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Cucalorus Kickoff Party pgs. 16- Creepy-crawly insects will take over our city on november 11th! Cucalorus Film Festival returns with a theme so gnatty, it’ll have us all thinking twice about our fellow cockroaches and preying mantises! All of the film blocks of the 16th annual festival will be named after bugs, including nutweevil shorts, featuring music videos from around the globe, which will kick off the festivities at soapbox on the 11th. Also, Bug-a-lorus, an art show inspired by the theme, will shine a light on the prickly, tickly, tingly creatures so many of us love to hate. our feature artist, Melissa smith, whose love for all-things buggy and photography, gave her ‘Thriller’-dancing preying mantis high scores for encore’s cover contest. We interview her on page 18 and feature all other artists on 16-17, each of whom will be a part of the show. Be sure to check out the full Cucalorus schedule on pages 19-21, and start planning your screenings now!

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It’s that time of year—almost! All of Wilmington will begin choosing their favorite stuff about town, from coffee to book stores, Indian food to women’s apparel! In honor of our 2010 Best-Of, we’re holding an art contest for folks to design our Best-Of award. To find out the details, go to www.encorepub.com and click on “Best-Of Art Contest.”

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We fell down the rabbit hole ourselves last week while writing about “Alice in Pirateland.”

We regret misprinting Roald Dahl as the author of “Alice in Wonderland”—yes, we know it’s Lewis Carrol, but we got stuck in Tim Burton’s remake, which led us into conversations about “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and before we knew it, we were far, far gone. Which is why we also overlooked Lily Zukerman as the role of Alice—our sincerest apologies.

“Alice in Pirateland” continues this weekend.

Check out our calendar for the dates.

late-night funnies

“Washington D.C. was under a tornado watch. It was pretty crazy, especially when the White House landed on Christine O’Donnell.”—Jimmy Fallon “It looks like California is on the verge of legalizing marijuana. You thought the haze over L.A. was bad before.”—Jay Leno “Paul the psychic octopus from the World Cup is dead. He was stomped to death at a Rand Paul rally.”—David Letterman “The judges were raving about Bristol Palin on “Dancing With the Stars.” Her mother must have threatened to shoot someone.”— Jimmy Kimmel

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Wanna know what’s in encore for the week each Wednesday it’s published? Listen to Shea Carver on the Penguin 106.7, with Glenn every Wednesday morning at 9:15. They’ll keep you informed first on what’s happening in the Port City—followed by great music, too.

news & views ....... 4-5

4 live local live small: Gwenyfar Rohler goes campaign calamity!

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

artsy smartsy ....... 6-27

6-9 theater: Shea Carver reviews Big Dawg’s latest play, ‘That Championship Season’; and she previews two upcoming openers—Guerilla Theatre’s ‘Writing Letters’ and TechMoja’s ‘Hairspray.’

11 music: Justin Lacy interviews the guys of The Apache Relay, who are playing Soapbox on Saturday.

12-15 soundboard: See what bands and performers are playing in venues all over town.

16-22 cover story: Cucalorus is almost here, and we’re celebrating its kickoff with an art show, Bugs-a-lorus!

24 film: Anghus gives four stars ‘to ‘Jackass 3D’ 26 art: Lauren Hodges goes island at Havana’s, featuring Gary Cleaveland’s new art work.

27 gallery guide: Find out what exhibitions are hanging at local galleries.

grub & guzzle ....... 29-35 29 dining feature: Marco Raye

interviews Chef Kevin DeMarco about his health studio, combining fresh, delicious meals with specified workout regimens.

31 wine wonderland: Marco Raye gets the scoop on the latest wine news, including a veteran retail shop’s move and a new wine bar downtown.

33-35 dining guide: Need a few suggestions on where to eat? Flip through encore’s dining guide!

extra! extra! ......... 36-47 36 book feature: Tiffanie Gabrielse

previews local author Ellen Hunter about her ninth installment in the Magnolia Mystery series.

38 eco life: Claire LaSure goes grassroots this week with Soil to Soul.

39 fact or fiction: Claude Limoges delves into the next chapter of ‘An Involuntary Intimate.’

41 crossword: Let Stan Newman test your mind with our weekly crossword!

40-47 calendar/’toons/ horoscopes/corkboard: Find out where to go and what to do about town with encore’s calendar; check out Tom Tomorrow and encore’s annual ‘toons winner, Jay Schiller; read your horoscope and the latest saucy corkboard ads.

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Live Local. Live Small: Campaign calamity

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ade in the USA� is a disappearing label these days. In the last two months the practice of giving tax breaks to companies that “outsource� American Jobs (i.e., eliminate jobs here and create jobs at a fraction of the cost overseas) has become a hot topic for Congress and the president.

In late September the Senate defeated a motion titled, “To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to create American jobs and to prevent the off-shoring of such jobs overseas.� In summary it sought to eliminate tax breaks for outsourcing American jobs. North Carolina’s Kay Hagan voted for it and Richard Burr voted against it. I guess we know which senator wants to protect manufacturing in our state. Though, it is not just manufacturing that is vulnerable to

by: Gwenyfar Rohler job loss in the U.S. Customer service is handled by many corporations with overseas call centers. In fact, it’s hard to recall talking to someone in my own time zone when reflecting upon the calls I’ve made to the credit card company.

In effect, we are not only giving tax incentives to companies to spend money overseas, we are essentially funding it. Can this even be up for discussion? This is a topic to reach across party lines, from Lou Dobbs’ “Exporting America� list of companies sending jobs overseas to Dick Durbin (a sponsor of the bill). Dobbs’ list of companies outsourcing jobs to foreign climes is an interesting and surprising read. Even

Stop Titan

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The public is invited to this FREE event to: • Learn about what’s new with the proposed Titan project • Share the unveiling of the Stop Titan Action Network’s new campaign to defeat the proposed Titan cement plant. • Screen the PBS documentary Two Square Miles about the people of Hudson, NY and their victorious defeat over a cement factory. “.a riveting portrait of a town in turmoil, divided by class and political differences.â€? —Peter Biskind, journalist and author A Q&A session with the STAN members and producers of the Two Square Mile film will follow the viewing.

The public is also invited to a casual reception following the film and Q/A session. FREE refreshments and light h’orderves will be provided at the reception.

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more fascinating is the AFL-CIO’s new toy: the Job Tracker (www.workingamerica. org/job tracker). When visitors click on the page and type in a zip code, it brings up the companies that have sent jobs overseas in that area. It also shows companies with massive layoffs.

It is really interesting that when searching for information about the bill—the vote, the speeches for and against it, and the reactions to it—that the first page of Google brings up two news sources from India (“The Indian Express,� “The Hindu�). Obviously, some of this is part of the publicity prior to President Obama’s arrival in India next week; however, the headline “Obama Threatens to End Tax Breaks for Outsourcing� (from “The Indian Express�) indicates the Indian economy is following this discussion with some interest. They should be interested; “The Indian Express� reports the outsourcing industry in India in excess of $11 billion and estimates that by 2012 it will be nearing $50 billion and directly employing about two million people.

Speaking of the media, I have been spending a lot of time at the hospital lately and have become familiar with the television-dependent culture there. All the patient rooms and lobbies have TVs on constantly, and when the Cameron Clinic

opened, one of the features they sited was the flat screen TVs in the rooms. It seems like every time a nurse walks into a room the TV is turned on. The physicians’ assistant has repeatedly asked our patient if he is watching TV yet, like this is some sort of milestone on the road to recovery.

Anyway, while lurking in the lobbies one cannot help but encounter the various 24hour news channels like CNN, FOX and MSNBC. One of the many ongoing stories is “people voting with their wallets.�

Now, hopefully regular readers of the Live Local column will not be surprised by this revelation of investigative journalism. After all, what is this column about but the daily decisions to “vote with our wallets� by choosing where we spend our money? Our dollars are our votes everyday. Shouldn’t we vote for a stronger local economy by spending it with small business? Should we not vote against sending jobs overseas, and spending money with companies that move their manufacturing and customer service? Just because the election is over, doesn’t mean the voting stops.

Gwenyfar Rohler 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, and all profits go to Full Belly Project (www.fullbellyproject.org).

d r i e w e h t f o s new LEAD STORY Belt-Tightening Greeks: In October, Greece’s largest health insurance provider announced, in a letter to a diabetes foundation, that it would no longer pay for the special footwear that diabetics need for reducing pain but suggested it would pay instead for amputation, which is less expensive. The decision, which the foundation said is not supported by international scientific literature, was published in the prominent Athens newspaper To Vima (The Tribune) and reported by the U.S. news site DailyCaller.com.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit Retail Breakthroughs: A shop in Santa Cruz, Calif., opened in September selling ice cream infused with extract of marijuana.

Customers with “medical marijuana” prescriptions can buy Creme De Canna, Bananabis Foster or Straw-Mari Cheesecake, at $15 a half-pint (with one bite supposedly equal to five puffs of “really good” weed, according to the proprietor). Spotted outside subway stations in Nanjing, China, in October: vending machines selling live Shanghai Hairy Crabs, in plastic containers chilled to 5 degrees C (41 degrees F), for the equivalent of $1.50 to $7, depending on size.

Good News for Frisky Married Muslims: Abdelaziz Aouragh’s recently opened Internet site sells Shariah-compliant aids to promote the “sexual health” of married couples, mostly lubricants, lotions and herbal pills, with lingerie coming soon (but no videos or toys). (All products have been cleared by Saudi religious scholars.) He says he aspires to open actual storefronts soon.

Ms. Khadija Ahmed, attending to customers while dressed in flowing robe and head scarf, is already open for business in Manama, Bahrain, offering, since 2008, lingerie, orgasm-delaying creams and even some sex toys. (“Vibrators” are “against Islam,” she said, because they are intended as replications of a body part, but “vibration rings” are permitted.) Bahrain, obviously, is among the most liberal countries in the Persian Gulf region, but Ahmed is considering expanding to Dubai and Lebanon.

Shareholder James Solakian filed a lawsuit in October against the board of directors of Bible.com, on the ground that the website address a potential “goldmine,” he says was not being properly exploited financially.

Although the company’s business plan was, explicitly, to become “very, very profitable,” it also vowed, according to a Reuters report, to be governed by “Christian business principles.”

Surgery That Can’t Possibly Be True Janis Ollson, 31, of Balmoral, Manitoba, is recovering nicely after being almost completely sawed in half in 2007 by Mayo Clinic

surgeons, who concluded that they could remove her bone cancer no other way. In experimental surgery that had been tried only on cadavers, doctors split her pelvis in half, removed the left half, her left leg and her lower spine (and the tumor) in a 20-hour, 12-specialist procedure. The real trick, though, was the eight-hour, 240-staple reconstruction in which her remaining leg was reconnected to her spine with pins and screws, leaving her in an arrangement doctors likened to a “pogo stick.” A September Winnipeg Free Press story noted that, except for the missing leg, she is enjoying a normal life with her husband and two kids and enjoys snowmobiling.

Kyle Johnson shattered his skull so badly in a high-speed longboard accident in June that ordinary “decompressive craniectomy” (temporarily removing half of the skull to relieve pressure) would be inadequate.

Instead, doctors at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden, Utah, removed both halves, leaving only a thin strip of bone (after placing Johnson in a drug-induced coma) and kept the skull frozen to prevent brittleness. After the swelling subsided, they reattached the skull to his head and woke him up gradually over a week’s time. Johnson admits some memory problems and cognitive dysfunction, most notably his inability to focus on more than one concept at a time even when they are part of the same scene, such as two crayons on a table. Johnson said he probably won’t go back to the longboard but, curiously like Janis Ollson, looks forward to snowmobiling.

Cutting-Edge Science Obese patients with an array of symptoms known as “prediabetes” have seen their insulin sensitivity improved dramatically via “fecal transplants,” i.e., receiving the stool of a thin, healthy person into the bowel, according to researchers led by a University of North Carolina professor. Researchers said the strangers’ implants were significantly more effective than those of a control group, in which a person’s own feces was implanted. (News of the Weird has previously reported on success in treating certain gastrointestinal infections by stool transplants that contain the bacteria Clostridium difficile.)

Two University of Sydney researchers reported recently that the food-acquisition “strategy” of the brainless, single-cell slime mold appeared to resemble one of the strategies familiar to us so-called brain-containing humans, specifically, making a selection only after comparing it to readily available alternatives. Furthermore, Japanese researchers who mapped the slime mold’s search for food found that its nuclei are arranged in a pattern that is seemingly just as logically helpful

in food procurement as the service arrangements are in Tokyo’s acclaimed railway system. (In October, the Japanese researchers were awarded a satirical “Ig Nobel” prize by the Annals of Improbable Research.)

In research results announced in June, a team led by a University of Oklahoma professor, studying Mexican molly fish, discovered that females evaluate potential mates on sight, based on the prominence of the moustache-like growths on males’ upper lips. More controversially, the researchers hypothesized that males further enhance their mating prowess by employing the “moustache” to tickle females’ genitals. (Catfish have similar “whiskers” and perhaps use them for similar purposes, said the researchers.)

Leading Economic Indicators In September, Russia’s finance minister publicly urged citizens to step up their smoking and drinking, in that the government’s new “sin” taxes mean more revenue: “If you smoke a pack of cigarettes,” he said, “that means you are giving more to help solve social problems.” (Alcohol abuse is already said to kill 500,000 Russians a year and to significantly lower life expectancy.)

Executive Brigitte Stevens announced in September that her perpetually underappreciated advocacy institution, Wombat Awareness Organization, had just been pledged $8 million by a single donor. According to Stevens, the $1 million annually she will receive in each of the next eight years is about 13 times the previous annual budget for the Mannum, South Australia, organization. The U.S. donor, who demanded anonymity, became interested in 2008 when, on an onsite visit, he was enthralled with “southern hairy-nosed” wombats.

Read News of the Weird daily at www.WeirdUniverse.net. Send your Weird News to WeirdNews@earthlink.net or P.O. Box 18737, Tampa Florida, 33679.

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Modern Day Relationships: ‘Writing Letters’ touts love in a new old-fashioned way

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ometimes as we look at the world around us, we can’t imagine our lives without the instant connectivity that our technological tools and gadgets allow today. When we needed to do research 20 years ago, we went to the library. When we needed Mom’s famous bread recipe, we were in the kitchen cooking with her and writing it down in shorthand. When we needed to write love letters, they were not sent via text messaging.

John Grudzien, local writer and playwright, presents his latest production, “Writing Letters,” which tackles romance, old-fashioned correspondence, and a hefty dose of deception and humor. Opening at Brown Coat Pub and Theatre on Thursday, November 11th, the show centers around the “what-if” of moving to a new city. Out of loneliness, the protagonist answers the previous tenant’s mail to engage in human interaction and

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With a full-time career in corporate business, Grudzien’s penmanship has let his artistic, creative soul loose, leading to productions staged in Atlanta, New York and Indiana. After successfully showcasing his last production, “Namaste Indiana,” in Wilmington last spring, Grudzien’s weaponry of words return to the stage with Stephen Raeburn at the directing helm.

“Stephen has worked on Thalian Hall productions and has a degree in film and theatre,” Grudzien notes. “He has reached into my work, and is employing his vision into the blocking of scenes, set design, and development of the characters and their motivations.”

The play stars a wonderful cast, according to Grudzien, including Jeremy Fleming as Josh, Daniel Joseph Gonzalez as Malcolm, Heather Dodd as Audrey, Sarah E.

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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: (clockwise from top) Jeremy Fleming, Daniel Joseph Gonzalez, Heather Dodd and Sarah E. Chambers star in Brown Coat’s latest production, ‘Writing Letters.’ Photo courtesy of Stephen Raeburn.

Chambers as Kate and Randall Lucas as George. Grudzien has worked toward creating a unique voice and style for each, detailing characteristics and idiosyncrasies that weave together a larger story and plot.

“Deep down Josh, the main character, is a decent guy, but the act of meeting Kate by answering the previous tenant’s mail puts him into a situation of betrayal of Kate’s trust,” Grudzien explains. “Malcolm, Josh’s gay neighbor, is the compass for the story, reminding Josh of the territory he is entering by answering the letters meant for someone else and deceiving Kate. The other two characters in the play, Audrey and George, have their own take and reflection on the Kate/ Josh situation, as well as their own views on ‘modern relationships.’”

Which leads us back to the 21st century, when relationships on all levels—plutonic, romantic, professional—are consistently challenged by the fast pace of communication.

Sometimes emotionless, other times full of unintended fervor, the fact remains that no matter the avenue in which we express ourselves, love doesn’t break from traditional

building blocks, a la trust. “The characters have a monologue of sorts before the play starts about what it was like then, [in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the play’s timeline,] and what the present cyber-world is,” Grudzien notes. “Obviously, you were unable to Google someone’s bio, or send an e-mail, tweet or text at three in the morning. I think that part is fascinating; in such a relatively short time, we have gone from writing letters and waiting for the mail [to instantaneous answers via] text, news, gossip, stock quotes. Someone remarked that they can’t imagine that world anymore, and it’s less than 20 years ago. Because technology and its use is still evolving, it makes an interesting subject.”

Regardless of how sentiments are rendered, the heart of the play maintains a romantic comedy, something transcendent across all decades, as Malcom so perfectly expresses: “Romantic comedy—romance and comedy—isn’t it the same thing?” In essence, yes. But layers reveal themselves to audiences in various ways in “Writing Letters,” something Grudzien finds fascinating.

“What paths people take or what actions they do in the name of love or for love is an old but true thing,” he notes. “I think even a contemporary audience likes to see these kinds of stories now and again. It is really interesting the various takes, levels or messages people see in the work. I find that really rewarding.”

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Success in Teamwork: Lou Criscuolo successfully directs a cast of brilliant actors in ‘That Championship Season’

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here are teams and there is opposition. The idea: Work with the team, and exploit the weakness of the opposition. It’s all part of the game, playing within the rules to sweet victory. This is the root of Jason Miller’s 1972 Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner, “That Championship Season,” now running at Cape Fear Playhouse. The beauty of simplifying life into teams comes with strengthening the whole; the reality comes in the humanity of individuals, each of whom have faults and the ability to think for themselves.

The team mentality must get challenged at some point.

Miller’s play is set in 1972 small-town America, outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a place where Christian beliefs share as much passion as the rejection of diversity, and city or government progression.

Bigotry against most everyone runs deep here, from Jews and blacks, to Arabs and Commis, or anyone, really, who isn’t like most of its white citizenry. Though I’d love to say it’s a “dated” scenario, such a statement’s only preposterous—that

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That Championship Season

HHHHH Big Dawg Productions Cape Fear Playhouse Nov. 4th -7th, & 11th -14th, 8 p.m. or Sun. matinees, 3 p.m.

Tickets: $15 - $18 www.bigdawgproductions.org small-town attitude still exists. Many times it’s part of a place where people refer to high school as their “glory days.” Still holding on to wins for homecoming king and queen or a sporting championship, these earlier-life moments define everything thereafter. Such is the case of four basketball players and their coach, all of whom are still riding high from their 1952 state championship basketball game. Each year they return to reminisce and reconnect, to build their “team” through life’s highs and lows.

Directed by Lou Criscuolo (artistic director for Opera House Theatre Company) for Big Dawg Productions, “That Championship Season” truly shines from excellent casting and exceptional acting, especially because of Joe Gallison—best known for his many film and TV roles, including Dr. Neil Curtis on “Days of Our Lives” from 1974-’91. Gallison’s boisterous, commanding presence as Coach makes it clear he’s the puppeteer controlling the strings. He embodies everything one would imagine of a sporting mentor, from his balls-to-the-wall fix-alls to his contempt for feebleness. He’s the center of “logic” and “inspiration” for these fortysomething men, but there’s an underlying conundrum to his inspiration. Where he was once the center of praise from the town, “bringing it back from defeat,” 20 years later he seems more of a pathetic has-been on the verge of dying. Still, Gallison gives Coach moxie and dominating strength, reaming the “team” on loyalty when they begin to fall apart. While he preaches for them to “endure the pain” and forgive one another, it’s only counterintuitive when considering his agenda: to have a captive audience who will still respect and listen to him.

Dan Morris as George comes with bumbling action—or inaction, as the case may be. As the subpar mayor of the town, who

STAGE PRESENCE: (left to right) Mike O’Neill, Joe Gallison, Lee Lowrimore and Dan Morris have perfect energy onstage in Big Dawg’s “That Championship Season.” Photo by Shea Carver.

only won 32 more votes than his drunken opponent, George faces re-election and campaign financial insecurity. His home life, too, seems to be falling apart, and his health is something to be desired. What Morris brings to George is a good-natured sense of sympathy—a man wanting to do right but struggling from emotional turmoil of many wrongdoings. Morris, always composed and absorbed by every acting role he envelops, continues in the same fashion in “That Championship Season.”

Expectant to be unsatisfied and rightly furious during a few life-changing scenarios, in the end, he remains stoic.

Lee Lowrimore makes James a “nurturer.” He takes care of George’s every need as a campaign manager, he cares for his alcoholic brother, he looks after his dying father, and his resentment for it all guides his life. Lowrimore plays a petulant, nagging, tattle-telling whiner with ease. He has deeper issues of overcoming self-pity for living a life of mediocrity. Lowrimore goes deep to pull helpfulness and helplessness out of his character. He owns the most vulnerability onstage.

James’ brother, Tom, played by Mike O’Neill, has the least amount of lines yet

the most impact in revealing disdainful, sardonic apathy. O’Neill makes little impression in Act I, but in Act II, when his alcoholism comes full force, he reveals much of the play’s truth. He’s the only one to challenge Coach’s ethics and intentions. It comes with relief and solitude to see someone stand up to the bigger-thanlife personality.

Another charismatic addition to the cast: Robin Dale Robertson as Phil, the smarmy, well-to-do businessman. From the onset of the play, Robertson makes his wise-guy role clear. He has the most foul of mouths, the most flashy of lifestyles and the most money—something he loves to talk about. Robertson is the guy we love to hate: self-aggrandizing, haughty, immoral. But he’s also one of the best to jab at the others and bring them all to a boiling point of tension.

The real success of the show comes from its team effort, where each man perfectly sparks on all pistons to fuel the others’ emotions. In fact, it runs so high, I commented to my theatre companion upon leaving about the stress in my shoulders: “I can’t imagine how they deflate after each performance—they must be wiped out!” The cast believably emits strenuous depths of affection. It pays off, too, as their teamwork molds a solid foray into mid-life crises, and the betrayals and loyalties that ebb and flow throughout life’s most sacred bonds. In the end, consistent to the plot, the cast proves there’s no “I” in team.

Colorfully Fascinating: TechMoja opens ‘Hairspray’

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evin Lee-y Green’s name has been in the pages of encore many, many times: as someone featured in our “Emerging Talent 2010� edition but mostly for his indelible footprint left on the local theatre scene.

Green continuously acts and dances, choreographs and directs shows all over town. Not long ago, he even created his own production company, TechMoja, which is responsible for bringing 2010’s hit “Jesus Christ Superstar� to the stage just over the summer.

Coming out of a fascinating romp with City Stage’s “Rocky Horror Show,� Green’s not skipping a beat, so to speak, and opening his next hit, the John Waters film classic and Tony-winning stage production of “Hairspray.� Known for its loose-as-a-goose dancing and R&B-shimmying sounds of the 1960s, the play’s underlying themes aren’t without an impressionable political message: Racism blows! “Hairspray� covers the a decade where segregation was the norm, and pop music and R&B moved all listeners, no matter their color.

It was a time when dancing meant everything—only the “with whom� became problematic.

We sat down with Kevin Lee-y Green to find out why he chose “Hairspray� as TechMoja’s latest venture and how the cast is coming along in creating a colorful show.

isdainful, little imwhen his e reveals only one nd intenolitude to ger-than- encore: Why did you decide to do “Hairspray� as part of 2010’s the cast: final productions, and what about smarmy, the show do you think has people onset of gravitate toward it? e-guy role Kevin Lee-y Green: It’s always ouths, the been one of my dreams to do most mon- this show. As soon as I heard the out. Rob- music from the original Broadway e: self-ag- show, I immediately went out and he’s also bought what I though was the and bring movie-musical. It turned out to be the original film starring Ricki w comes Lake and Divine. I absolutely got ach man into that one, but still proceeded to buy the o fuel the movie-musical. Of course, I fell in love with so high, I that one, too. I knew from then on, that as nion upon soon as the rights were released, that this houlders: was one show I couldn’t let pass me by. after each I think the reason why people gravitate toout!� The ward it is because of it’s light-hearted way of pths of af- delivering a heavy message. The themes in teamwork “Hairspray� are a very good example of the ises, and era in which it is set. The 1960s were a time b and flow of segregation and demonstration. The most ds. In the important thing about the musical is it teaches st proves us about loving one another and ourselves, teamwork and most of all acceptance.

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They all are morphing into these characters with so much confidence and understanding of each one. I personally love every character in this show, because I have met someone like each one of these citizens of Baltimore. As far as the audience is concerned, they each have their own favorite choice, but it all boils down to the story. Everyone loves the story. e: How do you think themes in the show apply to our 21st-century living standards?

KLG: As the song “Good morning, Baltimore� says, “I know there’s a place where I belong.� It’s not an uncommon saying. [Racism and prejudices still exist,] even with the election of our first black president. e: How are you choreographing the dancing scenes? Any inspirations you’re pulling from that you can share with us?

KLG: Everyone knows that “Hairpsray� is a show partially about the dancing. My choreography pulls from traditional dances of the period, such as “The Madison,� but as always, I dislike the predictable. So, I’ve taken the given movement of the period and added my own flair to make it eye-pleasing, and easier to relate to for the younger audience members. e: Who’s designing costumes and sets? Can you tell us what’s in store visually?

KLG: Costume Design is being headed up by Johnathan Cope, while the set design is being done by Lance Howell. Progress on both is going great. Visually, costume-wise, you can expect many styles from the 1960s. As far as any more details, you have to come and see the show to find out.

e: Tell me about the cast. How are they morphing into their roles and do you have a favorite character?

KLG: The cast consists of some familiar faces and some fresh new faces. The role of Tracy Turnblad will be played by Sara McBrayer; Link Larkin will be played by Tim Marriott; Seaweed will be played by Zeickia Ledwell;Penny Lou Pingleton will be played by Capers Beddoes; Amber Von Tussel will be played Laura Teachey; Edna Turnblad will be played by Matthew Cope; Motormouth Maybelle willl be played by Dierdre Parker; Velma Von Tussel will be played by Amber Sheets.

e: How will the TechMoja version of “Hairspray� differ from previous performances?

KLG: First and foremost, I have re-vamped the choreography. The actors have been encouraged to make honest choices, and there’s certainly a whole new flavor. e: Fnally, the music: Who’s directing? What makes the music so important to the play, in your opinion? e: Musical direction is being done by Cindy Hospadales, and she is doing a magnificent job. The harmony is tight and the soloists sound incredible! I think the most intriguing thing about this music is that it’s just fun!

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Pedaling Forward: The Apache Relay emits a sound that can move by: Justin Lacy

The Apache Relay Also playing: Sam Quinn and Farewell Drifters Soapbox Laundro Lounge 255 N. Front Street • $10 adv/$12 door Saturday, November 6th, Doors, 8 p.m.; show at 9 p.m.

new direction, refined sound: The Apache Relay steer into the Soapbox this weekend to play their refined, electric sound. Photo by Rachel Williamson

“We met Michael,” Moore says, “and literally two months from then, made our first record. I barely knew Michael Ford at the time, and everything was very new. I hadn’t really made a full-length record before or spent that amount of serious time recording.

Going into it, we were on edge.”

To produce his first album, Ford Jr. sought the help of Doug Williams, known for his work with the Avett Brothers. “Doug is this hilarious guy,” Moore says. “He’s really quiet. He’s definitely a studio rat: he’s a genius as far as an engineer and producer goes. So he sorta lightened the mood a little bit, but at the same time, really brought out the best in us, and pushed us as far as we could go for a band that played together for two months.”

Given the sound of The Apache Relay at the time of recording, working with the man that produced “The Gleam” (2006) and “The Second Gleam” (2009) makes sense.

“1988” is a compilation of Ford Jr.’s songs— his crisp vocals laid over very full folk instrumentation that never strays far from acoustic guitars, mandolin and fiddle. Over the next year though, the group transformed.

“We toured on [“1988”] for a year,” Moore says. “We barely knew each other when we got together and made that record, but through the process of touring, we got together and realized that, as much as we enjoy acoustic music, we really love playing indie rock, and music like Radiohead and Wilco. Once we got to know each other, we were like, ‘Wait a second! You like that, too?

Oh, I like that!’ It kinda grew from there. We started writing as a band and playing more rock-influenced music. That’s when we decided to drop Michael’s name and just be the Apache Relay.”

The folk instrumentation is still there, just more adapted. Moore’s primary instrument has gone from mandolin to the keyboard, acoustic guitars are joined by electric, and

the four-piece now tours with a rhythm section.

“It’s pretty remarkable, looking back and listening to it now, seeing how far our music has come,” he says. “How much it’s progressed sonically now. We still have an absolute reverence for acoustic music, but it’s just become more of a rock band, in a good way.”

Still a very young band, The Apache Relay will assuredly meet more changes as they grow together, pedaling forward down the road to their future. “Honestly, I think we just really want to be on the road,” he says, “because of our mentors and people in the industry we look up to—people like the Avett Brothers, who are certainly experiencing a ton of success now. People outside of North Carolina, who haven’t necessarily heard of them, don’t realize they’ve been working their tails off for the past decade, playing shows to practically no one. We’re really in this band for longevity, and we don’t want it to fade out. We want to invest in it and create a body of work that stands the test of time. We kinda realized that the bands that do that had to work at it. There’s no short cut that they took.”

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here may or may not be too many people on this bike. It appears to have successfully achieved locomotion—the angular momentum has propelled the bike past its moment of inertia into lateral stability. However, the seat-to-passenger ratio is much lower than its designers intended.

The riders of the bike are The Apache Relay, who will be returning to the Soapbox upstairs on Saturday, November 6th. The photo was taken by Rachel Williams, and (from left to right) depicts members Kellen Wenrich, Brett Moore, Mike Harris and Michael Ford Jr. riding a tandem along a Tennessee road.

I’m not sure where I first saw the picture, (probably downstairs in the Soapbox Laundro Lounge), but it immediately stood out to me, long before I knew with which band to equate it. The iconography has preceded its subject, giving them a presence all the way out here on the coast.

“I mean, obviously it’s a quirky and interesting image,” Moore, who plays keyboard, mandolin and guitar in The Apache Relay, says.

“The thing that’s endearing about that picture is that it represents us at this point as four really close friends. There aren’t any egos or anything. We’re really trying to operate as a family. So, riding a two-seater bike with four people really wouldn’t be that unusual in our world.”

Before falling into the world of The Apache Relay, which is based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Moore was raised right here in Wilmington. He was a local until the age of 18, when he left in pursuit of his ambitions.

“I really couldn’t find anyone else who wanted to do what I wanted to do,” Moore says, “or play the music that I was interested in. I wanted to take it on a serious level and really couldn’t find anyone who shared that dream in Wilmington. That’s why I had to leave to accomplish that. Fortunately, when I got to Nashville, it didn’t happen immediately, but through friends of friends, I ended up meeting people who were kind of in the same thing.”

The Apache Relay began as an acoustic instrumental trio, featuring Moore with Wenrich on fiddle and Harris on lead guitar. Soon, they were hired as singer-songwriter Michael Ford Jr.’s backing band and immediately went to work on their first record, “1988,” released in September 2009 under the name Michael Ford Jr. and The Apache Relay.

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Thom CrumpTon â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Surfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill, 5500 Market St.; Digable planes presenTs DooDle bug live â&#x20AC;&#x201D;16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 DJ sCooTer Fresh â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 piano show â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 iamhuman â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 DJ Dane briTT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Beach House Bar â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 DJ p. money â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 DJ â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 DanCe DJ â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 bmw â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street; 399-2866

l shape loT (3-7), sTeve ToDD & sam melvin (8-12) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 roger Davis (brunCh) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395

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DJ CeD â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 galen on guiTar (brunCh) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Courtyard Marriott, 100 Charlotte Ave., Carolina Beach; (800) 321-2211 ron eThriDge â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091 DJbe KaraoKe ugly â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 KaraoKe w/ DJ baTTle â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Fibber McGeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 Jam wiTh benny hill â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Green Light Lounge, 21 N. Front St., Jesse sToCKTon â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street; 399-2866

perry smiTh (brunCh 12-2) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Aubrianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 115 S. Front St.; 763-7773 DJ p. money â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402

moNDAY, November 8 open miC nighT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737

DJ Dane briTT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 breTT Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jam â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 open miC nighT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 open miC w/ sean Thomas gerarD â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091 someDay sTaTiC â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Kefi, 2012 Eastwood Road; 256-3558 open miC w/ beau â&#x20AC;&#x201D;16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 James Jarvis & FrienDs (7pm-8pm) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.;763-1607 DJ Time â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Trebenzioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 DJ riChTermeisTer â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 ron eTheriDge & Travis shallow â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street; 399-2866

tUeSDAY, November 9 benny hill â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Aubrianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 115 S. Front St.; 763-7773 ron Dallas (7pm-10pm) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395 open miC nighT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mellow Mushroom, 4311 Oleander Drive; 452-3773

Johnny aCousTiC â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 open miC nighT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Surfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill, 5500 Market St.; 791-9021 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC KaraoKe w/ DJ Dane briTT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Beach House Bar â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 DJ â&#x20AC;&#x153;mr leeâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 KaraoKe Kong â&#x20AC;&#x201D;16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 Cape Fear blues Jam â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 live aCousTiC â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 DJ eyeCon â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SideBar, 18 S. Front St.; 763-1401 raDio hayes anD eChopoinT21 â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Katyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 KaraoKe wiTh bob ClayTon â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880

James Jarvis & FrienDs (7pm-8pm) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.;763-1607 nuTT house improv â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 rooT soul proJeCT â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street; 399-2866

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Green Light Lounge, 21 N. Front St., Basement; open miC w/ gary allen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 bangarang w/ lorD walrus & sir niCK blanD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 show Tunes w/ Donna merriTT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Costelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 open miC w/ sean gerarD (9pm) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Katyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 DJ p. FunK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Fibber McGeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301

DJ JuiCe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 Dualing pianos & lee hauser â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 KaraoKe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 DJ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; High Tide Lounge, 1800 Carolina Beach Ave., Carolina Bch; 458-0807 open miC nighT â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 ron ronner â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 James Jarvis & FrienDs (7pm-8pm) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.;763-1607 KaraoKe wiTh bob ClayTon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 nuTT house improv â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 oysTerboy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street; 399-2866866 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.

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THiS WEEkEnD on THE WilMingTon Friday, november 5th - 6:00pm The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wilmingtonâ&#x20AC;? welcomes the Cape Fear Singles Group Come join the party! Dinner and dancing on board.

Full ABC permits, $35 includes first drink

Saturday, november 6th- 1:00pm Meet and Greet with Ellen Hunter, author of widely proclaimed murder mysteries based in Wilmington. Come aboard as we set sail for book signing and mingling $15, 1½ hrs.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wilmingtonâ&#x20AC;? runs throughout the year and will continue to offer you our â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Water Adventureâ&#x20AC;? tours of the NE Cape Fear, Cape Fear, and Black River. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss our special â&#x20AC;&#x153;Destination Sunday Brunch Toursâ&#x20AC;? either. Our state of the art Catamaran is designed to keep you in comfort year round. She can be completely enclosed, has a large spacious bathroom, and a full service snack bar. Also available for your Holiday Party!

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Show Stoppers: Concerts around the region LINCOLN THEATRE 126 e. CABArruS St. rAleigH, nC (919) 821-4111

THE ORANGE PEEL 101 Biltmore Avenue ASHeville, nC (828) 225-5851

11/5: Garland Mason Band with Medusa Stone and Run With Bulls 11/6: Wolf Parade with Ogre You Asshole 11/7: Robert Earl Keen’s Texas Uprising with Randy Rogers Band and Reckless Kelly 11/10: Never Shout Never and The Maine with I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business and Carter Hulsey

11/3: Ra Ra Riot, Givers 11/5: Local Metal Showcase featuring MindShapeFist, Broken Mercy and Opus Grey 11/6: Rebelution with Ziol I and Tribal Seeds 11/8: Social Distortion with Lucero and Frank Turner 11/10: The Dandy Warhols with Hopewell

HOUSE OF BLUES 4640 HWy 17 S., myrtle BeACH, SC (843) 272-3000 11/5: Face to Face: A Tribute to Elton John and Billy Joel 11/6: BadFish with Scotty Don’t and Fill Service 11/7: *All About the Veterans* featuring Sick Stooges, Tru Sol and NSCC Gospel Praise

Social Distortion playing at The Orange Peel, Asheville

THE FILLMORE CHARLOTTE 820 HAmilton Street CHArlotte, nC (704) 549-5555

AMOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 SoutH tryon St. CHArlotte, nC (704) 377-6874

11/9: Shinedown

ALABAMA THEATRE 4750 HWy 17 SoutH n. myrtle BeACH, SC (843) 272-1111 11/2 - 1/1/11: Christmas Show

11/4: Four Year Strong with The Wonder Years, American Fang and Mountain Man 11/5: Badfish

It’s that time of year– almost!

11/6: Benefit Concert featuring Preacher Stone, One Big Love, Eastern Sky, Jonas Sees in Color, Damsel Down, Seventh Epic, Echo Code, Falling Through April and Abandoned 11/7: Benefit Concert part II featuring Hephystus, Steel Standing, NIHM, Luna’s Lament, Beyond the Fade, Six Second Silence and ShadowBox 11/10: OverKill KillFest with Forbidden, Evile, Gamma Bomb and Bonded by Blood

BEST OF WILMINGTON 2011 Call for entries

11/6: Man or Astro-Man? with Fiend Without a Face (featuring Brent from Mastadon) and Nightmare Waterfall

GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 WeSt lee St., greenSBoro 336-373-7400 11/5: American’s Got Talent, Live!

11/6: Greensboro Opera presents Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”

11/7: Battle of the Bands Drumline Championship

CAROLINA THEATRE 309 W. morgAn St., DurHAm (919) 560-3030 11/5: Anthea Neri 11/6: Comedian Mike Birbiglia 11/7: Durham Symphony Orchestra

CAT’S CRADLE 300 e. mAin St. CArrBoro, nC (919) 967-9053 11/3: Lizzy Ross, Luego, New Town Drunks, Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores, North Elementary, Pecosa and Puritan Rodeo 11/4: Ra Ra Riot, Givers 11/5: Carbon Leaf with Delta Rae, Ian McFeron and Alisa Milner Catch Shinedown at The Filmore, Charlotte

Soon, all of Wilmington will be casting their ballots for the Best of Wilmington 2011.

Every year we take pride in designing a unique Best-Of Award that will be presented to the winners at our annual party, honoring the best that the Port City has to offer. These awards will be displayed all over town in local businesses, from the best coffee shop to the best book store to TV and radio stations.

Since its inception, the Best-of Award has looked pretty much the same.

For the new decade, we decided to stir things up and devise a campaign for designing a unique award every year.

This year it’s your turn to show off your visual art skills.

The first annual Best-of Wilmington Award Design Contest The contest is open to all photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and

fine artists—students or professionals. We are open to any idea, but your design must prominently incorporate the encore “ ” and be proportional to 5”(h) x 7” (w) for consideration. Also keep in mind there must be room on the bottom of the award for us to insert the Best-Of category and winner.

Digital designs accepted only, and they must be submitted at a resolution of 300 dpi or higher.

Deadline for submission: December 17th, 2010.

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Bug-a-lorus Art Show: Opening November 11th at Cucalorus Kickoff Party

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e called for entries for two months. We wanted to cull a host of inspiration to hang along the Soapbox walls as the Cucalrous Film Festival got underway. And, so, the time is here, and the entries are oh-so bugtastically fun. The winning cover art for this week’s edition, Melissa Smith’s “Thriller”-dancing praying mantis, offers the perfect attitude for the festival’s kickoff party. Live music will play, Neutweevil shorts will feature music videos from around the world, and art will fascinate its onlookers. Here are our top entries for the Bugs-a-lorus 2010 Art Show. Join us at the party on November 11th; tickets are $10 or check out the passes at www.cucalorus.org for entry, too. Meet the artists, filmmakers and musicians, and hang with the coolest vermins in town. Our feature interview with our winning artist and entomologist Melissa Smith can be read on page 18.

“Little Guy the Dragonfly” by: Jennifer ‘Turbo’ Turbeville Photography

“I love capturing the beauty within nature and its many creatures.”

“Paper Wasp” by: Ryan Dilworth Photography

“From my house to their nest, after being chewed, I have brought this paper wasp larger than life to be viewed.”

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“Earthworm” by: Brian Keever Sculpture

“The inspiration comes from observations of a wad of worms as they wiggled on the sidewalk after a rainstorm.”

“Masonboro Beach Strider” by: Nancy Buckingham Photography

“Science and art collide in miraculous ways throughout our region’s natural world.”

“Praying Mantis” by: Robert Dilworth Sculpture

“Try to step on this bug!”

Nymphs and Nymphos by: Kristen Shaughnessy Sculpture made of sculpey, gold/silver leaf, jewelry scraps, a zipper, wire, glue, acrylic paints in a frame.

“The Queen”

by: Grover Photography with manipulation

“Male ants propagate with the Queen.

“Wecanallowsatellites,planets,suns,universe,naywhole Hence, the textured lips (like a honeycomb) systems of universe[s,] to be governed by laws, representthebeautyQueenwiththemaleantsworkingfor butthesmallestinsect,wewishtobecreatedatoncebyspecial her (similiar to life). “ act.”—Charles Darwin encore | november 3-9 , 2010 | www.encorepub.com 17

Bugging Out: Cucalorus Kickoff Party is artsy-smartsy and creepy-crawly

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ucalorus Film Festival founder Dan Brawley admits that many conceptual ideas formulate while hanging out in that infamous green van at Jengo’s Playhouse. Recently, he has been thinking about the future and where the human race is headed. His mind kept wandering back to bugs, which is how he landed on a theme for this year’s festival, kicking off Thursday, November 11th at Soapbox Laundro Lounge.

“Lots of people on our staff thought it was a really bad idea,” he says. “It seems like we should probably get used to eating insects. I mean, there really wouldn’t be any cockroaches left if they became a delicacy.”

The concept broadens as he contemplates our living situations. “Or you would maybe have to pay higher rent if your place was full of big, juicy cockroaches. But, no kidding, we’re probably going to have to start eating those suckers when the planet gets too crowded. And then sometime after that, if we don’t eat them all first, the bugs will be the only animals left, and they’ll continue their plan to dominate the universe.”

While insect-obsession cocoons Cucalorus this year, the idea for an art contest in its honor butterflied, too. Out of a score of submissions, with judging by Brawley, Cucalorus operations manager Courtney Bridgers and encore editor Shea Carver, Melissa Smith’s “Thriller”-dancing praying mantis takes top honors for helping spread the word on the year’s theme.

“The praying mantis has to be the Michael Jackson of the entomological world,” Smith says. “Like MJ and the moonwalk, the praying mantis can do things that other insects cannot, like move their heads almost 360 degrees.” She also points out their controversial lifestyles (the females eat the males after sex) and a certain amount of inexplicable charisma.

“When you see one, you are mesmerized, even if just for a few seconds, even if you can’t really pinpoint why,” she says, easily paralleling the sentiments of the upcoming Cucalorus Film Festival and its many selections of irreverently funny, captivatingly mov-

by: Lauren Hodges

Cucalorus Kickoff Party Bug-a-lorus Art Show, featuring work by local artists, including Melissa Smith Music by The Noseriders, Italian radio artist Stefano Giannotti, and Sandman—”The Rapping Cowboy” from the documentary “Roll Out, Cowboy” Nutweevil Shorts, 9 p.m., featuring music videos from around the globe Thursday, November 11th, 8 p.m.

Tickets: $10 (Pegasorus pass holders don’t need a ticket; other pass holders can use allotted ticket for entry.)

Soapbox, third floor • 255 N. Front Street

jeff, right where i want him BUGGY OVER PHOTOGRAPHY: Melissa Smith sent in three photos of bugs for the Bug-a-lorus Art Show. Her ‘Thriller’ praying mantis (cover) will hang in Soabpox; her other entries also fascinated the panel of judges (above and left).

wings outweigh the ‘do

ing and downright engaging films.

“Really, all a mantis needs is a white sparkly glove,” Smith continues.

The artist’s journey to mantis worship is an interesting one. Smith began a dentistry major before switching to the art department at the University of Georgia. Always a science fanatic, she found her place in the melding classes, which allowed her to combine creativity and metal fusion. The scientist in her stumbled upon a love of photography after taking close-ups of her favorite creatures and objects in nature. Today, she is known in her art circle

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as “the crazy bug chick” for her vast collection of beetles, butterflies and the like.

“I’m not exactly sure when it started,” she admits, “but I do know that drawing insects in college was definitely a catalyst to learn more. When you’re looking at a beetle under a microscope and spending hours and hours examining every last detail of it, you develop a certain degree of admiration and curiosity. I ended up taking an entomology course as an undergrad and eventually, several years and a degree in art history later, found myself in grad school for entomology. It kind of snowballed, but in a good way.”

When asked if she has any favorite insects, she insists that it is like a mother trying to pick her favorite child. What she can tell us is how she mastered the art of mixing science and creation—two obsessions that now make up her career.

“Scientific illustration is the art of communicating science or nature,” she says.

“Sometimes my job means creating something very, very detailed, and sometimes it means making a very complex science idea more understandable by simplifying it through graphic design.”

She insists that it isn’t hard to see the relation between the two upon closer observance: “It’s about the everyday intersection of art and science in general. It’s all about me everyday and I love it.”

The bad rap that insects tend to get both inspires Smith and bums her out.

That is one reason she chooses to display her creatures up close and personal. She wants the public to see them through her fascination rather than with disgust.

“I guess in my perfect, harmonious world, more people would appreciate insects for their aesthetic beauty,” she says. “Functionally, insects are absolutely amazing creatures, but I wish more people would value them as the tiny, stunning works of art that they are. I guess my hypothetical role in that world would be similar to what it has become in the real world: head cheerleader for insects everywhere and the ‘crazy bug chick’ with a ready camera, who will try to explain to anyone willing to listen why insects are so darn awesome.”

Smith and her bugs will be on display at the Bugs-A-Lorus Art Show, which will open in collaboration with the Cucalorus Kick-Off Party Thursday, November 11th.

Tickets are $10 and include the art show, live music and a block of Nutweevil shorts, featuring music videos. For the full schedule of Cucalorus films, check out pages 19-22, or log on to www.cuclaorus.org for details on passes and tickets for screenings.

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Volleyball vs George Mason – 7:00pm (Sponsored by Wilmington International Airport and Coldwell Banker Seacoast Realty) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Swimming & Diving vs George Mason, Towson, Delaware Session 1 – 10:00am • Session 2 – 4:00pm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Men’s Basketball vs Georgia Southwestern (Exhibition)– 4:00pm Adult tickets: $10 • Youth tickets: $5 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Swimming & Diving vs George Mason, Towson, Delaware Session 3 – 10:00am Volleyball vs James Madison – 1:00pm (Sponsored by Wilmington Orthopedic Group)

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Gross-Out Glee:

reel to reel

‘Jackass 3D’ is a visual riot

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’m not the smartest guy in the world (please, take a moment; I realize that statement officially rocked your world), but I always considered my sense of humor to be, well, sophisticated—somewhat dry and acerbic. I enjoy rapier wit.

There was a time when I believed I would prefer an evening of Oscar Wilde to an

by: Anghus

Jackass 3D Starring Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera and Wee Man

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made me throw up in my mouth.

“Jackass” works so well because of a talented cast of ne’er-do-wells. My favorite bits are the ones that get a little ridiculous, like seeing Knoxville dance around a muddy pen to a song about roller skates in the rodeo, while wearing roller skates.

He prances around like a goof for about 30

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evening of guys in shopping carts crashing into the bushes. There were days when I looked down at the schlubs who laughed at garbage like “Two and a Half Men” and chuckled at the comedy stylings of Dane Cook. Yet I’ve learned over time that I am in no position to judge.

“Jackass 3D” is a fantastic evidence of just what a poorly refined sense of humor I have. I laughed at this movie from intro to exit. I laughed as I walked through the lobby. I even laughed a few times in my car on the way home. This is a seriously funny movie.

“Jackass” has never been much for concept. Perhaps that’s why 3D suited the cast so well. It’s been over 10 years since we first saw Johnny Knoxville and his crew of lovable lunatics performing all sorts of sick stunts and twisted sight gags. A hundred years ago, these guys would have been painted up in clown makeup and traveling with Barnum and Bailey. Now, they dance for us in the vivid world of 3D. I’ve been hard on 3D—rightfully so.

It’s a ridiculous marketing gimmick and crammed into so many films that I’ve lost count. Here, it just makes sense. With

BOYS WILL BE BOYS: Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass cast return to the big screen—in 3D!

this technology, even the simplest sight gag becomes a marvel of sight, sound and motion. It felt like I was watching the most irresponsible works of Eadweard Muybridge—like when someone got splashed in the face with water before getting punched. In super slow motion, we can see that brutal point of impact: the ripples in the skin as the shockwave spreads across the face. If there’s beauty in pain, this is it—most importantly, it’s funny.

I didn’t laugh at all of the stunts in “Jackass.” There are a few gross-out moments that I could have lived without. I don’t know anyone who wants to see a bowel movement on camera. It’s apparently the one thing that doesn’t do anything for my funny bone. “Shit gags,” for lack of a better phrase, is apparently where my line is drawn and “Jackass 3D” did a great job of helping me find that line. Playing baseball with a penis as a bat, pulling a tooth with a Lamborghini, peeing on fellow cast members ... none of that fazed me. Watching excrement exiting a pair of ass cheeks in slow motion 24 encore | november 3-9, 2010 | www.encorepub.com

seconds before some bulls are let loose and knock him for a loop. Take a little bit of goofy and pepper it with pugilism, and comedy gold is born.

Not everyone is going to like this. By now, most have probably been exposed to “Jackass” or the general concept of unrelenting brutality as comedy. I doubt there are many people buying a ticket to “Jackass 3D” and not knowing what to expect. It’s “The Three Stooges” without the narrative and the expectation that at some point Moe is going to try to take a shit on Larry. For those 90 minutes, I had no problem with that. I laughed until I could barely breathe.

Like the other “Jackass” movies, it successfully entertains but there is absolutely no need to see it again. I give the guys credit for committing to their craft.

Most of them are are hovering around 40, and they’re still beating themselves silly.

I don’t know how much more Knoxville, Steve-0, Bam Margera, Wee Man and the rest have to offer. “Jackass 3D” would be a nice bookend to the monstrosity they’ve created—the oldest form of comedy and the newest form of technology.

Regal Mayfaire Cinemas 900 Town Center Drive • (910) 256-0556 Call for times • $6.50 - $9.50 Based on the novel “Secretariat: The Making of a Champion” by William Nack, “Secreteriat” chronicles the spectacular journey of the 1973 Triple Crown winner.

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father’s Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge.

Against all odds, Chenery—with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich)—manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and what may be the greatest racehorse of all time.

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A young man from a small fishing village in Cabo Blanco has a seven-month pregnant wife and is having an affair with another man—something that goes against the village’s traditional, religious beliefs.

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Ocean Spray: Gary Cleaveland talks about his massive cresting canvases by: Lauren Hodges

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ocal spray-paint artist Gary Cleaveland admits that he has absolutely no background in art. He says his creative training mostly consists of his childhood in a punkrock part of town where he claims “everything was covered in spray paint at some point.”

Yet, he says that he was always entranced with the surf and always found himself drawing its form in notebooks, napkins and any paper he could find. Eventually, fate came calling in the form of a flier he designed, for his band with one of his trusty spray paint cans. He quickly moved onto bigger fare, creating waves that stretched over his head in paint mists of blue, white and purple. From there he developed a small enterprise called ‘Red Flag Surf Studio” and began showing his large-scale paintings all over town. His new collection is on display at Havana’s in Carolina Beach.

CATCHING THE PERFECT WAVE: Gary Cleaveland’s enormous waves are 100 perscent spray (paint, that is). Photo courtesy of the artist.

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encore: How long have you been doing this?

Gary Cleaveland: I just started painting last year, actually. I fell into art pretty much by accident. It all started with my love of music. I play drums in a band called 458 and while we were getting ready to promote a show one day, I had this idea to make a poster to pass around town. I made it with just a piece of string and a can of spray paint. I realized right then, ”Holy cow! This might be rad!”

e: What else do you use to create these waves?

GC: It’s all spray paint. That’s all I use. It’s cool because when people see my paintings, they know who it is, and I really like that. I don’t think anyone else does this kind of thing with all spray paint. The response has been good so far.

e: And by “this,” you mean...

GC: Art! The art world! It seems limitless.

e: What can we expect at your new show?

GC: I’m bringing over one or two pieces from the show at Carolina Beach Surf Shop, but I have a couple of news ones, too. I’m excited for the public to see them.

e: Where do you get these gigantic canvases?

GC: I make them all myself. When I realized I could do that, it really opened up everything.

Now I’m not limited by what is for sale in the stores. If I decide I want a canvas that is 4x8, I can just make it.

e: Do you have a big surfer following?

GC: I admit that I originally thought just surfers would be into it. But I just showed some work last month during Art at the Arboretum and the response was crazy! Here was this crowd, which was mostly older people, and they were just flipping out over it.

e: Where do you find inspiration?

GC: Like I said it all goes back to music. I was into music as a kid when I first got into spray paint, and it continues to influence my work now.

e: You didn’t think the garden crowd would dig your stuff?

GC: It was surprising. But ultimately, as long as I’m happy with the painting, I don’t care who else likes it.

Artfuel.inc 1701 Wrightsville Ave 910 343 5233 Mon-Sat, 12-9pm; Sunday, 1-6pm www.artfuelinc.com www.myspace.com/artfuel_inc Artfuel.inc is located at the corner of Wrightsville Ave and 17th street. Housed in an old gas station, we offer resident artists working in studios alongside a gallery space used to exhibit other artists work. We hope to connect artists with each other and offer many styles of work to fuel the public’s interest.

Vol. 25, Groovy art from The Artfuel Bunch: Luke Worley, Sarah Peacock, Josh Payne and Sam Guin.

Caffe Phoenix 35 N. Front Street (910) 343-1395 Monday-Saturday: 11:30am - 10pm Sunday Brunch: 11:30am - 4pm Now exhibiting new paintings by local artist Dick Roberts, founder of No Boundaries and ACME Art Studios. “Abstraction’ will be on display in our commission-free gallery until November 14. Join us for a reception Thursday October 21 from 7-9pm for complimentary light fare and half-price wine prices. For more info, call 910-797-3501.

Crescent Moon 332 Nutt St, The Cotton Exchange (910) 762-4207 Mon.-Sat., 10am-5:30pm; Sun., 12-4pm www.crescentmoonnc.com A retail gift gallery specializing in fine handcrafted art glass and metal sculpture, Crescent Moon welcomes local metal artist Bobby Fuller to the gallery with his standout Jellyfish steeland-copper-hammered sculptures mounted on shell marrow imprinted with shell and sea life fossils. A must see.

Local artists Anne Bartlett has designed new “wine wardens” wine stoppers and Shelby Spencer is getting us in the holiday mood with hand-painted stemware and ornaments. There is always something new and creative arriving at Crescent Moon. Gift Wrapping is free.

Located in The Cotton Exchange where parking is free while shopping or dining. Follow us on twitter or become a fan on Facebook by searching Crescentmoonnc!

Hampstead Art Gallery 14712 Hwy. 17 N. • (910) 270-5180 Mon.-Sat. 11am-5pm, or by appt.

Hampstead, NC “Beautiful; lots of variety.” “Love the place.”

“Beautiful art work.” “Very nice.” “Art rocks your socks, and you know that.” 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.

New Elements Gallery 216 N. Front St. • (919) 343-8997 Tues-Sat: 11am-5:30pm or by appointment www.newelementsgallery.com Acknowledged as one of Wilmington’s premier art and craft venues, New Elements offers a wide variety of work by regional and nationally recognized artists. The gallery features original paintings and prints, as well as sculpture, craft,

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Call Shea Carver by Thursday, noon, at (910) 791-0688, ext 1004, to inquire about being included.

the historic fishing village of Calabash, N.C., features fine arts and crafts by some of North and South Carolina’s most creative, successful artists. Almost every genre is represented here—oil, pastel and watercolor, clay and glass art, fiber art, turned wood, metal works, artisancrafted jewelry and more. Classes, workshops, pottery studio, custom framing, Creative Exchange lecture series and Coffee With the Author series are also offered on-site.

jewelry, and custom framing. Visitors worldwide make a point of returning to enjoy the distinctive collection of fine art and craft and are frequently impressed by the sheer volume of work available at New Elements, much of which is featured on the gallery’s Web site. The gallery offers art consultation services and is committed to finding unique pieces of art.

“Earthly Delights” features the works of Jeffrey N. Davies and Hiroshi Sueyoshi. Enjoy a remarkable collection of clay and wood by these two gifted artists, both internationally recognized and living in the area.

Wilmington Art Association Gallery 616B Castle St. (910) 343-4370 www.wilmington-art.org The Wilmington Art Gallery, at 616-B Castle Street, is selling calendars, “Expose Yourself to Art,” for only $12.50 a copy or $20 for two. It features 12 of its daring members posing in enticing states of undress within their own original paintings. You won’t want to miss this!

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acrificing our favorite dishes for a revamped, healthier eating style, in addition to a strict workout schedule, doesn’t sound that appealing to most of us.

However, Kevin DeMarco is here to make it a little less grueling. As an ACE-certified trainer who graduated with honors from the New York Restaurant School, DeMarco brings nutrition and physical well-being to Wilmingtonians in his downtown private studio and kitchen. But his love for cooking began long before his education and entrepreneurship.

“My culinary training began when I was 14 years old,” DeMarco says, “when I worked in an Italian/Greek bakery in Queens, New York. While there I learned a variety of cooking techniques and my love for the art of pastry-making began.”

Today he has transformed his knowledge into a smarter way of living. At DeMarco Studio customers undergo a private evaluation of their needs in the realm of healthy weightloss methods and nutritional improvement.

These sister issues led DeMarco to create the “60-40 Theory,” a unique approach to fitness, revolving around healthy and satisfying dishes. Recently, the chef/trainer took some time out to indulge encore readers the details of his promising business. encore: For people unaware of your organization, can you explain what the 60-40 philosophy is?

Chef Kevin DeMarco: The first thing that

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with Chef Kevin DeMarco 703 S. 5th Avenue (910) 508-4224 www.wilmingtonhealthcoach.com people need to understand is that there is no such thing as a diet—there is a healthy way to live and look at food. Balance is a key essential in day-to-day life, as well as in each meal: a balance of fats, carbs, proteins and whole, natural foods. The 60 percent in my 60/40 philosophy is referring to the food that is put in your mouth. Food is fuel for the body and truly food for the soul. Not only do you need to be aware of what you put in your mouth but also at what time of the day you feed the machine. You can give everything you have in training and exercise but if you’re not fueling your body properly, you won’t see the same results. In conjunction with 60 percent healthy eating, 40 percent is the exercise and giving 100 percent to your training.

It’s within this combination that I feel you get to your goals and create a healthy lifestyle at the same time. Healthy, wholesome and satisfying meals can be part of your daily life and compliment your new lifestyle. You can eat, you need to eat, and in this balance you may just find a healthier you.

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CHEF OF THE TRADE: Kevin DeMarco opened DeMarco Studio to help focus on nutritionally sound lifestyles through healthy eating and better fitness routines for his sclients. Photo courtesy of Chef Kevin DeMarco

e: What was the driving force behind your creation of this organization?

KDM: Being a heavier kid all throughout my younger years, the weight became a burden and affected the way I felt about myself and the way I interacted with others. I began exercising as a way to feel better, and to change the way I looked and felt on the inside and out. At 22 years old, I decided to pursue a career in cooking and enrolled in a culinary institute. I then entered the restaurant industry, where my weight once again began to fluctuate as I had no balance nor the time to eat right and work out as my body became accustomed to. As my weight kept increasing, I made the decision to leave the corporate restaurant business and work for myself, mainly to create a healthier balance in my life. I used my experience with food and in life to create a healthy restaurant, and was able to focus more on a healthy lifestyle, which is where my interest in bodybuilding became a reality.

Fast forward to today, being able to fuse healthy eating into working as a healthy chef and personal trainer has been what my success is about. Food and fitness is key and that is what DeMarco Studios stands for.

e: What has been the biggest accomplishment of DeMarco Studio?

KDM: Each of my clients reaching their goals is of course a great accomplishment, but it is not my accomplishment, because in the end, success is based on each individual’s accountability. The biggest accomplishment of DeMarco Studios is client dedication. I train people of all ages and for a plethora of reasons, whether it is to lose weight, stay in shape, train for a marathon or other sport-specific reasons, aid in lifestyle changes or midlife crises. Mentally and physically I am on a level with all of my clients, having gone through the grueling days, the frustrations and the trials of having been in such poor body condition myself. The creation of new lifestyles, witnessing changes and goal satisfaction is the most important focus here at DeMarco Studios. These are reasons that my clients keep coming back. I take pride in doing the best I can everyday, and my accomplishments are based primarily on that. e: There are many healthy dishes out there. How did you decide on your current menu?

KDM: When I coach my clients on their eating lifestyle, I give them guidelines to stick to, never set menus. However, my culinary experience does get a chance to shine through when I cook at private dinners, during cooking classes and at chef

demos, both onsite and off. During these events, I work one-on-one with my clients to create menus and dishes that fit both budgets and personal preferences. The clients and I go over these preferences, what foods they love and which ones they do not want to have featured, and then I create the menu centered around those specifications.

My menus are also heavily influenced by the seasons and the availability of the most supreme products. Taste the Olive (1121G Military Cutoff Road, in The Forum), an olive oil and balsamic vinegar specialty store, has aided in the complete transformation of a lot of my dishes because the products are truly superior, making my menus even more versatile. I also pull a lot of influences from the Middle East and Mediterranean regions, as these cuisines often use large amounts of flavorful spices and herbs, as well as fresh ingredients, pulling out the fat and substituting it with plenty of flavor. e: Tell me about your workout regimens and how they differ for customers.

KDM: I never have a “set” fitness regime because people, like foods, are truly unique, and what works for one person may not necessarily work for another.

Each person’s exercise regime depends on their fitness level, needs and goals, and a personalized training program is designed to those specifications. Every client gets a complimentary fitness evaluation and a healthy lifestyle consultation upon our first meeting. This intimate level of communication from the start usually eases any nerves the client my have about making these big steps and helps to jumpstart their drive toward change. e: If you had a magic wand, and could change one thing about current dining and exercise trends, what would be at the top of your list?

KDM: When it comes to dining, the main thing I would change is America’s favorite side dish. Why do mashed potatoes, or any starch for that matter, have to be on every plate in a restaurant? Why can’t the chefs broaden their menus, use brown rice, whole wheat couscous, barley, farro or any other whole grain instead? Restaurants truly deprive their customers of an adventure with their food, instead giving them something easy and familiar. People like tradition, but if they were forced to think outside the box with a food that they may not normally be exposed to, they might be amazed at what they find.

When it comes to exercise, I would change the way people are exposed to exercise and the overnight expectations that come with this unrealistic exposure. A TV show like “The Biggest Loser” may be motivational, but it’s not realistic. People often get discouraged and quit exercising once they realize that the weight will

not melt away in a matter of weeks, and these expectations are unreasonable, and the goals projected are unobtainable. Fitness trends like these often tell you how to work out, spending six-to-eight greuling hours in a gym, but not how to eat and work out on your own. They often deliver a quick fix and say goodbye without teaching people the keys on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. e: Any future plans?

KDM: The future is not set in stone, as I take each day as it comes and focus on that day alone. I plan on maintaining my studio clients because training is one of my biggest passions, but I also hope to expand further in the culinary aspect of it all as well. Cooking classes and private dinners will increase in frequency as the months progress, and saying that a healthy cafe may open in the future is not unrealistic. Pairing with Kymberlei DiNapoli from Taste the Olive has opened more doors in the way of inspiration, events and cooking classes, and continuing this relationship will only increase the quality and frequency of these events. The one thing I know for sure is that DeMarco Studios will never become corporate. I feel that being involved in the corporate world would make everything too impersonal, and that the goals and personal relationships between client and trainer would disappear. e: Besides the information on your Web site, is there anything else you want the general public to know about DeMarco Studio?

KDM: All natural products are the most effective in healthy eating, and you don’t have to limit yourself when it comes to these. You can create the most flavorful dishes with spices, herbs, citrus, and even oils and vinegars. Taste the Olive offers over 40 different varieties of these products, all natural and extremely flavorful, so even something as simple as a salad can become gourmet. There are recipes and cooking tips on both www.tastetheolive. com and www.demarcofit.com that can aid you in your new culinary ventures.

One thing I would like people to remember is that DeMarco Studios is a beneficial and often necessary tool to aid in the changing process, but I am only as effective as the effort put in by each and every client. e: Any guilty pleasures?

KDM: Even with being the sole individual behind this business, I still have time for a few. These include red and white Spanish wines, dark chocolate M & Ms, kettle corn and days off (not too often, but trips to the beach, hiking and reading always fill up that small amount of time). I feel that guilty pleasures definitely deserve as much enjoyment as everything else in life!

It’s that time of year– almost!

BEST OF WILMINGTON 2011 Call for entries Soon, all of Wilmington will be casting their ballots for the Best Of Wilmington 2011.

Every year we take pride in designing a unique Best-Of Award that will be presented to the winners at our annual party, honoring the best that the Port City has to offer. These awards will be displayed all over town in local businesses, from the best coffee shop to the best book store to TV and radio stations.

Since its inception, the Best-Of Award has looked pretty much the same.

For the new decade, we decided to stir things up and devise a campaign for designing a unique award every year.

This year it’s your turn to show off your visual art skills.

The first annual Best-Of Wilmington Award Design Contest

The contest is open to all photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and fine artists—students or professionals. We are open to any idea, but your design must prominently incorporate the encore “ ” and be proportional to 5”(h) x 7” (w) for consideration. Also keep in mind there must be room on the bottom of the award for us to insert the Best-Of category and winner.

Digital designs accepted only, and they must be submitted at a resolution of 300 dpi or higher.

Deadline for submission: December 17th, 2010.

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Fall 2010 Wilmington Restaurant Week proved to be an outstanding success.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to sincerely thank you, the folks who dined out and supported our fabulous restaurants, and for your enthusiasm during the 8 days of culinary bliss!

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to hear about your dinning experience and will be giving away two tickets for the Culinary Adventures Tour with Liz Biro.

How to Win?

Simply complete and submit the online Restaurant Week survey before 4pm, Friday, November 12th, 2010.

The results of the survey will help us plan for bigger and better Restaurant Weeks!

Again, many thanks for supporting our local restaurants!

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A Wine Wonderland: New wine bar opens, veteran wine shop relocates THE WINE SAMPLER To harness the complexities of wine, a true connoisseur must be present. Differentiating between a fruity or dry wine, full-bodied or light, is as much a passion as it is sheer knowledge on the matter. Wilmington locals are fortunate that there are a slew of wine retails shops specializing in what the world’s vineyards have to offer. Of that elk: The Wine Sampler found at its new location on Oleander Drive.

Pious Choi, owner of the shop, has an extensive past with wines. After graduating college, moving to Nags Head, North Carolina and then to Colorado, his love for wine began as did his foray into a career.

“I started serving,” Choi recounts, “and became involved with a couple restaurants that were very wine intense.” After being bit by the “wine bug,” as he describes it, his passion for wine continued to blossom. “I left and came back east to find a ‘real’ job,” Choi notes. “For 10 years I was a sale representative for wine distributors in Washington D.C.” The ambitious professional eventually landed a desired position in Oregon as a national wine distributor, but due to the recession was forced to relocate back to Wilmington, where his mother and brother were living. All of his experiences gave birth to The Wine Sampler.

Taking great pride in providing customers with quality wines, specific to their preferences, Choi has become a veteran consultant on the vino scene. “I try to access each person’s wine level from an introductory drinker to a collector,” Choi says. “Descriptions are so important when it comes to wines because they are so subjective. For example, explaining a wine as ‘sweet’ or ‘fruity’ is a broad generalization. Multiple people can describe wines the same way, so it is up to me to interpret what they mean by communicating with them to provide the right fit of wine.”

To assure top-tier customer service, Choi often questions customers on recent wines they have had to help better assess their palates. Even more crucial to excellent customer service is being able to access the store easily. Thus, the relocation of the retail space into the old Dragonflies location in Anderson Square proves a promising move away from the past stagnate three years, a time when potential new customers could drive Oleander without seeing a visible storefront. The Wine Sampler was tucked away in the back,

by: Marco Raye

The Wine Sampler 4107 Oleander Drive, Unit C (910) 796-9463 www.thewinesampler.com

The Fortunate Glass 29 S. Front Street 910) 399-4292

omit corkage fees at certain restaurants if they purchase the wine they bring in from The Wine Sampler.

With a new location, wider variety and events to go along with it, Choi views the upcoming transition as a critical rejuvenation for his business.

ON THE MOVE: (above) Pious Choi and his helper, Chili, packed up The Wine Sampler and relocated to the front of Anderson Square, off Oleander Drive.

Photo by Marco Raye. (right) Owners Celeste Glass and Denise Fortuna opened downtown’s newest wine bar to hit the nightlife scene, The Fortunate Glass.

Photo by John Hitt

and finding it seemed similar to venturing through an intricate maze, nearly impossible and frustrating.

“I need to be geographically where people remember my business,” Choi says. “Customers know [Anderson Square] is the base of my operation, so it was important to relocate nearby.”

Now open in his new, spacious digs, customers can look forward to an expanded collection of wine and additional events. Wine classes will be offered, as well as tastings, every Thursday through Saturday, from noon until close. Special tastings will be conducted for specific wine distributors who travel through Wilmington. In addition, Choi will continue to participate in the “No Corkage” program to

THE FORTUNATE GLASS A Wilmingtonion does not have to go far to get his or her wine glass refilled. Traveling from midtown to downtown, wine enthusiasts can venture into The Fortunate Glass located at 29 South Front Street.

Owned by partners Celeste Glass and Denise Fortuna, the shop’s name originates from a play off their surnames. After being open for a little over a month, the shop is an authentic wine bar, corking the nightlife scene especially authentic for wine lovers.

The shop’s presentation fits the image of downtown Wilmington’s historically hip yet laid-back vibe. “We renovated the entire space,” Glass says. “We incorporated a glass bar, a large [sculptural] mural of a mermaid and castle-rock walls to make for nice ambiance. The shop has taken on a very serene atmosphere.”

Customers get introduced to 40 different lines of wine by the glass and over 300 labels, so all palates have a full base of coverage.

More importantly, the owners focus on the quality and brightness of each opened bottle.

“We have a preserving system that uses argon gas, which insures fresh wine,” Glass explains. “A major obstacle many visitors of

wine bars face is being served quality wines that have gone flat.

This system allows us to serve the freshest wine possible.”

While Glass spent years familiarizing herself with wines as a wine distributor, Fortuna fuels her passion for fine wine from constant research and tastetesting. They have traveled through wine countries together with their husbands.

“Our friendship grew out of a love and appreciation for wine,” Glass says. “With my experience as a distributor, coupled with [Denise’s] knowledge over wines, we decided to open a wine bar that we would like to hang out in.”

The duo’s extensive amount of time spent in and out of fine restaurants in the big cities of San Francisco and New York inspired the bar’s opening on the downtown Wilmington scene. The philosophy remains simple: Provide an aggressive product for the best price.

Wine tastings are held every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and provide a great chance to taste new varieties. Customers can look forward to small edible wine enhancements, too. “We have a small kitchen that prepares small platters of global cheeses, Italian cured meats or desserts, such as chocolate mousse cake,” Glass says.

Much like the wine selection, it is important to Glass and Fortuna that customers have access to cheeses from across the world, as well as Italian meats, such as capicola, prosciutto and salami, mostly collected from A Taste of Italy. Desserts consisting of cheese cake, handmade ice cream, and other occasional specials are prepared by a local chocolatier and baker, offering a nice nightcap to the evening.

Once a month they host a pairing event, too. “On November 10th, we will have a chocolate-and-wine pairing,” Glass informs. “Other pairings we offer are cheese [and] wine, as well as exploring Italian hors d’oeuvre with wine.” Pairings have become a solidified event once a month for the wine shop. Providing sophisticated palates a place to convene, The Fortunate Glass lives well by its name.

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It’s that time of year– almost!

BEST OF WILMINGTON 2011 Call for entries Soon, all of Wilmington will be casting their ballots for the Best Of Wilmington 2011.

Every year we take pride in designing a unique Best-Of Award that will be presented to the winners at our annual party, honoring the best that the Port City has to offer. These awards will be displayed all over town in local businesses, from the best coffee shop to the best book store to TV and radio stations.

Since its inception, the Best-Of Award has looked pretty much the same.

For the new decade, we decided to stir things up and devise a campaign for designing a unique award every year.

This year it’s your turn to show off your visual art skills.

The first annual Best-Of Wilmington Award Design Contest

The contest is open to all photographers, illustrators, graphic designers and fine artists—students or professionals. We are open to any idea, but your design must prominently incorporate the encore “ ” and be proportional to 5”(h) x 7” (w) for consideration. Also keep in mind there must be room on the bottom of the award for us to insert the Best-Of category and winner.

Digital designs accepted only, and they must be submitted at a resolution of 300 dpi or higher.

Deadline for submission: December 17th, 2010.

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e d i u g g n dini american 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.

cHriS’ 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 you’re in the mood for a fluffy 3-egg Omelet, Shrimp & Grits, Prime Rib Sandwich or Andes Mint Cheesecake, Chris’ Cosmic Kitchen is your “Out of this World” Breakfast/Lunch Destination. Evening restaurant rental is available, as well as a Personal Chef service. Chris’ Cosmic Kitchen is located at 420 Eastwood Rd, Unit 109, on the corner of Racine Dr. and Eastwood Rd. OPEN: Tuesday-Saturday 7am4pm & 5pm-9pm. Sunday Brunch 9-2. Closed Monday. Take-out calls welcome, 792-6720.

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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 eddie’S Are you ready to eddie? FLAT eddie’s upbeat, modern dining room & bar makes eddie’s the new “it” place to dine in Wilmington for New American Cuisine. Why FLAT eddie’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 eddie’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.

HenrY’S A local favorite, Henry’s is the ‘place to be’ for great food, a lively bar and awesome patio dining. Henry’s serves up American cuisine at its finest and offers daily blackboard specials that include entrees with fresh, local ingredients. Come early for lunch, because its going to be packed. Dinner too! Henry’s Pine Room is ideal for private functions up to 30 people.

Henry’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.

comes alive by serving dinner with a Southern flare. From the fried pickles appetizer to their the shrimp or oyster Po’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.

THe LiTTLe diPPer Wilmington’s favorite fondue restaurant!

The Little Dipper specializes in unique fondue dishes with a global variety of cheeses, meats, seafood, vegetables, chocolates and fine wines. The warm and intimate dining room is a great place to enjoy a four-course meal, or indulge in appetizers and desserts outside on the back deck or in the bar while watching luminescent jellyfish. Open Tuesday-Sunday, 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 • (910) 251-0433

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The Verandah Café Restaurant located in this oceanfront resort is a wonderful find. This is the perfect place to enjoy a fresh Seafood & Steak dinner while dinning outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Chef Eric invites you to experience his daily specials in this magnificent setting. Open daily for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner. (910) 256-2231 Wrightsville Beach.

Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encore’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 don’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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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 Kefi’s, where their menu features a variety of salads and sandwiches. There is even a “working man’s lunch,” served Monday through Friday, all for under $6. At night Kefi

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

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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.

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; 343-2999, 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach 11-5pm 7days a week, 6pm-9pm SunWed, 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 BiG THai and BiG THai TWo Now with two convenient locations to serve you, Big Thai features authentic Thai cuisine in a fun, relaxing atmosphere. Their delectable menu includes items such as Pineapple Fried Rice with Cashews, Roasted Duck in Red Curry, and several options for vegetarians and vegans. And don’t forget to try their famous Coconut Cake, made fresh in-house.

You won’t regret it. Big Thai One (1001 N. 4th St. in the Brooklyn Arts District; 763-3035): Lunch M-F, 11-2. Dinner M-Th 5-9, F-Sa 5-10, Closed Sunday. Big Thai Two (1319 Military Cutoff Rd. inside Landfall Center; 256-6588): Lunch M-F 11-2:30, Dinner M-Th 5-9, F-Sa 510, Sunday 5-9.

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

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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.

Hiro jApANESE StEAkHoUSE 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.

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.

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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

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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 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-akind restaurant. Offering age-old traditions and timeless recipes, perfection is accom-

plished 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 home-away-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 at (910) 399-2867.

lATiN AMeRicAN SAN JuAN cAfe San Juan Café offers the most authentic, gourmet Latin American cuisine in Wilmington. With dishes from countries such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba you’ll be able to savor a variety of flavors from all over Latin America. Nightly drink specials!

Hours of Operation Mon-Sat from 11am2:30pm, and from 5-10pm. Open Sun from 5-10pm. Located at 3314 Wrightsville Avenue. 910.790.8661 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter for live music updates! www. sanjuancafenc.com

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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 take-out—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. Wheat-free, 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; 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.

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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) 7622827. www.dockstreetoysterbar.net.

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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.

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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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

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This is downtown Wilmington’s Sports Pub! With every major sporting package on ten HDTVs and our huge HD projection screen, there is no better place to catch every game in every sport. Our extensive menu ranges from classics, like thick Angus burgers or NY-style reubens, to lighter fare, such as homemade soups, fresh salads and vegetarian options.

Whether meeting for a business lunch, lingering over dinner and drinks, or watching the game, the atmosphere and friendly service will turn you into a regular. Open late 7 days a week, with free WiFi, darts, weekly trivia and Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments, and did we mention sports? Free lunchtime delivery on weekdays; we can accommodate large parties.

M-Sat 11am until late, open Sundays, noon.

118 Princess St, (910) 763-4133. www.hellskitchenbar.com

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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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aFtER SCHOOl aCtIVItY Wednesdays: Elementary,3:30-5pm Thursdays: Middle School 4-5:30pm 14663 Hwy. 17 North (at the intersection of Hwy. 210 & Hwy.17)

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Local Lore and Mystery: Ellen Hunter premieres the ninth installment of her Magnolia Mystery series

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hen I was young, my grandfather, Bob Pryor, would make linguini with white clam sauce and let me pick a movie from his vast VHS collection in the family room. The crime-mystery parody, “Murder by Death,” was always my choice.

The classic revolves around millionaire Lionel Twain, as he invites the five most brilliant private eyes to dinner and a murder.

My love for crime-mystery fiction has definitely stemmed from watching movies like “Murder by Death.” Arguably, it is the only genre courageous enough to deal with the biggest issues of our times. Whether we realize it or not, they help us discover how our own moral compasses work. Culpable versus innocent, good versus evil and right versus wrong are all examples of how mysteries show us our rich historical heritage. In what

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Murder at the Holiday Flotilla By: Ellen Hunter Magnolia Mystery Series Reading and signing: 11/5, 2 - 5 p.m. at Two Sisters Bookery, Cotton Exchange Cruise with the author: 11/6, 1 - 2:30 p.m., $15, including booksigning and mingling; www.WilmingtonWaterTours.com

other genre will one find fun in a plot based upon characters solely driven to commit murder out of revenge or greed?

Having fun with murder and mayhem is ex-

“Enjoy dinner on our New Orleans style river view patio” Paddy’s Hollow is located downtown in historic Wilmington, tucked away in the Cotton Exchange. We are a favorite with locals and tourists. Family steaks owned and operated since 1982.

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actly what best-selling North Carolina author Ellen Elizabeth Hunter does best. In “Murder at the Holiday Flotilla,” Hunter’s long-awaited ninth book in the Magnolia Mystery series, the Wilkes sisters are submersed in killing and chaos yet again. Throughout Hunter’s previous sultry and unmistakably Southern novels, we have followed the sisters’ careers, love lives, and the many times they’ve been unwittingly drawn into murder cases. Now, Melanie Wilkes is about to be inaugurated as president of the North Carolina Association of Realtors, and all Ashley Wilkes wants to do is celebrate a quiet Christmas with her husband, Jon, and their adorable babies, but their fortune has something else in store. A highly controversial state senator is found dead by mysterious means in a $6 million estate and a will has suspiciously surfaced, pointing to Ashley and Melanie as heirs to a hidden family fortune. But is anyone else searching for it? More intriguingly, who else is dying to get it?

Constantly awed by Wilmington’s history, Hunter uses the Colonial period as

inspiration for drama within “Murder at the Holiday Flotilla”—in particular, Lord Cornwallis’s brief stay at the Burgwin-Wright House, along with the legend that he left gold behind when he marched to Virginia.

“I’ve restored a couple of old houses,” Hunter, told encore last week, “and while strolling around the historic district, the proverbial light bulb went off in my head.

I knew I wanted to write about a protagonist who restores old homes and who finds a mystery in each house.

“Faye Brock helped so much with this book by sharing her knowledge of local real estate. I like my books to reflect the way the state is today, populated by educated, professional people who live in cosmopolitan areas. I’ve been told by people who have lived in Wilmington all of their lives that they learn something about the history of their hometown they weren’t aware of.

While the books are contemporary, the plots are usually based on some historical event. For example, a fictitious payroll robbery at the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad or the murder of a German POW during WWII. Many people don’t know that the park at Eighth and Ann streets was once a POW camp.”

Brooks Preik, owner of Two Sisters Bookery, is very aware of Hunter’s entertaining Magnolia series, especially since she can barely keep them on the shelf.

“She’s sophisticated and writes as fast as you can talk!” Preik guaranteed. “She really cranks them out. We get orders from all over the country. I’ve had people on the waiting list for the last three months to get this ninth installment. Her local interest with local setting appeals to people more than anything.”

Always fun and never splattered with foul, unnecessary language or raunchy unnecessary sex scenes, Hunter’s books remain notoriously light-hearted. Often considered a prized souvenir of the South, she highlights mounds of history within each tale. After 20 years of living in Greensboro, North Carolina, Hunter has finally accomplished a goal within her own personal story: She can now call Wilmington her home. She looks forward to meeting her many loyal readers.

Come and enjoy Thanksgiving and leave the cooking to us!

We’re serving: Turkey and Dressing with all of the fixings!

Pig’s Feet, Carved Ham, Roast Beef, Cranberry Sauce Over 20 Homestyle Vegetables and Fresh cooked Eastern North Carolina BBQ Pork cooked daily ALSO SERVED DAILY...

Fried Chicken, Baked Chicken, Chicken & Pastry, Catfish, Whiting, Clam Strips, Fat Back, Crinkle Fries, Chitlins, Rutabagas, Green Beans, Mac-N-Cheese, Sweet Potato Soufflé, Cabbage, Boiled Potatoes, Corn, Field Peas, Turnips, Collards, Baked Beans, Green Peas, Lima Beans, Rice, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Coleslaw, Potato Salad, Pan Fried Okra, Rolls, Hushpuppies, Apple, Blueberry & Peach Cobbler, Cherry Cheesecake, Banana Pudding and Ice Cream

Serving Squash Casserole on Thursdays!

OPEN: Wednesday-Saturday 11am-9pm, Sunday - 11-8pm CLOSED MONDAY & TUESDAY

“Voted BEST BUFFET, SOUL FOOD & FAMILY RESTAURANT by encore readers”

(910)798•2913 • 5559 Oleander Dr. Between Dogwood Lane & French Street, across from the batting cages

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hat does it mean to support a community? Does our personal wellbeing have a place in our role as a good eco-citizen? The two ladies of Soil to Soul seem to think so and are doing everything they can with their business to promote what Nicole Lancaster, co-owner, pleasantly calls “maximum, ultimate, vibrant wellness.”

Both Lancaster and Mary Margaret Folds began the business as a partner to Progressive Gardens, with the idea of helping others achieve pulsating personal health, and thus expanding wellness to the immediate environment and connecting relationships. “Helping people build a healthy community builds a healthy environment,” Lancaster explains.

Upon walking into Soil to Soul, it’s possible to immediately feel lighter. The room smells like a sage forest, thanks to burning essential oil candles, and the dark teal paint encloses the space, while the walls reach to the sky, exuding a comfortable, lofty ambiance. In their humble space, Lancaster and Folds have chosen to supply products that either promote local artisans or encourage sustainable concepts.

Goods that can be found for sale at Soil to Soul include jewelry, organic cotton T-shirts, aromatherapy and essential oil products. They also offer a line of yoga clothing made from renewable beech wood modal textiles. Likewise, they provide space for showcasing local artists’ paintings.

The heart of Soil to Soul can be found in the weekly classes they offer in-shop. On Thursday, November 4th, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Kathryn Sisler, a local herbalist, will be teaching attendees how to make an herbal tincture to ward off winter colds and boost the immune system. Sisler, who also

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Soil to Soul 6005 Oleander Drive (910) 920-9890 www.soiultosoul.com works with Tidal Creek, has teamed up with Soil to Soul under a business practice that Folds calls “coopetition” (not competition) to teach a series of classes tailored to her specialties. Other topics taught by Sisler in the upcoming months include fermentation, fertility and herbal teas.

On Saturday, November 6th from 11 a.m. to noon. Hydroponics 101: Indoor Gardening, will protect against future frosts. Also, on Saturday, November 13th from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Lancaster will teach a seminar on Kombucha fermentation. Kombucha tea, although speculative and untested, has been popularized for its energizing and illness-fighting powers.

Soil to Soul classes also feature classes on wheatgrass juicing, composting and weekly yoga on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Classes at Soil to Soul offer an experience in sustainable personal health and living local. The business reaches out not only to citizens who need help engaging in healthy activities for the body and community but also to encourage personal responsibility. A revolutionary concept that aims to shift the focus from “big box” corporations to the everyday individual, personal responsibility calls for lifestyle change. According to Lancaster and Folds, in order to reduce a personal carbon footprint and take initiative to lead a healthy lifestyle,

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people should start by adopting a do-it-yourself attitude.

“Instead of always being dependent on someone to provide [or], you know, some big company to provide for you, for your wellness, for the choices that you make, [you have] to be willing to take responsibility for that,” Lancaster claims.

It seems to be a simple concept: Be healthy, feel good; feel good, interact with the local community; interact with the local community, and learn to love our surroundings, even the land; love the land, grow our own food and nourish our bodies with wholesome products; appreciate the local economy for its wholesome products and uphold Soil to Soul’s vision: “A vision to support local producers,” Folds says.

Simple on paper, perhaps, but difficult to practice. Folds and Lancaster understand the complexities of a reconnection with the environment, so they have decided to create a new business model based off community trust. All yoga classes at Soil to Soul are offered by donation only.

Almost all other classes, unless the purchase of a kit or materials is necessary, are on a donation-only basis as well. In turn, when a teacher rents out space at Soil to Soul to hold a class, the business will only accept payment in the form of a donation.

In every instance, “you give us what you

feel to give,” Folds insists. “It’s good for college students and people who can’t afford to pay 15 dollars for a class every week.”

It’s essentially a business model reliant upon generosity. “[We are] offering things out of abundance and trusting that we’re going to be provided for as we provide things,” Lancaster says. Although there have been times when the going hasn’t always been easy, Folds and Lancaster remain unwaveringly confident that the payoff is not found in monetary gain.

When donations are sparse or when renters don’t return the favor, “it keeps us humble,” Lancaster admits.

Soil to Soul exists to be a community resource, and Folds and Lancaster are open to any requests for new topics. They hope that if the lessons teach people of their options, the business will begin “growing sustainable lifestyles,” educating one life at a time until our community has reached optimal wellness.

Lancaster references a favorite quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” she says. “We really can do that. When we know, that gives us the power to choose, make healthier choices, and then that grassroots kind of an effort can change the face of everything.”

For classes and times, visit www.soiltosoulonline.com.

An Involuntary Intimate: Part 23: Flying Solo

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ince Nogo’s death, Martin moved through the aisles of computers as if in a fog. He helped people find the cursor, eject a CD, log onto an online literacy site, but his motions were mechanical, and he spoke little if at all. And when left to himself, he just sat and thought in silence.

Ruth stood next to George, who was watching Martin from across the room. “I don’t know what it’ll take to snap him out of it,” she said.

“Another Nogo,” said George, “and there will never be one.”

“Turns out,” said Ruth, “the guy was better at grasping C++ than English. Just two weeks ago, he was actually writing his own programs.”

George was shaking his head, saying, “I don’t get it,” when Martin erupted out of his chair, bent over two pupils who had been speaking to each other, and pointed to the door.

He said, “Get out.”

“Martin!” shouted George, making his way across the room.

“What’s your problem?” said one of the pupils to Martin.

George put his hand on Martin’s shoulder, and Martin shrugged him off.

“I said get out of here,” said Martin, his eyes drilling down on the pupils. Then he turned around and made his way to the elevator, Ruth following.

“Sorry,” said George to the pupils.

“We were just minding our own business,” said one.

“That’s it,” said the other collecting his pencil and notebook, “I’m never coming back here. That guy’s mental.”

“You gotta excuse him,” said George. “He just lost a good friend.”

“Military?” said one of the pupils.

George gave a nod.

“Good!” said the pupil. “Let them all die over there!”

Before he could register what he was doing, George pointed to the door and said, “Get out.”

The two pupils banged open the door and exited.

For the rest of the day, George manned the computer literacy center alone, and when it was time to close, he made a sign and taped it to the outside of the door. He locked the door, sat down at his desk, and went through the mail that day. The start-up funds had dried up and now they were flying largely solo, just high enough to scrape the treetops. Since Martin loathed asking for money, it fell completely to George to push for funding, which he did not mind so much. What he would find a challenge was if they got a reputation for kicking

by: Claude Limoges people out because they had voiced their political views. That, he knew, would be hard to explain to a board of trustees. What the pupils had said seemed less political then an attack on Nogo himself, which was unbearable just then. George sat back and sighed. It was time just to shut things up for a while and take a break and get over the grief.

Ruth came back down and shut off the lights.

“I’m still down here, Ruth,” said George.

“Oh. Sorry.” She put the lights back on.

“How is he?” said George.

Ruth shook her head. “He’s just really angry, and he doesn’t even know who to be angry at.

And neither does Nogo’s wife. All she wants is the truth, but whoever she goes to she just gets a lot of finger-pointing. She insists that Nogo did not shoot himself. Martin’s been trying to help her sort it all out but it’s maddening.

Pure stonewalling.”

“Ruth,” said George, “I want you to tell Martin we’re closing up shop for a while.”

Ruth sat down. She thought it over and then nodded. “Probably the best thing.”

George picked up the last piece of mail, addressed to him. He ripped it open and read:

me to keep my cool.”

It was on the tip of George’s tongue. All he had to do was say he was leaving. Somewhere in his bones he knew it was time. He watched Martin scratch his cheek and stew.

Martin’s eyes were watering. It was time, but just not yet. “Come on let’s break out the old Outback, Serpentor, and Baroness. Storm a computer.”

Martin shook his head. “He hated those things. Said if I had to do it for real I’d throw them away.”

Cheri knocked on the door outside. George rose to answer it, but Martin was already on his way. Martin opened the door.

“Hi, stranger,” said Cheri, smiling “Aw, come on, buck up. He wouldn’t want you to be so sad.”

Martin read the sign on the door. Slowly he smiled. He gave the sign a nod.

Cheri came up to George and kissed him.

George folded the invitation for an interview and put it in his back pocket. “Okay, then,” he said, “It’s Nogo’s Arcade.”

“Dear Mr. Fincannon: For the last several months, you have been daily sending in your resume to our organization. We do not appreciate the spamming. Even so, we now have an opening for a Manager in Sales and Marketing and believe your skills may match this position. We were wondering if you would cease flooding us with your resume and come in for an interview.”

Brows knit, George looked up from the letter and pondered.

“Good news?” asked Ruth.

“Weird news,” said George, and then a memory just before he was kicked out of the apartment returned to him. He had forgotten that on his and Melissa’s computer he had put his resume submissions on autopilot. Various businesses along the entire eastern seaboard had received hundreds of his emailed resumes, and then some.

He wondered if this were a sign that it was time to hand over the whole of the computer literacy operation to Martin and move on.

Down the hall the elevator doors opened, and Martin took his forearm crutches and slowly left the elevator. He stood beside George.

“Man I really lost it. Sorry about that.”

George sniffed. “And man you really hit my scotch. Sit down before you fall.”

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where to be, what to do in Wilmington and beyond

Events K&M SPEED NETWORKING K and M Speed Networking can help strengthen business relationships, build business and expand selling territories. Leland event: 11/4, 11:45am2pm. at Brunswick Community College, Leland Campus 2050 Enterprise Blvd (off 74/76, in Industrial Park). Other events in Ocean Isle and North Myrtle Beach. First two events are free for new attendees; $10 due otherwise for nonmembers. Annual membership includes unlimited visits to events, reserving a spot in our Business Directory which will hit up to 20K businesses/ individuals from Wilmington to MB, and more. Light lunch provided. RSVP: Kerry.Kasotsky@yahoo. com. Bring lots of biz cards and door prizes!

WRITER’S WEEK SYMPOSIUM Writer’s Week Symposium: Through 11/5.

Symposium brings together visiting writers of local and national interest, publishing professionals, UNCW students and members of the public with an interest in literature. The symposium includes workshops, panels, readings and manuscript conferences. Roster consists of numerous Ecotone contributors, including Denis Johnson, Katie Fallon, Rivka Galchen, Charlotte Matthews, Ron Rash and Jon Pineda. It also features former Ecotone editors Jay Varner, Kimi Faxon Hemingway

and Heather Wilson, as well as Peter Steinberg of The Steinberg Agency and Chuck Adams of Algonquin Books. Biographies of these guests and a detailed Writers Week schedule are available on the Department of Creative Writing site, www. uncw.edu/writers/news_calendar.html. Free and open to the public. 910-962-7063.

27TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY FLOTILLA 27th annual North Holiday Flotilla at Wrightsville Beach: Sat., 11/6, 9am, 5k Run & Fun Loop Walk at Wrightsville Beach Park • Fri., 11/26: 5:30pm. Tree Lighting Ceremony with Santa at Wrightsville Beach Park;7pm, “Anchor’s Away” Holiday Flotilla party at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort with music

by The Four Knights (admission is $35 per person) • Sat., 11/27, 10am-4pm: Festival in the Park at Wrightsville Beach Park, w/arts, crafts and family-friendly activities; 6pm, Lighted Boat Parade and Fireworks.

Ashley Miller: 910-538-9270 or hearnemill@ aol.com. www.ncholidayflotilla.org FESTIVAL LATINO Amigos Internacional will be holding the 12th annual Festival Latino on 11/6 at Hugh MacRae Park. With 25,000 in attendance in 2009, Amigos Internacional is expecting a great turnout. Food, music, arts and crafts from all over Latin America, 11am-5pm,

w/music going later into evening. Entrance free; kid’s festivities all day. http://amigosinternacional. org/Festival-Latino.php.

(available at area Scotchman stores): $13; or $16 at door. Through 11/6, at Wilmington International Airport. www.caperfearfair.com or 313-1234.

CAPE FEAR FAIR AND EXPO Beginning this year, the fair will donate $1 of every advance ticket toward a newly established scholarship fund at CFCC. Advance tickets

THALIAN HALL 11/6, 8pm: The Red Clay Ramblers—NC’s Tony Award-winning ultra-eclectic, label-defying string band who’s the favorite of everyone from symphonies to hoe-downs, Main stage. www.thalianhall.org 910-632-2285 or 800-523-2820 310 Chestnut St.

11/6: RED CLAY RAMBLERS

Thalian Hall’s Main Attraction Series brings together music fans of hoe-downs and symphonies, all in one.

The Red Clay Ramblers play their blend of bluegrass, New Orleans, classical folk and gospel sounds. Known for their award-winning Broadway musicianship for the play “Fool Man,” the band hails from NC and will perform their old-time mountain music with fervor at Thalian Hall this Saturday night. Tickets $18-$34.

UNCW PRESENTS UNCW Presents proudly announces its 2010/11 season of performances and lectures, Sept-Apr., at UNCW’s Kenan Auditorium. Subscriptions/tickets on sale now through Kenan Box Office (962-3500) and online at www.etix.com. • Wed., 11/17: Doug Varone & Dancers, one of America’s leading dance companies prized for dexterity, musicality and performance instincts, opens with the company’s triumphant work, Lux, and concludes with a new work, Chapters from a Broken Novel. www.uncw. edu/presents.

SHOP ‘TIL YOU DROP Shop ‘til You Drop expo: Sat., 11/13, 9-3pm, CB Berry Community Center, on Route 179 at Hwy 17 at SC state line, Little River. Shop 25 of your favorite home party products all under one roof. Cash & carry, door prizes, discounts, refreshments. free admission Bring canned good for local Helping Hand. Diane Davis: 843-756-3494 or 843-504-4271. ddavists@yahoo.com. www. tastefullysimple.com/web/ddavis1 ANIWAVE 11/20: Programming for Aniwave 2010 includes films screenings, cultural workshops, cultural demonstrations, cosplay, cosplay contest, guest voice actors, an artist’s gallery, artist and merchandise vendors and door prizes. Full-length Japanese Anime and live action movies, original cideo animations and select episodes of Anime series will be screened. Workshops and panels, such as voice acting panel and fan-dubbing, to take place. Pofessional photography for attendees who cosplay and cosplay contest—a costume craftsmanship and presentation contest. Prizes awarded. Tea Ceremony demonstration, Iaido and Aikido demonstration and The Garden of the Spring Wind Dojo, led by Keith and Deborah McDuffie. Local artists will have a change to display and sell their Japanese culture, Anime and Manga inspired art. More to come! Pre-reg. membership: $5/person, and includes access to all of the events held at the festival, as well as a commemorative badge. Dorr rates: $6 or $7.

Whitney Rooks: press@aniwave.org, or Alejandro Canosa, director@aniwave.org. aniwave.org FARMERS’ MARKETS 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). • 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 mroe! Through 12/15, rain or shine. 10200 U.S. 17, a mile from the I-40 bypass.(910) 686-9518ext. 26

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NATIONAL PHILANTHROPY DAY Cape Fear Region Chapter of the Association of

Fundraising Professionals announces winners on National Philanthropy Day. Categories include Individual/Family Philanthropist of the Year; Philanthropic Organization of the Year; Professional Fundraiser of the Year; Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year; and their newest category Youth Fundraiser of the Year. Winners honored at the breakfast on 11/4, 7:30am at Hilton Riverside donwtown, and will be featured in the Greater Wilmington Business Journal. Leigh Muscl: leighmuscle@gmail.com or www.wilmingtonbiz.com/philanthropy.

HOT DRESS, HOT DATE Thurs, 11/4, 6-9pm, at Coastline Conference and Expo Center, Wilma Nights presents “Hot Dress Hot Date” Holiday Fashion Show and Auction. Get a glimpse of the latest holiday fashions from local boutiques, network with Wilma readers for a night of fun, and bid on your favorite local bachelor or celebrity for a lunch on the town, all for a good cause. Auction proceeds benefit Girls Incorporated of Wilmington. Bachelors are: Adam Freeman, O2 Fitness; Dutch Hawk, 94.5 FM, The Hawk; Craig Melville, Wilmington Police Dept; Bryan Metzger, Cartmen; Chris Wilkerson, Greater Wilmington Business Journal. www.wilmaontheweb.com or Suesan Sullivan at (910) 343-8600 x213; ssullivan@ wilmingtonbiz.com.

METHODIST HOME ANGEL TREE 2010 Methodist Home for Children: Christmas Angel Tree Program. Put up an Angel Tree in your church or business, and we will provide the Angel’ with a child’s wishes to be hung on the tree the month of November. Select an angel and help make Christmas morning bright for a child or family. Regina Hawse: 910-471-6088 or rhawse@ mhfc.org; Brian Wylie: 910-538-2091 or bwylie@ mhfc.org LAOH CRAFT FAIR LAOH Craft Fair, 11/6, 10am-4pm, St. Mark’s Church 1011 Eastwood Rd. 20+ vendors displaying their unique jewelry, doll clothes, irish jewelry and gifts, artwork, crafts, homemade items, etc.

Snack ar too! All proceeds benefit Honor Flight Southeastern NC & Tileston Medical Clinic @ St Mary Parish. Margaret Medon: (910) 686-8708 ALTERNATIVE GIFT MARKET 11/6, 10am-noon, and 11/7, 10am-3pm:

NOW! SALVATION ARMY

Club or UNC Wilmington Circle K Club. Tickets will also be available at the door on the day of the event for the same price.Proceeds support youth programs in our local community. www. wilmingtonkiwanis.org JR LEAGUE’S TOUCH TRUCK EVENT Jr. League of Wilmington’s second annual Touch a Truck event on Sun, 11/7, Mayfaire event lawn.

An educational community event that will provide children with a hands-on opportunity to see and touch heavy machinery and meet the people who build, protect and serve the Wilmington community.

Kids explore vehicles like a fire engine, cement truck, school bus, tow truck, weather truck, bulldozers and more! Also: Vitalink helicopter landing, toddler and children’s zone, with games, arts and crafts, face painting, bouncy castles and music. Touch a Truck is Smart Start of New Hanover County, which shares a common concern for and commitment to the welfare and future success of our youngest children. Open to the public; $5/person or $15/family of four. Children under 1 year free. www.jlwnc.org AMERICAN RED CROSS American Red Cross-Cape Fear Chapter needs volunteers to help plan the 2011 Red Cross Gala and Auction, held 3/26/2010 at the Landfall Country Club. • Two meetings held to discuss different opportunities to get involved, covering Red Cross services to the community, how the Gala functions as our largest fundraiser and the different committee roles, responsibilities, timelines and expectations. Purpose: gauge your level of interest and commitment to event and find position to help. Meetings: 11/10 and 11, 6pm, at Panera Bread, Mayfaire, in the meeting space of the dining room (look for the Red Cross sign).RSVP: Autum Mihm, mihma@usa.redcross.org.

SALVATION ARMY The Salvation Army is launching “Operation Forklift” to put the “thanks” back in Thanksgiving.

You buy the turkey with a $10 donation to The Salvation Army. We will complete the basket with stuffing, cranberry sauce, veggies, and all the trimmings. Let’s give people something to really be thankful for! Stacey-Colette Penn: 910762-2070 • The Salvation Army Angel Tree will begin at Independence Mall at 11:30am on 11/12. Located near the indoor entrance to the JCPenney store, the Salvation Army Community Christmas Brass and the Cape Fear Chordsmen Quartet will kick it off. Angel tree helps provide gifts to needy families during the holiday season across Cape Fear’s five-county region.

Help need families this holiday season by assisting Salvation Army with “Operation Forklift,” wherein a $10 donation will help buy a turkey for a family during Thanksgiving. Baskets will be complete with stuffing, cranberry sauce, veggies and all the trimmings. Also, keep in mind Salvation Army’s upcoming Angel Tree charity event beginning on the 12th at Independence Mall in front of JCPenney entrance.

Grace United Methodist Church, 401 Grace St, downtown. Features a wide variety of gifts that are tax-deductible which support not only local but global humanitarian and environmental causes. It could be seeds or chicks or a goat for a family; supplies for part of a water well for a village; school supplies or a teacher’ salary for a school; and locally, food for a food bank.

Tangible items will also be available from Ten Thousand Villages. Buying a gift here helps the cause you support but also honors the person receiving your gift. www.alternativegifts.org or www.tenthousandvillages.com or call 792-9953.

KIWANIS PANCAKE BREAKFAST The Kiwanis Club of Wilmington will hold its 40th annual Kiwanis “Pancake Day” on Sat., 11/6, in the cafeteria at J.T. Hoggard High School. “All-youcan-eat” pancakes and sausage meal, 6:30am1:30pm. Advanced tickets: $5, available from any member of the Kiwanis Club, J.T. Hoggard High School Key Club, New Hanover High School Key

ART SOUP Fourth Friday Gallery Nights Fundraiser, Fri, 11/19, 7-9pm, at Caffe Pheonix, 35 N. Front St. Join us as we celebrate another triumphant year of the monthly art walk in Wilmington. Featuring live music with local folk-funk band Transtrum as well as a variety of hors d’oeuvres from local restaurants and sponsors. A one night exhibition of select artists from Acme Art Studios. $10 tickets available at Caffe Phoenix and at participating galleries. All proceeds go continuing the grassroots efforts of all participating galleries and art spaces to promote and provide another season of Fourth Friday events in downtown Wilmington. 910-6202047, 910-343-1395 or art-soup.org

Theatre/Auditions TACT TACT: 11/3: Fall Worksop for ages 7-11, feat. showcase at end of 5 weeks. Educators: Timothy Allan Mills and Denice Hopper. Performances on 12/4 and 11. Theme: “A Year with Frog and Toad.” Whimsical story features an unlikely friendship between a cheerful Frog and a rather grumpy Toad and the life lessons they learn during the four seasons of one year. All events at at the Hannah Block 2nd Street Stage, 120 S. 2nd St. ALICE IN PIRATELAND Alice in Pirateland: The Corsair’s Cup, written

by Zach Hanner and drected by Cherri McKay. After returning from her unusual adventure in Wonderland, Alice and four friends find themselves plunged in to a creepy, bizarre world where deadly pirates threaten them at every turn. Produced by Journey Productions and Thalian Hall, starring Zach Hanner, Melissa Stanley, Caylan McKay and Lily Zukerman. Wed-Thur, 11/3-4, 7:30pm; Fri 11/5, 8pm GA: $10 or $7 on family-night Wed., 11/3.

Tickets: 910-362-2285 or ThalianHall.org.com.

ACTING WORKSHOP FOR TEENS Director and acting coach Sunnie Pennington’s Workshop for Teens teaches basic acting techniques, audition expertise, what makes a professional looking résumé and headshot, and how to make one or take ine! (910) 477-0515.

BROWN COAT PUB AND THEATRE Mon: Sides, comedy sitcom, following five characters who try to balance their careers, love lives and day jobs. • Tues night trivia, 10pm. • Friday and Saturday night karaoke, 10pm. • Sundays: Poetry night at 8pm; karaoke at 10pm.

• $5. 111 Grace St., www.guerillatheatre.com.

(910) 341-0001 BIG DAWG PRODUCTIONS Big Dawg presents “That Championship Season,” a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play.

Directed Lou Criscuolo, the play takes ruthless aim at America’s culture of winning at all costs, with additional jabs at 1950s-era small-town America and its bigotry, double-dealing, racism and hate.

Set in 1972, the plot focuses on a group of five men whose lives have not gone as they’d hoped and who therefore seek refuge in memories of their glory days 11/4-7 and 11-14, Thurs-Sat, 8pm, and Sun., 3pm. $18 GA, $15 for students, seniors and military. Thurs. shows: $10. 910-341-7228 or www. bigdawgproductions.org. Cape Fear Playhouse, downtown Wilmington. 613 Castle St. HAIRSPRAY Techmoja Dance Co. presents “Hairspray” 11/1214,19-21 and 26-28, 8pm, with Sun. matinees at 3pm. Hannah Block Historic USO 120 S. Second St. Direction and choreography by Kevin Lee-y Green.

Tickets: $18 adult or $15 students/seniors, (910) 341-7860.

GREETINGS “Greetings” by Tom Dudzick—a heartwarming two-act comedy, directed by Katina Greeves.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc. Originally produced by the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ; Gregory S. Hurst, producing director. 11/12, 13 and 14; 11/19, 20 and 21. Sneads Ferry Community Center, 126 Park Lane. Tickets: $12/door. 910-327-2798. www.sneadsferrycommunitytheatre.com OKLAHOMA The Upper Room Theatre Company, Wilmington’s Christian community theatre company, will perform the Broadway musical “Oklahoma,” with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, on 11/12-14 and 19-21 at Lutheran Church of Reconciliation’s Ministry Center, 7500 Market St. Shows at 7pm, with 3pm matinees on 11/14 and 21. Tickets: $7 for children under 12; $10 for adults; www.upperroomtheatre.org or by calling (910) 6869203. Story revolves around the budding romance of its main characters through their dreams of the future and their fear of the unknown.

PROOF The Red Barn Studio Theatre Presents “Proof,” by David Auburn. Directed by Steve Bakunas, and featuring Isabel Heblich, Adam Poole, Audra Glyn Smith and Steve Bakunas. Through 11/13. WedSat, 8pm; Sundays, 3pm. $27 for adults, $25 for students/seniors. Box Office open Tues-Sat, 2-5pm. 762-0955 or 1122 S. Third St. CITY STAGE THEATER City Stage Announces it’s 2010-11 season as well as changes within the company! We have a new box office number for ticket reservations: (910) 264-2602. Keep an eye out for information about our new website, and online ticket purchasing options! www.citystageatlevel5.com • Santaland Diaries: 11/26-28, 12/3-5, 10-12. • Chicago: 12/30- 1/2, 1/7-9, 14-16, 21-23, 28-30. All shows at City Stage, downtown Wilmington. (910)264-2602. citystagetheatre@gmail.com.

GLEE PERFORMANCE CLUB

GLEE class now offered at The Performance Club Studio Theater! Ongoing Wed.’s 6-6:45pm.

• Openings for “Holiday Spectacular,” a seasonal performance for young actors. Directed by LJ Woodard. Class rehearsals start in Nov. • The Performance Troupe presents “Free to Be...You and Me,” 11/11-12. RSVP: Studio B, 910-338-3378.

6624 Gordon Rd,. performanceclub@me.com. www.PerformanceClubKids.com AUDITION FOR ARTS POETICA IV Dancers & Choreographers Needed for Cape Fear Community College’s Highly Acclaimed Arts Poetica IV; paid performance. Audition time and place TBA. To get your audition material, contact Marlowe Moore mmoore@cfcc.edu or Gena McKinley gmckinley@cfcc.edu. (910)362-7564 BRUNSWICK LITTLE THEATRE AUDITIONS Stagestruck Players’ youth division of Brunswick Little Theatre, announces auditions for the upcoming production of Mr. Toad’s Mad Adventures from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Auditions will be held 3-5pm, 11/13-14, in Building F at Brunswick Community College.

Cast siz flexible, from 15 to 30 individuals. Age range, 9 to 18 years. Cold readings from the script and participation in drama games. Performance dates: 2/25 -27, and 3/4 – 6 at the Events Center, Odell Williamson Auditorium. FDebbie Skillman: 457-5651 or dskillman@ec.rr.com.

Comedy CABINEER’S PROMOTIONS PRESENTS...

Live comedy and R&B show, Sat., 11/6, 10pm; doors at 9pm. Feat. live R&B, as well as comedienne Pat Brown and Monte Rodgers. Tickets at Johnson’s Groceries, Quality Cutz, Wilmington Sportsmen’s Club and Turning Heads Beauty Salon. $10 early bird tickest through 10/31; $15/ adv or $20 day of. daddycabineers@aol.com.

Wilmington Sportsmen Club, 1111 Castle St. NUTT ST. COMEDY ROOM 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:. Schedule: 11/1213: Justice League of Comedy, feat. King Rich and Kyle Davis. 8pm,doors; 9pm, show. Tickets $8/10 • 11/19-20: Jesse Joyce. 8pm doors; 9pm show . Tickets $10/$12 • 12/3-4: Vic Henley . 8pm doors; 9pm show. Tickets $10/12. 255 N. Front St, basement of Soapbox. www.nuttstreet.com.

910-520-5520

Music NC SYMPHONY NC Symphony Goes “From Brahms to Bach – and Back Again,” 11/4, 8pm, at Kenan Auditorium, UNCW. Music Director Grant Llewellyn leads the NC Symphony and two of the orchestra’s very own soloists, associate concertmaster Dovid Friedlander and oboe Melanie Wilsden, through a one-of-a-kind concert lineup, “From Brahms to Bach – and Back Again.” Feat. Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90, Divertimento in B-flat Major that inspired Brahms’s Variations, then Friedlander and Wilsden for Bach’s charming and influential Concerto for Violin and Oboe, and finally Brahms’s Variations on a Theme of Haydn. Tickets: $25-$50; www.ncsymphony.org or 919-733-2750.

CAPE FEAR BLUES CHALLENGE Cape Fear Blues Challenge, Sat., 11/6, will crown winners in both the band and solo/duo categories on Sat., 11/6 at the Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave. Music begins after 5pm. Winners will be eligible to compete at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, 2/1-5. The IBC is sponsored by The Blues Foundation, of which the Cape Fear Blues Society is an affiliate. Acts judged by a panel of individuals that includes musicians, listeners, media and music industry professionals. Judging criteria include blues content, stage presence, originality, vocal ability, and talent. Prizes include a portion of travel expenses reimbursed by the CFBS and paid gigs at The Rusty Nail. Enter through: 11/6: admin@capefearblues.org or 910-452-7752. www.capefearblues.org.

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WILMINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT Wilmington Choral Society Fall Concert presents “And All That Jazz” at Scottish Rite Temple, 11/7, 4pm. 1415 S. 17th St. $12 GA; $10 seniors, children 12 & under, free. Non-perishable food for donation to Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard. wilmingtonchoralsociety.com CAPE FEAR CHORALE Cape Fear Chorale and orchestra, under the direction of Jerry S. Cribbs, will present its 2010 Fall concert on Sun, 11/21, 4pm, Grace Methodist Church, 401 Grace St. Concert includes the first movement of John Rutter’s Magnificat, and carols composed or arranged by Rutter. All-volunteer Chorale celebrates 12 years with two concerts annually; free and open to the public. Concert expenses are funded through tax-deductible contributions. www.capefearchorale.org.

Dance NEW BALLROOM CLASSES New Hanover County Senior Resource Center: Weds, Weds 12:30 Advancing Beginner, 1:30 Ballroom II, Nov-Dec. No classes Thanksgiving week. Advance registration rqd. 799-2001 BALLROOM DANCESPORT LESSONS New beginner ballroom classes/workshops week, 11/14 (skip Thanksgiving, 11/24-11/28). Next Friday Night Dance Club: 11/5, and every Friday 7:30-10:30; lesson 7:30-8, $7, $5/HS or college w/ ID. Less than mile from UNCW. 4523 Franklin Ave, singles/couples. Across from Cinema Dr, Corner Kerr and Franklin, www.BallroomDanceSportNC. com. 910-799-2001 CAPE FEAR CONTRA DANCERS Cape Fear Contra Dancers presents Tuesday Night Contra Dances every 2nd and 4th Tues. at 7:309:30pm at the 5th Ave United Methodist Church, 409 South 5th Ave. in Downtown Wilmington.

Admission is $3; offers live band and caller, dress casually, family atmosphere with contemporary American Folk Dance. Singles and couples are invited to come. Date are: 11/9, 23. Phoebe Hood: 270-3363.

DANCE-A-LORUS Cucalorus and The Dance Cooperative will join forces in an experimental collaboration of film, dance and music, continuing a tradition that has always wowed its audience. All three medias blend together into the sensory combustion known as “Dance-a-lorus.”

11/11, 7:15pm at Thalian Hall Main Stage, 310 Chestnut St. (910) 632-2241 or (910) 343-5995 for tickets.

AZALEA COAST NC USA DANCE Social Dance and lesson hosted by Azalea Coast NC USA Dance chapter on Sat., 11/13, at New Hanover Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd. Social dance lesson begins at 6:45pm. dance to custom mix of ballroom and Latin music, 7:30-10pm.

Admission includes lesson, no partner needed. $8 members, $10 non-members, $5 military with ID, $3 students w/ID. (910)7998566, AzaleaCoastDance@aol.com. www. azaleacoastncusadance.org

the artistic process. Q&A follows. • 11/17: 8pm: Doug Varone and Dances live onstage at Kenan Auditorium, $6, students; $8 nonUNCW students; $22 public. Opens with “Lux,” energetic work that embodies Varone’s signature flowing movement style set to Philip Glass’ “The Light.”

CAROLINA LOUNGE DANCE LESSONS Tues.: Free shag lessons with Brad White. Beginner 7:30pm, Intermediate 8pm. Dancing till 11pm. $5 cover. • Line dance lessons w/Barbara Braak, 7:30pm; country line dancing, 9:30. Coming Thurs, 11/4: Band of Oz, 8:30pm. • Fri.: Salsa Night begins with Argentine Tango lessons, 7:30pm. $5 cover. Salsa Lessons, 9:30pm & DJ Lalo. Open till 2:30am. • Sat.: Salsa w/DJ LaLo, free, 9pm till close. Carolina Lounge, 910 791-7595.

BELLYDANCE CLASSES Bellydance classes held Thurs. evenings, 6:307:30pm at the Firehouse Pilates Studio. Marie: 910-620-3566 or divyawaters@yahoo.com 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

Art ART SOUP Art Soup, a local nonprofit arts organization, and Tidal Creek Cooperative presents Transitory, an art exhibition featuring the collected works of Rachel Kastner and Colleen Ringrose, on display through Jan. 2011. 5329 Oleander Dr, Suite 204.

910-799-2667 RIVER TO SEA GALLERY River to Sea Gallery, 225 S. Water St., Chandler’s Wharf. Opening reception for exhibit of new paintings by Kirah Van Sickle. Kirah spent the summer in Italy focusing on plain air landscape

11/5: IVEY HAYES AND FRIENDS

Hayes’ bright, colorful and expressive figurative pieces, featuring everything from music to culture, fishing to farming, will be for sale at the Hannah Block USO and Community Arts Center this Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Local artist friends Z. Ryan Lauzon, Ty Parker, Lorraine Scalamoni and Jerry Fox will also have artwork for sale. A wine tasting with Silver Coast Winery will also take place and door prizes given away!

DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS Stripped: An intimate studio series with Doug Varone and Dnaces, Mon., 11/15, 7pm, free.

Showasing movement without lights or costumes, live excerpts of old and new repertory work.

Intimate studio atmosphenere gives audiences a chance to get close to the work, the company adnd

painting. Exhibit represents exploration in color and composition. 11/4-30. Free onsite parking at Chandler’s Wharf. (775)291-7578 UNCW ANN FLACK BOSEMAN GALLERY UNC Wilmington’s Ann Flack Boseman Gallery, 2010-11 exhibition calendar, covering a diverse collection of media. • Junk to Funk, through 11/5, 6-

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7:30pm, Boseman Gallery (Fisher University Union, 2nd Floor). Department of Theatre’s professor Mark Sorensen will have eco-fashion show inspired by the book “No Impact Man,” UNCW’s common reading experience choice, displays student-made trash-to-treasure couture. Bringing together the frivolous world of fashion and the environmental need to reduce our carbon footprint, reuse materials that will go to water, this exhibit marries opposite theories. • Meredith Connelly’s Ann Flack Boseman Scholarship Show: 11/11-12/12, w/reception on 11/11, 6-7:30pm, Boseman Gallery (Fisher University Union, 2nd Floor). Selected annually by the faculty of the Dept of Art & Art History, the scholarship is endowed through the generosity of Mark Griffi s and Dave Robertson in honor of Ms. Boseman. The award, which is a merit-based honor, consists of tuition support, as well as a solo exhibition.Shane Fernando, (910) 962-7972 or fernandol@uncw.edu.

NO BOUNDAIRES No Boundaries International Artist Colony presents “No Boundaries Retrospective” at The Art Gallery of the Cultural Arts Building on the UNCW campus. A 12-year retrospective showcasing all participating international artists since 1998, UNCW Cultural Art’s Building. Hangs through 11/5. • A reknowned artist from our Wilmington Sister City in Belize, as well as artists from Spain, Brazil, Australia, Scotland, and the United States will paint on Bald Head Island 11/5–19, at the seventh No Boundaries International Art Colony. The goal of No Boundaries is to give artists and the community a forum for free expression and cross-cultural dialogue. No Boundaries is essential to the global community in its ability to imagine and realize a future filled with diverse voices that are heard with empathy.

The fruits of this dynamic meeting will be shared with the public in an exhibition at Acme Art Studios with an Exhibition Gala, Sat., 11/20, 6-10pm.

IVEY HAYES AND FRIENDS Art show & sale presented by Ivey Hayes & Friends, w/artists: Z. Ryan Lauzon, Ty Parker, Loraine Scalamoni and Jerry Fox. HBUSO / Community Arts Center, 120 South 2nd St., 11/5, 5-8pm.

Wine tasting w/Sliver Coast Winery. Free; door prizes. Phillip Hayes: 910-470-3915 or philliphayes@earthlink.net NOVEMBER DRAWING AND PAINTING November drawing and painting classes with Lois DeWitt. Small classes: $20 ea. or $75/four.

Individual instruction: $25/two hour session. loislight@bellsouth.net • Paint From A Photo: $20/class, $75/four sessions, Tues, 3-5pm. Bring your favorite photo or printed image, learn basic painting skills to turn it into your own beautiful painting! Use oils, water colors or acrylics. • Watercolor, Wed. 11am-1pm. Learn wet and dry brush, expressive brushstroke, light and shadow washes, spray and splash! Learn watercolor basics or refresh your painting skills. • Drawing: $20/class, $75/four sessions, Wed., 3pm-5pm.

Line, shading, composition and how to draw what you see. Learn the basics or refresh your drawing skills. • Drawing, Sat., 11am-1pm. Line, shading, composition and how to draw what you see. Learn the basics or refresh your drawing skills. • Acrylic Painting, Sat., 3-5pm. Color mixing, brushwork, gradations, light and shadow. Learn the basics or refresh your painting skills.

WICKED GALLERY Wicked Gallery grand opening, 11/6, 7pm. 511 Castle St. A night of nefarious behavior and incorrigible art. Live performances and music by DJ Randy, food and drink for the senses and local artists exhibit, including visual stimulatin by the Feral Art Collective.

SPECTRUM ART GALLERY 2nd Annual Paint Around benefit event for DREAMS of Wilmington, 11/6, 11am-1:30pm.

Weather permitting, the event will be held on the lawn in front of the gallery (inside per rain). Part collaboration, part game show, five artists will work for 30 minutes painting from several still life set-ups. When their time is up, they’ll pick up their pallet of paints and rotate to the next canvas. Then they’ll have 30 minutes to move the previous artist’s painting along toward the final completion before they move onto the next painting. All paintings will be 16”x20,” offering different perspective, subject matter and color scheme. Feat: Jane Faudree, Kristin Gibson, Ann Hair, Nancy Noel May and Phil

Meade. All five artists will sign all five canvases, w/ resulting artworks raffled off to benefit DREAMS of ILM, a local organization that provides arts training and education to local youth. $5 or 5 for $20 raffle tickets may be purchased at Spectrum through 11/20. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.

Final drawing on 20th at 5pm. • Artist Reception & Wine Tasting, Fri. 11/12, 6-8pm. Fee and open to the public.Live music and refreshments. The featured artists from the Paint Around will be present to talk about the experience and to show off their latest creations. Raffle ticketsavailable at event. Spectrum Art and Jewelry: 1125-H Military Cutoff Rd. www.SpectrumArtAndJewelry.com or 910-256-2323.

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

The exhibition will run 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, 10am-6pm, 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 ART FOR THE MASSES Sat., 11/20, 11am-5pm: 10th Art for the Masses, featuring local fine art for $25-$250. A one-day event for local fine artists to sell their work directly to the public. No gallery, no middleman, no wine, no cheese, just hardcore capitalism. Artists setup: Fri., 11/19, 3-8pm. Location to be determined.

Jenni Harris: aftm@creativewilmington.com SILVER COAST WINERY LABEL CONTEST Silver Coast Winery hosts an art competition for the creation of its’ newest wine label for an oakaged Port Wine hand-crafted in true Mediterranean style. $500 awarded, w/ recognition on the label (label will become the property of Silver Coast Winery). Submissions no larger than 8” x 10.”

Deadline: 11/20. Final label dimensions: 2” x 4,” in full color. Applications: www.silvercoastwinery. com . Include contact info and a brief bio; events@ silvercoastwinery.com.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHTS Fourth Friday Gallery Nights 2010, 6-9pm on the fourth Friday of each month: 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.

SILVER COAST WINERY Silver Coast Winery displays the works of Amy Hautman, through 1/15/2011. Fine technical mastery of watercolor and oil mediums in precise brushstrokes of large scale flowers, enticing doorways, luscious grapevines and dramatic landscapes. Portrays the emotional power of nature. All proceeds will be donated to Carolina Health & Humor Association, dedicated to promoting health, healing and well being through humor for 24 years. 6680 Barbeque Rd NW Ocean Isle Beach, NC. (910) 287-2800. www. silvercoastwinery.com BOTTEGA EVENTS “Paperazzi,” co-curated exhibit consisting of 2D and 3D works of art created entirely on paper by local and regional artists. • Mon.: Old Skool Video Game Night and Open Paint and Create (bring art in progress). • Tues: Starving Artist and open-mic night; 11/9: Atlantis Open-Mic • Wed. Weekly Wine Tastings, 7pm • Thurs: 11/11: Wilmington Writers Forum meets, 6-10pm (writers welcome). • 11/25: Thanksgiving dinner for regulars at Bottega. • Call to artists: Submissions for our Spring 2011 exhibition—recent or new works created by people with developmental and physical disabilities. All

Mon.-Wed., 7:30pm, at Thalian Hall. Tickets: $7; etix. com or at box office. • 11/22-24: Farewell, directed

by Christian Carion. An espionage film about events that changed history with a cast including Willem Dafoe and Diane Kruger. 113 Minutes. French, English and Russian with subtitles. • 11/28-12/1, w/special matinee on Sun.,3pm. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the third and final film adaptation of the best-selling Millennium Trilogy written by the late Swedish author, Stieg Larsson (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire). 148 Minutes. Rated R. www.whqr.org CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL 16th annual Cucalorus Film Festival passes are on sale, $75-$300. Festival takes place 11/11-14, welcoming 1,000s of filmmakers and film fans from all over the world, for screenings, workshops and social events. Core venues include: Thalian Hall, City Stage Theater and Jengo’s Playhouse. Early selections include: Enter the Voice, The Temptation of St. Tony, brilliantlove, The Erectionman, AFilm Unfinished and more! (910) 343-5995. www. cucalorus.org.

Seniors SENIOR DAY First annual Senior Resource Day: Tues, 11/9, 10am-3pm at the First Baptist Church Activity Center, 1939 Independence Blvd. Free and open to all senior citizens in the community. Attendees will get free information about insurance, investments, legal matters, health screenings, identity theft, senior housing options, and more. There will be more

dry drawing materials and watercolors. • Yoga, every Thurs., noon and evening yoga, 6pm; $5 members, $8 non-members. • Tai Chi, every Wed., noon, $5 members, $8 non-members per class • Corner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd.

Tues-Wed and Fri-Sun., 11am-5pm; Thurs: 11am9pm. Museum members free, $8 non-members, $5 students with valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. www. cameronartmuseum.com or 910-395-5999.

Sports/Recreation BEACH TO BATTLESHIP TRIATHALON On Sat., 11/13, PPD Beach2Battleship IronDistance Triathlon returns w/1,500 athletes from 44 states and seven countries doing full- and halftriathalons, beginning with a swim in the channel at Wrightsville Beach and ending in Wilmington at the Battleship NC. Finish-line celebration will take place at Battleship Park, Sat. afternoon and evening.

Water taxis and buses will transport participants from the Battleship to downtown. Sun: an Athlete Celebration/Awards Cruise aboard the Henrietta III riverboat. beach2battleship.com.

TEALGATE UNCW basketball season is upon us and to UNCW Alumni that means TEALgate 2010! Join the Cape Fear Area Alumni Chapter as they celebrate Seahawk Basketball alumni style before men’s basketball game against Morehead State, Thursday, 11/18, 5pm. Food, music, fun! Tickets before 11/14 receive discounted price , $15, and a free gift at the event. www.uncw.edu/alumni/capefear.html or (910)9622684 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. Next session: 10/24! • Bridge Intermediate II Lessons: Thurs., noon-2pm. Meets in the Fran Russ Rec Center. Pre-reg req • Tennis Lessons. reg. for group tennis lessons for adults, youth ages 9-12 years and QuickStart for ages 6-8 years; classes meet Mon/Wed at Tennis Courts. • Yoga. Tue/Wed at 6:30pm. Classes meet in the Fran Russ Rec Center • Beginner Pilates: Tues/Thurs. 7:30-8:15am. • Low Impact Aerobics. Mon/Wed/Fri. 8-9am and 9-10am. Geared for seniors.; suitable to anyone.

• Pilates 50/50: Mon/Wed/Fri, 10:15-11:15am.

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Thurs. 8:30-9:15am. • Boot Camp fitness class meets Mon/Wed, 5:30–6:30pm; and Tues/Thurs, 6-7am; Sat., 8-9am. Pre-reg: (910) 256-7925.

WILMINGTON WATER TOURS This Weekend on the “Wilmington”: Fri, 11/5, 6pm, with Cape Fear Singles Group. Dinner and dancing on board. full ABC permits, $35 includes first drink. • Sat., 11/6, 1pm: Meet and Greet with Ellen Hunter, author of widely proclaimed murder mysteries based in Wilmington. Come aboard as we set sail for book signing and mingling $15, for hour and a half. • Fall Schedule starts 11/7: WedSat.:10am-12:30pm: Black Water Adventure,” $25. Experience the upper Cape Fear with a narrated Eco-Tour. • 3-5:30pm “Best of Both Worlds Cruise” $35. A combination of the narrated scenic and historical “Black Water Adventure” and our most popular “Sunset Cruise.” Learn about one of our most under utilized resources in NC while experiencing a beautiful sunset like you can only get on the Cape Fear River. Light appetizers and 1st drink! • Sun., Brunch: 12-3pm $45. Every Sunday has a different destination. Brunch buffet and 1st drink included. • Now accepting holiday party cruises! Wilmington Water Tours, (910) 3383134 or www.wilmingtonwatertours.com

Film CONTRACORRIENTE SCREENING 11/11: UNCW’s LGBTQIA Resource Office presents “Contracorriente (Undertow),” a 2010 Sundance Audience Award winner. A young man from a small fishing village in Cabo Blanco has a 7-month pregnant wife and is having an affair with another man—something that goes against the village’s traditional, religious beliefs. Free in UNCW Lumina Theater, UNCW campus.

MAGGIE TALES “Maggie Tales” is an animation series pilot for young children with each episode teaching a life lesson.

The dog animation for young children will premiere, Sat., 11/13, 10am, $10, at the Children’s Museum of Wilmington as part of the Cucalorus Film Festival.

Stars internationally known animation actress Juliet Cesarioand Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actress, Linda Lavin. 116 Orange Street. www.

LCWProductions.com/MaggieTales.html CINEMATIQUE WHQR’s Cinematique takes place every week,

Friends of the Library. Two Sisters Bookery will handle book sales after the program and Nan will be on hand to personally autograph copies. Two Sisters Bookery, The Cotton Exchange, 318 Nutt St. 910-762-4444

Classes OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING CLASSES Osher Lifelong Learning Classes: Wed., 11/3, 1:303:30pm, free or $15 for nonmembers. Joys and Challenges of Serving as a Nonprofit Board Member: If you are interested in becoming a board member or want to truly understand requirements —this class is for you. QENO is a program at UNCW that works with area nonprofits to increase their effectiveness through training, recruiting and networking. As part of the class you will examine openings that area nonprofits have for new board members and possibly link up to one.Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNCW. Register: 962-3195 or www.uncw.edu/pathways CAPE FEAR LITERACY TUTOR TRAINING Sign up for CFLC 101 to learn more about Cape Fear Literacy Council and how you can help. Sessions: Wed.,Wed., 11/3, 10am-noon. Adult Basic Literacy Tutor Certification workshops held 11/5, 10, 15, and 17, 10am-1pm—must attend all sessions to receive certifications. English for Speakers of Other Languages workshops held 10/19, 20, and 21, 6:309:30pm—must attend all to receive certifications.

(910) 251- 0911.

Clubs/Notices

11/5: WILMINGTON WATER TOURS The Cape Fear Singles group will meet aboard ‘The Wilmington,’ as part of Wilmington Water Tours Friday night event. Folks will enjoy food, mingling, and meeting fun and new people while cruising along the Cape Fear River at sunset. Hors d’ouevre served, and the first drink is free (full ABC permits). Tickets are $35; cruise lasts from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. than 35 exhibitors, as well as workshops throughout the day on topics of interest to seniors. Free screenings include blood pressure, Cholesterol, Pulmonary Function, hearing, balance and foot screening. Two information workshops will be offered every hour, beginning at 10:30am.

Schedule: 10:30am: Identity Theft/Scams, SHIPP/ Medicare Part D & Social Security • 11:30am, Begin the Conversation/Advance Care Planning, Veteran’s Benefits • 12:30pm, Aging In Place/Options for Care, Elder Law Topics and Benefits • 1:30pm: Reverse Mortgages/Consumer Credit Counseling, Documenting Medical Records & Important Papers.

Readings/Lectures TWO SISTERS BOOKERY 11/5, 2-4pm: Ellen Elizabeth Hunter presents “Murder at the Holiday Flotilla,” as part of her Magnolia Mystery Series. Homemade goodies will be served! • 11/18, 7-8pm: Carol Kenny reads from her new novel Whispers From St. Mary’s Well, the fictional biography of Caroline Rose Newlyn, who was born in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, in 1851 “beneath the veil,” predicting episodes of clairvoyance. • 11/18: 6:30pm: Nan Graham at New Hanover County Library-Northeast Branch.

Nan’s humorous commentaries on WHQR have delighted listeners for years, as well as the two volumes, Turn South at the Next Magnolia and In a Magnolia Minute, which are collections of some of her funniest stories. She will be the featured speaker for this annual program presented by the

CREATIVE WRITING AWARD Dr. Luleen S. Anderson, local writer, will be honored by the presentation of the NC Sorosis Scholarship for Excellence in Creative Writing presented in her honor to Tracie L. Darnell. Scholarship is given each year by NC Sorosis to a UNCW student majoring in Creative Writing. Presentation on 11/7, 3pm, Sorosis Clubhouse, 20 South Cardinal Dr. Public invited; refreshments served.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY The Federal Point Historic Preservation Society holds membership meetings once a month, 7:30-9pm, at the Federal Point History Center, 1121-A N. Lake Blvd. Public invited. Schedule: 11/15: Author LeRae Umfleet discusses 1898 Wilmington race riots, as scribed in her book, “A Day of Blood.” (910) 458-0502.

HOLIDAY PARADE PARTICIPANTS WANTED The City of Wilmington is currently looking for community groups, school organizations, bands and businesses for the Wilmington Holiday Parade to be held on Sun., 12/5. Entry forms and parade route maps available at www.wilmingtonrecreation. com. Deadline entry: 11/17, 5pm. Max. 100 total entries will be accepted into this year’s parade so sign up early! info@wilmingtonrecreation.com

CAPE FEAR CAMERA CLUB Club meets third Thursday each month, Sept thru June, 7:00 pm at Cape Fear Community College. For additional information: www. capefearcameraclub.org YOUNG DEMOCRATS OF NHC Meets 1st and 3rd Tues. ea. month at the downtown public library, third floor, 6:30pm. Ages 18-35.

CULINARY ADVENTURES TOUR Culinary Adventures Tour with Food Writer/Chef Liz Biro. 2:30-5:00p.m. Debut of culinary walking tour that guides visitors thru downtown Wilmington’s food history with delicious stops. Tours offered Thursdays & Saturdays. Admission charge. http:// www.lizbiro.com/; 910-545-8055 WILMINGTON NEWCOMERS CLUB The Wilmington Newcomers Club meets monthly at 9:30am on the 2nd Thurs ea. month at the Coastline Convention Center, 501 Nutt St. Sign up for our satellite groups, where members can follow their particular interest and make new friends along the way—bridge clubs, dinner groups, business networking groups, etc. 910-632-8315, www. wilmingtonncnewcomers.com.

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ADOPT A PET “Hero” Needs some Heroes to his rescue!

I am a sweet, shy boy that wound up at Pender County Animal Control. Even though I have a big smile on my face in this picture, I was in pretty rough shape. The Sunburst Foundation took me into their rescue because they thought I was so cute and sweet. Last week I spent time at the vet to 3 decayed molars that caused me a lot of pain extracted and I was found to have lyme disease and heartworm disease to boot. I am presently on antibiotics and pain killers and having to eat soft food but I am making progress. Sunburst Foundation is in desperate need of funds to help heal my heart. I won’t be available for a permanent home until the treatment is over so I am anxious to get started.

Your tax deductible donations can be sent to: Sunburst Foundation PO Box 7527, Wilmington, NC 28406 and indicate for “Hero” Meanwhile that are many more homeless, helpless cats and dogs at the Pender County Animal Control at 3280 New Savannah Rd in Burgaw, NC. Shelter hours 1-4 Monday through Friday and 12n-4p on Sat. Phone is 910-259-1349 or shelter manager’s cell 910-279-3196 Please check them out and them out and tell them that “Hero” sent you.

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The Pender County Animal Control is in desperate need of dog houses or igloos for their canines.

Please contact Darlene Clewis, shelter manager for more info on this need at 910-279-3196.

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