. The soldier began to weep. I sensed that he held a secret inside his wounded heart. He motioned for a piece of chalk and slate, one that looked like the one Mamie and I had first shared in Mama Lou’s kitchen a decade ago. He chalked the letter “M.” I stared at the slate as he formed the letter “A,” wondering how he could have known about the bond between Mamie and me. He hesitated for a long moment.

The chalk dust began to fall from the slate, but it was not the letter “M” that he formed with his shaky hand, but an “R,” laboriously followed by the letters “T-HA.” Beside these stark letters, he crudely sketched a tombstone and stick figures of two young girls.

I was speechless. The soldier was speechless. I never figured out if he could talk or if words remained frozen within him. From the hidden recesses of my memory, images emerged to haunt me. An icy blue hand that slipped through my bed sheets. A tight-fisted hand that held blond locks in a hidden box. A gripping hand that could not let go of the past.

A clutching hand that relentlessly squeezed

life out of me. Held captive by the grasp of a bitter old aunt, I’d been snatched from the cradling arms of the black woman who once lovingly nurtured me. A woman whose life had somehow been tragically ended by the violent hand of a vicious villain. Life became death—a death that swallowed me in grief and pain. A death whose tentacles extended outside the blue of haint paint to color me for decades. *

* * We often are colored by our past, but not controlled by it. From the horizon extends an eternal blue that does not speak of impending death. The haints are gone. God’s mercies are new every morning. Aunt Martha passed into an abyss of darkness, the same darkness that marked her cold heartless life.

Papa’s silence was filled with the songs that healed his wounded soul. The remains of haint blue can still be seen on Mama Lou’s dilapidated porch. However, there is a greater spirit that protects and guards me each day.

I am colored with the blue of salvation and eternity. I choose to put aside the “Aunt Marthas” who try to hold me in their death-like grip. I choose new life amidst the darkness that looms around me. I don’t hear the chilling screams anymore. I hear the sweet lullabies of life and love. Instead of murky blue waters that threaten to drown me in sorrow and fear,

I choose to live in streams of living water. I choose to receive God’s hand of mercy. I am touched by His fingerprints of grace.

Chapters of time have marched us past our pain and grief. Although distance has separated Mamie and me, there remains a bond in my heart with her people. What was intended for harm, God used for good. As far as I know, that “inqueery” was never held.

Justice was never rendered to the one who was responsible for such a heinous crime.

Aunt Martha’s sketchy involvement was never questioned. She was never considered to be suspect in the case. None of us ever could have imagined it to be.

White folks did not mingle much with black folks back then, in public places anyway. Each kept to their own business. Circumstances plunged me beyond the social norm. Aunt Martha was colored with prejudice and bitterness. Her personal pain on earth ended. Papa, once tinted with grief, received eternal life and healing. I am colored with grace and forgiveness toward all. Change is a process.

After sounds and sights of war left our seaport town, reconstruction was slow. Despite the Emancipation Proclamation issued

by Lincoln on New Year’s Day in 1862, Negroes remain victims of racial discrimination.

It takes a heap o’ time to heal wounds and to change hearts.

As I cradle my daughter Mamie Louise in a loving embrace, a melody rises in the soft

breeze to lull her to sleep. The song rises straight from my heart, just as Mama Lou’s healing chants once did. The words are beyond her comprehension. She will understand the implications some day. “Color me blue” will ring in her heart just as the melody continually plays from my own. The color of blue will extend beyond painted porches, above the horizon and over the golden waters of the placid Cape Fear River. The message of grace imprinted in the Carolina blue sky is limitless and eternal. The song lives on …

Color me blue, not with the haint Living Water, not resin and paint His Mercies are new every morn No heed to sink in mire and scorn ‘Indie’ blue can color our path To rid us from all fear and wrath Beyond the shutters and boards so blue Underlying arms support me and you Held in the clutch of everlasting arms Sheltered from all peril and harm We rest to hear sweet lullabies Beyond the screams and horror cries No fetters to bind us to the past Freedom tints to color us fast Color me blue with Mercy and Grace Cradled by His Heavenly Embrace.

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where to be, what to do in Wilmington and beyond

Events CLASSY-CHASSIS CAR SHOW The Classy-Chassis Car Show & Country Flea Market will take place Sat., 7/10, 9am-4pm. A dazzling display of vintage cars and trucks; vehicles judged by an independent panel that awards plaques and trophies at 3pm ceremony. Music, food, and an air-conditioned ice cream barn.

Registration: $25/vehicle. Admission free. Poplar Grove Plantation,10200 US Highway 17 N. www. poplargrove.com. (910) 686-9518 ext.26 BATTLESHIP BLAST The 14th Annual Battleship Blast will start with a street fair in downtown Wilmington with food and music. Fireworks will begin at 9:05pm and will be set off over the Cape Fear River. Street parking is free, parking decks $5. www.battleshipnc.com or (910)251-5797.

THE ARTFUL PEANUT Poplar Grove, the oldest peanut plantation in the South, presents The Artful Peanut on 7/31.

Schedule: 9:30am: Opening ceremony starts off with complimentary anniversary cake, peanut butter (what else!), served throughout the day.

Schedule, 9am-5pm: The Peanut Plantation Life—tours of the manor house with costumed guides; the craft studios weaver/spinner,

basketmaker; the tenant house, where they’ll be cooking peanuts and offering samples; in the Agricultural Building for exhibits, videos, modern-day farmer, displays, tools, equipment, etc. Vendors will have baked, fried, buttered, roasted, creamed peanut-licious treats plus lots of other goodies. • New work by Ivey Hayes, NC born and raised artist. Hayes will be in the amnor house, donating a portion of his sales to Poplar Grove • Creative Artists of Hampstead Annual Show and Sale—Accomplished and amateur painters, photographers, sculptors and jewelers are awarded first through third place in their category. Booksignings, silent auctions, and demonstrations throughout the day. Show lasts through Sun., 10am-4pm. • Hammer In: local chapter of Artist Blacksmith Association of North America (ABANA) holds a Hammer In, 9am-5pm in Blacksmith Shop. Talented members take turns demonstrating throughout the day. Different techniques, materials and equipment are used to create gates, tables, decor, and much more.

• Cindy Rhodes plays the delightful sounds of the hammered dulcimer throughout the day. Cindy is a classically trained musician, writing original music for piano and dulcimer.Also an accomplished artist, Cindy is one of the many multi-talented folks that live on Cape Fear. 10200 US Highway 17. www. poplargrove.com. (910) 686-9518

WINE TASTING CRUISE Wrightsville Scenic Tours and The Blockade Runner Beach Resort are presenting a Wine Tasting Cruise. Cruise the Wrightsville Beach waterways, and taste and learn about certain wine selections.

Tour includes wine, cheese, wine education, and a narrated tour of the local area. Admission: $40/passenger or $75/couple. (Blockade Runner Resort guests will receive a discount). Cruises depart from the Blockade Runner Resort dock, located on Wrightsville Beach. 910-200-4002.

FARMERS MARKET Riverfront Farmers’ Market on Sat., 8am-1pm.

Remains open every Saturday (except October 2 Riverfest) through 12/18, 8am-1pm, downtown.

Features local farmers, producers, artists and crafters. Products offered include fresh fruits and berries, vegetables, plants, herbs, flowers, eggs, cheeses, meats, seafood, honey, baked goods, legumes, pickled items, jams and jellies, wine, art, crafts, and more. N. Water St. (between Market & Princess streets). • Pine Valley Market’s Farm Fresh Saturdays: 5/22, and every Sat., from June-August.

A local farmer from Clinton will have a variety of local and regional produce. Castle Hayne farm flowers, too. www.pinevalleymarket.com, 3520 S College Rd. • Poplar Grove Farmers’ Market on Wed., 8am-1pm. Everything is locally grown or made: in-season fruits and vegetables, plants, cut

flowers, eggs, cheese and more! Family Fun Day on 6/16, w/activities from 10am-1pm. Cooking demos with Chef Skip, including a Father’s Day Feast: $30, includes lunch. RSVP: 910-352-5326.

Farm. Mkt. through 12/15, rain or shine. 10200 U.S. 17, Poplar Grove is only a mile from the I-40 bypass.(910) 686-9518ext. 26.• Wrightsville Beach Farmers’ Market, Mondays, 8am-1pm, feat. 15 vendors of local produce, shrimp and seafood, arts and crafts, etc. • Carolina Beach Farmers’ Market open Sat., 8am-1pm, feat. over 40 vendors, 75/25 farmers to arts and craft vendors, selling produce to flowers, jewelry to photography.

CAROLINA BEACH FIREWORKS Pleasure Island Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce this year’s schedule for the Fireworks by the Sea series. Live music at Boardwalk Gazebo at 6:30pm leading up to the fireworks at 9pm.

This year there will be eighteen (18) evenings of fireworks including our fabulous Independence Day show. The complete schedule is listed below so be sure to mark your calendars so you can grab your blankets and chairs and head to Pleasure Island for an evening of fun, every Thurs, unless otherwise noted: 7/1, Sat. 7/3 Independence Day Show, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29, 8/5, 8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, Fri. 9/3 Labor Day Weekend.

Charity/Fund-raisers THE DIRTY MARTINI Start July 4th weekend off right helping a good cause and enter a chance to win a Miami getaway worth $20,000. Thurs. 7/1 at 5pm for the Red, White, & Blue Networking Social as part of Wilmington Young Professionals. Arrive in red, white, & blue attire and enjoy a Patriotic Martini. To support the Honor Flight a non-profit organization that helps WWII veterans see their memorial in DC. Donations taken at the door. Enjoy live music, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, raffle prizes and vendors. www.dirtymartiniwb.com

Theatre/Auditions GUERILLA THEATRE OPEN AUDITIONS Guerilla Theatre will be holding open call auditions for its upcoming production of “Captain Ridiculous” by local playwright Christopher Bowen from 7-10pm on 7/1 at the Community Arts Center (2nd & Orange st. downtown). Auditions will consist of interviews, cold readings from the script and light improvisation. Roles are available for men and women of all ages and ethnicities.

Performances are scheduled for 8/12-15, 19-22 & 26-29. • Guerilla Theatre will be holding open call auditions for its upcoming production of “Angels in America: Milennium Approaches” by Tony Kushner from 7-10pm on 7/7-8 at the Community Arts Center (2nd & Orange st. downtown). Auditions will consist of interviews, cold readings from the script and light improvisation. Roles are available for men and women of all ages and ethnicities.

Performances are scheduled for 9/16-19, 23-26 & 30-10/3. • Guerilla Theatre presents “A Piece of My Heart” by Shirley Lauro at 8pm on 7/15-17, 22-24 & 29-31 and 5pm on 7/18, 25 and 8/1 at the Browncoat Pub and Theatre. “A Piece of My Heart” is perhaps the most enduring theatrical production dealing with the Vietnam War. Written

by Shirley Lauro, it tells the true stories of six courageous women sent to Vietnam. Tickets: $10; $5 for students. www.guerillatheatre.com or 910-341-0001.

OPERA HOUSE SEASON 25th Anniversary Season. The first two shows will be performed at the Scottish Rite Temple,

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1415 South 17th St. The rest of the season will be performed on the Main Stage of Thalian Hall. • The Music Man: Book, Music, and Lyrics by Meredith Wilson. Based on a story by Meredith Wilson and Franklin Lacey. 7/7-11, 716-18 amd 7/23-25.

Fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill has hit River City, Iowa, looking to con the townspeople into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. The bouncy, joyous score is full of showstoppers like “Seventy-Six Trombones”, “Marian the Librarian” and “Pick a Little, Talk a Littl.” • Anything Goes: Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter. Original Book by P. G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Linsay & Russel Crous. New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman. Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, New York, 8/4 -8, 8/13-15 and 8/20-22. Welcome aboard the S.S. American for a gloriously funny screwball comedy where anything goes! The zany passenger list includes disguised gangsters, tap-dancing sailors, high-kicking chorus girls, mismatched lovers, and women who could have slunk straight off the pages of Vogue in the 30s • The Secret Garden: Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman. Music by Lucy Simon.

Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 9/1-5, 10-12 and 17-19. After the death of her parents in India, 11-year-old Mary Lennox is sent to Yorkshire to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald. Still lost in mourning his wife, Lily, after ten years, Archibald has little interest in his new charge. Lonely and bored, Mary sets about discovering the secrets of the house, from the walled and locked garden to the crying that haunts the manor late at night. All performances at 8pm, except for Sun. matinees, 3pm.

THALIAN ASSOC. SEEKS CREATIVE STAFF Thalian Association and their children’s theatre is accepting résumés from directors, music directors, choreographers, stage managers and designers for their 2010-11 season. TA productions: “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” “Around the World in 80 Days” and more; TACT productions: “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Footloose” and more. Tom Briggs: tombriggs@thalian.org.

PORT CITY PUPPET FESTIVAL “Pinocchio” by Lee Bryan, Fri. 7/16, 7pm. Original one-man “tour de farce” combines authentic Italian music, commedia-style mask work, and plenty of audience participation! (50 mins/recommended for all ages) • “How to Grow a Pickle” by Nana Projects & “The Reluctant Dragon” by Stageworks, Sat., 7/17, 3pm. “How To Grow A Pickle” whimsically illustrates the process of creating a pickle from planting the seeds, to pickling and jarring the cucumber. Both entertaining and educational, the performance demonstrates, dramatically and humorously, where our food comes from and the benefits of eating and growing locally. “The Reluctant Dragon” uses Japanese-style puppets to retell the classic 19th century story of a young boy and a sophisticated dragon who refuses to fight. (60 mins/recommended for all ages) • One Frame at a Time: The Stop-Motion Films of Michael Granberry, Sat. 6/17, 7pm. See puppets come alive on film through the process of StopMotion Animation! Former Wilmington resident Michael Granberry returns to the Port City to talk about his work as a stop-motion animator and to show a selection of his short films. A Q&A with the artist immediately follows the performance.

(75 minutes/recommended for adults & ages 13+) adults $12/youth $8 (under 18) box office (910)962-3500 SNEADS FERRY COMMUNITY THEATRE “On Golden Pond,” by Ernest Thompson and directed by Irene King: Fri.-Sun. 7/16-18, 23-25, 8pm; Sun. matinees, 3pm. Community Center: 126 Park Lane. Tickets $12 at door, children under 12 $5. RSVP (910)327-2798. www. sneadsferrycommunitytheatre.com.

ANNIE Brunswick Little Theatre will present the Tony award winning musical “Annie.” Performances will be held at Odell Williamson Auditorium on the campus of Brunswick Community College, 7:30pm on 8/6,7,13,14 and at 3pm on 8/8,15.

For tickets call 1-800-754-1050, ext. 416. $15 for adults, $10 for students 12 and over w/ school ID’s, $10 Brunswick Community College Staff, $6 for children under 12.

Comedy JAY SMOOTH AND PREACHER MAN Jay Smooth and Preacher man, hosted by Timmy Sherrill. Doors open at 9pm, show starts at 10pm.

Tickets: $15 adv., $20 at door, $10 early bird through 7/5. Wilmington Sportsmen’s Club, 1111 Castle St. (910)200-3683.

CREATIVE COMEDY-SUMMER SHORTS Comedy Improv & Sketch for Beginners-One Week Intensive: $68. Learn the basics of improv.

7/25-7/31. Sun.-Sat. 6-9pm CFCC Campus • Just Games-Workshop: $68. Class will cover all different types of improv. games. Previous student or some improv. training preferred. 6/19 and 26 9am-5:30pm UNCWilmington Campus, 7/24 and 31, 9am-5:30pm. www.brooklingreen. com or (910)362-7319.

NUTT ST. COMEDY ROOM Stand-Up is Dead Comedy Tour: Feat. headliners Mack Lindsay and Steven Kendrick, as well as Joe Charles, Andrew Deans and other local comedians at the Nutt Street Comedy room in the basement of The Soapbox Laundro-Lounge.

Show starts at 9pm. Tickets are $8 adv. (etix.com) or $10 at the door. Standupisdead.com. • Every week at Nutt St: Tues. and Wed. Improv with the “Nutt House” troupe ($5 cover and $1 Front St draft beer);Thurs. Open Mic Stand-up; Fri. and Sat.:Nationally Touring Comedians. 255 N. Front St, basement of Soapbox. www.nuttstreet.com.

910-520-5520

Music/Concerts MUSIC ON THE TOWN Mayfaire Music on the Town returns for its 2010 season. Bring coolers (beer/wine is welcome), picnic baskets, chairs, friends and family to start the weekend off right! Chick-Fil-A will be at the concerts every Friday for an easy pick-me-up dinner. Plus, Jumpin Party Rentals will be out with three-moon bounce castles, cotton candy and snow cones for the kids (for a small fee).

Fee parking and dogs are welcome! Schedule: 7/2: Cosmic Groove Lizards (original rock) • 7/9: Phantom Playboys (rockabilly) • 7/16: Live Bait: (acoustic rock) • 7/23: Mako (variety rock) • 7/30: Blind Lemon Pledge (blues, rock) • 8/6: Big Fish (classic, modern rock)

JAZZ AT THE BEAM The Jazz series will take place on the first Saturday of every month. 7/3 will begin the series with El Jay Johnson and special guests. Doors open at 7pm and show starts at 8pm, $10. (910)251-1935 or citybuddha@hotmail.com.

Dance 2010 SUMMER DANCE CLASSES 2010 Summer Dance Classes through 7/30: Preschool - Adult. Schedules now available in front studio lobby & on website.Classes for all ages: Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Discovery Motion, HipHop, Modern, Acrobatics, Pilates, Hippity-Hop, Pointe & Lyrical. New classes added: Acting Workshops, Leaps & Turns, Break Dancing, Musical Theatre, Improv/Standup Comedy, Adult Hip-Hop • 2010 Summer Dance Theme Camps: Theme camps $125/ student camp fees are non-refundable & are not prorated according to attendance. Min. five students per camp required. No experience necessary, no shoes needed, loose comfortable clothing.

Includes dance, games, activities, crafts, movies, story time, snacks, tumbling and free T-shirt.

Camps are designed for children under 12 years of age. • 2010 Summer Dance Theme Camps, 9am-noon, Mon-Fri.: 7/12-16 “Primpin’ Princess Camp” • 7/19-23: “Dancin’ Like a Star.” 799-3223 www.techniquesinmotion.com

Free Line Dance Lessons with Barbara Braak 7:30pm. 5 cover. • Fri.: Salsa Night. Begins with Argentine Tango Lessons, 7:30pm. $5 cover. Salsa Lessons, 9:30pm & DJ Lalo. Open till 2:30am. • Sat.: Beach & Shag DJ, 7:30pm, Salsa, 11pm till close. Carolina Lounge, 910 791-7595.

7/3: Jazz at the beam

the beam Room in Front Street brewery will be hosting a new jazz series the first Saturday of each month.

Starting just in time for July 4th weekend, their first concert gets underway on the 3rd, featuring local jazz guru El Jay Johnson and special guests. Tickets are only $10 and the show starts at 10pm. (910) 2511935 or citybuddha@hotmail.com.

TANGO Friday intro class at the Wilmington Athletic Club, 6:15pm, and the advancing couples class at 11:30am Saturday. • New couples dance at CAM: Sat. 6 sessions: 7/10, 24 and 31, 11am-1:30pm. $90/couple, (CAM members 10% discount). Class size is limited. Instructor: Kent Boseman. www. surfertango.com.

CAROLINA LOUNGE DANCE LESSONS Tues.: Shag Night. Free Shag Lessons with Brad White. Beginner 7:30pm, Intermediate 8pm.

Dancing till 11pm. $5 cover. • Thurs.: Ladies Night.

SUMMER AFRICAN DANCE CLASS The Cumberland Dance Academy is holding African Dance Classes with Shea-Ra Nichi every other Saturday for all ages and levels at 7-8:30pm.

Pre-registration is $110 for all classes or $20 per class. Classes: 7/3, 17; 8/7, 21. 5470 Trade Street, Hope Mills, NC. 910-474-1134.

BELLYDANCE CLASSES Bellydance classes Thursday evenings, 6:307:30pm at the Firehouse Pilates Studio. Marie: 910-620-3566 or divyawaters@yahoo.com DANCESPORT LESSONS Waltz: Tuesdays 7pm, Swing: Tuesdays 8pm, Beginner • Ballroom: Sundays 5pm • Beginner Ballroom Under 30: Thursdaus 6:30pm • Shag: Sundays 4pm or Thursdays 7:30pm • ChaCha: Wednesdays 6:15pm. • Start dates vary.

4-6 weeks.www.BallroomDanceSportNC.com 910 799-2001

106.7 THE PENGUIN CONCERTS Tift Merritt with Dawn Landes on Sat. 7/17 at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater. Tickets: $20 in advance and $25 day of show. Gates oat 5:30pm; show ends 10pm. Purchase tickets at Gravity Records (Kerr Ave.) or Revolution 9 (Cotton Exchange) or online at www.1067thepenguin. com • Eric Lindell, Sat. 7/3 at Kefi. Tickets $10; limited capacity venue on a holiday weekend.

Show starts at 10pm. Purchase tickets at Gravity Records (Kerr Ave.) or Kefi (2012 Eastwood Rd) or online at www.1067thepenguin.com.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH SUMMER CONCERTS Wrightsville Beach Parks and Rec hosts WECT Sounds of Summer Concerts at Wrightsville Beach Park, 321 Causeway Dr. You’re invited to bring your picnics, blankets and lawn chairs to enjoy music in the park Thurs, 6:30-8pm, 7/8 and 8/5 (in the event of inclement weather the concert rescheduled for the following Thurs). (910) 2567925 or www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

KURE BEACH SUMMER CONCERTS On the second and fourth Fri. of July and Aug., The Pleasure Island Chamber of Commerce proudly brings you the 2010 Free Summer Concert Series featuring: 7/9 Wahl Project (Jazz) • 7/23, Katelyn Marks (Country) • 8/13 Jam Sandwich (Classic Rock) • 8/27, Blind Lemon Pledge (Blues/Classic Rock). Concerts take place at the Fort Fisher Air Force Recreation Area in Kure Beach. No ticket rqd. and parking is free. Concerts at 6:30pm.

Chamber: (910) 458-8434.

ANGELA EASTERLING Angela Easterling plays Historic Amuzu Theatre, downtown Southport, NC, 7-9 pm. Angela’s latest CD, “Blacktop Road,” is on the top 40 Americana Music. Tickets: $15, to benefit restoration of the Historic Theatre, 111 Howe St.

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with layers of color and texture contrasted with opaque ribbons of paint. Reed’s lush watercolors reflect her diverse cultural experiences and interests. This is a Fill the Cupboard Art Show - please bring non-perishable food items to help stock local shelters/food banks! Opening with wine tasting on Fri. 7/23 from 5:30–8pm; Exhibit runs through 8/31. FastFrame Gallery at Landfall Center, 1319 Military Cutoff Rd, 910-256-1105 or www.FastframeofWilmington.com.

FIGURING IT OUT Two local artists will present “Figuring It Out,” a show featuring their unique views of the human figure at Caprice Bistro & Sofa Bar, through 7/31. Pastel painter Jan Boland of Southport and oil painter Joanne Geisel of Leland have joined forces and gathered together the best of their figurative pieces for this show 10 Market St. www.JoanneGeisel.com CALL FOR ARTISTS Creative Artists of Hampstead will participate in the 30th anniversary celebration at Poplar Grove 7/31. A gala venture with much foot traffic including the tourist trade. Will be included in all of their publicity; offering limited tent space.

Joan Millette: 270-9610 or jmillette2@charter. net.

WILMINGTON SALSA CLUB Salsa Lessons, 8:30pm, Wed., Garibaldi Night Club, 4418 Market St. • 8pm, Fridays, Sywanyk’s Night Club 222 Henderson Ave., Jacksonville, NC. Dawn: (910) 471-6809 76’ERS SQUARE DANCE CLUB Modern Western Style Square Dance. Club meets Thurs. nights at 7pm at the Senior Center for a new workshop on square dancing. Info: 270-1639 CAROLINA SHAG CLUB DJs play favorite beach music and shag tunes every Sat, 8pm to close. $4/members; $6/guests.

Carolina Shag Club, 103 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Carolina Beach, NC 620-4025 BABS MCDANCE NEW SCHEDULE Basic Shag: Tues. 6-7pm • Night Club Two Step: Tues. 7-8pm • Basic Salsa: Tues. 7-8pm • Progressing Salsa: Tues. 8-9:30pm • Swing & Lindy: Wed. 6-7pm • Cha Cha: Wed. 7-8pm • Mambo: Wed. 8-9:30pm • Waltz: Thursdays 6-7pm • Progressing Shag: Thurs. 7-8pm • Foxtrot: Thurs.

7-8pm • Argentine Tango: Thurs. 8-9:30pm. www. babsmcdance.com.

Art SUMMER ART DRAWING AND PAINTING Instruction by Lois DeWitt. Individual tutoring available, $25/2-hr session. • Paint from a Photo Workshop, Tues. 35pm. Bring your favorite photo or printed image, learn basic painting skills to turn it into your own beautiful painting • Water Color Workshop, Weds. 11am-1pm. Wet and dry brush, expressive brushstroke, light and shadow washes, spray and splash! Learn watercolor basics or refresh your painting skills • Drawing Workshop, Weds. 3-5pm and Sat. 11am-1pm.

Line, shading, composition and how to draw what you see. Learn the basics or refresh your drawing skills • Acrylic Painting Workshop, Sat. 3-5pm. Color mixing, brushwork, gradations, light and shadow. Learn the basics or refresh your painting skills. loislight@bellsouth.net

glass artists Rick & Valerie Beck, from Spruce Pine, NC. Live music by Lisa & Galen. Free and open to public. 910-256-2323 or www.

SpectrumArtAndJewelry.com ART OF WOMEN’S CANCERS Art of Women’s Cancers exhibition and fund-raier at Independence Mall through 7/11, sharing stories of people of all ages and artistic levels who have been affected by a cancer diagnosis of a special woman in their lives. www.womenofhopefightcancer. com or 910-617-0990.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHTS Fourth Friday Gallery Nights 2010, 6-9pm on the fourth Friday of each month: 7/23, 8/27, 9/24, 10/22, 12/26. No admission. All ages. Several downtown galleries, studios and art spaces will open their doors to the public in an after-hours celebration of art and culture. The Art Walk is a self-guided tour featuring exhibitions of various artistic genres including oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, photography, metals, ceramics, mixed media and more. Includes opening receptions, artist discussions, live music, wine, food and other traditional art-activities; www. wilmingtonfourthfridays.com.

NOW: ANIMALS AS COMPANIONS

Bottega Art Gallery, located downtown at 208 N. Front Street, currently showcases animal-inspired art work by a host of artists, such as Jude Eden, Clark Ashley, Kim Dicso, John Clark and more. All art work sold during the exhibition will benefit the Adopt an A.N.G.E.L. foundation, which rescues abandoned animals. Stop in and see the bevy of talent, and know your purchase goes toward an excellent cause!

SPECTRUM ART & JEWELRY Spectrum Art & Jewelry will host their next monthly Open House & Wine Tasting 7/9, 6-8pm. Featured are local metal artist Anne Cunningham and

ECHOES OF COLOR AND LIGHT “Echoes of Color and Light: Art That Speaks Its Mind,” a show feat. the art of two distinctive Wilmington artists, B.F. Reed and Gail Henderson.

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COUNTERTRANSFERENCE Group exhibition “Countertransference” at UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building. Each of the 10 artists involved address social issues ranging from the economic downturn to our interaction with the environment or local communities.

Exhibitionavailable for viewing through 8/6, Mon-Thurs, noon-4pm. Artists: Lauren Frances Adams, Dan Brawley, Anne Brennan, Mei Ling Cann, Jonathan Cobbs, Adam Jacono, Abby Spangel Perry, Dixon Stetler, Jim Tisnado, and Jan-Ru Wan. Curated by Michael Webster. 601 S. College Road, 910-962-3440.

ARTISTS AND TEACHERS 8/29: Artists and Teachers is an exhibition that brings together ceramic work by seven local art teachers. Exhibition organized by Hiroshi Sueyoshi and will be on view at the Clay Studio in the Pancoe Art Education Center at the Cameron Art Museum.

The exhibition consists of ceramic work by Arron Wilcox and Vicky Smith of UNCW, Geoff Calabrese of Cape Fear Community College, Alan Boyd of Laney High School, Joseph Cunliffe of Ashley High School, Hope Hunt of Haggard High School and Sara Scott of New Hanover High School.

Contact Ashley Standera, (910)395-5999 x1005 or astandera@cameronartmuseum.com.

BOTTEGA EVENTS EXHIBIT: “Animals as Companions” Art Exhibit and Fundraiser for Homeless Pets. All proceeds donated to: Adopt an A.N.G.E.L. EVENTS: Acoustic Soup, 4-8pm. A philanthropic afternoon of live music and wine tasting featuring the amazing talents of Tucker Hill, Richard Welsh, Kim Dicso, According to Oscar, Jude Eden, Jim Ashley and John Clark. This monthly event is creatively coupled with wine sampling, raffles, prizes and more. $2 donation appreciated. All proceeds go Art Soup. www. art-soup.org • World Music Mon. and Open Paint and Create (bring art in progress). • Starving Artist Night and Sting and Bitch, 6pm, Tues. • Wed. Weekly Wine Tastings • Call to artists: Looking for pieces for a watercolor exhibit. Anything goes.

Please also submit 5-10 jpeg images by 7/15. 208 N. Front St. 910-763-3737, www.bottegagallery. com. www.myspace.com/bottegagallery.

9TH ANNUAL ART WALK Registration for this year’s 9th Annual ArtWalk, in downtown Wilmington. This year’s event will be on Sat., 9/11, with the event going from 10am-5pm.

We Front St. will close and artists set up down the middle of the street for six blocks. Pedestrians stroll and explore all of the wonderful items on display. 10,000 people throughout the day. $75 level allows you a 20’ x 10’ area to display your work however you wish. “Up & Coming” level is $35 and allows you a 10’ X 10” area space. This area has a retail price restriction of $150 or less.

This area is more intended for artist who are trying to break into a larger event and get their work in front of a large crowd. Also an art parade, theme will be announced soon, will take place. Anyone that has interest in participating (both in a performance

sense or constructing for the parade) or knows any individuals or groups that would have interest: Chris Andrews. artandantiquewalk@hotmail.com or 216-374-8884.

WALLS FINE ART GALLERY Oil Painters of America presents Walls Fine Art Gallery as 2010 Eastern Regional Exhibition Host.

The exhibition will run 10/14-11/13. Oil Painters of America has a membership of over 3200 artists.

With three levels of membership, each attained through a jury process, the organization is focused on the preservation of representational art by providing support and promotion to their members and the art through education, exhibitions, and marketing. Two-day, non-sale, preview, 10am6pm, 10/14, and 10am-3pm on 10/15. Sales begin at the opening, 10/15, 6-10pm. Exhibition will include 90 juried member and signature member paintings, as well as paintings by master signature members. OPA member exhibition submission instructions are available: http:// oilpaintersofamerica.org/about/faq.html. Walls Gallery: (910)343-1703 or www.wallsgallery.com PORT CITY POTTERY & FINE CRAFTS Port City Pottery & Fine Crafts, Cotton Exchange in downtown Wilmington, w/ handmade, one-ofa-kind, 3-D art, crafts and more by jury-selected coastal North Carolina artisans. Open: Mon.-Sat., 10-5:30pm; Sun., 11-4pm. 307 N. Front St./7637111, portcitypottery.com

Museums BATTLESHIP 2nd Saturdays: History, Heritage, Arts & Fun: The fun will place at all 37 museums and Historic Sites around the state on 7/10 (artists on hand depicting maritime themes) and 8/14, including the Battleship NC. Each location for 2nd Saturdays has a theme for the monthly program, which allows a pairing of art form and site. www.ncculture.com for statewide schedule of events. Located at the junction of Highways 17/74/76/421 on the Cape Fear River across from historic downtown Wilmington. Hours: 8am-5pm (Labor Day to Memorial Day Weekend) and 8am-8pm (Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day). Ticket sales stop one hour before closing. www.battleshipnc.com.

OLD BALDY The Pirates Are Coming, 8/6-8, Bald Head Island, NC. The Meka II Pirate Ship will be sailing into the Bald Head Island Marina around 5pm, Friday, August 6. It is expected that pirates from Blackbeard’s Crew will try to prevent the Meka II from docking. Thus begins a weekend of pirates and history, all for the benefit of NC’s oldest lighthouse, Old Baldy. Come for one day or for all three. www.oldbaldy.org or 910-457-7481.

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 interpretations in kitchen-building and courtyard. 3rd and Market St. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Last tour, 3pm. Admission rqd. (910) 762-0570. burgwinwrighthouse.com.

NC AQUARIUM EXHIBIT: Thank the ocean through a breathtaking new exhibit. The Aquarium installed its “Thank You Ocean” exhibit showcasing photography of sting rays, waves, fishermen and such by worldfamous photographers Scott Marshall, Logan Mock-Bunting and DJ Struntz. The exhibit is developed on the spirit of the Thank You Ocean campaign, a nonprofit partnership between the State of California, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and the Ocean Communicators Alliance. Admission: $8 ages 13-61; $7 ages 62 and up; $6 ages 3-12. Free admission for: children under 2; registered groups of N.C. school children, and NC Aquarium Society members. EVENTS: Aquarist Apprentice: 7/3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 2pm. Find out what it is like to be responsible for the aquarium critters. Join staff on a behind-the-scenes tour, learn about our animals and their diets, and assist our staff in the preparation of food and feeding of some of our animals. Limited participants; wear close-toed shoes and be prepared to smell fishy.

Ages 10 and up; ages 14 and under must be

accompanied by an adult. Fee: $25/participant.

Aquarium admission included. • Behind the Scenes Tour, where kids learan about the aqaurium, and gain access to all the behind-the-scene action and how to care for the aquatic life. 7/4, 11, 18 and 25, 1pm; 7/8, 15 and 29, 11:30am. Children under 8 are not permitted. Children between 8 and 14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Fee: $15/ ages 13 and up, $13/ages 8-12. Admission included. • Extended Behind the Scenes: Kids watch feeding time and visit top exhibits, like Cape Fear Shoals, as well as get a bird’s eyte view of the 235, 000 gallon tank, and more! 7/5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 28 and 30, 2pm. Children under 8 are not permitted. Children between 8 and 14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.Fee: $20/ages 13 and up, $18/ages 8-12. Admission included. • Daddy and Me: 7/10, 9am. Dads and children interact and learn together about aquarium animals. Different animal topics will be offered each date. For adults and kids ages 1-2.

Fee: $13/adult and one child ($1/additional child).

Admission included. • Dinner with the Fishes: 7/11, 6pm. Bring your friends and family to enjoy a pizza dinner and tour the aquarium after hours.

In this program you will go on a guided tour of our exhibits and learn all about our animals. For all ages. $20/ ages 3 and up, $5/age 2. • Canoeing the Salt Marsh: 7/3, 10 and 24 , 9am; 7/11 and 25, 2pm. Three-hour exploration of the Zeke’s Island Estuarine Research Reserve by canoe. Activities include crabbing, clamming, seining or birding.

Participants should be able to swim and be capable of sustained physical exertion. Ages 8 and up.

Ages 8-12 must be accompanied by two adults. $25/participant. Admission not included. • Salt Marsh and Crabbing: 7/9, 16 and 30, 8am.

Join us for this hands-on program that introduces participants to the challenge of catching blue crabs. Lessons in crab biology and crabbing equipment prepare participants for an exciting expedition outdoors to catch (and release) crabs. All bait and equipment is provided. Ages 7 and up. Ages 14 and under must be accompanied by an adult. $16/ages 13 and up; $14/ages 7-12. Admission included. • Surf Fishing Workshop: 7/6, 13 and 27, 8am. Three-hour workshop includes one hour of classroom discussion, then surf fishing on the beach nearby. All equipment and bait provided. Rain or shine. Ages 10 and up. $12/participant.

Admission not included. • Summer Day Camps for Kids: Jr. Naturalist: 7/5-9 or 7/12-16, 8:30am-3pm, ages 5-6, 7-9 or 10-12. Campers investigate the animal world as budding young naturalists. By becoming immersed in different habitats campers learn basic observation skills and gain an appreciation of what nature has to offer. $200/non-members for ages 5-12, $180/ages 5-12 for NC Aquarium Society Members. • Sensational Senses: 7/19-23 or 26-30, 8:30am-3pm, ages 5-6, 10-12 or 13-14 (available only 7/19-23). By meeting and observing animals at the aquarium, and in surrounding habitats, campers discover how their senses help animals survive. $200/non-members for ages 5-12, $180/ages 5-12 for NC Aquarium Society Members. $250/nonmembers for ages 13-14, $225/ages 13-14 for NC Aquarium Society Members. Pre-register for all programs! • 910-458-7468; 900 Loggerhead Rd. Kure Beach. www.ncaquariums.com

Open House held first Wed. of mo. Opportunities are available in museum store, working with the historic collection, and as an education docent.

• Hours: 9am-5pm Tues-Sat. and 1-5pm, Sun. Admission is $6 for adults; $5 for students with valid ID and senior citizens; $5 special military rate with valid military ID; $3 for children 3-17; and free for children under 3. Museum members are always free. 814 Market St. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF WILMINGTON Activities vary every day of the week: Messy Mondays and Exploration Stations, Kids Cooking Club and Fetch!, Muddy Buddies and Toddler Time, Gross Saturdays and Gardening Club! Summer fun at the museum, including camps galore through 8/13: Museum Mania Day Camp: 8:30-12:30pm, each day for 15 children ages 4-8 years old! Special camper programs: (No extra cost). Mon., gardening; Tues., language arts; Wed., cardio chaos; Thurs., dance. Members: $20/day, non-members: $25/day.

(910) 254-3534 x 102 or camps@playwilmington. org. Half day-camps also available. 116 Orange St. (910) 243-3534. www.playwilmington.org WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM The 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 Wrightsville Beach. 303 West Salisbury St. www.wbmuseum.com.

HALYBURTON NATURE PROGRAMS:

Halyburton Park hosts a number of events each month, educating the public on Mother Nature’s many wonders. Upcoming on the 7th will be a summer nature series on nighttime bug-eating mammals. Cost is only $3 a person, and it takes place from 8:309:30pm. The month welcomes a slew of other events, too, like Winged Dragons on the 17th and Snake and Turtle Feeding on the 14th. (910) 341-0075.

CAPE FEAR MUSEUM EXHIBITS: Conservation Matters: Explore the art and science of artifact conservation. Discover what it is, who does it, and why it matters to museums. A selection of beautifully conserved furniture and other objects from the Museum’s permanent collection will be on display. • Going To The Movies: Experience the history of a century of movie-going in the Lower Cape Fear region. Explore where people went to the movies.

Discover how the theater experience has changed over the years. Watch some of the first films local residents may have seen. • Cape Fear Treasures: Drink- Glimpse a selection of drinking vessels, as you explore treasures from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. From 18th-century bottles to fancy teapots to modern-day souvenir mugs, discover objects that help tell the stories of liquid consumption through time. EVENTS: Volunteer

WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore railroad history and heritage, especially of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for more than 130 years. Interests and activities for all ages including historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively children’s area, and spectacular scale models.

Housed in an original 1882 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level.

Groups receive special guided tours. Facilities can also be booked for meetings or mixers, accommodating groups of up to 150. Admission only $6 for adults, $5 for seniors/military, $3 for children 2-12, and free under age 2. Located at the north end of downtown at 505 Nutt St. 910763-2634 or www.wrrm.org.

LATIMER HOUSE Victorian Italiante-style home built in 1852, the restored home feat. period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am. 126 S. Third St. Adults $8, children $4.

762-0492. www.latimerhouse.org CAPE FEAR SERPENTARIUM Cool down in front of “Anaconda Splash” exhibit in the indoor tropical jungle. See, photograph and even touch rare animals assembled from all over the planet in beautiful simulations of their natural environments. Meet colorful jungle birds, crocodiles, king cobras, black mambas and many more. Open from 11am-5pm, Sat. from 11am-6pm. 20 Orange Street at Front Street on historic downtown riverwalk. (910) 762-1669 or 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, it focuses on history and the design arts and offers tours, changing exhibitions and an informative look at historic preservation in action. www.bellamymansion.org. 503 Market Street.

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CAMERON ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS: NC Collects: The Real McCoy. Through 9/12 is the first in a series of exhibitions feat. private collections of NC collectors.The exhibition will feature cookie jars, vases and decanters ranging from the 1930’s to the 1970’s and will include rare, one-of-a-kind examples of McCoy pottery.

EVENTS: Music w/arranger, pianist, and vocalist Grenoldo Frazier, Thurs., 7/1, 7-8pm. Program admission: CAM Members: $5, non-members: $8. • Tai Chi, every Wed., noon, $5 members, $8 non-members per class • Hand and Wheel Pottery Techniques: Mon/Wed, through 7/21, 9am-noon, $250. Evening classes: Tues./Thurs.: Through 7/22, 5:30-8:30pm, $250. Hiroshi Sueyoshi teaches handbuilding, wheel throwing, glazing and finishing techniques. Class size is limited. Open to all skill levels, ages 16+.• Corner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd. Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat/Sun: 11am-5pm.Museum members free, $8 non-members, $5 students with valid student ID card, $3 Children age 2-12. www.cameronartmuseum.com or 910395-5999.

Sports/Recreation COME SAIL WITH WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH Come sail with Wrightsville Beach Scenic Tours at The Shamrock, 275 Waynick Rd. Wrightsville Beach, 28408: Fishing Tours $25 (includes bait, tackle and license) (Mon-Sat 9-11am) • Masonboro Island Nature Excursion/Shelling Tour $35 (Mon-Sat 9-11am) • Harbor/Hammock Island Scenic Tour $25adult/$10child (Mon-Sat Noon & 2pm) • Sunset Cruise $25 (Mon-Sat 6-7:30pm) • Pirate Tours on Money Island $30adult/$20child (Thur 3:30-5pm)• Narrated Birding Expedition $35 (departure by low tide). 910-200-4002 HALYBURTON NATURE PROGRAMS Free, pre-reg rqd. 4099 S. 17th Street 910-3410075 or www.halyburtonpark.com. • Summer Nature Series, 6:30-7:30pm. Learn about nighttime, bug-eating mammals on 7/7 at 8:30-9:30pm for $3/participant. • Winged Dragons (ages 6-10), 7/17, 1:30-3pm. Insects have received the reputation of being icky, bitey, stingy and down right creepy.

One insect is quite the opposite. They are the coral reefs of the insect world; dragonflies. Discover the amazing world of these wonderful creatures by observing them in the great outdoors. Later, we will engage ourselves in a dragonfly craft. $3/participant • Snake and Turtle Feeding: 7/14, 8/25. 4-4:30pm. Enjoy a brief presentation about the live animals on display in the Events Center and then watch them feed. At least one snake and a turtle will be fed during the demonstration. Age: 3 and up. $1/participant. • NC Birding Trail Hikes links birders with great birding sites across the state and the local communities in which they are found.

NC has an incredible diversity of habitats which provide food and shelter for more than 440 bird species throughout the year, making it a premiere destination for birders and nature-lovers. Ea. mo. we will explore a different site along the Coastal Plain Trail in Southeastern NC. Ea. hike will be approximately 2 mi. Transportation from Halyburton Park is included. $10/participant: Masons Inletfree, Fri, 7/16, 8am-12pm • Nature Programs For Preschoolers, 2-5: Discover nature through stories, songs, hands-on activities, hikes and crafts. Space is limited $3/participant. Schedule: All About Bluebirds, 7/6-7, 10-11am; Leaf Litter Critters, 7/19-20, 10-11am; Happy Hoppers, 8/2-3, 10-11am; Animal Tracks, 8/23-24. 10-11am. (910) 341-0075.

PADDLING CLUB Visiting a different location ea. month. Pre-reg. rqd, 12 and up (persons under 18 must be with parent/guardian). Per trip: $20 using our canoes/ $10 using your own. Waccamaw River (Pirway Section), Mon. 7/26, 8 am-2pm . Meet at Halyburton Park: 4099 S. 17th St. 341-0836 WATER AEROBICS Arthritis Foundation Aquatics Program for adults/seniors: Free water aerobics classes on Tues/Thurs. Through 8/19, 9-10am in the Robert Strange Pool at 410 S. 10th St. Pre-reg required.

(910)341-7253.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH REC CLASSES Wrightsville Beach Shag Lessons, beginner and intermediate on Sun. in the Fran Russ Rec Center at Wrightsville Beach Park. No partner needed. • Bridge Workshops, Thurs, 10am-12:30pm. Open to anyone with basic bridge knowledge and play experience. Meets in the Fran Russ Recreation Center. Pre-reg rqd. • Tennis Lessons. All ages; classes meet Mon/Wed at Tennis Courts at Wrightsville Beach Park • Yoga Tue/Wed at 6:30pm. Classes meet in the Fran Russ Rec Center • Pilates. Mon/Wed/Fri, 10:15-11:15am. Beginner Pilates on Tues/Thurs. 7:30-8:15am. • Low Impact Aerobics. Mon/Wed/Fri. 8-9am and 9-10am.

• Tone & Stretch. Tues/Thurs. 8:30-9:15 am. • Boot Camp Tues/Thurs. 6-7am. • Ladies’ Single Tennis Ladder and Men’s Single Tennis Ladder: through 9/3. Wrightsville Beach residents $20 / Non-residents $25. (910) 256-7925.

Film FREE MOVIES AT THE LAKE Every Sunday night in the summer, the Carolina Beach Lake Park comes alive with activity as families from all areas bring their lawn chairs and blankets and spend an evening together under the stars watching some of the best hit movies around: 6/27 Transformers • 7/4 “Twilight–New Moon” • 7/11 “Blind Side” • 7/18 “Fame” • 7/25 “Where the Wild Things Are.” Each week, the Chamber also be hosts a food drive benefiting a local charity. Free and open to the public. Popcorn, candy, soft drinks, cotton candy and other popular concessions are available at reasonable prices.

HUMANISTS AND FREETHINKERS Sun. 7/11, 5pm; In the spirit of summer silliness, our regular July group event will be a viewing of the movie “The Invention of Lying”, a funny story starring British comedian Ricky Gervaise. We will be providing appropriate movie snacks such as hot dogs and popcorn to eat while watching the film, to be followed by an ice cream social (make you own sundaes) in Dobkin hall. Soft drinks provided, BYOB allowed. Please be aware that this movie has adult themes and use your discretion when planning to bring the kids; Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 4313 Lake Ave. Dobkin Hall. RSVPhttp://humanism.meetup.com/182 CINEMATIQUE Greenberg, 7/12-14, is 40, works as a carpenter, and vents his anger in potent complaint letters about minor problems. He was once in a band and once had a breakdown. Now he agrees to return to Los Angeles, the town he left 15 years ago, and house sit for his more successful brother.

He is uncomfortable and unsettled and it is clear that he has not moved into real adulthood. 107 minutes. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach and with Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Rated R. JULY SUBVERSIVE FILMS Showing at the Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St., 8pm, free admission. July 4: “George Carlin: You Are All Diseased” • July 11: “Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin’” • July 18: “Bill Hicks: Sane Man” • July 25: “Dave Chappelle: For What It’s Worth”

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