Out & About Magazine -- Nov 2012

VOL. 25 NO. 9

NOVEMBER 2012

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COMPLIMENTARY

With a little effort, you can make a BIG impact • • • We Can All Afford the Gift of Time • • • Restaurants with an Appetite for Good • • • The Wizardry of Guitar Maker Jim Cara • • • Why Should I Drink Local Bier?

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INSIDE

O&ACONTENTS Published each month by TSN Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Mailing & business address: 307 A Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Publisher Gerald duPhily

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Contributing Editor Bob Yearick

November 2012 | Vol. 25, No. 9 | outandaboutnow.com

FEATURES 17-25 UP CLOSE: THINKING SMALL!

Local shops that prove big isn’t necessarily better. By Krista Connor Restaurants that give back. By Pam George Giving the gift of time. By Larry Nagengast Holiday party directory.

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27 PEOPLE Director of Publications Jim Hunter Miller jmiller@tsnpub.com

Director of Sales Marie Graham Poot

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Creative/Production Manager Matthew Loeb mloeb@tsnpub.com

Art Director Shawna Sneath

Helping Hands: An unforgettable Haitian experience. By Ed Dwornik

31-37 FOOD & DRINK

Why should I drink local bier? By J. Burke Morrison Local brewers shine at Great American Beer Festival.

Waiter, where’s my busboy? By Robert Lhulier Brews for a good cause. By Krista Connor

42-51 MUSIC

Guitar Man. The custom magic of Jim Cara. By Matt Amis Wilmo Circus set for Nov. 24 at The Queen. By Krista Connor Two decades of Rockin’ Mondays with Anthony Gallucio. By Matt Amis

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53-55 MOVIES Contributing Writers Matt Amis, Krista Connor, Christine Facciolo, Mark Fields, Pam George, Robert Lhulier, J. Burke Morrison, Larry Nagengast

Contributing Photographers Joe del Tufo, Tim Hawk, Les Kipp, Tony Kukulich, David Norbut, Matt Urban

Special Projects John Holton, Kelly Loeb

Interns Mitchell Hall

For editorial & advertising information: (302) 655-6483 • Fax (302) 654-0569 Website: www.outandaboutnow.com Email: contact@tsnpub.com

Spielberg delivers a larger-than-life Lincoln. By Mark Fields Six political movies worthy of your vote. By Mark Fields

57-61 NIGHTLIFE

Area nightspots raise green for breast cancer research at The Pink Loop.

Snap Shots: Blue Jean Ball, Art is Social, City Theater’s Murder Mystery.

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WORD OF THE MONTH

Entomology

Pronounced en-tuh-mol-uh-jee, it’s a noun meaning the study of insects.

Wherein we attempt, however futilely, to correct some of the most common errors in English usage By Bob Yearick

Department of Redundancies Dept.

From a billboard advertising an oil service: “Upgrade to something better.” As opposed to upgrading to something worse?

How long, oh Lord, how long?

(In which we chronicle the misuse of that most abused punctuation mark, the apostrophe) • A reader reports that an area car dealership, in an ad in the News Journal, used the headline “We do things different.” The dealership eventually corrected the ad to “We do things differently.” He credits the dealership for this, but adds, “Unfortunately, if you look in more detail you will see that they advertise ‘New Toyota’s in Stock’ and ‘Camry’s available.’”

Media Watch

• From the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Phils hopes crumple in a 6-4 loss to hapless Houston.” What was meant was crumble—to break into tiny fragments. Crumple means to crease or crinkle, like a piece of paper when you crush it in your hand.

• Anna Quindlen in her latest book, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, uses the term “besides the point.” Really, Anna? C’mon, that’s borderline inexcusable for a professional writer. The term is “beside the point.” I will admit that I once heard the claim that if two or more things are involved, you should say or write “besides the point.” Uh, no, you shouldn’t.

• A long-time reader sends this excerpt from the State Bar Association Newsletter: “I love visiting the office and looking in on everybody to catch up on how they are fairing.” The correct word is faring.

• An old college friend and fellow journalism major has noticed that a certain Philly TV news team is being overly careful—perhaps fearing law suits —in using “alleged” and its derivatives. He sends these recent examples (redundant words appear in italics): “The alleged suspect was arrested.” “(Name) was charged with allegedly firing three shots into the victim.”

Confusion Reigns (not reins or rains) Or, alternatively, So Many Words, So Little Time.

In recent columns, we’ve discussed the confusion over reigns, reins and rains, site, sight and cite, and peddle and pedal, but there are numerous other words that people mix up when speaking or writing. Examples:

• Mettle—meaning courage, determination, “pluck”—is often confused with metal, as in iron or steel, or meddle, meaning to interfere or intrude, as in this sentence: “Content marketing has already proven its meddle as an effective way to obtain placements.” Additionally, of course, there is medal—the award or decoration.

• Predominate—a verb, meaning to dominate or prevail —is often used incorrectly in place of predominant, an adjective meaning main or major, as in this sentence: “Red was the predominate color produced by auto makers in 2011.”

• Torturous, meaning “causing torture” or painful in a cruel way, is sometimes used mistakenly in place of tortuous, meaning winding, or crooked, most often used when describing a road or trail.

• And it’s sherbet, not sherbert, when speaking of the frozen fruit-flavored mixture. “Sherbert” is not a word.

(Two additional words that are often confused are our Word of the Month and Bonus Word of the Month.)

And Finally...

Another dedicated reader, Larry Kerchner, referring to last month’s Quotation of the Month, writes, “I’m glad you wholeheartedly agree with Kory Stamper at MerriamWebster (regarding ‘irregardless’), but do you also ‘wholeheartily’ agree, as the waitress in Colonial Williamsburg did with me this past week . . .?” The incident was particularly poignant, and maybe even ironic, says Larry, because “the waitress was a self-professed linguist and she and I had been discussing a diner whom we both heard say ‘between you and I.’ Bless her heart.”

BONUS WORD OF THE MONTH

Etymology Pronounced etuh-moluh-jee, it’s a noun meaning the study of the origin of words.

QUOTATION OF THE MONTH “Would you write, ‘The worst tennis player around here is I’ or ‘the worst tennis player around here is me?’ The first is good grammar, the second is good judgment.”

—E.B. white in The Elements of Style.

Seen a good (bad) one lately?

Send your candidates to ryearick@ comcast.net

Buy The War on Words paperback on OutAndAboutNow.com, at Ninth Street Books in Wilmington, the Hockessin Book Shelf, or on Amazon. Check out the website: thewaronwords.com.

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Give Blood, Save Lives Help UD retain its title as CAA Blood Challenge champion in Delaware’s largest one-day blood drive

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t’s a Blood Challenge, and the University of Delaware wants you!

Delaware’s largest annual one-day blood drive is set for Wednesday, Nov. 14, on the University of Delaware campus, and UD and the Blood Bank of Delmarva are hoping you will help UD retain its title.

For the past decade, the 12 member schools of the Colonial Athletic Association have participated in the Challenge, attempting to recruit the most blood donors in one day.

With 1,086 donors last year, UD took back the title that Drexel University had held for the previous five years. UD had won the competition in its first four years. That makes it five titles for both schools, so this year’s competition could be a tie breaker.

Four donation locations will be set up across campus, and each is open to students and the public.

“We are looking for 1,500 blood donors in one day— that’s the largest blood drive in Delaware’s history,” says BBD communications specialist Christine Serio. “People not only like to be a part of making history, but they realize how important their

blood donations are to the more than 20,000 patients a year that the Blood Bank of Delmarva serves.”

A non-profit community service organization located in Newark, BBD provides blood and blood products to 16 hospitals on the Delmarva Peninsula. At least 77,000 blood donations are needed from the Peninsula each year, and the BBD helps to meet those needs.

A $500 Christiana Mall gift card will go to one lucky donor chosen at random. Other prizes, including gift cards to local restaurants and retail stores, tickets to UD games and more, will be given out at random as well.

Donation locations and times are: Trabant Multi-Purpose Rooms, 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Perkins Student Center, Pencader Hall and The Bob Carpenter Center, noon to 6 p.m.

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Tell Us About Your Vacation Disasters

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f you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”

Woody Allen is usually credited with this witticism, which implies that careful preparation often results in disaster. And nothing offers more potential for disaster than the family vacation. With the many details required for a successful vacation, the possibilities for calamity are endless: mix-ups in hotel reservations, missed flights, delayed flights, horrible weather, lost car keys and wallets, language barriers, trips to the emergency room.

Many of us have experienced these disasters. Now we’d like you to tell us your Vacation Horror Story. Nothing too gruesome, of course—no fatalities or disfigurements—and the more humorous the better. Entries must be 800 to 1,000 words, double spaced, typed in 12-point Times New Roman, Ariel or Courier font.

All entries must be submitted electronically. No handwritten submissions. The email should include the author’s name, address and phone number.

Send your entry to jduphily@tsnpub.com by Nov. 10.

Vacation Horror The winner will be announced and published in the Story Contest January issue, and two runners-up will be published in subsequent issues. The winner will receive $100 cash and dinner for two at one of Out & About’s favorite area restaurants.

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Got an hour or two to spare each week? These non-profits are looking for volunteers

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hen we’re in a charitable mood, there’s nothing easier than writing a check. But there is another gift that charities welcome even more, a gift that often lasts much longer: your time.

What’s more, by volunteering your time, you often have the opportunity to see the impact your contribution has on others.

Volunteering can also benefit the volunteer. It can help you achieve new levels of personal satisfaction, broaden your interests and hone your talents.

“Volunteering helps prevent toxic levels of self-absorption,” says Susan Eggert, volunteer administrator for the New Castle County Department of Community Services.

For newcomers, recent graduates and those seeking employment, volunteering offers still more benefits, including “familiarizing yourself with the community and developing skills that can lead to jobs,” adds Jean Kaufman, manager of the Brandywine Hundred Library.

In the spirit of the season, and in the hope of inspiring some to give year-round, here’s a sampling of volunteer opportunities available in the region.

Ring those bells. What better place to start than with the Salvation Army, whose volunteers have been ringing bells and collecting donations for more than 100 years? Starting Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10, and then daily (except Sundays and Thanksgiving Day) from Nov. 16 through Christmas Eve, bell-ringers will be stationed alongside kettles at more than 30 locations in northern New Castle County. The time commitment is minimal; “two hours is good, four is better,” said a spokeswoman in the Wilmington office.

To sign up, call Maj. John Fox at 472-0728 or 379-0952.

Light the lights. One of the area’s largest holiday lighting displays is at New Castle County’s Rockwood Museum, and hanging lights on trees and around the mansion is a major volunteer project.

Rockwood’s popular holiday open house, set for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1-2, needs about 150 volunteers to dress as elves, serve refreshments and help with parking. To volunteer, call Susan Eggert at 395-5651 or email her at seggert@nccde.org.

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Take a long lunch. If you can spare an hour or so in the middle of the day, bring a hot meal to the homebound through the Meals on Wheels program. Once a week, once a month, the frequency doesn’t matter, says Mari E. Considine, executive director. “It can be a larger commitment or on an as-needed basis.” Drivers provide their own transportation. To sign up, contact the food preparation sites in New Castle County: the St. Anthony Center in Wilmington, 421-3733, or the Newark Senior Center, 737-5747.

Be a Book Buddy. What’s a Book Buddy? Think Meals on Wheels for libraries. Book Buddies deliver books, DVDs and other library materials to senior citizens and other homebound New Castle County library patrons. To volunteer, call Susan Eggert at 395-5651 or email her at seggert@nccde.org. Libraries have numerous other volunteer needs— making sure books are on the proper shelves, retrieving and packing items requested by patrons at other libraries, putting returned DVDs back in their cases. Contact the volunteer coordinator at your local library. For a list, visit nccde. org/libraries/default.aspx.

Be a Best Buddy. Best Buddies of Delaware is an organization that places volunteers as buddies for people with disabilities. It operates in middle schools, high schools and colleges statewide and pairs adults in New Castle County.

Volunteers commit to making weekly contact and spending four hours a month with their buddy, said Leslie Kosek, state director. The organization tries to match partners with similar interests. To participate, call the office at 691-3187 or visit the group’s website, bestbuddiesdelaware.org.

Tell me a story. Kids love hearing stories, and hardly anything is better than having their personal reader visit them at their child-care center. Read Aloud Delaware volunteers spend an hour-anda-half to two hours once a week reading to toddlers and preschoolers at 44 locations throughout New Castle County, executive director Mary W. Hirschbiel said. “It’s special one-on-one time for children, and after you do it a few times, the kids are like ‘oh, the reading man is here.’” Most time slots are in the morning. For a list of reading sites and a volunteer application, visit readalouddelaware.org

Talk to the animals. The cats and dogs at the Faithful Friends shelter near Wilmington are looking for companionship until they find permanent homes. Shelter volunteers walk dogs, brush and cuddle cats, change litter boxes, and wash a lot of dishes. (They add up, with 450 animals needing three meals a day.) Pet therapy volunteers bring their own pets to nursing homes and assisted living centers to bond with residents.

Others help out at adoption centers at Petco and Concord Pet locations. “We’re very supportive of each other. It’s a family type atmosphere and the animals are our babies,” said volunteer coordinator Brittany Anthony. The organization expects volunteers to commit to six hours a month for a minimum of six months.

To volunteer, read the details and fill out the form at faithfulfriends.us/volunteeropportunities or call Anthony at 427-8514 extension 102.

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Two Stones owner Michael Stiglitz (L) with partner Ben Muse. photo by Tim Hawk

Tapping The Urge To Give Meals on Wheels Delaware partners with Two Stones Pub to raise money for homebound seniors

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hen Two Stones Pub owner Michael Stiglitz recently opened the doors to his newest TSP location on Foulk Road in Wilmington, he reached out to Meals on Wheels Delaware about doing a fundraiser to benefit their Adopt a Senior program.

Stiglitz has worked closely with MOW since 2005, and they have collaborated at three events over the past year.

Now, the two are partnering for the first “Giving on Tap,” a happy hour fundraiser benefitting the homebound seniors served by MOW. It’s set for Thursday, Nov. 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. With a $25 cover fee, guests ages 21 and over can enjoy free, high-end beers and gourmet hors d’oeuvres.

MOW marketing and public relations manager Cassandra Boyce says the organization has offered similar events to Giving on Tap, but this will be more than just a fundraising happy hour—it’s an exclusive evening of beer and food tasting that guests can’t find anywhere else.

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What’s more, plans are to make it an annual happening.

“Seeing as TSP is known for its selection of local and rare handcrafted beers, we knew it should center around the exclusivity of its beers and unique take on typical pub grub,” Boyce says.

The event will benefit Meals on Wheels’ holiday giving program, Adopt a Senior. The program is the organization’s appeal that occurs twice a year—once around Mother’s Day and again during the Thanksgiving-Christmas holidays—in which MOW sends out postcards informing people on how they can support the organization. It’s a chance for people who may not be able to attend fundraising events to give back to the community.

“But more importantly, it ensures that homebound seniors are not put on a waiting list to receive a meal delivery,” Boyce says. “Proceeds from Giving on Tap will allow us to start off our Adopt a Senior fundraising strong.”

All funds raised at Giving on Tap will be matched by Stiglitz, who expects the affair to raise nearly $7,000 total. That means it has the potential to pay for more than 1,000 meals for homebound seniors throughout Delaware.

Already sold out are VIP tables, at $300 each, which will feature beer and food tastings personally prepared by Stiglitz and his partner, Ben Muse. But don’t worry—great plates paired with a variety of beers will still be available for all ticket holders.

“We hope to have a group of hungry guests who are as excited about feeding homebound seniors as they are about craft beers and delicious food,” Boyce says. “This event will be a great opportunity for us to create awareness around our mission, while connecting with the community in a fun way. Guests will be able to enjoy brews while ensuring homebound seniors are delivered hot, nutritious meals every day.”

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SUPERSIZE SOME HAPPY MEALS. Volunteers make the Ronald McDonald House of Delaware a restful home away from home for families whose children are patients at the nearby DuPont Hospital for Children. From 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week, volunteers greet families, answer phones, prepare rooms and stock the kitchen. Most nights, groups of 10 or more bring in the food and cook a buffetstyle dinner for about 85 guests. The house expects regular volunteers to commit to 40 hours over six months, volunteer manager Sara Funaiock said. There is a volunteer form on the website, rmhde.org. To have your group cook, contact Funaiock at 4285340.

TAKE FLIGHT. From 1935 to 1954, Bellanca Aircraft built nearly 3,000 planes at its plant on Frenchtown Road near New Castle. All that remains now is a hangar, preserved as a museum by the Friends of Bellanca Airfield Inc. Help is needed in many areas, according to Elliott Smith, the group’s president, and Frank Ianni, its volunteer coordinator. Needs include someone familiar with aircraft repair and maintenance to get three old aircraft exhibits ready, someone to catalog the museum’s collection, someone to create graphic displays for exhibits, and a plumber, electrician and woodworker to complete improvements and repairs in the old hangar. Anyone interested in helping should call Ianni at 762-9057.

CRUNCH SOME NUMBERS. As a daunting task for the numerically challenged, completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) ranks second only to completing your tax return. The state, in collaboration with United Way of Delaware, has created $tand by Me, the Delaware Financial Empowerment Partnership, to provide free coaching on financial topics. Any Delaware resident may seek help but the program is targeted primarily at lowto moderate-income families. Several volunteer opportunities are available, but the greatest need is for helping families with college-bound students fill out FAFSA forms at five programs in January, February and March. Training is provided.

“Sharing the financial knowledge and tools that we take for granted with people who have never had any financial coaching makes a huge difference in their lives. Seeing that ‘payoff ’ firsthand makes the volunteering experience extremely worthwhile,” volunteer Darren Argo said.

To volunteer, complete the application at standbymede.org or call Izzy Mead at 2559621.

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GIVE A LIFT. FISH of Northern Delaware offers free transportation to medical appointments (up to twice a month) to residents of northern New Castle County (from Newark to New Castle and anywhere north of those communities). Volunteers spend one day a month as a scheduler or driver or as a backup driver to cover trips that don’t fit the regular driver’s schedule.

In 2011, the group provided 1,179 rides and had to turn down only 56 requests.

To volunteer, call FISH at 658-2954 or Barbara Fedeler, the group’s president, at 384-6263.

The choices listed here are just a sampling of how you can give the gift of time.

To explore still more options, call the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), at 255-9882 in New Castle County or visit the websites for Get Involved (givebackde. org) and volunteerdelaware.org.

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BOOKS

Local shops that prove BIG isn't necessarily better

Instead of Barnes & Noble...

Convenient to corporate employees in downtown Wilmington, the new Ninth Street Book Shop location on Market Street offers a knowledgeable staff with more than 35 years of experience.

Hockessin Book Shelf offers the hottest new books and buys and sells used books while maintaining an extensive collection of children’s classics. In Kennett Square, Thomas Macaluso Rare and Fine Books boasts more than 20,000 rare and scarce books plus thousands of antiquarian engraved or lithographed maps and prints.

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FASHION Instead of Nordstrom...

A new and edgy Market Street shop, Wilmington’s Spaceboy Clothing designs, prints and sells its own line of clothing and accessories with an onsite print shop. Retro antiques, vintage clothes and local artwork are also available. Stop

by Newark’s family-owned specialty gift shop Grassroots to explore its diverse selection of hand-made pottery, bath and body products, children’s novelty items, books, home décor, women’s clothing, shoes, jewelry and more. Or explore the urban woman’s contemporary boutique, NOSO, on West 9th Street in Wilmington. With its name combining Manhattan’s Soho and Noho neighborhoods and an interior featuring New York City design, NOSO’s merchandise includes fashion forward clothing, handbags, clutches, hats and accent jewelry right off the runway.

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Instead of Pottery Barn...

Simply Home has one goal—to offer unique home furnishings to buyers. Located on Concord Pike, this shop will impress customers with its diverse selection. Every shopper’s personality is reflected with each purchase—whether they are looking for wallpaper, sofas, side tables, art and more. Walk through the door of Wilmington’s De Ja Vu and—ironically—experience used furniture and accessories like never before. This Delaware Ave. retail shop specializes in vintage chic furnishings, from sophisticated furniture to unique accessories. In the meantime, for a store fit for foodies, look to Pro Kitchen Gear on Kennett Pike. They want customers to have first-rate supplies in the kitchen—which means they may not offer every popular tool, pan, or gadget on the planet. But they do offer the best.

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Delaware restaurants give back to the community in the form of food, space, staff, gift certificates and more

By Pam George

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t was a Monday at Pizza by Elizabeths, and patrons mingled in the back of the dining room. Under the watchful eyes of actress Elizabeth Montgomery, one of several blow-up images of famous “Elizabeths,” women nibbled slices of gourmet pizza, including the “Saint,” a creamy blend of crab and artichokes with parmesan, paprika and chives.

Just another night at PBE? Hardly. The 75 women were at PBE to hear Carla Markell, Delaware’s first lady, one of the speakers in the Great Dames Delaware Series. Held the second Monday of each month from September through December, the fall series showcases female leaders and benefits programs that help girls and women.

Betsy LeRoy, owner of PBE, donated the spread—which included nearly every pizza on the menu—and the space, which makes up about half the seating area.

“At Pizza by Elizabeths, we always feel that helping out in our community is important,” LeRoy says. On an employee’s birthday, for example, the restaurant donates to the charity of his or her choice. “Outside of that, we select several organizations a year to help out [by donating] restaurant space.”

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Sharon Hake, president and CEO of Great Dames, says LeRoy is selective. “She really wanted to make sure the series matched her values,” Hake says. “She sees the value of introducing people to Pizza By Elizabeths on what is a slow night, but she also is a person who believes in empowering women and girls.”

PBE is just one of the many Delaware restaurants that give back to the community, whether it’s in the form of food, space, staff, or a gift certificate.

“Not a day goes by that we are not solicited for a donation or gift certificate by mail, email, phone, text, Tweet or Facebook,” says David Dietz, owner of BBC Tavern and Grill in Greenville.

As a result, many establishments have policies or preferences to help them field requests. Some focus on certain areas, and a few have established more formal divisions or programs to handle giving and fundraising.

Some restaurants have created programs to let nonprofits leverage the eatery’s brand without much heavy lifting on the charity’s part.

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People seek donations in part because restaurants are a visible part of a community, says Ryan Kennedy, director of marketing for James Street Tavern in Newport. As social hubs, they’re far more accessible than a bank, adds Kevin Finn, co-founder of Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant. That’s particularly true if you’re a frequent diner and know the manager or owner.

Some restaurants have created programs to let nonprofits leverage the eatery’s brand without much heavy lifting on the charity’s part.

Iron Hill’s Give 20 program, for instance, targets small local charities. The nonprofit and the restaurant manager select a night for the event. Then Iron Hill provides the charity with coupons, which the charity distributes by hand or email. Coupon holders present it to the server on the select night, and Iron Hill gives 20 percent of the customer’s food sales to the charity.

“We donated more than $45,000 to local charities in 2011,” Finn says. “We have donated more than $175,000 since we started this program in 2009.”

Union City Grille’s Dine in for Charity program takes a similar approach. Charities select an available Wednesday, and Union City donates 12 percent of gross receipts from that night’s dinner service to the charity. Obviously it behooves the charity to promote the night and help fill the restaurant.

BBC has become known for its guest bartender night. Local charities recruit the guest bartenders, who encourage friends, family, and colleagues to come to the restaurant that night. Tip donations go to the charity.

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When it comes to supporting a cause, restaurants often concentrate on their immediate community. “We try to base giving on our geographical area,” says Bob Ashby, owner of McGlynns Pub & Restaurant, The Deer Park Tavern and Cantwell's Tavern.

On the last Wednesday of the month, James Street Tavern holds a Minquas Night. Ten percent of total sales go to Minquas Fire Co. “We usually offer music and $3 ‘craft draft’ specials,” Kennedy says.

“The community comes out and has fun helping raise funds for the fire company.”

Six Paupers Tavern & Restaurant in Hockessin and Ulysses American Gastropub in Wilmington routinely support local sports organizations, says Michael Lucey, co-owner of both eateries.

Six Paupers often holds fundraisers for friends and families who’ve lost a loved one. “Those most satisfying are the events that have a direct impact on people whom we’ve had personal contact with,” Lucey says. “Restaurants can serve as a place to mourn and celebrate. We can help bring people together and make them feel a little bit better.” www.OutAndAboutNow.com

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Home Grown Café in Newark puts a high priority on City of Newark events and causes involving local teachers and schools.

“We generally donate close to our hearts and to our homes,” says Sasha Aber, who, with her husband, Eric, owns the Main Street restaurant.

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Aber’s mother had cancer, and every October, Home Grown donates some of the proceeds from certain wines to cancer foundations. Indeed, as is the case with individual donors, restaurants may direct a good portion of their charitable contributions to certain nonprofits or specific causes.

Iron Hill’s dessert program raises money for CureSearch for Children’s Cancer. Seventy-five cents from the sale of each Double Chocolate Hill dessert goes to the organization. Since 2005, when the program started, Iron Hill has donated more than $160,000 to CureSearch. Beginning in 2010, each location—now up to nine— can give another 75 cents from the dessert’s sale to the charity of its choice.

Ashby buys a turkey for each employee around the holidays, and inevitably there are some that the employees do not pick up.

He donates these to the Food Bank of Delaware, which he regularly supports.

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Not content to just donate, some restaurants also organize fundraisers. In August, Union City Grille spearheaded the first Wilmington Burger Battle at Twin Lakes Brewing Co. in Greenville.

Sixteen restaurants participated in the event, which raised more than $5,000 for the Ministry of Caring’s Emmanuel Dining Room.

While monthly donations to Ronald McDonald House are part of Harry’s Hospitality’s annual giving, the restaurant group since 1988 has organized the Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation dinner.

The five-course meal, paired with the appropriate wines, features guest chefs, all working for free to benefit organizations fighting childhood hunger. Over its 24year history, the effort has raised $800,000.

Harry’s also holds the Harry’s Scholarship Golf Tournament, which raises money for the hotel, restaurant, and institutional management department of the University of Delaware and ProStart initiatives in Delaware high schools. The endowed scholarship at UD now stands at more than $125,000.

With the purchase of Kid Shelleen’s, Harry’s Hospitality launched Kid’s for Kids, a charitable arm created to serve child-related charities.

SoDel Concepts, a Sussex County restaurant group, has taken organized charity a step further. In 2010, the Global Delaware Fund was started as the company’s charitable division. The fund, managed by the Delaware Community Foundation, is dedicated to providing goods and services to “children at risk in distressed situations.”

Matt Haley, owner of SoDel Concepts, founded the fund to put to better use the thousands of dollars the company was donating each year. “We wanted the spending to be more controlled and to put it into sustainable programs,” he says.

“Instead of spreading it a mile wide but only going an inch deep in impact, we wanted to go an inch wide and a mile deep.”

(The fund hasn’t prohibited SoDel from contributing to area causes. Employees participate in beach cleanups, and Haley is on numerous boards.)

As the Great Dames series at Pizza

By Elizabeths demonstrates, charitable activities can be a promotional vehicle for a restaurant. But they’re rarely moneymakers for the business itself.

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perspective; but in the end, he may lose money, given the amount of food and labor required to pull off the evening.

So why keeping doing them? In part, it goes back to the restaurant being the social heartbeat of a community. “We want to see our community thrive,” says Curtis of Union City Grille, which supports schools, parks, and services around Little Italy. “We want to be involved in anything that helps our area and our people.”

Approaching a Restaurant for Your Charity If you’re thinking of asking a restaurant to donate food, gift certificates or space, here are some tips: 1. You stand a better chance of getting a “yes” if you’re a frequent patron. “If someone is dining at BBC for lunch or dinner or they are a known customer of ours, we try to honor their request the same day,” says David Dietz, owner of BBC Tavern and Grill. But even patrons should be understanding, especially with the tight economy. You might be the 30th person who’s asked that week, and the restaurant may be tapped out.

2. Educate yourself. Find out if the restaurant leans toward certain causes or has a program in place.

Union City Grille puts its application for its Dine in for Charity program online.

3. Write it down. Most restaurants ask for a written request. Save yourself time and prepare something in advance with the date of the event, the cause, the mission, and the amount requested.

4. Ask in advance. Your chances for success are higher if you give the restaurant a month to respond instead of three days, particularly if it’s a busy season.

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after the concert. Five days after raising $12,000 at the successful show, I was Jeff Durham and I founded Aztec community. Our marketing and on a plane to Haiti and on my way to Printing and Design in 1998, with outreach efforts have always been doing logistical and personnel work a commitment to both do good combined with fundraisers, including at the hospital San Michel in Jacmel, working with the Delaware Medical business and to make a difference art shows to benefit the Cab Calloway Relief teams. in the community. From day one School of the Arts, a concert for the The city of Jacmel is close to the size we have taken the commitment Family Readiness support group for of Newark, Del., and situated on the to community seriously, providing the 485th Chemical Battalion of the south coast on a lovely Caribbean bay. discounts and expert service on Delaware Army National Guard, and The city sustained substantial damage printing, displays and graphic other causes. from the earthquake of 2010, but didn’t communications to the non profit come apart the way the larger city of Port-au-Prince had. Like cities and towns in the Caribbean basin, Jacmel has a kind of well-worn beauty. The streetscapes have a large fter the devastating tsunami hit the Indian ocean basin in January 2004, I number of feral dogs, a lot of dust and smoke and plenty of trash. initiated The Wave of Relief, a 24-concert The bay, surrounding mountains and Caribbean are beautiful, as are series to benefit Red Cross relief efforts, the people.

Working with the Haitians and The Delaware Medical with the support of Aztec Printing and Relief Teams volunteers was deeply rewarding. Like many who co-producers Jacqueline Varsalona and participated in the eight weeks of Delaware Medical relief team Kathy Cammet (My son Drake accused me of doing it so I could hang out with missions, I grew to understand Haiti, and the people of Jacmel.

As the summer of 2010 approached, I heard that Carole Downs very cool musicians.) The grass-roots and Lynn Shapira, fellow Delawareans and earthquake relief effort raised more than $24,000 and showcased Aztec’s ability volunteers, had formed the Haiti Family Initiative to continue to promote events with a mix of website communications and our work in Jacmel. The project was to include a summer camp printing.

Six years later, the day after the devastating Jan. 12, 2010 for kids and a medical clinic. I followed their efforts closely, and earthquake hit Haiti, I began planning the Concert for Haiti learned that both the 2010 and the 2011 summer camps went well.

Delaware. The show was set for Feb. 28, 2010—as soon after the As the Haiti Family Initiative’s 2012 summer camps approached, I

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disaster as we could manage. The staff and members of the Siegel Jewish Community Center donated their facility and hard work to the effort.

Some 125 musicians and dozens of volunteers gave their energies to the show. Our beneficiaries were to be the Delaware Medical relief team’s dedicated professionals, who started saving lives in Jacmel, Haiti, just days after the quake hit.

As the show approached, the Medical Relief Teams asked if I would be in charge of logistics for a crew headed to Jacmel the week

Ed Dwornik and his son Luke, shown playing together at Mickey Rats on Lake Erie (top of opposite page), did some impromptu solos for the youth of Jacmel, Haiti (above).

With the help of our Haitian translator team, the medical team worked long hours with few breaks under difficult conditions.

offered to be group leader for two weeks. My youngest son Luke, 16, also wanted to go, and his mom, Carol, who had worked on an Operation Smile mission to Vietnam, encouraged him to participate. I was tapped to be the project manager for weeks four and five of the effort, and Luke, who is a sophomore at the Cab Calloway School, was to come down during my second week of service.

So I found myself headed back to Jacmel on July 28, two years and a few months after my first visit. As the other members of HFI Team Four and I arrived by plane in Port-au-Prince, I had questions about my ability to provide some form of leadership to 20 American volunteers, doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers and the 20-plus Haitian co-workers, many of whom I knew from my previous trip. I wondered how much progress had been ► 27

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made in Haiti since my last trip and what kind of challenges our team would face.

The 60-mile trip takes 3-½ hours over dusty, 5,000-foot-high mountain roads with switchbacks, avalanches, breath-taking scenery, and a wonderful glimpse into Haitian rural life. Bustling markets slow traffic in the villages, as people bearing huge loads on their heads and donkeys and burros approach the markets with the goods of daily life. Conditions along the roads had greatly improved since my last trip to Haiti after the earthquake. I was glad to see a huge reduction in the size of the worst tent compounds and that great progress had been made in sanitation, shelter and potable water in the remaining camps. The people were much better fed.

When we arrived at the Cap Lamandou Hotel in Jacmel where all of our American volunteers stayed, I called a team meeting.

With information from the previous teams and our Haitian partners, we were able to identify organizational problems that had occurred during previous weeks at the summer camp compound. We put a plan in place to change the organization of the clinics and to control the number of people in the compound.

Our Haitian partners and coworkers provided important feedback and suggestions to improve our operations. With our new plans in place the flow of patients was smoothed out and the medical team was able to see every Haitian who came to us—between 90 and 130 a day. With the help of our Haitian translator team, the medical team worked long hours with few breaks under difficult conditions.

The children’s camp was a great source of joy. The morning started with a big circle in the center of the compound with everyone singing, dancing and doing exercises.

As the day went on the kids enjoyed play and sports activities on the beach, as well as the crafts and classroom program. The ready smiles and energy of the Haitian kids and American volunteers on the beach were contagious.

The women’s group was remarkable. The sounds of the class —laughter, occasional cheers and spells of quiet communication —were signs that great things were at work. In the evenings, group leaders told me more about the challenges Haitian women faced in their day-to-day lives. Bringing the women of Jacmel together in a safe forum allowed them to share ideas and stories. Our team and people from the Jacmel community provided information, ideas for growth and coping strategies. The positive impact of the women’s program will no doubt have a lasting effect on both the Haitian women and the American women who participated.

My first week had gone by quickly.

At 6 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 4, Week Four’s Team of American volunteers loaded into our well-worn but mighty bus for the trip back to the Port-au-Prince airport. At the airport I said goodbye to Week Four’s volunteers, then slept three hours in the bus as I waited for HFI Team Five, which included my son Luke. They had to find their bags and run the gauntlet through customs before emerging for the long walk to our bus. The first week went well. I wondered if Team Five would be able to match the work of Team Four’s dedicated efforts.

I hadn’t seen Luke in a month, and at his age, a month is long time. When he appeared, along with the rest of the team, all clad in funny lime-green HFI t-shirts (fashion alert!), I was overjoyed to see him. We made the long trip back to Jacmel, through Portau-Prince, a huge, bustling, intensely poor and dusty city, the size of Philadelphia, perhaps the largest city on earth with no sewage system, and with trash as far as the eye could see.

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We made a stop to pick up the sachets of boiled water that kept us hydrated during the trip south to Jacmel. These little bags of safe drinking water are a staple in Haiti.

Jacmel was a welcome sight. Sunday we set up a small version of our camp and clinic at the tent city outside Jacmel. We made the strategic mistake of setting up in the middle of the camp, in a shaded but wide-open spot where crowd control was all but impossible. I was worrying about the medical team being mobbed, when over my shoulder I saw the beginnings of the great bead riot of 2012. One of our arts and crafts volunteers opened a box of craft beads and was immediately inundated by 60 or so kids, shoving and yelling and grabbing at the box. The kids were in a frenzy and each seemed to have six darting hands. While noting with some amusement the shocked looks on the faces of the volunteers, I tried to impose some order before the situation turned into a real riot. I called out to a couple of our Haitian guys, and shouted for the kids to back off and line up. Within a few minutes the kids were patiently waiting their turns. I was relived but a bit shaken.

The medical team faced a similar if less intense dilemma, with people on all sides, little sense of patient flow, and limited supplies.

In the meantime, Luke had gone missing. We later found out that he was off peering into tents and shelters looking for patients and taking a side trip to the soccer field. But when it came time to pull out, we were still looking for him from the back our rented pickup truck. After what seemed like an eternity, I called Max, our head translator, who had taken half the team in a different truck, and found out Luke was safe at the hotel. With no one hurt or lost, and 50 patients seen, the day was a learning experience and a victory. I decided that for the rest of the trip we should stick to the Salvation Army compound, and I asked Luke to stick closer to the team.

Team Five proved to be every bit as effective as Team Four, seeing everyone who showed up for care and providing great experiences for the 75 to 100 kids and 30-plus women who participated in the women’s group.

Luke played guitar and sang for the kids in the compound, led the classroom in festive dancing, and played on the street and in the park for passersby. His affinity for the Haitians and our team made me proud to work with him and to be his dad.

Team Five marked the end of this year’s camp. On Aug. 11, we packed supplies for storage and distributed goods we didn’t need for next year, including soon-to-expire meds we donated to my old work place after the quake, the hospital at St. Michel.

We took side trips after camp on most days, and our last trip on Friday was to the Basin Blue, a waterfall and swimming hole in the mountains above Jacmel. It was an amazing way to share Haiti with our team before saying our good-byes. Team Five boarded our bus at 5:45 the next morning for the long trip over the mountains and past the squalor and of Port-au-Prince. My trip home ended at 1 a.m., after dropping off Luke at his mom’s house and making the final 15-mile ride to my house, nicknamed Riblett Hollow, which is on a quiet little road between Wilmington and Newark.

I slept soundly that night, knowing that Luke and I now have life-long friends in Haiti and that the Haiti Family Initiative will be doing great work and providing us with a chance to visit our Haitian friends for years to come.

— Concert for Haiti Delaware will be held at the Arden Gild Hall on Sunday, Nov. 18 (4:30-9:30pm). Performers include Mallory Square, Dream Killers, Cameltones, Luke Dwornik, Stump Junction and Bootleg Quartet. Tickets are $25 with proceeds benefitting the Haiti Family Initiative. More on the Haiti Family Initiative can be found on Facebook or at athaitifamilyiniative.org

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By J. Burke Morrison

Delaware…

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ecently, I did some rough calculating (based on nothing more than notes on a napkin and the occasional Google search on my smartphone) and made some startling discoveries about Delaware’s burgeoning brewing

industry.

Delaware has nine commercial breweries/brewpubs and approximately 900,000 people, which translates to one brewery per 100,000 people. In the big picture, that’s not all that impressive.

Vermont, which leads the nation in breweries per capita, has one for every 30,000 or so people. However—and it doesn’t seem that anyone has ever bothered to calculate this—I firmly believe that no other state can claim a population with a closer proximity to a brewery. From Twin Lakes in Greenville to the north and 16 Mile in Georgetown to the south, there is virtually nowhere in Delaware that you are more than “16 Miles” away from a fresh, local, delicious Delaware-brewed brew.

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So I guess the real question is: “Why should I drink local bier?”

I could expand on the time-honored response of mountain climbers when asked why they do what they do and say, “Because they’re there!” But that’s a pretty lackluster reason to drink anything. So how about if I modify it a bit to this: “Because they’re there and their biers are really good.” Now, admittedly, that doesn’t just roll off the tongue (But grammarians out there must accord me kudos for managing to get the trinity of “they’re, there and their” into one semi-lucid sentence—and even spelling them all correctly.)

But aside from making some really tasty brews, local brewers perform other great services to society at large that separates them from larger regional and national brewers. They help establish a sense of community, augment the local economy, put far less strain on the environment and support other local businesses, artisans and charities. They partner with local restaurants to help raise money for many causes, and they support and promote local artists and craftsmen.

Would animal shelters continue to function without the support Twin Lakes gives to “Faithful Friends?” Would firemen and paramedics rush into harm’s way to save someone without the support of 16 Mile and its Responder’s Ale? Probably, but these two breweries are helping to ensure these worthy causes have what they need through donations and fund-raising efforts.

Likewise, would people flock to the “Oyster Eat” every February if 16 Mile didn’t brew them a special Oyster Stout?

Would people flood the grounds of the Delaware Saengerbund’s Oktoberfest in Newark if Twin Lakes didn’t brew them a special Vienna Style Marzen (aka Oktoberfest)? Of course people would still go, but the addition of special local brews adds to the sense of community and boosts the great causes the events help to finance.

I don’t mean to single out these breweries; it’s just that I’m more aware of their activities. I know that all Delaware breweries support their communities in innumerable ways.

And then there is the economic support they provide. I don’t have exact numbers, but the fact is, Delaware’s breweries and brewpubs employ, directly or indirectly, hundreds of Delawareans.

In this struggling economy, that’s extremely important. If only our automotive industry were as vibrant as our brewing industry, Delaware’s economy would be the toast of the nation.

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The four beers and their charities are: The “Delaware Oyster Stout,” a Cherrywood Smoked Malt with a smoky bacon taste—and actual oysters—will benefit the Delaware Bay Oyster Task Force, which hopes to restore oysters to the Delaware Bay. The “Eastern Chef Brew” is an extrabitter style ale brewed with black figs, coriander seeds and sumac. Made with ingredients from local farms, this drink will benefit Meals on Wheels.

Creamy and chocolaty, with local cherries, cocoa nibs and Indonesian vanilla beans, the “Hot Fudge Sundae Stout” will benefit the Delaware River and Bay Lighthouse Foundation, aimed at preserving the state’s historic lighthouses.

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Waiter, Where’s My Busboy?

An element of fine dining falls victim to the economy

By Robert Lhulier

W

hen I first got into the business, I started in fine dining as a busboy.

It was the ideal way to get started with little or no experience, and I could make pretty decent cash tips. I didn’t really have direct contact with the guest except to ask, “More bread?” I found I looked kind of dashing in a vest and bowtie and liked it. If you showed some speed and aptitude, you could quickly be considered a candidate for the more lucrative server position. Since servers tipped their busboys, the better ones could earn more. Servers understood they could levy the bulk of grunt work on you, turn tables faster and pocket more tips.

On occasion, the arrangement could yield better service, resulting in higher tips. But if you look around the restaurant universe today, the busboys of the Old Republic are all but extinct. So where did all the busboys go?

The renowned French chef Auguste Escoffier, among his many contributions to the culinary arts and hospitality, created a hierarchy for both the kitchen and front-

of-the-house. It streamlined the work of an often chaotic environment in hotels and kitchens. La brigade was to become the most adhered to system in all of the business for professional establishments around the world. It was a system developed by a man with a military background who craved structure in his workplace. And it worked.

Each person had a function to perform, and to eliminate duplication of effort, they all stuck to their roles. A revised brigade system is still in use today, but mostly only in pockets of Europe and in better hotels and restaurants in the U.S. In the 1980s, more posh Delaware restaurants like the dining rooms of the Hotel du Pont had a pecking order for service that went something like this: maitre d’, captain, front waiter, back waiter, then busboy. The busboy’s job was basic table maintenance, heavy lifting and, of course, water and bread delivery. Operators never dreamed that restaurants could suffer the same fate as other businesses in a bad economy. But they too have had their casualties, and

as a result have mutated. Establishments looking to survive a sluggish economy had to evolve and devise ways to get the job done by cutting overhead, which usually meant hiring fewer people.

Restaurants on average pocket only a tiny, single-digit percentage of return on the dollar, so when it’s time to trim the fat, you have do so in a way that doesn’t compromise your service or product. Chain restaurants typically do well in an economic downturn.

Embracing volume over higher check average is the key.

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Waiter, Where’s My Busboy? continued from page 35

The food runner became the hero of the day.

Managers only needed them during peak hours, could afford to pay them a little more per hour than a busboy, and shifted some of busboys’ tips to the runner.

With each recession, more fine dining and special occasion restaurants began to disappear, and more casual restaurants emerged that focus on speed, convenience and affordability. “Turn and burn” is the mantra of many chain and multi-unit operators today. With the type of service changing to meet the lessened demands of customers, so did the need for attention to detail. You really are getting what you pay for. So, where did all the busboys go?

Mostly, servers have absorbed their duties.

Water became an upsell to the bottled stuff, bread is dropped at your table upon arrival and clearing and resetting tables became a function of the server or idle hostess. The best part for the restaurant manager is, he usually only needs one food runner per shift.

Last month The Culinary Institute of America announced it was phasing out the prestigious Escoffier Dining Room with its traditional haute cuisine and regimented brigade of cooks and servers in favor of a more contemporary type of cuisine and service. Multi-course, prix-fixe restaurants continue to open, even if only a few per year.

With the recent reopening of the vaunted Le Bec Fin in Philadelphia, the $150-a-head meal still has life.

How then have higher-end establishments continued to survive while providing stellar service to match the food? They do so by retraining their staff to see the details once relegated to the individual ranks of the old brigade system.

They’re multi-talented, and thus more valuable employees. Bartenders today craft cocktails with the deftness of the chef.

Our national passion for food (along with the Internet) has yielded a more informed waitstaff. And awareness of wine and food and wine pairing isn’t just more prevalent, but necessary for a finer establishment to survive the competition.

Along with table-side Caesar salads and dusty wine stewards, the busboys of old are now fewer and fewer. But change in the restaurant business is good, especially if the dining experience evolves along with the times.

So whom do you ask today if you need more bread? More bread? That’s so 1982.

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Turning out custom instruments for the likes of Gene Simmons is all in a day’s work for Jim Cara

By Larry Nagengast

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t’s not a huge jump from hot rods to the parallel universe of hot rod guitars, but few can match Jim Cara’s pedal-to-the-metal pace down the Superhighway to Success.

Don’t be fooled by the appearance of the modest shop on Kirkwood Highway in Elsmere, where visitors often have to ring the bell to gain admittance and Cara will sometimes make $35 to $75minor repairs while they wait.

While his nephew, Anthony Bertollo, minds the store, Cara is often in the basement, working his wizardry on guitars that will be played by everyone from garage band amateurs to Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley. Yes, that Gene Simmons and that Ace Frehley—former lead guitarist for KISS and one of the “greatest metal guitarists of all time,” according to Guitar World.

In fact, Cara’s big project for October was turning out four custom guitars for Gene Simmons Axe Ltd. Early in the month, he had no idea what they would look like, only that their design “will incorporate everything we know about Gene Simmons’ guitars. It will be tricked out, not just designs painted on the guitars.”

The stakes are high. The guitars were to be taken on board the five-day KISS Kruise, departing Miami on Halloween, where “4,000 rabid, high-end fans” will see and hear Simmons play the guitars, says Paul Hayland, Simmons’ promotions manager. And, he added, those fans will get the chance to buy the guitars, or order ones like them.

“Hopefully, we’ll get a lot of orders,” he says.

Simmons’ guitars sell for $10,000 to $30,000, depending on whether he has performed with them on stage and the location of the performance, Hayland says.

Cara is also hoping for lots of orders. He won’t say how much he’s getting paid, but he does say, “The plan is to make dozens and dozens.”

Cara caught the attention of Simmons’ team through some work he did earlier this year—working from a couple of drawings to recreate the vintage Smoking Les Paul model that Frehley used on the 1975-76 Alive tour.

The deal with Simmons is but the latest for the 50-year-old Cara in his rise to national prominence in creating “hot rod,” or custom, guitars and in “relicing,” the art of taking a new, or nearly new, instrument and giving it an appearance that suggests it has been played for years.

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Guitar Man

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copies of Stevie Ray Vaughn guitars sell for $5,000 or so. Relicing jobs go for $1,500 and up, with the client providing the guitar.

While his career trajectory may now seem to be strictly in the fast lane, it began with more than the usual share of left turns and detours.

The son of a musician and Wilmington music store owner, Cara started playing the guitar about when he learned to read. (On the back of his business card is a picture of him strumming a guitar in 1967, when he was 5). As a teenager, his interest in cars developed.

He studied auto body refinishing at Delcastle Technical High School, but turned down a scholarship offer to attend General Motors’ refinishing school.

He started painting guitars on the side, explaining, “I always made mistakes on the big stuff [cars] but it’s easier to fix your mistakes on something small, like guitars.” He took a job mixing chemicals for a company that made fiberglass dune buggies, then started hanging out at music stores and got into repairing instruments.

He worked off and on at several music stores in the Wilmington area, in sales, repairs and management, but got little satisfaction from it. “My customer service skills are horrible,” he says. “I don’t have it in me to tell someone they’re freaking awesome if they’re not.”

He also spent some time on the road, as a technician for Twisted Sister in the ’90s, a job he landed through a friend who had played with the band. “I was a disaster teching for anybody,” he says.

“Everybody knew I had the talent, but I couldn’t handle being in their war zone.”

In his spare time, he continued to perform—“in and out of a lot of bands that did nothing,” he said.

His friend, Eric Svalgard, owner of the Wilmington School of Rock, describes Cara as “not a technical player, but one with a great feel for the instrument.”

Cara got his inspiration to focus on a career making guitars from a meeting in the 1980s with the late Leo Fender, founder of the Fender Guitar Co. and a pioneer in the development of electric guitars.

As Cara recalls the conversation, Fender told him that “succeeding in playing the guitar is like a panner finding gold in the gold rush. But the man who made the shovels is a millionaire.”

Fender, Cara admits, may have given the same advice to dozens of people, “But, to say that Leo Fender told that to me personally, that’s very meaningful.”

Around the time Cara talked with Fender, the Internet was starting to grow. Email hadn’t become big yet, but operations like Prodigy and CompuServe grew with the development of user groups, where fans and experts could chat about topics that interested them. Cara, then working for a Wilmington music store, became Prodigy’s guitar expert, moderating user groups, answering questions about guitars, and getting his first taste of online sales.

Finally, in 2003, Cara figured out what he could do well, and put his missteps behind him. He would focus fulltime on making and relicing hot rod guitars. He worked out of a garage for six months, moved twice and settled in his Elsmere storefront in 2006.

While the showroom, as might be expected, is filled with guitars Cara has made, as well as an array of necks, bodies and other pieces awaiting assembly, the real work goes on downstairs. Cara’s customers, whether they visit the shop or communicate by phone or email, tell him what they want, and he figures out a way to make it. Thanks to a CNC machine—a three-dimensional carver—he can create guitar bodies from a block of wood or plastic in any shape a customer wants.

Once the guitar is shaped, Cara takes it into his “sneaky crazy lab” for making paints and finishes. On a couple of shelves he has an amazing collection of powders and liquids, everything from a pearlcolored pint of DuPont Lucite from the ’70s to jars of silver and gold glitter he picked up at a dollar store. There are cans of spray paint, too, but Cara doesn’t just press and spray. He’d much rather puncture the can and let the paint drip into a jar, where it becomes part of his magic potion. If he needs a dirty brown finish, he looks for rusty bolts, then attacks them with sandpaper. After painting, Cara applies a clear sealer and hangs the guitar in an ultraviolet booth, where rays he says are “a thousand times stronger than sitting on the beach on the hottest day of the summer” will seal and dry the finish in a matter of minutes.

Next come the strings and all the other pieces that make the instrument play. Finally, Cara makes sure the guitar is properly tuned before delivery to its owner.

Wilmington guitarist Chris Gordon, who tours with a Queen tribute band, serves as Cara’s “test pilot,” checking out the finished products.

Gordon raves about Cara’s guitars—both their appearance and the sounds they produce are “phenomenal,” he says. “No task is too big for Jim. You give him a list of stuff you want, and he’ll just do it.”

John Robison, who created Frehley’s original Smoking Les Paul, has met Cara and seen his work. “He’s doing more than just copying guitars,” he says. “He’s creating innovative new things on his own. He has a serious and genuine fondness for the work he’s doing.”

“Jim would rather build a guitar from old parts and have it sound unique,” says Joe Mauro, owner of a Wilmington marketing communications agency and about 50 guitars. “He is the king of hot rod guitars.”

Natividad Tirado, a luthier, plays a cuatro as Jim Cara watches on.

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hat’s better than hanging out with friends at a local show? Answer: Joining them for a seven-hour music festival that features at least 20 ofSheik the area’s best and up-andAngela coming musicians, including A New Dakota, Bullbuckers, New Sweden and Tail.

That’s just a sampling of the acts, which include ska, punk, indie rock, pop, Americana, and more, who will appear at the second annual Wilmo Rock Circus.

Set for Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Queen, the music fest is the product of a partnership between Gable Music Ventures and Planet Ten Multimedia. Tickets are $15 online at wilmorockcircus.com, or $17 at the door .

From 6 p.m. to 1 a.m., fans of all ages can experience the full-venue takeover—whether they are Downstairs Live at the main Big Top Stage, swaying between main stage sets to short acoustic acts projected from the Sideshow Stage, or jamming Upstairs Live at the High Wire Stage with 10 of the area’s best rock and alternative bands. Each band will play short, 30-minute sets to create a nonstop live music sampler, while the diverse lineup will give festival-goers the opportunity to experience artists who typically wouldn’t share the same bill.

Attendees can enjoy free on-street parking after 6 p.m.

World Cafe Live will serve boardwalk-style food throughout the night, including popcorn, pretzels, pizza, beer specials and circus-inspired drinks. And it’s not a circus atmosphere without carnival-style art, face painting, and more entertaining activities.

The festival was founded last year as an all-ages “pop-up micro fest,” featuring 10 bands in an empty retail space at the Riverfront. The idea was inspired by the growing trend of pop-up shops in major cities such as Los Angeles and London, in which retail stores or art exhibitions “pop up” and disappear just as quickly—leaving fans wanting more.

Gayle Dillman, co-founder of Gable Music Ventures, says that by bringing in an original and eclectic group of musicians, she expects a diverse crowd—and that it’ll be big.

“We expect that this will be the largest indoor festival that is being produced in Wilmington,” Dillman says. “We’re building the show to be a unique, engaging atmosphere—unlike any other show in the mid Atlantic area.”

See the website—wilmorockcircus.com—or Facebook event for artist updates and announcements.

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The lower case blues will perform with Barrelhouse Blues Band on Nov. 8.

WVUD to Host Blues Event at The Queen UD radio station makes first venture into Wilmington with benefit concert

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niversity of Delaware radio station WVUD will branch out of its Newark scene and venture into Wilmington, hosting the station’s first-ever concert at World Cafe Live at The Queen on Thursday, Nov. 8.

The jazzy, funk, rock—and of course, blues—trio, lower case

blues, is set to perform Upstairs Live, along with The Barrelhouse Blues Band, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for students, $13 for general admission in advance, and $15 at the door.

The concert will not be aired live because the goal is for the station’s staffers to interact with Wilmington listeners. Steve Kramarck, WVUD manager, says he is not sure what sort of crowd to expect since this is the station’s first Wilmington event.

He does predict, however, that students, UD staff, blues fans, and people from the Wilmington area will attend.

A power trio that originated in Newark seven years ago, lower case blues features Jake Banaszak on guitar, B.J. Muntz on bass and vocals, and Rick Webster on drums.

Likewise, Barrelhouse Blues Band is a jazzy, carefree group whose members all boast nicknames: vocalist “Choo Choo” Charlie Rickner; drummer “Papa Joe” Antonio; bassist and vocalist “Barstool Billy” Snyder, and guitarist and vocalist “NineFinger Tom” Noland.

Everyone in attendance will receive a free copy of WVUD’s Dare to be Louder CD, which features lower case blues.

Kramarck says he thinks the show will start off as a laidback event, but once the bands get going, the audience will really get into the music.

“This is a chance for us to get up close and personal with some folks that might not venture into Newark for the many shows that we do there,” he says.

Tickets are available at the WVUD location in Newark and at The Queen or online at queentickets.worldcafelive.com. For more information, visit wvud.org.

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ROCKIN’ MONDAY NIGHTS For two decades, Anthony Gallucio has kicked off each week at the restaurant and bar his late father opened in 1970 By Matt Amis

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nthony Gallucio scrunched his eyes. His expression tightened. Standing on a twofoot-tall carpeted corner stage surrounded by wood-paneled walls, he strummed the first few chords to America’s “Ventura Highway.”

His V-neck t-shirt already showing flecks of perspiration, he bobbed and weaved like a boxer, his Fender Stratocaster moving with him. The stage barely contained Gallucio and his two bandmates, along with their amps, monitors and pedals.

It was another Monday night at Gallucio’s Restaurant in Wilmington, and at least 50 people, maybe 60, were crammed into the restaurant’s front bar. All the stools and almost all the floor space were occupied.

Pizzas were on sale for half-off, Monday Night Football played on muted TVs, and Anthony Gallucio was performing rock ‘n’ roll music, just as he has every Monday night for the last 20 years. His torrid three-hour sets—a mix of classic rock covers and open-mic jams—have become a Wilmington tradition.

“I still love coming here on Monday nights,” says Anthony. “I love entertaining.”

Tonight, Anthony, along with brother Michael, are the prominent faces inside the 42-year-old restaurant that looks and feels more like a family rec room than a dining establishment.

There was another special face among the crowd of partiers on this night: Lucille Gallucio, Anthony and Michael’s mom.

Lucille, who’s retired, was celebrating her 69th birthday at the restaurant she ran with her husband, Jerry, along with Anthony, Michael and daughter Renee (who is no longer involved in the business), since it opened in 1970 as “The Embassy.”

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Located just off the beaten path, facing Wilmington’s Lovering Avenue, Gallucio’s brick façade and green awnings don’t have the flash of newer bars or the hip cachet that attracts armies of young revelers.

There aren’t endless beer taps spouting the latest mircobrews. Gallucio’s status as a de facto neighborhood hangout was earned with great food--especially freshly made pizzas and the criminally rare, deep-fried panzarotti--a friendly, laid-back atmosphere, and top-shelf entertainment. Musicians like Sharon Sable and Shawn Qaissaunee are regulars here, and Friday night karaoke is the stuff of legend.

But no one packs them in quite like Anthony Gallucio, who at 43 performs with his band, the Retreads. On this Monday night, the Retreads’ playlist spanned the decades, slamming through Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Van Halen, and others. A birthday request from Lucille sent Anthony into a pitch-perfect version of Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”

“It makes me feel very proud to see him perform,” Lucille Gallucio says. “And it proves to me how talented he is that all the different generations of people come and love to see him perform, too.”

It wasn’t always that way. When Anthony began performing regularly at the bar in 1992, crowds were scant. For nearly six months of steady Monday night sets, audiences simply didn’t materialize.

Anthony, who since the age of 14 had vowed to be a professional musician, was shaken.

But he got encouragement from someone who always seemed to have plenty to spare.

“That’s when it was really hard,” he says.

“But my dad told me to stick with it. And before we knew it, the place was packed in

every room. I never would’ve done anything with music if it wasn’t for my dad.”

Patriarch Jerry Gallucio, who ran the restaurant for 36 years and became a fixture in Wilmington for his generosity and community involvement, died of a heart attack in 2009.

Aside from running the restaurant, where he was noted for greeting customers with a handshake and an introduction, Jerry was involved in several charities. He gave generously to the Delaware chapters of the National MS Society, the American Heart Association, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, and more.

He formed a golf tournament to raise money for Siena Hall and Seton Villa, assisted living homes for children.

When Jerry died, the outpouring of condolences and bereavement from the community was immense. His services, held on a snowy February day at Doherty Funeral Home in Wilmington, took nine hours to complete. Newly inaugurated Vice President Joe Biden attended, along with many other friends and family members.

“He had a lot of friends,” says Michael, 37.

“He would put me in the kitchen, Anthony on the stage, and himself in the front, shaking hands. It was a good combination.

“Me, Anthony and the staff have been trying to keep the torch going.”

Says Anthony: “We’ve been scrambling since he passed. We’re just now starting to get a handle on it.”

With the help of general manager Gregory “Gator” Dorak, the brothers have managed to keep Gallucio’s rocking.

Anthony got his start here, as well as at a former Gallucio’s location on Lancaster Pike.

“It got me polished at an early age,” he says.

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N’S Anthony Gallucio plays with Buddy Cash on bass and Richie DeCarlo on drums at Gallucio’s Restaurant in Wilmington. photo by Tim Hawk

Anthony first picked up a guitar at age 6, and claims to have had little on his mind but guitar since. While attending four different high schools, he focused on making it as a professional musician. Says Michael: “Our dad used to say that when Anthony was sitting in class, all he could think about was the music in his head.”

Apart from one year while he was 16, when he worked at a minimum-wage construction job, the mop-topped Anthony has kept his

“My dad told me to stick with it. And before we knew it, the place was packed. I never would’ve done anything with music if it wasn’t for my dad.”

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vow. He appears regularly at Delaware Park, Skyline Grill in Pike Creek, and the Thirsty Bulldog in Boothwyn, Pa., as well as Delaware shore venues.

Besides his Monday gig, he performs an acoustic set every Friday at Gallucio’s.

He has spent portions of his career in a duo (with singer Keli Vale) and in a band called Blanket. His current band, the Retreads, is made up of drummer Richie DeCarlo and bassist Buddy Cash. They perform rock and dance covers with alacrity and instinctive tightness, punctuated, usually, by Anthony’s face-melting guitar solos. In 2001, Philly radio station WMMR dubbed him the “Guitarist of the Decade.”

“Anthony’s one of the most passionate performers I’ve ever seen,” says Ken Bartholomew of Pike Creek, a Gallucio’s regular of more than 20 years. “He’s not worried about the hype or about being on magazine covers, he just wants to make sure everybody has fun.”

Following the Retreads’ initial, 90-minute set, the format switches to open-mic, where the band allows guest musicians and singers onto the stage to jam. Like many things at Gallucio’s, it’s become a tradition.

Besides the expected parade of friends, family and amateurs, Anthony’s open-mic night earned the support of other local musicians. Well-traveled cover acts like Kristen and the Noise, Burnt Sienna and Mr. Greengenes have taken their turns on the tiny Gallucio’s stage. “Without them, this wouldn’t have continued,” Anthony says.

The bands, just like the sea of regulars, are treated as family. “Bars and restaurants come and go, but these guys were able to build a foundation on family,” Bartholomew says.

“Today Mike knows almost every customer who walks in here. This is like his home dining room, and that’s Anthony’s stage” Lynn Kempski, another regular, likens Gallucio’s to “Cheers.” “There’s nothing that’s overwhelming about this place. Everybody knows your name, your drink, where you like to sit. It’s just cozy, like home.”

For the brothers, who practically grew up here, who picked tomatoes together in the backyard garden, who learned how to spin pizza dough together, and who’ve spent nearly every Monday night together for the last 20 years, it is home.

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Lincoln

Speilberg, Day-Lewis and a voluminous cast combine for a five-star film By Mark Fields

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n an era where we all are disappointed to varying degrees by the pettiness of our national politics and our flawed elected leaders, Steven Spielberg gives us Lincoln, a film about an American leader writ large if ever there was one.

Abraham Lincoln has deservedly occupied an oversized place in our national imagination for generations. But in their captivating new film, Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner have managed to

simultaneously humanize and mythologize the man, thereby making his greatness that much more transcendent.

Spielberg is especially well-served by the portrayal of Lincoln by Daniel Day-Lewis.

The two-time Best Actor Academy Award winner has a track record of playing film characters who are larger than life. Frankly, I have found many of his performances overly theatrical, and thus somewhat distancing. But Day-Lewis, who is in nearly every scene of

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this movie, so fully embodies the character of Lincoln that it doesn’t seem like a performance at all. The viewer feels as if he is watching history unfold.

Depicting the last four months of Lincoln’s life and focused on the passage of the anti-slavery 13th Amendment in the midst of the waning days of the Civil War, the film has sweep and majesty to it but it also remains grounded. It draws attention to the gritty daily realities of a prolonged war, and reveals the messy sausagemaking business that is democracy. The story spends a lot of time on how Lincoln deftly, if inscrutably, uses his folksy image with the competing political factions to achieve his goals. Wryly, the politicians of 1860s Washington D. C. are shown to be as petty, fractious and doctrinaire as our current lot.

I was further struck by how the film reveals that the White House was, for Lincoln, not just a place of business but also a home. The parade of jumbling intersections among Lincoln’s personal life and his professional one serves as a fascinating supporting theme throughout the movie.

Lincoln is fun for the many familiar actors in it, all having a grand time with the juicy but brief bits of drama they have been given. The voluminous cast includes Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph GordonLevitt, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook and James Spader, to name a few.

As a director, Spielberg can sometimes be a bit of a sentimentalist, over-amping the drama in ways that can draw attention to the filmmaker more than the film. When he holds that impulse in check, as he did with Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List, Spielberg is capable of making films of great emotional power and substance.

He has done that with Lincoln. He has been helped in that effort by a lofty but compelling script by Kushner, as well as the searingly beautiful images of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, and the pensive score by John Williams.

One could quibble with some of the minor liberties taken with historical facts, but this is, after all, a fictional account, and Spielberg has larger ideas in mind.

Simply put, Lincoln captures both the grandeur and the humanity of one of our most revered presidents, and by doing so, becomes one of the most immersive, transcendent film-going experiences I have had in a long time.

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…And I Approve This Movie Campaigns and elections on film

By Mark Fields

The Ides of March (2011). George Clooney not only plays the suave but ruthless candidate in this taut political drama, he also directs. The film explores the painful education of a campaign staffer about the ugly truths of dirty politics. A stellar cast is led by Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

State of the Union (1948). Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are a married couple exposed to the stresses of the campaign process in this prim Frank Capra film.

Once Tracy wins the nomination, he begins to speak his own mind, much to the chagrin of his party backers.

The Best Man (1964). Two rivals for their party’s nomination—one sincere but weak, the other effectively conniving—vie for the endorsement of the former president to break a convention deadlock. A curious relic from when conventions actually decided campaign outcomes. Starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh, Laurence Harvey and Angela Lansbury are embroiled in an assassination plot during a feverish presidential campaign. Directed by John Frankenheimer, this is one of the great political thrillers of all time, and Lansbury is one of the most disturbing mothers imaginable. Remade in 2004 with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, but stick to the original.

Primary Colors (1998). A thinly veiled fictionalization of Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, drawn from the thinly fictionalized book of the same name by Joe Klein. Not especially well-made but the film has a quirky appeal as a glimpse into the personal lives of the power couple played by John Travolta and Emma Thompson.

Election (1999). The stakes of the title election are much lower as know-it-all Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) campaigns for student government president to complete her total domination of high school accomplishments. Matthew Broderick plays the hapless teacher strangely compelled to foil her plans. Directed by Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways).

We’ll be back in January with a slate of films about actually serving in office.

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Not only did the event provide a nice jolt to business, it raised more than $9,400 for breast cancer research. In four years, the event has raised more than $40,000.

“We had a great time people watching,” said Janet Barrowclough, a member of Laurie’s Breastfriends, one of the Pink Team partners working the fundraising aspect of the event. “It was very lively. And it was amazing to see people paying a $5 cover at 12:30am to get in!”

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TUESDAYS: Global Thermonuclear War: 80s Trivia with Mike and John (8-11pm)

NFL Specials Greenville: $1 off Drafts • $3 Domestic Bottles Hockessin: $2.50 Miller Lite & Yeungling Drafts & Bottles

$3 coors Light Aluminum Bottles

WEDS: Wax Wednesdays! with Todd and Miranda (8pm-mid) THURS: NEW! 80s KARAOKE!

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CENTENNIAL JURIED EXHIBITION ON VIEW THROUGH JANUARY 13, 2013

Celebrating 100 years of supporting regional visual artists, this juried exhibition features 98 diverse works of art—including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, and installation—by 97 artists living in Delaware or within 100 miles of the Museum.

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Image: The Promise We Are Given, Leads To The Burden We Become (detail), 2010. Morgan Craig. Oil on linen, 51 x 67 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.

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WHAT’S ‘IN’ FOR NOVEMBER 2012

MUSIC

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

FOOD & DRINK

NOW - THURS, NOVEMBER 4

NOW - SAT, FEBRUARY 2, 2013

NOW - SAT, FEBRUARY 9, 2013

NOV 1, 8, 15, 21 & 29, 10AM & 1PM

Anything Goes

Hagley Exhibit Honors 100 Years of the United States

Joe Girandola’s Rise & Fall: Monumental Duct Tape Drawings

Wee Have Fun Club

DuPont Theatre • 11th & Market Streets 302.656.4401 • bit.ly/T3OHzZ

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 7PM

2012 Christi Awards: Dream Chasers, Whimsy Makers

Christina Cultural Arts Center 302.652.0101 • bit.ly/T5XFln

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7PM

2nd Annual MSquerade Get Your Mask On! World Cafe Live at the Queen 500 N. Market St. • bit.ly/T3OHQg

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts 200 S. Madison Street • bit.ly/T5XF54

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3

SUN, NOV 4 - SAT, NOV 10

THURS, NOV 8 - SUN, NOV 11

OperaDelaware presents: Cavalleria rusticana/ Pagliacci

49th Annual DE Antiques Show w/ Carolyne Roehm

National Gaming Day

Woodlawn Library • 2020 W. 9th Street 302.571.7425 • bit.ly/T5XFlp

Chase Center of the Riverfront 815 Justison Street • bit.ly/T3OJI3

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 8PM

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 7PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 6PM

An Evening with John Flynn

Chef Robert Irvine Live

World Cafe Live at the Queen 500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400 bit.ly/T5XHdd

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 3PM

Up Front with FSBT

Wilmington Community Orchestra: There’s Something about Sibelius

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The Grand • 800.37.GRAND 818 N. Market Street • bit.ly/T3OHA2

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 7PM

The Grand 818 N. Market St. • 800.37.GRAND

Bellevue State Park 800 Carr Road • 302. 761.6963

Hagley Museum and Library 200 Hagley Road • bit.ly/T5XHcZ

The Music School of Delaware 4101 Washington St. • bit.ly/T5XFlA

The Art of Beer

The Grand 818 N. Market St. • 800.37.GRAND

200 S. Madison St. • bit.ly/T3OHQk

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 8PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 8PM

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Smokey Robinson The Grand 818 N. Market St. • 800.37.GRAND bit.ly/T3OHQq

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

Paula Poundstone

The Grand 818 N. Market St. • 800.37.GRAND bit.ly/T3OHQs

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ART IS IN - EXHIBITS OPENING & CLOSING THIS MONTH Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

• The Brothers Quay: Through the Weeping Glass opens November 2 302.656.6466 • 200 South Madison Street

Delaware Center For Horticulture

• The ARTsisters, Shades of Green opens November 2 • 302.658.6262 • 1810 N. DuPont St.

New Candlelight Theatre • 302.475.2313

Sunset Jazz Series - Keli Vale feat.

Nick Bucci & Al Price • The Grand

Contemporary Country - DCCA Fall Fundraiser • 302.656.6466

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH

One Dame Night of Halloween

Art Salad - Surviving the Art World: A Practical Approach w/ Alison Stigora • DCCA • 302.656.6466

Nanci Griffith and the Kennedys The Grand • 800.37.GRAND

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH

Market Street Music Thurs. Noontime Concert: Scott Davidson Trio

Cauffiel Estate Walking Tour

First & Central Presbyterian •1101 N. Market St.

Bellevue Park • 800 Carr Rd. • 302.761.6963

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts

• The Brothers Quay: Through the Weeping Glass opens November 2 302.656.6466 • 200 South Madison Street

Delaware College of Art & Design

• Photo-Lettering: Fanatically Fabricated Alphabets for the Future opens Nov 2 • 302.622.8000 • 600 N. Market St.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

• Dave Mele: Eye Suck opens November 1 302.543.7973 • 115 W. 8th Street

Somerville Manning Gallery

Lecture: Pennsylvania Railroad

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Hagley • 200 Hagley Rd. • 302.658.2400

Board Game Night & Quizzo at the Queen! every Monday

Luis J. Gomez and Dave Smith: Comedy from The Big Apple

500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH

Flight Club every Tuesday 5:30-7:30

Cooking Class • Green Room at the Hotel

Chelsea Tavern • 821 N. Market Street

Poppycock Tattoo

du Pont • 11th & Market Streets • 302.594.3154

Open Mic Night every Tuesday

Clay Date • Delaware Art Museum

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

2301 Kentmere Pkwy • 302.571.9590

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

• Peter Sculthorpe opens November 16 302.652.0271 • 101 Stone Block Row

Stache Bash benefitting Supporting Kidds Kelly's Logan House • 1701 Delaware Ave

The Station Gallery

Wilmington Friends’ "Big Ideas" Speaker Series w/ Dr. Bernice Johnson

• Michele Green: Way to the Water opens Nov 2 • 302.654.8638 • 3922 Kennett Pike

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH Family Fun: Seed Scouts • TheDCH 1810 N. DuPont St. • 302.658.6262 Wildlife Open House • DEEC

1400 Delmarva Lane • 302.656.1490

Reagon • World Cafe Live at the Queen 500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

Winterthur

David Peckham Pipe Organ POPS

Concert • Dickinson Theater Organ Society 1801 Milltown Rd. • 302.995.2603

4W5 Blues Jam! every Wednesday

• Yuletide opens November 17 800.448.3883 • 5105 Kennett Pike

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

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Big Skull • World Cafe Live at the Queen 500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

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Highway 41 Celebrating the Music of The Allman Brothers • World Cafe Live at the Queen • 500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

Thanksgiving at the Hotel du Pont Green Room • 302.594.3154

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH

Christmas Activities at Hagley daily

Peanut Butter & Jams: Lolly Hopwood & the Let’s Play Today Bunch World Cafe Live at the Queen

Shemekia Copeland • Arden Gild Hall

500 North Market Street • 302.994.1400

Junior Mance Trio • The Grand 818 N. Market St. • 800.37.GRAND

Talks • Delaware Art Museum 2301 Kentmere Pkwy • 302.571.9590

Fountains of Wayne

Oblates of St. Francis de Sales Black Tie for White Collars Gala

2126 The Highway • 302.475.3126

200 Hagley Road • 302.658.2400

The Hold-Up w/ The Future Unwritten • The Queen • 302.994.1400

Centennial Juried Exhibition Artist

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

Rhett Miller • World Cafe Live at the Queen • 500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH Annual Wilmington Jaycees Christmas Parade • Downtown Wilmington

Chase Center • 302.656.8529

Matthew Perryman Jones

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

Born Sisters Album Release Show

Spin for Jim • Bellefonte Cafe 804 Brandywine Boulevard • 302.761.9175

World Cafe Live at The Queen • 302.994.1400

Gable Music Ventures presents Wilmo Rock Circus 2012 • 20 regional artists!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11TH

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD

Bellevue Hall Tour • Bellevue State Park

World Cafe Live at The Queen • 302.994.1400

800 Carr Road • 302.761.6963

Bank of America Museums on Us Delaware Museum of Natural History 4840 Kennett Pike • 302.658.9111

Classic Albums Live - Dark Side of the Moon • The Grand• 800.37.GRAND

John Hammond • The Grand

818 North Market Street • 800.37.GRAND

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH

Music Masters: Treasured Trios & Rising Stars • The Music School of Delaware

Raccoon Rangers- Day Camp at DEEC • 1400 Delmarva Lane • 302.656.1490

CityLife Awards 2012

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

King of the Whole Wide World Elvis Tribute Show • New Castle

Mad-Sweet Pangsgiving Eve!

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH

Chase Center • 302.765.0191

Movie Screening w/ live accompaniment Dickinson Theater Organ Society • 302.995.2603

the Queen • 500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST

WVUD presents lowercaseblues

9th Annual Disability Ball

Dickinson Theater Organ Society: The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Chrisette Michele • World Cafe Live at

11th & Tatnall Streets • 302.622.8000

Art on the Town

Square • 11th & N. Market St. • 302.425.5500

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 TH

DCAD hosts free artist lecture w/ House Industries • Theatre N

2301 Kentmere Pkwy • 302.571.9590

Downtown Fall Fitness Fest • Rodney

Ron White • The Grand 818 North Market Street • 800.37.GRAND

Delaware Antiques Show Preview Party Chase Center • 800.448.3883

Art is Tasty • Delaware Art Museum

Extreme Pizza • 201 N. Market Street

Stuck on Art: A Duct Tape Experience • DCCA • 302.656.6466

Central Presbyterian • 1101 N. Market

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2 ND

N2 Wilmington w/ Nadjah Nicole

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH

Market Street Music Thursday Noontime Concert: Minas First &

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

Theatre • 2208 Millers Rd. • 302.475.2313

NRBQ • World Cafe Live at the Queen 500 N Market Street • 302.994.1400

1400 Delmarva Lane • 302.656.1490

OH BOY! A Tribute to Buddy Holly

Dead Men Don't Speakeasy- A Murder Mystery • New Candlelight

World Cafe Live at the Queen • 302.994.1400

Marsh TailsJULY 14TH SATURDAY, DuPont Environmental Education Center

Wilmington Drama League • 10 W. Lea Blvd.

302.762.1162

Various Locations Buses leave 5:45pm from the DCCA, making the last return at approx. 8:30pm 302.576.2135 • 200 S. Madison Street

Liz Longley and Barnaby Bright

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH

The Boys Next Door thru Nov 4

County Irish Society • 302.444.7624

818 North Market Street • 800.37.GRAND

4101 Washington Street • 302.762.1132

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 TH

Chris Botti • The Grand

Market Street Music Thurs. Noontime Concert: Wilmington Handbell Ensemble First & Central Presbyterian •1101 N. Market St.

818 North Market Street • 800.37.GRAND

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH The Native Peoples Of Delaware: Indian Cultures And History

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH The Melton Brothers Band w/ Alfie Moss • The Queen • 302.994.1400

Woodlawn Library • 2020 W. 9th Street

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH

61 North • World Cafe Live at the Queen

Flower Arranging: Happy Harvest

500 N. Market St. • 302.994.1400

TheDCH • 1810 N. DuPont St. • 302.658.6262

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club meetings and social functions. The building also houses the college’s first dining hall, which boasts meal plans to suit just about every taste and dietary need.

In addition, the building’s retail space fronting Market Street, the former home of Braunstein’s department store, houses Jerry’s Artarama, a nationally known art supply store. Baron says he’s wanted to bring a fine-art supply store to downtown Wilmington for years, adding that the nearest is in Philadelphia.

“There are surprises when you go into an art supply store,” he says. “For artists, it’s like a 5-year-old in FAO Schwarz.”

Mayor James M. Baker feels the site’s transformation will be a boon to both the art community and the city.

“I’ve always proposed that the more students we have in the downtown area living and going to school, the better off our city,” he says. “All major cities, if you look at their vibrancy, it’s because they have colleges in their downtown areas.”

Martin Hageman, executive director of Downtown Visions, agrees. “I think it’s a great opportunity for existing businesses to fill the needs of these students and for new businesses to supply products and services,” he says.

Thanks to the new dormitory, more than 150 DCAD students will be living downtown this year.

Previously, first-year students occupied The Saville, at 521 N. King St. Second-year students were scattered in apartments the college leased from downtown

A former downtown hotel becomes an upscale dorm for first-year DCAD students property owners. The new residence hall not only saves DCAD money because it no longer has to lease those apartments, but it allows second-year students to live in The Saville, fostering plenty of interaction between the two residences.

“The second-year students are coming over and hanging out,” says second-year graphic design student Caitlyn Burke, 21, a resident assistant at 707.

“All the residents are starting to get to know each other.”

Baron expects the new digs to be a major recruiting tool, and first-year students seem to agree. “They just talk about how wonderful it is,” he says. “It was a lot of fun to be around here when they were moving in.”

Take Aliyah Pair, for instance. “Being an ‘art kid,’ you need your space, and we’re not cramped together,” says the 19-year-old interior design student from Richmond, Va. “I send pictures (to my friends) and they’re like ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’”

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ou could say Stuart Baron is a leader with a vision. The kind of leader who doesn’t rest on yesterday’s accomplishments.

So when he saw a notice for a sheriff’s sale on the former Brandywine Suites Hotel, he didn’t just see another failed business but an opportunity -- the chance to grow both the school he’s helmed for more than three years and the city it calls home. “[The hotel] closed about 2 ½ years ago and I’ve had my eye on it ever since I got here,” says the president of the Delaware College of Art and Design. “I knew that we needed eventually to expand our dormitory space and not just depend on [leasing] apartments.”

DCAD purchased the property at 707 N. King St. in November 2011. Funding for the $4.2 million project was acquired through ING Direct, M&T Bank, and the City of Wilmington, which provided a $500,000 forgivable loan from its capital budget. In January, Buccini/Pollin began work on the renovations to turn the building into a dormitory.

photos by Joe del Tufo

“The schedule was probably the most challenging aspect of the job because the building had been abandoned for a few years.” says Jamie Unkefer, principal at Digsau, the Philadelphia architectural firm for the restoration project.

He says the previous owners had left in such a hurry that there were still plates of food on the premises. The building also had sustained a lot of water damage, and many of the building’s electrical and plumbing systems had to be replaced.

Despite these challenges, renovations were completed in time for first-year students to move in on Aug. 25, and the school held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 20. The dormitory will be called “707” until DCAD can decide on a more formal designation, says Baron.

The new residence hall is a far cry from the traditional cinder-block dorm rooms that are barely big enough to fit a TV, a desk and a mini-refrigerator. The 46 studio-style suites feature a designated study space and a bedroom as well as a private, granite bathroom and a separate sink with counter and cabinet space. The first floor has office and meeting spaces that are set up for studying, student

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Unsung Heroes To Be Honored Wilmington Renaissance honors community standouts

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ach year, the CityLife Awards recognize a distinct group of unsung heroes in Wilmington for their contributions to the community in five categories.

“The nominations highlight some of the great individuals and partners throughout the community and the work they are doing,” says Carrie W. Gray, WRC managing director.

“The selection committee was impressed with the variety of nominations for this year’s awards and it made their decision difficult.

The winners are definitely very deserving individuals, organizations and partnerships. It is our honor to celebrate their achievements.”

The awards ceremony will take place Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 5:30 p.m. at the World Cafe Live at the Queen. Attendees will enjoy classic Sinatra sounds from Sean Reilly, great Motown grooves of DJ Mech, hors d’oeuvres, select beer and wine, and an exciting silent auction along with the awards presentation.

Past CLA winners Hal Real, president and CEO World Cafe Live and Real World Entertainment, and John Hawkins, president and CEO, ab+c creative intelligence, are the event’s honorary co-chairs.

Complimentary parking for the event will be available in the Renaissance Center Garage on 5th Street adjacent to World Cafe Live.

Enter 5th Street from either North Market or King streets.

Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at 2012cla.eventbrite.com.

For more information, call 425-5500 or visit downtownwilmington.com.

This year’s Unsung Heroes are: Wilmingtonian of the Year: Hon. James M. Baker James M. Baker became the first mayor in Wilmington history to be elected to a third four-year term. He was elected to Wilmington’s City Council as a district councilman in 1972.

In 1984, he became the first African-American elected Council president—a position he held until his election as mayor in 2001, making him the longest-serving Council president in Wilmington history. Throughout his career,

Mayor Baker has remained a champion of “open government,” helping citizens understand the processes of city government.

He has been honored with more than 200 awards for community service and has played a key role in a number of projects to preserve and promote the city’s heritage. The mayor is also the author of The Genuine American Music, a two-volume encyclopedia that tells the story of black music in America through text, rare photos and original illustrations.

Entrepreneur of the Year: Jack and Gemma Buckley Ninth Street Book Shop’s Jack and Gemma Buckley have been active community members and entrepreneurs for more than 35 years.

They have been dedicated to the revitalization of downtown Wilmington, even when others did not support that vision. When faced with the possibility of closing Ninth Street Book Shop, they chose to stay downtown. Jack and Gemma represent the passion that all city entrepreneurs should have. They believe in Wilmington and continue working to make it an even greater city.

Partnership of the Year: JPMorgan Chase; Food Bank of DE; Eastside Community School JPMorgan Chase has had a long-time commitment to serving the communities in which it does business. The corporation is committed to meeting the basic needs of city residents. Through a partnership with the Food Bank of Delaware, Children and Families First, Christina School District, the Wilmington Grand Prix, and World Vision, JPMorgan provides much-needed resources to children in three Christina School District schools within the district’s Partnership Zone, which was created to improve academic proficiency for a large percentage of students.

JPMorgan has also provided resources to implement new programs to meet children’s nutritional needs. In partnership with the Food Bank of Delaware and Children and Families First, JPMorgan recently donated $100,000 to address childhood hunger. The

grant allowed the Food Bank of Delaware, in partnership with Children and Families First and the Christina School District, to support three new school food pantries at the Eastside Community School, serving Bancroft, ElbertPalmer and Stubbs Elementary Schools, and provided hundreds of students with weekend food through the Food Bank’s Backpack Program. Through the school pantry program, school officials discretely identify 25 to 30 at-risk families with students enrolled at the three schools, enabling them to access emergency food and hygiene products.

Neighborhood of the Year: 2nd & LOMA There were many doubters when Mike Schwartz bought the residential and commercial property on North Market Street between 2nd and 3rd streets in Wilmington.

Mike and his team had a vision—one that included restaurants, retail and arts-driven businesses. They started by turning down traditional businesses that could have easily afforded a higher rent. Instead they invited more entrepreneurial businesses, people who did not necessarily have the pocketbooks, but had vision, ambition and, most important, compassion for their neighbors. These entrepreneurs were the key to success.

In two years, 2nd & LOMA has become the hottest block in Wilmington, with a vibrant mix of food, music, arts and entertainment and retail, drawing a whirlwind of beauty, creativity and companionship, including Extreme Pizza, Film Brothers Movie Co-op, Bloomsberry Flowers, Zaikka Indian Grill and LOMA Coffee.

Rising Star; Michael Kalmbach Michael Kalmbach is the 2009 Recipient of the Christi Award, recognizing significant achievement to preserve, advocate and present art and cultural programs to the Delaware community. Michael is the founder of Creative Vision Factory, located on Shipley Street between 7th and 6th. The organization provides a safe, creative environment for people who are often marginalized. Daily, men and women (primarily men) create visual art, set up businesses in the creative industry, and examine their past trauma in order to assist their recovery and improve their lives.

Michael provides this service, funded via the Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, with great ingenuity, compassion, respect and resourcefulness. Michael was previously employed by the Delaware College of Art & Design in the Admissions Office and is the Founder of the New Wilmington Area Artists Association. He worked with and was mentored by the late Chris White, the primary force behind Shipley Lofts, Wilmington’s first artist housing initiative.

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Cornucopia OF MUSIC

By Michelle Kramer-Fitzgerald

As holidays creep closer, it’s hard to tear yourself away for the sake of “ArtStuff,” but this is a time when you should. Music is plentiful in November, giving you more choices than a Thanksgiving dinner spread.

Start with a traditional taste (classical), add some fancy “dressing” (blues and jazz), carve out a big meaty slice (rock), and top that off with something decadent (musicals, rock musicals -- you name it).

By Michelle Kramer-Fitzgerald If you’re already full, take a nap. If not, check these out: Jazz artists Ben Williams and Sound Effect with Gerald Clayton make a special appearance at Christina Cultural Arts Center as part of the evening of the 2012 Christi Awards (Friday, Nov. 2). iTunes named Williams its Jazz Breakthrough Artist for 2011, so come out and catch one of the country’s hottest new jazz musicians.

Tickets are available at ccacde.org or by calling 652-0101.

World Café Live shakes it up throughout the month with everything from O BOY! A tribute to Buddy Holly (Thursday, Nov. 1); to rock with Fountains of Wayne (Friday, Nov. 2); to folk singersongwriter Liz Longley (Saturday, Nov. 17); and hip-hop and R&B songstress Chrisette Michele (Monday, Nov. 19). Get your tickets at queentickets.worldcafelive.com.

Market Street Music expands the multi-genre game as well with Latin fusion ensemble Minas (Thursday, Nov. 8), a stunning and powerful performance by Grant Youngblood, baritone, and Jeffrey Miller, pianist (Sunday, Nov. 11) and the folksy, world music mix of the Scott Davidson Trio (Thursday, Nov. 15). Tickets are available at marketstreetmusic.org.

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The Music School of Delaware hosts two excellent classical performances this month. First up is the season debut of the Wilmington Community Orchestra with “There’s Something About Sibelius” (Sunday, Nov. 18). Although this is an amateur orchestra, the sound is pro all the way, ably led by conductor Dr. Timothy Schwarz. Later, the Music Masters Series “Treasured Trios & Rising Stars” (Wednesday, Nov. 28) features works by Beethoven, noted Music School faculty artists and even some young student musicians. Tickets are only $10; get them by calling 762-1132.

The Grand Opera House is jazz central this month, as it welcomes back trumpet virtuoso Chris Botti (Monday, Nov. 12).

The musical party continues with the hit Sunset Jazz Series (Wednesday, Nov. 14), this time featuring Keli Vale with Nick Bucci and Al Price. You can always get good seats by visiting ticketsatthegrand.org.

City Theater Company opens its season with another “bloody good” rowdy, raucous performance: Bat Boy, The Musical. The dark musical comedy is based on a tabloid story of a half-man/ half-bat found in a cave and subsequently “mainstreamed” into society. Sick stuff, but full of funny. CTC’s killer duo of director Michael Gray and music director Joe Trainor (think Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson style fun) will rock The Black Box at OperaDelaware again at month’s end (Friday, Nov. 30, through Saturday, Dec. 15).

Get your tickets now at city-theater.org.

Finally, the circus comes back to town, in the form of Gable Music’s second annual Wilmo Rock Circus (Saturday, Nov. 24) at World Café Live at the Queen. This all-night musical romp showcases more than 20 bands on three stages. Acts from Pittsburgh and Baltimore are interspersed with local faves like The Bullbuckers, New Sweden and The Joe Trainor Trio.

Your table is set for a musical banquet this month! Enjoy…not in moderation. Want more ArtStuff ? Follow me @ArtsinMedia!

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Clockwise from top: Body X-tended, Dr. Dirt, Melissa Dammeyer and Dylan Geringer from City Theatre’s Fearless Improv and First State Ballet Theater’s 21st Century Ballet, Walpurgis Night. photos by Joe del Tufo

Taking it to The Fringe Annual festival fills downtown with eclectic mix of performers

By Krista Connor

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he fourth annual Fringe Wilmington Festival was an amalgam of 251 performers, artists, and filmmakers, two art installations, and one free workshop—spread over the last five days of September. The event featured national, regional and local talent who performed at the Baby Grand, World Café Live, and Delaware College of Art and Design, to name a few of the 14 downtown venues.

Some 3,000 tickets were sold during the festival. Director of communications Rich Neumann says the dance performances continued to be among the best-selling shows, which included acts from two local companies—First State Ballet Theatre and Pieces of a Dream, Inc. The filmmaking competition attracted large crowds, as did Film Brothers Festival of Shorts. Some of the more popular acts included the Body X-Tended—a fashion experience celebrating “un-sameness”—magician Randy Shine, and SCO Productions’ “Another Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein,” which included offbeat, humorous vignettes.

Neumann and festival co-founder Tina Betz were inspired to create the festival in 2009 by the international fringe theater movement. They wanted to provide a similar experience for Delaware’s artists and audiences.

“We wanted to create a supportive environment for local and visiting artists to explore new ideas in performance art,” Neumann says. “We also wanted to provide local audiences with entertainment that was provocatively different from what is typically presented in Delaware—we’ve succeeded on both accounts.”

Next year, Neumann says, he hopes to foster new partnerships with local and visiting arts organizations, and will continue to push the event to the limit.

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25. Timothy’s Restaurant, timothysontheriverfront.com Molly’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream, mollysicecream.com Ubon Thai Restaurant 26. Wilmington Rowing Center, wilmingtonrowing.org 27. Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge/ DuPont Environmental Education Center, duponteec.org 28. DART Park-n-Ride Lot

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NOVEMBER

RIVERFRONT EVENTS Independent Resources, Inc. presents: The 9th Annual Disability Ball

November 2, 6pm Join us for a fabulous night of Dinner, Dancing, Door Prizes and more!!

This magical night will also include: Drawing for King and Queen, 50-50 Cash Drawing, Raffles and more!

Chase Center on the Riverfront iri-de.org/disabilityball.html Art on the Town

November 2, 5-9pm Art on the Town is a great way to view the exhibitions in our galleries and visit the artist studios during our extended gallery hours. Opening: Freak Antique with various artists, and Alison Cannon fiber arts in Alternatives Museum Shop Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Thedcca.org 4th Annual Delaware Futures 5k

November 3 Benefits Delaware Futures Registration begins at 8am Race begins at 9am Joe’s Crab Shack races2run.com

Contemporary Country Fall Fundraiser

November 3, 3-7pm It’s time to don your cowboy hat & boots and strut on down to the DCCA for a fantastic evening of Art Auctions, Silent Auctions, music, and classic American cuisine prepared by our premiere caterer Jimmy Duffy’s.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts thedcca.org/content/contemporarycountry Marsh Trails

November 8, 10-11:30 am Let’s play show and tail! Count the rings on the raccoon tail, feel the fluff of the red fox and listen to a fishy tale. Make a tail of your own and show off your animal side.

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org

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49th Annual Delaware Antiques Show Opening Night Party

Raccoon Rangers- Day Camp at DEEC

November 8, 6pm Celebrate the opening of the Delaware Antiques Show with cocktails, live music, and exclusive early shopping!

Meet and mingle with committee members, fellow collectors, and more than 60 exceptional dealers.

Chase Center on the Riverfront winterthur.org/das

November 12, 8-5 pm Spend your day exploring the mammals of DEEC. Look for animal tracks and preserve them with plaster. Touch animal furs and hike through the marsh to look for evidence of beaver, raccoons and white tail deer and more!

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org

Environmental Book Club

6th Girls on the Run Delaware Fall 5k

November 8, 6-7:30pm Join a lively discussion of selected books relating to our natural world. The current selection is Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild by Renee Askins.

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org 49th Annual Delaware Antiques Show

November 9-11, Show Hours Vary.

Antiques take center stage as 60 of the country’s most distinguished dealers showcase American furniture, paintings, rugs, porcelain, silver, jewelry, and decorative arts at one of the nation’s top shows.

Chase Center on the Riverfront winterthur.org/das

Parents Night Out-Nocturnal Animals

November 9, 6:30-8:30pm Set mom and dad loose to have dinner along Wilmington’s Riverfront while you stay at DEEC and have all the fun with games, a scavenger hunt and an evening hike. Dinner provided.

Parents receive a discount coupon for Timothy’s Riverfront Grill.

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org Boardwalk Birding for Beginners

November 10, 10-11:30 am Discover the basics of birding and examine our fine feathered friends up close. Examine bird bones, feathers and nests. Play a bird beak game and make a snack for you and the birds!

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org Oblates of St. Francis de Sales 17th Annual Black Tie for White Collars Gala

November 10, 7pm This is a fun filled evening with cocktails, dinner, dancing, live auctions and more!

Chase Center on the Riverfront oblates.org/development/ events/blacktie/index.php

November 13 Registration begins at 8:30am Race begins at 9:30am Dravo Plaza races2run.com The Art of Beer

November 15, 6-9pm An evening of Fordham beer with food pairings by Jimmy Duffy’s. Learn the art of craft beers and the artisanal process to create them. Register by phone: 302-656-6466 x 7103 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts thedcca.org Wildlife Open House

November 17, 11-2 pm Meet face to face live animals that are found in our marsh and throughout Delaware. Walk with a naturalist through the refuge and take home a wild craft to remember your visits.

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org Collabagala

November 17, 7pm Delaware charities will be collaborating for a purpose... and a party! Join us as we honor 10 deserving Delaware charities in a James Bond 007-themed gala, full of gourmet food, live entertainment, a Casino Royale, silent auction, and more.

Chase Center on the Riverfront collabagala.com Treasure Hunters

November 23, 10-12pm Experience a modern day treasure hunt along the Christina River! Geocaching is a worldwide game of hiding and seeking, a cache of riches using a global positioning system. After a GPS tutorial, awaken your inner pirate to find a series of geocaches hidden along Wilmington’s Riverwalk.

DuPont Environmental Education Center Duponteec.org Inaugural Gratitude 5k

November 25, 9am Benefits Limen House Registration begins at 9am Race begins at 10am Dravo Plaza races2run.com

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ilmington Renaissance Corporation (WRC) will bring the 2012 Downtown Fall Fitness Fest to Rodney Square on Saturday, Nov. 3, from noon to 3 p.m. This year, the family-friendly event will emphasize the importance and benefit of health and wellness while promoting family activities.

“One exciting part of the Downtown Fall Fest is that children representing a school or non-profit organization can participate in the AZ Challenge sponsored by AstraZeneca for a chance to win a $500 cash prize for that school or organization,” says Carrie W. Gray, WRC managing director. “The group that has the most participants complete the challenge will win $500. It’s a really unique way to have children explore the many healthy activities throughout the event and see that staying fit can be fun.”

During the event, families can participate in many sports activities, such as Zumba, lacrosse, cycling, basketball, tennis and soccer, as well as other activities such as a moon bounce, hayride, and obstacle course. In addition, the festival will feature three hours of free, live music by area teen bands presented by Accent Rock School. The bands performing are Deff Llama, Crash Course, Moment of Truth, the Remnants and Wicked Wayz. Everyone attending receive coupons for downtown merchants and restaurants to enjoy shopping or dining in Downtown Wilmington.

The event is sponsored in part by the Christiana Care Health System, City of Wilmington, DuPont, Highmark Delaware, Out & About Magazine, Downtown Visions, Herr Foods Inc., the Grand Opera House and ShopRite. downtownwilmington.com.

STAFF PICKS Every month we feature a few of the staff ’s favorite happenings in the city. Our favorites for November: Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts: Through the Weeping Glass exhibit opens Friday, Nov 2. Timothy and Stephen Quay are American-born stop-motion animators whose latest film brings to life the medical history and intrigue behind the Mutter Museum’s collection of 19th century scientific anomalies. thedcca.org/ exhibit/through-weeping-glass.

City Theater Company BatBoy: The Musical November 30–December 15 The Black Box @ OperaDE

Half-man/half-bat, found in a cave...can he live among us?

A dark comedy!

Tix: city-theater.org

Market Street Music Festival Concert: Grant Youngblood, baritone & Jeffrey Miller, pianist at First & Central Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Nov. 11, 3 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $15 online; $20 at the door. Youngblood will sing a host of exciting and lyrical music, including Copland’s Old American Songs, opera arias, and songs of today and yesteryear. marketstreetmusicde.org/category/festival-concerts.

The 49th Annual Wilmington Jaycees Christmas Parade will be held on Saturday, Nov. 24, at 3 p.m. in Downtown Wilmington. This year’s Parade will again feature local celebrities as well as marching and String bands, community organizations, floats and attractions, statewide pageant winners, favorite cartoon characters and the Star of the Show—Santa Claus! Elves will be accepting Christmas wish lists from children for Santa. Children who provide their name and address will receive a response from Santa in December. wilmingtonjaycees.com/parade_info.htm.

Gable Music Ventures, in association with Planet Ten Multimedia, presents the second annual Wilmo Rock Circus. This year’s expanded festival features more than 20 of the region’s finest bands on Saturday, Nov. 24, on both stages at World Cafe Live at the Queen. Downstairs Live will host the Big Top Stage, the Festival’s main attraction. Between sets on the main stage, short sets from acoustic acts on the balcony’s Sideshow Stage will be projected downstairs on the big screen, keeping the music going non-stop between main stage acts. Meanwhile, Upstairs Live is home to the High Wire Stage, featuring ten of the area’s best up-and-coming rock and alternative bands. Tickets $15 online or $17 at the door. wilmorockcircus.com.

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Market Street Music presents Minas Thursday, Nov. 8 • 12:30pm First & Central Presbyterian 1101 N. Market Street

Brazilian jazz, samba & bossa nova at its best!

Tix: Pay what you can!

marketstreetmusicde.com

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