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FALL’S FIRST COURSE IS READY! pg. 38-44 Encore Restaurant week kicks off wednesday, October 19 Encompassing eight days of delectable dining deals is Encore Restaurant Week, October 19th to 26th. From bargain breakfasts to low-priced lunches, over 40 local eateries are serving up their best bites. Sip wine with a four-course dinner to make for a romantic date night, or gather friends to take on the town. Indulge all over, from downtown to north Wilmington, at the beaches in Wrightsville and Carolina, and even in Swansboro! encore has made it easy, thanks to the maps from each area and quick-look deals located on pages 28-44. For full details visit www.encorerestaurantweek.com, or pick up our ERW Guide at any encore distribution point. Eat. Drink. Indulge! Stock photo.

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6-7 news: Shannon Rae Gentry clarifies the goals of the Occupy Wilmington movement;

LATE nIghT FUnnIES “You know who’s also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That’s a real good idea—a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.” —David Letterman “The Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered outside Rupert Murdoch’s house chanting, ‘What do we want?’ Murdoch interrupted saying, ‘I already know, I hacked your phones.’”

—Craig Ferguson “President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, ‘Oh, you’ll see.’” — Jimmy Fallon “Chris Christie has officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. Christie said President Obama is ‘shrinking the American pie.’ And believe me, if there’s one thing Christie hates, it’s a small pie.” —Jay Leno “Rick Perry said America’s revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, ‘I never said I was a geology major.’”

—Conan O’Brien “Tim Pawlenty says he regrets quitting the presidential race so early. He said that when he runs in 2016, his campaign slogan will be, ‘Tim Pawlenty: This Time I’ll Quit Later.’” —Conan O’Brien “Herman Cain was in second place in most of the national polls, behind Mitt Romney. Apparently his message of ‘less government, more toppings’ has been well received.” —Jimmy Kimmel

Veronica Cisneros details the Beirut Memorial Remembrance Ceremony in Jacksonville.

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12 art: Sarah Richter has the scoop on Cameron Art Museum’s latest exhibits, opening this week.

14 gallery listings: Check out what’s hanging in local art galleries.

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27-29 film: Alex Pompliano has all the gory details on Carnage Film Festival; Anghus reviews ‘The Ides of March.’

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49-50 haunted fun: New Hanover High School’s Lyceum Academy spooks with its annual haunted house; Walk with Civil War ghosts during the Fort Fisher Halloween Festival.

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encore asked the candidates to answer questions related to their support for our local economy. We are in effect hiring people to manage our money and plan our future. Thus, if we do not ask them to think about and invest in our local economy, we cannot expect them to do it.

This week encore asked Napier Fuller, candidate for city council, to answer questions about his “Buy Local” consciousness and re-election campaign. encore (e): Are you familiar with either the Buy Local ILM movement or the national one, and do you feel the the movement is important to our region?

Napier Fuller (NF): Yes, I’m Twitter buddies with Buy Local ILM. I applaud your efforts to market locally made things. Buy Local ILM is one of the“thousand points of light.” e: How does your platform support small business, entrepreneurs and Buy Local?

NF: Too often our economic development policy has focused on giving tax credits to large companies, which actually shifts the burden of taxes to small businesses.

My business experience has taught me that we need more entrepreneurs and knowledge-based workers— that’s where the job creation starts. Hence, Wilmington needs to build upon our existing resources: UNCW, CFCC, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, and existing small businesses. My bottom line is finding more jobs for Wilmingtonians. We cannot afford to have so many bright young people out of work. e: Do you feel that it is important for our government and educational institutions (i.e. UNCW, the community colleges and the school system) to source goods

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from our local or regional area? And do you support policy to re-enforce it?

NF: I’m running for city council, which has no say whatsoever in how the State buys things, but here is my personal opinion: State institutions have very burdensome buying regulations already, and I would like to reduce them. So, no, I don’t want to add any more rules.

Another whole question would be: “What constitutes ‘local’ goods BTW?” Lawyers could spend a couple hundred billable hours defining just that! e: Do you frequent farmers’ markets, and what are your thoughts on the place of agriculture within our local economy?

NF: Yes, my wife, Sue Anne, and I do often get our fresh produce in the Saturday morning Water Street farmer’s market. I’m a big fan of home vegetable gardens—one 25 square-foot plot can produce enough fresh veggies for a person to eat over a year. I like the direct-to-consumer model of farmers’ markets—our food is better and the farmers don’t deal with middle men. e: What percentage of your consumer spending do you dedicate toward locally owned businesses (farms and foods included)? Chain stores and restaurants?

Shopping on the Internet?

NF: As a matter of privacy my dear encore readers, I don’t break out a pie chart of my consumer spending. I am an Amazon customer, and I do buy many specialized books (for example, “2012 Rough Guides to Korea and the Philippines” I bought today) because of the huge selection and great pricing. That said, I do also shop in used bookstores, Old Books and Salvation Army downtown because they both have stuff that starts at $1. The experience of browsing in person is wholly different and leads one to buy altogether different items.

So what I’m saying is there is always a place for local shops even with the Internet; the consumer experience is totally different. e: What is your position on film incentives?

NF: I support them because it helps generate more tourism and adds to the prestige of Wilmington; it put us on the map. e: What is your position on incentives to attract new businesses to our area, and do you support any sort of tax breaks or rewards for existing small businesses that provide jobs and pay into the tax base?

NF: I have a “wait and see” approach toward what is coming down the pipeline, but, generally, I do not favor “incentives” as they just pass the tax burden along to someone else. Tax breaks just tend to pass tax burden along to someone else: No dice. e: What are your thoughts regarding the collection and remittance of sales tax by large online retailers back to states—eventually, to municipalities like ours? Should they be forced to comply with sales tax collection?

NF: You have hit on a real issue here, encore. Should the state levy sales tax on purchases NC residents make via the Internet, out-of-state? Sorry to be wishiwashy, but I am undecided here. Both arguments are convincing: I understand the anger that a local merchant has when an online retailer avoids the 8 percent tax. She has been undercut in pricing; it is unfair. The online retailer responds that he should not pay the tax because he has not used the state’s roads to transport his goods nor has he used the state’s police and courts to protect his goods. Usually, the shipping costs equals the sales tax so it all evens out— the pricing—and levels the field.

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occupy wilmington: 99% hit our streets in protest of corporation greed

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with the “99%” to cities across the country; yet, somehow, it’s still criticized for consisting of disorganized, incoherent, bongo-playing hippies. Nonetheless, the movement has begun here in Wilmington—and, yes, looking around the first General Assembly earlier this month, there were a couple of bare feet and dreadlocks present. But they weren’t alone.

Attending the first Occupy Wilmington General Assembly was like attending a large family reunion, running into people one would never imagine being related to. All ages, races and socio-economic backgrounds came with open ears and minds. Those who consider themselves the 99% are related by their frustrations and need for change in what’s considered a broken economy at the hands of the corruption of a few. Yet, the vast majority have paid—and still pay—the consequences.

Since the first meeting at Greenfield Lake, it was clear there wouldn’t be a single or a few designated leaders or representatives of

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by Shannon Rae r encore contributo OWS, but everyone would and should exercise their leadership abilities. In the absence of an electronic microphone, people took turns sharing why they came and what they expected by speaking with the “human microphone,” which involves audiences repeating what is said in order for everyone to hear the person at the helm. Some were comfortable listening and showing their opinions via established hand gestures used by other Occupy groups for communicating opinions, such as raising hands to agree with someone, lowering them to disagree, crossing arms to block a proposal and so on.

Most mainstream and local media have questioned the group’s intentions and purpose—or lack thereof. So, to clarify its purpose here and now, OWS is working to change economic and political inequalities, and restore democracy to the United States, which has been adopted by both the Wilmington and UNCW groups.

Next question: How? As suggested by some OWS members, there should be a push on government to reinstate regulations on corporations and financial institutions, such as the Glass-Steagall Act, which has a particularly interesting origin (according to history and PBS). After the stock market crash of 1929 many, including politicians, blamed market speculation engagement by banks during the 1920s—investors were seriously hurt by overriding interest, which promoted stocks and benefits to banks rather than individuals.

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The Glass-Steagall Act passed after it garnered support for stronger regulations when bank officials were forced to answer for their roles in the market crash. Followed by the Bank Holding Company Act in 1956, restrictions on banks were extended to include “bank holding companies owning two or more banks cannot engage in non-banking activities.”

However, after 25 years of financial companies lobbying (a $300 million endeavor) and weakening of regulations, Congress repealed Glass-Steagall in 1999. Interestingly enough, just days after the decision of the administration—which included the Treasury Department—Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, the former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, accepted a top job at Citigroup as a chief lieutenant.

The current and probably most well-known target, Bank of America, falls within reason of protest, Wilmingtonian Ron Shakelford says.

“It isn’t the time to increase fees or increase [anything] on the working class.” The new Bank of America monthly fee for debit card use spawned a lot of OWS. When most already live paycheck to paycheck, $5 is a lot to pay to a bank that has already been bailed out, has not paid taxes, and has endured one of the largest lay-offs in recent years. The reasoning for the charge, as quoted by its CEO, Brian Moynihan, on “Larry King,” “We have a right to make a profit.”

That’s why a lot of people probably saw the 99% protestors outside of the downtown BoA last Saturday. Though the bank wasn’t open, nor its neighbor Wells Fargo, the men, women and children lined both sides of the streets with signs, chants and yes, bongos.

Plenty of passers-by honked in support of the peaceful protest, others moved on without much of a glance, and others simply don’t agree—as in nature.

Regardless, the movement resonates with people like Shakelford because his pension has taken a huge hit due to circumstances out of his control. “I’m a firm believer in free market,” he asserts, “[but] politics are being run by money now, and individuals/citizen groups can’t compete with big corporations and business.”

When asked, most Occupy protestors like Shakelford don’t attempt to explain or take authority on everything going wrong in the American economy; it can’t be wrapped in a neat sentence, nor can an automatic solution arise to fix it. However, one thing is for certain: For the people who have taken to the streets in protest, “People either rise up and demand change, or it doesn’t happen,” Shakelford says.

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they came in peace: Beirut Memorial serves as remembrance for 241 serviceman killed

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a.m., a yellow Mercedes Benz truck rammed through the perimeter fence, past two sentry posts and straight for the door of the temporary headquarters of the 1st Battalion 8th Marines 24th Amphibious Unit. Seconds later 12,000 pounds of trinitrotoluene (TNT) exploded, the building collapsed. Two hundred and forty-one fathers, sons, brothers and friends were killed.

Most of these men who died were stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC. The bombing itself was the deadliest single-day death toll for the U.S. Marine Corps since the battle of Iwo Jima in WWII. It also is the deadliest single-day death for the military since the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. Just two minutes later, another suicide bomber in a truck exploded at the French Peacekeeping Force’s Drakkar building, four miles away from the Marine HQ. Fifty-eight French soldiers were killed.

Onslow County suffered a great lost because most of the unit’s marines’ families started to call Jacksonville home. Immediately after the bombings, the community came together to help the families. Together, the community and military personnel sought to construct a monument that would honor the fallen. Their combined efforts solidified bonds of respect and cooperation.

This year Betty Schiefelbein published “A Lasting Legacy: The Story of the Beirut Memorial” about how Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune pulled together to build a memorial to honor those lost. What broke ground in May 19th 1986 today stands as a testament to the small city and its neighboring military installation during a period of grief and perseverance. Schiefelbein shared the story of a retired marine who was at the memorial. He told her he was changing posts that morning, and if he would have stayed a couple minutes later, he, too, would have perished. He noted his own guilt for not staying—something which took years of which to surrender.

Dan Joy, a local retired marine, also survived the bombing. An active member of The Beirut Veterans of America, Joy’s story was in the 1985 issue of Leatherneck magazine, which celebrates the Marines.

Entitled “Modern Patriot,” he explained, “When a person sees your flag—especially overseas-—they don’t just see red, white and blue; they see the country behind the flag and what it stands for.”

Having joined the Marines in February 1981, Joy was reared by a doctrine of service and self-sacrifice. “I was raised to honor God, mother and country,” he adds. Beirut was Joy’s second deployment. He made cor-

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by Veronica Cisn l Beirut Memoria 2 p.m. remony: 10/23, Ce ce an Remembr ard, Johnson Boulev • n so hn Jo p m Ca sonville, NC off HWY 24, Jack poral shortly before his unit’s deployment to Lebanon in May of 1983, when he was assigned to Weapons Company, 1st Battalion 8th Marines through an administrative error. He wanted to be on and volunteered for Force Recon.

“As soon as I reported aboard, I told them I was supposed to go to recon,’’ Joy says remorsefully. “But they told me there wasn’t anything I could do about it until I had two deployments.”

The 24th Amphibious Unit arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, late May. In July, Joy and a fellow marine, Brian Murray, had come up with an idea to unify friendship with Lebanon. The two took their idea to Weapons Company C.O., Capt. Mike Haskell. He liked their “Friendship Marathon” idea, so they posted a challenge in the 24th MAU newsletter, “The Root Scoop.” On the fourth of July, Joy and Murray ran the first relay of the marathon, one of them carrying a Lebanese flag and the other holding the American flag.

Unfortunately, a week later, anti-Lebanese government forces began to protest and attack the American forces.

“Lt. Losey was a real motivator,” Joy says.

“He was from North Carolina and he spoke in this quiet Southern accent. He told us we weren’t there to fight. We wanted to go out there and tear some people up . . . but he told us that wasn’t our mission. He explained we’d been picked for this mission, because the Marines are the most disciplined. He urged us to take everything in stride—that we were trying to give the people time to get their government back together.”

Joy says the American presence in Lebanon was getting bad press, wherein he even read that a woman was not going to vote because she thought the military did not belong in Lebanon. Joy wrote a letter to try and explain his peacekeeping mission, and to urge his fellow Americans to take positive steps to help the country. Joy received a Freedoms Foundation Honor Certificate for his letter, which was prompted by such suffrage. On that morning of October 23, 1983, Joy had been on patrol.

“I said goodbye,” he remembers, “figuring I’d try to get some sleep. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion—the loudest I’d ever

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heard!”

He tried to figure out what could have caused a blast of that magnitude and began to think of his friends that were in the building. The names of the deceased slowly were released. Among those who died was Weapons Company C.O., Capt. Mike Haskell.

“We really looked up to him. Now, he was gone,” Joy recalls. “We were supposed to leave that night. We’d been over there as peacekeepers. We did not want to hassle these people. . . . We are trying to keep the peace and we haven’t fired at these people, and here they are shooting at us. At first, we fired back, more or less as self-preservation.

Then, we all wanted revenge for Marines who died. We fired everything we had at them.”

With the little ammo left, they boarded a ship toward home; it was a long trip back.

When they arrived in Morehead City, North Carolina, they were greeted with scores of people lining the docks. “Serving the military can be a thankless job,” Joy says, “but these people showed us how much they cared.”

In addition, Joy says if there were ever one thing that was overlooked in the Beirut bombings, it would be the Navy Corpsmen. “These guys performed miraculously in the face of

such adversity in Beirut,” he notes. “They are (arguably), the most important individual to the marine on the battlefield. There are several incidents throughout the deployment where these ‘Angles of Mercy’ aided wounded marines under austere conditions. These guys will charge through the fiery gates of hell to get to a wounded comrade. In Beirut, I saw them perform ‘miracles’ with only a ‘Unit One’ (1970’s era Medical Kit). If there was a way to travel back in time and get them the recognition they deserve, I would do it. . . . Corpsmen are and have always been held in the highest esteem amongst all marines.”

President Reagan stated in his speech just four days after the attacks: “They were not afraid to stand up for their country or, no matter how difficult and slow the journey might be, to give to others that last, best hope of a better future. We cannot and will not dishonor them now, and the sacrifices they’ve made by failing to remain as faithful to the cause of freedom and the pursuit of peace as they have been.”

We must remember those who gave their lives on October 23, 1983, and beyond. We must remember those who gave the ultimate price for freedom. That is their legacy—all 241 men killed in the Beirut bombings.

The Beirut Memorial is open 24 hours a day and operates year round. Admission is free and is handicapped accessible. It is located at the Camp Johnson gate entrance, on Johnson Boulevard; Hwy. 24.

Its annual observance will take place on October 23rd. The USO, where veterans and their families sign in and meet in the Beirut Memorial Room on Friday, noon to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., is located at 9 Tallman Street. It will host a book signing for “A Lasting Legacy: The Story of the Beirut Memorial” on October 22nd, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

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LEAD STORY Bureaucrat’s Delight: An update of the official index for classifying medical conditions (for research and quality control, and for insurance claims) was released recently, to take effect in October 2013, and replaced the current 18,000 codes with 140,000 much more specific ones. A September Wall Street Journal report noted, for example, 72 different codes for injuries involving birds, depending on the type. “Bitten by turtle” is different from “struck by turtle.” Different codes cover injuries in “opera houses,” on squash courts, and exactly where in or around a mobile home an injury occurred. “Walked into lamppost, initial encounter” is distinct from “walked into lamppost, subsequent encounter.” Codes cover conditions stemming from encounters with extraterrestrials and conditions resulting from “burn due to water skis on fire.” “Bizarre personal appearance” has a code, as well as “very low level of personal hygiene.”

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“chronic fatigue syndrome.” London’s Observer reported in August that medical researchers who even suggest that the illness might have a “psychological” component have been subject to vitriolic abuse, stalking, disruptions to the scientists’ workplaces, and even death threats. In at least one case, the activists succeeded: A psychiatry professor said he had moved his area of research from chronic fatigue to Gulf War syndrome. “That has taken me to Iraq and Afghanistan where ... I feel a lot safer.”

Political Correctness Lives: British authorities threatened Iain Turnbull, 63, with a fine (equivalent of $1,530) in August because he refused to complete the mandatory census earlier this year.

Turnbull, from Wales, was protesting that the government, intending to be progressively “inclusive,” made available census questionnaires and instructions in such languages as Urdu, Punjabi and Tagalog but not Welsh (one of Britain’s native languages, spoken by a half-million citizens).

Although the Patriot Act, drafted in the days after 9-11 and quickly enacted into law, was designed expressly to give prosecutors more leeway to challenge suspected terrorism, one of its key provisions has since then been used more than 100 times as often for drug investigations as for terrorism. New York magazine reported in September that “sneak and peek” warrants (enabling searches without notifying the targets) have been obtained only 15 times for terrorism threats but 1,618 times in drug cases.

The Litigious Society In 2009 Diane Schuler, with a 0.19 blood-alcohol reading (and marijuana in her system), drove the wrong way for two miles on a New York freeway, finally crashing into another car, killing three people and herself. In July 2011, her widower, Dave Schuler, filed a lawsuit against the state, alleging that the collision was the state’s fault for not posting signs warning motorists like Diane Schuler that they were going the wrong way. (Dave Schuler’s own private investigator told The Daily Cortlandt newspaper that he tried to discourage Schuler from filing the lawsuit, to no avail.)

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“(My) client was devastated by what happened,” said the lawyer for Jean Pierre in announcing Pierre’s $80 million lawsuit in August against the city of Newburgh, N.Y. Pierre’s estranged girlfriend had committed suicide by driving into a city lake, taking the couple’s three small children to their deaths, also. In the time before he became devastated, Pierre had been arrested for failure to pay child support and for endangering one of his children (found wandering the street in freezing weather on a Super Bowl Sunday), and friends of his girlfriend told the New York Post that Pierre constantly abused her, including immediately before her final drive.

Chicago’s WLS Radio reported that a man (unnamed in the story) filed a $600,000 lawsuit on Sept. 2 against the Grossinger City Autoplex in the city, claiming that five employees had physically harassed him during business hours over a two-month period in 2009. Included was the man’s claim that he had been given multiple “wedgies,” one of which was a “hanging” wedgie.

Compelling Explanations Cicero, Ill., Town President Larry Dominick, the defendant in sexual harassment lawsuits filed by two female employees, gave depositions in the cases, in March 2009 and February 2011, but provided challenging answers on one issue. Asked in 2009 whether he had “ever touched” the plaintiff, Dominick, under oath, said “No.” However, in 2011, Dominick (again under oath) gave a narrative of his relationship with the same plaintiff beginning in 2005, admitting that he had had sex with her numerous times at her home. (Dominick claimed to have misinterpreted the earlier question.)

Unclear on the Concept: Pennsylvania state Rep. Michael Sturla, an opponent of increased natural-gas drilling in his district, warned in August that one effect of the drilling would be an increase of sexually transmitted diseases “amongst the womenfolk.” (He said later that he had heard that from a hospital administrator.) Nicholas Davis was arrested in a public park in Seattle in August while, according to a police officer, “masturbating violently.” The officer said Davis explained, “There just isn’t enough free love in Seattle.”

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gusting act? Is it need, because men face starvation and are left with no other options? Or are some people born with the ravenous urge to devour human flesh?

Alfred “Alferd” Packer was the first man to be tried in the U.S. court system for cannibalism in the 1870s. His case raises another question: On a quest for gold, did he murder five fellow prospectors in order to eat them all, or did he simply follow suit, as they died and ate each other one by one, until he was the only man left?

The answer is still unknown. After Packer was the only miner of that party to emerge from the Colorado mountains, he gave so many conflicting “confessions” that controversy surrounds the tale to this day. He claims the oldest, Israel Swan, died first, and so the others split him up in equal portions and dined upon his flesh. The remaining men were eaten as they perished, which Packer suggested would leave bodies at different places along the trail. Yet, an artist sent to Colorado for Harper’s Weekly magazine discovered all five human remains along the bank of Gunnison River—so what really happened in that forest?

It’s such a disturbing yet interesting story that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the co-creators of “South Park,” made it into “Cannibal! The Musical,” a movie released in 1996. The film, allowing Packer to tell his final version of the story to news reporter Polly Pry as they await his execution, is a quirky comedy about the flesh-eating miners complete with singing and dancing.

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Although the movie has been performed on stage about 50 times now, there is no real stage script.

Those wishing to take on the show must apply for rights to adapt it themselves. Though writing should be no problem for local comedy troupe PineappleShaped Lamps (PSL) and production company Guerilla Theatre. They’re presenting “Cannibal! The Musical” at Browncoat Pub and Theatre, opening Thursday, October 20th.

PSL has a team of 20 writers, and has experience performing musical theater in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Once More with Feeling” and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.” Their very own Rachel Helms and Alex Marden adapted this production for the stage, adding new jokes, references to other works by Parker and Stone and even a new character.

Director Wesley Brown, the president of PSL, has wanted to bring “Cannibal!” to Wilmington for quite some time, noting his obsession with “South Park” and fascination that Parker and Stone created this movie while still in college. “Since I was a film student, and many of our PSL members are either in college or are recent graduates, it seemed very appropriate for us to put on this show,” Brown says.

“I have always idolized the work of Trey and Matt, and as a fairly young theatre troupe, we see ‘Cannibal!’ as almost a rite of passage into our theatrical coming of age.”

Brown adds that the story itself is right up the PSL alley as many of the members possess dark senses of humor. “Of course, we love story, too,” he says.

“Laughing at blood and guts is kind of our style.”

The cast will be filled by members of PSL and Guerilla Theatre, as the production company’s director, Richard Davis, is playing Prosecutor Mills. David Lorek will play Packer, and Lauren Doughten will be the pretty Polly Pry. Those to be eaten will be performed by Zach Pappas (also the fight choreographer), Chelsea Deaner, James England, Ben Henson and Patrick Lewis. “We don’t have any scenes that are supposed to be improvised,” Brown says, “but you never know what someone will do on the night of a show.”

Although it’s a hilarious—and strange—combination to pair choreographed songs with cannibalism, Brown explains how the show relies on the tunes.

He claims the beginning showcases the optimism of the characters despite their surely dangerous winter trek through the woods. “Later the songs are used to show the change in attitudes for some characters and the lack of change for others,” Brown says.

“For instance, Swan cares more about playing in the snow than worrying about the threat of Indians.

Things like that give our characters a childlike innocence, and makes the first instance of cannibalism even more traumatic.”

Finally, he says the songs are tools to remind the audience of the irony that we celebrate entertainment of any kind—be it the beginning of a journey or an execution. Plus, audiences will get a rare treat with the addition of “Shatterproof,” a song that was not included in the final cut of the feature film.

And does Brown think Packer did it? “No, I think he’s innocent,” the director asserts. “I don’t think he did the killing—but he probably did the eating.”

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holy glamour: The art of going to church gets its glory at CAM r

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member going to church with my grandmother. A local Wilmingtonian, she has spent every Sunday of her life, come hell or high water, attending sermons. From a Baptist service, to Catholic and, finally, Lutheran, she always possesses an unrivaled dedication to the Southern tradition of Sunday service, and with an unrivaled elegance each time she walks through the doors.

Growing up, my whole family embarked on tradition: Listening to scripture and singing hymns, followed by a family lunch afterward. Though Sundays still remain the universal day for brunch dates with friends and family, now it’s competing against football parties and Bloody Mary hangover cures— that is for those of us who aren’t catching up on last-minute work or organizing our sock drawers. Before the ritual of church-going becomes an archaic memory buried in the past, Cameron Art Museum is paying homage to its art form in a series of three upcoming exhibitions.

Traditionally, going to church required an entire ensemble built around sacred reverence, complete with accessories, most iconically a lady’s hat and fan. Though today many line up at the altar in nothing more than jeans, cooled off by the AC unit running throughouty the sanctu-

ary, both dress code and fans are somewhat disappearing into the closet of antiquated accessories. CAM’s exhibition comprises three separate exhibitions, wherein “two are more connected with one … at least thematically they are connected with one another,” Kim Kelly, communications manager of CAM, says. Two examine church hats and the idea of “hattitude,” using physical head garb and photographs, where the other examines fans.

“William McNeil’s display, [William McNeill: My life as a Handheld Church Fan, a Rhapsody on Sweat, Sweet Tea and Salvation]” will feature hundreds of church fans with images religious and secular,” according to Kelley. These fans have been collected by musician and assemblage artist William McNeill over the last 40 years and are meant to comment on “a vanishing Americana and a way of life that we won’t ever have again.”

Church fans were a religious staple, and the original form of church air-conditioning. They feature various illustrations of pious churchgoers, natural scenes of serenity and illustrations of Jesus’ life. Most of the images on the fans are familiar due to their pastel presence on the pages of illustrated children’s Bibles. Not all of the fans are religious in content; some contain secular visions of family values and the translation of religious morals to daily life. Many fans are

associated with advertising funeral homes, but they actually promoted a variety of establishments, offering insight into society and daily life.

“Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats” will be on display, featuring 25 black-and-white photographs by Michael Cunningham, featured in Craig Marberry’s book, “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats.” The book examines the importance of “keeping the Sabbath both holy and glamorous” by examining 50 different women’s take on the hat as a component of religious observation. The portraits illustrate the reverence and opulence that is ensconced in attending church. Much more than a religious observation, hats are a feature of dying dedication to the traditions of a bygone American era.

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portion of the exhibition is “Hattitude: A Convergence of Fashion and Faith,” which will feature hats from public and private collections. The idea implies wearing hats with a certain disposition.

These hats, made by wellknown milliners, are the ones adorning the hat racks of vintage stores or existing in dusty attics as family heirlookms. Their denotation of individuality and dedication to being one’s personal best in the house of God is evident. Fashion is art. Hats, seen as the accessory of the British aristocracy and the avant-garde, are slipping away as an adornment for everyone. These hats, as seen in the photographs, resemble crowns and thus imbue women with a former elegance and self-respect.

The combination of the photographs and the physical evidence of fashionable church-goers fuse to create an image of a “Southern church-going culture,” Kelly notes. This exhibit focuses on the disappearing aspects of Southern culture by providing a window into the past.

Many of the hats and fans included in the exhibition are filled with memories and will evoke the same in visitors. Noted as accolades of Southern culture, accompanied by sweet tea and pecan pie, what defines the Southern experience has the power to divinely inspire. They also remind visitors of a past that is slowly disappearing with the evolution of technology but serve as defining factors of a people.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 21 from 5:30-8:30 pm at the Cameron Art Museum. Entry is $10 for nonmembers and free for members. The exhibition will run from October 22, 2011 through January 15, 2012.

In addition, Cameron will also host a closing party for State of the Art/Art of the State on Sunday, October 30th, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. There will be music, drinks and a chance for artists and non-artists alike to mingle with one another. For artists who contributed pieces to the exhibition, there will be pick-up hours on Monday, October 31st, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Currently showing Debra J Napp’s Retro & Whimsy a collection of large photographs on canvas featuring old neon signs, Highway 66 landmarks and capricious carnival images. DJ managed photo studios in New York City before moving to Wilmington in 1993. Her photos have been published in Environmental Magazine, The WECT Calendar, and a photo of wild ponies won second place in a photo contest in Southport. The show will hang until October 9th with an artist’s reception Sunday October 2nd from 4-7 pm.

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crafted art glass and metal sculpture. Rick Satava, known worldwide for his blown glass “jellyfish” has introduced a new line of petro glyph and gold nautilus “baskets”. Layered with intricate design these small to large vessels are an art collectors must have. Introduced to glass blowing in 1969, Rick opened his own studio in 1977. Well known for his vivid colors and unique portrayal of nature, Satava’s works are included in numerous public and private collections throughout the world. Remember Gift Wrapping is free. Think of us for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and your own décor.

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This eclectic, spacious gallery, located in 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, artisan-crafted jewelry and more. Classes, workshops, pottery studio, custom framing, Creative Exchange lecture series and Coffee With the Author series are also offered on-site.

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Modern Alchemy opens Friday, October 28th featuring the works of David Goldhagen and Dina Wilde-Ramsing and continues through November 19th. Join us and enjoy a diverse collection of glass and clay sculptures by these two remarkable artists. David Goldhagen is renowned for his painterly approach to sculptural glass. Using traditional glass blowing methods thousands of years old, each sculpture he creates is a study in movement and fluidity, color and style. Goldhagen’s pieces are included in the corporate collections of North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of History, among others. Dina Wilde-Ramsing is a local artist who holds a degree in Anthropology, an influence still apparent in her pieces today. The clay works Wilde-Ramsing has created represent an eclectic mix of her recurring theme - animals and humans interacting with each other. Wilde-Ramsing has also created a series of “boxes”, which she has embellished with her favorite decorative aspect, drawing and painting on clay.

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non-linear rock: Arbouretum’s Dave Heumann talks Carl Jung, wage-slaves and music

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Delivery Comes” from his band Arbouretum’s latest release, “The Gathering,” immediately conjures the same mystique wrapped around songs like The Doors’ “This is the End.” It opens with bass notes creeping among thin picks of hauntingly slant rhythms.

It’s acoustically enriching from the onset. Why Heumann has played with Americana folk greats like Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Cass McCombs becomes clear: He’s powerfully hypnotic.

Maybe it’s the depth of his vocal’s bass paired with a strained tenor that gives his music appropriate creaks, kind of like an old home’s 70-yearold pine floors. Maybe it’s his honesty—emitted from the first note and without force. Make no mistake about it: Heumann is rock ‘n’ roll, albeit a thoughtful, purposeful brand of it.

Arbouretum was formed in 2002, and among a mix of lineup changes, they have released four albums. Currently also comprising Corey Allender, Buck Carey and Matthew Pierce, the quartet plug in with as much encompassing electric fortitude, foregoing standard blueprints for a psychedilc song structure. Heumann avoids “linear” songwriting; its outcome provokes gravitational, moody melodies. Sometimes, they’re leavened with echoes of meditation (“Sands and Sands,” “Long Live the Well,” 2004), other times levitated by chords pulsating with tornadic whiplash (“The Empty Shell,” “The Gathering,” 2011).

Arbouretum will travel to Wilmington as they continue touring for “The Gathering,” released on Thrill Jockey Records last February.

Having met quite a few friends on their numerous visits to town, Heumann makes it clear he looks forward to playing Reggie’s 42nd Street.

“We’ve played [in Wilmington] a lot over the years,” he says, “and though we see some of our same friends each time, there are always some new faces as well, and it always feels like a party.” encore spoke with Heumann about his ideas on music-making and his life as a songwriter. Here is how it went down. encore: Tell me a bit about your music philosophy and how it transposes into your sound.

Dave Heumann: It has to be and feel genuine.

There’s no room in our music for doing things simply because we think it will go over well, if that involves any kind of deception; it has be in line with what we actually love about music. Another aspect of this is avoiding irony at all costs, because sincerity is a much more potent force. e: How do you approach your “job,” so to speak. More specifically, how did you approach “The Gathering”?

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10/25, 9 p.m Street Tavern Reggie’s 42nd Street 1415 South 42nd gether for “The Gathering,” we had a partially new lineup (drummer and keyboard player), so we wanted to also give the music a clean slate and not re-learn any of the older material. What we ended up doing for the first several months was just jamming, and recording so that we could go back to it if anything good came out of it. The whole idea of recording a record or doing gigs wasn’t even talked about for a good while, just to keep the pressure off. A good portion of the music on “The Gathering” was derived from these early recordings, actually. e: You were inspired by Carl Jung on this release. Why the fascination with him? How did you map out scores from his inspiration?

DH: Well, the story of what was going on with him in the times leading up to and throughout his writing of “The Red Book” was a narrative that resonated with me and was reflected in some of the lyrics of the record, but it definitely wasn’t the case that we set out to do a “Jung record” or anything like that. It was more that it was among the things I was reading about at the time I was starting to get the lyrics together. e: You’re known to avoid “typical” song patterns—verse/chorus/verse, coda/bridge, etc.

Tell me how you use your own creative tools.

DH: I’m not so sure we’re doing anything remarkable in this regard. I think the “typical” song patterns were maybe something that professional songwriters that may or may not have been based in Nashville were supposed to do in, say, the mid ‘60s, where you had a verse, a chorus, another verse, then a second chorus followed by a bridge, and so on. I’ve heard all kinds of song structures since then; seems like ever since the British Invasion people have been experimenting with different ways of structuring a rock song.

That said, our songs almost never have choruses that repeat, and I don’t think there has ever been an Arbouretum song with a bridge.

This isn’t because of any kind of willful stubbornness; it’s just because the song seems to have, within the “kernel” of the initial idea, a direction that it wants to go in, and who am I or we to divert it? My approach is to let the song decide for itself where it wants to go. e: In looking back at the making of “The Gathering” and hearing it some eight months after

BALTIMORE CALLING: Arbouretum have released “The Gathering” and are touring in its support, with a pit stop in Wilmington on the 25th at Reggie’s 42nd Street Tavern. Courtesy photo.

its release, do you hear it differently?

DH: I still hear it in my head the way I did when we were finishing the record; reason being that I haven’t listened to it since then.

There definitely aren’t any portions of it that I regret. I think we did pretty much exactly what we set out to do with that record. e: What has 2011 been like for Arbouretum— in regards to touring, release of record, even what you’re looking to in the future?

DH: Well, it started with a West Coast tour with us and Endless Boogie in February. For us it was just after “The Gathering”’s release, and for both bands it was our first time [doing] a tour specifically up and down that coast. Itwas an excellent time; I think our music resonated with the audiences in some of those cities a great deal.

After that, we did nearly a month in Europe and the UK, playing to some of the best and most enthusiastic audiences we’ve ever played to. It felt like we were definitely picking up some momentum compared to our previous tours on that side of the Atlantic.

Since, we’ve been working a lot on songwriting and some more sonic ideas in regards to how to approach our live sets. We’re in the Northeast as I write this, where we’ve been putting some of these ideas to use in our shows up here.

this stage in the process to say for sure what will happen. I can say, though, that we plan on building upon “The Gathering”’s strengths and using it as a starting point for whatever aspects will be emphasized in the next release. We’d like to record this winter, and have general plans to do so. e: Is living your life as a musician everything you wanted it to be?

DH: Well, getting paid more would definitely be nice, and it would be disingenuous of me to pretend that this wasn’t sometimes an issue. One of the really great things about playing music as a “career choice” is being able to contribute to the larger culture of ideas. It’s really hard to do this as a wage slave; even most highly paid business people don’t get to do this. Even if our ideas aren’t making waves culturally to the extent that a larger band like, say, Animal Collective is able to, it’s nice to see these ripples spreading around a little bit and affecting people to the extent that they do. e: How, if at all, does Baltimore affect you and your writing?

DH: It’s hard to say for sure, having grown up in Baltimore and not knowing what it’s like living somewhere else, but one thing that seems to be a contributing factor is that there’s a lot of support for bands that are approaching things in an innovative and original way. Music that is overly derivative and minimally creative tends not to gain that much traction in Baltimore, which has such a wide variety of genres and styles represented within its multifarious scene.

So, in my view there seems to be a considerable amount of social pressure to not conform, rather than the other way around.

e: Are you guys already planning your next release? Any direct points of reference you’re finding inspiration from in its conception?

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decades writing songs and matching lyrics to chords—and getting paid for it—Mike Cross never seemed to be the “artist” type growing up. More focused on golf and football, even earning a golf scholarship to UNC Chapel Hill, he admits he was never interested in music as a kid.

He did spend afternoons sitting on the porch steps with his great-grandfather, listening to tall tales. Cross, who will play Thalian Hall on Friday, October 21st, reasons those experiences are why he enjoys writing and hearing stories so much today. Still, music was a gift that only happened to fall in his lap, thanks to his college roommate.

“I just sort of turned to music as a fascination because when somebody tried to show me a couple of guitar chords, I realized that I had absolutely no idea how to manipulate a musical instrument,” he recalls. “I’ve been fortunate that most things I’d gotten into before, I had some kind of idea how to approach them—but music was just totally alien to me. I thought, Gosh, anything that I know so little about, I really think I ought to pursue.”

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Fri., 10/21 • 8 0 Chestnut St. Thalian Hall • 31 Tickets: $18-25 (910-632-2285) .com www.mikecross In his inquisitive nature, Cross found excitement in ritual-like practicing. Though it wasn’t an easy process, his patience paid off.

“I had to apply a lot of hours every day for a long time,” he says. “When I first started out, it was fun to explore the tactile possibilities—can I make my fingers do this particular motion or make this particular shape?”

He owes the fascination of challenging himself to the sports he loved as a kid. The focus, discipline and concentration applied in the long hours of learning the guitar as an instrument, too.

“Although we see [sports] as simple physical activities, the reality is mental concentration and analysis of what needs to happen next are a critical part of performing well on the athletics field,” he says. “I understood the more sprints I ran, the better shape I’d be in; the more times I threw the football, the more accurately I’d throw it. I approached the guitar the way an athlete approaches a new skill for their sport.”

Eventually, Cross learned the difference between major and minor chords (he says his musical sense of pitch was “infantile,” now citing the difference is as clear as that between red and green). He was then able to set music to his own stories, with folk-style picking and a scruffy voice bringing it all to life. His stories are often humorous, quirky ditties about backwoods families, and, sometimes, bluesy tunes of love long lost. “The songs and the stories are the characters and the action of the play,” he explains, “and the music is part of the scenery. It sets the context in a way.”

Cross picked up the fiddle in a similar fashion as the guitar: on a weekend trip home with nothing better to do. He bought the instrument for $50 from a pawn shop and set down to learn.

“The first week or so I played, the sounds coming out of it were so horrific that I actually put cotton in my ears,” he jokes. “But I did that to muffle the sound so that I could practice the physical techniques.”

He wonders what life might be like if he’d learned these instruments through standard lessons. Yet, his self-taught approach came most natural to Cross.

“One thing I’ve always had a fascination with in this world is the source of things, ideas, creativity,” Cross says. “I love to explore it from

FOLKY JOKESTER: Mike Cross is a folksinger with effervescent flair, performing tunes that most always tell a quirky story. Courtesy photo.

the perspective of a primitive who’s never done it before. Part of it is, I love solving the riddle of how to make this particular thing occur. Secondarily, I feel like that’s the way to find the essence of what’s natural and instinctive for an individual.”

Although the process might have gone a little quicker through traditional methods, his thirst for self-attained knowledge proved greater.

“It’s only when you go traipsing through the wilderness that you discover things nobody else has ever seen,” he says. “It’s sort of a ‘Daniel Boone’ complex. I love the idea that even if I stumble upon something, and every other guitar player on earth has already thought of it, it’s a brand new discovery.”

Complex? Maybe. Or is it diligent creativity?

Either way, Cross transformed himself into a respected artist, traveling North America and playing folk festivals throughout. He’s recorded 13 albums and, to this day, entertains audiences with convivial panache.

“It’s so amazing to me to listen to a recording from when I was a teenager—just a goofy guy who finished a football game and going to the Friday night dance,” he quips. “I can hear subtleties and nuances I’d never noticed before. I marvel that all that stuff could’ve been going on, and I was unaware of it. It would be like walking across the desert and not noticing the Pyramids.”

Mike Cross will play Thalian Hall Friday night, with proceeds from the show benefiting the purchase of a life-size bronze sculpture called “Comedy & Tragedy,” by Bets H. Lundeen, to be featured in Thalian Hall’s main lobby.

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see the carnage: Film fest debuts with thrills and shrills

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he firsT rule of submiTTing a

film to Carnage International Film Festival is that it must contain blood.

The second rule: It must contain dead bodies—or formerly dead bodies. The third: Wait, what? Oh ... I see what they did there.

Gearing up for Halloween, Carnage is a one-day festival of thrills and spills divided into three movie blocks. Each block contains hand-selected independent short and feature films in the horror, sci-fi and thriller genres. The lineup features submissions from all over the world, from Australia, Canada, France and Portugal, with enticing titles like “An Evening With My Comatose Mother.”

Hosted by Matt and Sarah Mizell, who have been curating festivals in Wilmington since 2003, the founders are pros on the scene. They have helmed the now-retired One Take Film Festival, which once allowed filmmakers 24 hours to shoot a movie in linear order, with no video editing whatsoever. They also oversaw the Final Cut Film Festival, which simply gave filmmakers 36 hours to create an edited movie. encore spoke with co-founder Matt Mizell on what attendees can expect at Wilmington’s only horror film festival just in time for All Hallow’s Eve. e: What was the inspiration behind the Carnage Film Festival?

Matt Mizell: Partly because I enjoy horror films and wanted to see if I could pull it off.

The other part of the real inspiration was Patrick Crawford, [a local writer, performer and co-founder of Changing Channels comedy troupe, until his death in 1999], who our foundation is named after. Patrick was a filmmaker and artist who moved here in 1997; I met him soon after on the set of “Dawson’s Creek”—we were both extras. Sarah and I inherited the hood of his car after he passed away, and we had it hanging in the garage for a while. It had this huge skull with flames that he’d painted on it, so we initially thought it would be a really cool logo for a horror film festival, which would be something he’d really dig. That was really the initial driving force behind it. e: How did you gather the films to screen at the festival?

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e: How did you decide on using Thalian Hall as the festival’s venue?

MM: We’ve been using Thalian Hall for years now, starting with some of the latest One Take Film Festivals and all of the Final Cut ones have been there as well. I just love the presence of Thalian; it’s historic, grand, beautiful and supposedly haunted, so for this film festival, that’ll make it more fun.

e: Besides the screenings, will there be anything else at the festival, like Q&As, perhaps?

MM: We decided to take away [the allotted] time for Q&As so we could have more films in the festival. Most of the filmmakers live out of the country anyway, so they aren’t able to attend. However, we plan on interviewing them [via Skype] and have those videos available on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/carnagefilmfestival) so people can learn more about the filmmakers after they see their works.

MM: It actually took two years. We tried in 2009 with no luck; in 2010 we received two entries, [which] inspired us to try one more time. We started contacting people on the Web and getting the word out; eventually, entries started pouring in from over five countries. e: Judging solely on the trailers, the films seem to be quite different from recent releases in the genre of big-budgeted horror and thriller movies.

MM: Yeah, I’m kind of an old-school horror fan. I’m not really into the newer stuff, like the “Saw” movies—just gore and grossness. All of the movies in Carnage’s lineup may have a taste of that, but a lot of the submissions have an “old-school horror” vibe to them. “Beware,” [directed by Jason Daly], is one. The film’s team did a really good job on doing a modern spin on older movies [in the vein of] “Friday the 13th.” They were really creative with the killings and not just focused on the blood and gore. Overall, there’s just a huge combination of styles in the films.

e: What are some of your own favorite horror films?

MM: There’s an Australian movie I saw a few years back called “Wolf Creek,” which I really enjoyed. Also, I love older films like “Friday the 13th” and “The Shining.”

Carnage InternatIonal FIlm FestIval sChedule: Block 1: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

“O’Risco”—Directed by José Pedro Lopes (Portugal) (2 min.)

Two friends decide to experiment with a special chalk they bought online; the consequences will be brutal.

“An Evening With My Comatose Mother”— Directed by Jonathan Martin (USA) (33 min.)

Dorothy thought she had it easy: housesit for the wealthy Poes on All Hallows Eve. That was until she was introduced to the Poes’ rotting, comatose mother living upstairs.

Block 2: 3:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.

“Slash”—Directed by Caleb McKenney (Australia) (10 min.)

Hybrid of the slasher film and slapstick comedy—a slash-stick comedy, if you will.

“Cabine Of The Dead”—Directed by Vincent Templement (France) (10 min.)

Patrick gets stuck in a phone booth, the night when the dead return to life... While struggling with zombies, he decides to call his close relations to ask them for help.

“Beware”—Directed by Jason Daly (USA) (94 min.)

Legend has it for years a boy survived in the woods chained to a tree until the day he was set free. Now damaged and broken he wanders those woods in search of blood.

Five unsuspecting kids will discover if there is truth to this legend.

Block 3: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

“Hike”—Directed by Jennifer Campbell (Canada) (7.5 min.)

What can happen when you go into the woods…

“Incubator”—Directed by Jimmy Weber (USA) (6.5 min.)

A young man wakes up in a bathtub full of ice only to discover his problems have just begun. You’ve heard the urban legend—this is worse.

“The Dead Inside”—Directed by Travis Betz (USA) (98 min.)

Fighting against a disturbed entity, a couple rediscovers inspiration in the grimmest corners of this musical horror movie.

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Great acting saves the lackluster political landscape

I

’ve saId It before,

but It bears re-

peating: Ryan Gosling is the best actor of his generation. He has an ease and an effortlessness that many of his contemporaries lack. This year has seen three films featuring Gosling, the first two being the exceptionally well-done rom-com, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”, and the independent stylenoir, “Drive.” He is by far the most interesting aspect in each of those films. It remains true of his performance in “Ides of March,” a new drama set in the world of politics, directed by Sir George Clooney. What’s that?

George Clooney hasn’t been knighted?

Technicalities.

Gosling plays Steven, a young political strategist and wunderkind who is tasked with getting his candidate, Mike Morris (Clooney), through a difficult Democratic primary. Morris is the kind of idealistic salt of the Earth—a man of the people in whom Steven genuinely believes. Steven is a wellintentioned, righteous soul who still has faith in the system. His boss Paul (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is on the other side of the spectrum. Two decades in politics has left him jaded and abrasive. He spends his days in the muck, dealing with polls, projections and pundits. The other campaign is run by a sold-out soul named Tom (Paul Giamatti).

His candidate lacks charisma, forcing him to engage in some political posturing to try and turn things around.

The weary campaign trail begins to take a toll on Steven. He manages to carve out a little personal time for himself and starts a quiet affair with a comely intern named Molly (Evan Rachel Wood). She’s young, intelligent and brazen—a perfect foil for Steven, who seems to be the only idealist left in politics. It turns out Molly has some secrets and some potential scandals in her closet which forces Steven to make some tough choices.

Though, again, the stakes feel remarkably measured. The film’s “worst case scenario” involves a political candidate who might lose the Democratic primary. It’s not exactly the Cuban Missile Crisis playing out.

“The Ides of March” is slow—real slow, like a fat man running a marathon in molasses. There’s a lot of payoff in the film’s second half, but audiences have to wait for it.

George Clooney is an interesting director.

He’s remarkably patient. Nothing ever feels forced. On the flip side, nothing ever feels that important either. We’re told the stakes are high, but the world outside the campaign is rarely referenced. It’s a very small story that tries a little too hard to seem epic.

At its core, the movie is about small compromises. None of the choices anyone

by Anghus ch The Ides of Mar

★★★★★

Clooney, Ryan Starring George Seymour Hoffman Gosling, Phillip

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some quiet, methodical scenes. It’s minimalist theater. While it’s extremely high-gloss minimalist theater, it’s still geriatric in terms of pace.

The acting is what saves the film. Gosling, Clooney, Giamatti and Hoffman are fascinating to watch, even when it feels like they’re

Zombie Film Festival

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10/23: To follow up Wilmington’s 3rd Annual Zombie Walk on Saturday (read page 46), The Juggling Gypsy will be holding a free Zombie Film Festival, featuring “Zombie Strippers,” “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dead and Breakfast.”

MAN OF IDEALISM: Ryan Gosling plays the amateur like a pro in the political ranks of “The Ides of March,” directed by George Clooney. Courtesy photo.

makes seem too dire. There’s no moustachetwirling villains or inherently bad people. They just are flawed, exist in a vacuum and have difficulty seeing beyond the perception they help construct. The story is a little thin and a lot predictable. Anyone who doesn’t see the second-act twist coming doesn’t see enough movies or watch enough CNN. And that’s the biggest fault of “The Ides of March”: None of it feels all that sinister. Everyone’s behavior is predictable; the depths these characters sink into are not particularly difficult to believe. Would it surprise us to hear that a politician stuck his dick where he shouldn’t have? Or that someone desperate to stay in a position of power would sell out his former employer? In this day and age, that’s barely a story. The fictional world of “The Ides of March” plays out like a moral paradise compared to the nasty backstabbing and reprehensible world the American political system has become.

I think there’s a lot of opportunities to make a relevant political drama, especially in this idiot-infested political hellhole into which we’ve dug ourselves. “The Ides of March” is a very practical, very efficient story, with characters making questionable judgment calls. Even when the situations are supposed to be “life or death,” it only feels like fantastic actors got together and wanted to make

in a dramatic competition to see who can under-react with the most conviction. I can see a lot of people falling asleep in this movie; in fact, I did. For those patient and determined enough to stick with it, there are payoffs, albeit small ones.

Clooney is still an extremely interesting director, even though most of his movies seem brief. “The Ides of March” doesn’t exactly live up to the reference. The diabolical plotting is kept to a minimum, and the fate of a nation is hardly at stake. Compared to stank I’ve been seeing in theaters lately, something this mature and well-acted feels like a breath of fresh air.

The Whistleblower, Sarah’s Key

Cinematique Thalian Hall Studio Theatre 310 Chestnut Street 7:30pm, $7

10/19: “The Whistleblower”—A ripped-fromthe-headlines thriller inspired by actual events.

Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Rated R. 10/24-26: “Sarah’s Key” (pictured)—Paris, July 1942, a 10-year-old girl is taken with her parents by the French police as they go doorto-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in their secret hiding place and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Rated PG-13.

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K’S CAFE ad 420 Eastwood Ro 910-791-6995 www.ks-cafe.net K’s Cafe offers home-style breakfast and lunch Monday through Sunday. Open: Mon - Sat: 6AM - 3PM and Sun:7AM-2PM

AMERICAN 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 Sun. during the summer months. Large parties welcome.

Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC. (910) 256.8500.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Fri 11am - 11pm; Sat & Sun 11am – 11pm.

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

CATCH

Serving the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina.

Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee Chef Keith Rhodes explores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer. We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Seafood. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch. Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010. Dubbed “Modern Seafood Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Seafood & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Potato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, Seafood Ceviche & Conch Fritters to name a few. Larger Plates include Plancha grilled Painted Hills Steaks, Blackend Red Drum Filet, Charleston Crab Cakes, Tempura OBX Scallops, Flounder Escovitch & Pan roasted Queen Trigger fish. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Allergies) Hand Crafted seasonal desserts from Alan DeLovely. Full ABC

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Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Fri 11am-2pm and Mon. Sat. 5pm-9pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

BUFFALO WILD WINGS

If you’re looking for good food and an atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family, Buffalo Wild Wings is the place! Award winning wings and 20 signature sauces and seasonings. Plus…salads, wraps, flatbreads, burgers, and more. Tons of Big screen TVs and all your favorite sports. We have daily drink specials, a HUGE draft selection, and Free Trivia all day every day. Come in for our Weekday Lunch Specials, only $5.99 from 11am-2pm. Visit us for Wing Tuesdays with 50 cent wings all day long, or Boneless Thursdays with 60 cent boneless wings all day long. Buffalo Wild Wings is a great place to dine in or take out.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: Mon-Sat 11am2am and Sun 12pm-2am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 locations-Midtown (910-798-9464) and Monkey Junction (910-392-7224) ■ MUSIC: Friday and Saturday nights at both locations.

■ WEBSITE: www.buffalowildwings.com

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.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 11am– 5pm. Sat. at the farmers market. Thurs.- Sat. nights on Market St. between Front and 2nd St. from 10pm – 3:00am.Fibbers on Sun. nights Until 3am.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD Downtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch time delivery downtown

THE GEORGE ON THE RIVERWALK

Drop your anchor at The George on the RiverWalk, your destination for complete sense indulgence. Watch the historic Cape Fear River unfold before you while you enjoy the best in Southern Coastal Cuisine. The menu combines elegance, creativity and diverse selection of steak, pasta, salad and fresh seafood, including the best Shrimp n’ Grits in town. Warm in the sun on the expansive outdoor deck sipping an exotic, colorful martini, or unwind at the spacious bar inside boasting extensive wine and martini lists along with weekday appetizer specials from 4:00pm6:30pm. Don’t forget to try downtown’s best kept secret for Sunday Brunch from 11am-3pm. You are welcome to dock your boat at the only dock’n’dine restaurant downtown, grab a trolley, or enjoy our free, front door parking (ask for pass!) Why satisfy when you can indulge? Find the George on the Riverwalk at 128 South Water Street, 910-763-2052.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues. – Sat. 11am – 9 pm.

Enjoy Sunday Lunch and Brunch 11am – 3pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Sunday Brunch / Wilmington’s only dock’n’dine restaurant.

■ WEBSITE: www.thegeorgerestaurant.com

HALLIGAN’S

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

With 12 beers on tap and 16 flat screen TVs, you can watch your

favorite game and enjoy your favorite drink.

7 Days a Week Mon-Wed 11:30 am - 2:00 am ThursSun 11:30 am - 2:00 am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Masonboro Loop ■ FEATURING: THE Best Rueben in Town!, $5.99 lunch specials, Outdoor Patio ■ WEBSITE: www.halligansnc.com

for parties of any size. Located at the corner of Front and Orange in Downtown Wilmington. 138 South Front Street. (910) 251-0433.

■ SERVING DINNER: Tues.- Sun. 5pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: 70s menu every Friday ■ MUSIC: Fri. & Sat. in summer ■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

HENRY’S

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■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

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

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun. –Mon.11am10pm; Tues.- Fri.: 11am – 11pm; Sat.: 10am – 11pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily blackboard specials.

■ MUSIC: Live Music beginning at 5:30pm ■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com.

HOLIdAY INN RESORT

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

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER:

Sun.-Sat..

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

Mon.-Fri.10am-7pm; Sat. 9am-6pm. Closed Sun. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals ■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com

TEMPTATIONS EVERYdAY GOURMET

Temptations Everyday Gourmet draws diners in by droves thanks to their creative menu selections, an extraordinary inventory of fine wines (over 300 varieties all without restaurant markups) and trained staff that go beyond culinary excellence. Recognized as Best Lunch Spot by WWAY in 2011, as well as having its chef, Michael Comer, touted among the top three best chefs in Wilmington, according to StarNews’ Taste of Wilmington 2010, Temptations offers two locations to serve Wilmingtonians. Located in Hanover Center for 25 years, signature items include their Homemade Chicken Salad and Turkey, Brie and Apple Sandwich, as well as their Porter’s Neck location’s Pimiento Cheeseburger. The Porter’s Neck location also serves an expanded dinner menu, which changes weekly. Their daily features, including specialty soups, salads, quiche and paninis, keeps patrons busy choosing healthy, fast foods whether dining onsite or back at the office. in fact, ask Temptations about their Office Party Menu for your next gathering. Their gourmet retail shop provides unique gourmet gift items featuring many locally made specialty foods, chocolates and goodies.

■ SERVING LUNCH: Hanover Center, 3501 Oleander Dr., Ste 13. Mon.-Sat., 11am – 6pm (Closed Sundays) ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Porter’s Neck Center, 8207 Market St., Ste F. Mon. Wed., 10am8:30pm; Thurs.-Sat., 10am-9pm. Dinner features begin at 5pm. (Closed Sundays) ■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Midtown & North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.temptationseverydaygourmet.com ■ FEATURING: An expanded dinner menu, at the Porter’s Neck location, which changes weekly.

TROLLY STOP

Trolly Stop Hot Dogs is a family owned franchise with six locations. Since 1976 they specialize in home-

made chili, slaw and sauces, and as of more recent – a variety of gourmet sausages and burgers (at participating locations). The types of hot dogs include Beef & Pork, All Beef, Smoked Sausage, 98% Turkey, and Soy. Sausages include Bratwurst, Mild Italian, Spicy Beef and Polish Kielbasi. Locations are: 126 N. Front Street Open seven days from 11am-4pm, late night hours are Thurs., Fri., and Sat. night from 10pm3am; (910) 343-2999, 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach 11-5pm 7days a week, 6pm-9pm Sun-Wed, and 6pm-3am Th-Sat. (910) 256-1421; 4502 Fountain Dr., 452-3952. 11am-7pm Mon-Sun; South Howe St. in Southport, (910) 457-7017 (CLOSED FOR THE SEASON UNTIL EASTER WEEKEND); 103A Cape Fear Blvd in Carolina Beach, (910) 458-5778; 1250 Western Blvd., Unit L-4 Jacksonville, (910) 228-0952, opened Mon-Sun 11am-9pm. Catering cart available all year from $300. (910) 297-8416.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Throughout the Port City ■ FEATURING: Dog friendly locations

at Wrightsville Beach and Downtown Wilmington. Buy a hot dog, we’ll throw in an extra for your pooch. (Without bun.)

■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

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 Sun.. Big Thai Two (1319 Military Cutoff Rd. inside Landfall Center; 256-6588) ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open for Lunch M-F 11-2:30; Dinner M-Th 5-9; F-Sa 5-10; Sun. 5-9.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown and North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Vegetarian/vegan options.

SZECHUAN 132

Craving expertly prepared Chinese food in an elegant atmosphere? Szechuan 132 Chinese Restaurant is your destination! Szechuan 132 has earned the reputation as one of the finest contemporary Chinese restaurants in the Port City. Tastefully decorated with an elegant atmosphere, with an exceptional ingenious menu has deemed Szechuan 132 the best Chinese restaurant for years, hands down. 419 South College Road (in University Landing), (910) 799-1426.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch Specials

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. Located at 222 Old Eastwood Road (910) 794-1570.

■ SERVING DINNER: Open Mon. thru Thurs.

4pm-10pm; Fri. and Sat. 4pm-10:30pm and Sun.

11am-10pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Hibachi style dining.

■ WEBSITE: hirojapanesesteakhouse.com/hibachi

INdOCHINE RESTAURANT & 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. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Tues.- Fri. 11am- 2pm; Sat. 12pm – 3pm for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5pm – 10pm for dinner.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Balinese dancer every Fri. night.

■ WEBSITE: www.indochinewilmington.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.

■ SERVING DINNER: Sun.- Thurs.

5:00 – 10pm.; Fri. and Sat., 5pm – Midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Upstairs sofa bar serving cocktails and lighter fare.

■ WEBSITE: www.capricebistro.com

OUR CRÊPES & MORE

The Crêperie of Wilmington! Our Crêpes & More a family owned and operated French Crêperie, is serving authentic, homemade French cuisine to dine in or to go. Everything on their menu is under $10, and is a healthy alternative, while eating a savory meal or sweet treat. Open at 7 am Tuesday through Friday, Our Crêpes & More offers a delicious variety of breakfast combos, quickly served or to go. On the Savory side, the Uzès, Quebec, Forestiere Royale or Tahiti are among the most popular. Their homemade Ratatouille, South France type Sub like the Pain Bagnat are worth the detour too! On the sweet side, The Versailles, St-

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Tropez or Crazy Nutella (with homemade Nutella ice cream) will make you come back for more! They also serve Fresh Salads or Soups depending on the seasons, amazing all natural Homemade Sorbet & Ice Cream, Croissants & Chocolate Croissants. Open all day with free WiFi and live French radio, Our Crepes & More is a pleasant yet casual place to unwind. Our Crepes & More can accommodate large parties!

■ OPEN: TUESDAY – FRIDAY 7AM – 3 PM SATURDAY & SUNDAYS 8AM – 3PM! (Monday Closed.)

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Vegetarian and gluten-free options.

Free Wi-Fi..

■ WEBSITE: www.ourcrepesandmore.com

INDIAN TANDOORI BITES

Located on College Road, just opposite Hugh MacRae Park, Tandoori Bites offers fine Indian cuisine at affordable prices. Try one of 74 dishes on their lengthy menu, featuring a large range of side dishes and breads. They have specialties, such as lamb korma with nuts, spices and herbs in a mild creamy sauce, as well as seafood, like shrimp biryani with saffron-flavored rice, topped with the shellfish and nuts. They also have many vegetarian dishes, including mutter paneer, with garden peas and homemade paneer, or baingan bharta with baked eggplant, flamed and sautéed with onions, garlic and ginger. Join their cozy eatery, where a far east escape awaits all diners, among a staff of friendly and helpful servers, as well as chefs who bring full-flavored tastes straight from their homeland. Located at 1620 South College Road, (910) 794-4540.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Thu 11am-2pm,

5pm-10pm; Fri 11am-2pm, 5pm-11pm; Sat 11:30am2pm, 5pm-11pm; Sun 11:30am-2pm, 5pm-9pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown.

■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet, which now serves South Indian cuisine ($7.95 daily) ■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net.

ITALIAN 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, made-from-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. 503 Olde Waterford Way, Leland. (910) 383.1885.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.- Thurs. 11am – 10pm.; Fri. & Sat. 11am – 11pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South.

■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials ■ WEBSITE: RomanellisRestaurant.com.

ELIZABETH’S PIZZA

A Wilmington favorite since 1987! At Elizabeth’s you’ll find authentic Italian cuisine, as well as some of your American favorites. Offering delicious pizza, salads, sandwiches, entrees, desserts, beer, and wine.

Elizabeth’s is known for their fresh ingredients, where even the bread is baked fresh daily. A great place for lunch, dinner, a late night meal, or take out. Elizabeth’s can also cater your event and now has a party room available. Visit us 4304 ½ Market St or call

910-251-1005 for take out.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Open 10am-Midnight every day ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown (Corner of Market St and Kerr Avenue).

■ WEBSITE: www.epwilmington.com

GIORGIO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Giorgio’s is a locally owned, one-of-a-kind restaurant. Offering age-old traditions and timeless recipes, perfection is accomplished by combining the perfect cuisine and atmosphere for a dining experience that is not soon forgotten. With over 50 years of cooking experience under one roof, the smells of old-fashioned home cooking float through the air creating that comforting feeling of home-awayfrom-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! 5226 S College Rd.,Wilmington (910) 790-9954.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Mon.- Thurs. 11am. – 9:30am; Fri. 11am-10:30pm; Sat. 12pm-10:30pm Sun. 11:30am – 9:30pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ FEATURING: Daily specials, kids menu and online coupons.

■ WEBSITE: www.giorgios-restaurant.com.

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. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”All ABC permits.

Visit us downtown at 122 Market Street, (910) 2519444, in Wrightsville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and our newest location in Pine Valley on the corner of 17th and College Road, (910) 799-1399.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT:

The Cheesy Banker Food Truck

11:30am-3am, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, Downtown and Wilmington South.

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

LATIN AMERICAN SAN JUAN CAFE

Offering the most authentic, gourmet Latin American cuisine in Wilmington. With dishes from countries such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba you’ll be able to savor a variety of flavors from all over Latin America. Located at 3314 Wrightsville Avenue. 910.790.8661 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter for live music updates!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon Sat. 11am2:30pm and from 5-10pm. Closed Sunday.

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

ORGANIC LOVEY’S MARKET

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Lovey’s Market is a true blessing for shoppers looking for Organic and Natural groceries and supplements, or a great place to meet friends for a quick, delicious and totally fresh meal or snack.

Whether you are in the mood for a Veggie Burger,

Hamburger or a Chicken Caesar Wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte Lovey’s Cafe’ menu. The Food Bar-which has cold salads and hot selections can be eaten in the newly expanded Lovey’s Cafe’ or boxed for take-out. The Juice Bar offers a wide variety of juices and smoothies made with Organic fruits and vegetables. Specializing in bulk sales of grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices.

Lovey’s has a great selection of Local produce and receives several weekly deliveries to ensure freshness. Lovey’s also carries Organic Grass-Fed and Free-Range meats and poultry. Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free products are in stock regularly, as are Vegan and Vegetarian groceries. Lovey’s also carries Wholesome Pet Foods. Stop by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday 9am to 7pm; Saturday 9am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 6pm. Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Rd in the Landfall Shopping Center; (910) 509-0331. “You’ll Love it at Lovey’s!”

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Café open: Mon.Fri., 11am–6pm; Sat. & Sun., 11am-6pm(salad bar open all the time). Market hours: Mon.-Fri., 9am7pm; Sat., 9am-6pm; Sun., 10am-6pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Organic Salad Bar/Hot Bar, New Bakery with fresh, organic pies and cakes. Newly expanded.

■ WEBSITE: www.loveysmarket.com.

SEAFOOD DOCK STREET OYSTER BAR

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

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Fresh daily steamed oysters.

■ WEBSITE: www.dockstreetoysterbar.net

EAST

The Blockade Runner offers an array of seasonal seafood specials, certified Angus beef, lobster menu on Fri. evening plus a spectacular Sun. 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. Our lounge is ecofriendly and offers light fare nightly. 275 Waynick Blvd.

Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256-2251.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & SUNDAY BRUNCH ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach.

■ FEATURING: Lobster menu on Fri. ■ MUSIC: Live music on Sat. evening and

Sun.brunch.

■ WEBSITE: www.blockade-runner.com

HIERONYMUS

Hieronymus Seafood is the midtown stop for seafood lovers. In business for over 30 years, Hieronymus has made a name for itself by constantly providing excellent service and the freshest of the fresh in local seafood. It’s the place to be if you are seeking top quality attibutes in atmosphere, presentations, flavor and ingenuity. Sugnature dishes include Oysteronymus and daily fresh catch specials. Hieronymus has all ABC permits and also provides catering services.

Voted “Best Seafood” in 2011. 5035 Market Street;

910-392-6313; hieronymusseafood.com ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Fireside oyster bar.

■ WEBSITE: www.hieronymusseafood.net

OCEANIC

Voted best seafood restaurant in Wilmington, Oceanic provides oceanfront dining at its best. Located in Wrightsville Beach, Oceanic is one of the most visited restaurants on the beach. Choose from a selection of seafood platters, combination plates and daily fresh fish. For land lovers, try their steaks, chicken or pasta dishes. Relax on the pier or dine inside. Oceanic is also the perfect location for memorable wedding receptions, birthday gatherings, anniversary parties and more. Large groups welcome. Private event space available. Familystyle to go menu available. 703 S. Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256.5551.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Dining on the Crystal Pier.

■ WEBSITE: OceanicRestaurant.com

SOUTHERN CASEY’S BUFFET

In Wilmington, everyone knows where to go for solid country cooking. That place is Casey’s Buffet, winner of encore’s Best Country Cookin’/Soul Food and Buffet categories. “Every day we are open, somebody tells us it tastes just like their grandma’s or mama’s cooking,” co-owner Gena Casey says.

Gena and her husband Larry run the show at the Oleander Drive restaurant where people are urged to enjoy all food indigenous to the South: fried chicken, barbecue, catfish, mac‘n’cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, chicken‘n’dumplings, biscuits and homemade banana puddin’ are among a few of many other delectable items. 5559 Oleander Drive. (910) 798-2913.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 11am to 9pm and on Sundays from 11am to 8pm.Closed Mon. and Tuesdays.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING:For adventurous palates, pig’s feet and chitterlings.

SMALL PLATES THE FORTUNATE GLASS

The Fortunate Glass Wine Bar focuses on wines from all regions, with 50 wines by the glass and approximately 300 wines available by the bottle— from some of the best boutique and cult wines to everyday values that work with any budget.

We use a state-of-the-art wine preservation system—the N2Vin system—to keep our wine fresh and at the perfect temperature. The wine bar also features some of the most outstanding craft beers and sparkling wines. In addition to an abundant drink menu, The Fortunate Glass Wine Bar presents a small menu of fine cheeses, Italian cured meats, small plates and decadent desserts to accompany and compliment any wine selection. The serene ambiance of The Fortunate Glass, created by the beautiful wall murals, the elegant copper and glass tile bar, castle rocked walls and intimate booths enhances the experience of any selection you choose.

■ SERVING EVENINGS: Tues.-Thurs. 4pm-12am Fri. 4 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Sat. 2 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Sun. 2 p.m. - 12 a.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Free Wine Tasting: Tues. 6-8 p.m.

Sparkling Wine Specials & Half Price Select Bottles : Wed. & Thurs. Monthly Food & Wine Pairing Events ■ WEBSITE: fortunateglasswinebar.com

SPORTS BAR CAROLINA ALE HOUSE

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

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

“Main Attractions”

Thalian Hall

Center for the Performing Arts presents

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: 40 HD TVs and the biggest HD

projector TVs in Wilmington.

■ WEBSITE: CarolinaAleHouse.com

FOX & HOUND PUB & GRILLE

Serving up the best bar food for any local sports fan, Fox & Hound has appetites covered. Located next to Mayfaire Cinema 16, it’s no question that Fox is a great place to go on date night, or to watch the big game on one of the restaurant’s six large projection screens and 19 plasma televisions.

Guests can also play pool, darts or video games in this casual-theme restaurant. For starters, Fox offers delicious appetizers like ultimate nachos, giant Bavarian pretzels and spinach artichoke dip. In the mood for something more? Try the hand-battered Newcastle fish ‘n’ chips or chicken tenders, or the grilled Mahi-Mahi served atop a bed of spicy rice. From cheeseburgers and sirloins to salads and wood oven-inspired pizzas, Fox has plenty to choose from for lunch or dinner. Finish the meal with a 6-inch Great Cookie Blitz, a chocolate chip cookie baked fresh to order and served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and Hershey’s syrup.

920 Town Center Drive, (910) 509-0805.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 11am– 2am, daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: $5.99 lunch specials and free pool until 2p.m. and $5 cheese pizzas after 10 p.m., both Mon.-Fri. ■ MUSIC: Trivia with Party Gras Entertainment DJ every Thursday at 9pm ■ WEBSITE: foxandhound.com

HELL’S KITCHEN

This is downtown Wilmington’s Sports Pub! With every major sporting package on ten HDTVs and our huge HD projection screen, there is no better place to catch every game in every sport. Our extensive menu ranges from classics, like thick Angus burgers or NY-style 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, and did we mention sports? Free lunchtime delivery on weekdays; we can accommodate large parties. (910) 763-4133.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11am – late. Sun. at noon.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Dueling pianos every Thurs., Fri.,

and Sat. nights. and 1/2 priced select appetizers m-th 4-7pm ■ WEBSITE: www.hellskitchenbar.com

New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players: I’ve got a Little Twist October 22nd • 8pm This esteemed New York Company adds their Gilbert and Sullivan twist to Musical Theatre Favorites

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS NOW! Thalian Hall Box Offoce (910) 632-2285 or visit www.thalianhall.org

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Mon-Thur: 5pm-11pm • Fri: 5pm -2am Sat: Noon-Midnight • Sun: 1pm-11pm

Downtown Wilmington’s Best Bang for Your Buck

Black Water Adventure • Autumn Escape • Eagles Island Cruise • Sunset Cruise • Captain’s Lazy Day Cruise Sat. Oct. 22nd

STORyTIME WITh PIRATE CAPTAIN Tim Dillinger • 1-2:30

Kids, bring your listening ears!

Parents, bring your cameras!

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We will cruise south to our Secret Island where you’ll marvel at the natural beauty of this area. We will disembark for 1-1/2 hours of yoga led by Jamie Annette

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212 S. Water Street

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5533 Carolina Beach Rd 910.392.7224

Do you love wine?

Join us for our first Sip and Stroll Deluxe Wine Tasting Event.

Wednesday Oct 26 starting at 6PM We will have multiple wine reps from numerous distributors in NC to share their knowledge and several wines they represent This is a fantastic opportunity for you to choose what wines are right for you or for the upcoming gift buying season.

A great way to get a jump on the shopping or simply add to your collection.

TICKETS: $10 Hurry, limited space is available.

This is sure to be a great event you don’t want to miss!

Hors d’oeuvres and raffle prizes too!

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$2 TUEsDAY

$2 Tacos, Tecate, Tequila shots, and Modelo Especial Draft

Live Latin Music returns to Mixto Fridays 6:30-9:30pm with The Tiki Torch Trio 5 South Water Street Downtown Wilmington 910-399-4501 36 encore | october 19-25, 2011 | www.encorepub.com

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Bring your dogs, eat or just meet and greet $5 glass pours on

featured wines, weekly drink specials and dog treats.

Leashes required and HAPPY DOGS welcomed!!

Sunday 1/2 price wines great spot to come out and enjoy the outdoors!!

Cheese, chocolate and wine - mighty fine!!

138 South Front Street 910.251.0433 www.littledipperfondue.com

1/2 PRICE MENU EVERY DAY 5-7pm

Select Sushi and Appetizers choose from more than 20 options

Thursday Karaoke starting at 9:00pm $5 Sapporo 22oz cans $2 Sake Shots 33 S. Front St. 2nd Floor (910) 763-3172 www.yosake.com

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(therapeutic massage only).

4018 Oleander Drive Suite 3 | 910-233-5615

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GOOD!

5th Year Anniversary Celebration!

Saturday 22nd October 10am to 6pm

✶ Roll-The-Dice Discounts ✶ Fashion make-overs ✶ Free Encore! Tote Bags Wear a smashing outfit previously purchased from Encore! to enter the Best-Dressed competition to be judged by Jess James (Style Girl) between 3pm and 5pm) 5814 Oleander Drive, Wilmington • (910) 452-4468 Hours: Mon-Sat 10am–6pm www.encoreconsignmentstore.com encore | october 19-25, 2011 | www.encorepub.com 37

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All you have to do is flip through our handy Encore Restaurant Week Guide, now available on stands everywhere, or look through pages 38 through 44 of this issue, and cisit www.encorerestaurantweek.com. Choose your dining itinerary for the week, and show up to redeem the offer. Just tell the waitstaff that you’re there to participate in Encore Restaurant Week and the rest ... well, it’s easy as pie.

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ERW started in the fall of 2009, as we at encore wanted to focus attention on the many superb dining options that abound in our fair port city. Seeing as other metropolises and even smaller cities have successful events like this, we knew Wilmington would follow suit. If there is anything our town of frequent diners know, it’s good food.

Fast forward today, where encore now embarks on its fifth event (we hold ERW every spring and fall). Not only have we expanded the number of participants involved in ERW, but we’ve also grown into areas around Southeastern NC, including Carolina Beach and Swansboro. We are proud to share its suc-

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E. Eat Spot - 34 N. Front St. • LUNCH & DINNER: Three courses: $25/person F. The Fortunate Glass - 29 S. Front St. • DINNER: Four courses: $28 paired wit four wines G. The George - 128 S. Water St. • LUNCH: Three courses: $15/person DINNER: Three courses: $25/person H. Little Dipper - 138 S. Front St. DINNER: Four courses: $23/person I. Mixto - 5 S. Water St. LUNCH SPECIAL: $7/person DINNER: Three courses: $20/person J. New York Pasta House - 130 N. Front St. LUNCH SPECIAL: $6.95/person DINNER: Three Courses: $19.95/person K. Press 102 - 102 S. 2nd St. BREAKFAST SPECIAL: Free Pancakes LUNCH SPECIAL: $5/person DINNER: $30-$45/person

Become a Delihead member and enjoy Daily Specials!

L. Elijah’s - 2 Ann St. LUNCH: Two courses: $15.95/person DINNER: Three courses: $22.95/person M. Pilot House - 2 Ann St. #3 LUNCH: Two courses: $14.95/person DINNER: Three courses: $25.95/person

BREAKFAST SERVED ALL DAY

N. Reel Cafe - 100 S. Front St. LUNCH SPECIAL: $5 DINNER: Three Courses: $45/couple

At the corner of 2nd and Grace, Downtown Wilmington • Open Monday - Friday 9am - 4pm

P. Ruth’s Chris Steak House - 301 N. Water St. DINNER: Three courses: $35/person

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Wilmington Holiday Parade Sunday December 4, 2011 - 6:15 pm Historic Downtown Wilmington

Join the Parade!

Entry deadline is Wednesday November 16th at 5:00 pm

Presented by the City of Wilmington, WECT, Encore Magazine and Cumulus Broadcasting

Questions?

910.341.7855 Only 100 entries accepted!

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B. Catch -6623 Market St. • DINNER: 3 courses: $24.95/person C. Fox and Hound - 920 Town Center Dr. • LUNCH: $5.99-$.699 with FREE beverage DINNER: Two courses: $30/couple D. Havana’s - 6722 Wrightsville Ave. • DINNER: Three courses: $19.95/person

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E. Kornerstone - 8262 Market St. • DINNER: Four courses: $45/couple F. Melting Pot - 1620 S. College Rd. • LUNCH: Three courses: $17/person LUNCH & DINNER: Four courses: $27/person G. Temptations - 8207 Market St. • LUNCH: $12.95 Gourmet Express Lunch DINNER: Four courses: $23.95/person

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COURSE THREE — CHOOSE TWO: Pappardelle di Carne – Boneless short ribs braised in a tomato and red wine ragu over fresh wide pasta.

Veal Saltimboca – pan seared and layered with prosciutto, fresh sage and melted fontina cheese over penne pasta.

Seared Fresh Salmon – served over panzanella salad Shrimp Puttanesca – served over angel hair pasta Risotto Primavera – with fresh Parmesan cheese Fettucini Alfredo – topped with choice of chicken or shrimp COURSE FOUR — CHOOSE ONE TO SHARE: NY style cheesecake Housemade tiramisu Signature Crepes Siena 42 encore | october 19-25, 2011 | www.encorepub.com

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50/50 chance to win a free drink!

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“I read there were actually such things called ‘zombie walks,’ and it sounded like something I wanted in Wilmington,” Jaeger explains. “I tried spreading it through word-of-mouth and MySpace [during our first event in 2009] . . . From there, we had a small turnout of like 20 or 35 people, and we just wandered about and had fun. Denny here did a separate one a year later, with more altruistic motives behind it.”

“I love zombies and the whole genre,” Best chimes in. “I discovered a zombie walk in Pittsburgh, which raised money and collected items for the local food bank. Not knowing of Greg’s walk from the year prior, we put together one to raise money and pick up non-perishable foods for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina at Wilmington.”

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Thanks to the cooperation from a few downtown businesses, folks can also drop off nonperishables for the zombies to collect during their walk. Since, it’s become an annual event, and for 2011, Best assures it “will blow last year’s off the hook.”

Best has been supportive of the local Wilmington food bank and is happy to use the walk as a platform to raise awareness of the organization and the need for donations. “In general, I just like supporting local charities,” he says, “especially with all the economic hardships that have been growing. Among these hardships, one of the most basic things people need is food.”

As of press time, they had 280 people confirmed on Facebook. Yet, the idea is to get everyone out in droves. “We raised enough money to provide about 450 or 500 meals last year,” Jaeger says. “This year, we are hoping to triple that and reach about 1,500 meals.”

Jaeger and Best have closely worked with Mikey Ventrone this year, too. A Wilmington guitarist of “brutal horrorpunk” band, Rictus Grim, Ventrone has given the zombie walk for 2011 a musical element and inspires a late-night party to be held at The Soapbox this year.“It’s great to have something going on,” Jaeger says, especially when it gets darker. After all, zombies like to come out at night more.” The afterparty will feature bands Rictus Grim, The Villians and The Luvrs, starting around 9:30 p.m. back at The Soapbox.

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Another new ingredient to this year’s Wilmington Zombie Walk is “zombie protesters” (Occupy Zombie, perhaps?) Jaeger assures it is pure fun and nothing political, but they are looking for anyone who wishes to meet at Riverfront Park, shouting out and holding signs like, “Go back to your graves!” or “Dead, go home!” However, folks shant only expect zombies on the walk; assigned “victims” will transform into a zombie throughout the day, as well. “You can’t get into the brain of something that’s already dead,” Jaeger quips, “that’s what’s exciting and appealing about zombies.”

To be a part of Wilmington’s third annual Zombie Walk is pretty simple: Folks can trek over to The Soapbox between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to register and get zombified with costumes, makeup and lots of fake blood. Admission to be part of the walk is three or more non-perishable goods.

Afterward, everyone will wander around downtown spooking passersby, as well as meandering through various businesses.

For more information about the third annual Wilmington Zombie Walk, search for the event on Facebook or visit The Soapbox’s website. Registration takes place between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., and the walk will commence until 8 p.m. Makeup artists will be onsite, and tipping is encouraged for the services.

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celebration than when its purpose whole-heartedly aims toward helping a greater community cause. This year Jacksonville’s Oktoberfest gives everyone the perfect reason to party: the Onslow Community Outreach Center (OCOC)! Set for October 22nd at the Riverwalk Crossing Park, Oktoberfest brings with it a celebration of fun along with proceeds benefiting the OCOC. Beginning at 8 a.m. with a 5K run, festival gates will open at 10 a.m., kicking off with a beautiful flag presentation followed by the National Anthem. Scheduled to remain open until 9 p.m., Oktoberfest welcomes all ages and over 100 vendors.

From cookie decorating to face painting, pottery sales to a petting zoo, photo booths to an adult and children’s race track, provided by Jacksonville Rotary South, to a trackless train ride around the park, this year’s Oktoberfest will keep everyone engaged. Even McGruff the fire dog and Elvis are scheduled to make an appearance. Add to it a large selection of traditional bratwurst and German beers, and it’s a

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A military wife of 16 years, now stationed at Camp Johnson, Hudson assures not a single penny will go to waste as it will fund pillows and blankets needed for the shelter, as well as food for the soup kitchen or crucial medical supplies for the clinic.

Located downtown on Court Street in an old department store, the Onslow Community Outreach Center started 25 years ago inside a small garage, with just a handful of local people helping run it as a soup kitchen. Today it has

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evolved tenfold, and proudly serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, Monday through Friday. It has grown to include the homeless shelter, which has approximately 15 beds, and a community care clinic that helps heal men, women and

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their families.

“I have faith in the planning we’ve done,” Hudson beams. “It’s for a fantastic cause. I understand, with the way of the economy, everyone is trying to stay afloat, and we noticed it even in our planning stages.

Still, so many have come along to help, and we are so thankful. If it wasn’t for the volunteers in the community just wanting to do a good deed, we wouldn’t have half of what we do. Riverwalk Crossing Park has gone through a lot and has come a long way to beautify downtown.”

A haven for those who need a place to stay— though, there is a 30day cap—the shelter is a gem. Its staff tirelessly helps others by researching jobs, affordable apartments, and they also help provide job referrals.

Mostly run on grants and donations, Hudson says she has high hopes for the shelter in the upcoming years. For example, she would love to add more beds and more locations to increase its service to those in need.

“You don’t give up the fight even though it’s not always a winning battle,” she says. “When the doors open, you see the faces you’re helping. We’re not going to give up on those faces.”

When we met, it was just before 3 p.m., when the shelter opens. People were gathering under the awning to get out of the dreary weather.

“These individuals deserve a chance,” Hudson says. “Oktoberfest being our only fundraiser is a way to support Onslow Community Outreach, so that we can in turn support those in need within our community. Our sponsors have been great; we’re not going to walk out with a million dollars, but we are going to walk out knowing we helped a lot of people in our community, and we had a good time doing it.”

For more information on how to make monetary or tangible donations beyond Oktoberfest, please call (910) 455-5733. Visit www. onslowco.org for more information.

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This year the students and faculty are taking the show to new heights with “The Carnival of Carnage,” a theme that plays on the creepy, freaky feel of a traveling carnival show. The group was fortunate enough to get a huge warehouse behind Stein Mart on Oleander Drive, which allows for a lot of creativity in design and plenty of space with which to work.

“This year’s theme is a very elaborate undertaking,” Lyceum Dean Gordon Massengill explains. “We have included more ‘specialty’ items with a very well-developed storyboard. It should make for an exciting experience for everyone.”

The most impressive aspect of the Lyceum Haunted House is that it is conceived, constructed and operated by the students. Faculty and parental guidance are there for support.

“The haunted house has turned into so much more than a fund-raiser,” Massengill says. “Students learn basic construction techniques, how to work in teams, how to operate a business, and how to plan and execute a vision into a product. We also benefit from the students, parents and faculty all interacting to bring it to life. It reinforces our community atmosphere, which is seen in the classroom and interactions between all involved.”

The story for this haunted house centers on a traveling carnival show coming to town, setting up tents, rides, shows and games, featuring everything from wicked ringmasters to freak-show exhib-

its. However, something goes awry, and the visitors to the show are subjected to horrors unleashed by the tortured souls of a haunted world.

This year’s house is one of the largest ever, with more astonishing effects and plenty of scares. “[It] is more elaborate than most,” Massengill adds. “We have an actual story line, which includes much more than simple scares. We want our patrons totally captivated into the event as if they were in a movie of sorts.”

In fact, Lyceum prides itself on the complex allegories since its haunted attraction began. It allows students to embrace their imaginations and dream up worlds of complete chaos. With this creative freedom, students of the past have devised a zombie apocalypse, a haunted Mardi Gras and even fairy tales gone grim.

In addition to providing great entertainment, the haunted house is a major fundraiser for the Lyceum Academy—a school within a school at New Hanover High. It provides students a rigorous, two-year, interdisciplinary, educational experience.

It also does not receive any funding other than teacher allotments from the school system. As part of the “hands-on” mission, students often have class in the local community and beyond to enhance their understanding.

“It has been our commitment that no

SKELETOR AT THE CARNIVAL: Don’t miss New Hanover High Lyceum Academy’s annual haunted house, “Carnival of Carnage,” with proceeds benefiting the organization. Courtesy photo.

student would be left out due to financial needs,” Massengill details. “It was with this in mind that we began looking for fund-raising opportunities. A parent on our

advisory board suggested we construct a haunted house, and the rest is history.”

The words of Corinne Tabor, a senior in the Lyceum Academy, seem to say it all:“All the unique, individual ideas that go into making it happen are the main ingredients for our haunted adventure cookie.

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The festival will entice folks out beyond the shopping malls to one of the most beautiful and atmospheric spots of the Wilmington area. Richard Keenan, park ranger and UNCW graduate, explains, “Our job is to preserve North Carolina’s natural resources and history and to make sure that the public get to enjoy it out here, too.”

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BUNKER DOWN: The Ghost Hike explores areas in Fort Fisher with high medium action. Now-deceased, the Fort Fisher Hermit Robert Harrill’s bunker will be the final stop on the tour. Courtesy photo.

cational programs within the community, including their famous turtle watch, but they also want to encourage people to relish the stunning surroundings that Fort Fisher has to offer. The festival is a joint venture between the park and the Civil War Museum, and will be running all day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Everyone is encouraged to dress up and join in on the fun.

In addition to the festival, they have another scary surprise up their sleeves. Being somewhat of an amateur ghost hunter himself, Keenan has taken the activity of a “Ghost Walk” to the next level: He will be hosting the park’s third annual “Ghost Hike” after the festival, at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. It takes a group of the lucky few along a trail that is normally closed off to the public at night. It is an hour long and passes through a number of different terrains—clearly not for the faint-hearted.

There will be no actors, no-one dressed up and no-one throwing candy.

“The whole area of the hike is soaked in blood,” Keenan refers to some of the momentous historical events which surround Fort Fisher. After all, it was the last standing port in the American Civil War of 1861to1865; therefore it was hugely important to both sides. The South relied heavily upon the port for the European goods of food, clothes and artillery, which were vital in order to feed, cloth and arm the Confederate forces, and were exchanged for cotton.

The bloody battles of Fort Fisher took place in December 1864 and January 1865, where it is said that up to 2,000 men were injured

or lost their lives. The defeat of the Confederate forces and the capturing of Fort Fisher ultimately signaled the end of the war and the abolition of slavery. One of the most mysterious stories around the area today is the repeated appearance of a Confederate guard wondering the property.

“Nothing on this hike is designed to scare you,” Keenan says. “We don’t need to invent anything. There’s plenty out there anyway!”

He recalls a recent story where a ranger was locking up the office at night when she suddenly had the strongest sensation of being watched. Just as she was getting into her car, she looked down the road to see a “man in blue pants” walking toward her. When she pointed her flash light toward him, the figure completely disappeared.

The hike is free and Keenan organizes it out of a personal passion for the paranormal. He even has some ghost-busting equipment which he brings on the hike. One of the gauges reads the electro magnetic field of a given area.

“This little machine reads energy levels which ghosts or spirits are generally considered to be,” Keenan explains, pointing to the machine. “So, if this level suddenly goes way up for no apparent reason, which often happens on the hike, we can only assume that we are picking up on something paranormal!”

The stories don’t stop there either. The area was used for military training during World War II, and one bunker became the home of the infamous Robert Harrill. It was said that the “hermit,” as he became known, arrived from the mountains in the 1950s where he immediately took up residency in the deserted bunker. During the following years, he received many visitors, and at one point was the second greatest tourist attraction in North Carolina. Way ahead of his time, Harrill “dropped out” of society and professed to find the peace he was searching for within a no-frills lifestyle. His body was found in June 1972, and the circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery to this day. Harrill’s bunker is one of the final stops on the hike and is a place where the EMF device “nearly always picks up some action.”

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halloween events AQUA CAMP 10/31: Spooky Critters. Halloween day camp (ages 5-12) features slippery, slimy animal programs and crafts. Admission charge; pre-registration required. NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher, Kure Beach; 910-458-8257; www.ncaquariums.com/ fort-fisher.

POPLAR GROVE HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL 10/19-31: Poplar Grove Plantation Halloween Festival, Fri., 6-9pm Sat. and Sun, 2-9pm. Haunted barn and hayride, $8. Proceeds will be shared with Topsail High School Music Department, Hoggard AVID Group, Hoggard High School Latin Club and Hampstead Volunteer Fire Department. Festival otherwise free w/inflatable rides, games, food, prizes, fortune tellers, non-scary hayrides and activities. Costume contest 10/22. 910-686-9518 www.poplargrove.com BATTLESHIP NC 10/21-22, 28-29: The Battleship NC turns into a foggy shade of green, as the vessel turns into Ghost Ship. No movie set needed for this haunt as the ship can terrify any soul when set out to wonder alone through the decks below. Venture below in the dark.

Zombies greet you at the door; tickest on sale nightly, 6:30; must be in line by 9:30 to ensure ticket. $10; limited each night. No advance tickets sold. Not recommended for young children. • 3rd annual Batty Battleship’s Halloween Bash, 10/25. Batty Battleship, brother Buggy and their friends have come back for a spooktacular trick or treating time. A lot of fun and no scares for the family to share. Candy and sweets, carnival festivities, popcorn, tattoos, caricature draw-

10/23: COSTUME CONTEST Poplar Grove’s annual Halloween festival is underway!

Tons of fun is in store with hayrides, a haunted barn, inflatable rides, games, fortune tellers and especially prizes! Come dressed in your Halloween best on Saturday the 22nd for their annual Halloween contest, with registration at 6 p.m., followed by judging at 7 p.m. The festival takes place Friday through Sunday at Poplar Grove Plantation, 10200 Highway 17.

Prices vary per activity. ings and bounce house. 5:30-8pm, w/ last ticket sold at 7:30pm. $5/person. 910-251-5797. www.battleshipnc.com CARNAGE FILM FESTIVAL See page 29.

CARNIVAL OF CARNAGE See page 49.

SPRINGBROOK FARMS TOURS 10/21-22, 28-31, 6-9pm: Take a ghost ride through downtown Wilmington, and enjoy a fun spoof in the Ghost Barn! Listen to ghost stories tailored for youngchildren, without the gore & violence of today’s Halloween. Let your little ones enjoy Halloween the way it used to be! Free treats for children. Springbrook Farms Horsedrawn Carriage Tours: horsedrawntours@hotmail.com GREAT PUMPKIN HUNT

10/22, Great Pumpkin Hunt, 11-1:30pm. Maides Park, 1101 Manly. Cost: $3/child. Activities include: Face Painting, arts and crafts, cookie decorating, horseback rides, hay rides, My Precious Pumpkin contest, safe trick-or-treating w/ Wilmington Police Dept., pumpkin patch pictures (additional $4). 341-7867.

THE MIZRABEL KIDS Journey Productions presents “The Mizrabel Kids—Another Gothic Tale of Epic Woe and Sorrow in Monster Mash.” A dark, daring, dismal, dastardly, yet mostly funny musical. Directed by Cherri McKay The evil Baron Von Rashke Zach Hanner regaining custody of the Mizrabel children forces them on a trip to the Monster Hunter Convention in Blargistan. Led by local favorites Melissa Stanley, Caylan McKay, Tamara Mercer, Aimee Schooley, Michael O’Shaughnessy and The P.E.T. Project company we follow the Mizrabels as they are forced to survive in yet another strange, gothic, and bleak world.

Proceeds to benefit Cape Fear Shakespeare on the Green 20th Season Anniversary Family night, Wed., 10/26, 7:30, $7 • GA, $11, 10/20 & 27, 7:30pm; Fri-Sat, 10/21, 28-29, 8pm; and Sat-Sun, 10/23, 29-30, matinees at 3pm. Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut Street910-362-2285. www.ThalianHall.org FORT FISHER FALL/HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL See page 50.

TRICK OR TREAT UNDER THE SEA 10/26-27, 5pm-8:30pm. Families can enjoy thrills & gills in the same day. Indoor trick-or-treating, face painting, story-telling, magic shows, spooky divers and haunted gardens are highlights at this family Halloween party. Note: only umbrella strollers permitted. Admission charged (children 2 and under free). NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher, Loggerhead Rd., Kure Beach; 910-458-8257; www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher EVENING OF AESTHETICS 10/26, 7pm-midnight: EOA “Halloween Edition” returns! 20 local artists gather with large variety of unique and amazing art! Each artist vends their own table with displays of fantastic paintings, photography, sculpture, hand made jewelry, clothing items, custom plush toys, and more. Ranging from new comers to the Wilmington art scene to established local artists, there is a little of everything for everyone at the event.

Raffle tickets: $1 each throughout the night to raise money for Southern Reptile Saviors Rescue group as well as the chance to meet and greet some of their education rescue reptiles. $3 admission @ door but in the spirit of Halloween if you come in costume $1 will be knocked off admission! Paint-n-Play Ceramics Studio, 1021 S. Kerr Ave. SPOOKTACULAR TOURNAMENTS 10/27: Magnolia Greens Golf Course. L. A. Halloween Open: 18 holes ($80): 11am Shotgun Start.

Registration at 9:30am. W. H. I. F. (Why Hit It Far): 9 holes ($45). 1pm Start; registration at 11:30am. Prices include: Free Range Balls, Ghoulishly Good Food & Beverages and Awards T-Signs and Sponsorships available. Each hole will have a costume character or company mascot. 910-383-0553.

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before we have dessert we will swap clues about the unusual suspect. Special Halloween performance: 10/27, 6:30pm. Balcony on Dock, 33 S. Front St., 910-232-6611. Historic downtown ILM. Kids: $20/ adults: $40. porchtheatre.com ST. JUDE’S MASQUERADE BALL 10/28, 8pm: A night of great music for dancing, delicious refreshments, fabulous costumes and incredible people-watching opportunities! Call for tickets; St. Jude’s Church: 762-5833 or Ann Friedrich, accastle4@ec.rr.com.

KOOKY SPOOKY JAM-BOO-READ 10/28, 5-7pm. A kids’ street festival with scary stories and non-scary fall-theme games and activities.

Kids are invited to arrive in costume or as a favorite book character for the zombie dance party. Other Halloween/fall theme activities throughout the month of October. Admission charge. Children’s Museum, Wilmington. 910-254-3534; www.playwilmington.org THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA International celebrity organist and composer Dorothy Papadakos (right) will be featured at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Sun., 10/30, 7pm, in a showing of the classic Phantom of the Opera, for which she will improvise the musical score. Formerly the organist at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Papadakos has recently specialized in improvising film scores for classic silent movies such as Phantom and the movies of Charlie Chaplin. Suitable for most ages 8 and over. Audience invited to come in fancy dress, and prizes will be awarded for the costumes that are judged to be best. $10adv/$15 at the door.

SPEChurch.com. (910) 762-4578 office HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA 10/30, 4-8:30pm: Halloween Extravaganza and Trunk or Treat. Historic Downtown Burgaw, NC. The “TrunkO-Treat” celebration was developed in order for the children of Burgaw and the surrounding area to have a safe and supervised area to celebrate Halloween.

There will be pumpkin carving and decorating (judging will begin at 5:15 pm), costume contests for children and adults (registration will begin at 4:30pm at the Train Depot; judging will be held from 5-6pm) and even pets (registration will be from 4-4:30pm at the Courthouse Square and the fee is $5 per entry; proceeds will benefit the Humane Society). Inflatable’s & carnival games will also be provided. 910-259-9817 or www.burgawchamber.com.

TRICK OR TREAT AT THE MALL 10/31, 5-7pm. Kids arrive in costume and retailers provide candy. Independence Mall, 3500 Oleander Dr., Wilmington. 910-392-1776; www.shopindependencemall.com TRICK OR TREAT IN THE PARK 10/31, 5-8pm: Hampstead Kiwanis Park, Hampstead NC. Make sure to bring the little ones out this evening for what will be a safe and exciting trick or treating event. Hampstead Kiwanis Park will be opening on Halloween night from 5 PM to 8 PM. The athletic field lights will be on for the children of our community to enjoy a safe and fun-filled Halloween. This year we have the chance to use 2 fields and we would love to fill them both up! For more information call 910270-9642 or visit http://www.hampsteadkiwanispark. com/TrickOrTreat.html GHOST WALK 6:30pm & 8:30pm. Costumed guides lead visitors through alleyways with tales of haunted Wilmington.

Nightly tours at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Admission

charge. Meets at Water & Market streets. Reservations required: 910-794-1866; www.hauntedwilmington.com HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE TOURS Narrated horse drawn carriage and trolley tours of historic Wilmington feature a costumed driver who narrates a unique adventure along the riverfront and past stately mansions. For Halloween Daily continuous tours offered 10am-10pm. Market and Water streets. $12 for adults, $5 per child. (910) 251-8889 or www.horsedrawntours.com HAUNTED COTTON EXCHANGE TOURS Haunted Cotton Exchange Tours. Day/eve tours by appointment. Admission charge. Cotton Exchange parking lot street entrance, Wilmington. 910-4094300. hauntedcottonexchange.blogspot.com.

HAUNTED PUB CRAWL 7:30pm. Guided tour to 5 haunted pubs. Ages 21 and up; admission charge. Meets Wed.-Sat. in October & Monday, Oct. 31. Meet at Fat Tony’s (131 N. Front St., Wilmington). Reservations required: 910-7941866; www.hauntedwilmington.com PANIC ATTACK HAUNTED ATTRACTION Through Oct 31, Thurs.-Sat. night, as well as SunMon,Oct. 30-31, 6pm-12midnight. Over 30,000 square feet of Hollywood-quality special effects, elaborate sets, and terrifying live actors evoke one’s deepest fears. New this year: live snakes & Temple of Doom. Intensity warning: This haunted attraction is not for children under the age of 13. Admission charged. 1290 S. 15th St., Wilmington. 910-6856551; www.panicattackhaunt.com MURDER MYSTERY DINNER CRUISES Solve an exciting who-dunnit during a 2- hour dinner cruise along the Cape Fear River. Audience participation; prizes. Boards at 6pm; departs 6:30pm at dock (Water & Dock sts). Admission charge. Reservations: 910-343-1611; 800-676-0162; www.cfrboats.com MURDER MYSTERY WEEKEND Microtel Inn at 907 N. Lake Park Blvd. having a murder mystery weekend, “The Family Plot,” 11/4-5.

Interactive murder mystery comedy weekend—an entire weekend of drop dead hilarious comedy by Redrum Mysteries. 910-458-1300.

events FALL FESTIVAL 10/22, 6:30am-2pm: Hampstead United Methodist Church Hampstead, NC. The big day is almost here! On Saturday, October 22, from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine, there will be free parking and free admission to the annual big fall festival at Hampstead United Methodist Church.

CAROLINA ANTIQUE TRACTOR PULL 10/29, 9am: Carolina Antique Tractor Pull & Show.

Shingleton Farms Hampstead, NC. Carolina Antique Tractor Pull Association comes to Shingleton

Farms in Hampstead for this event in Pender County. Super Tractors, Farms Tractors and Trucks battle it out for championship points and bragging rights.

Come to watch, or come to pull. 910-833-4536. www.shingletonfarms.com.

ENCORE CONSIGNMENT BOUTIQUE Encore! Consignment Boutique will be celebrating 5 years in business on Sat., 10/22, 10am-6pm, 5814 Oleander Dr., Oleander Bay Shopping Center. Events include Roll-The-Dice lucky discounts, free tote bags, fashion makeovers and advice from Jess James (Style Girl, 3-5pm) and Best-Dressed prizes. www. encoreconsignmentstore.com KATRINA EXPLORATION UNCW presents exploration of Hurricane Katrina and injustice. Schedule: 10/19-24: Art Exhibition: “The Katrina Collection” by Lori K. Gordon, 7am-11pm.

Warwick Center Lobby Artist Gallery Talk 4-5pm, 10/18, Cultural Arts Building 2033. Gordon was doing work on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when her studio and artworks were destroyed by a storm surge from Hurricane Katrina. She returned a few weeks later and began creating new collages of art using rubble and objects found in the destruction that remained and the mixed media “The Katrina Collection” was created. • 10/20, 11:30am: New Orleans Lunch in Wagoner Hall. Students, faculty and staff will enjoy New Orleans-inspired food, music and festivities at Wagoner Hall.

FARMERS’ MARKETS Weekly Farmers’ Markets feat. plant, food and crafts vendors;: Riverfront Farmer’s Market Sat., Downtown Wilmington, Water St., 8am-1pm. AprilDec. www.wilmingtonfarmers.com • Poplar Grove Plantation Farmer’s Market Wed., 10200 US 17 N., Wilmington, through 12/14. Live music w/Cindy Rhodes; Pender County Master Gardeners clinic 2nd Wed/ea. mo.

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UNCW PRESENTS UNCW Presents Arts in Action Series. Subscriptions are on sale now through Kenan Box Office at 962-3500 and online, www.etix.com. Choose-YourOwn subscribers who purchase tickets to three or

more performances save $4 off regular prices. Single tickets go on sale 8/24, with savings for UNCW students, faculty/staff, and senior citizens. Shows at Kenan Auditorium unless otherwise noted. www.uncw. edu/presents. Schedule: 10/29, 8pm: David Dorfman Dance, Prophets of Funk: Dance to the Music • 11/3, 8pm: Dobet Gnahoré UNCW PRIDE WEEK

FUNK YOUR TRUNK Funk Your Trunk Show, with fashion by Daniella Miller of Royal Peasantry. Live models rockin’ some styles, vinyl sets by W.A.M and Gregg Scott.

10/21, 7pm, Nsalo Salon, free. 212 North Front St. www.nsalosalon.com LEATHER HISTORY CONFERENCE 10/21, 3pm: Register now for fantastic savings! Only $75 entry for three fulldays immersed in Leather History with Leather Folk. Leather History Conference 2011, 10/21-23, Wilmington, NC. http://www.leatherhistoryconference.com THALIAN HALL MAIN ATTRACTIONS SERIES Thalian Hall Main Attractions Series. Schedule: 10/22, 8pm: NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players: I’ve Got a Little Twist. The talented seven-person ensemble celebrates the G&S legacy in American musical theater and includes classics from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bernstein, Sondheim, Lerner & Lowe, Meredith Willson, Jerry Herman and more. www.nygasp. org. www.ThalianHall.org Box Office 910-632-2285;

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10/19, 6-7pm: Jimmy Creech: Marriage Equality in NC. Kenan Hall. Father Creech was excommunicated for performing a gay marriage and will speak for its rights. 8-10pm: Film—Crossing Building 2: Comedy about a girl who is sent to a rehab camp because they think she’s a lesbian. • 10/20, 4-6pm: Happy Hour at Shakrey’s Game Room, for music, games and mingling. • 10/21, 7-9pm: PRIDE Sing-a-long Night at Upperman Center. Sing-a-long to Disney songs and other random tunes. Solos welcome, too! All events are free and open to the public!

INDOOR RUMMAGE SALE 10/22: Assistance League of Greater Wilmington will be holding its third annual New To You indoor rummage sale at St. James Episcopal Parish Gym, Dock Street, between Third and Fourth streets. Gently used clothing, home furnishings and decor, antiques and collectibles, housewares, books, toys, holiday items, garden items and much more. Early bird admission: 7:30-9am, $10; free after 9am. Sale lasts ‘til 2pm. Coffee and donuts on sale.

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Holy Grounds Coffee House, a nonprofit organization, designates the months of October and November to be a Fundraising Time for our Food Pantry. Help distribute food to over 100 families every Saturday morning from 9-11am • November: A Food Drive at Holy Grounds. Anyone that wants to donate nonperishable food to give away to the folks in our community in need, can bring them by HG from 7am-2pm, Mon-Fri. Every 5 items donated to HG will get the giver a free cup of regular coffee or 50 percent off of a specialty coffee. Also welcomed: coats, sweaters, and blankets to give away during cold winter months.

REBUILDING LIVES FUND-RAISER 10/20, 6:30pm: Celebration of the 214 men, women, and children whose lives were rebuilt as they transitioned from homelessness to housing last year.

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ROCK FOR THE CURE 10/21, 7pm: As a part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Communication Studies Society, a student organization at UNCW, will host the 5th annual Rockfor the Cure breast cancer benefit concert. Second floor of the Reel Cafe. Cost of admission to the event is $5 and all proceeds go to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s Pink Ribbon Project. The Schoolboys, UNCW’s unofficial faculty rock band, will provide entertainment—a mix of modern and classic rock music. There will also be a silent auction and raffle to raise money. http:// student.uncw.edu/rockforthecure.

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10/21: Golf Tournament benefiting Women of Hope will be held at the award winning Cape Fear National Golf course at Brunswick Forest. Registration begins at 11:30 am with a shotgun start at 1pm, and the format is Captain’s Choice. The entry fee includes green fees, cart, lunch, post game hors d’oeuvres, raffle ticket, 20% discount in Pro shop day of event and tournament gift bag. We are looking for golfers, sponsors and volunteers to help us raise money for this worthy cause. www.WomenOfHopeNC.org.

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THE VINTAGE EVENT Brooklyn Arts Center holds The Vintage Event, featuring auction of fine wines and vintage finds, with tastes from finest restaurants and caterers in Wilmington, along with open bar. Fund-raiser for the Historic Wilmington Foundation. Cocktail attire; music

by Savoire Faire—singer Susan Savia, jazz pianist William Gerald and stand up bass player Ken Merritt. 10/21, 6:30pm. Sponsors needed; ticket prices announced soon. (910) 762-1551 or trivett@historicwilmington.org AIRLIE OYSTER ROAST The salty scent of steamed oysters, the sizzle of frying fish and the mellow tones of a steel drum band will create a festive mood for the area’s most anticipated autumn party. Airlie Garden’s annual Oyster Roast, 10/21, 6-11pm, w/profits slated to transform the classroom into an immersive, state-of-the art learning environment. Plans for the Airlie classroom include colorful wall graphics depicting eco-systems found within the gardens, as well as fully functional exhibits showcasing reptiles and amphibians. For bug fans of all ages – an Zoo-orarium will house an assortment of Airlie’s tiniest inhabitants.$75, includes a dinner buffet featuring appetizers, roasted oysters, Carolina BBQ and a fish fry; two spirituous beverages, live entertainment by the Sea Pans steel drum ensemble during cocktail hour and Heartbeat of Soul playing beach music, Motown and top 40 during and after dinner.

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1 and 3-mile walks, prizes, raffles, kids’ activities and live music from the Use-to-Be’s! Come celebrate National Make a Difference Day with the Arthritis Foundation! Register:www.ArthritisWalkWilmington.org BWW BREAST CANCER AWARENESS Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar is teaming up with Pretty In Pink Foundation to raise funds all October long.

Guests can buy limited edition pink t-shirts: “Save A Breast. Eat A Wing,” sold with all profits benefitting PIPF. Every “Boneless Thursday” the month of October, 10 percent of all food sales will be donated between the hours of 5 and 9pm. For the 21 and up crowd, “Pink Buffalo” drinks will be available all October with a portion of the proceeds being donated.

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CAPE FEAR BAZAAR 10/22, 9am-1pm: Cape Fear Mission Bazaar to help the hungry. Handcrafted items, baked goods, secondhand treasures or breakfast served all day, you’ll find it at the Cape Fear Presbyterian Church Fall Bazaar to benefit Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard. All proceeds benefit Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, 221 North Second St. Cape Fear Presbyterian:on Shipyard Blvd near the 17th Street intersection. 2606 Newkirk Ave. ICEHOUSE SKATE-A-THON 10/22, 7:30pm: To Benefit NTAF South-Atlantic Bone Marrow Transplant Fund in honor of Tom Jackson. Fun, door prizes for adults and children. Iceskating, silent auction, 50/50 drawing, ocean front home beach house raffle ! Tickets are $10 includes ice skates (please buy tickets by 10/14, in order to raise more $ for benefit). Wilmington Ice House, Kaleb Rundquist. sjr28405@aol.com

CARS VS. CANCER Cars vs Cancer presents the first annual Poker Run. Meet at 9am at Leland AutoZone, 10/22.

50/50: Half to Best Poker Hand and Half to The American Cancer Society! Door prizes at each stop where you pick up each card for your Poker hand.

Starts at Leland AutoZone, cruise to Market Street location, then to Monkey Junction location, then to Carolina Beach and return to the Leland location for final card. $10/person.

TIN CUP TOURNEY 10/25: Benefits the Wilmington Interfaith Hospitality Network. Tee time, 9am, at CF National, Brunswick Forest in Leland. 18 holes, trophies, food, beverages, prizes, shotgun start, Captain’s choice play, awards and more. No cost, but must have sponsor ($1 a stroke or flat donations welcome) to compete in King of the Tin Cup grand prize honored from most monies raised. Sandy Collette: 910-793-1987.

NEVER TOO MUCH 10/27, 9-10pm: Never Too Much Fashion show, benefiting The Domestic Violence Shelter, with clothing Caitlin McDonald and handbags by Adore Designs.

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COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS Communities In Schools of Brunswick County announces its 10th Annual Benefit Gala for Children, 10/27, 6-10pm, Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center in Sunset Beach. The Gala is the cornerstone of the CIS fundraising efforts. Tickets to this Black Tie Optional event are $100 each and are available in advance or at the door. Funds generated by the Gala benefit the children and families of Brunswick County. www.cisbrunswick.org or call 910-457-3494.

CUE CENTER FOR MISSING PERSONS The CUE Center for Missing Person’s national road tour, called “On the Road to Remember,” is an awareness campaign that focuses on missing persons cases that have gone cold or have not received appropriate media coverage. The tour, which travels through many states annually, provides that attention. national road tour’s final stop & BBQ will be on 10/29, 11am-3pm, Britt Motorsports. BBQ, raffle and family activities. 910-442-8337.

HAPPY TAILS DOG EXPO Happy Tails Dog Expo, 10/30, noon-4pm, Poplar Grove Plantation. Bring your furry friends for a full afternoon of fun! Contests, demonstrations, prizes, and a variety of vendors will be there with great products for your favorite pal. Dandiest Dog Costume and Look-A-like contests, with judges from Pups Play n’ Stay. Azalea Dog Training Club has the most courteous canines in this area of the country. Throughout the afternoon, beloved tail-waggers from a variety of breeds show-off their good manners and skills performing agility, rally, and traditional obedience demonstrations. Guest speaker Dr. Imogene Lackie, of Scotts Hill Animal Hospital will offer some words of advice for pet owners. $5/person, furry friends come for free Proceeds benefit Poplar Grove Plantation and local humane societies. 10200 US Highway 17. www.poplargrove.com

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theatre/auditions BIG DAWG PRODUCTIONS Big Dawg Productions: 11/3-6, 10-13, 17-20— “The Diary of Anne Frank,” which features newly discovered writings by the title character as well as recollections of Holocaust survivors. Shows: Thurs.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. Tickets: $18 general admission ($10 Thurs performances) or $15 seniors/students. 910-341-7228 or www.bigdawgproductions.org. Cape Fear Playhouse, downtown Wilmington. 613 Castle St. BROWNCOAT PUB AND THEATRE See page 10. • CFIFN presents Sunday Cinema exclusively at the Browncoat: Sunday at 7:30pm.

Browncoat partners with the Cape Fear Independent Film Network to bring you the finest in independent cinema from around the world. Each week, we will screen a new independent film along with an accompanying short. Admission: $3 and proceeds will benefit local filmmakers and the Cape Fear Independent Film Festival. • Browncoat Jeopardy Trivia: Sunday at 9:30pm. Test your knowledge in Wilmington’s best team trivia experience. No cover charge. Great prizes every week. • Browncoat Karaoke: Fri/Sat/Sun at 10pm for downtown Wilmington’s best karaoke experience. Be a star on our stage with genuine theatre lighting, state of the art equipment and a song list of more than 150,000 songs! No cover! • Every Wed, 10pm, Open Mic Comedy Night at the Browncoat Pub and Theatre 111 Grace St. Anyone welcome to come out and tell all your best jokes because at this comedy club. You can tell however many jokes you like and stop whenever you like. Hosted by local actor and comedian Kameron King. 910-612-1018. 111 Grace St. 910-341-0001 or browncoattheatre.com.

CHARLIE BROWN THE MUSICAL 10/22-23, 2pm & 5pm: See “Charlie Brown the Musical” w/Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all the Peanuts Gang live at The Performance Club Studio Theater!

Tickets $10 at Learning Express Toys on Military Cutoff Rd. or online at PerformanceClubKids.com. 3383378. 6624 Gordon Rd. Studio B. CITY STAGE Avenue Q: 10/21-23 and 28-30 • Santaland Diaries (Back by poplular demand, starring Zach Hanner): 11/25-27, 12/2-4 & 9-11 • The Full Monty, playing at Thalian Hall. Special New Year’s Eve Gala. 12/29-1/1, 5-8 and 12-15. • Debbie Does Dallas, 1/12-15, 2022, 27-29 and 2/3-5 • Spring Awakening, 2/16-19, 24-26, 3/2-4 and 9-11 • Next to Normal, 3/22-25, 30-4/1, 4/6-8 & 13-15. Tickets: $18-$22. City Stage: (910) 262-0490 or www.citystagenc.com

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TAURUS (21 April – 20 May) Trying to understand loved ones is not only impossible, it is a frustrating endeavor. Focus instead on keeping your emotions in check.

GEMINI (21 May – 20 June) Playing well with others may not be as easy as it should, thanks to forces beyond your control.

The bad mood comes with it, unfortunately.

CANCER (21 June – 21 July) Making a fool of yourself is very likely, unless you check your facts and reasoning before speaking.

Be cautious in making promises as well to avoid overextending.

LEO (22 July – 22 August) Fool me once ... Someone is likely to dupe you, so beware. Frustrations you thought were buried just might surprise you by showing up, at the worst possible time.

VIRGO (23 August – 22 September) Having trouble realizing whether you dreamed it or really did it? All this dreamtime just carries over, so that you realize you have been daydreaming when something startles you! Enjoy it; some of those daydreams may be a bit sensual.

LIBRA (9/24 – 10/23) What an exciting time! You have found a new understanding of the world around you. Romance is also on a new level. The only drawback is that you rely so heavily on emotions that logical reasoning takes a back seat.

SCORPIO (23 Oct. – 21 November) Confidence and vanity are easily confused! Your social life will only suffer if you can’t keep your ego under control. Keeping realistic expectations could be the hardest task for you this week.

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CHORDS FOR A CAUSE Gloriana will be joined with the elegant tones of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra, 11/5, in Wilmington’s Kenan Auditorium. The special concert will benefit Chords for a Cause, a non-profit organization that harnesses the power of music to support medical programs in the community. To support the Betty H. Cameron Women’s and Children’s Hospital’s commitment to bring more smiles to the children and families who come to the hospital for care. Gloriana has a gold certified hit single, “Wild at Heart” and won the fan vote for “Best Breakthrough Artist” in the Amercian Music Awards. www.glorianacontest.com. Tickets available through the Kenan box office in August. www.chordsforacause.com.

TACT CLASSES Thalian Association Children’s Theater AnnouncesSession 2 for TACT Academy Classes. Register at Community Arts Center: 910-341-7860. 120 S. 2nd St. ABC for TACTAn introduction into the film and television industry with Sherri Yelton. 6-wk. series of classes to help your child “Get in the Biz”

SAGITTARIUS (22 Nov. – 21 Dec.) Making time for family will bring about a great experience and probably someone into your life whom you have not seen in a long time. You are at your social best

CAPRICORN (22 Dec. – 20 Jan.) P r o found insights change your attitude about things; loved ones’ heads will spin. Many unexpected happenings are on your horizon. Get ready for change!

AQUARIUS (21 Jan. – 19 February) Reaching out to loved ones doesn’t necessarily mean you need to be extravagant. This is a good time for telephone conversations, as long as you avoid being overly aggressive.

PISCES (20 February – 20 March Being affectionate is definitely reciprocated, so go ahead and show someone how you feel. With all the love being shared, someone may try to deceive you.

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of film and TV, include résumé writing, prepare for a cold reads, choose the best headshots, etc. Parents with children under 14 are asked to attend w/ child. Parents are welcome at all sessions. Classes: Wed, 6-7pm or 7-8pm, 11/2-12/7. $60. • Character Development: Acting 101 w/Kim Henry. 6-wk. series to enhance acting skills and fine tune audition techniques—working with a script and improvisation techniques, build a strong character, and developing one through voice enhancement and character relationships. All skill levels; Tues., 10/25-11/29, 5-7pm. $50 • Dance Partnering with Jason Aycock. 6-wk series for boys and girls with dance experience. Learn fundamentals of men and women dancing together, includes lifts and tricks. Classes on Sat, 10am-1pm, 10/29-12/10. $50.

FABULOUS FABLE FACTORY Stagestruck Players, the youth division of Brunswick Little Theatre, will present the musical, ‘Fabulous Fable Factory,’ 11/11-13, 18-20 at 7pm or 3pm Sunday matinees. During the story of how Aesop’s fables came to be, the entire troupe participates in creating and enacting some of the best of the fables.Playhouse 211 at 4320 Southport-Supply Rd, SE (Highway 211), St. James across from BEMC. Tickets: 910-200-7785 or www.playhouse211.com. www.brunswicklittletheatre.com.

NEW RIVER PLAYERS Drama instructor/artistic director for New River Players, Eric S. Kildow, debuts CCCC’s first show, “MacBeth,” 11/3-5, 8pm, at the Bodenhamer Auditorium in the Fine Arts Building at Coastal Carolina Community College, Jacksonville, 444 Western Blvd. $5 GA or $2 student/senior/military. (910) 938-6234. kildowe@cc.coastalcarolina.edu YANKEE TAVERN Through 11/6, Thurs-Sat., 8pm; with 3pm matinees on Sun. The Red Barn Studio Theatre in association with Imaginary Theater Company announces Yankee Tavern, by Steven Dietz. In 2006, a man who knows more than he should, changes the lives of the denizens of a crumbling bar in lower Manhattan near the site of the Twin Towers. Directed by Dorothy Rankin and featuring Mike O’Neil, Rylan Morsbach, Isabel Heblich, and Lee Lowrimore, this thriller considers the impact of conspiracy theories on individual lives as well as society at large. Tickets are $25 regular admission, $23 for students and seniors. 762-0955, 1122 S. 3rd St. www.redbarnstudiotheatre.com.

comedy DAVE COULIER AND JIMMIE JJ WALKER 11/6, 8pm: Comedian Dave Coulier who starred on the hit TV show “Full House” will be performing his stand-up comedy act with Jimmie JJ Walker from the hit show, “Good Times,” at Thalian Hall. thalianhall. com or (910) 632-2285.

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Chamber Music Wilmington’s benefit concert presents Dorothy Papadakos at the organ to accompany select unforgettable “Charlie Chaplin” movies. • 12/4, 6:30pm at St. James Parish Episcopal Church, 25 S. 3rd St. Philadelphia Brass as the finale for the Candlelight Tour. From the majestic Baroque of Bach to the modern sophistication of Ellington, this program will delight many different musical tastes, and will conclude with innovative settings of your holiday favorites. • 1/ 15, 7:30pm, Beckwith Recital Hall, UNCW. Carolina Piano Trio w/guest violist Jonathan Briggs.

Musical “Paprikash” feat. Hungarian folk tunes, delights and dances from Dohna`ny’s vibrant Serenade fro String Trio, and Barto`k’s intriguing dance variations for strings. • 4/15, 7:30pm at Church of the Servant Episcopal at 4925 Oriole Dr. Kontras Quartet, who follows in the footsteps of Degas and Frye Street quartets as the current Resident Quartet with the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory.

NC SYMPHONY 11/6, 3pm: Bizet’s Spanish-set opera Carmen was a musical turning point. Naturally, the admirers of its wildly popular melodies aimed to follow suit. Sarah Hicks takes you straight into the intersection of neighboring cultures with this fresh look at how Spanish flavors inspired French music, and vice versa. Sarah Hicks, Associate Conductor Sein An, violin Bizet: Suite from CarmenSarasate: Carmen Fantasy Chabrier: España Massenet: Ballet Music from Le Cid Falla: Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat Kenan Auditorium, UNCW. Tickets $33-$48. www.ncsymphony.org or 919-7332750

STONE SOUP CONCERTS PRESENTS 10/27: Political Satirist, Roy Zimmerman, 7:30pm, at The Reel Café, 2nd floor ballroom $15 GA. What’s funny about war, poverty, ignorance, bigotry, neoconservatism, homophobia, greed, lust and fear?

Writer humorous satirical songs for twenty years.

www.royzimmerman.com. RSVP to ticketed events: www.stonesoupconcerts.com TED’S FUN ON THE RIVER Live music at Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St. 10/21, 7-9pm with jazz standards, Broadway showtunes and popumar music by Nicole Thompson and Donna Merritt.

THE LITTLEST BIRDS Cape Fear Concerts presents The Littlest Birds, a touring cello and banjo duo establishing themselves on a national scale as folk and old time music artists, 11/4, 7pm. Playhouse 211, 4320 Southport-Supply Rd., $15. 910-842-5160 www.playhouse211.com.

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WILMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 10/22, 8pm: Happy Birthday, Liszt! Franz Liszt was born on October 22, 1811, and we light all 200 candles with a monster concert including four fabulous pianists and a dazzling display of Lisztian virtuosity.

Kenan Auditorium: (910) 962-3500. www.wilmingtonsymphony.org

dance 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 BIG BAND BASH AT BATTLESHIP 11/6, 3-7pm: Babs McDance presents Babs’s Big Band Bash at the NC Battleship Memorial Fantail.

Feat. The Wilmington Big Band and will not only celebrate Veteran’s and Armistice Days but also be a grand 93rd birthday celebration for Harold GarCalendar entries are accepted Thursdays by noon for following week’s paper. We only guarantee listings two weeks out from event date, depending on space. E-mail calendar@encorepub.com press releases.

ACOUSTIC SPOTLIGHT ON RIVER Wilmington Water Tours, Acoustic Spotlight on the River, held Thursdays, 6:30pm. Featuring different musicians weekly. $25; wilmingtonwatertours.com MIKE CROSS See page 20.

CAROLINA COURTYARD A series of free outdoor concerts will be offered in the Carolina Courtyard Park next to the Main Library at 12 noon every Tuesday in Oct. Bring a lunch and a blanket or folding chair and enjoy the music! Corner of 3rd and Chestnut, downtown Wilmington. Free parking for concerts/library visits, available in the deck.

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rish, Pearl Harbor Veteran and avid local ballroom dancer and golfer. Free dance lessons and dance performances, complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar; semi-formal with 1940’s attire optional. Inclement weather date: 11/13. $15/person through 10/24 and $20 after or at door. WilmingtonTickets.

Com. 910-395-5090 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 CONTRA DANCE Tuesday night dances, 5th Ave United Methodist Church on South 5th Ave at Nun, 7:30-9:30pm.Social dance for all levels; singles and couples, families, college and high school students and folks of all dancing abilities are invited to come. $4. (910) 538-9711.

SURFER TANGO Waterford Tango at the Clubhouse, Fri. at 7:30 • Magnolia Greens Tango, Thurs, 7:30pm, Aerobics Room • Cape Fear Country Club Tango, Sun., 5pm.

All classes are $10 per couple per class fun, professional, positive instruction. www.surfertango.com TANGO Tango classes and social dancing, Fridays, Carolina Lounge of Ramada Inn. 5001 Market Street (between College and Kerr). 7:30-9:30pm. $5 lounge entrance includes beginners’ lesson, 7:30. • 10/ 22 Workshop & Milonga ith Edie & Mason from Atlanta. 11am: Followers’ Technique, $10. 1:30pm: Vals Technnique, $15. 3pm: Milonga Technique, 15 (or $25 for BOTH Vals & Milonga). All classes at Ballroom DanceSport, 4523 Franklin Ave (off Kerr) • VIP Milonga 8pmmidnight: Free. Bring a snack to share. RSVP Tango. wilmington@gmail.com for location. • 10/27-30 Raleigh/Durham Workshops with Brigitta Winkler

art/exhibits 621N4TH GALLERY On display at 621N4TH Gallery is Jennifer Page.

With a concentration on monochrome photogravure prints, Page takes in nature and its mysteries through simple observation. She feels the photogravure process is similar in this way, as it is a demanding process which reveals much about itself over time. Page received her BFA at East Carolina University in 1989 with a concentration in printmaking and etching. She has exhibited in NYC, NC, SC and internationally.

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CALLING ARTISTS! Calling all artists to celebrate our incredibly diverse art population in Last Minute Art Show, 12/3. Open to all local and regional artists to sell art in one place, 8am-8pm on Sat., 12/3. Location: TBD. All work must be $300 and below; part of the proceeds will go to our listed NGO’s—you choose which one you want to donate to! Fee; $75 for space/Table Rental: $25 (cash on day of show). Goodwill sponsorship and advertising opportunities for your business or organization. Sponsor a local artist in need by covering their booth fee and watch as the goodwill spreads. http:// www.thelastminuteartshow.com MAYFAIRE FINE ARTS AND CRAFT SHOW Wilmington Art Association calls artists to showcase work at fine art and craft show at Mayfaire, 10/22, 10am-5pm. Located on Main St., a block from the cinema, it will be closed to car traffic. Large tent with booth space and art panels set up. Free to the public. Paintings, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, photography and fabric art welcome. Interested artists: www.wilmingtonart.org for details and registration materials.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHTS Free monthly event feat. downtown galleries, studios

NOW: CCCC’S PUBLIC ART EXHIBIT Onslow County artists, 18 years and older, who would like to enter their work into Coastal Carolina Community College’s 34th annual Public Art Exhibition in Jacksonville can do so through October 27th. Folks can submit all mediums in 2D or 3D from the 24th through the 27th, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at FAB, 106, on campus. There will be an opening reception on November 3rd from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and work will hang through December. and art spaces open after-hours in celebration of art and culture, 6-9pm, fourth Friday of each month. Selfguided tour; exhibitions of all types, opening receptions, demonstrations, artist discussions, live music, wine, food and other traditional and non-traditional artactivities. www.wilmingtonfourthfridays.com STONES UNTURNED 10/28, 6pm: “Stones Unturned”, an exhibit of sculptures in clay, bronze and other media by Karen Paden Crouch and Virginia Gibbons. Opening reception on Friday, 10/28, 6-9pm. Exhibit will be up until 11/18.

ACME Art Studios, 711 N 5th Ave. BOTTEGA EVENTS Mon: Closed through winter • Tues (4pm-midnight): Starving artist night • Wed (4pm-mid.): Weekly wine tastings, 7pm • Thurs., 10/27: Poetry Slam Showcase. • Fri., 10/28(1pm-2am): 3rd annual Halloween Horror Shorts, 9pm • (Sat 1pm-2am; Sun., 1pm-mid.)

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CALL FOR ARTISTS Coastal Community College’s 34th annual Public Art Exhibition in Jacksonville, NC. Open 11/312/9 in the Fine Arts Building (FAB) on campus, with opening reception on 11/3, 5-7pm. Awards ($300-$350) announced at 6pm. To enter, artists must be from Onslow County, 18 years or older and hasn’t participated in any CCCC art exhibition. All mediums in 2D (dry, framed, wired) or 3D free-standing with stands/ pedestals provided (CCCC has locked display for sculptures) accepted through 10/24-27, 8am-4pm at FAB, 106. May submit up to 3 works, free. Work must be picked up 12/12-14, 8am-4pm.

CALL TO ARTISTS Looking for 2D art, paintings, drawings, collage, with the themes of farming, fishing, baking, family, community, the Carolinas and Cape Fear region. They will hang in Carolina Farmin’ on Market Street through March. Up to 3 works per artist. Good exposure and chance to make some money. Can be any size. 10/21: Registration/payment due: Titles of all art work need to be submitted. • 10/26: Drop off Day. Bring artwork to Carolina Farmin, 2101 Market St, at left enterance, 10am-1pm. Other arrangements: HarborIslandArts@hotmail.com • 10/27: Artist reception: Work will be displayed during the many months and events year round at Carolina Farmin’, including the music nights, fall festival, special events • 3/15: Work will have either been sold, or need to be picked up between, 10am-until. Harbor Island Arts: HarborIslandArts@hotmail.com for application form

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JEFF GRENHAM Through 11/11 Jeff Greenham shows new works at the UNCW Art Gallery at the Cultural Arts Building, Randall Pkwy and Reynolds Dr. Open to the public during gallery hours. Courtney Johnson: uncwartgallery@gmail.com JOHN GUNN COLLECTION Randall Library will debut an exhibit focused on sports history and memorabilia from, during and after World War II. The John Gunn Collection will be on display in Special Collections through 12/15. Acquired from former Wilmington residents John and Joan Gunn, the collection is primarily focused on college and professional football and basketball, but also includes publications related to professional baseball and military sports programs. It includes books, magazines, periodicals, game-day programs, rule books and statistics, clippings, newspapers, correspondence, photographs and other associated sports memorabilia.

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PROJEKTE The National Alliance on Mental Health, Wilmington Chapter, will exhibit “Flowers and Volcanoes: Raising Awareness of Mental Illness,” drawings and a short film by three local artists. A portion of proceeds made from sales of artwork go to NAMI. Reception: 9/30, 6-8pm. Refreshments and live drumming! Continues through October 8th. • EVENTS: Mon/Tues/Sat/ Sun: Yoga, PWYC, 6.30-7.30pm. Wed: Figure Drawing, $10/class, 6-8pm. First Wed of each Month: DivaMade Collective, a meet n greet for creative women, 7.30-9.30pm. Every other Thur: UNCW Film Nite, sometimes political, always controversial, 7.30-11pm.

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Live Bossanova w/Raphael Name, 7p-11p. • Every Fri/Sat: Live Music, 8-12am. Free unless noted otherwise. 910-763-1197, theprojekte@gmail.com, www. theprojekte.com. 523 S 3rd St. WILMINGTON ART AND CRAFT SHOW Wilmington Art & Craft Show, Sat., 11/26, 10am5pm, 11/27, 11am-5pm, at Wilmington Convention Center. A juried art and fine craft show, feat. artists and craftsmen locally and around the country, exhibiting side by side. Paintings, pottery, glass, metal, jewelry, mixed media, fiber art, photography, wood working and much more! Featured local Wilmington artists will include painter Fleetwood Covington, jewelry designer Sara Westermark, photographers Mike Bryand and Curtis Krueger, glass artists Bernard Iovine and Cindy Richardson, digital artist Cheryl Snyder and potter Cindy Weaver. www.WilmingtonArtShow.com YOUTH ARTISTS NEEDED Our second annual Youth Art Exhibition is issuing a Call To Artists for high school and college students, age 14-29, in New Hanover County, NC whose work will be selected to appear in a juried exhibition at UNCW in July and August 2012. Anyone who would like to express his or her opinion on “Addiction and/ or Recovery” through two-dimensional art is encouraged to submit. No entry fee and artists retain ownership of their original artwork. Monetary awards will be given for the top three submissions; deadline is 5/1/2012. Submission form: LCWarden@Yahoo.com

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

1907) and their nine children. After the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865, Federal troops commandeered the house as their headquarters during the occupation of Wilmington. Now a museum, itfocuses on history and the design arts and offers tours, changing exhibitions and an informative look at historic preservation in action. • Family Fun Day, 10/22, a day at Bellamy Mansion specifically geared toward children. • 10/24: Mondays @ the Mansion: The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, 7-9pm. Limited to 60, author, James C. Burke, instructor at Cape Fear Community College, is a trustee of the Wilmington Railroad Museum - railroad history has long been one of his interests. Locals will learn that the Wilmington & Weldon was one of the state’s first railroads, and that when it was finished, in1840, it boasted the longest railroad span in the world—161 miles. Learn more about this railroad of which Dr. John D. Bellamy was a director. $10 GA, Bellamy members and volunteers are free.Rsvp: 910251-3700 ext. 104 or email info@bellamymansion. org • www.bellamymansion.org. 503 Market St BURGWIN WRIGHT HOUSE 18th century Burgwin-Wright House Museum in the heart of Wilmington’s Historic District, is the oldest museum house in NC, restored with 18th and 19th century decor and gardens. Colonial life is experienced through historical interpretations in kitchenbuilding and courtyard. 3rd and Market St. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Last tour, 3pm. Admission rqd. (910) 762-0570. www.burgwinwrighthouse.com.

CAMERON ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS: See page 12 for new exhibition openings!

• Through 10/20: Henry Jay MacMillan: The Art of Public ServiceFilm Room, Brown Wing. From painter to interior designer to artist illustrator (assigned to the 62nd Engineer Topographic Company of the XIX Corps) documenting war-torn Europe during 194445, Wilmington native Henry Jay MacMillan used his artistic talents in service both to his community and

country. • Closing reception, 10/30, 1-5pm: State of the Art/Art of the State. CAM Members and SoA artists, free. • Jazz at the CAM Series, in partnership with the Cape Fear Jazz Society, through 4/2012, 6:30-8pm. CAM/CFJS Members: $3/nonmembers: $55, students: $20. Indv seats: $7 for members, $10, nonmembers and $5 students w/ ID. 11/3: Lee Venters and Vermillion Sands www. capefearjazzsociety.org. • 10/19, 1-1:30pm 10/20, 6-6:30pm: ONE4$1 lecture: Seated Woman with Bonnie England, 1-1:30pm. Artist and Projekte Gallery owner Bonnie England offers a closer look at Seated Woman (c. 1940) by Willem de Kooning (1904-1997). • 10/22: 8:30am: Save the Date, Gary Shell Cross-City Trail—Run, Ride & Roll! Registration, Halyburton Park, noon-1pm. Trail Reception, Cameron Art Museum. Opening of the Gary Shell Cross-City Trail w/inaugural rideat Halyburton Park to Ann McCrary Park, ending at the CAM. Games, music, food, family programs and more! • Kids at CAM, 10/22, noon-3pm; $3/child; $5/child; adults free. Day of creativity and imagination. Make art you can take home, explore our exhibitions. No prereg necessary. • 10/27, 7-8:30pm: David Dorfman Movement Workshop, free and open to the public—dancers and non-dancers welcome! Dance as a form of activism, workshop participants will learn strategies for using movement as social and personal commentary. Exposure to these dances will provide a common basis for the study and discussion of different aspects of the choreographic and creative process. Held in collaboration with UNCW Presents; http://uncw.edu/presents/. • CLASSES, ETC: Life Drawing every Tues., 6-9pm. Group meets in Reception Hall. Participants provide own dry drawing materials and watercolors. $70/6-wks. . • Tai Chi, Wed., noon; $5, members; $10, non. • Yoga, Thurs., noon; $5, members; $10, non. • Zumba classes, Mon/Wed/Fri, members, $8; non, $10. Packages:

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$32/4; $52/8; $65/10. Energetic movement class, Latin-inspired dancing w/Wendy Joyner. • Corner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd. Tues-Sun., 11am-5pm; Thurs: 11am-9pm. Museum members free, $8 non-members, $5 students with valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. www.cameronartmuseum.com or 910-395-5999.

CAPE FEAR MUSEUM EXHIBITS: Through 2/2012: B.W. Wells: Pioneer Ecologist: Explore the breathtaking nature photography of ecologist B.W. Wells and discover his passion for the flora and fauna of the Lower Cape Fear region. • Cape Fear Treasures: Rememberingthrough 1/15/2012: Glimpse a selection of souvenirs and mementos from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. Discover some of the objects people have treasured to remind them of the past. • Down Home: Jewish Life in North CarolinaDiscover how Jews, through a process of struggle and negotiation, became integrated into Southern society and helped build a New South. • EVENTS: Volunteer Open House held first Wed. of mo. Opportunities are available in museum store, working with the historic collection, and as an education docent. • New Hanover County Resident’s Day: Residents admitted free first Sun. ea. mo. • SciFest – What secrets are hidden in your DNA? 10/22, 10am-4pm. $3//members; $6/ nonmembers • Community Conversations: Listen to different viewpoints from panelists then engage in discussion about Civil War history. Mix and mingle before and after the 7pm. presentation. Tickets 910798-4362. • Hours: 9am-5pm through Labor Day, Tues-Sat; 1-5pm, Sun. $7 for adults; $6 for students with valid ID and senior citizens; $6 special military rate with valid military ID; $4 for children 3-17; and free for children under 3. Museum members admitted free. 814 Market St. 910-798-4367. www.capefearmuseum.com.

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Cool down in front of “Anaconda Splash” exhibit in the indoor tropical jungle. See, photograph and even touch rare animals assembled from all over the planet in beautiful simulations of their natural environments.

Meet colorful jungle birds, crocodiles, king cobras, black mambas and many more. Open from 11am5pm, Sat. from 11am-6pm. 20 Orange Street at Front Street on historic downtown riverwalk. (910) 7621669 or www.capefearserpentarium.com.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF ILM Exhibit: Toothasaurus Dental Exhibit—learn about oral health in a very un-intimidating environment. First, brush the huge model teeth and inspect for cavities.

Then, look at the x-rays for hiddle decay! Hop into one of the two real dentist chairs to examine the teeth of a Tooth-a-Saurus. Floss the huge teeth with dino-sized floss. Complete the food pyramid puzzle! • 10/22: 5:30-9:30pm: YachtVenture: Waterside rendezvous at MarineMax on Wrightsville Beach, 130 Short St. Dinner, drinks, music and explore 10 yachts, all to benefit Children’s Museum. Tix: $75, members/$100, non. Ties optional; no spike heels. • 10/28: Kooky Spooky Jam Boo Read: 10/28, 5-7pm: Come enjoy some fall festivities at the museum—reading scary and not so scary stories. Goodies and games throughout the museum. Come dressed in your favorite Halloween costume and get ready to have lots of fun! $2-3. • Mon: Trash to Treasues, 10am; Muddy Buddies, 3:30pm. • Tues: 10am: Leading to Reading Literacy Classes; 3:30 Going Global Cooking Club • Wed. 10am Preschool Science; 3:30pm, Fetch! Challenge. • Thurs: 10am, Cooking Club; 3:30pm, Book Club. • Fri: 10am, Toddler Time; 3:30pm, Adventures in Art. • Sat: 10am, Music Club; 3:30pm, Cardio Class. • Hrs: Mon-Fri., 9am-5pm; Sun., 1-5pm. 910763-3387. www.playwilmington.org CIVIL WAR SESQUICENTENNIAL Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit at the New Hanover

County Public Library. The exhibit will remain on view through 10/29 on the first floor of the Main Library, 201 Chestnut St. Organized by the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (www.ncculture.com) in observance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War (18611865). It is traveling to 49 public libraries across the state between April 1, 2011, and spring 2013.

LATIMER HOUSE Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the restored home features period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am. 126 S. Third St. Adults $8, children $4. 7620492. www.latimerhouse.org

sports/recreation POISONOUS PLANTS AND ANIMALS Poisonous Plants & Animals Program: Sat., 10/29, 9:15am-10:30am. Temptations Everyday Gourmet (in Hanover Center). Join Carla Edwards, Carolina Beach State Park ranger, as she describes poisonous plants and animals found in our region of NC, such as venus fly traps. This program is educational for people of all ages and will give participants a better understanding and appreciation for North Carolina’s natural world.

REDBONE CELEBRITY TOURNEY 10/21-23, Blockade Runner Resort: Prepare to wet a line and reel in a prize-winning red drum or speckled trout during the only NC leg of the international Redbone Celebrity Tournament Series that benefits the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.Cape Fear Red Trout Celebrity Classic, Oct. 21-23 stationed at the Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville. Seasoned local and celebrity fishing guides are teamed with anglers based on skill level. Individual anglers may be paired with Redbone founder Gary Ellis. Ninety percent

of the $1,125 per person entry fee benefits Cystic Fibrosis. Registration fees includes the guided vessel and gear, attendance for two at the Catch the Cure kickoff banquet, receptions and meals, T-shirt, fishing shirt and gift bag. Grand Champion will qualify to compete in the three-day Rolex/IGFA Inshore Tournament of Champions in the Florida Keys. Other tournament awards include beautifully framed original works of art and bragging rights, plus the reward of a personal contribution to fight Cystic Fibrosis, a progressive disability that affects approximately 30,000 Americans. 10/21: Dinner and auctions at 5:30pm at the Blockade Runner. 10/22: 6:30am breakfast; fishing at 7am and concludes at 4pm. 10/23: Fishing resumes at 7am and concludes at 3pm. Awards party at the Blockade Runner’s oceanside lawn at 4pm. www.cfredtrout.com SEAGROVE/YADKIN RIVER VALLEY TRIP 10/21: Three day/two night escape to explore the artisan community of Seagrove and go wine tasting in the Yadkin River Valley. Accomodations at historic Tanglewood Manor House B & B outside of Winston-Salem. Guided small group tour limited to 12 travelers. $440 per person (double occupancy) includes transportation, museum admissions, meals, wine tastings and vineyard dinner. Sunday visit to Reynolda House & Museum of American Art concludes weekend of activities. (910) 524-7770. www. exitlanetours.com SPORT CHALLENGES 10/22: Gary Shell Cross-City Trail Ride, Run, Roll.

7:30am. Halyburton Park, Wilmington. www.halyburtonpark.com • 10/29: PPD Beach2Battleship Iron Distance Triathlon. 7am. Ranked among the top 10 iron distance triathlons in the world by Triathlete magazine. Wrightsville Beach/Wilmington. www. beach2battleship.com • 11/3-6, 11/10-13: USTA Southern Combo Doubles State Championship. Althea Gibson Tennis Center, Empie Park, Wilmington.

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910-799-3706; www.wilmingtontennis.com SUPER ACES Empie Park, 3405 Park Avenue. Ages: 7-9, 10/19, 4:30-5:15pm. $40 for 6 clinics. General stroke mechanics will be reinforced with an introduction to Quick Start score keeping , games and some match play. This clinic will get your kids ready for Quick Start tournaments. (910) 341-4631 WILMINGTON WATER TOURS Wilmington Water Tours for groups and individuals. Each Tuesday through Saturday through Oct, a two-hour Autumn Escape cruise takes place along the Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers, feat. birds, changing leaves, local history, and river ecology. • In November, enjoy the two-hour Best of Both Worlds cruise that combines ecology and history with an amazing sunset cruise. Cruises depart from the Wilmington Riverwalk, 212 S. Water Street (between Orange & Ann sts.). Wilmington Water Tours: 910-3383134 or www.wilmingtonwatertours.com.

WRIGHSTVILLE BEACH SCENIC TOURS Join Capt. Joe, orinthologist and bird watching aficionado, on a cruise around Masonboro Island and Bradley Creek in search of local shore and water birds. This low-tide tour is perfect for birders of all ages. Other dates: 10/21, 10/24, 10/25, 11/1, 11/2, 11/3, 11/4, 11/5, 11/7. $35/person. Group discounts/private charters available. Contact Joe today at 910-200-4002 to make reservations. • Enjoy the breathtaking sunset from the M/V Shamrock on this 1.5hr narrated tour around the waterways of Wrightsville Beach. Tours available every day 6-7:30pm. $25/person, private charters and discounted group rates available. Contact • 10/22: Pirate Adventure to Masonboro, an island teeming with pirates and their booty? Then hop on the M/V Shamrock and help local pirate Don Juan Cortez navigate the open seas and search for buried treasure! $30/adult, $20/kid, $15/kid if dressed as a pirate! 2-hrs, takes off from Wrightsville Beach every hour on the hour starting at 11am-5pm. Call for rates: Capt. Joe, (910) 200-4002. capefearnaturalist.com.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH REC CLASSES Shag lessons, tennis lessons for youth & adults, cotillion for youth, kids’ night out, Bark in the Park, Movies in the Park, yoga, pilates, boot camp, tone & stretch, and low impact aerobic classes. 910-256-7925 or www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

film CINEMATIQUE Plays weekly at Thalian Hall main stage, 310 Chestnut St. 7:30pm, $7 (unless otherwise noted) •10/19: The Whistleblower—A ripped-from-the-headlines thriller is inspired by actual events. Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. 1 hr.

58 min. Rated R. • 10/24-26: Sarah’s Key—Paris, July 1942: A 10-yr-old girl is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard—their secret hiding place—and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. 1hr. 51 min. Rated PG-13.

COME HIGH OR HELL WATER 12/1, 6pm: Wilmington premiere for Keith Malloy’s new movie about body surfing called, “Come Hell or High Water.” Music will be provided by End Of The Line, we’ll have food as well, plus a raffle. All proceeds to benefit Surfers Healing and Stronger Together. The Brooklyn Arts Center. $25 at sale at SideArm Surf & Skate, 8258 Market St. or at BAC box office. 910.686.2969 CUCALORUS Cucalorus Film Festival stages its 17th annual cinematic celebration 11/10-13th in the historic port city.

Showing films of local, regional, national and international caliber: Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” which took home the SXSW ‘Best Documentary Audience Award’ this year; “On The Ice” tells the story of two teenage boys in a remote Alaskan village as they cope with a secret they may push the limits of their friendship and change their lives forever, worked on by Wilmington-based production designer Chad Keith and production assistant Jonathan Guggenheim; Andrea Blaugrund Nevins’ eye-opening documentary “The Other F Word” prompts a new outlook on punk rockers and is sure to tug at your heart strings; Norwood Cheek taps into the musical vein of Cucalorus with the 10x10 music video documentary series. 10 filmmakers x 10 bands = 10 music videos all made in less than

10/22: TICKLING TENTACLES Kids between the ages 6 and 11 will find a host of scientific fun thanks UNCW’s MarineQuest Saturday morning classes. Come October 22nd, they’ll discover Tickling Tentacles, and learn about octopuses, jellyfish, anemones and more! They’ll also discover the many functions tentacles have for mairne life through various hands-on activities. Register by October 20th at www.uncw.edu/marinequest a week; two high profile Norwegian films, “Happy, Happy” (Sykt Lykkelig) and “King of Devil’s Island” (Kongen av Bastøy). Festival’s core venues include Thalian Hall, City Stage Theater, Screen Gems Studios, the Soapbox and Jengo’s Playhouse. Passes and tickets: www.cucalorus.org

Movement Program—learning through fun, play and music for kids 9mo.-7yrs. Drop ins welcome. Downtown: Tuesday, 9:15am at Community Arts Center; Tuesday, 11:30am, 2pm, 4:30pm at Carolina Beach Park and Rec Center; Wednesday 10:30am and Saturday, 9:30am at Porter’s Neck Yoga and Spa. www. happylittlesingers.com 910-777-8889 MARINE QUEST MarineQuest’s Saturday-morning scientific fun at the UNCW Center for Marine Science. Explore sea creatures, marine habitats and ocean phenomena through lab experiments, field activities, games and more. • 10/22 Tickling Tentacles (Register by 10/20). “Sting of things”—learning all about octopuses, jellyfish, anemones and more! Discover the many forms and functions of tentacles. • 11/12: A Whale of Thanks (Register by 11/10) Discover how man has benefitted from whales and why we should protect these amazing animals! Learn about whale migration, feeding behavior and take a deep breath as you walk inside the belly of a life sized Right Whale! • 12/10:Christmas Island (Register by 12/8) Explore island formations and discover

readings/lectures GOING GREEN ENVIRO BOOK CLUB Cape Fear’s Going Green is sponsoring a new book club to encourage discussion of environmental topics, meeting the first Tues. ea. month at Old Books on Front Street. Future meeting dates: 11/1 and 12/1. Upcoming titles posted: www.goinggreenpublications.com/calendar.html IBRAHIM KAYA SAHIN Ibrahim Kaya Sahin, assistant professor of Ottoman History at Tulane University in New Orleans, will speak on “Sunnis and Shiites: A Rivalry that Transformed the Middle East” at 7:30pm, Thurs., 10/20.

UNCW’s Burney Center. Free and open to the public, lecturefollowed by a reception with Sahin. www. uncw.edu/sherman.

LOUISA’S BOOK CLUB A series of stimulating discussions about the life and lesser-known writings of Louisa May Alcott! Faculty members UNCW will lead these sessions at Northeast Library, at 6 pm on four Wed. evenings: 10/26: Work —19th century American women’s rights and roles, w/Katie Peel, assistant professor of English • 11/16: Behind a Mask:The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott, w/Mark Boren, associate professor of English. This book club is a lock-in event.

Space is limited to 15 participants. Pre-reg., arrive a few minutes early: http://library.uncw.edu/alcott/ forms/rsvp-event or by calling 910-798-6323.

OLD BOOKS ON FRONT ST. You know that novel you keep thinking about and planning to write? We are going to be a hot spot for the National Novel Writing Month, including twice weekly support groups on Mon/ Thurs, 6:30pm. • 11/6, 2pm: Book launch for Marriane Brandis’ latest book, a biography of her little brother the world famous inventor and humanitarian, Jock Brandis 249 N. Front St. (910) 76-BOOKS (26657). www.OldBooksOnFrontSt.com PARENTING BOOK CLUB A new book club is forming with a focus on enhancing family life through an exploration of the science behind child development. Meetings held the first Thurs. ea. month, 6-7pm. Old Books on Front St. Objective is to engage the community in meaningful discussion about ways to foster healthy family living and to inspire personal growth and connection. Jessica: 336-420-2887 or jesscooper1@yahoo.com WOMEN IN BUSINESS SPEAKER SERIES The speaker series brings together businesswomen of diverse occupations to help them grow person-

FILMMAKER’S SOCIAL Filmmaker Social every 2nd Friday of the month, 7pm! Connect with other filmmakers, as well as discuss topics such as fundraising, production and trends in the industry. 16 Taps, 127 Princess St., downtown Wilmington. Sponsored by CFIFN. SUBVERSIVE FILM SERIES 10/23: Zombie Film Festival—To follow up Wilmington’s 3rd Annual Zombie Walk on Saturday, The Juggling Gypsy will be holding a free Zombie Film Festival, featuring “Zombie Strippers”, “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dead and Breakfast.” • 10/30: The Rocky Horror Picture Show—Cult classic starRing Susan Sarandon, Barry Boswick and Tim Curry, a newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a cross-dressing alien from Transsexual, Transylvania. Free! Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle Street

kids stuff FALL IN THE FOREST 10/24-25, 10-11am: Halyburton Park, 4099 S. 17th Street. 341-0075. Cost: $3. Come learn about the changes in theforest during the Fall season. Learn about what plants and animals do when the season changes.

FIT FOR FUN CENTER Fit for Fun Center offers a great place for you and your kids ages 5 and under to cool off and have some fun. Join us for free play, art activities, music and an outdoor age-appropriate playground. Mon-Fri, 9amnoon & 1-4pm; Sat., 9am-noon. $4/child (ages 5 and under)/adults free. 302 S. 10th St. (910) 341-4630. www.fitforfuncenter.com HAPPY LITTLE SINGERS Affordable Creative Early Childhood Music and

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ally and professionally through leadership, education and networking. Press 102. 2nd St. $40/incl. lunch. Schedule: 10/27: NHRMC Information Services Manager and Breast Cancer Survivor Heather Thornton. (910) 350-1211.

COOKING CLASSES Cooking classes by Chef Alexis Fouros of Creative Market Place: 10/5, 19. Pre-registration is required by calling 917-969-2430 (Betsy) or e-mail: boyden2@aol.com HARMONY YOGA 10/21-23, 7:30pm: Thai Yoga Therapy Workshop uses hands, forearms, and legs to release tension and toxins improving movement/breathing. $175, toward 14 hrs. yoga alliance credits. Taught by Brandon Lee, e-ryt 500. www.harmonyyogawilmington.com

classes/workshops MILLER MOTTE COLLEGE PROGRAMS Miller Motte College Workshops/Classes: 10/1921—Breast Cancer Awareness event to help raise funds for “Pretty in Pink Foundation.” Students pay $1 per day to wear pink attire to school. Students usually wear scrubs every day. The cosmetology clinic will offer $5 donation pink hair extensions for the month of October, all monies given to the organization. Service is open to the public. Cosmetology Clinic, 5000 Market St. • 11/3: “Jobs in Accounting and info on Review for the CPA exam”

by Becker from 12:30-1:30pm (this workshop will only go on if there are at least 10 people in attendance. RSVP with Shannon Carlson to be admitted at: Shannon.carlson@miller-motte.edu. Park on the

left side of the building where it says “Administration.” 5000 Market St Wilmington, NC 28405 Room #A-115. www.miller-motte.edu or 910-442-3400.

OCTOBER ART CLASSES Professional instruction with Lois DeWitt, MFA. Over 30 years of art teaching experience. Small classes, individual tutoring available. loislight@bellsouth.net. Four weeks, $80.

Watercolor: Mon, 11am-1pm; Collage: Mon, 3-5pm; Mixed Media, Tues., 3-5pm; Acrylic Painting, Wed., 11am-1pm; Oil Pastel, Wed, 3-5pm; Basic Drawing, Sat., 11-1pm.

WINE CLASSES All classes Thurs, 6:30pm at Taste the Olive; must be at least 21 years of age w/ID. Space limited; RSVP rqd. Schedule: 10/27: Let’s Take a “Cab” to California—California Cabernet Sauvignons are among the very best in the world, one of the most widely planted premium red wine grape. We will explore if an extra $30 on the bottle price gets you that much more. $30/person • 11/17: Sweet and Sticky —Think you don’t like sweet wines? This class will make you think again. We will explore the process of making dessert wines around the world, from Ports, to single varietal late harvest wines, to ice wine. $35/person. Reservations accepted firstcome/first-serve, and are non-refundable. 910-256OILS(6457)for policies/details.

clubs/notices MEDICATION DISPOSAL EVENT 10/29, 9am-1pm: New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Cape Fear Community College, Safe Kids NC and Cape Fear Coalition for a Drug Free To-

10/21: ILM PRIDE GROUP Wilmington Pride has started a group to support the GLBTQIA youngsters in need. They meet the third Friday of every month and discuss the effects of being gay in a youth population. The location in which they meet is safe and discrete; folks who wish to participate should contact TR Nunley at (910) 538-0234. The group is for folks 25 and under. Visit Wilmington Pride online at www.wilmingtonpride.com. morrow is holding a Medication Disposal Event at NHRMC Medical Mall, 2243 S. 17th St., located beside the main hospital campus. Public’s invited to bring their unneeded and expired medications to be disposed of in a safe, convenient and environmentally sound manner. All medications brought to the event should be in their original containers to help identify the medication. Local law enforcement agencies from New Hanover County as well as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will be on hand to accept controlled substances. Medications can be prescription, over-the-counter, vitamins or herbal.

TIDEWATER CAMELLIA CLUB 10/29, 12:30-5pm: Tidewater Camellia Club announces its Fall Camellia Show & Sale, Sat., 10/29, at the New Hanover County Arboretum, 6206 OleanderDr. Free; open to public.Camellia experts from all over the southeastern United States will display

hundreds of blooms. There will be education forums to help answer any camellia growing problems you may have. Be sure to stop by our sale of award winning camellias! dianeondeck@earthlink.net WILMINGTON MAGIC CLUB Meets Wed. 10/19, 7pm. If you have an interest in magic or currently perform magic, please come share your talents. Celebrating 30 years in Wilmington. Teaching sessions and magic performances at each meeting. Meetings are on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 405 Bordeaux Ave. ( Lees Auto ) upstairs.910-520-4026.

WILMINGTON PRIDE YOUTH GROUP Wilmington Pride Youth Group and GLBTQIA Youth meets 3rd Fri/mo., 5:30-7:30pm, downtown ILM (call for specific location). A safe, discrete location for youth to discuss various topics that effect the gay youth population. After group, play video games and socialize with friends.

Free for people 25 and under. TR Nunley: 910-5380234 or Wilmingtonpride@gmail.com. www.wilmingtonpride.com.

CAPE FEAR ROWER CLUB Cape Fear River Rowing Club’s classes for beginners: Two, three-hour morning sessions, from 8-11am, on Sat/Sun. Students will become familiar with the boats and equipment, learn proper technique on a rowing machine, and then experience on-the-water rowing instruction.

No previous rowing experience is necessary, but students must know how to swim. 10/2223. Wilmington Marine Center, 3410 River Rd. $60/two sessions. Limited to five students.

Reg: Morris Elsen, morris.elsen@gmail.com.

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