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Live Local Live Small

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here has to be at least one big box store you like, right?” People ask me this all the time, as if the possibility that I don’t is just beyond comprehension.

When my pledge to exclusively shop local began, my ground rules were: No big-box stores, no Internet shopping, no chain restaurants. I successfully completed my goals over two years ago— better yet, I haven’t stopped. It’s inspired an entirely new way of living and connecting to my community, while helping maximize my economical contribution.

I always find it interesting that people seem to think I “stocked up” before launching Live Local. Often times, they think I desperately waited for the year to end so I could go to Target.

Alas, I still haven’t bought anything at Target since—sorry.

Probably the biggest “chain” I have to visit is Harris Teeter. While my personal household groceries are bought at Tidal Creek Co-op, I have to tend to Daddy’s needs, too, which require items from a larger grocer. Still, I have felt OK with Harris Teeter, in that at least they’re headquartered in Matthews, NC. Though, according to local foodie mag Devour, they won’t be changing headquarters or staff with their current merger with Kroger, an Ohio-based grocer, I suppose I’ll need to change over to Food Lion to keep within my “mileage requirement”—if not available locally, then regionally or at least within our state. Food Lion has headquarters in Salisbury, NC, so it fits the latter.

Any how, these conversations come up over and over again in my life; it’s just how it is.

After more than four years of writing about living local, people realize I spend a tremendous amount of time contemplating my shopping. It’s always a good fallback for conversation when my friends, bookstore customers or community acquaintances have exhausted

the weather.

Last week, my puppy collided with my laptop during a thunderstorm. Actually, it wasn’t the part where the puppy hit the laptop that caused the machine to die.

It happened as an immediate consequence of their collision—when the laptop hit the floor. So, I am trying to remedy this unexpected problem, figuring out how I am going to acquire a replacement laptop—and keep within my local requirements.

A couple of days ago my friend, Brandy, in an effort to be helpful, mentioned how Walmart had laptops on sale for back-to-school…

I shook my head immediately. “I can’t shop at Walmart.”

She understood what I meant, and so we moved on to other possibilities.

No matter how bleak the options, Walmart remains bleakest in my world. So much so, I associate it with being trapped in a Dickens novel.

From local research, I did find that Bilzi Mac Consulting (251 S. Kerr Avenue) sells used Apple products, while Your Computer Friends (3816 Oleander Drive) sells both new laptop PCs and re-manufactured items. It’s certainly nice to know about these local options.

Of course, any purchase of a computer is, in my book, a morally compromised choice regardless of the shop which sells it. Just by virtue of the coltan used to manufacture consumer electronics, the footprint left behind haunts me. One of the first Live Local columns of 2013 explored the question raised by a thought-provoking website, slaveryfootprint.org.

They offer a survey for folks to track: “How Many Slaves Work For You?” I got a tremendous response from this column—almost as much as the piece about buying a bedspread a few weeks ago. (Admission: I am not sure what to make of that comparative data, but apparently

Computer shopping guilt and made-in-USA plea By: Gwenyfar Rohler

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COLTAN MINING: In the Congo, miners are subjected to harsh conditions with little pay to mine coltan, a mineral used to build modern-day technology.

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couples’ sleeping arrangements and guilt are more closely linked than I had realized.)

One of the specific topics addressed in the “Slavery Footprint” column remained on coltan mining. For those unaware, coltan is a mineral primarily used in the manufac-turing of electronics (cell phones, computgers, e-readers, etc.). It comprises tantalite tand niobium, which in world politics teachees us comes from Africa. Why does that tmatter? It’s the key player in the war zone .of the Congo. The environmental and hu-man devastation caused by the mining of rcoltan is horrific. People are literally forced pto stand in pits and mine so our modern -electronic world keeps functioning. Rarely -are the miners paid well, if at all, and the high prices the coltan commands lines the tpockets of their exploiters.

People trying to finance a war in Africa find it has great potential. I, however, feel such complicity and guilt about participatIing in this ruthless exploitation of people and planet that I can barely articulate how dthe guilt wrecks my soul. Every time I pcheck my e-mail, I am thoughtlessly profiting from human suffering and environmenetal disaster. It’s like the modern equivalent -of owning a Volkswagen or buying an IBM sproduct in 1944. . I struggle so hard to not let my life be scontrolled by the unnecessary “buy-in” aswpects of our culture: smartphones, iPods, ye-readers. Hell, I still don’t have a “real” TV, by most people’s standards; it’s just boxy with rabbit ears, and signals PBS— and that’s on a good day when the police

helicopter isn’t circling our neighborhood breaking up the transmitter waves.

No matter how much I fight against the technology, there are some realities I cannot escape. Being a writer means I have to own a computer. No editor accepts handwritten columns or type-written hard copies to which she has to transcribe. No matter how angry I am about coltan and how terrible I feel about computer ownership, my business, too, wouldn’t function. The endless amount of inventory and financial upkeep of the bookstore maintains itself on computer software.

I have spent weeks pondering a way around buying a new computer. It is impossible. But that doesn’t mean we have to accept the conditions of computer manufacturing as a foregone conclusion. We can still advocate for American-made computers. Indeed Apple announced they will return a very small amount of their manufacturing to the U.S. this year.

If I had the ears of these techies, my pitch would go something like this: humanely manufactured computers and electronic products, made with fairly mined and acquired coltan, and assembled in unionized factories using made-in-America parts. Tagline: “Certified Free of Slavery and Exploitation.”

It might sound crazy. Call me a dreamer, but I am not the only one. Thousands of people standing in damp pits with guns at their backs, and thousands more working 14hour days in factories that look like prisons might just be dreaming the same dream.

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Winging it in Wilmington:

New encore intern details life adjustments from Ireland to southeast America By: Fiona O’Sullivan

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ne thing about visiting a different country, or in my case living here for the year, is it gives me the opportunity to try new things I normally wouldn’t. There’s a common thread of outdoor activities in the places I’ve traveled to not often available at home, some of which are in the form of watersports.

Living by the beach, of course, relegates such activity.

Whilst Ireland does have great surfing off its northwest coas, it’s very weather-dependent.

Normal temps are ??, and ?? in summer. Because North Carolina generally has good weather during summer, water sports here are more accessible and popular. When my friend threw out the suggestion to try paddleboarding, I thought, “Sure! May as well give it a go!” Paddle-boarding in Ireland is a new sport.

I thought trying it here would offer me a chance to join that small but growing number of enthusiasts back home.

This adventure started with a trip to Carolina Beach for the night, which was another reason to go—a change in scenery always does one good. So, out of work on Tuesday, I headed straight toward the beach. By no means is this a regular occurrence for me, but it is something I could easily get used to.

I’m not one for getting into the ocean because I’m very wary of jelly fish and other marine life. Carolina Beach’s water isn’t really clear, which is not such a bad thing considering I couldn’t see the nasty critters swimming.

On a hot early evening, I braved the ocean to discover it wasn’t freezing like back home. It’s been years since I’ve swam in the sea, so I suppose you could say I was like a fish out of water.

I got hit in the face by practically every wave.

Rudely awoken by my alarm clock the next morning, 7 sharp, I couldn’t decide if paddleboarding was worth losing a couple of extra zzz’s. But, as the saying goes: YOLO. Expecting the cool morning air to awake me, it was really warm out to be so early. I wondered if there are ever cool moments in this state. In Ireland at 7a.m. I can usually see my breath in the air!

Per the humid South, it got hotter when we arrived at the Intracoastal Waterway with the Silvagni Surf School. Everything was set up, and safety and instructions had been covered.

It was time to hit the water. I don’t know why I thought I would be good at this. Everyone made it look so easy, but I was “paddy-last.” I found it

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challenging to even stand on the board. Aware of the fact I had to get a taxi home, I was determined not to fall in; the place didn’t appear to have a restroom nearby to change clothes.

It took a few tries to get on my feet, and I felt like Bambi learning how to walk! After spending the first 10 minutes kneeling on the board (praying to the big man upstairs not to fall in), eventually I managed to stand up straight. Despite the fact my legs turned to jelly, relief set in from simply standing. I am sure I provided a hilarious sight for the instructor, who stayed behind with me at a very slow pace. Passersby looked up every now and again when I screamed in a panic over my too-wobbly board. Déjà vu set in; it felt similar to the kayaking trip over July 4th.

Even though the lesson lasted only an hour, paddling along in the humidity felt like a workout. Admittedly, I was more than half-tempted to fall off the board in an effort to cool down.

Of course, everyone else caught on quickly, like ducks to water; I seemed to be in a category of my own. The route was only a short distance; although, I couldn’t really tell you of any scenery. Every time I turned my head to look, the paddle shook uncontrollably.

On the way back, I finally got the hang of it, so I thought. I found myself constantly heading toward the boats aligned along the harbor. No matter how much I tried, I paddled in the opposite direction. One of the instructors laughed often, explaining a barely noticeable breeze kept me off course. By the time we docked, I was exhausted. As short as the hour venture was, it was long enough for me. At home, I have only seen people paddle-board in the sea. For those who can do it, all I can say is: Fair play!

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Tomorrow is Now: Or is it tomorrow is yesterday?

By: Mark Basquill

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ere, in the dog days of dignity, McCrory’s wayback machine is at Warp 9 in reverse. It’s easy to forget that 2013 is the 50th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt’s powerful ode to human rights and human dignity: “Tomorrow is Now!” Eleanor had a mind distinctly her own. She irrevocably changed the role of First Lady. Truman appointed her the United States first representative to the United Nations. She crafted the UN Declaration of Human Rights at a time when people in power, guys like me, were ushering many working women back to being barefoot and pregnant.

Guys like me?

Yep, middle-aged American heterosexual white males. You can find us at the top of most power pyramids—not bad for a specialinterest group that statistically comprises less than 36 percent (and shrinking) of the U.S. population—and far less of the world’s population.

I’m fine with my white blend of races, my gender, my sexuality, my country, even my age. Intelligent, caring, heterosexual, American white males have contributed as much to learning, art and science as any other special-interest group. Some of us can even jump. But I also recognize the instant dignity, the accident, of being born a white male in our culture affords—maybe that’s because I’m also first born.

From the time my parents smiled in the afterglow, chance stacked the deck in favor of my reasonable material success. America’s most damaging lie is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed at everything.

In reality, family traditions, inheritance laws, and unwritten rules of most Western cultures give me the right to fail from the top down. To survive, all I have to do is play by the rules.

Of course, I can’t play by the rules without a wink and a nod to the fundamental absurdities that the cultural deck of cards we pretend is a meritocracy is so blatantly stacked in my favor. Guys like Mitt Romney, Pat McCrory and Thom Goolsby don’t want others to see that; they are blind to it themselves. If they opened their eyes, they’d have to tradein their party’s elephant for a dinosaur. It’s only a matter of time before seeing a white male at the top of 90 percent of social power

pyramids is a thing of the past.

But isn’t sexism a thing of the past?

Last election cycle Paul Ryan opened my eyes to the deeper cultural currents of sexism. I posted a comment below a news article about Mr. Ryan’s blatant marathontime lie. Here are three replies to what I thought was a benign comment on deception in politics: 1. “Fat sluts should be seen and not heard.

No they shouldn’t even be seen!”

2. “Who let the dogs out?”

3. “You run? You lying fat lib-tart! Run into the kitchen and get me a beer-“B****!”

At first I didn’t get it.

Then, I realized I posted my comment from one of my wife’s accounts. The things otherwise bright people say behind the cloaking device of online anonymity often illuminates their darkness and where the culture really is on an issue.

I think about Mr. Ryan when the McCrory administration guts services in healthcare, mental health, unemployment and education.

Even assuming noble intent, the consequences of the cuts will be to reverse the progress in women’s rights we have made since Eleanor Roosevelt donned an earlier generation’s pink hoodie.

Eleanor would also be curious about our uterine obsession. No one is pro-abortion.

However, when women, through their own agency choose not to have a child they cannot care for, they and society benefit. When ruggedly individualistic men fail to responsibly raise their children, they devastate a community. Whether they wave the flag or raise a crucifix, they demonstrate they truly have no allegiance to anything greater than themselves. The inconvenient truth is that irresponsible fathering is a crime against humanity, a mortal sin if there be one. Every time the “abortion issue” gets raised, I wonder whether men that don’t have the cojones to raise their children really need cojones.

But let’s not probe men’s responsibility, moral compass, or private parts in such intrusive and shrivelingly personal terms. Let’s keep teaching, “Boys will be boys!” and not, “A man’s place is in the home.” Let’s manup, seal shut the cracks in our many glass ceilings, legislate women’s medical and moral choices, slide the vaginal probe into women, and call them names. “Hey, babe! Jiggle them things in here with my beer!”

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LEAD STORY Government in Action The National Security Agency is a “supercomputing powerhouse,” wrote ProPublica. org in July, with “machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second” but apparently it has no ability to bulk-search its own employees’ official emails. Thus, ProPublica’s Freedom of Information Act demand for a seemingly simple all-hands search was turned down in July with the NSA informing ProPublica that the best it could do would be to go one-by-one through the emails of each of the agency’s 30,000 employees which would be prohibitively expensive. (ProPublica reported that companywide searches are “common” for large corporations, which must respond to judicial subpoenas and provide information for their own internal investigations.)

Recurring Themes To commemorate its 500th “deep brain stimulation” surgery in May, UCLA Medical Center live-Tweeted its operation on musician Brad Carter, 39, during which he was required to strum his guitar and sing so that surgeons would know where in his brain to plant the electrical stimulator that would relieve his Parkinson’s disease symptoms.

Carter had developed hand tremors in 2006, but the stimulator, once it is properly programed and the surgery healed, is expected to reduce his symptoms, restore some guitar-playing ability, and reduce his medication need. (And, yes, patients normally remain conscious during the surgery.)

Firefighters are not infrequently called on to extricate adventurous men from sex toys, but one “armor-plat(ed)” device, six inches in diameter, into which the 51-year-old German entrapped himself in July in Ibiza, Mallorca, was especially challenging, according to the Diario de Mallorca newspaper, and took two hours and a dose of anesthesia toward the end. The saw blade the emergency workers used wore out during the rescue and had to be replaced, along with two sets of batteries.

The man was kept overnight at Can Misses hospital, but was otherwise OK. Americans stage dog shows, and MiddleEasterners stage camel beauty contests, and in June, the annual German Holstein Show took over the city of Oldenburg, with the two-day event won by “Loh Nastygirl,” topping bovine beauties from Germany, Luxembourg and Austria. The event is also a showcase for the cow hairdressers, who trim cows’ leg and belly hair (to better display their veins). Said one dresser, “It is just like with us people primping helps.”

Groomed or not, cows with powerful legs, bulging udders and a strong bone structure are the favorites.

Fruit of any kind retails for outlandish prices in Japan, but some, such as Yubari cantaloupes, are so prestigious that they are often presented as gifts to friends or colleagues, and it was only mildly surprising that a pair of the melons sold in May for the equivalent of about

$15,700 at auction at the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market. The melons appeared to be perfect specimens, with their T-shaped stalk still attached. The record melon-pair price, set in 2008, is about $24,500 measured at today’s exchange rate.

Still Unclear on the Concept: Briar MacLean, 13, of Calgary, Alberta, was reprimanded by school officials in May (and then also lost an appeal) after he stepped between two students because one, holding a knife, was bullying the other. The vice principal appeared to regard Briar’s action as equal to that of the bully, telling Briar’s mother later that the school does not “condone heroics,” and that it was “beside the point” that Briar might well have prevented a slashing (which could have occurred if he had left the boys behind to go find a teacher).

Some crime-scene investigative techniques seem far-fetched, as News of the Weird has reported, but police use of “ear prints” might be approaching the mainstream. Britain convicted its first burglar based on an ear print in 1998, and in May 2013, investigators in Lyon, France, tied a 26-year-old man from the Republic of Georgia to a string of about 80 burglaries by taking prints from doors the man had leaned against while listening for activity inside the home.

First-World Crises: It is not quite to the level of the $15,700 Japanese melons, but the behavior of women descending upon New York City stores in June for the annual “sale” on designer shoes is nonetheless a spectacle. The event makes the city’s upscale commercial district look like “an insane asylum of very well-dressed women,” reported The New York Times. The shoes’ everyday prices require, wrote the Times, “the willful suspension of rational thinking.”

The average transaction at Barneys is $850, still far below, for example, a pair of wickerbasket-like sandals ($1,995 by Charlotte Olympia) or a certain Christian Louboutin pump ($1,595 $4,645 if in crocodile). Prices are so unhinged, according to the Times, that standards from the iconic “Sex and the City” designer Manolo Blahnik are now low-price leaders, holding at about $595.

Among the oldest classic stories in News of the Weird is the hapless burglar or bank robber who inadvertently incriminates himself at the scene of the crime. Recently, (1) Korey Harris, a defensive lineman for West Virginia University’s football team, was arrested in July for a home invasion he allegedly committed while wearing his practice sweatpants emblazoned with his jersey number (96). (2) Police in Boston are confident that Zachary Tentoni is the man who robbed a woman in the yard of Harbor Middle School in June because, as he grabbed her purse and fled, he dropped two bags he was carrying. Among the contents: Tentoni’s birth certificate and a letter from his mother.

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A

Making the Norm Magical

rt is all about perception.

Two people painting the exact same image will ultimately produce completely different works—and emotional responses.

For centuries, art has captured moments, places, society and times.

Most importantly, it’s provided us with a new vision on otherwise mundane or ordinary objects.

A feature of contemporary art, since the middle of the 19th century, artists began to push the boundaries of acceptable, conventional art. Shifting their perspective, they looked toward their surroundings for inspiration. In turn, they challenged audiences to consider familiarity with new eyes, too.

Diane Landry, a Canadian installation artist, is a perfecte example of the artist who pushes viewers beyond norm thought proceses. For instance, in her world an umbrella is not just something which keeps us dry on rainy days. It’s a room of visual enlightenment. A mnultimedia artist, Landry creates art work out of recycled materials. Specifically, she makes use of items like salad turners and water bottles.

“I want to take ordinary objects, and provide a new way to value them,” Landry says.

Landry’s current installation, “The Cadence of All Things,” opens on August 17th to the public at the Cameron Art Museum. Returning is a piece from Landry’s 2000 series of work, “Flying School.” Made of umbrellas, harmonicas, motors, steel, cardboard, halogen

lighting, an MIDI controller and computer, it still resonates 13 years later.

Landry utilizes umbrellas as the focal point and tries to subvert a traditional understanding of the sole purpose of the umbrella.

“I want to upset and interrupt people’s thoughts and introduce my works into their minds through the effect of simple surprise,” she states.

While her outlook and mission to create happens to be eco-friendly, the social commentary which arises from it makes one contemplate the consumerist nature of modern-day society. We have become so dependent upon objects to provide convenience. Yet, Landry’s environmental cognizance may very well stem from a career in agriculture, something which post-dates her life as a full-time artist.

“I always wanted to be an artist,” she admits foremost. “But when I first went to university, I studied natural science and began working in agricultural research. I always thought when I retire, that’s when I’ll focus on my art full time. But at 25 I couldn’t wait anymore, so I went back to school.”

“The Cadence of All Things” provides a retrospective of Landry’s artistic career, ranging from 1992 to 2013. “Each project can be seen as a dot on a line,” the artist notes. “For me, it is very easy to see the linear progression of my career and artistic development, but, since every work of art I’ve created couldn’t be displayed, the public only sees small

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[vignettes] of my work.”

Landry’s work not only challenges our association with daily objects, but our memories of them. She puts the material in a new framework, creating new space, re-examination and studies on how they can become a bigger part of our environments.

Excited to return to CAM, Landry sees the museum “a perfect place for installations.”

The movement and partitions between each installation will allot time for viewers to consume and mediate on the work. Each of the rooms in the gallery will host a different piece, most excitingly providing a variety of sensory actions and reactions.

More so, the exhibition imbues movement. The objects come to life with Landry’s mastery of skill, design and vision.

Steven Matijcio, curator at the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Contemporary Art Center in Ohio, guest essayist and curator who has previously worked with Landry, states of her work: “It offers an oasis in times of an accelerated, attention-deficit society; a gift of pause when everything else pushes us faster; a rare and much-needed space to slow down, meander and reflect. Her work is both meditative and magical, and rewards an audience for investing their time and energy – the more you spend, the more it gives back.”

Transforming the Brown Wing in the CAM, the installations will offer a synchronized rhythm and hum of machines, each providing comfort to seemingly unusual, industrial works of art. Matijcio admires the way Landry has reversed societal ideas once established during the Industrial Revolution.

“When every circuit is directed towards

doing and making things bigger, faster and more efficiently, Landry’s mystical machines swim in cryptic, ritual-like actions with no clear purpose,” he says. “They are delightfully ‘inefficient’ despite being impeccably made. Her works do not produce goods or results; instead they ask questions; they hover, waver and breathe.”

In essence, they breathe life into lifeless objects, guiding their force and enveloping a mystical quality. “I want to make magic with something that’s not supposed to be [magical,]” Landry says.

According to Matijcio her ability to bridge the cosmic and earthly in a disposable and measurable movement of time—through forms, units, languages—gives weight to the art. “This is, for, me Diane’s mostly complete work—a full circle if you will,” Matijcio says.

“The Cadence of All Things” opens on August 16th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for CAM members and their guests only. Folks will get a chance to meet the artist and guest essayist Steven Matijcio. Musical guests for the evening will be Big Al Hall and Friends.

Tickets for members only and guests are $10 per person, which includes a drink ticket for complimentary beer, wine, soft drink and appetizers. The show opens to the public beginning August 17th.

DETAILS: The Cadence of All Things by Diane Landry Cameron Art Museum 3201 S 17th Street Opens Aug. 16th for members; Aug. 17th to public. Hangs through January 12th, 2014. www.cameronartmuseum.com

For Tickets and more information

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arts > dance

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Cameron Art Museum hosts Works-in-Progress with Dance Cooperative By: Fiona O’Sullivan

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ance Cooperative plays a big part in Wilmington’s arts community. It has grown so much since its inception 11 years ago that it is currently expanding to two studios, which will be finalized at the end of summer. Catering to modern, jazz, ballet and hip-hop, from children to adults, the cooperative is taking its moves out of the studio and into our local art museum for viewing and critiquing.

Cameron Art Museum (CAM) hosts Works-in-Progress in association with Dance Cooperative, one day of every month until February 2014. The monthly event features informal contemporary and modern dance performances, subject to be critiqued in a nurturing environment. As well, the event welcomes dancers, choreographers and the general public, and while styles outside of modern and contemporary dance are welcome, tap will not be permitted on the CAM floors.

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“As growing artists, we believe that we constantly need to question our work to continue to produce better quality dances,” Dance Cooperative’s Kathryn Muhlstein, producer of the company’s famed Dancea-lorus, says. “Without critique, we may inadvertently create work that will eventually stagnate or lose its relevancy.”

Ultimately, Dance Cooperative provides opportunity for its members to show worksin-progress for their upcoming shows, including Dance-a-lorus, Emerging Choreographers and the North Carolina Dance Festival. Dance-a-lorus hits Thalian Hall November 13th as part of the kickoff for the Cucalorus Film Festival. Emerging Choreographers will showcase new performances in December. Audiences can also observe pieces being prepared for the North Carolina Dance Festival in February.

What makes the Works-in-Progress so invaluable is the importance placed on critiquing, especially for works showcased in upcoming shows. It’s useful for the performances to be seen in intervals as to find moments which may be overlooked.

“For those doing the critiquing, this can include members of the ‘audience’ who wish to speak up,” Muhlstein informs. “They can be the other dancers and choreographers, as well as friends and family. This allows non-dancers to view a work and provide the choreographer with a different perspective that comes from those audience member’s varying experiences.”

Currently, 15 performers will be vying for Dancealorus entry. “The more showings they attend, the better chance they have to hone their ideas and the quality of their work

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in preparation for the upcoming auditions in September,” Muhlstein says. “This section is not open to the public.”

The deadline to sign up for a Works-inProgress is the Sunday preceding each performance. Members of the public who wish to join can contact Muhlstein who will provide the dancer a format and explain the boundaries with which the company works.

The idea for Works-in-Progress has been perculating for as long as the cooperative has functioned. With a mission to create a safe environment for growing artists, Works-in-Progress offers many facets for dancers to do just that.

“We have been working with Cameron Art Museum for the past four years,” Muhlstein explains. “We started by just doing Dancea-lorus showings there, and we have since established a fuller relationship with regards to all our shows.” The company chose CAM to host Works-in-Progress because the space is large and allows for a variety of dance groups. Plus, the Reception Hall has film-projection capabilities, which the company utilizes for Dance-a-lorus, which pairs choreographers with filmmakers for a multimedia artistic approach.

While the event is free for the general public, donations are accepted to help keep both nonprofits, Dance Cooperative and CAM, giving back artistically to Wilmington.

“Our portion of donations will go toward production costs of the concerts as well as any needs of the dance school,” Muhlstein reveals. “We have a large percentage of our students on scholarship, and donations we receive help support our efforts to provide quality classes to students who would otherwise be unable to afford them.”

Admission for this event is free. The Works-in-Progress can be seen every third Sunday each month through February from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The general public is welcome to sit in on the performances and offer feedback.

Anyone who wishes to participate via dance can contact Muhlstein the Sunday preceding the dance; e-mail kate13dancealorus@gmail. com or call the cooperative at 910-763-4995.

Cameron Art Museum 3201 S 17th Street

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“Morning Has Broken” features works by Janet Parker. Come see Janet’s bold use of color and texture to reveal local marsh creeks and structures. Experience Wilmington through the eyes of a local!

Artfuel.inc

2165 Wrightsville Ave. • (910) 343 5233 Mon.-Sat., noon-7 p.m. • www.artfuelinc.com

Artfuel.inc is a multimedia studio and art gallery, located at the intersection of Wrightsville Avenue and Dawson Street. Volume 35 features work by Switch, Bethany Hadden, Kevin Duval, and Lily Brittany Lane.

ArtEXPOSURE!

SUNSET RIVER Marketplace

22527 Highway 17N, Hampstead, NC 910-803-0302 • 910-330-4077 Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (or by appt.) www.artexposure50.com

10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) • (910) 575-5999 Tues.- Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. sunsetrivermarketplace. com

In July, we will be featuring the unique work of Kay Bilisoly, a Wilmington artist and member of ArtExposure. We will be sponsoring a “Paint Out in the Park” at the end of July. This will be in conjuction with the Onslow Outdoor Painters Society (OOPS). There is no entry fee, but you need to fill out our a participation form (online under Events) to be included in the August show at ArtExposure. The show will feature the plein air works of participating artists at the Paint Out.

CAPE FEAR NATIVE

114 Princess St. • (910) 465-8811 Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. www.capefearnative.com

Featured this month are watercolors and acrylic paintings by local artist Lori Peterson.

Many of Peterson’s colorful paintings have a feeling of mystery, evoking a sense of wonder about the story behind the expression. Her collection will be featured until August 22nd.

Cape Fear Native features art, jewelry, pottery, photography and more, all original designs by local artists in the Cape Fear area.

We also have sail bags by Ella Vickers and jewelry by Half United. Stop in and support your local creative community.

FIGMENTS GALLERY

1319 Military Cutoff Rd. Ste. II • 910-509-4289 Tues.-Fri.: 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; • Sat. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. www.figmentsgallery.com

Figments Gallery offers a fresh mix of eclectic work from local and international artists of all genres. Come by for an Open House Exhibit featuring new artists on the Second Friday of every month from 6-8. It’s a great event to connect with the arts community! Join us August 9th for “Small Works, Under $100” open house exhibit featuring a little bit of everything, all under $100!

WILMA W. DANIELS GALLERY

200 Hanover St., CFCC parking deck, first level 910-362-7431 • Tues. /Thurs., 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Wed., 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Cape Fear Community College will present “Against the Grain,” an exhibition of woodcuts by artist Ann Conner through August

Exhibits hanging in the Port City

NO FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION! Art work will be for sale on August 9th at for under $100 at Figments Gallery. Courtesy photo.

23rd, The exhibit will include works from 3 suites of large scale woodblock prints. Connor is well versed at utilizing traditional printmaking techniques to create formal, contemporary works on paper.

The Wilma W. Daniels Gallery is located at 200 Hanover Street on the first floor of CFCC’s Hanover Parking Deck in downtown Wilmington

New Elements Gallery 201 Princess St. • (919) 343-8997 Tues.-Sat.: 11 a.m.-6p.m. (or by appt.) www.newelementsgallery.com

“Good as Gold; 50 Years of Painting” by Robert Irwin comprises works which span his years as a painter. Frequently selecting strong, vibrant colors applied with aggressive brush strokes, Irwin’s work offers an energy and immediacy that is forceful and dynamic in subjects like architectural studies and coastal imagery. The show will remain on display through August 20th.

RiveR TO Sea Gallery

225 S. Water St., Chandler’s Wharf (Free parking) (910)-763-3380 • Tues-Sat 11-5 • Sun 1-4

River to Sea Gallery showcases the work of husband and wife Tim and Rebecca Duffy Bush. In addition, the gallery represents several local artists. The current show is sure to enthrall visitors with its eclectic collection of original paintings, photography, sculpture, glass, pottery and jewelry. Our current exhibit

Sunset River Marketplace is located in the historic fishing village of Calabash, North Carolina, over 10,000-plus square feet of fine arts and crafts. Showcasing only artists from the two Carolinas, featuring

clay art and pottery; oil paintings, watercolors, mixed media, pastels and acrylics; plus awardwinning metalworks, wood pieces, hand-blown glass, fiber art, artisan-made jewelry and more.

Now showing: works by Reid Stowe, the artist/mariner whose “1,000 Days At Sea” odyssey garnered attention and grabbed the hearts of the sailing community, media and armchair sailors all over the globe. “Flight Into Abstraction” runs through July 31 and features approximately 20 paintings in mixed media.

WILMINGTON ART ASSOC. 120. S. Second St., USO Building Mon.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. www.wilmington-art.org

Stop by our permanent exhibit gallery space at the historic Hannah Block USO building at 120 S.Second Street in downtown Wilmington. Art work changes monthly so drop by and see what’s new, the gallery has great north light! Receptions will be held on Fourth Friday evenings from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m..

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arts > theatre

Muddy Family Waters: Big Dawg presents Pulitzer Prize play with outstanding performances By: Gwenyfar Rohler

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hen Big Dawg Productions announced their 2013 season, only two shows in the lineup remained a surprise: Marsha Norman’s “‘night Mother” and Moliere’s “Tartuffe.” The artistic director, Steve Vernon, chose the theme of family to tie together the season; certainly, both pieces explore the questions surrounding family in great depth. Box-office-wise, both would seem to be tough sells.

The current offering, “‘night Mother,” is an incredible script. It won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for drama and garnered four Tony nominations (not bad for a show with only two characters).

Like many people with an interest in theatre and playwriting, I have read the script more times than I can count, but I had yet to see a staged production before last weekend. “‘night Mother” offers the kind of material actors love: emotional and tense, with layered dialogue and no scene changes, all of which force the performance to be the magic. If staged and performed well, there shouldn’t be

SYNCOPATED RHYTHM: Holli Saperstein (left) and Katherine Vernon (right) endure a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship in “‘night Mother,” now showing at Cape Fear Playhouse.

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a dry eye in the house. During the show I attended, not one existed.

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Ostensibly a play about suicide, “‘night Mother” follows Jessie (Katherine Vernon), the adult daughter of Thelma (Holli Saperstein). The two live together off a country road in Thelma’s house. About 8 p.m. one Sunday, while getting ready for their weekly ritual of manicures, Jessie announces she is going to kill herself before the end of the evening.

What follows in the next 90 minutes is not so much a prelude to suicide as a discussion of the women’s relationship since Jessie’s birth.

Even that doesn’t really explain the script.

Audiences find themselves questioning its intent: Is the play really about Thelma trying to talk Jessie out of suicide? Yes, sometimes.

She pleads, bullies, attempts to distract, and when all else fails, she physically tries to bar her path. As the script demands, Jessie walks into her room and closes the door. Then the inevitable happens—or does it? Does someone in fact call 9-1-1 in time to treat wounds?

Is Jessie DOA, or is all of this an elaborate hoax? Does she fire the gun but not at herself? Or is it a ritual they go through often?

If I could find one word to describe both ladies onstage, it would be “clear.” Though a strange choice, especially when describing the incredible muddy waters of family relationships, Saperstein’s responses allow a clear interpretation to what Thelma thinks. The opening scenes of the show become a frighteningly accurate portrayal, with Jessie attending to a host of her mother’s minor demands. Most of them are motivated by a combination of desire for attention and just to prove that she can make Jessie jump. Nuances of this controlling relationship will wear down and exhaust the audience when performed correctly. Both ladies play to this cadence in syncopation.

Saperstein got it right: Thelma’s not a bully, really. She no longer has to think about herself because Jessie looks ahead to take care of all her troubles, whether getting laundry deter-

gent, trash-bag ties or taking care of grocery deliveries. Vernon’s Jessie is pitch-perfect: She loves her mother, she does. Yet, she cannot do this anymore. There are other people who will look after her mother when Jessie’s dead, and it is time for them to do so. It’s almost as if she’s saying, “But, in the mean time, Momma, do you know where we keep the laundry soap?”

Interestingly enough, it isn’t only her mother that is driving Jessie to suicide; it’s her mother who always keeps her from it.

It goes without saying that for a two-person show, the casting is critical. A script of this caliber endures huge turn outs for auditions— and that’s what its director, Stephen Raeburn, experienced. It clearly wasn’t a question of just finding two women who could act; he had to find two women who could act together. He succeeded. What Saperstein and Vernon accomplish is a wonder to behold.

For all of Saperstein’s range of emotion and animation, Vernon maintains a controlled calm, a determined world of someone who has finally found an answer and made a decision that they have sought for a long time. My date found this unsettling and wanted to see histrionics. Still, this isn’t a power play. Jessie is less concerned about a reaction from her mother; she incites a very calm tying-up of loose ends. That state of mind has been well-documented—frequently manifesting with calm determination. I think Vernon captures it perfectly. No, she doesn’t give in to a huge display of emoting, but all the attention to detail in every moment—from making a list to drinking a nasty cup of cocoa—perfectly, naturally and truthfully presents a full character.

It can be hard to sell tickets to a play about suicide, but the script and the performances are about much more. “‘night Mother” is one of the best two-person shows ever written— without a single wasted word. Saperstein, Vernon and Raeburn have really work together to bring something vibrant and pulsating on the Cape Fear Playhouse stage.

DETAILS: ‘night Mother ★★★★★

Cape Fear Playhouse 613 Castle St. • (910) 367-5237 August 15-18, 22-25, 8 p.m. or Sundays, 3 p.m Tickets: $15-$20 www.bigdawgproductions.org

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arts > music

Live This Week:

A host of shows descend upon Wilmington stages By: Shea Carver and Bethany Turner

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ounds permeate the city in all genres this week, with quite a handful of greats touring through the South. From a Grateful Dead tribute to classic Southern rock, and new funk and soul, here are a few suggestions on where to see the best shows.

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA

Wednesday, August 14th Ziggy’s by the Sea 208 Market St. Doors: 8 p.m. • Show: 9 p.m. • Ages 16+ $25-$30 • www.ziggysbythesea.com All music lovers who missed the heyday of the Grateful Dead are in for a treat of a reenactment. Dark Star Orchestra is the only Grateful Dead tribute band to receive praises

from surviving Dead members, as well as their dedicated sound engineer, Dan Healy, who once said, “I can close my eyes, and go back 30 years and have it be every bit as rewarding and satisfying.”

Dark Star Orchestra started playing more than 15 years ago and thus far have done over 2,200 shows, outdoing their original idols, who over 30 years played 2,300 concerts. Wellknown for recreating Dead sets, Dark Star pays careful attendtion to every detail, from sound, to costume, to set design. They noodle and improv as much as the Dead’s original formula for garnering loads of devoted fans. They stay true to the era they choose, yet also allow themselves creative freedom, so that not ev-

ery set is played exactly to the musical tee as its original members. Still, the same vibe, the same evocation, the same nuances are masterminded for legions of jam-band lovers.

The ‘heads will raise the Dead at Ziggys’ By the Sea on August 14th at 9 p.m. Tickets are for sale for $25 ahead of time and $30 at the door; the show is brought to Ziggy’s by Progressive Music Group.

MARSHALL TUCKER BAND

with Loose Jets Friday, August 16th Ziggy’s by the Sea 208 Market St. Doors: 8 p.m. • Show: 9 p.m. $25-30 • www.ziggysbythesea.com In the early ‘70s, six musicians assembled in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to form the Marshall Tucker Band, including the now-famous

ROCK AND JAM: (Above) JJ Grey and Mofro released “The River” in April and are touring through Wilmington in support of it this Sunday; (below) Grateful Dead fans rejoice as Dark Star Orchestra recreate Dead sets founded by the original jam band. Courtesy photos

Folks can catch Gray and his current band— Chris Hicks (lead and slide guitars, vocals), Pat Elwood (bass), Rick Willis (lead guitar, vocals), B.B. Borden (drums), and Marcus Henderson (keys, saxophone, flute, vocals)—this Friday night at Ziggy’s by the Sea, downtown.

EDWIN MCCAIN

vocalist Doug Gray. In 1972, Georgia-based label Capricorn Records signed the group, and in 1973 they opened concerts for Southern rockers The Allman Brothers Band. By the very next year, they were headlining their own shows with a platinum debut album in tow.

Though Gray, still leading the band, is the only original member left, the band’s classicrock legacy continues through his identifiable pipes and the new lineup’s musicianship. It doesn’t hurt that Toy Caldwell, the original lead guitarist, left behind a catalog of timelessly relatable songs, including “Can’t You See,” “Heard it in a Love Song,” and “Take the Highway.”

with The Deluge Sunday, August 18th Ziggy’s by the Sea 208 Market St. Doors: 8 p.m. • Show: 9 p.m. $17-20 • www.ziggysbythesea.com Another native of South Carolina, Edwin McCain became famous by one very important track: “I’ll Be.” The romantic tune bleeds passion from McCain’s gift for songwriting and guitar. Likewise, he’s known for another Billboardcharting hit, “I Could Not Ask for More.”

After turning 40, McCain’s focus continues to be his songwriting as his children provide more inspiration. As McCain told encore in October 2012: “I try to write a song that gets me a little snotty-nosed, and if it does that, then I consider it a song, good and bad. If it makes me smile or gives me some sort of emotional reaction and makes me think of something that I believe, then I enjoy that process.”

McCain will perform at Ziggy’s by the Sea this Sunday, August 18th. Opening act The Deluge hails from North Carolina, blending

Americana, soul, jazz and rock for a style all its own.

JJ GREY AND MOFRO

with Thomas Wynn and the Believers Sunday, August 18th Greenfield Lake Amphitheater Amphitheater Drive Doors: 4:30 p.m. • Show: 5:30 p.m.

Tickets: $20$25 http://greenfieldlakeamphitheater.com The funky, Southern rock and smooth, soulful rhythm and blues of JJ Grey and Mofro never tires Wilmington fans. Taking on an homage to Jacksonville, Florida, often showcased in the lyrics where JJ Grey grew up, the band’s music has been peppered by influences including Big Bad John, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Toots Hibbert and Otis Redding.

Made up of Grey (vocals, electric piano, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica), Andrew Trube (electric guitar and slide guitar), Anthony Farrell (Hammond organ), Anthony Cole (drums) and the “Hercules Horns” Dennis Marion (trumpet), Art Edmaiston (tenor saxophone) and Todd Smallie (bass guitar), the group does extensive touring annually, including festival stops at Bonnaroo, All Good and Austin City Limits. Their eight-disc catalogue of music includes a recent 2013 release of “This River” (Alligator Records), taking on impassioned musicianship and movement. Having toured with the likes of Widespread Panic, Galactic and Ben Harper, they’ve garnered quite the following of eclectic jam band fans, which will likely pack out Greenfield Amphitheater come Sunday.

Tickets for the show are still available at Gravity Records, Momentum Surf & Skate and online for $20 before, or at the gate for $25.

Kids 5 and under are free.

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Blackboard Specials 100 S. FRONT ST. 910-251-1832 LIVE MUSIC in the courtyard 7 days a week

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A preview of tunes all over town this week

MONDAY S.I.N NIGHT $2 Domestics • $3 All Draft Selections $4 Flavored Bombs • 50% off Apps 6pm til close NEW BELGIUM TUESDAY $3 New Belgium selections (Shift Pale Lager, Fat Tire, Ranger IPA, Rampant IPA) $5 Jameson • Half Off Wings!

WEDNESDAY $2.75 Miller Lite, $4 Wells, 50% off All Bottles of wine THIRSTY THURSDAY $2.50 PBR 16oz cans $3.50 Sam Adams Seasonal & Harpoon IPA Pints $5 Redbull & Vodka, 50¢ Steamed Oysters and Shrimp FRIDAY $2.75 Bud Light, $3.25 Stella, $4 Fireballs SATURDAY $2.75 Coors Light, $3.25 Bud Light Lime, $5 Jager SUNDAY $3 Coronas/Corona Lite, $10 Domestic Buckets (5) $4 Mimosas, $4 Bloody Mary’s

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SOARING POP-ROCK: Parachute, a pop-rock act band based in Charlottesville, Virginia, went gold for the track ‘She is Love.’ They’ll perform at Ziggy’s by the Sea on Wednesday, August 21st. Courtesy photo

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OPEN MUSIC JAM HOSTED BY SHANNON GILMORE & TOMMY KAISER 7PM —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 3996977

KARAOKE WITH DJ BREWTAL —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341

KARAOKE (9PM) —Bourbon Street, 35 N Front St.; 762-4050 DJ MARY —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621 KARAOKE (8PM-1AM) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Ave. N., Carolina Beach KARAOKE W/ DJ A.M.P. —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044

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PLAN: B DUO (7PM) —The Trailer Bar, 1701 N. River Dr., Surf City; 541-0777 SHAKEDOWN STREET WITH DUBTOWN COSMONAUTS —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 DARK STAR ORCHESTRA —Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, 1941 Amphitheater Dr. QUINCY MUMFORD AND THE REASON WHY —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 PHIL BEVILACQUA —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 DJ LORD WALRUS

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DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 MIKE O’DONNELL 10PM-1AM —Buffalo Wild Wings, 206 Old Eastwood Rd.; 798-9464

THURSDAY, AUGUST 15 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 OPEN MIC —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 DISCOTHEQUE THURS. WITH DJ’S DST AND MATT EVANS —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington

NC 28403, (910) 859-8266 THIRSTY THURSDAY TEAM TRIVIA WITH SHERRI “SO VERY” (7-9PM) —Whiskey Trail at the Creek, 4039 Masonboro Loop Rd.; 399-3266 SEA PANS (STEEL DRUMS, 7-10PM) —Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 JAZZ NIGHT WITH MARC SIEGEL 6PM-8PM —Atlanta Bread Company, 6886 Main St. (Mayfaire), Wilmington, NC. (910) 509-2844 DUTCH’S THURSDAY NIGHT TRIVIA 7-9PM —Frank’s Classic American Grill, 6309 Market St., 910228-5952 DJ SHAFT —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 DJKAHUNA —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044

DJ KEYBO —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401

TRIVIA WITH STEVE (8:30PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607

OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH DENNIS BRINSON (8PM) —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621

VELVET JANE (8PM-12AM) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Ave. N., Carolina Beach

OPEN MIC —Brass Pelican; 2112 N. New River Dr., Surf City, NC 328-4373

ACOUSTIC BLUES JAM (7-9PM) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.

OPEN MIC 7-10PM —Grinder’s Cafe, 5032 Wrightsville Avenue, Wilmington,

CATALYST, MATT JONES AND THE BOBS —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878

JV FLANAGAN, RYAN BATES, EMMA NELSON —Longstreet’s Irish Pub, 133 N. Front St.; 343-8881

STEVEN COMPTON —Longstreet’s Irish Pub, 133 N. Front St.; 343-8881

FIRE DANCING & DRUMS (8PM) —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223

KIM DICSO 8PM —Fermental, 7250-B Market St.; 821-0362

ZION —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088

OVERTYME (ECLECTIC MIX, 7-10PM) —Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231

THE CUT —Carolina Beach Boardwalk; 910-458-8434 KARAOKE —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 2562269

DANIEL PARISH DUO 9PM-12AM —Buffalo Wild Wings, 5533 Carolina Beach Rd., Monkey Junction; 392-7224 TRAVIS SHALLOW —Shell Island Resort, 2700 N. Lumina Ave., 256-8696

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PIANO —Blockade Runner Beach Resort, 275 Waynick Blvd., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2251 DJKAHUNA —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044 THE FURY —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 STARDUST BAND —Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Kure Beach; 4588216

ROCKIN’ TRIVIA WITH PARTY GRAS DJ (9 P.M.) —Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 920 Town Center Dr.; 509-0805

SO AND SO —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878

BILL POWELL (CLASSIC, 7-10PM) —Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231

DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499

ROBBIE REID BAND —Palm Room, 11 East Salisbury St.; 503-3040

KYLE LINDLEY 8PM —Fermental, 7250-B Market St.; 821-0362

TOP 40 DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301

BLP —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838

ROLLIN’ IN THE HAY (BLUEGRASS, 8PM) —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878

CJ POYTHRESS —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666

MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, LOOSE JETS —Ziggy’s by the Sea, 208 Market St.; (336) 722-5000

SINGLEFIN —Bourbon Street, 35 N Front St.; 762-4050

THE BABY BOOMER BAND (6-9PM) —Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.; 452-1212

THE PHANTOM PLAYBOYS —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088

DANIEL PARISH —Shell Island Resort, 2700 N. Lumina Ave., 256-8696

GLENN ERIC (7-9PM) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.

KENNEDY PARK 9PM-12AM —Buffalo Wild Wings, 206 Old Eastwood Rd.; 798-9464

B-WALK & WL2F —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832

DANGERS OF STEREO 9PM-12AM —Buffalo Wild Wings, 5533 Carolina Beach Rd., Monkey Junction; 392-7224

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 DJ BATTLE —Dirty Martini, 1904 Eastwood Rd, Suite 109 TD MACDONALD (9PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 DJ DST AND SBZ —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington HOUSE/TECHNO DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 THE HATCH BROTHERS —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 360 DEGREES —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 KARAOKE WITH MIKE NORRIS —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 DJ —Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 OPEN MUSIC JAM HOSTED BY SHANNON GILMORE & TOMMY KAISER 7PM —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 3996977

3RD STREET SOUTH (8PM-12AM) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Ave. N., Carolina Beach GRENOLODO FRAZIER —Airlie Gardens; 300 Airlie Rd., 798-7700

SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 DJ BATTLE —Dirty Martini, 1904 Eastwood Rd, Suite 109 KARAOKE (10PM) —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 DJ KEYBO —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401 DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE (9PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 DJ SIR NICK BLAND —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 2562776 JENNY PEARSON —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666

DJ MILK AND MATT EVANS —Sputnik, 23 N. Front St.

HOUSE/TECHNO DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301

DJ TURTLE —Station 21, 21 N. Front St., Wilmington, NC

PIANO —Circa 1922, 8 N. Front St.; 762-1922

KARAOKE W/ DJ A.M.P. —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044

DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499

THE WAITING (TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS TRIBUTE) —Downtown Sundown; riverfront downtown, 763-7349 KARAOKE —Toolbox, 2325 Burnette Blvd.; 343-6988 DJ KEYBO —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401 DIXIELAND ALLSTAR BAND —Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Kure Beach; 4588216 THE FUSTICS —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400

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JACK JACK 180 —Towne Tap & Grill, 890 Town Center Dr.; 256-6224 GENE GREGORY —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400 CARNIVAL OF DREAMS II —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 BLUEGRASS JAM (7-9PM) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St. NAUTILUS —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 VELCRO (80S) —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 MARK ROBERTS BAND (8PM-12AM) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Ave. N., Carolina Beach WHISKY HONEY —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832

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DJ DST AND MATT EVANS —Sputnik, 23 N. Front St.

BEN MORROW —Elijah’s, 2 Ann St.; 343-1448

SPIDER MIKE & FRIENDS (2-5PM) —Fire & Spice Gourmet, 312 Nutt St.; 762-3050

REGGAE —Lazy Pirate Sports Bar and Grill, 701 N. Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach; 458-5414

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DJ MILK AND SBZ —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington

DJ TURTLE —Station 21, 21 N. Front St., Wilmington, NC

WEDNESDAYS

JAZZ JAM WITH BENNY HILL (8PM) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888

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DRUMS (3PM); TYLER PERRY’S CHILL BEAT LAB (10PM) —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 JIM QUICK AND COASTLINE (6PM) —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 RAPHAEL NAME (7PM) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.

ELECTRIC MONDAYS W/ PRUITT & SCREWLOOPZ —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 KARAOKE W/ DJ DOUBLE DOWN —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044

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KARAOKE WITH DAMON —Black Sheep Tavern, 21 N. Front St. (basement); 3993056

HEART AND SOUL —Bluewater Grill, 4 Marina St.; 256-8500

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KARAOKE W/ DJ DOUBLE DOWN —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044

BRENT STIMMEL BAND —Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave., Kure Beach; 4588216

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SATELLITE BLUEGRASS BAND (6-10PM) —Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; 399-2796

JJ GREY & MOFRO, THOMAS WYNN & THE BELIEVERS —Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, 1941 Amphitheater Dr.

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CAPE FEAR BLUES JAM (EQUIPMENT PROVIDED, JUST BRING INSTRUMENT; 8PM) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888

DJ BATTLE —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551

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L SHAPE LOT (3PM); CLAY CROTTS (8PM) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832

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—Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044 ROB RONNER —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 DRUMMING WITH RON & ERIC (6-8PM) —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 COLLEGE NIGHT KARAOKE —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 MATT HAM (ACOUSTIC, 9PM-12AM) —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 TWO OF A KIND (7-10PM) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Ave. N., Carolina Beach KARAOKE WITH MIKE NORRIS —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 KARAOKE WITH DJ PARTY GRAS (9PM) —Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 920 Town Center Dr.; 509-0805 JAMES HAFF (PIANO) —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621 WORLD TAVERN TRIVIA HOSTED BY MUD —Buffalo Wild Wings, 5533 Carolina Beach Rd., Monkey Junction; 392-7224 INDIE NIGHT —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 DJ —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341 OPEN MUSIC JAM HOSTED BY SHANNON GILMORE & TOMMY KAISER 7PM —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 3996977 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 KARAOKE (9PM) —Bourbon Street, 35 N Front St.; 762-4050 KARAOKE (8PM-1AM) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Ave. N., Carolina Beach DJ MARY —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621

MIGHTY QUINN —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832

SHAKEDOWN STREET WITH THE DUBTOWN COSMONAUTS —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088

PLAN B DUO (OPEN MIC, 8PM-12AM) —Daddy’s Place, 14870 US Highway 17 N., Hampstead; 270-3947

KARAOKE —Brass Pelican; 2112 N. New River Dr., Surf City, NC 328-4373

WATER SHED —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832

KARAOKE W/ DJ A.M.P. —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St., 392-3044

KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001

PARACHUTE, MATT HIRES, ANDREW RIPP —Ziggy’s by the Sea, 208 Market St.; (336) 722-5000

JENNY PEARSON —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666

SHAKEDOWN STREET WITH DUBTOWN COSMONAUTS —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088

JUSTIN CODY FOX (ROCK, 8PM) —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866 PENGO WITH BEAU GUNN —Mellow Mushroom, 4311 Oleander Drive; 452-3773 JOSH SOLOMON DUO —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341 MULTIMEDIA OPEN MIC (8PM) —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20 OPEN MIC W/ JOHN INGRAM —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 3996977 DJKAHUNA

PLAN: B DUO (10PM) —The Landing; 300 N. Lake Park Blvd. Carolina Beach 707-0202 DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 KARAOKE WITH DJ BREWTAL —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341 DJ KEYBO —SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401 DJ LORD WALRUS —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 2562776 CLAY CROTTS 10PM-1AM —Buffalo Wild Wings, 206 Old Eastwood Rd.; 798-9464

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Locally shot ‘Millers’ works thanks to dark undertones

Much Ado About Nothing, Twenty Feet From Stardom

By: Anghus

W

e needed a good comedy. So far this summer, the funniest thing I’ve seen was Jaden Smith’s performance in “After Earth.” “The Internship” was harmless but utterly flaccid. “The Hangover III” was the most bleak attempt at comedy I can remember.

Summer used to be a breeding ground for classic comedies, like “Ghostbusters,” “Back to School,” “Meatballs,” “Stripes” and “Caddyshack,” were released at the height of the blockbuster season. They gave audiences something to laugh at amidst the big-budget shenanigans. Thankfully, in 2013 we’ve got “We’re the Millers,” shot in Wilmington last summer.

“We’re the Millers” is one of the great laughters working at a rapid-fire pace, only losing its footing when it tries to shoehorn in those “aw, shucks” moments. Then, it gets steered away from comedy and into heartwarming territory. (For the record: Fuck heartwarming! If I want heartwarming I’ll turn on the Hallmark channel. Oh, and I will never turn on the Hallmark Channel.)

Pete (Jason Sudeikis) is a middle-aged marijuana dealer who leads a carefree existence.

He surfs the web, plays video games and enjoys a life free of connections. One fateful evening he runs into an old friend, and begins to wonder if maybe he’s missing out on some of life’s simple pleasures, like family. Pete’s carefree existence ends when he’s robbed of all his money and drugs; it leaves him in debt to his dickhead boss (Ed Helms). In order to settle the debt, Pete has to haul a Winnebago full of weed across the border. To make this happen, he recruits a ragtag group of near-dowells to accompany him down to Mexico and pretend to be a family. There’s Kenny, the wellintentioned shy kid downstairs; Rose (Jennifer Aniston), a stripper with a heart of gold; and Casey (Emma Roberts), a homeless girl with a chip on her shoulder. Together they become The Millers.

Getting back into America isn’t as easy as planned. There’s a number of double-crosses going on that put The Millers in the crosshairs of the most stereotypical drug kingpin ever committed to film, and his henchman who apparently is Danny Trejo’s taller, less charismatic doppelganger. Soon, the movie goes from “boilerplate comedy” to “road comedy,” sending the fictional family into all sorts of ridiculous scenarios that strain every ounce of credibility. That, I’m fine with. I don’t need a grounded, realistic comedy about drug mules who pretend to be a nuclear family. “We’re the Millers” pushes a little too hard on the pedal

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to try and force the family angle. There’s some downright cringe-worthy moments when the movie skirts back across its own R-rating and tries to be a more wholesome film. When it abandons that putrid wholesomeness for some good, old-fashioned obscenity, “We’re the Millers” is damn funny.

Jason Sudeikis might not be everybody’s cup of tea, but he’s turned into a more likable version of Chevy Chase. There are a lot of moments in “We’re the Millers” that remind me of Chase’s “Vacation” movies. Though Sudeikis is more charismatic in his prime, he doesn’t do deadpan as well. There’s a moment about halfway into the film when Aniston’s stripper is dancing in a garage (in what could be the most convoluted excuse to show an ungratifying amount of skin in any movie). Sudeikis looks right into the camera and gives the audience a look—almost as if he’s complicit in this pointless moment but still happy to be watching the events unfold. It’s funny, but it doesn’t quite hit hilarious.

Sudeikis comes across like a nice guy, but he lacks a dark side needed to sell this kind of comedy. I never really bought into the idea that he was wicked enough to traverse this kind of territory. Aniston, for that matter, whose hard luck as a stripper, seems about as believable a coffee shop in Soho that caters only to attractive white people. However, suspension of disbelief is hardly a deal breaker in a comedy.

What works in “We’re the Millers” are those wonderfully awkward moments of slack-jawed disbelief. Conversations between a fake father and son about which one is going to have to perform oral sex on a Mexican policeman (Greendale College graduate Luis

Guzmán), in order to avoid going to prison.

Or when they’re smart enough to populate the film with great comic actors like Nick Offerman and Katheryn Hahn, and let them do their thing. A lot of good actors in “We’re the Millers” have fun being raunchy and ridiculous.

That’s exactly what I want to see in a comedy, and why “We’re the Millers” is worth seeing.

The bullshit “everybody needs a family” moral is admirable but utterly useless. I was hoping for some more irredeemable souls populating the movie. Other than a few safe choices, it’s by far the best comedy I’ve seen all summer.

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8/14: Shakespeare’s classic comedy is given a contemporary spin in Joss Whedon’s film, “Much Ado About Nothing.” Shot in just 12 days (and using the original text), the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a dark, sexy and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.

8/19-21: In his compelling new film, “Twenty Feet From Stardom,” award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.

These gifted artists span a range of styles, genres and eras of popular music, but each has a uniquely fascinating and personal story to share of life spent in the shadows of superstardom. Intimate interviews include Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger and Sting to name just a few.

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On August 18th, the movie “Here Comes the Boom” follows former collegiate wrestler Scott Voss (Kevin James), a 42-year-old, apathetic highschool teacher. When budget cutbacks threaten to cancel some of the school’s programs and lay off its music teacher (Henry Winkler), Scott creates a scheme to raise money by moonlighting as a mixed martial arts fighter.

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idtown Wilmington has long been recognized as a cultural hotspot, a mosaic of people whose origins are as vast as the miles each traveled to arrive in America. From Greek to Mongolian, there is a bit of worldly flavor in almost every shopping center.

Specifically, India Mahal and Los Portales Supermercado and Taco Bar call midtown home.

Yet while the southern portion of the county hardly features as colorful a fabric of diversity, one family is staking its claim as a go-to establishment with Thai Spice. This week, we get to know the three families responsible for some of Wilmington’s most authentic global eats.

kind of Mexican, if you get a recipe from the Internet, the supermercado is the place to go,” Ramon urges. “You can find most everything.”

In the trend of steady growth, Los Portales Taqueria— now called Los Portales Taco Bar—opened in 2006 at 1207 S. Kerr Ave. “We wanted to try something different than just a basic, regular restaurant that sells enchiladas, chimichangas, and Tex-Mex,” Ramon reveals. “We wanted to open one really Mexican—something for us, really authentic—to fit the Hispanic population, because it was growing so fast.”

The restaurant features tacos which are representative of those sold in small shops in Mexico—”corner tacos,” as Ramon calls them. “We have tacos with like 15 different meats,” he boasts. “From intestines to stomach, carnitas, barbecue, fish, steak—a lot, a lot.”

On the weekends, pozole and menudo, stews, are offered. “We have seafood soup, which has seven different types of seafood in it [including shrimp, lobster and clams]—really good for hangovers,” Ramon offers with a laugh.

Aguas frescas are natural juices served regularly at Los Portales Taco Bar. The two flavors usually available are “Jamaica”—pronounced hy-mike-uh and made of hibiscus—and horchata, made of almonds. Sometimes there is agua fresca with tamarind.

Ramon shares that in the past two years, the number of Americans trying out the taqueria has grown immensely. “Maybe next year we would like to combine the [two] all together in the same building,” Ramon shares. “We need a bigger place, twice the size of the market.”

For Ramon and his family, expansion is never out of the question. “Everything we do is from passion and a thirst not to go out of business,” he quips.

Restaurateurs serve up the authentic flavors of their roots

LOS PORTALES

By: Bethany Turner

Ramon Villaseñor came to Wilmington from Degollado, a small city in the Mexican state of Jalisco, around 1997 with two brothers and his sister. They followed their third brother, who arrived in North Carolina first, and joined him in employment at El Cerro Grande. “But we didn’t want to be just workers,” Ramon expresses. “So we decided to open a store first in 2003.”

Los Portales Supermercado began as a small grocery, purveying Mexican and Central and South American products. A year later, a butcher shop was added to the store. “Most of the clientele there, they look for steaks—we’ll cut the steaks however you want: thin, thick,” Ramon assures.

“We sell diesmillo [thinly sliced chuck steak], one of the top sellers. We also have tripe, stomach, rabbits. We marinade chicken and pork so it’s ready to cook at home.”

In 2005 the family added its bakery and moved to its current location, 912 S. Kerr Ave. Mexican bread is made daily, from conchas (sweet breads) to bolillo, which is like a French baguette and is often used for tortas, which are Mexican sandwiches. “Top seller is the pastel de tres leches—the cake—that is really good, and homemade flan,” Ramon tells.

The supermercado also sells traditional cheeses, such as Oaxaca, which is typically used in quesadillas. Peppers of all kinds are available, too. “If you make mole or enchilada sauce, or any

INDIA MAHAL

“The Northern cuisine—well, let me tell you this way,” Sunny Singh, whose family runs India Mahal at 4610 Maple Avenue, begins. “Every mile in India is language, and every five mile is the food,

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starts changing. So you get to the point where you have a totally different language, totally different food.”

For culinary inspiration, the Singhs pull from their own specific heritage in Northern India.

The area, as Sunny notes, is known for more curries and breads. He clarifies that Southern Indian cuisine is typified by dosa, a pancake that is crispy like a crêpe, and idli, a puffier, savory cake. Thus, India Mahal serves over a dozen different breads, and curries for vegetarians and carnivores alike.

The Singhs arrived in North Carolina in 1993, when Sunny’s father, Amarjit, began working as a chef for his brother’s restaurant in Raleigh.

“He worked for my uncle for a few years, and then he opened an Indian restaurant in Greensboro in ‘97,” Sunny divulges.

Though the Piedmont eatery wasn’t successful for the Singhs—perhaps due to a lack of adventurous American taste buds in the ‘90s— the family’s prosperity in Raleigh urged them to try again elsewhere. “My uncle, my dad’s other brother, owned India Mahal before,” Sunny tells. “We bought the business, and ever since, we’ve been at India Mahal.”

The transaction, taking place in 2002, paved the way for a much stronger endeavor. Today the brand reaches a new customer base in more ways than one.

In the beginning of 2013, India Mahal unveiled their answer to the food-truck trend: Bollywood Food. “It’s a new idea, something different which gives more exposure for Indian food,” Sunny tells. “Indian food is very limited anywhere you go, but [with the truck] more people will see and know Indian food. Many of [the customers], they had never tried it, and it’s been successful for us. Wherever we go, we get a decent amount of people who buy from us.”

In July, Sunny took on a second restaurant in Jacksonville: Moghul Fine Indian Cuisine at 1250 Western Blvd. “Last Saturday my lease was done, and hopefully by Monday, [August 12th] we will open up,” the young restaurateur offers. “I have a different chef who is going to be working here and introducing some of the new dishes on the menu.”

Sunny reveals the additions will be “trendy,” such as Chicken 65, a spicy, deep-fried plate originating in Chennai, India. He’ll also offer Chicken Madras, named so for Chennai’s original moniker, using a spicy curry sauce. Ultimately, Sunny is looking for “different kinds of textures, sort of like Indo-Chinese style,” within the new eatery.

While Sunny works in Jacksonville, striving to open the restaurant without a hitch, his father, Amarjit, remains at the helm in Wilmington. The Singhs are successful because of their family values, Sunny states. “And the food has always been consistent.”

THAI SPICE

An ongoing joke at Thai Spice (5552 Carolina Beach Rd.) is the last name of the owners, siblings Larry and Laura O’Connor. While the duo is clearly Thai, guests often are thrown for a loop upon introduction.

“My dad met my mom when he was on vacation,” Larry begins. “He was working for a

company that dealt with transporting freights and cargoes internationally; he was, at the time, manager of the branch in Saudi Arabia.”

Their father never used his vacation, until the company forced him—by then, he’d racked up a few months’ worth. “His friend recommended Thailand as one of the places to visit,” Larry continues. “When he met my mom, he ended up not going to the other places he was going to go. He just stayed in Thailand.”

Following the marriage, Larry was born in Saudi Arabia. Before he was 3, the family moved to Kalasin, Thailand, where Laura was born. Mr. O’Connor traveled back and forth between Kalasin and Maryland; Larry joined his father outside of Baltimore at age 14. A year later, Laura joined them in America.

“When we were growing up, we were the foreign kids,” Larry jokes. Their light skin and freckles set them apart even in Kalasin. “When I came here, I was the foreign kid again.”

With Thai as his native tongue, Larry simultaneously tackled ninth grade and the English language. “I think we came at the right age, where we knew Thai and were brought up in the Thai culture, but we were still young enough to learn English,” he tells. “It was still easy for our brains at the time.”

Though a restaurant was never in the O’Connors’ plans, their mother always had an affinity toward cooking. “Mom had culinary education in Thailand—never to become a chef but because she was interested,” Larry states.

In early September 2010, when Larry was still working as a web designer in Maryland, his mother wanted to come to Wilmington to visit a friend. He drove her to North Carolina. “While we were here—this was already Thai Spice for about a year—we were told the previous owner was looking to sell,” Larry recalls. “We dropped in, took a look at the restaurant, and I could tell that Mom really, really wanted to do it. I could tell—and I knew that she just couldn’t do it on her own.”

A couple weeks later, Larry turned in his resignation. November 3rd, 2010, was the O’Connors’ first day with Thai Spice. “It was really scary, like the scariest thing I’ve ever done!” he exclaims. “But the scarier moment was actually when our first customer came in the door.”

Lacking any restaurant experience—but having created traditional Thai dishes at home with his mother, Sukanya—Larry nervously studied as much as he could about the business. Unless she is in Thailand, Sukanya works as the chef while her children rotate between the front and back of house.

“I think American people are more receptive in trying dishes now,” Larry says. “Their palates have expanded. They’re more open to trying new things, seeking things that are more authentic. Back then, I think they weren’t as adventurous, so Thai dishes I tasted in the ‘90s were very, very bland. They weren’t Thai at all.”

He attributes this partially to Thai restaurateurs catering to their American customers, as well as to a lack of availability of traditional ingredients, such as lemongrass and fish sauce.

Larry remembers driving almost to Washing-

ton, D.C. as a teen to get Thai groceries from a very tiny store. “It was not cheap,” he tells.

“Nowadays, most Thai restaurants aren’t like that anymore, thankfully, because the ingredients are more readily available,” he alleges.

“In Wilmington alone, we have two places— Saigon Market, and very close to it is a new place, Asian Life Market—at least that you can go for a lot of these Asian ingredients. Beyond that, we deal with, I can think of at least four, suppliers of Asian groceries and products. These ingredients are the exact same thing I used to buy in Thailand and cook with.”

Fresh herbs and spices are key in Thai meals. “This usually includes garden varieties of tomatoes, chilies, basil,” Larry adds. “Coconut milk and lime is often used. Our salad dishes, for example, have fresh-squeezed lime juice in them.”

The use of a spoon and fork to eat—no knives—and the rare use of chopsticks, sets Thai food apart from other Asian cuisine.

“Part of that is because a lot of dishes are prepared as already bite-size,” Larry tells. “A lot of times Thai people prefer meat to be cut up into fine pieces already. For example, if you were to get ka pow—which is a basic stir-fry dish—most places in Thailand it would come with chicken or ground pork. That’s the reason most Thais don’t use chopsticks. We only use chopsticks when we’re eating noodle soup.”

He amends that Thai restaurants in the States do offer a higher portion of meat than they would in Thailand, thus all dishes here may not have such fine pieces. “American

consumers prefer meat,” he says, “and a lot of Thai restaurants cater to their customers that way.”

On the other hand, though small places in Thailand—like Kalasin—are not as diverse as the United States, some places do attempt to cater to their tourists. “When we were growing up, there was this dish called American fried rice,” Larry adds. “I always thought when you order fried rice in the U.S., that’s what you get, but not really. I think it was just Thai people turning their fried rice into something they thought would appeal to Americans.”

Larry says the dish was merely fried rice with ketchup mixed in, and usually with bologna on the side. “I never liked American fried rice,” the restaurateur muses.

Though customers won’t find bologna on the menu at Thai Spice, they will find authentic tastes from Sukanya’s home, such as Pad Thai and curry catfish. “It’s going to be three years for us pretty soon,” Larry finishes. “I remember reading [in my studies] that if you can run a restaurant for three years, there’s a good chance you can stay for 10 if you decide to.”

In the end, Thai Spice is a family endeavor, and that is what matters most to the O’Connors. “I don’t know how long we’ll have Thai Spice, but we’re going to stay with it as long as we can,” Larry urges. “I already know that, in years down the road, I’m going to look back so fondly on this just because it allowed Mom, Laura and I to work together. It’s brought us closer as a family.”

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all day every day. Come in for our Weekday Lunch Specials, only $5.99 from 11am-2pm. Visit us for Wing Tuesdays with 50 cent wings all day long, or Boneless Thursdays with 60 cent boneless wings all day long. Buffalo Wild Wings is a great place to dine in or take out.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT:

Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 locations-Midtown (910798-9464) and Monkey Junction (910-392-7224) ■ MUSIC: Live music Friday and Saturday in the

Summer

■ WEBSITE: www.buffalowildwings.com

HALLIGAN’S PUBLIC HOUSE

MILD OR WILD: Enjoy wings, beer and sports at Buffalo Wild Wings with two locations in the Port City • 206 Old Eastwood Road, 910-798-9464 and 5533 Carolina Beach Road, 910-392-7224. Open seven days a week 11 a.m. - 2 a.m.

AMERICAN BLUEWATER

Enjoy spectacular panoramic views of sailing ships and the Intracoastal Waterway while dining at this popular casual American restaurant in Wrightsville Beach. Lunch and dinner are served daily. Favorites include jumbo lump crab cakes, succulent seafood lasagna, crispy coconut shrimp and an incredible Caribbean fudge pie. Dine inside or at their award-winning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sun. during the summer months. Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC. (910) 256.8500.

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

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

CATCH

Serving the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina. Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee, 2013 Best of Wilmington “Best Chef” winner, Chef Keith Rhodes explores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer.

We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Sea-

food. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch.

Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010. Dubbed “Modern Seafood Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Seafood & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Potato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, & Seafood Ceviche to name a few. Larger Plates include, Charleston Crab Cakes, Flounder Escovitch & Miso Salmon. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Allergies) Hand-crafted seasonal desserts.

Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405, 910-799-3847.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Lunch - Wednesday-Friday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Dinner, Mon.Saturday 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

BUFFALO WILD WINGS

If you’re looking for good food and an atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family, Buffalo Wild Wings is the place! Award winning wings and 20 signature sauces and seasonings. Plus…salads, wraps, flatbreads, burgers, and more. Tons of Big screen TVs and all your favorite sports. We have daily drink specials, a HUGE draft selection, and Free Trivia

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

Enjoy two locatons: 3317 Masonboro Loop Rd., and 1900 Eastwood Rd. in Lumina Station.

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

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

HENRY’S

A local favorite, Henry’s is the ‘place to be’ for great food, a lively bar and awesome patio dining.

Henry’s serves up American cuisine at its finest that include entrees with fresh, local ingredients.

Come early for lunch, because its going to be packed. Dinner too! Henry’s Pine Room is ideal for private functions up to 30 people. Henry’s is home to live music, wine & beer dinners and other special events. Check out their calendar of events at HenrysRestaurant.com for details. 2508 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington, NC. (910) 793.2929.

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily blackboard specials.

■ MUSIC: Live Music beginning at 5:30 p.m.

■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com.

Holiday Inn Resort

Oceans Restaurant located in this oceanfront resort is a wonderful find. This is the perfect place to enjoy a fresh Seafood & Steak dinner while dinning outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Chef Eric invites you to experience his daily specials in

this magnificent setting. (910) 256-2231. 1706 N Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach.

■ BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.-Sat..

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining ■ WEBSITE: www.holidayinn.com

K’s Cafe

Visit us in our new location on the corner of Eastwood and Racine - 420 Eastwood Rd, Unit 109.

“Where the people make the place” If you’re looking for a warm and friendly atmosphere with awesome home-cooked, freshly prepared meals, you can’t beat K’s Cafe. K’s Cafe is the best deal in Wilmington.They offer chargrilled burgers, including their most popular Hot Hamburger Platter smothered in gravy! They also offer great choices such as fresh chicken salad, soups, and even a delicious Monte Cristo served on French toast bread.

K’s also offers soup, sandwich and salad combos and a great variety of homemade desserts. On Sundays they offer a great brunch menu. A variety of choices will be on the menu such as Eggs Benedict. Visa and Mastercard accepted. Give K’s Cafe a try...you won’t be sorry. 420 Eastwood Rd., Unit 109, 791-6995. Find us on Facebook.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: 7 DAYS A WEEK. Monday - Friday. 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. And Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Serving several pita options, as well as new lighter selections!

■ WEBSITE: www.ks-cafe.net

THE LITTLE DIPPER

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

■ SERVING DINNER: 5pm Tue-Sun; seasonal hours, Memorial Day-Labor Day open 7 days a week.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: “Date Night” menu every Tues.; Ladies Night every Wed; $27 4-course prix fixe menu on Thurs.; 25% off a’ la cart menu on Fri. from 5-7 p.m. and half price bottles of wine on Sun. ■ MUSIC: Mon., Fri. & Sat. in summer from 5-7 p.m.

■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

SHELL ISLAND RESTAURANT

We invite you to experience dining in Wrightsville Beach’s—Shell Island Restaurant located inside the Shell Island Resort. The breathtaking panoramic ocean views are complemented with menu items that will invigorate your appetite. Whether you are in search of breakfast, lunch or dinner, our specialized menus feature the freshest ingredients prepared and presented by our dedicated service staff. Here is a reason to visit everyday—Weekday drink specials are offered both at the inside lounge or the poolside bar.

If a refreshing beverage is what you desire, the only question is: Inside or out? So try Shell Island Restaurant for fun in the sun and a view second to none.

You can observe the true island scene and absorb the true island dining experience. 2700 N Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Bch, NC 28480. (910) 256-8696 ■ BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Daily.

■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront Dining ■ MUSIC: Live music Friday & Saturday 7 – 10 p.m.

■ WEBSITE: www.shellisland.com

PINE VALLEY MARKET

Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encore’s Best-Of awards in catering, gourmet shop and butcher. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest ingredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger to classic Reuben, Italian sub to a grown-up banana and peanut butter sandwich that will take all diners back to childhood. Served among a soup du jour and salads, there is something for all palates.

Take advantage of their take-home frozen meals for nights that are too hectic to cook, and don’t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it.

3520 S. College Road, (910) 350-FOOD. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Mon.-Fri.10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Closed Sun. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals ■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com

TROLLY STOP

Trolly Stop Hot Dogs is a family owned franchise with six locations. Since 1976 they specialize in storemade chili, slaw and sauces, and as of more recent – a variety of gourmet sausages and burgers (at participating locations). The types of hot dogs include Beef & Pork, All Beef, Smoked Sausage, Fat-free Turkey (at participating locations), and Soy. Sausages include Bratwurst, Mild Italian, Spicy Beef and Polish Kielbasi. Locations are: 121 N. Front Street open Monday & Tuesday 11am-9pm; Weds, Thurs, Fri, & Sat 11am-3am; (910).251.7799. 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach open Sunday - Wednesday 11 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Thursday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 3:00 a.m. 4502 Fountain Drive, (910) 452-3952. Open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Sunday; South Howe St. in Southport, open Tuesday thru Fri. 11 until 3, Sat. 11 until 4 CLOSED SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS (910) 457-7017. Catering cart available all year from $350. Call Steve at (910) 520-5994.

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

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

■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

ASIAN BIG THAI II

From the minute you walk through the door to the wonderful selection of authentic Thai cuisine, Big Thai II offers you a tranquil and charming atmosphere - perfect start to a memorable dinner.

For the lunchtime crowd, the luncheon specials provide a great opportunity to get away. The menu is filled with carefully prepared dishes such as Pad Thai (Chicken, Beef, Pork or Tofu pan-fried rice noodles with eggs, peanuts, bean sprouts, carrots, and chives in a sweet and savory sauce) and Masaman Curry (The mildest of all curries, this peanut base curry is creamy and delicious with potatoes, cashew nuts and creamy avocado). But you shouldn’t rush into a main entrée right away!

You will be missing out on a deliciously appetizing Thai favorite, Nam Sod (Ground Pork blended with fresh chili, green onion, ginger and peanuts). And be sure to save room for a piece of their fabulous Coconut Cake! A trip to Big Thai II is an experience that you’ll never forget. If the fast and friendly ser-

vice doesn’t keep you coming back, the great food will! 1319 Military Cutoff Rd.; 256-6588 ■ Serving Lunch: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. -.2:30 p.m.

■ Serving Dinner: Mon-Thur 5 p.m. -.9:30 p.m.; Friday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 4 p.m. -.10 p.m.; Sunday 4 p.m. -.9:30 p.m.

■ Neighboorhood: Mayfaire ■ Featuring: Authentic Thai Cuisine ■ Website: www.bigthainc.com

SZECHUAN 132

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

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

HIRO JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE

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

■ SERVING DINNER: Open Mon. thru Thursday 4 p.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 4 p.m.-10:30 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Hibachi style dining.

■ WEBSITE: hirojapanesesteakhouse.com/ hibachi

India Mahal welcomes Chef Harry to the team. Harry comes from the 5-star hotel Taj Mahal and specializes in northern Indian cuisine, especially appetizers and desserts!

Try Moghul Fine Indian Cuisine on Western Blvd. in Jacksonville NC.Book the Bollywood food truck for upcoming parties and events.

Wilmington’s first Indian restaurant since 1993.

Old is good.

LUNCH

DINNER

Free non-alcoholic beverage with lunch buffet (lamb, goat, chicken, veggies, more)!

Free naan or vegetable pakora with purchase of two entrées.

Not good with any other offer.

Expires 12/31/2013

Not good with any other offer.

Expires 12/31/2013

LUNCH: Sun.-Sat.: 11:30am-2:30pm (buffet or menu) DINNER: Mon.-Sat.: 5-9:30pm •Sunday: 5-9pm

4610 Maple Avenue • 910-799-2089 www.indiamahalrestaurant.com

INDOCHINE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

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

After dinner, enjoy specialty drinks by the koi pond in our Asian garden. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Tues.- Fri. 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.; Sat. 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. for dinner.

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

SUNNY SUSHI & LOUNGE

Delight in a delectable range of “gateway” sushi and contemporary takes on classic Japanese cuisine in a hip and simple setting. Our fusion sushi

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makes use of unique ingredients such as seared steak and blue crab, offering downtown Wilmington a fresh and modern taste. Offering over 85 different sushi rolls, many are titled in quintessential Carolina names, such as the Dawson’s Creek, the Hampstead Crunch, and the Queen Azalea. We focus on fresh, organic ingredients, and seek to satisfy guests with dietary restrictions—we have many vegetarian options, for instance. Our selections feature exotic ingredients such as eel and octopus, while we even offer rolls using sweet potatoes or asparagus. Dine with us and discover the tantalizing flavors you’ve been missing.

141 N. Front St.; (910) 833-7272 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Lunch: Mon.-Fri. 11am-2pm; Sat. 12pm-2pm.

Dinner: Mon-Thurs: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Fri-Sat: 5 p.m.-11 p.m.; Sun: 5 p.m.-9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Sunny Maki Combo Specials: 3 sushi rolls for $11.95 daily.

THAI SPICE

From the flavorfully mild to the fiery spiced, Thai Spice customers are wooed by the dish that’s made to their specifications. Featuring a tasteful menu of traditional Thai standards to numerous delectable house specials, it’s quickly becoming the local favorite for Thai cuisine. This family-run restaurant is sure to win you over. If you haven’t discovered this gem, come in and be charmed.

Whether it be a daytime delight, or an evening indulgence, your visit will make you look forward to your return. Located in Monkey Junction at 5552 Carolina Beach Rd., Ste. G. (910) 791-0044.

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ WEBSITE: www.ThaiSpiceWilmington.com

CAJUN BOURBON ST

At Bourbon St., the food, style and atmosphere are New Orleans-bred but Carolina-refined. It features the unique decoration of a typical New Orleans bar, as it seems to have been extracted from the heart of the French Quarter. The classic French style and the laidback American culture come together to offer us a unique place where joy can be inhaled at every breath.

The authentic Southern decorations in Bourbon St. were carefully selected at antique houses, garage sales and thrift shops found in the streets of the Big Easy. It enables us to offer you the true experience of being in the heart of the French Quarter: Bourbon St. It’s the best place to enjoy with friends, with the rhythm of live music, the classic taste of typical Cajun food, and the best beers available in our market. 35 N. Front St.; (910) 762-4050.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.; Sunday 12 p.m. to 2 a.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Authentic Creole Cajun cuisine, live music Thursday, Friday and Saturday with no cover. Try our famous charbroiled oysters.

INDIAN TANDOORI BITES

Located on College Road, just opposite Hugh MacRae Park, Tandoori Bites offers fine Indian cuisine at affordable prices. Try one of 74 dishes on their lengthy menu, featuring a large range of side dishes and breads. They have specialties, such as lamb korma with nuts, spices and herbs in a mild creamy sauce, as well as seafood, like shrimp biryani with saffron-flavored rice, topped with the shellfish and nuts. They also have many vegetarian dishes, including mutter paneer, with garden peas and homemade paneer, or baingan bharta with

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

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Fri 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-11 p.m.; Sat 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-11 p.m.; Sun 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 5 p.m.-9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown.

■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet, which now serves South Indian cuisine.

■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net.

IRISH THE HARP

Experience the finest traditional Irish family recipes and popular favorites served in a casual yet elegant traditional pub atmosphere. The Harp, 1423 S. 3rd St., proudly uses the freshest ingredients, locally sourced whenever possible, to bring you and yours the most delicious Irish fare! We have a fully stocked bar featuring favorite Irish beers and whiskies. We are open at 5 a.m. every day for both American and Irish breakfast, served to noon weekdays and 2 p.m. weekends. Regular menu to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. weekends. Join us for djBe Open Mic & Karaoke - Irish songs available! - 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and half-price wine bottles all day Tuesdays; Harp University Trivia with Professor Steve Thursdays 7:30 p.m.; djBe karaoke and dancing 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.

Saturdays and live music Wednesday and Fridays call ahead for schedule 910-763-1607. Located just beside Greenfield Lake and Park at the south end of downtown Wilmington, The Harp is a lovely Irish pub committed to bringing traditional Irish flavor, tradition and hospitality to the Cape Fear area.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER:

Oysters, Shrimp, Clams, Mussels Crab Legs, Wings, Fish ‘n’ Chips

Your downtown place for sports

Named one of the Best Seafood Dives in America

by Coastal Living Magazine

$4 Bombs, $3 P.I. Cocktail (oyster shooter)

Live Music N W TO N W Fri. & Sat. nights O D HAPPY HOUR

$1.50 PBR Cans*, $4 Margarita’s, Mon-Friday $3 Mexican Bullfighters, 25% off all Wine 5-7 p.m.

WEDNESday $2 16oz Drafts, $4 Oyster Bombs, 1/2 price Apps. $4 Jameson’s, $5 Dark ‘n’ Stormy’s se from 10pm-Clo THURSday $2 Select Domestic Bottles, $5 Martini’s, ay everyd ½ price wine bottles *, $3 Bloody Bivalve (oyster shooter)

TUESday

FRIday

$5 Flavored Vodka’s, $5 Baby Guinness, $3 Whiskey Dick’s (oyster shooter), $14 Corona/Corona Light Buckets

OPEN DAILY: Downtown

109 Market St. 910-833-8622

Carolina Beach

6 N. Lake Park Blvd.

910-458-7380

SATURday $4 Fireball, $3 Oyster Shooters, $3 Sweetwater’s, $5 Painkiller’s Look for us on Facebook SUNday $5 Bloody’s, $4 Mimosa’s & Sangria, $6.25 Shack Attack’s, $10 Domestic Buckets *downtown only special

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ITALIAN A TASTE OF ITALY

Daily Drink Specials Monday $2.75 import bottles, $3 Wells,

Open at 5 a.m. every day for both American and Irish breakfast, served to noon weekdays and 2 p.m. weekends. Regular menu to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. weekends.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Greenfield Lake/Downtown South ■ FEATURING: Homemade soups, desserts and breads, free open wifi, new enlarged patio area, and big screen TVs at the bar featuring major soccer matches worldwide.

■ MUSIC Live music Wednesdays and Fridays call 910-763-1607 for schedule; djBe open mic and karaoke Tuesdays 8:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m, and djBe karaoke and dancing Saturdays 9 p.m - 1:30 a.m.

■ WEBSITE www.harpwilmington.com

The authentic Italian cuisine served at Taste of Italy has scored them Best Deli in the Port City for years running now. The Guarino family recipes have been passed down from generation to generation to brothers Tommy and Chris, who serve breakfast, lunch and dinner to hungry diners. They also cater all events, from holiday parties to corporate lunches, including hot meals, cold trays, handmade desserts and an array of platters, from antipasto to cold cuts. In addition, Taste of Italy sells Scalfani products, Sabrett hot dogs and Polly-O cheeses in their market, all the while serving top-notch hot and cold items from their delicatessen. Located at 1101 South College Rd., P. 910-392-7529, F. 910-392-9745 www.ncatasteofitaly.com Open M-F 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Sat. 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER: M-F 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Sat. 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Ponatone, Pandora, Torrone and

gift baskets of all sizes!

■ WEBSITE: www.ncatasteofitaly.com

EDDIE ROMANELLI’S

is a family-friendly, casual Italian American restaurant that’s been a favorite of Wilmington locals for over 16 years. Its diverse menu includes Italian favorites such as Mama Romanelli’s Lasagna, Baked Ziti, Rigatoni a la Vodka and, of course, madefrom-scratch pizzas. Its American influences include tasty burgers, the U.S.A. Salad and a 16 oz.

Marinated Rib Eye Steak. Romanelli’s offers patio dining and flat screen TVs in its bar area. Dine in or take out, Romanelli’s is always a crowd favorite.

Large parties welcome. 503 Olde Waterford Way, Leland. (910) 383.1885.

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South.

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

ELIZABETH’S PIZZA

A Wilmington favorite since 1987! At Elizabeth’s you’ll find authentic Italian cuisine, as well as some of your American favorites. Offering delicious pizza, salads, sandwiches, entrees, desserts, beer, and wine. Elizabeth’s is known for their fresh ingredients, where even the bread is baked fresh daily.

A great place for lunch, dinner, a late night meal, or take out. Elizabeth’s can also cater your event and now has a party room available. Visit us 4304 ½ Market St or call 910-251-1005 for take out.

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

■ WEBSITE: www.epwilmington.com ■ FEATURING: Daily specials, kids menu and online coupons.

Fat Tony’s Italian Pub

Fat Tony’s has the right combination of Italian and American influences to mold it into a unique familyfriendly restaurant with a “gastropub” feel. Boasting such menu items as Penne alla Vodka, Beef Lasagna, and mix-and-match pasta dishes (including a gluten-free penne), Fat Tony’s is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Add in homemade, hand-tossed, New York style pizzas, 8oz Angus burgers, and deliciously plump chicken wings, and you’ve got a game day in heaven. Proudly supporting the craft beer movement, they have an ever-changing selection of small-brewery beers included in their 25-tap lineup – 12 of which are from NC. They have over forty bottled beers, great wines, and an arsenal of expertly mixed cocktails that are sure to wet any whistle. Fat Tony’s has two pet-friendly patios – one looking out onto Front Street and one with a beautiful view of the Cape Fear River. With friendly, efficient service and a fun, inviting atmosphere, expect to have your expectations exceeded at Fat Tony’s. It’s all good.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon. - Thurs.

11:00 am - Midnight; Fri. & Sat. 11:00am - 2:00am.

Sun. 12:00pm - Midnight ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.fatpub.com ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials until 3pm and late night menu from 11pm until closing.

Pizzetta’s Pizzeria

Family-owned and operated by Sicilian cousins Sal and Vito, Pizzetta’s Pizzeria has become Wilmington’s favorite place for homey, authentic Italian fare served with precision and flavor like none other. Made daily from family recipes, folks will enjoy hand-tossed pizzas——gourmet to traditional——specialty heroes and pastas, homemade

soups and desserts, and even daily blackboard specials. Something remains tempting for every palate, whether craving one of their many pies or a heaping of eggplant parm, strombolis and calzones, or the famed Casa Mia (penne with sautéed mushrooms, ham, peas in a famous meat sauce with cream). Just save room for their buttery, melt-in-your-mouth garlic knots!

Ending the meal with their pastry chef’s carefully crafted cannolis, Tiramisu or gourmet cheesecake, alongside a cup of freshly made espresso or cappuccino, literally makes a perfect end to one unforgett able and desirable meal. Located in Anderson Square at 4107 Oleander Dr., Unit F, Wilmington (910-799-4300) or Pizzetta’s II, Leland, 1144 E. Cutler Crossing, St., Ste 105, in Brunswick Forest.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER: ILM location: Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m., and Sun., noon. • Leland location: Mon.-Wed., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thurs.Sat., 11 a.m. -11 p.m.; Sun., noon - 9:30 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown Wilmington and coming soon, Brunswick Forest in Leland ■ FEATURING: Homemade pizzas, pastas, soups and desserts, all made from family recipes!

■ WEBSITE: www.pizzettas.net

SIENNA TRATTORIA

Enjoy authentic Italian food in a beautiful, warm, casual setting. Whether dining indoors or in our courtyard, Siena is the perfect neighborhood trattoria for the entire family to enjoy. From our delicious brick oven pizza to elegantly prepared meat, seafood, and pasta specials, you will find a level of cuisine that will please the most demanding palate, prepared from the finest and freshest ingredients.

■ SERVING DINNER: at 4 p.m. Daily.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South. 3315 Masonboro Loop Road, 910-794-3002 ■ FEATURING: Family style dinners on Sundays ■ WEBSITE: www.sienawilmington.com

SLICE OF LIFE

“Slice” has become a home away from home for tourists and locals alike. Our menu includes salads, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, homemade soups, subs and, of course, pizza.

We only serve the freshest and highest-quality ingredients in all of our food, and our dough is made daily with purified water. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”All ABC permits. Visit us downtown at 122 Market Street, (910) 251-9444, in Wrightsville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and our newest location in Pine Valley on the corner of 17th and College Road, (910) 799-1399.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT:

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, Downtown and Wilmington South.

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

JAMAICAN JAMAICA’S COMFORT ZONE

Tucked in the corner of University Landing, a block from UNCW is the hidden gem of Wilmington’s international cuisine scene - Jamaica’s Comfort Zone. This family owned restaurant provides a relaxing blend of Caribbean delights – along with reggae music – served up with irrepressible smiles for miles. From traditional Jamaican breakfast to mouth-watering classic dishes such as curry goat, oxtail, jerk and curry chicken, to our specialty 4-course meals

($12.00). Cook Dana Keels, from Clarendon prepares flavors to please every palate.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER: Tuesday - Saturday 11:45am - 9:00pm and Sunday 1:30pm 8:00pm Sunday. Monday - Closed ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown – University Landing 417 S. College Road, Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials updated daily on Facebook ■ WEBSITE: www.jamaicascomfortzone.net

LATIN AMERICAN SAN JUAN CAFE

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

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

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

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

ORGANIC LOVEY’S MARKET

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

Whether you are in the mood for a Veggie Burger, Hamburger or a Chicken Caesar Wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte Lovey’s Cafe’ menu. The Food Bar-which has cold salads and hot selections can be eaten in the newly expanded Lovey’s Cafe’ or boxed for take-out. The Juice Bar offers a wide variety of juices and smoothies made with Organic fruits and vegetables. Specializing in bulk sales of grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices. Lovey’s has a great selection of Local produce and receives several weekly deliveries to ensure freshness. Lovey’s also carries Organic Grass-Fed and Free-Range meats and poultry. Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free products are in stock regularly, as are Vegan and Vegetarian groceries. Lovey’s also carries Wholesome Pet Foods. Stop by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 am to 6 p.m.. Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Rd in the Landfall Shopping Center; (910) 509-0331. “You’ll Love it at Lovey’s!”

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown FEATURING: Organic Salad Bar/Hot Bar, New Bakery with fresh, organic pies and cakes. Newly expanded.

■ WEBSITE: www.loveysmarket.com.

everyone, regardless of dietary demands.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon. - Fri. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

■ WEEKEND BRUNCH: Sat & Sun, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

■ SALAD BAR: Mon. - Sun, 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

■ SANDWICHES: Mon. - Sun, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

■ BAKERY & CAFE: Mon. - Sun, 8 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: indoor/outdoor seating, free Wi-Fi ■ WEBSITE: www.tidalcreek.coop

SEAFOOD DOCK STREET OYSTER BAR

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

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week.

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

■ WEBSITE: www.dockstreetoysterbar.net

EAST

The Blockade Runner offers an array of seasonal seafood specials, certified Angus beef, lobster menu on Fri. evening plus a spectacular Sun. brunch. Romantic al fresco dining is available on our dinner deck located in the center of a lush garden overlooking the ocean far away from the traffic and noise. Our lounge is eco-friendly and offers

light fare nightly. 275 Waynick Blvd. Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256-2251.

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

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

brunch.

■ WEBSITE: www.blockade-runner.com

HIERONYMUS

Hieronymus Seafood is the midtown stop for seafood lovers. In business for over 30 years, Hieronymus has made a name for itself by constantly providing excellent service and the freshest of the fresh in local seafood. It’s the place to be if you are seeking top quality attributes in atmosphere, presentations, flavor and ingenuity. Signature dishes include Oysteronymus and daily fresh catch specials. Hieronymus has all ABC permits and also provides catering services. Voted “Best Seafood” in 2011. 5035 Market Street; 910-392-6313; hieronymusseafood.com ■ ■ ■ ■

SERVING LUNCH & DINNER NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown FEATURING: Fireside oyster bar.

WEBSITE: www.hieronymusseafood.net

OCEANIC

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

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TIDAL CREEK CO-OP KITCHEN

Come dine-in or take-out from the newly renovated Co-op Kitchen at Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market. You can fill your plate or box with hot bar and salad bar items that are prepared fresh daily in our kitchen. Made-to-order sandwiches, like the Tempeh Reuben, are served hot off the Panini grill. The Co-op Café offers organic smoothies and fresh juices; local wheatgrass shots; fair trade organic coffee, lattes, and chai tea; and our newest addition of Lenny Boy kombucha tea on tap. Don’t forget our baked-from-scratch baked goods! The Co-op Kitchen provides menu items that appeal to

Open for Lunch and Dinner steaks

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In the Cotton Exchange Downtown Wilmington

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style to go menu available. 703 S. Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256.5551.

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

WEBSITE: www.OceanicRestaurant.com

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SOUTHPORT

The Fortunate Glass

Sun. Aug. 18th • 10 am - $55

This cruise is like a staycation. Come aboard for a delightful cruise to Southport. Once there you will have time to go exploring this quaint fishing village.

Have lunch, go shopping or check out the sights where Safe Haven was filmed.

The cruise down river will be narrated so you will learn about all the points of interest from Brunswick Town, Campbell Island, Federal Point & Snows Cut. We will return to Wilmington approx 6pm is getting nice, flowers are blooming & fish are jumping.

BOOK Weather Now all you have to do is pick a date to reserve your cruise then leave the rest to us. We strive to make each cruise memorable, so YOUR let us customize a cruise especially for you. We accommodate up 49 passengers with flexible seating...we can handle your catering SPECIAL toand special bar requests. We also have a great sound system, so bring your Ipods or cd’s.... also you can bring a memory stick for EVENT that rare opportunity to show off your stash of photos on our flat screen TV..Big Fun Awaiting ...

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Shuckin’ Shack Oyster Bar is thrilled to now serve customers in its new location at 109 Market Street in Historic Downtown Wilmington (910-833-8622).

It’s the place you want to be to catch your favorite sports team on 7 TV’s carrying all major sports packages. A variety of fresh seafood is available daily including oysters, shrimp, clams, mussels, and crab legs. Shuckin’ Shack has expanded its menu now offering fish tacos, crab cake sliders, fried oyster po-boys, fresh salads, and more.

Come in a check out Shack’s daily lunch, dinner, and drink specials. It’s a Good Shuckin’ Time! The original Shack is located in Carolina Beach at 6A N. Lake Park Blvd.; (910) 458-7380.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Sat 11am2am; Sun noon-2am ■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Carolina Beach and Downtown ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials, join the mailing list online ■ WEBSITE: www.pleasureislandoysterbar.com

JUST ADD WATER! Visit us on the Riverwalk!

212 S. Water Street

910-338-3134

info@wilmingtonwt.com Follow BAR ON BOARD WITH ALL ABC PERMITS us

The Fortunate Glass Wine Bar is the perfect place to explore the beauty of wine while tasting a variety of tapas in an intimate environment. The wine menu focuses on wines from all regions, with 50 wines by the glass and approximately 350 wines available by the bottle, including some of the best boutique and cult wines, to everyday values that work with any budget. There are over 30 beers available featuring some of the best craft selections. The serene ambiance of The Fortunate Glass, created by the beautiful wall murals, the elegant copper and glass tile bar, castle-rocked walls and intimate booths enhances the experience of any selection you choose. The Fortunate Glass Wine Bar also presents a small menu of creative tapas, global cheeses, cured meats and decadent desserts to accompany and compliment any wine selection.

■ SERVING EVENINGS: Tues.-Thurs. 4 p.m.-12 a.m. Fri. 4 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat. 2 p.m.-2.a.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.-12 a.m.

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

Bubble and wine specials: Wed. & Thurs. Monthly food & wine pairing events.

■ WEBSITE www.fortunateglasswinebar.com

SOUTHERN CASEY’S BUFFET

In Wilmington, everyone knows where to go for solid country cooking. That place is Casey’s Buffet, winner of encore’s Best Country Cookin’/ Soul Food and Buffet categories. “Every day we are open, somebody tells us it tastes just like their grandma’s or mama’s cooking,” co-owner Gena Casey says. Gena and her husband Larry run the show at the Oleander Drive restaurant where people are urged to enjoy all food indigenous to the South: fried chicken, barbecue, catfish, mac‘n’cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, chicken‘n’dumplings, biscuits and homemade banana puddin’ are among a few of many other delectable items. 5559 Oleander Drive. (910) 7982913.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and

on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesdays.

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

SPORTS BAR CAROLINA ALE HOUSE

Voted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010 in Wilmington, Carolina Ale House is the place to be for award-winning food, sports and fun.

Located on College Rd. near UNC W, this lively sports-themed restaurant. Covered and open outdoor seating is available. Lunch and dinner specials are offered daily, as well as the coldest $2 and $3 drafts in town. 317 South College Road.

(910) 791.9393.

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

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

projector TVs in Wilmington.

■ WEBSITE: www.CarolinaAleHouse.com

FOX & HOUND PUB & GRILLE

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

Guests can also play pool, darts or video games in this casual-theme restaurant. For starters, Fox offers delicious appetizers like ultimate nachos, giant Bavarian pretzels and spinach artichoke dip. In the mood for something more? Try the hand-battered Newcastle fish ‘n’ chips or chicken tenders. From cheeseburgers and sirloins to salads and wood oven-inspired pizzas, Fox has plenty to choose from for lunch or dinner. Finish the meal with a 6-inch Great Cookie Blitz, a chocolate chip cookie baked fresh to order and served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and Hershey’s syrup. 920 Town Center Dr., 509-0805.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 11am– 2am, daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: $5.99 lunch specials and free pool until 2p.m. Monday through Friday ■ MUSIC: Trivia with Party Gras Entertainment DJ every Thursday at 9pm ■ WEBSITE: www.foxandhound.com

HELL’S KITCHEN

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Helping Connect with Faith

ach week, employees at several Wrightsville Beach businesses are starting to see curiosities on their counters from a group called Surfcura: bags of brownies or s’mores, a colorful basket of eggs with encouraging messages.

Surfcura exists to serve the businesses, residents and tourists of Wrightsville Beach through acts of kindness and prayer, if necessary. A combination of surf and the Latin word for care, Surfcura is a ministry of the Mission Service Corps, a self-funded arm of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board. The female force behind it is 33-year-old Robin Crabtree, who started the ministry a year ago.

“We choose a business and commit to [it] regularly, caring for their employees, bringing them cookies or having kids at church draw pictures for them, letting them know they’re loved and cared for,” she says. “We go once a week, never distracting from their business or forcing faith on people. Hopefully, as those relationships grow, we can share the gospel

Robin Crabtree focuses missions on Wrightsville Beach community By: Amanda Greene

with them.”

Crabtree moved from Durham to Wrightsville Beach for the ministry, after seeing the work the Wood family of five is doing in IMPACT Ministries in Myrtle Beach. IMPACT serves six family campgrounds around the Horry County area.

“I grew up in church, and as I grew older, I realized my friends didn’t know the gospel like I did,” Crabtree notes. “In college, through Campus Crusade for Christ, I saw the need for college missions. I felt like God was calling me to missions. I realized it’s the

kind of thing I feel passionate about. I’m more of a people-person, and everywhere I’d turn, I’d hear about Wrightsville Beach.”

With this weekend’s Wrightsville Beach Wahine Classic returning to the south end of Wrightsville Beach on August 17th and 18th, Crabtree will be volunteering and helping the surfers. “With this ministry there’s a huge vision, little by little, bit by bit, building it up,” she adds.

Right now, she’s focusing on four Wrightsville Beach businesses, but the goal is to

provide dinners for lifeguards, block parties, elder-care work, service projects and prayer walks for the whole community. Any time there’s an interest, Crabtree says she will plan a day of service for a church or college group to reach out on the beach.

“But that’s a lot to undertake all on your own,” Crabtree admits. “Right now, even if I had a million dollars, I really need volunteers.

I feel that a lot of times churches talk a lot about missions, but they don’t do a lot about it. I’d love to partner with churches [and reach] out to the lost. I’d like to enable them to get involved in missions.”

Because Surfcura isn’t monetarily supported, Crabtree must fund-raise while working part-time as a graphics designer. She also wants to remove the pop-cultural perception of missionaries with self-righteous halos.

“Growing up, you think missionaries are like superstar Christians,” she states. “You never think you can do that,” Crabtree says.

“But we all sin. We’re normal people.”

Anyone who wishes to help Robin Crab-

Above: Surfcura distributed Joy S’mores to businesses in Wrightsville Beach as part of its fledgling ministry. Photo courtesy of Robin Crabtree.

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tree volunteer for Surfcura can contact her via e-mail at surfcura@hotmail.com or visit www.surfcura.org.

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Consumers can buy a book to help the hungry on specific days in August, September and October at Books-A-Million (3737 Oleander Drive). Purchase dates include August 17th, September 17th and 21st, and October 12th. Mention the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC, and 10 percent of all purchases will help feed 70,000 people affected by hunger in the Cape Fear region.

Details can be found at the www.foodbankcenc.org; click “Wilmington branch.”

ROLLER GIRLS FOR HABITAT

With names like “CathLICK Skool Girl,” “Bella Da Brawl,”” Rosy Reckabilly” and “Hawaiian Puncher,” the Cape Fear Roller Girls are formidable on the rink. They may be tough, but they have a giving heart.

On August 17th at 5 p.m. at the Schwartz Center at Cape Fear Community College, 601 N. Front Street, they’ll take on their next

bout: a double header against Harrisburg Area Roller Derby (HARD. The portion of their proceeds will go to Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity. Tickets are $10. Details can be found at info@capefearrollergirls.com Amanda Greene is the editor of Wilmington Faith & Values at WilmingtonFAVS.com.

Do you have a volunteer opportunity to highlight? Email her at Amanda.Greene@ReligionNews.com or call 910-520-3958.

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Thurs.: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Free wine night from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekly) Fri.-Sat.: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sun.: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. www.islandchiccb.com

We are a designer-style consignment boutique, and we strive to carry the best designer brand names and the latest styles at the best prices. We carry brands from Banana Republic and BCBG, to J Crew, Lilly Pullitzer, and Michael Kors. Our assortment of clothing features a blend of new and slightly used items, also including shoes, handbags, and accessories that are chic, contemporary, and stylish!

Our prices are more than 50% less than the original prices. We also carry a unique variety of brand new gifts for all ages and tastes, including new jewelry and many monogrammed items.

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Island Passage Elixir carries fun and stylish brands from top designers! Elixir is one of five of our beloved boutiques in the Wilmington area. Our sister stores include Return Passage, Island Passage in Lumina Station, Canopy Outfitters and Maritime Passage.

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Punctuating its modern and casual men’s clothing with a rustic interior, Bloke is transforming the way Wilmington’s men dress.

Upon opening in 2010, they quickly became Wilmington’s premier men’s shop. The welcoming atmosphere and affordable style ensure that Bloke’s customers stay casually well dressed. With brands such as French Connection, Big Star, Civil Society, Jedidiah, and WeSC they offer a wide variety of unique options, including locally made products, to help update any guys’ style.

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to-docalendar events BOARDWALK BLAST Carolina Beach Boardwalk Blast, feat. live music 6:30-9:30pm, Thursday nights at Gazebo.

Fireworks at 9pm. 8/15, The Cut; 8/22, Billy Walton Band; 8/30, 40 East. • Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30pm: Family Night, featuring bouncehouse, kids’ activities, variety shows and more!

Cash Bingo, Wed., 7-9pm.

INVOLVEMENT CARNIVAL UNCW fall 2013 Involvement Carnival registration: University of North Carolina Wilmington, Campus Activities and Involvement Center, FSC 2029, 601 S. College Rd, no later than 5pm, 8/16.

SOUTHPORT-BUffETT CELEBRATION Chamber of Commerce for the Southport-Oak Islan’s long weekend of Jimmy Buffett-style events, 8/23-24: beach game tournaments and concerts, local “Vote Your Favorite Cheeseburger” competition from the Chamber member restaurants. Customers of the restaurants in the area are being asked to vote online now through 8/22 for their “Cheeseburger in 8/24, the day ends with a concert held at the Cape Fear Regional Jetport featuring food, children’s games, Jimmy Buffett style contests and entertainment by Latitude and Key Lime Pie. The weekend concludes with a Sunday morning fund raising pancake breakfast event by the EAA Chapter #939 jetport. southport-oakisland. com/index.htm

WOMEN’S CONfERENCE 8/23-25: The New Beginning Christian Church (NBCC) Sister to Sister Ministry’s 2nd Annual Women’s Conference: “Called to be a DIVA 2013” (Divine, Inspired, Virtuous, Anointed).

Theme of this event is “Lord Make Me Whole – Body, Soul & Spirit.” 3120 Alex Trask Drive in Castle Hayne. Three-day event to feature some of the finest speakers, talented psalmists, vocalists, vendors and a great deal more!

Registration fee for this dynamic event is a tax deductible $30. Friday evening sessions starting at 5pm with intercessory prayer, praise and worship, anointed teaching and preaching. Be Healthy Fair and exercise classes will highlight Friday’s events. Speakers include Apostle Yushonda Midgette-Spriggs, Elder Lynda McMillan, Ambassador Patricia Melvin and Debra TylerHorton (AARP) from Raleigh, NC. Saturday’s music ministry: Minister Jerri Holliday and Damion Murrill & Siloam and anointed speakers, LaShawn Thompson from World Overcomers Christian Church, Durham, NC, Elder Teresa Huffman and Lady Joy Gregory, Wilmington. Afternoon luncheon w/Gospel Comedian LaSalle LaSalle, local vocalist/producer Silivea Johnson, Miss BJ Williams, and a fashion show. Lady Kathy Campbell of New Beginning Christian and CoPastor Vanessa Mullen from Abundant Life International Cathedral, Jacksonville, NC, wrap up this conference on Sunday, w/powerful services at 9am and 11am. Vendors choose a booth starting at $50 for two days. (910) 3417984. Registration: www.newbcc.com.

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Happenings and events across Wilmington

Wrightsville Beach visitors can still enjoy life’s simple pleasures much like vacationers have done for over 100 years. 8/25, 4-10pm: A nostalgic evening of wholesome fun is in store for those who attend the 17th Lumina Daze Celebration at Blockade Runner Resort (275 Waynick Blvd.). Festivities promise to transport attendees back in time with historical displays, presentations, music, dancing, and food. Lumina Daze recalls Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina as it was when famous musicians performed at the legendary Lumina Pavilion, an island landmark for 68 years until it was torn down in 1973. Three bands: The Wilmington Big Band orchestra; The Imitations, beach musi; The Dixieland All-Stars, jazz favorites. Dancing, food and beverages, silent and a live auction to benefit the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History. 910-256-2569 or email wbmuseum@bizec. rr.com. Tickets: $15, available at the door or in advance at 303 W. Salisbury Street, Wrightsville Beach. or www.wbmuseum.com.

RED BUS TOUR Wilmington Red Bus Tour: three local bars will offer a $2 beer special and a $2 “Red Bus” shot special. Also food specials, live music, DJ, games, contests, prizes and give-a-ways! Friday, Aug. 30, 6:30pm-2am. Tour begins at Hells Kitchen and goes to Courts & Sports and Dirty Martini, back to Hells Kitchen. Wristband gets you in free to City Limits, Pravda & Sputnik, and Red Bus specials until 2am. • Saturday, Aug. 31, Tour begins at Dirty Martini 6:30pm and moves to Courts & Sports and Hells Kitchen before back to Dirty Martini . 910-264-4343.

charity/fund-raisers fOOD BANK DAY Books A Million Gives 10% to Food Bank Day, 8/17. 10% of All Purchases at Books A Million will go to benefit the Food Bank CENC, Wilmington. New Hanover Center, 3737 Oleander Dr., noon-4pm. Volunteers will be there to answer your questions about the Food Bank of CENC programs in your community. Mention the Food Bank as you check out and 10 percent of all purchases benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC at Wilmington, working to feed 70,000 individuals affected by hunger in the Cape Fear Region. For every $1 donated=5 meals go to neighbors in need. And you can sign up to volunteer!

NC SOROSIS RUMMAGE SALE Find that one-of-a-kind treasure at the North Carolina Sorosis giant rummage sale on Fri., 8/23; Sat., 8/24, 7am-2pm, at the NCS Clubhouse, 20 S. Cardinal Drive, Wilmington. A variety of household goods, decorative items, clothing, coffee and baked goods will be available for purchase. NCS is sponsoring this event with NC Junior Sorosis and Wilmington Woman’s Club. www.ncsorosis.org.

LAST CHANCE fOR WHITE PANTS Don’t miss the party of the summer! The Last Chance for White Pants Gala is 7 p.m. until midnight on Friday, Aug. 30, at Hilton Wilmington Riverside. Tickets are $100 and include live

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music by Motown, funk, soul and hip-hop band, Mo’ Sol; heavy hors d’oeuvres; beer and wine; and silent and live auctions. Put on by the Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation, event proceeds benefit nonprofit Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter. www.hospicewhitepants.org or call the event hotline at 910.796.8099 ext.

6. Guest packages and sponsorships start at $500, and include a guest room for two at the Hilton. RSVP by Fri., 8/23.

BUILD A BACKPACK The 3rd annual 2013 “Build A Backpack” supply drive will run through 8/31, benefitting economically-disadvantaged students in nearly 80 counties in NC. Annual campaign is a partnership between Walmart, Communities In Schools of North Carolina and the United Way of North Carolina. Folks are encouraged to purchase school supplies and donate them as they leave.

Bins will be available at the front of all participating Walmart stores to collect the donated school supply items. The items will be distributed to local Communities In Schools affiliates or other designated partners, and will then be distributed to public school students in need.

theatre/auditions OPERA HOUSE THEATER CO. Oklahoma! Music by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; original dances by Agnes de Mille; and based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs. Feat. the most successful songwriting partnership in Broadway history, the show is set in the Oklahoma Territory in 1906, and tells the story of Laurey, a headstrong farm girl, who is courted by two very different men: a brash cowboy and a surly farmhand. Feat. some of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s best known songs, including “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “Kansas City” and “Oklahoma!” Choreographed by Ray Kennedy.

8/16-18. Shows at 8pm, except for Sun. matinees, 3pm. Main Stage Thalian Hall. Tickets: $25, (910) 632-2285 or thalianhall.com BROWNCOAT PUB AND THEATER Thursday Night Live Improv with the Fruity Oaty Bars this and every Thursday. Free show where you find out what the actors are going to do at the same time as the actors! Doors, 7:30; hilarity, 8pm. • “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead” written by “Easy A,” screenwriter Bert Royal and directed by Steve Coley, August 16-18, 22-25 & 29-31, 8 p.m. or Sundays, 5 p.m • “The Diary of Adam and Eve,” written by local playwright Anthony Lawson and adapted from Mark Twain’s short story.

9/10-12, 17-19 & 24-26. 111 Grace St. 910341-0001 THEATRENOW “Murder on the Set,” every Friday thru August.

Doors at 5:30pm. Show starts at 6:30pm.

Tickets $42/$30. Includes 3-course meal with choice of entrée. • Country Cookin’ with the Good Ole Boys (through 8/10). Reading Series:

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Entries are published for free two weeks out from event date

8/15, 9/19, 10/17, 11/21, 12/19. • TBDPineapple Shaped Lamps Dinner Show, Fri & Sat. nights starting 8/16. • Anthony Lawson’s “The Bard’s Broads” dinner show. TheatreNOW, 10th and Dock streets. www.theatrewilmington.com ‘NIGHT MOTHER See review page 14.

Park, located on North Water Street between Princess and Market Streets. 88/16 The Waiting: A Tribute to Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers • 8/23 Draw The Line: The Endorsed Aerosmith Tribute Show • 8/30 – Departure: The Journey Tribute Band.

AIRLIE CONCERT SERIES Airlie Concert Series lineup, first and third Friday of the month from May until September: 8/16, Grenoldo Frazier; 9/6, Stardust; 9/20, The Imitations. $8 for adults, $2 for children, and free for Airlie members. www.airliegardens.org.

THALIAN ASSOCIATION REVUE Thalian Association and the Mad Boar Restaurant will present Thalian Association in Revue on Sat., 8/17, in the beautiful Celtic Court located inside the Mad Boar Restaurant. Cabaret show WECT SOUNDS OF SUMMER celebrating 225th anniversary, with vocal perforThe Town of WB hosts the WECT Sounds of mances and production numbers from biggest Summer Concerts at Wrightsville Beach Park. hits and a preview of the upcoming season, including a sneak peak at the children’s theater season with our young stars. Directed by Tom Briggs. Evening will begin with cocktails at 5pm followed by threecourse plated dinner and cabaret show.

The Lower Cape Fear Historical Society will celebrate $54.95 which includes tax and gratuity with a good old-fasioned musical hootenanny on and $25 cover charge to benefit Thalian the 20th of August at Kenan Auditorium on UNCW’s Association and Thalian Association campys.

John Golden and friends will take over the Children’s Theater. www.thalian.org or 910-285-1006. stage for performances in country, blues and 1950’s

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Tickets are only $20 and students get in for a mere $5.

Call 910-762-0492 to grab a seat!

JOKES ‘N’ SMOKE Every first Mon. of month will feature a stand-up comedy showcase Hosted by Brian Granger, performances by Reid Clark, Colton Demonte and many more of Nutt Street Comedy Club’s finest. 3021 Market St. Arabian Nights Hookah Bar.9pm; free or $3 nonsmoking fee. BYOB. NUTT STREET COMEDY ROOM Wed. Nutt House Improv, 9pm ($2) • Thursday Open Mic Night, 9pm (no cover) • Friday/Saturday National touring comedians 8pm & 10pm.

City Stage/Level 5. www.nuttstreet.com.

LITPROV Tuesday LitProv: Troupes perform a 20-25 minute ‘Harold’ long-form improv. After the show, folks can come onstage and join the other improvisers in an improv jam! No experience necessary! 8pm. Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St.

music/concerts DOWNTOWN SUNDOWN The eighth annual Downtown Sundown Concert Series will take place each Friday evening through August 30. Shows are held in Riverfront

Bring your picnic, lawn chairs, and blankets for an evening of music and fun! Concerts will be each Thurs. evening from 6:30-8pm; 910-2567925. www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

CAPE FEAR MUSIC TEACHERS ASSOC. The Cape Fear Music Teachers Association (CFMTA) invites qualified instructors of piano, instrumental music, and vocal music to their upcoming lunch meeting, Fri., 8/16, 11-1. Includes a review of upcoming CFMTA events for both teachers and students. During the academic year, CFMTA sponsors student recitals, teacher workshops, piano festivals, and small group discussions on topics of special interest to music instructors. Organization also serves as a referral service for parents looking for music instructors for their children. CFMTA is launching a Student Musician Certification Program this fall, and is preparing for the annual Monster Recital when pairs of students perform duets at multiple keyboards. Joanne Riesz: 910-262-6224.

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Symphony Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings new and returning member auditions: Thurs evenings 8/29 and 9/5. 37th annual Richard R. Deas Student Concerto Competition auditions: 11/23. www.wilmingtonsymphony.org ILM CHORAL SOCIETY Wilmington Choral Society is holding two open rehearsals, 8/20 and 8/27, 7pm. Rehearsals will be held at Cape Fear Christian Church, 811 N College Rd. Rehearsals are in preparation for the fall concert scheduled for Nov 3. No audition necessary, just a love of singing. www.wilmingtonchoralsociety.com SUMMER HOOTENANNY 8/20: Join the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society at UNC-Wilmington’s Kenan Auditorium for our Summer Hootenanny!

John Golden and Friends will perform some old time favorites in country, blues, and 1950s rock. Tickets are $20 for general adminssion and students are $5. 910-762-0492 for more infomation.

FT. FISHER FREE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES Free summer concert music series, Fr. Fisher Air Force Recreation Area, 2nd and 4th Fridays June-August, 6:30-8:30pm. 8/23, Mako Band.

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Wilmington Sacred Harp Singers presents a traditional, dynamic form of a cappella socialsinging, dating back to Colonial America, using a modern reprint of an 1844 songbook called The Sacred Harp. The music is loud, vigorous and intense. It is meant to be sung, not just observed. No previous experience is necessary. fasola.org. Held in collaboration with WHQR.

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BOOGIE IN THE PARK Spend your Sunday evenings this summer enjoying free, live music by the sea. The Town of Kure Beach will be hosting “Boogie in the Park” every Sun., 4-7pm, through 9/1. Grab a lawn chair or blanket and your boogie shoes as you head down to Kure Beach Ocean Front Park for some family-friendly entertainment! www. townofkurebeach.org or call Kure Beach Town Hall at (910) 458-8216.

dance IRISH STEP DANCE Traditional Irish Step Dancing Beginners to Championship level ages 5-adult! Mondays nights. The studio is located at 1211 South 44th St. www.walshkelleyschool.com.

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76’ERS SQUARE DANCE CLUB Modern Western Style Square Dance. Club meets Thurs. nights at 7pm at the Senior Center for a new workshop on square dancing. Info: 270-1639 CAROLINA SHAG CLUB DJs play favorite beach music and shag tunes every Sat, 8pm to close. $4/members; $6/ guests. Carolina Shag Club, 103 N. Lake Park Blvd. Carolina Beach, NC 620-4025 CONTRA DANCE Tuesday night dances, 5th Ave United Methodist Church on South 5th Ave at Nun, 7:309:30pm.Social dance for all levels; singles and couples, families, college and high school students and folks of all dancing abilities are invited to come. $4. (910) 538-9711.

TANGO WILMINGTON Tango classes and social dancing, Fridays, Carolina Lounge of Ramada Inn. 5001 Market Street (between College and Kerr). 8-9:45pm. $5 lounge entrance includes beginners’ lesson, 7:30.

art TATYANA SHELLEY Tatyana is a contemporary realist artist recently graduated from the Florence Academy of Art. She paints her subjects from life, in natural light, through slow, meditative process. Tatyana is a 2013 recipient of the NC Regional Artist Project Grant and a 2013 awardee of the Stacey Ann Lee Scholarship awarded to emerging realist artists in America. Her new works are on display at Caprice Bistro, downtown Wilmington. Aug. 14-Sept. 30. Opening reception is on wednesday, August 14th at 7 pm.

HOLIDAY ART SHOW POSTER CONTEST Holiday Art Shows is pleased to announce the 2013 Wilmington Art & Craft Show Poster Contest. Artists are encouraged to create a design which best represents Wilmington and the show. Work will be featured in a broad range of print,online and VIP promotions. Artist will receive a free, prime location, booth space (value $300) at the 2013 Wilmington Art & Craft Show, 11/30-12/1. Submissionsmust be original and previously unpublished. Deadline: 8/16. No fee to enter and artists may submit up to three designs. Rules: www.HolidayArtshows.com.

IMAGES OF DISTINCTION The Cape Fear Camera Club (CFCC) is presently exhibiting “Images of Distinction” at the Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts. The annual show, held at various locations in and around Wilmington, takes place in the months following the close of the club season in June. Throughout the CFCC season, six competitions are held and over 100 images receive ribbons for their outstanding photographic qualities. For each competition, a guest photographer, educator, or artist critiques the images and then awards gold, blue, and red ribbons. At the end of the season, the ribbon-

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winning images are sent to an outside judge for a final, end-of-year judging that results in a collection of the best photographs of the season. Also included in this exhibit are works by club members from the Photographic Society of America competitions over the past season.Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market St. LOVE, GRAVITY AND PIGMENT ARTIST 8/23, 6-9pm. Acme Art 711 N. 5th Ave. Abstract artist Mykel presents “Love, Gravity, and Pigment.” Works will comprise watercolors from San Francisco 2012-2013 as well as Wilmington & Carolina Beach Spring-Summer 2013. FB: facebook.com/mykel.wurks. (415) 306-1181.

ACES GALLERY Nc Arts Council of Wilmington presents a glass and painting show of work by Niki Hildebrand including her largest glass panel yet. Open regular business hours of Arts Council 9-5pm and for 4th Friday Gallery Night 6-9pm. Come see the beautiful impressive labor-of-love glass art including sculpture, panels and bowls. ACEs Gallery, 221 N Front St. Runs till Aug 20th.

ART IN THE GARDEN Join the Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear for an evening celebrating Wilmington art! See a showcase of paintings featuring the historical Latimer House and a be part of a “People’s Choice” of the pieces. Also, view pieces from artists associated with the house, such as Elizabeth Chant. Wine and cheese reception in the garden w/live music and a silent auction. Tickets are $10 presale and $15 at the door. Light hor d’oeuvres and a beverage are included. Cash bar will be provided. 8/22, 7-9 pm, The Latimer House 126 S. Third St. (910) 792-0492 for tickets.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT “Fourth Friday Gallery Night” is now coordinated by The Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County, feat. 16 local art galleries and studios that will open their doors to the public in an after-hours celebration of art and culture, from 6-9pm, every fourth Friday of the month through 2013. Dates: 8/23. Rhonda Bellamy at 910-343-0998, 221 N. Front St. Suite 101. www.artscouncilofwilmington.org WOODCUTS “Christopher Alexander & Ashton Durham: Woodcuts” will be on view at the Art Gallery at the Cultural Arts Building, through 8/23.

Closing reception will be held from 5:30-7pm, Thurs., 8/22. Both the print fest and reception are free and open to the public. Open MondayThursday, noon-4pm, during the summer. Local artists Alexander and Durham will feat. recently completed woodcuts printed during the public print fest. The interactive element of the printfest as well as showcasing the blocks allows viewers to participate in the process and further understand the technical elements of woodcut prints. Ground floor of the Cultural Arts Building, near the building’s main entrance on the corner of Randall Parkway and Reynolds Dr., UNCW. • Ann Conner woodcuts will be on view 8/299/27 to commemorate her retirement from the UNCW Dept. of Art and Art History after many years of dedicated service. Artist lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Thurs., 8/28, in Cultural Arts Buildingroom 2033, immediately followed by an opening reception in the ArtGallery from 5:30-7pm. Free and open to the public.

AGAINST THE GRAIN “Against the Grain” exhibit to open at CFCC’s Wilma W. Daniels Gallery. An exhibition of woodcuts by Wilmington artist Ann Conner through August 23rd incl. works from three

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suites of large scale woodblock prints. Connor utilizes traditional printmaking techniques to create formal, contemporary works on paper. 200 Hanover Street,first floor of CFCC’s Hanover Parking Deck, downtown Wilmington.

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SUN GALLERY AND GIFTS Sun Gallery and Gifts is hosting a Handmade Artisan Market to mark the one year anniversary of opening it’s doors. We are asking 25+ of Wilmington’s best handmade-artisan’s to join us in the celebration! We will also have a Summer Feast ($5 donation) and a raffle table to raise money for Handmade Wilmington. handmadewilmington.org Recently featured in Modern Dog Magazine and Wrightsville Beach Magazine, Artist, Clair Hartmann’s whimsical dog art will be displayed in the gallery. Join us for some creative fun and be inspired! 8/25, 11-5. www. sungalleryandgifts.com. 4414 Wrightsville Ave. 910-443-6022 FROM AFRICA TO AMERICAN “From Africa to American”—an exhibit of original oil paintings by Wilmington, NC native, Harry L. Davis, at the Art Factory, 721 Surry St. Through 8/28. Considered by many to be one of the premier African-American artist in the country, Davis’ original oil paintings are owned by many noted celebrities, such as, Mr. Denzel Washinton, Ms. Halle Berry, and the late Ms. Nell Carter.

WILD BIRD AND GARDEN Wild Bird and Garden nature art exhibit featuring Karen Hicks through 8/31. Paintings of birds, landscapes and more, available for viewing and purchase. 3501 Oleander Dr. Hanover Center. Artist reception w/light refreshments, Thurs., 8/1, 6:30-8pm.

FESTIVAL POSTER CONTEST Poster Design Contest for the Seafood Blues & Jazz Fest. Do you have an idea that you need to get down on paper? Is there a creative doodle that just won’t leave your mind? Take a few and review the Entry Form and requirements, and sign up. Come October, your creation could adorn the popular event T-shirts and commemorative posters that have become a highly collected. You will get a cash stipend and complimentary booth in the Arts & Wine Garden, and the honor (and bragging rights) of being the artist of the 2013 Seafood Blues & Jazz Festival! Past winners include great talents such as Barton Hatcher, Ivey Hayes, Robert Knowles and Kelly Hawes. Deadline: 9/3.

ARTBLAST 9/4-8: ARTblast is an explosion of skillful performances in the genres of theater, film, literature, music, dance, and art; a celebration of talent spread out over a five day period; an opportunity to open yourself to various talents in multiple familiar, or possibly unfamiliar, locations. One of the highlighted events is the Downtown Wilmington ArtWalk, which features many of our region’s artists that work with dozens of different mediums. These will artists line the streets of Historic Downtown Wilmington on Saturday, September 7th for Wilmington’s largest outdoor arts show! Artists welcome to apply to vend during the blast: ArtblastWilmington.com FIGMENTS GALLERY Figments Gallery invites you to a SecondFriday Reception, “Small Works”, featuring a little bit of everything and all under $100!

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ARTS COUNCIL OF ILM The Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County is seeking applications for the 2013–2014 Regional Artist Project Grants.

The deadline to apply is Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.

Counties include New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus and Pender; residents are eligible to apply for grants which provide financial support to artists in all disciplines, such as visual art/craft, music composition, film/video, literature/playwriting and choreography/dance, and at any stage of their career. Types of fundable projects include the creation of new work; purchase of equipment and materials and professional development workshops. www.artscouncilofwilmington.org.

ARTISTS NEEDED Friends of the Arboretum and the ILM Art Assoc. are seeking artists to exhibit their work at Art in the Arboretum 2013, an annual outdoor showcase for a wide range of garden friendly media categories, 10/5, 8-4; 10/6, noon-4. Arboretum, 6206 Oleander Dr. Wilmington, this year’s divisions will include handcrafted jewelry, glass, textiles, metal work, stepping stones, wood, painting and photography. Open to both emerging and professional artists age 18 and older, with all work accepted through a juried process. Full registration details are available on the WAA prospectus, www.wilmington-art. org/index.php. Registration forms also are available at the Arboretum offices.

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museums NC AQUARIUM Canoeing the Salt Marsh at the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher, Sat., 9am, 8/17, 24, 31. 3-hour exploration of the Zeke’s Island Estuarine Research Reserve by canoe. Crabbing, seining, or birding. Must be able to swim; ages 8 and up, must be accompanied by two adults. $25/articipant. Admission not included. • Aquarist Apprentice, Sat., 2pm, 8/17, 24, 31. Join staff on a behind-the-scenes tour and learn about Aquarium animals, what they eat, how they live, and how to care for them. Open to 10 participants, ages 10 and up (14 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.) $25, ages 13 and older, $23, ages 10-12. Admission included. Pre-reg rqd. • Surf Fishing Workshop Tues., 8am, 8/20, 27. 3-hr. workshop includes one hour of classroom discussion, then surf fishing on the beach nearby. Equipment and bait provided. Rain or shine, with extra activities added in event of bad weather (e.g., throwing a cast net). Ages 10 and up. $15; admissionnot included. • Behind the Scenes Tour, daily, 11:15am, and Tues/ Thurs/Sat, 3:15pm through 8/31. Space for animal holding, husbandry, life support systems, and access to exhibits is hidden behind the aquarium walls. Accompany aquarium staff on a guided tour of animal quarantine, life support, food preparation, and access areas. Ages 8 and up (8-14 must be accompanied by guardian). $15 for ages 13 and older, $13 for ages 8-12; admission included. Pre-reg rqd. • Extended Behind the Scenes Tour, M/W/F, 2pm, through 8/31. Get a birds-eye view of this 235,000 gallon tank as sharks, stingrays, moray eels, and other fish swim below! Ages 8 and up (8-14 w/a parent or guardian). $20 for ages 13 and older,

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NC MARITIME MUSEUM, SOUTHPORT The North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport showcases the history and heritage of the Cape Fear region. Exhibits offer a look at Civil War history, hurricanes, pirates and artifacts recovered from a number of nearby shipwreck sites. www.ncmaritimemuseums.com.

Maritime Museum System includes Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras and the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort.

All three museums are part of the Division of State History Museums in the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, www.ncdcr.gov. • Third Tues. Evening Adult Program, Frying Pan Light Tower with Richard Neal, 8/20, 7-9pm. Richard Neal discusses the history and restoration of the Frying Pan light station. Photographs and video clips will illustrate the light tower’s stages of development as we learn the evolution of this worthwhile historic structure. Southport Community Building, 223 East Bay St., Southport.

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MISSILES AND MORE MUSEUM Topsail Island’s Missiles and More Museum features the rich history and artifacts of this area from prehistoric to present time. Exhibits: Operation Bumblebee, missile project that operated on Topsail Island shortly after World War II; Camp Davis, an important antiaircraft training center during WWII located near Topsail Island; WASPS, group of young, daring women who were the first female pilots trained to fly American military aircraft during WWII; Pirates of the Carolinas, depicting the history and “colorful” stories of 10 pirates in the Carolinas including the infamous Blackbeard; Shell Exhibits, and intricate seashells from all over the world as well as Topsail; and more! 720 Channel Blvd. in Topsail Beach. Mon-Fri, 2-5pm; after Memorial Day through Sat, 2-5pm. 910-328-8663 or 910328-2488. topsailmissilesmuseum.org.

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

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WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore railroad history and heritage, especially of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for 125 years. Interests and activities for all ages, including historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively Children’s Hall, and spectacular model layouts.

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CAMERON ART MUSEUM Exhibits: Diane Landry: The Cadence of All Things, opening 8/16, 6-8pm. Open to public: 8/17, 3pm, lecture conversation and walkthrough w/Steven Matijcio, guest essayist and Curator at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.

It’s back: babes in bathing suits on boards! Don’t miss ($5-$10) Landry (Canadian, b. 1958) the women’s surf competition at Wrightsville Beach this is one of Canada’s foremost installation weekend, featuring categories from pro-shortboard to artists, whose work employs everyday objects, sound, light and shadow in her long, amatuer shortboard to long, and even novice, evocative constructions. • Well Suited: standup paddleboard and crowd-pleasing guppy for The Costumes of Alonzo Wilson for the itty-bitty gals. The competition takes place near HBO’s ‘Treme’—Fine, hand-sewn beadwork, archival-quality costume techCrystal Pier in front of the Oceanic at the south end of nique and brilliantly colored feathers, WB. For details, head online to www.wrightsvillebeachall done by Wilmington native Alonzo wahineclassic.com or call 910-465-9638.

Wilson, Exquisitely crafted Mardi Gras Indian suits, as well as design sketches. Organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana. The boose birthday parties, and after-hours meetMardi Gras Indians are deeply rooted in shared ings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mon. cultures and symbiotic relationships which deat 10:30am, only $4 per family and access to veloped between the Native Americans and entire Museum. Admission only $8.50 adult, the escaped slaves they aided. On display $7.50 senior/military, $4.50 child age 2-12, and through 11/3. • CAM Public Tours, Thursdays, free under age 2. North end of downtown at 7:30pm, w/admission. Explore what’s new and 505 Nutt St. Phone 910-763-2634, website on view.Open late on Thurs. until 9pm. Corner www.wrrm.org. of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd. Tues- LATIMER HOUSE Sun,11am-5pm; Thurs: 11am-9pm. Museum Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the members free, $8 non-members, $5 students restored home features period furnishings, artwith valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. www.camwork and family portraits. Tours offered Moneronartmuseum.com or 910-395-5999.

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CAPE FEAR MUSEUM Exhibits: Through 9/29: Attack of the Bloodsuckers! Stinky feet can make you more attractive...to a hungry mosquito, that is! Explore the science of what’s eating you with Attack of the Bloodsuckers! Visitors will discover the biological wonders of sanguinivores—creatures that eat blood—through encounters with interactive activities and vibrant graphics. Also, helpful hints and simple recautions for avoiding these sometimes annoying creatures. • Impressions of the Lower Cape Fear (through 10/27): Take a photographic journey of southeastern North Carolina...a region rich with diverse habitats, wildlife, culture, and history. Featuring more than 100 printed and digital works by Cape Fear Camera Club members. Hours: 9am-5pm through 9/10; Tues-Sat; 1-5pm, Sun. $7 for adults; $6 for students with valid ID and senior citizens; $6 special military rate with valid military ID; $4 for children 3-17; and free for children under 3. Museum members admitted free.

814 Market St. 910-798-4367. www.capefearmuseum.com.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in the turn of the century Myers Cottage, exists to preserve and to share the history of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early days of the beach including Lumina Pavilion,

are Wed and Sat. at 10am. 126 S. Third St. Adults $8, children $4. 762-0492. www.latimerhouse.org

CAPE FEAR SERPENTARIUM World’s most fascinating and dangerous reptiles in beautiful natural habitats, feat. a 12-foot saltwater crocodile, “Bubble Boy.” and “Sheena”, a 23ft long Reticulated Python that can swallow a human being whole! Giant Anaconda weighs 300 lbs, w/15 ft long King Cobras hood up and amaze you. See the Black Mamba, Spitting Cobras, Inland Taipans, Gaboon Vipers, Puff Adders, and more! Over 100 species, some so rare they are not exhibited anywhere else. One of the most famous reptile collections on earth.

Open everyday in summer, 11am-5pm (Sat. till 6 pm); winter schedule, Wed-Sun. 20 Orange St, across from the Historic Downtown Riverwalk, intersecting Front and Water Street. (910) 7621669. www.capefearserpentarium.com.

BURGWIN WRIGHT HOUSE 18th century Burgwin-Wright House Museum in the heart of Wilmington’s Historic District, is the oldest museum house in NC, restored with 18th and 19th century decor and gardens. Colonial life is experienced through historical interpretations in kitchen-building and courtyard. 3rd and Market St. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Last tour, 3pm. Admission rqd. (910) 762-0570. burgwinwrighthouse.com.

sports/recreation HALYBURTON PARK Summer Nature Series, Halyburton Park, 4099 S. 17th St., 341-0075. Pre-reg. rqd. www. halyburtonpark.com. Night Hike, 8/14, 9-10pm, $5. • Nonsense! ages 3-5, $3. 8/19, 10-11am; 8/20, 10-11am. Come learn about our five senses and explore them by taking a hike around the park and using some of our senses. $3 • Terrific Trees, ages 3-5, $3. 8/26, 10-11am; 8/27, 10-11am. Come out to Halyburton Park to learn about the types of trees we have at the park, and why trees are so important! $3.

WILMINGTON HAMMERHEADS Through 8/17: Wilmington Hammerheads Soccer Season. Home games at Legion Stadium, Wilmington. www.wilmingtonhammerheads. com CITY AMATEUR GOLF TOURNEY Men’s City Amateur Golf Tournament , Wilmington Municipal Golf Course, 8/17-18. Municipal Golf Course, 311 Wallace. 910-791-0558. www.wilmingtonmuni.com. $80/player includes: greens fees each day, lunch each day (players only), prizes/awards and a tee gift. Carts are not included.

WB WAHINE CLASSIC 8/17-18: WB Wahine Classic: Move over boys of summer! Surfer girls of all ages ride the waves in an all-female surf competition. The event returns in 2013 with a new name and new management to continue a beloved Wrightsville Beach surfing tradition.

Divisions include: Pro-Shortboard and ProLongboard (all ages), Amateur Shortboard and Longboard (grouped by age), Novice, Standup Paddleboard, and the crowd-pleasing Guppy event. The competition will take place on the south end of Wrightsville Beach. Details can be found online at www.wrightsvillebeachwahineclassic.com; 910-465-9638 or 910-274-3565.

STRIDE FOR STAGE Stride for the Stage 5k Run/1 Mile Walk to benefit Thalian Association Children’s Theater will be held August 24th at 8:00 am at the TrySports Field in the Mayfaire Town Center. Online registration is available at www.its-go-time.com.

Awards will be presented to the top overall finishers, overall Masters, and top 3 in each age group. We will have refreshments, music, goody bags, a raffle and more! Register today!

COASTAL CURLING 8/24, 5pm: Learn the game of curling: delivery, sweeping, scoring, etiquette & rules. Participants in the learn to curl will be invited to return on an open league night free of charge. $20;

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for inclement weather, 201 Community Center Dr.). Free, but popcorn and drinks available for purchase. 8/16: Here Comes The Boom • 8/30: Escape From Planet Earth.

FREE MOVIES BY THE SEA Free Movies by the Sea at Carolina Beach Lake Amphitheater. Picnics, blankets, chairs welcome; concession sold onsite. Movies start around 8:45pm; free! 8/18: Here Comes the Boom; 8/25: Beach Blanket Bingo; 9/1: Oz the Great and Powerful.

WALK IN THE WOODS A Walk in the Woods : A Guided Trail Tour through the Abbey Nature Preserve at Poplar Grove. The Abbey Nature Preserve is a 62-acre tract of land located next to Poplar Grove Plantation. Home to both common and unique species of plants and animals that thrive in the varied environments, the Preserve includes wetlands, established hardwood groves, a pine thicket and pond, all accessed by approximately 2 miles of trails. Take a wagon ride into the woods to the Mill Pond, which originally operated as a grist mill for Poplar Grove Plantation. Guide will talk about different land and aquatic habitats, layers of forest, and the animals that make the Preserve their home. 50 minute walk: $3/student, $5/adult; 2 hour walk: $5/student and $8/adult.

Two complimentary adult tickets issued/class.

Groups of 15 or more recommended to have at least two adults with them. Poplar Grove: 10200 US Hwy 17. 910-686-9518.

MINI DOCUTIME WHQR 91.3fm Public Radio and the UNCW Department of Film Studies present the fourth annual special edition of DocuTime, [Mini] DocuTime, 9/14, 4-6:30pm. Celebrating pioneer 20th century filmmakers, one of the screenings features a young Martin Scorsese in Italianamerican (1974) prodding and pushing his parents to talk about life in New York and about family back in Sicily. UNCW’s King Hall Auditorium. Tickets: www.etix.com or at Sharky’s Box Office on the lst floor of Fisher Student Center. $10-$12.

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OUR STATE SHORT DOC FILM CONTEST “Our State” magazine announces call for entries for short documentary film contest, Carrboro Film Festival in November. Amateur and professional filmmakers can submit entries for its first-ever short documentary film contest.

Winning entry will correspond to the theme “Why I love NC,” include original footage of NC, and last no longer than eight minutes. Creator of the winning submission will receive a $500 cash prize and the chance to screen the film at the Carrboro Film Festival 11/23-24. Judged by Nic Beery, founder of the Carrboro Film Festival and owner of BeeryMedia.com; Ted Mott, director of production at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; Cynthia Hill, a NC-based filmmaker; and Our State staff. Submissions will be accepted until 9/30. To submit an entry, register at ourstate.com/documentary-film-contest.

NC MARITIME MUSEUM SOUTHPORT Kids on Deck! River Boat Tour aboard the Solomon T, 8/14, 8-10am. Conduct scientific experiments, bird watch off Battery Island, and learn the history of the Cape Fear River aboard a traditional wooden NC Workboat. Instructor: Captain Bert Felton.$10/child, ages 8-12.

• Digging Into History, 8/15-16, 10am-noon.

Dig for artifacts at a mock site and learn how archaeologists interpret history through our forgotten objects. Different subcategories of archaeology will be discussed. Meet real archaeologists and see artifacts from different time periods in American history.$15/child, ages 7-11. Advance reg. rqd, (910) 457-0003.

NC Maritime Museum at Southport MS. SUSAN’S ROOM Ms. Susan’s Room, music and arts for children, feat. Happy Little Singers, early childhood music & movement for ages 6 mo.-6 yrs. Sing, dance and learn through play! Tues. (9:30am)/ Thurs./Sat., 9:45am. • Happy Bigger Singers,

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CUCALORUS FILM FESTIVAL Cucalorus feat. filmmakers, choreographers, video artists, vagabonds, vigilantes, and activists for the upcoming 19th annual Cucalorus Film Festival, 11/13-17. Passes for the festival on sale. Early pass sales will receive discounted pricing. www.cucalorus.org. (910)-343-5995.

more advanced program for ages 4-8 years, Wed, 9:15 am. • Art and Crafts Friday, 10am (all ages welcome)! Advanced reservation required (check website for activity). All classes: $10/ family, $5/ea. add. child. Drop ins welcome, please call ahead. Personal lessons for guitar, piano, ukulele and voice by appt.. Ms. Susan’s Room at Art Works, 200 Willard St. 910-7778889 or www.happylittlesingers.com.

NC COASTAL RESERVE The NC Coastal Reserve & National Estuarine Research Reserve’s morning environmental education adventures. Family-friendly, handson activities, short hikes and lessons. Dress for the weather and be prepared with water, sunscreen, etc. • 8/15: “Wat-er” Wetlands— a unique habitat, nursery, filter, and natural recycling system. Plants and animals that live in wetlands have unique adaptations to deal with these watery conditions. “Moonlight” on Masonboro, 6-7pm. Unique evening program on the island! • 8/17: “Wat-er” Wetlands, 9-10am or 10:30-11:30am. Register: Marie Davis at Marie.Davis@ncdenr.gov.

SHELL, SHELL “Shell, Shell, Who has the Shell?” Children’s Program at Wrightsville Beach Museum, 5-10 years old; max12 students, 8/15, 10-11:30am.

303 W. Salisbury St. in the Wright Holman Room. Explore shells’ colors and shapes. Learn about the animals that call the shells home. Find the many places we use shells in the museum in the I Spy activity. Light refreshments will be provided. We will have shells here, but feel free to bring your own shells to use. (910) 256-2569.

“tattoo,” and make a Lego pirate ship. Dress up like a privateer and learn how to tie knots aboard a ship. Play pirate games and go on an exciting treasure hunt! Parental participation requiredFree for members or w/admission. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market Street KIDS AT CAM Kids @ CAM, 8/17, noon-3pm. CAM: $3/ child, non-members, $5/child, adults free. Exciting new exhibitions and make art you can take home! Don’t miss this afternoon of creativity, inspiration and art! All Ages Welcome. Fun for the whole family. No pre-registration necessary.

Parental supervision required at all times. www. cameronartmuseum.com CAPE FEAR SKIES 8/21, 2 & 3pm: What is the Ra constellation?

Long Sash? The Stairway to Heaven? (Hint: we usually call it Orion.) Listen to tales from around the globe as you hear the other names of the constellations. Parental participation rqd. Free for members w/admission. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St. BACK TO SCHOOL BLAST 8/24, 1-5pm: Back to School Blast features water slide, kiddie pool along with Groups performing live music on outdoor stage and much more. Free! Gayle Tipper at 398-4226

PLEASURE ISLAND PIRATE VOYAGES A pirate voyage aboard the Miss Hannah lets kids venture into the coastal waters, listen to the gulls circling overhead, and experience the excitement of working with others to follow clues and seize the pirate treasure. In the process they will learn the rules of the sea, swear to the pirate oath, learn songs and dances, learn all about the fearsome Pirate Pete (the stinkiest pirate of them all!), celebrate with grog and come home with great stories to tell. It’s fun for all, and The NC Maritime Museum of Southport invites kids it’s all in fun. Ages 2-9, equipped with to be an archaeologist for a day! Participants of life jackets and other safety equipment.

Parent or guardian rqd Digging into History will convene at a mock site USCG-licensed. on board for every four little mates. and learn how to interpret history through forgot- Appx 90 minutes; $20. Runs Labor to ten objects. Various topics of archaeology will be Memorial Day, at 10:30am and 1:30pm. discussed, as professionals join to showcase real Carolina Beach Municipal Marina

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artifacts from various time periods in American history. Cost is only $15 a child, for ages 7-11, and advanced registration is required for the 15th and 16th events, 10 a.m. to noon: 910-457-0003.

CF MUSEUM LEARNING CENTER Pirate Invasion, Sat., 8/17, 24, 31, 1-4pm.

Discover the world of pirates as you make and hoist your own Jolly Roger, get a pirate

THEATRE NOW Children’s Theater Super Saturday Fun Time. Kid’s live adventure and variety show. Saturdays. Doors open at 11am. $8/$1 off with Kid’s Club Membership.

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SOUTHERN COOKING: HIGH AND LOW “Southern Cooking, High and Low: A Short History of the Cuisine of the South” with Road Scholar John Beck. Thurs., 8/15, 6:30pm. Join the Bellamy in welcoming historian, author, and professor Dr. John Beck as he presents his history of Southern food. Free lecture open to the public. Cost: Free! 910-251-3700. www.bellamymansion.org

CFEDC’S TUNES IN THE TOWN CFEDC Presents: Tunes in the Town: The Business of Music in the Cape Fear, Satellite Lounge, Tues., 8/27, 6pm. We examine the successes of local venues attracting talent to this region and the incredible local artists who live, perform and produce here. Local music is an important economic driver and a key part of our economic identity—one that’s often overlooked. John Staton from the Star News as moderator, with special guests panelists Beau Gunn of The Penguin; Chris Lee of Pipeline Event Management; Richard Lederof the Brooklyn Arts Center; and James Ethan Clark, Carolina Music Awards Best Rock Male Artist.

Questions for the group welcome and wanted. Live performance by James Ethan Clark! capefearedc.org.

LARRY RENI THOMAS Roads ScholarLarry Reni Thomas on “The Carolina Jazz Connection,” 8/26, 6:30pm. The Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market St. Free! What is the Carolina Jazz Connection? Roads Scholar Larry Reni Thomas uncovers why so many big names in jazz had connections and roots in Carolina. A veteran jazz writer/radio announcer Thomas explains how Wilmington and Carolina influenced these artists and impacted the jazz world. Made possible by the North Carolina Humanities Council.

POMEGRANATE BOOKS Jason Mott of “The Returned,” 8/28, 7pm.

MFA graduate of UNCW author of “The Returned,” comes to Pomegranate Books for a reading of his highly anticipated debut novel.

Already picked up by ABC and producer Brad Pitt, “The Returned” tells the story of Harold and Lucille Hargrave’s son Jacob, who died on his eighth birthday in 1966, but who they now find standing on their doorstep. • Latino book Club to discuss “Let it Rain Coffee,” by Angie Cruz Sat., 8/31, 3pm: Angie Cruz, a “dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction” has been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez by the Boston Globe. “Let it Rain Coffee” is a tale of love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire. Readings and discussion are in English. All are welcome! Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Avenue. pombooks.net. 910452-1107.

ENVIRONMENTAL BOOK CLUB Cape Fear’s Going Green Environmental Book Club m eets at Old Books on Front Street, 249 N Front St. 9/3: When Women Were Birds (2012) by Terry Tempest Williams • 10/1: The Future of Life (2003) by E. O. Wilson • 11/5: (Election Day - we can discuss whether to move this to the following Tuesday) readings from Ecotone: The Environmental Issue (Vol 4, Issues 1&2) UNCW • 12/3: We’ll decide later what special readings we’d like to do. (In 2012 members brought and read aloud from favorite green poetry; in 2011 we read aloud from environmental children’s books.) Environmental songs, perhaps? ww.goinggreenpublications.com

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Schedule: Monday Morning Drawing Workshop, 8/19, 26, 10am-1pm. Using light, shadow, compositional design and line dynamics. For beginners or experienced wanting to refresh their skills. All materials provided. • Monday Afternoon Drawing Workshop, 8/19, 26, 2-5pm. Using light, shadow, compositional design and line dynamics. For beginners or experienced wanting to refresh their skills. All materials provided. • Tuesday Morning “Find Your Creativity” Workshop, 8/20, 27, 10am-1pm. Fun opportunity to explore painting, drawing, and printmaking! Small class guides each student towards their interests and inspirations! All materials provided. • Tuesday Afternoon “Find Your Creativity” Workshop, 8/20, 27, 2-5pm. Fun opportunity to explore painting, drawing, and printmaking! Small class guides each student towards their interests and inspirations! All materials provided. • Saturday Afternoon “The Beach and Beyond” Workshop, 8/17, 24, 31, 2-5pm. Exploring painting effects of light, shadow, surf and sand. All materials provided. www.artfullivinggroup.com. 910-4587822.

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eronartmuseum.com HULA HOOP CLASSES Hula-Hoop class for all levels on Tuesdays at 7pm at Lithe Core Pilates Studio, across from Mayfaire. Hoops are provided; donation-based class. 1113 Military Cutoff Rd. (910) 509-1775 or ehr8879@gmail.com. www.lithecore.com VETERAN CAREER READINESS Free veteran career readiness workshops, hosted by Miller Motte and the Lower Cape Fear Human Resource Association. Every 2nd Tues. of the month, 11am-12pm, until October at the VFW post, 2722 Carolina Beach Rd. Any veteran is able to attend but must RSVP: (910)442-3414.

counties. Focused on you aims to provide an emotionally safe space where women with cancer and their families can connect with others in the same situation. Women of Hope uses education to empower women through early detection and continuing support throughout their treatment. Survivorship Support Group is for female cancer patient who is in any stage of treatment. Caregiver Support Group is for anyone affected by a loved one’s cancer diagnosis.

Meets same time, twice a month throughout the year. Friendly Community Baptist Church, 1730 US Hwy. 117, Burgaw. Meets 2nd/4th Thurs, 6:30-8pm. Penelope at penelope@womenofhopenc.org.

TOPSAIL BUSINESS EVENTS Business After Hours: 8/15, Top 10 Ways to Keep Seasonal Guests Engaged After Summer Season, Susan Johnson with SakiSaki Marketing • 9/5, The Belle of Topsail (Surf Wordsmiths, penman, literary gurus, artists of City) • 9/19, 9 Ways to Jump Start Your Reggie Shropshire, ACTIONthe page...come to the new Writing Group meet- Business!

Coach - Business Coaching • Business After ing held this Saturday, August 17th, at Myrtle Hours: 10/3, ServPro of Pender and W. OnGrove Library at 5155 S. College Road. The group slow (Hampstead) • Business After Hours: Topsail Island Trading Co (Surf City) • meets from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and folks are en- 11/7, Business After Hours: 12/5, Access Realty couraged to bring a pen and paper, along with (Surf City). Event for members and staff of any of their works to workshop: short stories, member businesses of the Topsail Chamber.

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poems, novels-in-progress, etc. Please, bring five copies for the group. Free, but call Bill at 910790-3397 for more details.

ARROW FINE ART SUPPLIES Classes entail learning to draw or paint by an experienced artist (Randy Sellers) that has degrees from both UNCW and the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Lessons are for beginner and intermediate students. Ages 13 through adult; $30/hour. Held at Arrow Fine Art Supplies on a daily basis, Tues.-Fri., beginning at 10:30am. Arrow Fine Art Supplies, 910-3994248 POTTERY CLASSES Pottery Classes at the Community Arts Center for all skill levels. 9 weeks, through 10/3. Mon/ Wed, 5:30-8:30; Tues/Thurs, 9am-noon. $150; orangestreetpottery@gmail.com.

clubs/notices FOCUS ON YOU SUPPORT GROUP Women of Hope presents Focus on You Support Groups expanding to Duplin and Pender

WRITING GROUP Myrtle Grove Library (5155 S. College Rd.), Sat., 8/17, 1-3pm. Bring pen and paper (this is a writing group) and any short stories, poems, novels-in-progress you are writing that you would like to read from (bring five copies for the group).

Free. (910)790-3397 for details, ask for Bill.

BAR TRIVIA Bar Trivia at Copper Penny, Wed., 8/21, 8pm.

Calling all science buffs, culture gurus, and history lovers! Test your knowledge of the Cape Fear region with the Cape Fear Museum-sponsored bar trivia. Expect questions drawn from local history, regional science, and Museum exhibits. Join us for some cold beer, cool science, and free history! opper Penny, 109 Chestnut Street, Wilmington AIRLIE GARDENS Enjoy the 67 beautiful acres of Airlie Gardens year round. Operating hours are Tues.-Sun., 9am - 5pm. Admission: $5 for adults, $3 for children. Through 8/18 only: Dancing, mowing, fishing and painting are common pastimes during the warmer months, all of which will be performed by none other than large frogs in Airlie’s Ribbit the Exhibit Feat. a collection of copper sculptures by Wilmington-based artist Andy Cobb. Guests can expect to stumble upon

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“Zenny” meditating on a lily pad, “Jeeves” wearing a tailcoat and holding a lantern, the Ultimate Horn Trio, and an assortment of other personified hoppers. Free with admission. 910798-7700 or www.airliegardens.org.

WRIGHSTVILLE BEACH SCENIC TOURS Wrightsville Beach Scenic Tours feat. bird watching tours, water taxi services, fishing trips, pirate voyages, and Masonboro Island shuttles, on the 27-foot, green-and-white catamaran Shamrock. Bottom fishing tours $35/person; leaves dock 9am weekdays and returns noon.

Nearshore ocean fishing trip on 22’ Panga Skiff Island Hopper offered by appointment. • Harbor Night Cruise, nightly, a BYOB booze cruise that follows the path of our popular Harbor Cruise around Wrightsville Beach. Depart from the dock at 8:30pm; return at 9:30pm after an hour of music, dancing, and fun. Cost $25/passenger. • Masonboro Yoga trip every Thurs., 9am.

Attendees can expect a relaxing morning on a deserted natural preserve island, incl. a full session of yoga with a professional instructor and free time to explore the beach. The boat returns to our dock at 11:30am. Cost is $35/passenger.

All of our tours depart from our dock apart from the Blockade Runner Hotel, 275 Waynick Blvd, Wrightsville Beach, NC. Also fishing charters, sunset cruises, harbor tours, Masonboro water taxi services, and much more. www.wrightsvillebeachscenictours.com. (910) 200-4002.

OAKDALE CEMETERY TOURS Sat., 8/17, 10am-noon: Walking Tour w/David Rice, MPH, MA New Hanover County Health Director, and Eric Kozen, Superintendent, will take you back in time to a pivotal moment in Wilmington’s history in 1862 when the Yellow Fever Epidemic began. This is a tour you will not want to miss. $10.00 for everyone. Limited tickets will be available at the cemetery office. Tour canceled in event of inclement weather.

Take a guided tour through the Live Oak-canopied streets and along the waterfront and pedal

by Fort Johnston, Brunswick Inn, the Old Brunswick Jail, the Crimes of the Heart home, the Indian Trail Tree, along the Cape Fear River and more. Lori Sanderlin, Educator from the NC Maritime Museum at Southport will guide the group as they peddle through the Lower Cape Fear history. The Adventure Kayak Company, Inc. and NC Maritime Museum at Southport present 2013 Historical Southport Bicycle tours: 9/7, 8am. 910-454-0607. $15-$20, including use of a bicycle and helmet. Limited number of bicycles available for rent.

OAKDALE CEMETERY TOUR Oakdale Cemetary Fall Historical Tour with; Robin Triplett, a retired Cape Fear History Teacher.

10am to Noon at Oakdale Cemetery 520 N. 15th St. Wilmington. Adults $8.00, Students $3.00. preferred: 910-392-6753, www.tripwithtriplett. webs.com Sept 25th, Sept 28th, Oct 2nd, Oct 5th, Oct 9th, Oct 12th, Oct 16th, Oct 19th, Oct 23rd, Oct 26th, Oct 30th, Nov 2nd, & Nov 6th.

ABOVE THE SCENES “Above the Scenes,” a special 45-minute walking tour from the floor of Fort Fisher to the top of the traverses, along an area normally closed to pedestrians. Tues/Sat, noon. Tickets are $10 for adults and will be sold on a first-come, firstserve basis. Children 12 and under are free. Site officials say a maximum of 25 tickets will be sold each day. No advance tickets sold. Tour par-

TOURS OF OLD WILMINGTON Tours abound across our port city! Don’t miss the Tours of Old Wilmington and learn all about the history of our city. The tours start at the foot of Market at Water Street, on the Cape Fear Riverwalk, with scheduled times at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday, and by appointment from Sunday through Tuesday. Seniors are $10 and adults are $12; free for kids 12 and under. Reserve your space: 910-409-4300.

WILMINGTON WATER TOURS 8/18, 10am: Cruise to Southport, and learn historic facts of the mighty river, pirates, blockade runners and the importance of Cape Fear River to this area today. Once there, explore, enjoy lunch, and do some local shopping. Our bar will be open on the boat noon. $55 • 8/22, 7pm: The movement of the tides and moon energizes and stirs the imagination! This will be a memory you cherish: a night under the stars on the famous and mysterious Cape Fear River. $33.

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HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WILMINGTON Take a “Trip With Triplett” and learn the history of this wonderful city with a retired Cape Fear History teacher. Any time! 910-392-6753 or email rltriver@yahoo.com. $3/children or $8/ adults. www.tripwithtriplett.webs.com/ HENRIETTA III CRUISES An elegant, 3 tiered boat offering sight-seeing, lunch and dinner cruises, site seeing tours and a Sunset Dinner Cruise June-Aug. On the riverfront. April-Oct: Narrated sightseeing cruises 2:30pm 1-1/2 hours Tuesday-Sunday, Narrated lunch cruises 12:00 noon 1-1/2 hours TuesdaySaturday. May-Oct: Murder Mystery Dinner Cruises, Tuesday & Thursday evening 2 hours 6:30 pm; Apr-Dec: Friday evening dinner cruises 2-1/2 hours 7:30 pm, Saturday evening dinner cruises 3 hours 6:30 pm. 343-1611. www.cfrboats.com

GHOST WALK 6:30pm & 8:30pm. Costumed guides lead visitors through alleyways with tales of haunted Wilmington. Nightly tours at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Admission charge. Meets at Water & Market streets. Reservations required: 910794-1866; www.hauntedwilmington.com HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE TOURS Narrated horse drawn carriage and trolley tours of historic Wilmington feature a costumed driver who narrates a unique adventure along the riverfront and past stately mansions.Market and Water streets. $12 for adults, $5 per child.

(910) 251-8889 or www.horsedrawntours.com HAUNTED COTTON EXCHANGE TOURS Haunted Cotton Exchange Tours: Open 7 days a week, year-round, w/multiple tour guides leading the way, 10am-10pm. Call for specific tour times: 910-409-4300

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TOURS OF OLD WILMINGTON Walking tours start at the end of Market and Water streets on the Cape Fear River. Times: 9am, 11am and 1pm, Wed-Sat., or Sun/Mon/ Tues by appt. $12 for adults, free for children 12 and under. Seniors are $10. Provide step-on tours for bus tours and groupwalking tours. Due to weather, call to check on times etc: 910-409-4300. http://touroldwilmington.blogspot.com

FARMERS’ MARKETS Fruits, vegetables, plants, herbs, flowers, eggs, cheese, meats, seafood, honey and more!

Schedule: Poplar Grove, Wed, 8-1. Aso features fresh baked goods, pickled okra, peanuts and handcrafted one-of-a-kind gifts such as jewelry, woodcrafts and pottery. Poplar Grove Plantation, 910-686-9518. pgp@poplargrove. com. www.poplargrove.com • Riverfront Farmers’ Market open on Water St., downtown, every Sat., 8am-1pm. www.wilmingtondowntown. com/farmers-market • Carolina Beach Farmer’s Market every Sat., 8am-1pm, around the lake in Carolina Beach. Free parking. www.carolinabeachfarmersmarket.com or email Janet Knott, carolinabeachfarmersmarket@gmail.com. • WB Farmers’ Market: 321 Causeway Dr. (across from old fire station). Monday, 8am-1pm, beginning the first Monday in May and continuing through Labor Day. • Town of Leland Farmers’ Market, Leland Town Hall, every other Sun., 11am-3pm, through the month of Aug. • Oak Island Farmers’ Market, Mondays, 7am-1pm through 9/9. Middletown Park, Oak Island • Southport Waterfront Market, Wed, 8am-1pm, through 9/25. Garrison Lawn • St. James Plantation Farmers’ Market, Thurs,through 10/25, 4-7pm, at the Park at Woodlands Park Soccer Field.

WILMINGTON TROLLEY Eight mile, 45 minute narrated tour aboard a nostalgic, motorized trolley. Downtown. 7634483.

COUSINS ITALIAN DELI DOES DINNER Cousins Deli is proud to announce a new family style dinner service on Fri-Sat. nights. Seatings: 6-6:30 pm and 8-8:30 pm. Dinner’s are

TOURS OF WWII SITES Wilmington author and military historian Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., now leads customized, personalized guided tours of World War II sites in Southeastern North Carolina. 793-6393 or History@ wilburjones.com

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new guided architectural walking tours. The Streetcar Suburbs Tour showcases Wilmington’s first suburbs, Carolina Place and Carolina Heights. The Forest Hills Tour focuses on architecture and landscape design within Wilmington’s first automobile suburb. Both tours are a great way to experience the Port City’s rich architectural heritage! Every Sat, 10am, through 10/12. Additionally, the Streetcar Suburbs Tour will be held every 1st/3rd Wed. of the month and the Forest Hills Tour will be held every 2nd/4th Wed. of the month. The Streetcar tour begins at 17th & Market at the Coastal Shopping Center and the Forest Hills tour originates at Forest Hills Elementary School, 602 Colonial Dr. $10/person. 1.5 hours so wear comfortable shoes! hwf@historicwilmington.org or 910-7622511

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DUPLIN WINERY 8/17, 3:30-9pm: Murder Mystery, piece together the clues of this case in the interactive detective dinner show. Winning team receives a Duplin prize! Theme: Kill the Music $55/person (includes tour and tasting, dinner and show) .

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WILMINGTON EPICUREAN EVENING ILM’s Epicurean Evening, the region’s premier culinary competition, will be held Thurs., 8/22, at the Wilmington Convention Center. Thirty top local chefs and epicureans will set up and create their specialties to raise money for local children in need. Chef win the coveted Copper Kettle Award. Eateries include: East Oceanfront Dining at Blockade Runner, 22 North, Elijah’s, LongHorn Steakhouse, Poor Piggy’s BBQ, Havana’s, Catch; bakeries and specialty food vendors such as Coastal Cupcakes, Uprising Bakery, Apple Annie’s Bake Shop, Rita’s Italian Ice; and beverage vendors such as Coastal Beverage and Duplin Winery. Live and silent auctions; music provided by Main Event Sound.

Proceeds benefit MHC programs for children and families in the greater Wilmington area.

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PORT CITY SWAPPERS Port City Swappers is a monthly food and beverage swap where members of a community share homemade, homegrown, or foraged foods with each other. Swaps allow direct trades to take place between attendees, e.g., a loaf of bread for a jar of pickles or a half-dozen backyard eggs. No cash is exchanged, and no goods are sold. Diversify your pantry and go home happy and inspired while meeting your neighbors! facebook.com/PortCitySwappers.

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CAROLINA FARMIN’ Every Saturday 1-3pm the store still has live, local music right in the grocery area to entertain while people shop. Upcoming performances include Upstarts & Rogues, Galen on Guitar and Luis Paschoa. Carolina Farmin’ welcomes local schools to book tours of the store and this fall at Prospect Farms (owned by the same folks

ARIES (21 Mar. – 20 April): Normally, International CAPS LOCK DAY happens once a year, on June 28th. But in alignment with your current astrological omens, you have been granted the right to observe the next seven days as your own personal International CAPS LOCK DAYS. That means you will probably be forgiven and tolerated if use OVERHEATED ORATORY and leap to THUNDEROUS CONCLUSIONS and engage in MELODRAMATIC GESTURES. You may even be thanked—although it’s important to note that the gratitude you receive may only come later, AFTER THE DUST HAS SETTLED. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): William Turner was a 19th-century English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snowstorm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestuous swirls.

What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge anti-smoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically. When my daughter was six years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home forever. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed anti-feminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe, instead, I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transitory wishes.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures during the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you are able to achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limitations, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote while surfing the Web, I felt that it jibed per-

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fectly with the astrological omens that are currently in play for you. Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the language sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in “Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” a New Age self-help book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling. You need to devote all your energy to creating the future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms? Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health.

So, the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources? Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use? This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you are so fortunate to receive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More often than not, your fine mind does a competent job of defining the problems that need solving. It comes up with concise questions that lead you in the right direction to find useful clues. It gathers evidence crisply and it makes smart adjustments as the situation evolves.

But after studying the astrological factors currently at work, I’m a little concerned that your usually fine mind might temporarily be prone to suffering from the dreaded malady known as “paralysis through over-analysis.” To steer yourself away from that possibility, keep checking in with your body and your feelings to see what alternate truths they may have to tell you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By the standards of people who don’t know you well, the triumph you achieve in the coming days might seem modest. But I think it will actually be pretty dramatic. Here’s my only concern: There’s a slight danger you will get grandiose or even a bit arrogant in the aftermath of your victory. You could also get peeved at those who don’t see it for the major achievement it is. Now that I’ve given you this warning, though, I’m hoping you will avoid that fate. Instead, you will celebrate your win with humble grace, feeling gratitude for all the help you got long the way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name,” French writer André Breton said. I suspect that many of us feel the same way, which is kind of depressing.

But the good news for you, Sagittarius, is that there will be times in the coming months when you will get as close to naming that mysterious thing as you have ever gotten. On more than a few occasions, you may be able to get a clear glimpse of its true nature. Now and then you might even be fully united with it. One of those moments could come soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The “Paris Review” did a story on novelist William Gass. The interviewer asked him why he wrote his books. That was “a very dumb question,” he sneered. Nevertheless, he answered it, saying, “I write because I hate.

A lot. Hard.” In other words, his primary motivations for expressing himself creatively were loathing, malice and hostility. I beg you not to use him as your role model, Capricorn. Not now—not ever! But especially now. It is essential to your long-term health and wealth that you not be driven by hate in the coming weeks. Just the opposite, in fact: The more you are driven by love and generosity, the better chance you will have of launching a lucky streak that will last quite a while.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are,” author Marianne Williamson said. “Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” Your assignment, Aquarius, is to seek out the deepest possible understanding of these truths. To do that, you will have to identify the unripe, shadowy qualities of the people who are most important to you. And then you will have to find it in your smart heart to love them for their unripe, shadowy qualities almost as much as you do for their shiny, beautiful qualities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Aldous Huxley was the renowned 20th-century intellectual who wrote the book “Brave New World,” a dystopian vision of the future. Later in his life he came to regret one thing: how “preposterously serious” he had been when he was younger. “There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,” he ruminated, “trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling . . . Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.” I would love for you to put this counsel at the top of your priority list for the next 10 months, darling Pisces.

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A TICKET TO TASTE Ticket to Taste—an evening to enjoy the flavors of Burmese and Iraqi cuisine, 9/6, 6:30-9pm, for Interfaith Refugee Ministry. Brian Mayberry of Dixie Grill will devise a 3-course meal inspired by the flavors of Myanmar (Burma), Iraq and Columbia, home countries of our refugees.

Serving first-course breakfast, followed by a lunch and a dinner, influenced by the flavors and dishes native cuisine of the countries of IRM’s clients. Hosted by WECT-Fox News reporter Jon Evans. St. James Parish Episcopal Church Perry Hall. Corner of Dock and 4th sts.

910 264-7244 or Ticket2taste@gmail.com.$25. www.ticket 2taste.com. Interfaith Refugee Ministry – Wilmington provides resettlement services to legal refugees who come to the US at the sponsorship of the State Department of the United States.

JUICE, JAZZ AND JAVA Kiwanis Club of North Brunswick is hosting a fundraiser gala, Juice, Jazz & Java, Sat., Sept 7, 6-10pm, at Cape Fear National Clubhouse located in Brunswick Forest. Evening of dinner, dancing and wine tasting. Dance w/The Shawnette Baity Trio. Bid on several exciting silent auction items. Proceeds from this event will benefit children’s programs in northern Brunswick County. Tickets: www.NorthBrunswickKiwanis.org.

FEAST DOWN EAST BUYING CLUB Enjoy the quality, value and convenience of the Feast Down East Buying Club. It costs nothing to join. The benefits are immeasurable. It is a great way to eat healthier, while knowing you support your local farm families and

community. Log on at www.FeastDownEast. org and start buying fresh local food, sourced from Southeastern NC farms. Choose a pickup spot, and check out at the online cashier and you are done! Orders must be placed by 11am Monday for Thursday delivery. Consumer pickup is Thursday 3:30-6pm at: the Cameron Art Museum, THE POD (located next to Dunkin Donuts on UNCW campus) or the Burgaw Historic Train Depot.

FOOD NOT BOMBS To provide free Vegan and Vegetarian meals to the hungry. By sharing food we start a revolution. Food is a right, not a privilege. All our food is grown in the Food Not Bombs garden, and donated by local businesses, restaurants, farms, and people. Anyone can donate, and if you are unable to donate food, then donating your time is enough. Monthly meetups. www. foodnotbombs.net FOOD PANTRIES Good Shepherd House Soup Kitchen, 811 Martin St. Pantry Hours: 6am-3pm everyday • Mother Hubbards Cupboards, 211N 2nd St. (910)762-2199. MTWFS,1-3pm • Bread of Life Immaculate Conception Church, 6650 Carolina Beach Rd. (910)791-1003. Never had a food pantry, used to give food to the homeless on Saturdays but not anymore. • Catholic Social Ministries, 4006 Princess Dr. (910) 2518130. Tues-Fri., 9-11:30am • First Fruit Ministries, 2750 Vance St. (910) 612-9353. Tues/ Sat, 11am-1pm; Wed,10am-2pm. • Bethany Presbyterian Church, 2237 Castle Hayne Rd. (910) 762-7824. Wed, 11:30am-2pm. • New Covenant Holiness Church, 1020 Dawson St. (910)762-7376 WILMINGTON WINE SHOP Join us to sample five new delicious wines we’ve brought in just for our customers during Free Friday Wine Tasting, 5-8pm. Have a bottle or glass of your favorite with friends afterwards in our cozy shop or on the back deck. And beer lovers don’t fret, we’ve got a fridge full of craft and micro-brews. 605 Castle St. 910-202-4749. www.wilmingtonwine.net.

RED BANK WINE Red Bank’s wine of the week, Sat., 1-4pm. 1001 International Dr. 910-256-9480.

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HOMEBREW SUPPLY COMPANY Free craft beer tasting every Friday 4pm-7pm • Free all-grain brewing demonstration Every Saturday starting at 1:30pm at Wilmington Homebrew Supply, 4405-A Wrightsville Ave. wilmingtonhomebrew.com TASTING HISTORY TOURS Tasting History Tours of Pleasure Island; guided walking tours. $25, www.tastinghistorytours. com. Afternoon of delicious food and education. 910-622-6046.

CULINARY ADVENTURES TOUR Eat your way through Wilmington’s food history and delights! Culinary Adventures Tour with food writer/chef Liz Biro; under a mile, wear comfortable shoes. Top Chef Farmers Market Tour and Cooking Class, Heart of Downtown, Drinks Downtown, Downtown Brunch Stroll, Foodie Shopping Tour, Custom and Special Group Tours and more! $25 and up! www.lizbiro.com. 910-545-8055 THE WINE SAMPLER Every week we have five wines available to taste during sampling hours, Thurs., 3-8 pm, Fri., 3-8pm, and Sat., 11am-7pm. Each week we arrange a set of five wines, which we offer a 10% discount as well toward purchase.

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