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Time to start asking candidates the tough questions on the verge of election season by: gwenyfar rohler

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am starting to think the NC Legislature’s behavior is best equated with an obnoxious elementary school-aged boy Negative attention is better than no attention.

There are so many positive things they could be doing for our state: funding education, protecting voting rights of our citizenry, protecting civil rights of all North Carolinians, ensuring clean drinking water, expanding our access to healthcare, bringing back a well-established industry that employs thousands of North Carolinians (film!) ... and the list goes on. Instead, I imagine they lie awake at night, dreaming up new ways to screw their constituency.

ABOVE: Courtesy photo This is part of why I didn’t have children.

I just do not have the patience to teach people about long-term consequences— more so, about the positive impact one life can have on others—in a meaningful way.

Parenting takes dedication, whether for a child or the 170 adults in Raleigh.

On top of the remarkable two-year list of accomplishments of our legistlators— including that which has led 900 people choosing arrest as an only option to try to get the legislators’ attention (I guess the feeling that normally unacceptable behavior is the only way to be noticed is more prevalent in NC politics than we should be

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proud of)—NC has now decided sales tax we have 7 percent sales tax (combined state and county remittance). So, we colmust be re-distributed. lect and pay 2.25 percent that is, eventualI am so upset about this. ly, returned to our county to be spent here.

As many readers know, businesses colWe chose, as a county, to raise our sales lect sales tax on top of the price of goods tax 0.25 percent a few years ago in a refor services in NC. Last year the NC Gen- erendum. Therefore, of every dollar spent eral Assembly decided events and tickets on goods and services in New Hanover would be subject to sales tax, though they County, an additional 7 cents is collected had previously been excluded. All NC busi- and remitted to the state. Of that 7 cents, nesses that collect sales tax pay the state 2.25 cents comes back to New Hanover the general rate of 4.75 percent—no mat- County to be spent here. The additional ter the county in which the business re- 0.25 percent was voted in to help fund vale sides. But not all counties have the same of living projects like Arlie Gardens, Cape percentage of sales tax. In New Hanover Fear Museum and the library system.

What the state wants to do now is to take an extra dollar out of what has been coming to New Hanover (and other wealthy counties) and distribute the money to poorer counties. According to WHQR that could impact the county budget by $6 million a year.

About once a week I hear someone complain about paying for a library card here—or that they can’t get a library card here. My answer is almost always the same: “That doesn’t sound right; are you a New Hanover County resident?”

Then comes something along the lines of, “No, I live in [fill in Brunswick or Pender] County.“ “Well,” I try to explain, “the library is funded by county taxes, so if you don’t pay taxes here, you don’t get the benefits.”

That is not entirely true because lots of people who don’t live here use our infrastructure all the time: the roads, police, sheriff and fire response, parks, docks, etc. The reality is that a lot of people move here and realize taxes are lower in Brunswick and Pender counties, but they can be a short drive to Wilmington and enjoy the lovely cultural center that we are.

Those lower taxes come with less money to spend on libraries, museums and parks.

Don’t get me wrong, I am glad Wilmington is a destination that serves the surrounding area, but part of the way we fund supporting services people enjoy is through sales tax collected on purchases at stores and entertainment venues. If we eliminate a way to support these services, we will no longer have attractions as a draw to our area.

Besides the immediate loss of jobs it would bring, we will begin a cycle that will make no one happy: Less money to maintain attractions means fewer attractions.

Fewer attractions means fewer people spending money. And less money spent means less sales tax redistributed to poorer counties that we now get to support. And it means fewer jobs, which means fewer people spending money to support our economy.

So ... that projected $6 million dollar loss is just the beginning.

It seems strange the NC General Assembly has passed regressive taxes on the poor in this state while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy. Yet, they cannot see a connection between those actions and the shortfall in the state budget. We lost our film industry, which put thousands of people to work—both directly in film and in retail, hospitality and food service to support that industry. Now, they want to punish us for having tourists in our region. Is this like the scene in “Batman” when the Joker sits down at the table and tells the crime bosses they are going to run Gotham into the ground? It is starting to feel that way.

Election time is coming, and we must start asking serious questions and actually analyzing answers. Are elections about platitudes and slogans, or are they about our future? Though, we aren’t going to get a chance to change faces in Raleigh for a while, it is time to make some decisions about leadership on a local level. encore is preparing to send out questionnaires to candidates, and we would love to hear what you want us to ask them.

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Go to the forums and ask tough questions.

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I am all for the greater good and looking after our less-fortunate neighbors, but we already send 4.75 percent of the sales tax to the state. Our county has been through furloughs, staff reduction, reduced hours and services during the height of our austerity measures. I cannot imagine anyone wants to go back to that (or worse). We have just gotten on the other side of the Great Recession, isn’t now the time to invest in our infrastructure and try to put a bit of a nest egg aside for when the tough

times come? Can we really argue that our schools are not in need of investment?

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by: MARK BASQUILL

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etard!” the kid skating outside the downtown library shouted.

“Fat fag!” the other kid spat.

sensitive, they aren’t exactly calling for a genuine revolution of values. They aren’t speaking truth to anything but their own vulnerability. They feel their power threatened, and look to resist change and maintain their perceived status.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, because of the ongoing threat to some people’s narrow and They looked at me as if I was an old sour- inaccurate definitions of strength and manpuss who might reproach them for their hood, there will be a continued uptick in michoice words. Ah! A teachable moment be- sogynistic slurs. It’s worth noting that being driven by the passions, allowing your unfilfore the first day of school. tered emotions out of your mouth is seen to“Listen lazy pothead pudge-balls,” I said. “If day as stereotypically “womanly.” Odd, really. we’re to rise from the ashes of relative abunMost of the women I’ve known I have admired dance, we don’t have time to think before we precisely because of their ability to harness speak or to treat each other with respect. We their emotions, think clearly, and express their don’t have time to be politically correct! Carry thoughts concisely. If you think I sing castrato on, you entitled wussy slackers!” or I’m the only guy in history who finds the One of the losers shouted after me (I modern stereotype of the flighty, emotionally think it was the “fat fag”), “Thanks! You se- driven woman ludicrous, comical, and inacnile old sourpuss!” curate, ask yourself why the Greeks chose Thus ended a stimulating exchange of Athena to embody the highest virtue: wisdom. ideas with these future PC-free statesmen.

Sometimes spontaneous, straight-shooting I was so tickled to do a small part to make heroes actually have no ammunition to win a America great again, I started singing the war of words. Saying exactly what you feel Beatles’ “Octopus’s Garden” with my own lyr- isn’t exactly the same thing as knowing what ics: “I’d like to be PC free / and sling misogy- you’re talking about. Most of us actually bennistic racist epithets on TV.” efit from speaking with clarity and respect For a while I have thought about why in our professional and personal lives, and people whine and play the anti-political cor- use language some derisively call “politirectness card. It’s more widespread than one cally correct.” “Imbecile,” “moron” and “idiot” presidential candidate. Question anyone’s used to be clinical terms. Today clinicians flippant, racist, sexist, homophobic insults, describe them as “a person with intellectual and get accused of being too sensitive, too disabilities.” That’s not a submission to politi“PC.” More than a few sourpusses seem to cal correctness. The terms are more clinically have drifted from Martin Luther King’s elo- precise and more respectful than labeling anquent “fierce urgency of now” to false, urgent other human being an idiot.

I shook my head.

nonsense: “We don’t have time to speak clearly or with respect.”

Martin Luther King knew the difference between a sourpuss and a statesman. He could be properly politically incorrect. On April 4, 1967, as thousands died in Vietnam and violent struggles against structural racism and institutionalized poverty raged here, MLK’s beautifully crafted “Beyond Vietnam” speech spoke truth to power. He eloquently called for a “genuine revolution of values,” an end to the triple threat of “poverty, racism and militarism.” Although MLK has been mythologized for his narrowly focused civil rights efforts with black America, he made no corporate or political friends when he expanded his mission.

I’m surprised he lasted a year.

When those with perceived power sling slurs and complain the rest of us are too

Despite the panic, most of us have been taught to take plenty of time to think before we speak. “Right Speech” is part of Buddha’s eightfold path. Martin Luther King surely knew his Proverbs: “A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. (Proverbs 29:11)”

Can anyone escape the lofty expectation of decency and thoughtfulness in speech?

Kids and comedians. Skaters from downtown, because they’re kids. Comedians, satirists like Jon Stewart, because they are canaries in the coal mine of culture. Their spontaneity and sometimes biting language hold a mirror to the poisons that are killing us. Maybe that’s it. Maybe it’s not that people slinging slurs are sourpusses. Maybe it’s like my wife suggests when I try to make a joke, “Everybody’s a comedian.”

house attending to a need. Ramsey’s extensive petty-crime rap sheet belied his explanation for being there — that he was contemplating buying the $299,000 house and wanted to try it out first.

Still More “Intelligent Design”?

Government in Action

— Officially, now, it is “unreasonable” for a federal agency (the Bureau of Land Management, in this instance) to fail to say yes or no for 29 years to a drilling permit application. (Before July’s federal court decision, BLM had been arguing that 29 years was not too long.) A company had requested to drill just one exploratory well in Montana for natural gas in 1985, but the bureau had delayed the proceeding six times since then. The judge ordered the bureau to set a deadline for deciding.

— Georgia, one of six states that make taxpayers shell out huge fees to access its databases of public records, tries so relentlessly to control its archive that, recently, in a federal lawsuit, it said opposition to its policy was basically “terrorism.”

Activists (Public.Resource.org) have been establishing workarounds to free up some databases for citizen use, and Georgia demands that they stop. Georgia even claims “copyright” protection for one category of important legal documents that were initially drafted by state bureaucrats, audaciously calling them “original” and “creative” works.

— Mandatory Inaction: In July, the mayor of the town of Ador, Spain (pop. 1,400), officially enacted into law what had merely been custom — a required afternoon siesta from 2 to 5 p.m. Businesses were ordered to close, and children were to remain indoors (and quiet).

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— At a traffic stop in Rockingham, Vermont, on July 26, both driver and passenger were charged with DUI. Erik Polite, 35, was the driver (clocked at 106 mph on Interstate 91 and, according to police, with drugs in the car), and while he was being screened for intoxication, passenger Leeshawn Baker, 34, jumped behind the wheel and peeled off in reverse across the highway, nearly hitting the trooper, who arrested him.

— Nathaniel Harrison, 38, was arrested in July in a Phoenix suburb on several charges, including possession of a deadly weapon during a felony, but he escaped an even more serious charge when a second “deadly weapon” failed to engage. Harrison reportedly intended to retaliate against a “snitch” and arrived at the man’s home carrying a rattlesnake, which he supposedly pointed at the man, hoping it would bite him. However, the snake balked, and Harrison’s attempted payback failed.

— Lame Defenses in Lake County, Florida: (1) Daniel Baker, 40, and Robert Richardson, 19, were arrested in Altoona, Florida, in August after getting caught loading appliances from a vacant house. According to the arrest report, both men appeared incredulous to learn that items in a vacant house aren’t just “free.” (2) Six days earlier about 20 miles away in Tavares, Florida, Corey Ramsey, 23, was arrested for burglary when a police officer caught him sitting on a toilet in a vacant, for-sale

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(Flatworm researchers are aided on their projects by the species’ transparent bodies, facilitating the tracking of the sperm.)

Protest!

— About 200 protesters gathered in front of Hong Kong police headquarters on August 2 to denounce the 3 1/2-month jail sentence given to Ms. Ng Lai-ying, 30, who was convicted of assault for shoving a police officer with her chest. Women (and some men) wearing bras as outerwear chanted, “Breast is not a weapon.” (Ng was originally protesting the hardly sexy issue of import-export abuses between Hong Kong and mainland China cities.)

— The Joy of Protest: An August 1 demonstration outside Britain’s Parliament protesting legislation to curb until-now-legal psychoactive drugs drew about 100 people — consuming their drug of choice, nitrous oxide. As organizers distributed gas-filled balloons for demonstrators to take hits from, “the group erupted in fits of laughter,” according to The Guardian.

Perspective

— Construction on a $1.7 million therapeutic equestrian facility in St. Cloud, Florida, expressly for use by wounded U.S. service members, was delayed in August when a bald eagle nest was discovered on the grounds. Federal law requires at least 330 feet of clearance for the nest, plus additional monitoring to assure the birds’ tranquility. Said one neighbor, “The very animal that symbolizes freedom is delaying therapy for those who fought for it.”

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Far From the Mountains: Run Boy Run brings familial bluegrass to Bougie Nights by: Shannon Rae Gentry

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PICKIN’ AT BOURGIE: Run Boy Run will take to the Bourgie Nights Stage this Friday, Aug. 21 at 9:30 p.m.. Courtesy photo.

rowing up near the Blue Ridge Mountains, there’s a special place in my heart for the bluegrass my dad played with his brothers and cousins in backyards and basements: simple strings plucked by the quickest of fingers, paired with harmonies fluxing from lullabies to rallying cries.

Though they come far from the same mountains, Arizona band Run Boy Run encompasses traditional familial bluegrass with a soulful (at times haunting) sound. They will bring their brand of ‘grass to the Bourgie Nights stage on Friday, August 21.

Formed while most of the members attended the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2009, Run Boy Run consists of Matt Rolland (fiddle, guitar), his sister, Grace Rolland (vocals, cello, octave mandolin, guitar), Bekah Sandoval Rolland (vocals, fiddle, guitar), and her sister, Jen Sandoval (vocals, mandolin, octave mandolin), and bassist Jesse Allen.

When the crew met they immediately discovered a shared love for traditional Appalachian bluegrass.

“It’s nothing like it is out in the Southeast,” Matt admits, “but we grew up with it. [And] if you’re playing that kind of mu-

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sic out here, you probably know at least quickly wanted to start incorporating other sounds into our music,” Matt says. “We like half the other people playing it.”

Run Boy Run is somewhat of a melt- all kinds of music and bringing nontradiing pot of musical genres and influences. tional textures into the sound.”

Both the Sandovals and Rollands were part of family bands from a young age.

Jen and Bekah’s grandfather organized bluegrass festivals all over the Southwest. Matt and Grace have a mother who is a powerful cellist, and a father who is a full-time fiddler and Western cowboy musician. Bass player Jessie Allen joined later and brought more of a jazz and rock background.

With two pairs of siblings, and Matt and Bekah, who married well after starting the band, Run Boy Run seem like the makings of a typical family band hitting the road together. But it wasn’t what they had in mind at first.

“It started off as being this fun, casual thing we did on the porch in college,” Bekah shares. “But what was really thrilling around that time was for Jen and I to “I think that’s part of the reason we very meet these people who had similar ex-

periences growing up.”

It was just a few weeks after forming when the group entered, on a whim, and won the Pickin’ in the Pines’ Band Contest in Flagstaff, AZ. “That’s when we realized there was something special there,” Matt says. “We started writing our own songs, and when my sister joined the band we really started featuring the three-part harmony and she brought in a different character.”

Since Run Boy Run’s start they’ve been praised by Paste Magazine and were featured a couple of times on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” from which Garrison Keillor said of them: “When I hear Run Boy Run, it all comes back to me: why I started doing that show back then. I hope they go on forever.”

After releasing a self-titled EP in 2011, the five musicians played the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2012 and have released two full-length albums, “So Sang the Whippoorwill” in 2013 and “Something to Someone” in 2014. The latter was recorded in Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington. The young group collaborated with producers Ryan Hadlock and Jerry Streeter, who worked with Americana favorites like The Lumineers and Brandi Carlile.

Now, with one original song down and several more to go, Run Boy Run may have another full-length album out within a year. “We’ve yet to get together to work through additional songs and solidify the arrangements,” Bekah divulges. “We’ll hopefully start in the next few months.”

In what’s typically a male-dominated genre and industry, Run Boy Run’s three female vocalists strengthen their story and musical depth. From the sweet and soft soprano of Jen Sandoval to Grace Rolland’s alto on “Something to Someone,” there’s a certain ebb and flow throughout the album’s first and last songs. Each work like bookends of a larger story about leaving home and coming back again.

The album’s cover—a ship crashing through the sea—reflects an overarching theme of the unknowns of travel, the people met along the way and life itself.

“I think what probably adds more variety and color is the fact that we all have really different voices and styles of writing,” Bekah continues.

“While the songs may not be cowritten, they’re definitely coarranged, and it’s really exciting to hear your song take on a whole new character,” Matt tells. “It’s one of the things I really love about the band.”

“Under the Boughs” tends to get a reaction in front of a live crowd, as it swells instrumentally for a climax. While there are beautiful harmonies throughout the entire album (most simplistic in “Spin a Golden Thread”), listeners are introduced to intriguing characters in “Wild Bill Jones” and “Oh, Momma (Won’t You Tell Me What To Do?)” where a mother is asked what made her want to “wear a not-so-more white dress.” Other poignant moments are raised in “Heavy the Sorrow” and ”The Lord Taketh Away,” which slow the tempo of the album without bringing it to a grinding halt.

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“Even though [the record] was pretty well divided between the major and minor [voiced] songs, we worried about the sad and melancholic being the dominant sound,” Bekah says of the arrangement.

Run Boy Run maximizes silent reflection and foot-stomping—even clogging— in songs like “Far From My Home.” The album’s capstone captures a completed journey, found love, and adventurers returning home.

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Not surprisingly, the young vocalist has written most of the songs on the latest record. As an 8-year-old pianist, she began scribing original songs and instrumentals. From there, she became a very active writer by the time she started high school. Each member of Run Boy Run, however, penned songs on “Something to Someone” in a team effort.

“We put a lot of thought and meaning into the lyrics [and] our approach to songwriting is pretty individual,” says Matt, who wrote the music for “Sunday for Larks” and the opening track, “Under the Boughs.” It was inspired by his time working with an African refugee community in Tucson.

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MUSICAL PROGRESSION:

Bruce Hornsby returns to Greenfield Lake with the Noisemakers and all the essentials by: Shannon Rae GEntry

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hen thinking of Bruce Hornsby, many jump straight to his awardwinning album from 1986, “The Way It Is.” Though it was a great accomplishment, it was only one out of his two dozen-plus catalog to be recognized.

During his tenure, Hornsby has collected Grammy awards for different ventures.

From Best New Artist for “Bruce Hornsby and the Range” (1987) to Best Bluegrass Album (1990) to Best Pop Instrumental Performance (1994), Hornsby even tried his hand at writing a musical, “Stranger,” in 2011 (formerly known as “SCKBSTD” in reference to a “sick bastard” vanity license plate). Though composing original music for theatre wasn’t a completely foreign experience, Hornsby says it was a clear step away from past work.

“Musical theatre is an incredibly challenging medium creatively,” he tells. “My chal-

lenge is to try to write interesting, musically rich and adventurous songs that still can reach and move a large-ish audience.”

Last May Hornsby released “The Essential Bruce Hornsby,” a two-disc collection of original studio recordings, remastered works and live performances. One of his three collective albums—including “Greatest Radio Hits” (2003) and the box set “Intersections” (2006)—Hornsby’s self-reflection becomes a by-product of curating these collections.

“You accept the task of going back through the many years of work to make choices regarding what represents the ‘best’ of what you’ve done,” he says. “Generally for me, the process ends up being about self-loathing as much as enjoyment or appreciation of what I created. The charge is simple in the end: To find the music that holds up as a song and a performance, to determine what am I most proud of and what means the most to me after all the years.”

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Essential Hornsby: Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers hit the lake stage Fri. Aug. 21.

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“The Essential Bruce Hornsby” includes several live performances recorded throughout his touring career. His standard creative arc has often been to write the song, record, and then really learn how to play it.

“Often the best version of the song in the end is a live version that has benefitted from several years of gestation, years of figuring out how to sing and play the song,” he says, with “Mandolin Rain” (“The Way It Is,” 1986) and “Lost Soul” (“A Night on the Town,” 1990) as good examples. “For me the live versions are far better than the original. I feel this is something I have very much in common with my old friends and partners, the Grateful Dead.”

In an interview this year with JamBase, Hornsby named three collaborative relationship he most valued: The first, Spike Lee, for whom he composed music on several films, including “Clockers” (1995), “Bamboozled” (2000) and “Kobe Doin’ Work” (2009). Also topping the list: His work with Ricky Skaggs, which led to the production of the 2011 album “Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby.” According to Hornsby, the “most intense of these collaborative ventures” came when he toured with the Grateful Dead from September 1990 to March 1992 (he also joined them on keyboards for a recent Fare Thee Well show in Chicago).

virtuosity required to play bluegrass music with the freaks of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, [for example,] requires a good deal of practice. I always [practice] with the metronome at break-neck speed [and] crazy tempos to be able to hang with those guys.”

Hornsby’s progression through jazz, folk, rock and other genres, continues with his band the Noisemakers. Stepping further away from jazz-centric work to folk, the Noisemakers added two new members in 2014: fiddle-mandolin player Ross Holmes and guitarist Gibb Droll.

Rounding out their 2015 summer tour, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers have a stopover at the Port City’s Greenfield Lake Amphitheater on Friday, August 21.

They will play their eclectic brand of rock, pop, bluegrass, and jazz for their third year straight at Greenfield Lake.

“Every year we have new songs to play, and this year will be no different,” Hornsby divulges. “We take requests from the audience, and that generally leads us to new places every night. It will, as always, be a very loose, improvisatory affair. Basically, a big party.”

DETAILS:

Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers

Friday, August 21 Doors, 6 p.m.; Show, 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: $35 ADV, $40 Door Greenfield Lake Amphitheater • 1941 “Every project has its challenges and de- Amphitheatre Drive grees of difficulty when trying to make spe- www.greenfieldlakeamphitheater.com cial music,” the pianist says. “The level of 10 encore | august 19 – 25, 2015 | www.encorepub.com

arts>>music

Season OF STUNNERS:

UNCW Presents and CFCC’s Humanities & Fine Arts Center welcome massive talent to their stages

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by: Shannon Rae GEntry

t’s the start of a new season of live music, dance, one-man-shows, and guest speakers. Between UNCW Presents and the new addition of Cape Fear Community College’s Humanities and Fine Arts Center opening in October, Wilmingtonians have a plethora of performances to choose from in the 2015-2016 season. Here are the unofficial top five events in each program that folks shouldn’t miss (tickets on sale now through their websites).

CFCC Humanities and Fine Arts Center

700 N. 3rd St. • cfcc.edu/capefearstage

Opening Night Gala: Liza Minnelli With the North Carolina Symphony Saturday, October 3, 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: $225 plus taxes and fees

The Opening Night Gala at the CFCC Humanities and Fine Arts Center is not to miss.

Starting with a cocktail reception and heavy hors d’oeuvres—and ending with an afterparty of desserts and dancing—the black-tie affair features award-winning actress, singer and Broadway star Liza Minnelli.

The famed “Cabaret” frontwoman will be joined by the NC Symphony to open the show (and which is scheduled to play the center six times throughout its inaugural season). Then she’ll bring up her own band to conclude the evening. Cocktail reception starts at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m., followed by the after party at 9:30 p.m.

An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin

Thursday, February 4, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $40-$99 plus taxes and fees

Essentially a performance of “greatest hits,” An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin will showcase more than a dozen of Tomlin’s best-known characters. From the precocious 6-year-old Edith Ann, to Trudy, the schizophrenic street lady, to skits from her one-woman stage show, “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” it’s a mere glimpse of comedic talent from more than a half-century career.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Thursday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $45-$65 plus taxes and fees

The classic reimagining of the Biblical tale of Israel’s favorite son and coat of many colors is coming straight from Broadway to the Cape Fear stage. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler, the family friendly musical includes all favorites

by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber: “Go Go Go Joseph,” “Close Every Door” and “Any Dream Will Do.”

CONTRA-TIEMPO: Agua Furiosa Wednesday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $30 plus taxes and fees

CONTRA-TIEMPO is an awe-inspiring Urban-Latin dance group that uses visually stunning performances to tell stories. “Agua Furiosa,” CONTRA-TIEMPO’s newest work, confronts the complex and harsh realities of race in America. Directed by Ana Maria Alvarez and inspired by Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and Oya, the Afro-Cuban god of wind and storm, “Agua Furiosa” includes a live vocalist, water themes and personal narratives by performers.

John Prine

Saturday, November 7 Doors: 7 p.m., Show: 8 p.m.

Tickets: $49.50-$94.50 plus taxes/fees

UNCW Presents

Various venues on campus Legendary American singer/songwriter and Thalian Hall John Prine will take the stage with special uncw.edu/presents/currentseason.html guest folk and blues guitarist Chris Smither. Prine’s songs have been recorded by many talents spanning all genres and generations, from Johnny Cash to Bonnie Raitt, John Denver to Carly Simon, Ben Harper to Joan Baez. Prine’s won the AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting and the AMA Artist of the Year, and has been inducted into the inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Ricky Skaggs

Friday, September 11, 7:30 p.m.

UNCW Kenan Auditorium Tickets: $25-$60

The new season of UNCW Presents kicks off with country music icon and mandolin extraordinaire Ricky Skaggs. Since the spotlight hit him on the country stage in the early 1980s, Skaggs has continued to make his mark on the genre. He’s collected two dozen Grammy and

Opening Night: Ricky Skaggs sets the stage for UNCW Presents’ 2015/2016 season Fri. Sept.

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of Harold Pinter” has been performed across the world and United States since 2011 and was nominated for a 2013 Drama Desk Award.

Daniel Beaty: Emergency

Country Music Association awards, among Friday, February 12, 7:30 p.m. several other honors, and was the youngest UNCW Kenan Auditorium musician inducted to the Grand Ole Opry.

Tickets: $15-$40

Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre

Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-Presentation with Thalian Hall Tickets $18-$32

Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre is known for energetic and innovative dance to tell stories.

From a 19th century café “chess game” of life in Middlegame to visiting the island of Cyclops in “Homer’s Odyssey” in Stereopsis, audiences are taken on unexpected adventures through thoughtful choreography, talent and live music.

Julian Sands: A Celebration of Harold Pinter

Tuesday, November 17, 7:30 p.m.

UNCW Kenan Auditorium Tickets: $20-$50

Julian Sands is known for his film and television work with “Oceans 13,” “The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo,” “Arachnophobia,” and “Dexter.” In 2005 Sands began working with playwright and poet Harold Pinter to create what is now a humorous one-man show about the Nobel Prize winner, political activist, husband, and mortal man.

Directed by John Malkovitch, “A Celebration

In “Emergency”—formerly called “Emergence-SEE!”—Daniel Beaty uses (often poignant) humorous commentary as he portrays 40 characters reacting to a slave ship emerging in front of today’s Statue of Liberty. With each character, from a homeless man to Republican business executive to an 11-year-old boy from the projects, responses to the unexpected spectacle offer testimonies about identity and personal freedom.

An Evening with David Sedaris Sunday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.

UNCW Kenan Auditorium Tickets: $25-$60

Best-selling author and humorist David Sedaris—not to mention former NC native— is known for his wit and social commentary in essays and memoirs, such as “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and “Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.” A master of thought-provoking storytelling, Sedaris is a regular contributor to NPR’s “This American Life” and was nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album in 2004.

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a preview of events across town this week

the soundboard

2015 waterfront Music Series EVERY Sunday from 4 – 8pm august 23rd : back of the boat

august 30th : machine gun september 6th : back of the boat 4 marina st • wrightsville beach

www.BluewaterDining.com 100 S. FRONT ST. 910-251-1832 LIVE MUSIC in the courtyard 7 days a 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 (Fat Tire, Ranger IPA) $5 Jameson • Wing Special WEDNESDAY $2.75 Miller Lite, $4 Wells, Half off All Bottles of wine Live Music @ 8pm THIRSTY THURSDAY $2.50 PBR 16oz cans $3.50 Sam Adams Seasonal & Hoppyum Pints $5 Redbull & Vodka, 50¢ Steamed Oysters and Shrimp FRIDAY $2.75 Michelob Ultra • $3.25 Stella $4.50 José Cuervo Silver • Live Music on the Patio SATURDAY $2.75 Red Stripe • $4.50 Evan Williams Cherry Reel Cafe Rooftop Concert Series SUNDAY $3 Coronas/Corona Lite • $10 Domestic Buckets (5) $4 Mimosas • $4 Bloody Mary’s

PIANO POP: Out of NYC, Derek Bishop will play his specialty blend of ‘8os sync pop and piano at The Calico Room (107 S. Front St.), Thursday, August 20. Courtesy photo.

—The Blind Elephant, 21 N. Front St. Unit F

—The Pub, 2012 Eastwood Rd.; (910) 679-8101

Sam Cregger & Breanna Barbara (9pm; $5; Folk)

Acoustic Blues Jam (8pm; Free)

—Greenfield Lake Amp., 1941 Amphitheater Dr.

Thursday, August 20

Cinema Bukowski (8:30pm; Free; Acoustic)

Rob Nathanson (5:30pm; Free; Classical)

Aaron Lewis (5pm; $32.50-$35; Rock)

Wednesday, August 19 Crystal Fussell Duo (9pm; Free; Acoustic) —Reggae Hut, 121 Grace St.

Hard Working Americans (5pm; $26-$31; Rock)

—CAM Cafe, 3201 S. 17 St.

Mykel Barbee (6pm; Free; Acoustic)

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

Trivia Night (7pm; Free)

—Hoplite Pub, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Laura McLean (7pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 2313379

Improv (8pm; $3; Comedy)

—Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; (910) 763-2223

—Greenfield Lake Amp., 1941 Amphitheatre Dr.

Jared Michael Cline (6:30pm; Free; Guitar) —Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.

Blivet (6:30pm; Free; Variety)

—Carolina Beach Lake Park, Atlanta Ave.

Trivia With Sherri “So Very” (7pm; Free)

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 2313379 —Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; (910) 399-2796

Open Jam (9pm; Free)

—The Whiskey Bar, 1 S. Front St.

Derek Bishop (9pm; Cover TBD; Piano) —Calico Room, 107 S. Front St.

Steel Drums (7pm; Free)

Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 N. Lumina Ave.

—Whiskey Trail 4039 Masonboro Loop Rd.

Onward, Soldiers (7pm; Free; Rock)

Friday, August 21

—Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

—Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 S. Lake Park Blvd.; (910) 458-2000

Karaoke (9pm; Free)

3 J’s Live on Deck (7pm; Free; Rock)

—Greenfield Lake Amp., 1941 Amphitheatre Dr.

Butterfly Scream (7pm; Free; Rock)

—Airlie Gardens, 300 Airlie Rd.; (910) 798-7700

David Dixon (8pm; Free; Rock)

—Riverfront Park, 5 N. Water St.

—Ibiza, 118 Market St.; (910) 251-1301

Brooke Thompson (9pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Costello’s, 211 Princess St.; (910) 362-9666

James Jarvis (7pm; Free; Jazz)

—The Ogden Tap Room, 7324 Market St. —The Shack at Dockside, 300 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers (6pm; $35-$40) Signal Fire (6pm; $0-$9; Reggae)

Same as it Ever Was (6pm; Free; Talking Heads)

HOW TO SUBMIT A LISTING: All Soundboard listings must be entered onto our online calendar, powered by SpinGo, each Wednesday, by 5 p.m., for consideration in the following week’s entertainment calendar. All online listings generate the print listings, as well as encore’s new app, encore Go. Venues are responsible for notifying encore of any changes, removals or additions to their weekly schedules.

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W I N N E R

Wrightsville Beach, NC

2015 Beachside Music Series

LIVE MUSIC 7–10PM FRI.

AUG 21 SAT.

aug 22 FRI.

AUG 28 SAT.

aug 29

lunar tide Eclectic & Hip

mike o’donnell Dance & Classic

matt parker & the deacons Blues & Dance

randy mcquay Pop & Classic

SEA PANS STEEL DRUMS EVERY THURS. 7-10PM 1706 North Lumina Ave. • (910) 256-2231

EVERY Wednesday & Friday from 6-9pm

August 19th: Mykel Barbee August 21st: Tony Barnes August 26th: Mike Frusia www.OceanicRestaurant.com

August 21st: Same as it Ever Was

SURF TO THE LAKE: Donavon Frankenreiter returns to the Greenfield Lake Amphitheater (1941 Amphitheatre Dr.), Saturday, August 22. Courtesy photo.

Talking Heads tribute

August 28th: Tuesday’s Gone

A sweet home for this Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute

September 4th: Departue

The season concludes with a Journey tribute

$2.50 Budweiser Draft $4 Wells 65 Wings, 4-7pm $3.50 Sweetwaters $4.50 Absolute Lemonade 65 Wings, 4-7pm

$2.75 Yuengling Draft $2.75 Domestic Bottles 65 Wings, 4-7pm

$3.50 Sweet Josie $4 Margaritas $3.50 Pint of the Day $4 Fire Ball $5 Mimosas $5 Car Bombs $5 Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas *Drink Specials run all day

Music in the Garden (6pm; Free; Acoustic)

Beau Beauchene and DJ JAX (7pm; Free)

South of K (6:30pm; Free; Bluegrass)

Beach Billy Brothers (7pm; Free; Country)

Jerry Powell (7pm; Free; Blues)

TD MacDonald (7pm; Free; Acoustic)

—A Tasting Room, 19 S. 2nd St.

—Fort Fisher Rec Area, 1000 Loggerhead Rd. —The Ogden Tap Room, 7324 Market St.

Michael Eakins Duo (7pm; Free; Acoustic) —Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.;

TRIVIA WITH STEVE

8:30 p.m. • PRIZES! • $250 yuengling drafts

Friday ____________________________________________

LIVE __________________________________________ MUSIC Sunday

BREAKFAST BUFFET

9:00 A.m.- 2:00 P.M.• $4 BLOODY MARY’S AND MIMOSA’S 1423 S. 3rd St. DOWNTOWN WILMINGTON (910) 763-1607

—Carolina Beach Boardwalk, 100 Cape Fear Blvd.

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 2313379

Taqasim Tribe (8pm; Free; Fusion)

—Fermental, 7250 Market St.; (910) 821-0362

Jim Ashley (8pm; Free; Acoustic)

www.wilmingtondowntown.com

Thursday ________________________________________

—Shack at Dockside, 300 N. Lake Park Blvd.

—The Brewer’s Kettle, 4718 Oleander Dr.

www.RuckerJohns.com VISIT WWW.RUCKERJOHNS.COM FOR FRIDAY MONDAY DAILY SPECIALS, MUSIC & EVENTS Select Appetizers halfMONDAY off $ 4 Cosmopolitan $ 2 Big Domestic Draft Beers $550 Watermelon Martini $ 95 22oz. Domestic Draft ALL DAY 4 RJ's Coffee $ 3 Sam Adams and Blue $5 Pizzas Moon Seasonal Bottles TUESDAY TUESDAY 1/2 off Select Bottles SATURDAY LIVE JAzz IN THE BAR of Wine $ $ 6 All Half Price Bottles of Southern Wine Shiners 5 Absolut Dreams 50 $ Blue$2Moon Draft 3 NC Brewed Bottles • Pacifico Absolut Dream $$5$503-22oz 2 Select Domestic Bottles WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY SUNDAY 1/2 offMiller Nachos Light Pints $150$ Coronoa/ $ 50 5 All$2Flat 50 Breads 1 Domestic Pints Lite Bottles Corona $ 50 $4 Bloody$ Marys 2 Corona/Corona Lt. Margaritas/Peach Margaritas 4 Pints $ 50 $ 50 1 Domestic 4 Frozen Margarita $ 5 White Russians THURSDAY (pick your flavor) Visit our $website

Appletinis 4, RJ’s Painkiller 5 $

THURSDAY www.RuckerJohns.com $ 50 2 Red Stripe for Bottles $ 50 daily specials, music and 2 Fat Tire Bottles $ 50 2 Fat Tire Bottles upcoming events $ 50 2 Flying Dog IPA 1/2 off ALL Red WineFRIDAY5564 Carolina $ 50 Glasses Cosmos $4, 007 Beach 3 Road

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$ (910)-452-1212 3 Guinness Cans $ Island Sunsets 5 SATURDAY Baybreeze/Seabreeze $4 22oz. Blue Moon Draft $3

Machine Gun Funk (8pm; Cover TBD; Widespread Panic Cover) —The Whiskey Bar, 1 S. Front St.

Dave Stone (7pm; $13; Comedy)

—Dead Crow Comedy Club, 265 N. Front St.

Live Music (8:30pm; Free)

—The Harp, 1423 S. 3rd St.

Mon: Service Industry Night!

1/2 Price Apps 8-10pm $2 Domestic Drafts & $5 Carolina Shine

David Grollman & Nathaniel Morgan (8:30pm; $8; Acoustic)

Wed: $2 Fish Tacos from 12-5pm

—The Pub, 2012 Eastwood Rd.; (910) 679-8101

Thurs: 1/2 Price Wine!

Fri:

Beau Beauchene 7-10pm DJ JAX BEACH BASH!! 10pm-2am $1 Domestic Drafts & $2 Wells!!

Sun: Bluegrass at 6pm with Folkstone String Band

—Squidco Records, 928 N. 4th St.

Our Good Intentions (9pm; Free; Rock) Tyler Mckaig (10pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St. (910) 772-1400

DJ Jax Beach Bash (10pm; $10)

—Shack at Dockside, 300 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Chasing Opal (10pm; Free; Folk) —Duck n Dive, 114 Dock St.

Asher Rother (10pm; $10-$15; Hip-hop) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.;

Friday Night Fun House Follies (10:30pm; Free) —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; (910) 251-1301

Dave Stone (9:30pm; $13; Comedy)

—Dead Crow Comedy Club, 265 N. Front St.

Lunar Tide (7pm; Free; Eclectic)

Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 N. Lumina Ave.

Some Dudes (8pm; Free; Acoustic)

—The Pub, 2012 Eastwood Rd.; (910) 679-8101

Experimental Music (10pm; $0-$5) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

Saturday, August 22

Monday, August 24

Barbecue & Blue Grass Band (1pm; Free)

Electric Mondays (7pm; Free)

—Hugh MacRae Park, 1799 S. College Rd.

—The Whiskey Bar, 1 S. Front St.

Savage Fest (1pm; Free; Eclectic)

Trivia (7:30pm; Free)

—Detour Deli & Cafe, 510 1/2 Red Cross St.;

—Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; (910) 763-4133

Donavon Frankenreiter (4:30pm; $22-$25; Surf)

Open Mic (8pm; Free)

—Greenfield Lake Amp. 1941 Amphitheatre Dr.

—Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; (910) 763-2223

Music in the Garden (6pm; Free; Acoustic)

Kim Dicso (9pm; Free; Folk)

—A Tasting Room, 19 S. 2nd St.

Jazz Piano (6pm; Free)

—Calico Room, 107 S. Front St.; (910) 762-2091

Reel Rooftop Concert Series (7pm; $5)

—Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

The Awkward Silents (7pm; Free; Eclectic)

Mayday! with Kap Kallous (9pm; $10; Rock)

—Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; (910) 7694096

Tuesday, August 25

Coleman Daley (7pm; Free; Reggae)

John Hiatt & Taj Mahal Trio (5pm; $49.50)

—Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

—Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, Amphitheatre Dr.

Vanessa Lynch Duo (7pm; Free; Acoustic)

Comedy Bingo (7pm; Free)

—Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

—Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

Joe Smothers (7pm; Free; Folk)

Trivia With Sherri “So Very” (7:30pm; Free)

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 2313379

—Carolina Ale House, 317-C College Rd.

Stray Local (8pm; Free; Americana)

—Carolina Coast Vineyard Church, 6 Harper Ave.

Dave Stone (7pm; $13; Comedy)

—Dead Crow Comedy Club, 265 N. Front St.

Ben and Heather (8pm; Free; Acoustic)

—The Pub, 2012 Eastwood Rd.; (910) 679-8101

Derwin Hinson (7:30pm; Free; Bluegrass) Live Team Trivia (7:30pm; Free)

—The Ogden Tap Room, 7324 Market St.

Open Mic Night (7:30pm; Free)

—Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.

College Night Karaoke (9pm; Free)

—Ironclad Brewery, 115 N. 2nd St.

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; (910) 362-9666

Dance Party (9pm; $5-$10)

Bobaflex (9pm; $10-$15; Metal)

Ashton Stanley (8pm; Free; Rock)

—Ibiza, 118 Market St.; (910) 251-1301

Billy Bob Thornton & The Boxmasters (9pm; $20$25; Americana) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; (910) 7694096

Crystal Fussell Duo (10pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; (910) 362-9666

Groove Fetish (10pm; Cover TBD; Funk) —The Whiskey Bar, 1 S. Front St.

Mike O’Donnell (7pm; Free; Dance)

Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 N. Lumina Ave.

Dave Stone (9:30pm; $13; Comedy)

—Dead Crow Comedy Club, 265 N. Front St.

Sunday, August 23

—Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; (910) 7694096

Wednesday, August 26 Rob Nathanson (5:30pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th St.; (910) 395-5999

Trivia Night (7pm; Free)

—Hoplite Pub, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Brandon Snow (7pm; Free; Acoustic)

—The Ogden Tap Room, 7324 Market St.

Jill and Barry (7pm; Free; Acoustic)

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 2313379

Improv (8pm; $3)

—Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

Mark Herbert (4pm; Free; Acoustic)

Karaoke (9pm; Free)

—Fermental, 7250 Market St.; (910) 821-0362

—Ibiza, 118 Market St.; (910) 251-1301

Satellite Bluegrass Band (6pm; Free)

Donna Merritt (9pm; Free; Jazz)

—Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; (910) 399-2796

—Costello’s, 211 Princess St.; (910) 362-9666

Folkstone String Band (6pm; Free)

—Shack at Dockside, 300 N. Lake Park Blvd.

—Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; (910) 7694096

Collective Dialect (7pm; Cover TBD; Rock)

Rebeka Todd (10pm; Free; Folk)

—The Whiskey Bar, 1 S. Front St.

Open Mic (7pm; Free)

showstoppers

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; (910) 362-9666

—The Ogden Tap Room, 7324 Market St.

—Fermental, 7250 Market St.; (910) 821-0362

concerts outside of southeastern nc

Citizen Cope (9pm; $36-$41; Americana)

—Duck n Dive, 114 Dock St.

JAMMIN’ WEEKEND: See Umphrey’s McGee at the Fillmore Thursday, Aug. 20.

Photo by Tom Dorgan LINCOLN THEATRE 126 E. Cabarrus st., raleigh, nc (919) 821-4111 8/19: Jerrod Niemann, Craig Campbel & more 8/23: Brelan Brown, Caroline Skeen, and more 8/25: of Montreal with Mothers ZIGGY’S 170 W. 9th st., winston-salem, nc (336) 722-5000 8/21: High On Fire, Pallbearer & more 8/22: Eyes Eat Suns, Swing First & more 8/23: Chris Cagle with The Mason Lovitt Band 8/25: Plain White T’s with Brynn Elliott NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE NORTH DAVIDSON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 358-9298 8/19: Carl Thomas 8/21: The Dirty Guv’nahs 8/29: The Steeldrivers CAT’S CRADLE 300 E. MAIN St., CARRBORO, NC 8/21: Eston & the Outs w/ The Shelles & more 8/22: The Color of Change, Hotline and Breakers 8/26: Della Mae with Jon Stickley Trio HOUSE OF BLUES MYRTLE BEACH 4640 Hwy 17 S., Myrtle Beach, SC (843) 272-3000 8/21: American Floyd 8/22: Breaking Benjamin

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL 723 RIGSBEE AVE., durham, NC (919) 901-0875 8/20: PJ Morton (of Maroon 5) & Carolyn Malachi 8/21: VaudeVillains THE FILLMORE 820 HAMILTON ST., Charlotte, NC (704) 916-8970 8/19: Breaking Benjamin, Young Guns and Starset 8/20: Umphrey’s McGee, J. Roddy Walston& more 8/27: Tamia RED HAT AMPHITHEATER 500 SOUTH MCDOWELL ST., RALEIGH, NC (919) 996-8800 8/20: Australian Pink Floyd w/ Led Zeppelin2 8/23: O.A.R. AMOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 SOUTH TRYON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 377-6874 8/22 & 23:: The Burning August Music Fest 8/26 Melanie MArtinez and Handsome Ghost THE ORANGE PEEL 101 bILTMORE AVE., ASHEVILLE, NC (828) 398-1837 8/22: Asheville Barnaroo Pre-Jam 8/23: Teatro del Gusto and The Resonant Rogues 8/27: Big Smo and Haden Carpenter GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 WEST LEE ST., GREENSBORO, NC (336) 373-7400 8/21: Marco Antonio Solis 8/23: Air Supply

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 231-3379

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arts>>art

SOUND AND VISION:

CAM opens latest exhibition, ‘Response is the Medium,’ on Friday by: Josephine butler

T

he age-old saying goes: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Ask interactive art pioneer Myron W. Kruger, and he’d say beauty is secondary: “Response is the medium!”

On Friday the Cameron Art Museum explores the ever-evolving field of interactive artwork, and many pioneers and vanguards of the medium with its exhibition, “Response is the Medium.” By definition, interactive art is artwork requiring some level of engagement between the spectator and the piece itself. What that engagement necessitates varies from artist to artist and piece to piece.

Brian Knep is a media artist whose works range from large-scale interactive installations to microscopic sculptures for nematodes. He was the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School, working sideby-side with scientists, using their tools and techniques to explore alternative meanings and ways of connecting to the world.

For his healing series, featured at the CAM, Knep hopes to explore the changes, both destructive and regenerative, that happen when things interface with each other. The Boston-based artist has installed interactive floor projections with patterns that change in response to visitors. When visitors walk across, the patterns pull away, creating wounds. When left alone, the patterns grow to cover the wounds.

“With these pieces I am focusing on the complexity possible with very simple rules,” Knep states. “By amplifying chemical models of interactions, and making them visible and accessible, they become metaphors for human behavior and interaction.”

Daniel Rozin is guided by similar principles. The artist creates interactive installations and sculptures that change and respond to the presence of a viewer.

In his piece titled, “Mirror No. 10” (2009), Rozin uses his authored software and a small camera to generate a live reflection of its display environment. The onscreen

INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENTS: Daniel Rozin’s “Mirror No. 12, 2013,” a video camera, custom software, computer. Photo: Courtesy of Cameron Art Museum

imagery appears to be sketched and is built visually by a hatched line-drawing constantly in flux. Trails of movement form a textured surface and echo the gesture of viewers.

In addition to the visual aspects of interaction, performing arts group Purring Tiger, along with artists Gabriel Craig and Michael Remson, tap into spectators’ auditory senses. Aaron Sherwood and Kiori Kawai—the artists who founded Purring Tiger—seek to explore the small universe of the human body and mind through sound. The duo has installed a structure with 200 hanging translucent balls; each contains a speaker. When a ball is touched, it generates a unique sound and lights up with one of five colors. As visitors play and interact with the balls, they will be engulfed by a symphony of lights and sounds. Titled “MICRO,” it was an honorarium installation at Burning Man in 2014.

In addition to her work as a visual artist, Kawai choreographed an interaction with the piece, both beautiful and haunting.

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tively, is a multi-media piece. It combines video, audio and sculptural elements. It explores forging as an act of both fabrication and percussion.

Initially confronted by a video of metal forging, viewers proceed to the gallery space and are able to use custom, handcarved wooden mallets to play three different hand-forged steel-keyed instruments.

Each key is tuned to complement the musical score, and allows viewers to easily and successfully engage the work. For Craig and Remson, it’s not visitors who are just engaging; they are completing the work.

Perhaps Kruger puts it best: “Instead of an artist creating a piece of artwork, the artist is creating a sequence of possibilities.”

“Response is the Medium” opens Friday with a reception for CAM members from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to meet the artists, as well as enjoy light refreshments, a cash bar, and live music by Subterrene. The exhibition will be will be on view through Jan. 10, 2016.

DETAILS:

Response is the Medium Interactive Art

CAM members and guests: $10 Opens Aug. 21, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Hangs through Jan. 10, 2016 Cameron Art Museum 3201 South 17th Street www.cameronartmuseum.org

what’s hanging around the port city

galleryguide Artfuel.inc

2165 Wrightsville Ave. Mon.-Sat., noon-7 p.m. www.artfuelinc.com • (910) 343 5233 Artfuel is pleased to host Vol. 41, featuring Candy Pegram, Aaron Collier, Eli Thompson, Brian Mergenthaler, and Sarah Collier. Show hangs for eight weeks.

ArtExposure!

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 “Artist’s Choice” opening reception on August 14th from 6-8 p.m. Along with our featured artists, we will pay tribute to Lynn Padgett, a regional watercolorist who passed away this year. There will be raffles and live music. All proceeds from the raffles will go directly into the Lynn Padgett Memorial fund.

In September there will be another 2nd Saturday “Art in Action” featuring artists working and a live model. Art in Action starts at 11 a.m. with

a walk-in mixed media class for $35. The live model with begin posing at noon. The public is invited to participate. (Bring your own supplies).

A tip jar for the model will be provided.

New Elements Gallery

201 Princess St. (919) 343-8997 Tues.-Sat.: 11am - 6pm (or by appt.) www.newelementsgallery.com “In Your Backyard” features two highly esteemed artists, Betty Brown and Vicki Gates.

Brown depicts landscapes inspired by the Carolinas and Europe. Gates creates lush, Low Country scenes with pastels. Both artists elevate familiar landscapes as they spotlight the places we are proud to call home. Meet with the artists during our opening receptio, held in conjunction with downtown Wilmington’s Fourth Friday Gallery Night. “In Your Backyard” will remain on view until August 22.

River to Sea Gallery

225 S. Water St., Chandler’s Wharf (free parking) (910)-763-3380

Tues.-Sat. 11am-5pm; Sun. 1-4pm 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 will enthrall visitors with its eclectic collection of original paintings, photography, sculpture, glass, pottery and jewelry. “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.

SUNSET RIVER Marketplace

10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999 • Tues.- Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com In the historic fishing village of Calabash, NC, over 10,000-plus square feet of fine arts is showcased. Clay art and pottery; oil paintings, watercolors, mixed media, pastels and acrylics; plus award-winning metalworks, wood pieces, handblown glass, fiber art, artisan-made jewelry and more. Sunset River Marketplace has become a popular destination for visitors, a gathering place

for artists and a center of the community, thanks to its onsite pottery studio, complete with two kilns; a custom master framing department; and art classrooms for workshops and ongoing instruction.

WILMA W. DANIELS GALLERY

200 Hanover St., CFCC parking deck, first level Tues.-Fri., 10am-5:30pm; Sat., noon-5:30pm 910-362-7431 Wilma W. Daniels Gallery is pleased to present “Recent Works by Dallas Thomas.” Thomas’s work is heavily influenced by nonspecific tribal ceremonies and rituals from all over the world, as well as the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s. He experiments in wet and dry media, in both small and large scale paintings and drawings. His style is characterized by purposeful mark making and an economy of lines. Thomas cites hip-hop culture as a lifelong influence on his art and credits it for his more aggressive mark making and sense of energy.

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STAGING COSPLAY:

‘She Kills Monsters’ brings the world of D&D to life, with a beating heart

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by: Shea Carver

rowncoat Pub and Theatre has focused their 2015 season on “Amazing Wonder Stories,” featuring a mix of locally written plays and other published works that fit into their vibe of scifi, horror and fantasy. Starting this week they’ll debut “She Kills Monsters,” which won the 2013 AATE Distinguished Play Award, written by Qui Nguyen. Director Nick Smith (who’s also transitioning into artistic director at Browncoat) found the production after a friend in Athens, GA, produced it for Town and Gown Players.

“She sent me the script, and I fell in love with it immediately,” he says. “I don’t know if there’s any other show that’s a more perfect fit for the Browncoat stage—at least in terms of Browncoat’s reputation as a geek haven. Swords, sorcery, dragons, monsters ... that’s almost what we exist to present, right?”

word,” Glenn notes. “I love the sister dynamic and playing that up; it’s hilarious and reminds me of fights I’ve had with my own two sisters.”

“She Kills Monsters” takes viewers into the world of the table-top role-playing game, Dungeons and Dragons. Though colorfully imaginative, it contains emotionally powerful storytelling, centered around the protagonist, Agnes, who must come to terms with her teenage sister’s death. Agnes comes across her sister’s Dungeons and Dragons notebook, which leads her into a world of refuge and selfdiscovery, complete with action-packed adventure and a lot of comedy. The show not only contains fairies and ogres, but it also works in ‘90s pop culture.

“Everyone can relate to it,” Smith includes. “It has a big ol’ beating heart at its core, and I think it’ll speak to anyone who’s ever felt lost, alone or struggled with being an outcast. The play shows your life can be just as big an adventure as anyone else’s.”

To bring the magic of Dungeons and Dragons to life, Smith has enlisted the help of Aaron Willings with set design.

Though somewhat minimal, the movement between the real and fantasy worlds will be evident, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. “Pippin Calame, who is famous on the con circuit for her cosplay, is working on the costumes and coming up with some ridiculously cool designs—and on a tight budget, which to me is even more impressive,” Smith tells.

“It’s my favorite kind of script,” Smith tells, “the one that will thrill you one moment, make you laugh hysterically the next, then force out the Kleenexes before it’s over.”

Playing Agnes is Eleanor Stafford, as suggested to the director from local actress Susan Auten. According to Smith, Stafford’s Agnes walks the fine line of being skeptical of the role-playing in the Dungeons and

Dragons world and being intrigued by it all at once. Claire Glenn plays Agnes’ sister, Tilly. “Claire has more emotional maturity and insight at 17 than most 30-year-olds I know,” Smith hails.

“Tilly is this annoying little-sister type character, but to my surprise she turns out to understand more about friendship and human nature than she first lets on,” Glenn tells. “I’ve learned from playing Tilly that outward looks and actions don’t always dictate one’s true character.”

The characters crafted by playwright Nguyen get to the heart of family and the plights all humans face in life: losing loved ones, having regrets about truly knowing our families, and creating our own families beyond genetics. Sibling rivalries will be recognizable, even if the elf rivalries are not.

And as its moniker suggests, monsters will be present—four of them, in fact: Farrah the Fairy, Miles the Gelatinous Cube, the Beholder, and Tiamat, a five-headed dragon. Smith has film prop master Mark McCoy working on “the Cube” and “the Beholder,” the latter of which is a giant eyeball with teeth.

“Jon Armke, who’s also in the show as Orcus, is building the Tiamat, and I’m very excited at the quality of work he’s doing,” Smith explains. “It’s exceeded every expectation I’ve had.”

DETAILS:

She Kills Monsters

August 20-23, 27-30, Sept. 3-6, 8 p.m.; Sun. matinees, 5 p.m.

Tickets: $15-$20 Browncoat Pub and Theatre 111 Grace St. “My favorite scene is actually when www.browncoattheatre.com

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Respo nse is the M edium Interactive Art M E M B E R O P E N I N G AU G . 21, 6 - 8 P M

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POP-UP PERFORMANCE

Brian Knep Daniel Rozin Purring Tiger (Aaron Sherwood and Kiori Kawai) Gabriel Craig and Michael Remson This exhibition explores the innovative ways artists are utilizing technology, perception and audience interaction in creating their work.

This exhibition is sponsored in part by Live Oak Bank

K i o r i W e d . A u g . 19 7 : 15 www.cameronartmuseum.org K a w a i3201 South 17th Street | Wilmington, NC 28412

- 7:45 pm

Come to CAM and experience the work of performer, choreographer and visual artist Kiori Kawai in this brief public performance followed by Q&A. Performing to the sounds and visuals of Aaron Sherwood, the duo make up Purring Tiger whose installation MICRO was an honorarium installation at Burning Man 2014 and will be on view in the new exhibition Response is the Medium at CAM beginning Saturday, August 22, 2015. http://kiorikawai. com/kiorikawai.com/works1.html https://vimeo.com/93394593 Free, donations appreciated

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arts>>film

reel to reel

Solid Foundation Falls:

films this week

‘Fantastic Four’ is a strange experience not to bother with

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by: Anghus

antastic Four” is an interesting movie because of it’s busted-up pedigree. A franchise known for being sub-par since Roger Corman first filmed a ridiculously lowbudget version in order to maintain the rights for the company that held them.

Twentieth Century Fox got their hands on the famous comic book property and delivered two flaccid installments. Part of their contractual agreement with Marvel Studios is they have to continue to produce movies based on the properties they own the rights to (which also in- QUICK TO CRUMBLE: Poor pacing and cludes the X-Men). So here we are once tone make ‘Fantastic Four’ fail to deliver again with another mediocre, prefabri- overall. Courtesy photo cated and utterly redundant take on the “Fantastic Four.” tential of these powers. Ben Grimm has But that’s all it is: mediocre. It’s rushed become a hulking, rock-covered giant. and uninspired. You’ll have a hard time Johnny has transformed into a human finding anyone heaping praise upon “Fan- torch. Sue can turn invisible. Reed can tastic Four,” but it’s not a complete disaster creepily stretch his limbs. either. It suffers from the same pains as “Fantastic Four” is a strange experiso many comic-book adaptations. In truth, ence and one of the most salient examthey could have called it “The Familiar ples of a film that suffers from inconsisFour” because it’s another superhero oritencies in pacing and tone. The movie’s gin story sticking to the rails. first hour is quite effective. It’s a very Reed Richards (Miles Teller) is a su- slow burn that takes time to deliver some per genius who has dedicated his youth quality characters—though somewhat to the creation of a “biomatter shuttle”: a awkwardly. Director Josh Trank (“Chronidevice that can teleport people to anoth- cle”) directs scenes with the subtlety of a er dimension. Like all super-intelligent cranial jackhammer. Dialogue is stiff. Cliteenagers, he’s recruited by a govern- ché is rampant, but the actors do a good ment-sponsored think-tank to help cre- job of elevating some very dry material. ate a workable version of his vision. OthAfter a very efficient and entertaining er scientists have already been working first hour, the movie jumps into fifth gear on the concept without much success, including the egomaniacal Victor Von and rockets through the remainder of the Doom (Toby Kebbell). Reed gets to the story at breakneck speed. I can’t rememBaxter institute and is quickly smitten by ber a film that built up so much goodwill Sue Storm (Kate Mara), a fellow braini- only to burn through it in a matter of minac who is edgy enough to get the blood utes. There’s all this potential drama set up only to be utterly wasted in the most flowing to his nether regions. unsatisfying of ways. At the conclusion I Once the working teleporter is com- was convinced someone from Fox was in pleted, Reed and a few friends decide to the editing bay with a loaded gun to the take an interdimensional trek to Planet editor’s head, demanding: “This movie Zero and see what’s on the other side. ends in 95 minutes … or else!” So many Reed recruits his childhood friend Ben comic-book movies feel pointlessly long.

Grimm (Jamie Bell) to join them, along “Fantastic Four” feels painfully short. with Sue’s brother Johnny (Michael B. The damage done by the film’s final Jordan). Planet Zero turns out to be a craggly, gooey green wasteland that third act is damning. This easily could transforms them from normal teenagers have been just another average comicto super-powered beings. They are quar- book adaptation, but there are so many antined by the government and studied. sins in the final half an hour. InconseThe military immediately sees the po- quential action. Boring special effects.

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A villain who never has time to develop into anything other than your typical one-dimensional would-be destroyer of worlds.

“Fantastic Four” is not an awful film.

It’s not a cringe-inducing embarrassment like “Batman & Robin.” However, it is a waste of a movie. So much talent involved produced so little value. It’s a shame, too, as the first half really does have some nice moments. There is the framework of a good movie in the foundation, but the final build is an unwieldy waste that shouldn’t be bothered with.

DETAILS:

Fantastic Four

2 out of 5 stars Starring: Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell Directed by: Josh Trank Rating: PG-13

Aug. 24-26 (additional showing on Aug. 26, 4 p.m.): “Amy: The Firl Behind the Name”—From award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna), “Amy” tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film shines a light on this amazing artist, whose appeal crossed cultural and demographic boundaries.

While her music made her a star, her chaotic personal life stole headlines.

(Rated R, 2 hours 8 minutes)

Aug. 23: Free Sunday Night Movies at the Carolina Beach Lake presents “Hook.” The Steven Spielberg classic looks at an adult Peter Pan, who returns to Neverland to reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old nemesis, Captain Hook. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams. Film begins at dusk (around 8:45). (Rated PG, 2 hours 22 minutes)

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southeastern nc’s premier dining guide

grub & guzzle

ogden tap room • 7324 Market St • (910) 821-8185

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 awardwinning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sunday April - October.

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

Blue surf cafÉ

Sophisticated Food…Casual Style. We offer a menu that has a heavy California surf culture influence while still retaining our Carolina roots. We provide a delicate balance of flavors and freshness in a comfortable and inviting setting. We offer a unique breakfast menu until noon daily, including specialty waffles, skillet hashes and unique breakfast sandwiches. Our lunch menu is packed with a wide variety of options, from house roasted pulled pork, to our mahi sandwich and customer favorite, meatloaf sandwich.

Our dinner features a special each night along with our favorite house entrees: Braised Beef Brisket, Mojo Pork and Mahi. All of our entrees are as delicious as they are inventive.

We also have a full beer and wine list. Come try the “hidden gem” of Wilmington today. 250 Racine Drive Ste. 1, Wilm-

ington 910-523-5362.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday to Saturday 8:30

a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily Specials, Gluten Free Menu, Gourmet Hot Chocolates, Outdoor Patio, New Artist event first Friday of every month and Kids Menu.

■ WEBSITE: www.bluesurfcafe.com

buffalo wild wings

If you’re looking for good food and an atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family, Buffalo Wild Wings is the place! Award winning wings and 20 signature sauces and seasonings.

Plus…salads, wraps, flatbreads, burgers, and more. Tons of Big screen TVs and all your favorite sports. We have daily drink specials, a HUGE draft selection, and Free Trivia all day every day. Come in for our Weekday Lunch Specials, only $5.99 from 11am-2pm. Visit us for Wing Tuesdays with 60 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: MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 locations-Midtown (910-798-9464) and Monkey Junction (910-392-7224) ■ MUSIC: Live music Friday and Saturday in the Summer ■ WEBSITE: www.buffalowildwings.com

East oceanfront dining at blockade runner

Award-winning cuisine accompanied by the sounds of breaking surf + a soothing coastal breeze, that's East Oceanfront Dining. Our chef, Ben Ramsey, will pleasure your palate with fresh local seafood, produce from our own gardenscape + other harvest from local purveyors. Chef Ramsey is focused on the best of what our region has to offer and he + his staff are delighted to serve you. You'll dine in the comfort of our

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relaxing restaurant or if you choose, our canopied, oceanfront deck provides a memorable ambiance for any evening.

If you're looking for a more casual bite or maybe just a drink or two before dinner, have a seat in the Aquarium Lounge. A great selection of wine, beer or spirits can provide just what you're looking for as you settle in for an evening of coastal culture. For reservations and information concerning best rates and packages, please call 1-800-541-1161.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: The Blockade Runner Beach Resort, 275 Waynick Blvd.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ WEBSITE: www.blockade-runner.com

elijah's

Since 1984, Elijah’s has been Wilmington, NC’s outdoor dining destination. We feature expansive indoor and outdoor waterfront dining, with panoramic views of riverfront sunsets.

As a Casual American Grill and Oyster Bar, Elijah’s offers everything from fresh local seafood and shellfish to pastas, sandwiches, and Certified Angus Beef selections. We offer half-priced oysters from 4-6 every Wednesday & live music with our Sunday Brunch from 11-3. Whether you are just looking for a great meal & incredible scenery, or a large event space for hundreds of people, Elijah’s is the place to be.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11:30-10:00; Friday and Saturday 11:30-11:00 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington Kids menu available

eternal sunshine cafÉ

Wilmington’s new unique restaurant, Eternal Sunshine Café, is conveniently located between downtown and Wrightsville Beach, also close to UNCW. It is a great spot to savor a gourmet breakfast, like cinna-swirl pancakes with coffee cream cheese syrup or a southwest benedict with chipotle hollandaise on a made from scratch biscuit. The lunch menu is filled with fresh delectable salads, sandwiches on house

baked breads, and pitas. Come experience the innovative twist on breakfast classics and a casual lunch guaranteed to make you a regular customer. May the tranquility of Eternal Sunshine Cafe’s atmosphere shine upon your face and reinvigorate your day. Serves breakfast all day.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: MondayWednesday 7-2, Thursday-Friday 6:30-2, Saturday 7-2, Sunday 8-2 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.eternalsunshinecafe.com

Halligan's pub

“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 it’s going to be packed. Dinner too!

Henry’s Pine Room is ideal for private functions up to 30 people. 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.

■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com

cal seasonal ingredients are the soul of our culinary inspired American fare. 5400 Oleander Dr. (910) 833-8867.

■ OPEN: Mon-Thurs 10:57 am - 10 pm; Fri-Sat 10:57 am - 11 pm {Serving Brunch 10:57am – 3pm & bar open until midnight}; Brunch ALL DAY Sunday 9:57am – 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.hopssupplycompany.com

The little dipper

Holiday Inn Resort

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

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.-Sat. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining ■ WEBSITE: www.holidayinn.com

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 are open 7 days a week, Memorial Day through October ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Tasting menu every Tues. with small plates from $1-$4; Ladies Night every Wed; $27 4-course prix fixe menu on Thurs.; "Date night menu," $65/couple with beer and wine tasting every Fri. and half price bottles of wine on Sun. ■ MUSIC: Mondays and Memorial Day-October, 7-9pm ■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

HOPS SUPPLY CO.

Ogden Tap Room

The combination of chef-inspired food and our craft bar makes Hops Supply Co. a comfortable and inviting gastropub that attracts guests of all types – especially a local crowd who can feel right at home whether ordering a classic favorite or trying a new culinary delight! At HopsCo, we are dedicated to the craft of excellent cuisine and delivering hops in its most perfect form, exemplified by our selection of craft beers. As hops are the heart of flavor for beer, our lo-

Wilmington’s go to Southern Gastro-Pub. With a menu featuring some southeast favorites and a few from the bayou. Ogden Tap Room offers a selection the whole family will enjoy. With 40 beers on tap from around the world, The O Tap is a Craft Beer Enthusiast dream come true. Ogden Tap Room also has a great wine selection as well as a full bar featuring the areas largest Bourbon selection. You are sure to leave Ogden Tap Room a

Veggie. Recognized as having the Best Hot Dog in the Best of Wilmington Awards in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Call Individual Stores for hours of operation or Look at our website trollystophotdogs.com Catering available, now a large portion of our business. Call Rick at 297-8416 for catering and franchise information.

happy camper.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Thurs 11am

- Midnight, Fri & Sat 11am - 1am, Sunday Noon Midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Ogden ■ FEATURING: Live Team Trivia Tues 7:30-9:30pm ■ MUSIC: Every Thursday 8 - 10pm ■ WEBSITE: www.ogdentaproom.com

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ LOCATIONS: Wrightsville Beach (910) 256-3921

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

the trolly stop

Trolly Stop Hot Dogs is a five-store franchise in Southeastern North Carolina. Since 1976 they have specialized in storemade chili, slaw and various sauces. As of more recently, select locations (Fountain Dr. and Southport) have started selling genuine burgers and cheese steaks (Beef & Chicken).

Our types of hotdogs include beef & Pork (Trolly Dog), allbeef (Sabrett), pork smoked sausage, Fat Free (Turkey) &

Southport (910) 457-7017 Fountain Dr. (910) 452-3952 Boone, NC (828) 265-2658 Chapel Hill, NC (919) 240-4206 - COMING SOON! ■ 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 service 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

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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

our ingredients are fresh, cooked to order, with artistic culinary flair. We also serve everything from sushi to traditional Chinese dishes, a plethora of curries to Pad Thai, hibachi and teriyaki dishes, and more. Come give us a try where you will find nothing in the freezer but the ice cream. Open for lunch and dinner, Monday through Saturday. Located at 4102 Market Street, (910) 332-3302.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon - Thu: 11am - 3pm and 5pm - 9:30pm or Fri - Sat, 11am - 3pm and 5pm - 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: An array of Asian cuisines, from Japanese to Chinese, Thai and more.

■ 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

yosake downtown sushi lounge

Lively atmosphere in a modern setting, Yosake is the delicious Downtown spot for date night, socializing with friends, or any large dinner party. Home to the never-disappointing Shanghai Firecracker Shrimp! In addition to sushi, we offer a full Pan Asian menu including curries, noodle dishes, and the ever-popular Crispy Salmon or mouth-watering Kobe Burger.

Inspired features change weekly showcasing our commitment to local farms. Full bar including a comprehensive sake list, signature cocktails, and Asian Import Bottles. 33 S. Front St., 2nd Floor (910) 763-3172.

■ SERVING DINNER: 7 nights a week @ 5PM; Sun-Wed until 10pm, Thurs until 11pm, Fri & Sat until Midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: 1/2 Price Sushi/Appetizer Menu nightly from 5-7, until 8 on Mondays, and also 10-Midnight on Fri/Sat. Tuesday LOCALS NIGHT - 20% Dinner Entrees.

Wednesday 80S NIGHT - 80s music and menu prices.

Sundays are the best deal downtown - Specialty Sushi and Entrees are Buy One, Get One $10 Off and 1/2 price Wine Bottles. Nightly Drink Specials. Gluten-Free Menu upon request. Complimentary Birthday Dessert.

■ WEBSITE: www.yosake.com - @yosakeilm on Twitter & Instagram. Like us on Facebook.

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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

southern thai

kabuki korean cafÉ and sushi

szechuan 132

Family-owned and operated, Kabuki Korean Café and Sushi is Wilmington’s only authentic Korean restaurant, freshly renovated and boasting a brand new menu! They feature delectable Korean BBQ, and are best known for traditional items like their bibimbop and bulgogi. But they also feature a large variety of Asian cuisine, from fresh sushi to fried rice to teriyaki dishes, dumplings, edamame and more. Open daily, Kabuki welcomes diners for lunch from 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and dinner 4:30 to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. Stop by Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 10 p.m. 4102 Oleander Drive, Suite 2, at the corner of 41st Street, behind the Hess gas station. 910-350-3332.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Mon-Fri, 11am-2:30pm; Sat-Sun, noon-10pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, off Oleander Drive.

■ FEATURING: Wilmington’s only authentic Korean restaurant!

KYOTO ASIAN GRILLE

Kyoto Asian Grille specializes in crafting mouth-watering food and providing superb customer service. We serve a plethora of Asian cuisines, from Chinese to Japanese to Thai, and have an unwavering commitment to flavor. All of

Our menu is centered around authentic Thai cuisine and features traditional dishes as well as chef-inspired dishes.

We always deliver authentic Thai cuisine mixed with southern hospitality. Thailand can be culturally divided into 4 main regions: North, North Central, Central & South. The diverse topography and cultures lend their way to creating unique cuisines in each region. Meals are prepared by all generations coming together in the kitchen. Recipes are passed on this way through the generations so that the food you are tasting today is influenced by the knowledge of the past.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon - Thur 11am to 3pm and 4:30 to 9:30pm; Fri 11am to 3pm and 4:30 to 10pm; Sat 12 to 10pm; Closed Sunday ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: South Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Authentic Thai Cuisine ■ WEBSITE: www.southernthairestaurant.com 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

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.

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TheatreNOW is a performing arts complex that features weekend dinner theater, an award-winning weekly kids variety show, monthly Sunday Jazz Brunches, movie, comedy and live music events. Award-winning chef, Denise Gordon, and a fabulous service staff pair scrumptious multi-course themed meals and cocktails with our dinner shows in a theatre-themed venue. Dinner theater at its best! Reservations highly suggested. 19 S. 10th Street 910.399.3NOW (3669).

Hours vary.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington and Greater Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Dinner shows, jazz brunches, and more ■ WEBSITE: www.theatrewilmington.com

gREEK The greeks

The Greeks is a two-store (going on three), family-ownedand-operated Greek restaurant. Since 2011 Chef Georgios Papanikolaou and his family have been giving unwavering attention to detail to their food, which represents Greek culture. The chef picks fresh local produce and proteins on a daily basis. The spices and herbs are imported from Greece, where they are picked wild from the mountains, sealed and then transported here. The family keeps their Greek roots close to their heart; with each dish they are recreating exactly the same flavors that a person will experience should they be in Greece. With a plethora of recipes to choose from and the best gyro in town, the family hopes to expand without compromising an iota of the experience.

124 Princess St.; 910-343-6933 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday 10:00AM to 3:00PM Tuesday-Sunday 10:00AM to 9:00PM ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown and Monkey Junction ■ WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA: www.the-greeks.com or www. facebook.com/thegreeksnc

Healthy Clean Eatz CafÉ

This café is your one stop shop to start living a healthy lifestyle. Everything on the menu is under 500 calories and 10 grams of fat unless you order otherwise. The café offers

dine in, carryout, or get an entire weeks worth of meals by signing up for our weekly prepackaged meal service. We also do customized food prep to fit anyone's diet needs.

Stop by Clean Eatz today to start a new you. You only have one life, Make it count!

Lifestyle tip: Resolutions usually fail due to the stress we put on ourselves to change so quickly. Make simple changes one by one. We didn’t get where we are at overnight. Baby lifestyle steps: Eliminate fried foods, drive thrus, alcohol, or sugar first. Add a new goal each week. You got this! 203 Racine drive,Wilmington NC 28403. (910) 452-3733.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday- Friday: 11-7, Saturday: 11-3 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.cleaneatz.net

Indian kabob and grill

Welcome to Kabob and Grill, downtown Wilmington's only fine Indian restaurant. Located on Water Street, overlooking the Cape Fear River, Kabob and Grill innovatesexotic flavors of Indian kabobs and curries. Kabobs are baked to perfection in our "tandoor" clay oven fresh, daily. We take pride in offering a great selection of vegetarian entrees made with healthy spices, vegetables and herbs. We also serve vegan and gluten-free items, all aromatic and full of flavor. Our professional chef ensures our lavash and extensive menu appeals to all palates, whether choosing vegetarian, chicken, lamb, goat, or seafood. Our dining area is modern and upscale, yet steeped in Indian tradition. We have a full-service bar and are open seven days a week. We do take-out, delivery and welcome private parties. Live music and dance every Saturday. Please, check our website or facebook page for more information. www.kabobandgrilldowntown.com - 5 S. Water Street, (910) 833-5262.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Lunch Sunday through Saturday 11am-3pm. Dinner Sunday through Thursday 5-10pm, Friday & Saturday 5-10:30pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Innovative Indian recipes, made fresh daily.

■ WEBSITE: www.kabobandgrilldowntown.com

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 saffronflavored 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) 7944540.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon. - Fri. 11-2:30 pm (Lunch Buffet) & 5-10 pm (Dinner), Sat. - Sun. 11:30 -3:00 pm (Lunch) & 5-10 pm (Dinner) ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet ■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net

Italian eddie romanelli's

Eddie Romanelli’s is a family-friendly, casual Italian American restaurant that’s been a favorite of Wilmington locals for over 16 years. Its menu includes Italian favorites such as Mama Romanelli’s Lasagna, Baked Ziti, Rigatoni a la Vodka and, of course, made-from-scratch pizzas. Its American influences include tasty burgers, the U.S.A. Salad and a 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/Leland ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials ■ WEBSITE: www.RomanellisRestaurant.com

Fat Tony’s Italian Pub

Fat Tony’s has the right combination of Italian and American influences to mold it into a unique family-friendly restaurant with a “gastropub” feel. Boasting such menu items as Veal Saltimbocca, Eggplant Parmigiana, USDA Prime Sirloin, and award-winning NY style hand-tossed pizzas, Fat Tony’s is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Their appetizers range from Blue Crab Dip to Grilled Pizzas to Lollipop Lamb Chops.

Proudly supporting the craft beer movement, they have an ever-changing selection of microbrews included in their 27-tap lineup – 12 of which are from NC. They have a wide selection of bottled beers, a revamped wine list, and an arsenal of expertly mixed cocktails that are sure to wet any whistle. Fat Tony’s offers lunch specials until 3pm Monday through Friday and a 10% discount to students and faculty at CFCC. They have two pet-friendly patios – one looking out onto Front Street and one with a beautiful view of the Cape Fear River. With friendly, excellent service and a fun, inviting atmosphere, expect to have your expectations exceeded at Fat Tony’s. Find The Flavor…..Craft Beer, Craft Pizza!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday-Thursday 11 am10 pm; Friday-Saturday 11 am-Midnight; Sunday Noon10 pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.fatpub.com ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials until 3pm and late night menu from 11pm until closing.

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 125 Market Street, (910) 251-9444, in Wrightsville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and 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

a taste of italy

Looking for authentic Italian cuisine in the Port City? Look no further than A Taste of Italy Deli. Brothers, Tommy and Chris Guarino, and partner Craig Berner, have been serving up breakfast, lunch, and dinner to local and visiting diners for twenty years. The recipes have been passed down from generation to generation, and after one bite you feel like you’re in your mamas' kitchen. Along with the hot and cold lunch menu, they also carry a large variety of deli sides and madefrom-scratch desserts. Or, if you’re looking to get creative in your own kitchen, A Taste of Italy carries a wide selection of imported groceries, from pasta to olive oils, and everything in between. And last but certainly not least, allow them to help you make any occasion become a delicious Italian experience with their catering or call ahead ordering.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday-Friday 8:00am8:00pm, Saturday 8:30am-7:00pm, Sunday 11:00am6:00pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.ncatasteofitaly.com ■ FEATURING: Sclafani goods, Polly-O cheese, Ferrara Torrone and much, much more!

Jamaican JAMAICA’S COMFORT ZONE

Tucked in the corner of University Landing, a block from UNCW is the hidden gem of Wilmington’s international cui-

sine 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) and $6.99 Student meal. Catering options are available.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tuesday - Saturday 11:45am - 9:00pm and Sunday 1:30pm - 8:00pm. Monday - Closed.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown – University Landing 417 S. College Road #24 ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials updated daily on Facebook ■ WEBSITE: www.jamaicascomfortzone.net

Latin American CEVICHE'S

Come enjoy the tropical flavors of Panama and Central America...from our fresh fish to our handmade empanadas, traditional arroz con pollo to fresh inspired salads, We hope you will be transported to simpler time with warm, friendly service, and festive vibe. Large selection of beer and wine, including red and white sangria, tropical mimosas, drink specials daily. Just before the bridge at Wrightsville Beach. 7210 Wrightsville Ave. (910) 256-3131.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & BRUNCH: Mon-Sat 11am9pm, Sunday Brunch 9am-3pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ WEBSITE: www.wbceviche.com

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington, Leland & Southport ■ WEBSITE: www.sanfelipenc.com

Organic lovey's natural foods & cafÉ

Whole Foods Market offers one of the most expansive freshly prepared foods options in the city! With 4 bars featuring hot dishes & salads, a sandwich station, sushi station, and pizza station, you are apt to satisfy everyone in your group. All of the ingredients are free of any artificial colors, flavors or preservatives so food is fresh and flavorful from farm, ranch, or dock to your fork! Dine in the cafe or carry out. On any given day the selection offers an array of organic, local, vegan/vegetarian, and healthy options. Voted Best Salads by encore readers.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week. Monday - Sunday. 8am - 9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Seasonal, healthy, organic, vegan/vegetarian ■ WEBSITE: www.wholefoodsmarket.com

whole foods market

Whole Foods Market offers one of the most expansive freshly prepared foods options in the city! With 4 bars featuring hot dishes & salads, a sandwich station, sushi station, and pizza station, you are apt to satisfy everyone in your group. All of the ingredients are free of any artificial colors,

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 DINNER: Mon.-Saturday 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List ■ WEBSITE: www.catchwilmington.com

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

san juan CafÉ

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

Mexican la costa mexican restaurant

With three locations to serve Wilmingtonians, La Costa is open daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m with lunch specials. Their full dinner menu (from 3 p.m. on) offers the best in Mexican cuisine across the city. From top-sellers, like fajitas, quesadillas and burritos, to chef's specialty items, like molcajete or borrego, a taste of familiar and exotic can be enjoyed. All of La Costa's pico de gallo, guacamole, salsas, chile-chipotle, enchilada and burrito sauces are made in house daily. Add to it a 16-ounce margarita, which is only $4.25 on Mondays and Tuesdays at all locations, and every meal is complete.

Serving the Port City since1996, folks can dine indoors at the Oleander and both Market Street locations, or dine alfresco at both Market Street locations. 3617 Market St.; 8024 Unit 1 Market St.; 5622 Oleander Dr. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs until 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. until 11 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown and Ogden ■ WEBSITE: www.lacostamexicanrestauranwilmington.com

San Felipe Mexican Restaurant

At San Felipe, we pride ourselves in offering the best Mexican cuisine combined with a Mexican inspired dining experience that will instill a sense of “familia” with our patrons.

Ditch the regular fare and try one of our Mexican inspired favorites such as our sizzling Certified Angus Beef Fajitas or our Carolina Chimichanga. Visit any of our 10 North Carolina locations to see for yourself and while your at it, try one of our delicious Margaritas! See you soon Amigos!

Independence Mall, 3522 Oleander Dr - Wilmington, NC (910) 791-9277 and 1114 New Pointe Blvd - Leland, NC (910) 371-1188.

flavors or preservatives so food is fresh and flavorful from farm, ranch, or dock to your fork! Dine in the cafe or carry out. On any given day the selection offers an array of organic, local, vegan/vegetarian, and healthy options. Voted Best Salads by encore readers.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week. Monday - Sunday. 8am - 9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Seasonal, healthy, organic, vegan/vegetarian ■ WEBSITE: www.wholefoodsmarket.com

Seafood catch

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 events, such as wedding ceremonies & receptions, birthday gatherings, anniversary parties and more. Large groups welcome. Private event space available. 703 S. Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256.5551.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & SUNDAY BRUNCH:

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 Seafood. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch. Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010.

Mon – Sat 11am – 11pm, Sunday 10am – 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Dining on the newly renovated Crystal Pier ■ WEBSITE: www.OceanicRestaurant.com

The pilot house

The Pilot House Restaurant is Wilmington’s premier seafood and steak house with a touch of the South. We specialize in

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local seafood and produce. Featuring the only Downtown bar that faces the river and opening our doors in 1978, The Pilot House is the oldest restaurant in the Downtown area. We offer stunning riverfront views in a newly-renovated relaxed, casual setting inside or on one of our two outdoor decks.

Join us for $5.00 select appetizers 7 days a week and live music every Friday and Saturday nigh on our umbrella deck.

Large parties welcome. Private event space available. 910343-0200 2 Ann Street, Wilmington, NC 28401 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11am-9pm, FriSat 11am-10pm and Sunday Brunch 11am-3pm. Kids menu ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Riverfront Downtown Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Fresh local seafood specialties, Riverfront Dining, free on-site parking ■ MUSIC: Outside Every Friday and Saturday

smoothies and more Tropical smoothie cafÉ

Tropical Smoothie Café’s menu boasts bold, flavorful food and smoothies with a healthy appeal, all made to order from the freshest ingredients. Our toasted wraps, sandwiches, flatbreads and gourmet salads are made fresh with highest quality of meats and cheeses, topped with fresh produce and flavorful sauces, available for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The fun atmosphere and unparalleled hospitality brings customers back to Tropical Smoothie Café again and again. At Tropical Smoothie, we are guided by one simple belief: When you eat better, you feel better and when you feel better, all is better. It's part of our mission to inspire a

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

Rx Restaurant & bar

Located in downtown Wilmington, Rx Restaurant and Bar is here to feed your soul, serving up Southern cuisine made with ingredients from local farmers and fishermen. The Rx chef is committed to bringing fresh food to your table, so the menu changes daily based on what he finds locally. Rx drinks are as unique as the food—and just what the doctor ordered. Join us for a dining experience you will never forget!

421 Castle St.; 910 399-3080.

■ SERVING BRUNCH & DINNER: Tues-Thurs, 5-10pm; FriSat, 5-10:30pm; Sun., 10am-3pm and 5-9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.rxwilmington.com

are offered daily, as well as the coldest $2 and $3 drafts in town. 317 South College Road. (910) 791.9393.

■ 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

dig and dive

A new way to play with your food.” It isn’t just a catch phrase—it is what we do at Dig & Dive. Locally sourced, high-quality food is what we bring to the table. From our specialty “pork wings,” tossed in our famed bourbon-barrell Kentuckyaki sauce, to our fresh ground chuck burgers, to our dogs and sausages, and even salads and kids menu, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. We pair it with an expansive craft beer selection—including a large selection of NC brewed beers—and we give you the most unique and fun atmosphere in Wilmington, thanks to our soft-sand volleyball courts, outdoor and indoor dining. Hands down, we’re the best place in town to ... Eat. Drink. Play. 3525 Lancelot Lane. 910-202-9350.

■ SERVING LUNCH & Dinner: Sun.-Thurs., 11am-midnight; Fri.-Sat., 11am-2am.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, off Market Street and Darlington ■ FEATURING: Burgers, dogs, build-your-own French fries, sandwiches, craft beer, volleyball courts.

■ WEBSITE: www.DigandDive.com

hell's kitchen

This is downtown Wilmington’s Sports Pub! With every major sporting package on ten HDTVs and our huge HD projection screen, there is no better place to catch every game in every sport. Our extensive menu ranges from classics, like thick Angus burgers or NY-style Reuben, to lighter fare, such as homemade soups, fresh salads and vegetarian options. Whether meeting for a business lunch, lingering over dinner and drinks, or watching the game, the atmosphere and friendly service will turn you into a regular. Open late 7 days a week, with free WiFi, pool, and did we mention sports?

Free downtown lunchtime delivery on weekdays; we can accommodate large parties. (910) 763-4133.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & ■ LATE NIGHT: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: 1/2 priced select appetizers Monday

- Thursday 4-7 p.m.

■ WEBSITE: www.hellskitchenbar.com

SHUCKIN' SHACK

Shuckin’ Shack Oyster Bar has two locations in the Port City area. The original Shack is located in Carolina Beach at 6A N. Lake Park Blvd. (910-458-7380) and our second location is at 109 Market Street in Historic Downtown Wilmington (910-833-8622). The Shack is 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 and check out the Shack’s daily lunch, dinner, and drink specials. It’s a Good Shuckin’ Time!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Carolina Beach Hours: Mon-Sat: 11am-2am; Sun: Noon-2am, Historic Wilmington: Sun-Thurs: 11am-10pm; Fri-Sat: 11amMidnight ■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Carolina Beach and Downtown ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials. Like us on Facebook!

■ WEBSITE: www.TheShuckinShack.com

healthier lifestyle by serving amazing food and smoothies with a bit of tropical fun. 2804 S. College Road, Long Leaf Mall. (910) 769-3939.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mon-Fri; 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. Sat-Sun ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, at Shipyard Blvd. and College Rd.

Southern Casey's Buffet

In Wilmington, everyone knows where to go for solid country cooking. That place is Casey’s Buffet, winner of encore’s Best Country Cookin’/Soul Food and Buffet categories.

“Every day we are open, somebody tells us it tastes just like their grandma’s or mama’s cooking,” co-owner Gena Casey says. Gena and her husband Larry run the show at the Oleander Drive restaurant where people are urged to enjoy all food indigenous to the South: fried chicken, barbecue, catfish, mac‘n’cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, chicken‘n’dumplings, biscuits and homemade banana puddin’ are among a few of many other delectable items. 5559 Oleander Drive. (910) 798-2913.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesdays.

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pembroke's

A seasonally inspired and locally sourced Southern cuisine dining experience, Pembroke’s was created by the owners of downtown’s Rx Restaurant. Pembroke’s focuses on the same values and excellent service as its sister restaurant, purveying local companies for the best in seafood, proteins and produce. They work with local fisherman and farmers to ensure your meal will be freshly grown and hand chosen. A new dinner menu is churned out daily to ensure the chefs are working with the freshest ingredients. Plus, the bartenders are creating new drink menus daily as to never bore your taste buds. 1125 A Military Cutoff Rd. 910-239-9153.

■ SERVING BRUNCH & DINNER: Open for dinner TuesSun, 5pm-close, with live music Fri-Sat nights. Sunday brunch, 10am-3pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.pembrokescuisine.com

Sports Bar Carolina Ale House

Voted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010 in Wilmington, Carolina Ale House is the place to be for awardwinning 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

vegetarian/Vegan sealevel restaurant

At Sealevel City Gourmet Restaurant and Bar, all shortsleeved T-shirts are back-to-school priced! Shop the latest styles and colors while the cook prepares your handmade vittles! How about a lentil patty melt with fresh , handcut potato chips or a crisp salad for lunch? If you’re looking for a high-fiber plate, we’ve got you covered: the brown-rice tortilla—which is gluten free, vegan and chockful of crunchy vegetables and creamy smoky eggplant spread and avocado— will surely suit you! With a side of creole-spiced organic red beans or our superb vegan purple coleslaw, it will be over the top! Vegan heaven exists: We serve sushi rolls and desserts especially to suit your preferences. Seafood lovers are mad about the shrimp burger, soft crab slider and the frequently featured Caribbean-spiced shrimp tostada, which combines the aforementioned purple slaw, spicy Jerk sauce, and cool avocado, and organic refried lentils on a crispy corn tortilla.

Please stop in for lunch six days (not Tuesday/closed) from 11 am to 2 pm, and dinner Thursday through Saturday, 5 pm to 9 pm 1015 S. Kerr Ave. 910-833-7196.

■ SERVING LUNCH AND DINNER 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., daily; Thurs-Sat., 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Closed Tuesdays ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, near UNCW ■ FEATURING: Vegetarian,Vegan, Seafood, Gluten-Free ■ WEBSITE: www.sealevelcitygourmet.com

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TALK OF THE ARTS:

New director of UNCW Office of the Arts, Kristen Brogden, talks about new position, new season

by: Shea carver

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nnually, UNCW hosts numerous arts and cultural events in Kenan Auditorium and across the campus to enlighten and enrich its students, as well as the community at large. In the 2015-2016 school year, UNCW is combining its arts programming from five academic departments and student-supported units. With it they’re bringing 10 events across a multitude of performing arts disciplines to the stage.

Their new director of the Office of the Arts, Kristen Brogden, was appointed in June after having moved to Wilmington in December. Brogden previously worked at the Kennedy Center as well as for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

With a bachelor’s of arts in economics and a certificate in the arts from Duke University, she received her master of arts in business from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We interviewed the new director to get her take on Wilmington and the upcoming season at UNCW. encore (e): Tell me about the process of transitioning to UNCW’s Office of the Arts as director.

Kristen Brogden (KB): Throughout my career I have admired the work of university arts presenters and hoped to become one. Before moving to Wilmington in December, I was the general manager at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

I learned a great deal about leadership, collaboration, and producing in my seven-plus years on staff.

Prior to Hubbard Street I was at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, for nine years in the dance programming office. While my professional background is primarily in dance, I also trained as a clarinetist and have a general love for music and theater as well. e: What are you most looking forward to doing within your new position?

KB: I’m looking forward to changing the lives of people in Wilmington, especially UNCW students, with powerful arts experiences.

NEW ARTS DIRECTOR: Kristen Brogden takes over UNCW’s Office of Arts as director. Photo: Courtesy of UNCW

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e: How is the combination of the arts departments into UNCW Office of the Arts a benefit to the university and the community?

KB: My role—and the role of the Office of the Arts—at UNCW is to present and produce the UNCW Presents season (which is a merger of two former series, UNCW Presents and the Masters Series), to operate Kenan Auditorium, and to act as an advocate for the arts across campus and across the region. I’m working closely with the chairs of the five arts departments on campus to determine how we can be most helpful and effective in that advocacy role. We’re starting with the idea of streamlining information about arts events on campus (those planned and managed by our office, as well as the academic departments) and making sure it’s easy for people on and off campus to find arts events happening here. e: How did you decide which shows to bring, and what was that process like?

KB: I have to give my colleagues and predecessors the credit for this year’s season, which was mostly planned when I arrived in June. As I look forward to 2016-17 my priorities will be cross-disciplinary collaboration, a balance of international scope with regional focus, and artists whose work has a specific impact for Wilmington, whether that impact is in the subject matter of the performance or the residency we create around the performance.

cussionists, and it will be amazingly cool to have a tap dancer and a jazz drummer sharing the stage. e: What do you love most about Wilmington in your eight-month residency so far?

KB: I love the density of cultural activity happening here; the amount of culture for a city this size. I love how liveable Wilmington is, and I absolutely adore the weather and the proximity to the beaches. e: Any new goals you’ve set for the Office of the Arts?

KB: We want to create life-changing artistic experiences. We’ll do that through the work of featured artists who are extraordinary in creativity and craft, and who are committed via their repertoire and outreach to performing specifically in Wilmington. We want to incorporate the university community_students, faculty, staff— into the work we do through internships, assistantships, connecting artists to academic departments in and outside the arts. And we want to be the first place people look for arts events in Wilmington, both because of our own work and also because as good neighbors we will share information about important arts events happening in the community.

e: When you book events, are you See the top five events that Shannon Rae cognizant of other venues and shows Gentry suggests attending as part of UNCW taking place across town? How did Presents upcoming season on page 11. that play into your decision making?

KB: We’re lucky in Wilmington to have a vibrant cultural community, which is also incredibly cooperative. We share performance dates and general ideas with each other as we plan our seasons, and this happens on a statewide level, as well as locally.

One of my areas of focus going forward will be booking artists that are a good fit not just for Wilmington in genBrought to you by: eral, but specifically for Kenan Auditorium and other venues we might serve on encore magazine campus. A nice aspect of having a broad portfolio of performance venues in town is that I can fine-tune my programming to the art-forms and ensemble sizes that work best in our theater. I’m looking forward to spending time in Kenan Auditorium during lots of performances to see and hear what works best in the space.

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KB: I’m not sure I want to play favorites, but I will say that the Savion Glover and Jack DeJohnette event ending our UNCW Presents season represent a lot of things that are important to me—artists at the top of their game, who have a simultaneous sense of history and of looking forward, working together across disciplines. These artists are both per-

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The Power of Flowers: Julia’s Florist seeks applicants for fifth annual Flower Grant by: SHANNON RAE GENTRY

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his week marks the beginning of fall classes, but it’s also a time when several nonprofit organizations start planning major fundraising events throughout the rest of 2015 and into 2016. It was around this time five or six years ago Dana Cook, owner of Julia’s Florist, noticed a spike in phone calls.

“About three calls a day would come in just for free flowers for events,” she says. “I realized quickly that it was going to add up.”

As a businesswoman, Cook knew giving away flowers to everyone who asked wasn’t sustainable. Yet, she still hated to say no to nonprofits that benefit the greater good of the community. “But I couldn’t just give away the shop, because then no one here’s going to pay the rent,” she quips

No stranger to volunteerism (like serving as a DSS Guardian ad Litem child advocate in court), sitting on the board of the Guardian ad Litem Association and applying for grant funding, Cook had an idea: the Julia’s Florist Flower Grant.

Event dates are considered in the decision process as well. As she and her team review applications, Cook keeps her giant wall calendar by her side—careful not to double book or commit to events she simply can’t serve.

“It was that light-bulb moment and I thought, ‘This is the answer,’” she explains.

“I’ll come up with a grant, and just like folks who give out money, I’ll give out flowers. So we came up with the concept and how we wanted it to work.”

“I’ve been requested every single year by the Heart Ball,” she shares. “I’ve never done the Heart Ball because it’s Valentine’s weekend. Another thing that happens in February is the price of flowers: wholesales go through the roof. I won’t do any flower grants in the first two weeks of May (Mother’s Day) for the same reason.”

When planning a fundraiser, Cook says, the goal is to attract as many people as possible to the event—as well as generous donors. Culling delicious food, fun beverages, great entertainment and music, and decor all add up.

“We’ve got to offer them something really special that [adds to the sometimes] $100 ticket price,” she continues. “That’s what the floral grant helps accomplish.”

Flower Grant applicants should note quality control and image of Julia’s Florist is important also, which is why Cook asks that her flowers be the only ones recipients use. “It’s my name and it’s a gift I want to give them,” she explains. “I need to make sure that everything on those tables represent what we have.”

Cook recommends selling the flowers if possible, as a way for the nonprofit to raise more money for their respective causes— even if it’s a mere $5 apiece. “They’re free flowers I’ve given so the nonprofit can benWith the help of Steve Bon from Bon’s efit and add to their bottom line,” she notes.

Eye Marketing, it didn’t take long to spread Flower Grant applications are due the word throughout Port City nonprofMonday, August 31 at 5:30 p.m., and reits in need of centerpieces, boutonnieres viewed throughout the first two weeks of and the like. Since the grant’s inception in September. Qualified candidates must be 2010, thousands of dollars worth of flownonprofit agencies in New Hanover and ers have been donated—going from about northern Brunswick counties. Grants will $14,000 to $16,000 last year. The costs be awarded at a reception on Wednesday, generally depends on the number of appliSeptember 30 at 6 p.m. at Julia’s Florist. cations and types of requests.

Recipients will go through a “menu” of po“We try to spread the love, so we typi- tential arrangements based on their needs. cally don’t do the same events year af“They choose the style they want, apter year,” Cook shares. “We fit as many proximate number of pieces, what their people into the budget as we possibly colors are, and we schedule them in our can, and if I think I can squeeze it in, I just system as we would any other event,” do—especially for people who have never Cook continues. applied before.”

Grant application forms and complete deJulia’s Florist receives about 35 to 40 tails are available at Julia’s Florist (900 S. grant applications annually, with past reKerr Ave.), or online at www.juliasflorist.com. cipients including Paws Place, Cape Fear Community College, Wilmington Historic Foundation, Coastal Land Trust, and the Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Julia’s Florist Flower Grant (WARM). WARM credited Cook’s flowers Deadline: Aug., 31, 5:30 p.m. for marking a record turnout at its annual Reception: Wed., Sept. 30, 6 p.m.

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A SELECT MENU: Nonprofits have a choice of arrangements for their events at the grant recipient reception on Wednesday, September 30.

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“It doesn’t take long at all to reach the www.juliasflorist.com limit of our budget, because some are $3,000 events; three or four of those add up,” Cook says.

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to-do calendar events SARUS FEST FOR EXPERIMENTAL ART

8/15-22 Barriers Boarders and Territoriality are all around us. SARUS raises these topics of separation by interdisciplinary performance events and outreach utilizing dance, art and public interaction. Check the web site sarusfestival.org for events, times and locations.

BACK TO SCHOOL BASH

8/22, noon-6pm: MLK Jr. Community Center, 409 S. 8th Street. Supported by the Wilming-

ton Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (WIMA). Free: Book Bags for school age children, school supplies, Hair Cuts and Braids, Food and Entertainment

20 PENNY/CIRCUS SIDESHOW

8/22, 9pm: Join us for Circus oddities and delicious craft beer. Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St. Open to the public everyone is welcome!

LELAND UNDER THE LIGHTS SHOW

8/22, 3-10:30pm: Leland Under the Lights 12th Annual Car Show and Drive-In Movie Night!

Brunswick Forest - Lowes Foods, Route 17, Leland. Rain or shine. Vendors, classic cars, and

restaurants to dine in. Enjoy great music on location with Brian White from Jammin’ 99.9. Stay for the drive-in movie after the show. Reg./sponsorship forms: www.NBChamberofCommerce.com.

North Brunswick Chamber at 910-383-0553, or email NBChamber@NBChamber.net. Brunswick Forest is presenting the movie, “Grease,” 8:30 pm at The Villages at Brunswick Forest. Call 910-3712434 for details.

COFFEE W/CONGRESSMAN ROUZER

8/24, 9:30am: Residents of New Hanover County, please join the Alzheimer’s Association and your Congressman David Rouzer to share a cup of coffee and your stories about Alzheimer’s disease

and related dementias. New Hanover County Senior Resource Center, 2222 S. College Road CELEBRATING DREAM LEGACY AWARDS

8/28-29, 6pm: Honoring African -American Elected Officials from Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and Pender counties. 50 Year Commemoration of the Signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Featuring LBJ Presidential Civil-Human Rights Legacy Award Dinner Gala. Socio-Economic Summit Town Meeting Southeastern Opportunity Expo Socio-Economic, Southeastern Opportunity Expo and Town Meeting: Friday, August 28. LBJ Presidential Civil-Human Rights Legacy Awards Dinner Gala, Saturday, August 29.

(910)-383-1724 or (910)-619-6295. www.celebratingthedream.org. Wilmington Convention Center, 10 Convention Center Dr.

19th LUMINA DAZE

Benefiting the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, 8/30, 5-9pm, Blockade Runner Beach Resort, 275 Waynick Boulevard. A Wrightsville Beach Party in the legendary style of the historic Lumina pavilion, under the stars and oceanside. Music by The Imitations, Wilmington Big Band, Dixieland All Stars, and feature plein-air artists, including Barbara Bear Jamison, Jodie Wrenn Rippy, Betty Brown, Rena Powell MacQueen, Jenny Wright McKinnon; silent auction will include paintings created during Lumina Daze, and entertainment packages, jewelry, local services, and more.

Short films shown on the lawn, with dancing, food and drinks available for purchase. 910256-2569, nfo@wbmuseum.com. www.wbmuseum.com Tickets $15 for advance purchase at the Museum or at the door

charity/fundraisers LAST CHANCE FOR WHITE PANTS GALA

8/29, 7pm: Upscale party band The Free will bring its energetic music mix to Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation’s Last Chance for White Pants Gala from 7 p.m.-midnight Saturday, Aug. 29, at Audi Cape Fear, 255 Old Eastwood Road in Wilmington. Changes abound at this year’s gala: a new weekend, a new night, a new venue, a new band and the biggest raffle prize ever offered -- a 2015 Audi Cabriolet convertible. Guests will enjoy what has traditionally been one of the season’s mustattend events. The changes will make the gala feel fresh and exciting. Proceeds from the gala and raffle go to work immediately by providing the gift of hospice in the community. Lower Cape Fear Hospice is a nonprofit, and buying a ticket helps patients facing end of life get the important care they need and helps support their families. Tickets for the gala are $125 each. Raffle tickets are $100 each and only 1500 will be sold (you must be 18 to purchase a raffle ticket). For more information, raffle details and to purchase tickets, visit www.hospicewhitepants.org or call 796-8099 ext.

6. Lindsey Champion at 796-0847 or email Lindsey.Champion@lcfh.org. Audi Cape Fear, 255 Old Eastwood Road

50 WOMEN IN HATS

By the women of Myrtle Grove AME Church. The guest speaker will be Evangelist Linda Southerland of Hooper’s Chapel Missionary Baptist

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Featuring live music by Jam Sandwich, old-fashioned grape stomp and cornhole competition. $40 per team of two per event. More fun includes wine and food sampling, silent auction, 50/50 raffle, face painting, and other children’s activities. Saturday, September 19, 4-7pm, kreashenz salon + spa 3145 Wrightsville Ave. (Across from Canady’s). General Admission $10 • Children under 12, free. All proceeds benefit The Jedrey Family Foundation. For over twenty years the mission of the Jedrey Family Foundation is to help ease the financial burden of cancer patients who are experencing difficulties in paying their medical bills or other essentials and other obligations. www. jedreyfamilyfoundation.org.

theatre/auditions THE REAL THING

Tom Stoppard’s play will run August 6-23, ThursSat, 7:30pm; Sun, 3pm, at Red Barn 1122 S 3rd Street; $25. The play begins with Max and Charlotte, a couple whose marriage seems about to rupture. Charlotte is an actress who has been appearing in a play about marriage written by her husband, Henry. Max, her leading man, is also married to an actress, Annie. Both marriages are at the point of rupture because Henry and Annie have fallen in love. But is it the real thing?

CHICAGO

Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart await trial in Cook County Jail, each for their own impulsive homicide. Both are guilty, but can they scheme their way out of a conviction and into their 15 minutes of fame?This dark parable of American justice is both a scathing satire and the sexiest musical Bob Fosse ever created. The Kander and Ebb score is filled with songs that are now theatre classics, including “All That Jazz”, “Cell Block Tango”, “We Both Reached for the Gun” and more, with clever, smoldering, and non-stop dancing, set in the roaring ‘20s. Tickets, $29: (910) 632-2285 or online at thalianhall.org. Thalian Hall adds an additional $2 charge per ticket, and all tickets are subject to North Carolina sales tax. 310 Chestnut St. Wed, August 14-23, Fri-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm.

JONI AND JT IN JAIL

Written, conceived & directed by Mirla Criste, through Sept 5, 7pm. Friday & Saturdays only.

Doors open 1 hour prior. On the eve of a significant event in 1960s America, six disparate people are thrown into a prison cell during a protest for peace.

Over the course of several hours, in their interactions with one another, they discover that the world is rapidly changing, that what is immediately obvious may not be true, and that folks may not be as alike—or not alike—as they first assumed or

imagined. 3-course meal served with show: $32 Adults, $30 Seniors (65+) & Children (under 12), $18 Show Only. TheatreNOW, 19 10th St. www. wilmingtontheatre.com A FUNNY THING...

9/2-6, 11-13: Broadway’s greatest farce is witty, fast-paced, irreverent, and one of the funniest musicals ever written. A joyous romp through ancient Rome, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is the story of Pseudolus, a crafty slave always scheming to earn his freedom. His latest plan revolves around his young master, Hero, who has fallen in love with the courtesan next door, the lovely virgin Philia. Filled with mistaken identities, pirates, kidnappings, groanworthy puns, stunning surprises, wild chases, bawdy humor, masquerades, deceptions, and the infectious energy of classic vaudeville, the plot follows Pseudolus’s long, convoluted, and hilarious path to freedom.

Individual tickets: (910) 632-2285 or at thalianhall. org. All tickets are $29. Thalian Hall adds an additional $2 charge per ticket, and all tickets are subject to North Carolina sales tax. All performances are on the Main Stage of Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut Street, Wilmington, NC. Wednesday-Saturday, 8pm; Sunday, 3pm.

MACBETH

9/11-27: Dram Tree Shakespeare presents William Shakespeare’s Macbeth for its first full production.

MThis Scottish tragedy tells the tale of militaryaccomplished Macbeth and his murderous rise to power and the guilt-ridden pathology of evil deeds generating still more evil deeds. Macbeth and his partner in crime, Lady Macbeth, lead us through a phantasmagorical realm of witchcraft, insomnia and madness. Directed by Chris Marino.

In keeping with Dram Tree Shakespeare’s mission to engage and give back to the community, this production of Macbeth will open with a choreographed combat scene outfitted with local military veterans. Dram Tree has also donated opening night tickets to military veterans and family members through VetTix. Anyone wishing to donate additional tickets for our local military can do so through our ticketing outlet, Brown Paper Tickets.

Thurs/Sun: $15/Fri/Sat: $25. $5 discount for all students and seniors (65+). www.dramtreeshakes. org or by calling 1-800-838-3006. McEachern’s Warehouse, 121 South Front Street

Wed., 9pm: Comedy Showcase at The Calico Room, 107 S. Front St., in downtown Wilmington. Come see some of the funniest guys in the region and potentially win cash prizes. An open mic show with a different headliner every week!

Hosted by Reid Clark.

8/25, 7:30pm: Derwin Hinson and the Cre8Tive Coast Bluegrass Band will be performing LIVE music every Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Coast Vineyard Church on the Boardwalk at Carolina Beach, NC. The church is near Britts Donuts and is beside the new hotel construction at the end of Harper Ave. This is a family friendly event. Free admission. For more information call 910-470-1291 or go to www.cre8tivecoast.com

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music/concerts BARBECUE AND BLUEGRASS BAND

8/22, 1pm: The Salvation Army is hosting a Barbecue and Blue Grass Band at Hugh MacRae Park on August 22, 1-6pm. Carolina Rebels will be preforming a free concert from 3pm – 6pm. Barbecue tickets are $10 and include barbecue, baked beans, cole slaw, and hush puppies. Tickets can be purchased at the event or any Salvation Army.

Drive thru service is available at shelter 4. All proceeds go to help your local Salvation Army help those in need in our community.

ANNIE MEADOWS IN CONCERT

8/24, 7pm: Free concert featuring contemporary singer/songwriter Annie Meadows. This family friendly event is scheduled for one night only!

Doors will open at 6:30-7pm concert. Please visit www.fbcleland.org for more information.

Treat yourself to this special evening of inspiration and hope! First Baptist Church of Leland, 517 Village Rd NE.

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DERWIN HINSON AND CREATIVE COAST BAND

8/24, 7pm: Free concert featuring contemporary singer/songwriter Annie Meadows. This fam-

8/28, 7pm: Artistry in Jazz has 21 musicians and 2 vocalists from the local Wilmington area. The Big Band music is based on the west coast style of Stan Kenton. His music was performed from the 40’s through the late 70’s. Our orchestra plays the original manuscript copies as recorded by the Kenton Orchestra. Carolina Beach Boardwalk, 100 Cape Fear Blvd.

RECOVERY ROCK FEST

8/29, 7pm: A clean and sober folk/rock concert for people in recovery from addiction. Featuring Melissa Ferrick, Folkstar, Stray Local, Mike Blair and The Stonewalls, as well as other solo acts intermingled throughout the event. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the UNCW-CRC Recovery Program for students in recovery from addiction.

All ages! Kenan Auditorium UNC-Wilmington, 601 S College Rd.

CAROLINA COAST VINEYARD CHURCH

Derwin Hinson and the Cre8Tive Coast Bluegrass Band will be performing LIVE music every Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Carolina Coast Vineyard Church on the Boardwalk at Carolina Beach, NC. The church is near Britts Donuts and is beside the new hotel construction at the end of Harper

DEAD CROW COMEDY CLUB

Ongoing schedule: Mon, Comedy Bingo and $1 tacos; Tues, free Crow’s Nest Improv (long-form), 8pm; Wed, Nutt House Improv Show, 9pm, $3; Thurs, free open-mic night, 9pm; Fri-Sat, national touring comedians/comediennes, 8pm/10pm $10$15; Sun, closed. • 11:45pm: Late Fear with Willis Maxwell, Wilmington’s Late Night Talk Show, taped every 1st and 3rd Saturday night at midnight in the

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ily friendly event is scheduled for one night only!

Doors will open at 6:30 for the 7:00 PM concert.

Please visit www.fbcleland.org for more information. Treat yourself to this special evening of inspiration and hope! First Baptist Church of Leland, 517 Village Rd NE.

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Dead Crow Comedy Room, Late Fear is a hilarious and fun showcase for Wilmington’s creative talent and small business. • Dave Stone, 8/21-22, 8pm (The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson’, Season 8 of ‘Last Comic Standing’ and provides voices for AdultSwim’s hit animated series ‘Squidbillies’ on Cartoon Network). Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front Street.

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DONAVON FRANKENREITER - BIG WAVE ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND - I NEED MORE LOVE HARD WORKING AMERICANS - WELFARE MUSIC MICHAEL RENO HARRELL - SOUTHERN SUGGESTIONS BONNIE RAITT - GIVE IT UP OR LET ME GO SOL DRIVEN TRAIN - WATERMELON IVAN NEVILLE’S DUMPSTAPHUNK - I WISH YOU WOULD BRUCE HORNSBY - I KNOW YOU RIDER TAJ MAHAL - LOVIN’ IN MY BABY’S EYES JOHN HIATT - WE’RE ALRIGHT NOW GRACE POTTER - EMPTY HEART

NEW MUSIC HITTING THE STREETS 8/21:

BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES UNDER THE SAVAGE SKY GARDENS & VILLA MUSIC FOR DOGS JACKIE GREENE BACK TO BIRTH LOLI MOLINA RUBI NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS NATHANIEL RATELIFF & THE NIGHTSWEATS NOAH GUNDERSEN CARRY THE GHOST THE FRATELLIS EYES WIDE, TONGUE TIED WILCO STAR WARS

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HARD WORKING AMERICANS (8/19) • BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS W/ IVAN NEVILLE’S DUMPSTAPHUNK (8/21) DONAVON FRANKENREITER (8/22) THE JOHN HIATT COMBO W/ THE TAJ MAHAL TRIO (8/25) G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE (9/6) • TROMBONE SHORTY (9/12) KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE (9/17) • GREENSKY BLUEGRASS (9/24) ALO (10/23)

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8/30, 1:30pm: Instruction for beginners; 2-4pm Entire group sings. Songbooks provided, beginners welcome! Free and open to the public, donations appreciated. Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall. Wilmington Sacred Harp Singers presents a traditional Sacred Harp Singing and invite you to join in the music. This dynamic form of a cappella social singing dates 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. Learn more about Sacred Harp singing at fasola.org and this singing at http://bit.ly/WilmNCSacredHarp. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th Street

IRONCLAD GRAND OPENING

8/28, 4pm: Come and meet the staff and expect to have a good time! Music from Mike Blair and the Stonewalls Duo Act begin at 8pm. Ironclad Brewery, 115 N 2nd Street

ARTISTRY IN JAZZ BIG BAND CONCERT

8/28, 7pm: Artistry in Jazz has 21 musicians and 2 vocalists from the local Wilmington area. The Big Band music is based on the west coast style of Stan Kenton. His music was performed from the 40’s through the late 70’s. Our orchestra plays the original manuscript copies as recorded by the Kenton Orchestra. Carolina Beach Boardwalk, 100 Cape Fear Blvd.

RECOVERY ROCK FEST

8/29: A clean and sober folk/rock concert for people in recovery from addiction. Featuring Melissa Ferrick, Folkstar, Stray Local, Mike Blair and The Stonewalls, as well as other solo acts intermingled throughout the event. A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit the UNCW-CRC Recovery Program for students in recovery from addiction. All ages! Kenan Auditorium UNC-Wilmington, 601 S College Rd. cionemusiccompany.com

dance BELLY DANCING SHOWCASE

8/21, 9pm: Join us on this Lovely Friday as we have another one of our spectacular Belly dancing events. Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

CAROLINA BALLET

8/23: Carolina leads audiences through the Bellamy Mansion and explore being female through the storytelling of the Bellamy sisters (Belle, Eliza, Ellen, Kate, and Chelsey) and their mother (Eliza McIlhenny Harris). Aspects and the interconnectedness of personal identity and outer influences are explored in the light of cultural and social landscapes that have remained present within by the Mansion and within our lives today. Bellamy Mansion Museum, 503 Market Street

BALLROOM DANCE LESSONS

SPECIALTY SHOWS:

The Evening Experiment with Eric Miller, Wednesdays 7-9 pm Acoustic Cafe Saturdays from 7-9 am, etown Saturdays at 9 am Putumayo World Music Hour Sundays at 8 am

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9/9, 23, 12:45pm and 1:30pm; 9/16, 2:15pm: Ballroom Advanced. Learn to Dance for all occasions. 4 weeks $28. • 9/16, 23, noon, and 12:45: 4 week class -Ballroom Absolute Beginner. Learn to dance for all occasions. First class is free for absolute beginners to new students. New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd.

DUETS, PIROUETTES AND SILHOUETTES

9/17-18, 8pm: A collaborative arts event, Forward Dance Company’s annual show will feature talents of choreographer Tracey Varga, along with guest musicians and dancers, for an inspired evening of music, film, and visual arts, showcased in modern, contemporary and jazz dancing. Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut Street

BABS MCDANCE STUDIO

Wilmington’s premier social dance studio featuring group and private lessons in shag, swing, hip-hop, Latin, foxtrot, cha-cha, belly dancing, ballroom, Zumba, and more - weekly with various pricing.

For more info on prices and weekly social events, visit www.babsmcdance.com or call 395-5090.

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

CONTRA DANCE

Tuesday night dances, 5th Ave United Methodist Church on South 5th Ave at Nun, 7:30-9:30pm.

Social dance for all levels; singles and couples, families, college and high school students and folks of all dancing abilities are invited to come. $4. (910) 538-9711.

art JENNY MCKINNON

Through 8/27: Wright is an award-winning artist who believes that working in plein air allows her to “capture the emotion that only painting in that location can offer.” Her sense of color shines through with each piece, and though she is personally enlivened by the locations she paints, those places can become the viewer’s own experience as well.

Cape Fear Native features the works of local artists and craftspeople inspired by nature. Tues-Sat, 11am-6pm. 114 Princess St.

OPEN STUDIOS, ARTWORKS

TheArtWorks™ is a village of more than 50 artists who open their studios to the public every Saturday from 10am-3pm.. Many of you have visited, but have you ever thought about what happens there when the doors are not open? The secret is out, at theArtWorks™ talented artists take advantage of the unique opportunity to collaborate, critique and influence each other’s work every day.

Follow the journey of a new or established artist, on Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter. theArtWorks, 200 Willard St.

FACES AND PLACES

WHQR Public Radio and MC Erny Gallery present “Faces and Places” —work by Anne Van Blarcom Kurowski and Larry Hovis. A reception takes place on Friday, August 28th, and the show will remain on display until September 11th, 2015. A portion of the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR.

ADAM-MAH: INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

8/20, 7pm: “adam-mah” is an unusual and up close interactive performance experience, exploring the symbiosis of human and nature personal identity, relationship and territoriality. ‘...earthy, elemental art you could see, hear, touch and smell.”

Community Arts Center, 120 S Second St.

LANDFALL FOUNDATION ART SHOW

8/20: The 16th annual Landfall Foundation Art Show and Sale is a popular summer event that is open to the public. Within days of opening the applications process, all 100 places were filled.

Many of the artists are well known returning local artists and will display works including oil, water color, acrylic, photography, sculpture and ceramics. All works of art are for sale. Cash bar available from 5-7 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Landfall Foundation with grants going to deserving charities in the greater Wilmington area. Dye Club House, Landfall Country Club, 1550 Landfall Drive

RESPONSE IS THE MEDIUM

8/21, 6pm: Member-only opening reception.

Artists’ remarks: 6:30 pm. CAM members and guests: $10 per admission. Meet the artists and be among the first to experience this interactive exhibition while enjoying light refreshments, cash bar and live music by subterrene: sound textures. Open to CAM members only, join today on-

line, by phone or in person. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th Street EVERYDAY—HOMEPLAY

8/22, 8pm: Everyday-Homeplay is a site specific performance in a private apartment in Wilmington about the everyday life of a German, based on interviews with Americans. It will be give 4 times this evening. This work will expand upon a theater play called “ALL TAG - Ein Heimspiel”, which was about identity, intimacy, pink elephants (surrealism) and the oscillation between fiction and reality set in the artist’s apartment in Berlin. Jengo’s Playhouse, 815 Princess St. (910) 343-5995

MEMBRANE

8/23, 6:30pm: Installations and performances that were created for and at the Bellamy Mansion. Locations such as the dining rooms, the children’s rooms, the coal cellar, closets and the gardens serve as starting points and inspiration for creativity. A mix of history and current day reflection result in a 2 hour program that offers audiences of all ages a myriad of virtuous artwork from installations, to sound art, theatre, performance art and dance that inspires and reflects. Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market St.

UNBRIDLED PASSION

8/28, all day: Come see River to Sea Gallery’s latest installation, Raleigh artist, Dan Campbell. In Dan’s words, “Distinctive contemporary art - featuring bold composition, vibrant color with striking textures... the energy a colorful abstract painting can bring to a room... does it turn your head from across the room and move you to see more?” Dan’s work is currently on display at River to Sea Gallery with special evening hours for Friday Gallery Walk - August 28, 6-9. Private viewings available by appointment. Dan joins over 50 other local artists currently exhibiting at River to Sea Gallery - paintings, photography, jewelry, sculptures and more. River to Sea Gallery, 224 S Water Street, Suite 1A

DALLAS THOMAS: RECENT WORKS

Cape Fear Community College’s Wilma W. Daniels Gallery is pleased to present Recent Works by Dallas Thomas. Thomas’s work is heavily influenced by nonspecific tribal ceremonies and rituals from all over the world. Thomas incorporates dramatic mark making and energy into his paintings, citing hip hop culture as a major influence for his work.

Admission into the gallery is free. Regular gallery hours are Tuesdays-Fridays 10-5:30pm and Saturdays 12-5:30pm. Wilma W. Daniels Gallery, CFCC, 411 N. Front St.

ARTFALL ARTIST SUBMISSIONS

The Hannah Block Historic USO/Community Arts Center is seeking 2D artists for the 1st Annual ARTfall Juried Art Show and Sale to be held October 14th - 18th, 2015. ARTfall will be one of the events during the ARTblast Festival, a local tradition celebrating the performing and visual arts at various locations in downtown Wilmington. The ARTfall Exhibition will be open to the public 10am - 5pm daily during the ARTblast Festival with an artists’ reception and awards presentation Thursday October 15th 6 - 8 pm. The deadline for applications and online registration is September 30. Only original artwork completed within the last two years will be considered for exhibition. An original artwork is the artist’s sole creation and Is not, in whole or in part, a copy of any other persons work or photograph.

Preference is given to artists from the Lower Cape Fear region. Submission guidelines, application and exhibition details: www.wilmingtoncommunityarts.org or slherrick@thalian.org.

MESSY HANDS TODDLER ART

9/3, 10am: Toddlers will get their hands into art at this new activity at New Hanover County’s Main Library! It’s scheduled for a half hour on the first and third Thursday mornings of September, October, November and December. Kids ages 2 to 4 can explore a variety of artistic media and methods

at their own pace, focusing on the process rather than a product. Free activity but space is limited, so please preregister for each session you want to attend with your toddler, on the calendar at www. nhcgov.com. Each child must be accompanied by an adult, and everyone should dress in clothes that can get messy! New Hanover County Ready to Read Library Outreach Ladies, Raquel Fava (rfava@nhcgov.com) or Krista Dean (kdean@nhcgov.com) at 910-798-6368. 201 Chestnut St. 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 2014. Rhonda Bellamy at 910343-0998, 221 N. Front St. Suite 101. www. artscouncilofwilmington.org

museums CAPE FEAR MUSEUM

Exhibits: Reflections in Black and White Exhibit: Free for members or with general admission Reflections in Black and White will highlight Cape Fear Museum’s large collection of photographs.

The exhibit will feature a selection of informal black and white photographs taken by black and white Wilmingtonians after World War II, before the Civil Rights movement helped end legalized segregation. Visitors will have a chance to compare black and white experiences and think about what people’s lives were like in the region during the latter part of the Jim Crow era. • Make It Work, through 9/13/15: Encourages visitors to explore the six types of universal simple machines to learn how they make work easier. • World War II: A Local Artist’s Perspective: In time for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing and the Normandy campaign, Cape Fear Museum will be exhibiting one of the region’s most powerful collections of World War II artifacts. • Cape Fear Stories presents artifacts, images, models, and 3D settings to explore people’s lives in the Lower Cape Fear from Native American times through the end of the 20th century. • Sky Quest, 7/26, 1:30pm: Come discover the exciting world of astronomy in Cape Fear Museum’s digital planetarium as we take a virtual journey to explore our solar system and beyond.

• Michael Jordan Discovery Gallery, Williston Auditorium, giant ground sloth, Maritime Pavilion and more! 910-798-4370. Hours: Tues-Sat, 9am5pm; Sun., 1-5pm. $5-$8. Free for museum members and children under 3. New Hanover County residents’ free day is the first Sun. ea. month. 814 Market St. www.capefearmuseum

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 116 Orange St. 910-254-3534 WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM

The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in the turn of the century Myers Cottage, exists to preserve and to share the history of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early days of the beach including Lumina Pavilion, our hurricane history and information about the interaction between the people and our natural environment which have shaped the 100 year history of Wrightsville Beach. (910) 2562569. 303 West Salisbury St. wbmuseum.com.

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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. House in an authentic 1883 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level. By reservation, discounted group tours, caboose birthday parties, and afterhours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mondays at 10:30am, only $5 per family and access to entire Museum. Admission only $8.50 adult, $7.50 senior/military, $4.50 child age 2-12, and free under age 2. North end of downtown, 505 Nutt St. 910-763-2634, www.wrrm.org.

LATIMER HOUSE

Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the restored home features period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am-

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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 910-328-2488. 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

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4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am. $4-$12. The Latimer House of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society is not handicapped accessible 126 S. Third St. 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) 762-1669 or www. capefearserpentarium.com.

BELLAMY MANSION

One of NC’s most spectacular examples of antebellum architecture, built on the eve of the Civil War by free and enslaved black artisans, for John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896) physician, planter and business leader; and his wife, Eliza McIlhenny Harriss (1821-1907) and their nine children. After the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865, Federal troops commandeered the house as their headquarters during the occupation of Wilmington. Now a museum, itf ocuses on history and the design arts and offers tours, changing exhibitions and an informative look at historic preservation in action.910-251-3700. www.bellamymansion.org. 503 Market St.

CAMERON ART MUSEUM

Exhibits: Matter of Reverence: For over 40 years, Hiroshi Sueyoshi (Japanese, b. 1946) has worked in the medium of clay. This exhibition explores

the evolution of his art and philosophy as well as his major influences including Isamu Noguchi, Peter Voulkos and Ruth Duckworth. Featuring work from CAM’s permanent collection as well as loans from private and public collections including the Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC, the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC and the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC. Free for members. • Corner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd.

Tues-Sun,10am-5pm; Thurs: 10am-9pm. Museum members free, $8 non-members, $5 students with valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. • CAM Café hrs: Tues-Sat, 11am-3pm; Sun, 10am-3pm; Thurs. dinner. 910-395-5999. www.cameronartmuseum.org 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. www.burgwinwrighthouse.com.

sports/recreation CORNHOLE LEAGUE

8/19, 7pm: Meeting & registration for the 2015 Fall/Winter Cape Fear Cornhole League, Wilmington’s oldest cornhole league. A review of league rules and social to meet other teams. Open to beginners or those who have been playing for years. Competitive but fun. Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th Street

DOLPHIN KIDS DASH

8/29, 8am: This is the ultimate KIDS ONLY race!

Kids will be timed on a 1 Mile Course broken into Starting Heats by school grade. The course starts

and finishes on the North Topsail Elementary School track. The course is on the NTES campus with part of the course passing through the NTES Nature Trail. Children 5 years old and younger will run one lap around the NTES track. All children will be awarded a medal upon completion of their race. North Topsail Elementary School, 1310 Sloop Point Loop Road SWEET RAIDS MEDIEVAL DEMONSTRATION

8/29, 9am: The Shire of Seareach, the local branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) will be hosting a public demonstration on some the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe with a particularly sweet theme. Join us for a one of a kind medieval experience. History.

Fashion. Combat. Games. More. There’s something for everyone.

WOMEN OF HOPE 5K

9/5, 8am: All proceeds from the Women of Hope 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run goes straight to the local charity Women of Hope, to help the women and their families fighting cancer. The Mayfaire course is a flat, fast course which received the Roadies Award for Fastest Course in 2013. TrySports, Mayfaire Town Center, 925 Town Center Dr.

RACE FOR PRESERVATION

9/10, 6:30pm: The 15th running of Historic Wilmington Foundation’s Race for Preservation 5K and Mile Run/Walk, presented by Port City Java, is Wilmington’s original downtown run. Open to all ages and skill levels, the race features prizes in each age group, a special “middle of the pack” prize, and a great post-race party! registration fee includes race t-shirt (guaranteed to the first 300 registrants). Best Western Plus Coastline, 501 Nutt St.

DISCOVERY HIKE

Sat., 10am: Discover the different plants and animal species that inhabit the park while exploring the ecosystems that make this area

biologically diverse. Each hike will focus on a different unique aspect of the park and includes hands on learning activities. Pre-registration is required. Call 341.0075 to register. Halyburton Park, 4099 S. 17th Street.

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Behind the Garage Series: Subversive Films & Experimental Music. Subversive films shown every Sunday at 8pm, followed by experimental musical guests. 8PM: Controversial, eye-opening and entertaining films & documentaries shown weekly.

10PM: Experimental, avant garde, noise, and other unclassfiable musical performances at 10.

Hosted by Karl Tyler Perry. Juggling Gypsy Cafe & Hookah Bar, 1612 Castle St

CINEMA BUKOWSKI

8/20, 8:30pm: Arts production group C’est La Guerre presents a screening of “Barfly,” which inspired Charles Bukowski’s novel “Hollywood.” A poet and novelist, Buk was once called by Time a “laureate of American lowlife.” Come bask in the glory of Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway in this underground classic, get the inside scoop about C’est La Guerre’s upcoming production of “Bukowsical” (a musical based on the life of Bukowski), and raise a pint—or two—in Buk’s honor! Satellite Bar and Lounge, 120 Greenfield St. https:// www.facebook.com/events/1005710532806808/

FILM CLUB FOR TWEENS

9/3, 4pm: Film Club is a three-part workshop where kids ages 10 to 12 learn how to make their own movies! Participants work with each other and director Mr. Scooter to create a short film at a series of three lively, interactive sessions. As they create a story on film, participants are also developing narrative and negotiation skills. Film Club is

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free for kids ages 10 to 12. Participants must attend three sessions scheduled on September 3, 10, and 24, and must pre-register using the online calendar at www.nhcgov.com, or by calling 910798-6393, or by emailing Mr. Scooter at shayes@ nhcgov.com. 201 Chestnut St.

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8/29, 8am: This is the ultimate KIDS ONLY race!

Kids will be timed on a 1 Mile Course broken into Starting Heats by school grade. The course starts and finishes on the North Topsail Elementary School track. The course is on the NTES campus with part of the course passing through the NTES Nature Trail. Children 5 years old and younger will run one lap around the NTES track. All children will be awarded a medal upon completion of their race. North Topsail Elementary School, 1310 Sloop Point Loop Road

MAKE A GRANDPARENT’S DAY CARD

9/1, 9am: Did you know that in 1978 the United States Congress and President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that September 13 is National Grandparents’ Day? Kids are invited to make cards with their own personal messages to their grandparents at New Hanover County’s Main Library during early September. Craft materials will be available in the Children’s Room from 9-5pm on weekdays during the first two weeks of the month, September 1 to 5 and September 8 to 12, while supplies last. There is no charge for this family craft activity. For information about Library activities for kids or about boosting early literacy development, contact Children’s Librarian Julie Criser at jcriser@nhcgov. com or 910-798-6303. 201 Chestnut Street

MAKE A GRANDPARENTS’ DAY CARD

9/1, 9am; 9/8, 9am: Did you know that in 1978 the United States Congress and President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that September 13 is National Grandparents’ Day? Kids are invited to make cards with their own personal messages to their grandparents at New Hanover County’s Main Library during early September. Craft materials will be available in the Children’s Room from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on weekdays during the first two weeks of the month, September 1 to 5 and September 8 to 12, while supplies last. There is no charge for this family craft activity. Children’s Librarian Julie Criser at jcriser@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6303.

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GAMES, STORIES, SONGS

9/2, 10am: There’s a new playgroup for preschoolers at New Hanover County’s Main Library on Wednesday mornings in September! You’ll learn games and songs and hear stories in Spanish from some native speakers, and you don’t have to speak Spanish already to attend. Participation is free and preregistration is not required; just drop in at the Chldren’s Department. For information about library activities for kids and about supporting your child’s early literacy development, contact Children’s Services and Community Engagement Librarian Susan DeMarco at sdemarco@ nhcgov.com or 910-798-6353. NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St.

LIBRARY FUN FOR KIDS

9/5, 10:30am: Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Your kids can start learning how to make good financial choices at a young age, in places you take them every week, like the grocery store.

Preschoolers can explore “Needs versus Wants” at a fun, interactive storytime with Ms. Krista from the Library, at Whole Foods on September 5. Library Fun for Kids @ Whole Foods will happen every Saturday in September at 10:30 am.

You don’t need to preregister for these free public events. Children’s Services and Community Engagement Librarian Susan DeMarco: sde-

marco@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6353. Whole Foods Market, 3804 Oleander Dr. SCARE SQUAD

9/8, 6pm: Teens who like scary stuff are needed to help build props for the New Hanover County Haunted Library! Mr. Scooter and his Scare Squad will work for an hour each Tuesday evening from September 1 through October 13, prepping for the monster Library Labyrinth event. Gory guts, strobe tunnels, rotting skulls, zombie pits, creepy dolls, specimen jars, fake blood, and spooky gingerbread houses are some of the projects on Scare Squad’s chore list. Participation is free and preregistration is not needed; just drop in and help when you can! Scooter Hayes: shayes@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6393.

Myrtle Grove Library, 5155 S. College Rd.

MINECRAFT CHALLENGE

9/11, 19, 3:30pm: This Minecraft Challenge is a chance for kids ages 8 and older to explore and build within the Minecrafte universe. Four sessions are planned during September, with different challenges at each meeting. Space is limited and preregistration is required for each session you want to attend, on the calendar at www.nhclibrary.org. Myrtle Grove Library, Scooter Hayes at shayes@nhcgov.com or 910798-6393. 5155 S. College Rd.

SCIENCE SATURDAY: OCEAN ADVENTURES

9/12, 10am: PreK; 11am/noon: Ages 5-14. Free for members or with general admission. Find out why the estuary is called the “ocean’s nursery.”

Examine local shells and learn about North Carolina’s state shell. Use various magnification tools to examine sea life up close. Parental participation required. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

RAP CLUB

9/21, 4pm Rap Club is getting ready to rock New Hanover County’s Haunted Library on October 24! Kids ages 8 and older who want to participate must be able to attend recording sessions on September 21 and 28 and rehearsals on October 12 and 19, all at Myrtle Grove Library. They must also perform at the Haunted Library itself on Saturday, October 24, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, at the Main Library. To register please contact Mr. Scooter Hayes at shayes@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6393.

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activities. • 9/11, 7pm: The Barnes & Noble “Summer Reading Program” was a great success with lots of children reading 8 books and earning a free book from Barnes & Noble! Come celebrate with fun-filled activities and games! Barnes & Noble , 750 Inspiration Drive LANDSCAPES OF BELIZE

8/24, 6pm: Join Dr. Andrea Hawkes as she discusses Belize from the Maya mountains to the Caribbean following the Macai/Sibun Watershed.

Optional dinner following the program at Riverboat Landing. Advance reservations required for dinner only by 8/23 - phone 343-5226 or email membership@scawilmington.org. New Hanover County Public Library, 201 Chestnut St.

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FREE LIFE CARE PLANNING

8/25, 2:30pm: Attorney Joan Keston will discuss an integrative approach to Elder Law, Estate Planning, and Asset Protection. The presentation will describe each area of Elder Law and explain how they work together to achieve “Life Care Planning.” New Hanover County Executive Development Center, 1241 Military Cutoff Road

AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI

August 27, 7:30-9:30pm, Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St. C’est La Guerre, in conjunction with Old Books on Front St. presents An Evening with Charles Bukowski. A poet and novelist, Bukowski was once called by Time a “laureate of American lowlife.” Celebrate your inner Bukowski with readings of his poetry and prose, and get the inside scoop on C’est La Guerre’s upcoming production -Bukowsical (a musical based on the life of Bukowski.) Beer and wine will be available—and of course, Ham on Rye sandwiches.

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CHRIS STONE CAMP

Discover the incredible salt marshes of Wrightsville Beach at Camp Chris Stone. Explore the world of oysters, mussels, mud snails, fiddler crabs and snowy egrets. Go marsh mucking while learning to fish, crab, clam and pull a seine net. Get dirty and have fun at this one-week day camp experience for young adventurers led by an environmental science educator. Camp Chris Stone is dedicated to memory and ideals of long-time Wrightsville resident, Chris Stone, who spent countless hours as a child and as an adult enjoying the marvels of the marshes. Session One: July 27-31. Ages 6-9 (12 campers max) 9am-noon, $125. Session Two: August 10-14. Ages 10-12. (12 campers max) 9amnoon, $125. Wrightsville Beach Museum: 303 W. Salisbury St.; (910) 256-2569.

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8/29, 3pm: For its August meeting, Wilmington’s Latino Book Club with discuss Eduardo Halfon’s The Polish Boxer, a story of a grandson who tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past.

Spanish speaking is not required, and everyone is welcome (even if you haven’t read all of the book!).

Pomegranate Books, 4418 Park Ave.

9-12pm, Thursday afternoon workshop, 2-5pm, $30/workshop. If you have always wanted to paint and draw now is the time! Be guided through a fun creative project that will explore your interests and guide you through exploring pencil and pen and ink drawing. All materials supplied. • Zentangle –Inspired Drawing Workshop: Saturday morning, 9-12pm; Saturday afternoon workshop, 2-5pm. $30/workshop. Through this meditative drawing method that engenders calm and well-being, create amazingly beautiful drawings. Works every time for beginners and advanced alike. All materials supplied. 6905 Southern Exposure

GOING GREEN BOOK CLUB

9/1, 6pm: “Dream of Earth,” Thomas Berry. Books available at Old Books on Front St at discount to book club members. Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St.

SLAVERY IN THE CENSUS

9/3, 6:30pm: Dr. Janet Davidson of Cape Fear Museum has extensively researched slave schedules in the census. From that data she has discovered a clearer understanding of the enslaved population’s varied experiences in South East North Carolina before the Civil War. Free. $5 suggested donation. Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market Street

VINO AND VINYASA

Every Thursday at 7:25pm Come join us for Vinyasa to Vino. Breathe, stretch, and watch the sunset in a vinyasa yoga class led by a local instructor down by the river. After yoga, unwind and relax with a glass of wine at BarLocal. Bring a yoga mat...and water (we’ll be practicing outside). Cost for the class and a glass of wine is $10. Spread the word and hope to see you there! Namaste. Bellas Bar Local, 19 Market St.

ROB LAMME

9/9, 7pm: Join the federation’s political prognosticator and lobbying director Rob Lamme for a fun and informative look at the pressing conservation issues from the 2015 session and the legislators who have shaped this year’s critical conservation policy debates. Rob incorporates humor and even lighthearted “political gossip” into his recap of the session. Rob will answer all your burning questions from the 2015 political season, including how to make your voice heard in Raleigh in 2016. The event is free for federation members and a suggested $10 donation for nonmembers. You can register for this event online below or in-person at the Coastal Education Center. Donations can be made in-person at the Coastal Education Center on the night of the event or in advance. All proceeds will benefit the federation’s education programming. 309 W. Salisbury St.

FORT FISHER DURING WWII

9/21, 7:30pm: Local historian John Moseley will talk about the role Fort Fisher played in WWII. Federal Point History Ctr, 1121 N. Lake Park Blvd.

RESTORATIVE YOGA

Restorative yoga classes are held at South East Dance Academy weekly on Tuesday and Friday mornings at 9:15 am and on Tuesday evenings at 5:45 pm. The cost is $10 drop-in rate. Discounts are available. For more info contact Janis at 910.620.5765. 220 Avondale Avenue

WORKSHOP: SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES

8/19, noon: Workshops for those in the community who want to explore and/or be a part of or create a site specific performance with Peter Verboten.

Expanding upon a theater play called “ALL TAG Ein Heimspiel”, which was about identity, intimacy, pink elephants (surrealism) and the oscillation between fiction and reality set in the artist’s apartment in Berlin. Hannah Block Community Arts Arts Center, 120 S Second St.

ChoreoLab is an intergenerational creative workshop for everyone! No experience needed. Together we explore the topics of barriers, borders, territoriality using movement to help us embody some of the topic’s elusiveness and try to channel it into something more tangible. The ChoreoLab is a collaboration between the SARUS Festival for Site-specific & Experimental Art, Peace Rose Elementary School, the Community Arts Center and the Dance Cooperative. Admission: in the Ansell Studio. Hannah Block Community Arts Arts Center, 120 S Second St.

BACK TO BASICS: GARDENING IN THE SE

8/25, 9/1, 9:30am: New to the area and not sure about gardening in the south? A long-term resident that needs information on solutions to problems in your yard? We have you course! Back to basics covers a broad range of topics from soils and nutrition, diseases and insects, pruning, and cultivating everything from vegetables to trees.

The course fee is $50 for all six classes which will be held every Tuesday morning at the NHC Arboretum. The fee includes take-home materials and booklets and advanced registration is required.

You can stop by the Arboretum to register or go to: www.arboretum.nhcgov.com. New Hanover County Arboretum, 6206 Oleander Drive

BIRDS, BEES AND SEXTING

8/26, 6pm: Free educational workshop, parents will learn how to overcome obstacles and challenges surrounding the discussion of sexuality with children in their care. Participants will become familiar with the normal progression of childhood sexual development while gaining the knowledge and tools to prevent sexual abuse, harassment and coercion. Stacey Kaiser at skaiser@coastalhorizons.org or call 392-7185. Coastal Horizons Center, Inc. 615 Shipyard Blvd.

WISDOM OF SANAYA

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Thurs. Sanaya will be a special session with the collective consciousness. Experience sitting in the presence of refined spirit energy. Sat. 9am-5pm workshop ($90/$80 is attending Thurs.) will focus on soul growth and spiritual transformation. Exp. real “aha” moments as you learn unique methods for lifting your spirit. Admission: $20 for Thurs. session. $90 for Sat. workshop $80 fpr Sat. workshop is attending Thurs. session. Consciousness Frontier Lecture Hall, 717 Orchard Ave.

classes/workshops ART CLASSES

Classes by Lois DeWitt, lois.deitt@gmail.com; 910-547-8115. Pet Portrait—Draw Your Pet Workshop: Wednesday Workshop 9-12pm, Wednesday Afternoon Workshop—2-5 pm--$30.00 per workshop. Come play and be creative! Beginners welcome. Bring a photo of your favorite furry one and I will show you in how to make a memorable pet drawing that you will cherish. All materials supplied. • Find Your Inner Artist: Find Your Inner Artist Workshop: Thursday morning workshop,

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8/21, 8:30am: Ever wanted to start your own compost pile? Into recycling and gardening? Why send it to the Landfill when you can take our Compost 101 workshop to learn the how, why, and what of multiple methods of composting. Handouts and materials will be provided to take home. Free for all K-12 Teachers and $10 per individual for the gen-

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8/27, 7pm: Thurs. Sanaya will be a special session with the collective consciousness. Experience sitting in the presence of refined spirit energy. Sat. 9am-5pm workshop ($90/$80 is attending Thurs.) will focus on soul growth and spiritual transformation. Exp. real “aha” moments as you learn unique methods for lifting your spirit. Admission: $20 for Thurs. session. $90 for Sat. workshop $80 fpr Sat. workshop is attending Thurs. session. Consciousness Frontier Lecture Hall , 717 Orchard Avenue Free Device Workshop: Saturday, August 8, 15, 22, and 29 at 9pn, 343 South College Rd. The workshop is open to everyone, and you don’t have to be a U.S. Cellular customer to attend. Anyone who attends an August workshop will have the opportunity to win an iPad Mini 3. There will be four iPad Mini 3 devices awarded each month across

the country. 910-799-8898.

SWEET RAIDS MEDIEVAL DEMO

8/29, 9am: The Shire of Seareach, the local branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) will be hosting a public demonstration on some the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe with a particularly sweet theme. Join us for a one of a kind medieval experience. History. Fashion. Combat. Games. More. There’s something for everyone. Hugh MacRae Park, 1799 S. College Rd.

START AN ORGANIC FALL GARDEN

8/29, 8:30am: Most identify Spring and Summer as prime growing seasons, and they are, but the unique temperatures of Southeastern NC makes it an ideal place for a Fall and Winter garden after the heat and humidity of summer. We think everyone should have the experience of growing at least one thing that they eat. In this spirit, Progressive Gardens is hosting a “Start a Thriving Organic Fall Garden” event on Saturday August 29th from 9:30 am until 12:30 pm. hlighting the event will be workshops that speak to the issues of soil fertility, plant propagation, seasonal crop selection, organic nutrient selection, and much more. Progressive Gardens, 6005 Oleander Dr.

ZUMBA CLASSES

Wednesdays at the Hannah Arts Center (old USO building) in downtown Wilmington at 120 S. Second St. Two classes, 5-5:55pm and 6-6:55pm.

Cost is $5 per class, cash only. Parking is available. All ages are welcome. Most of my clients range from 19 to 85.

GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP

Since 1985, the state Arts Council has provided funds for the Regional Artists Project program to support professional artists. The regional consortium of southeastern North Carolina arts councils matches the N.C. Arts Council to create a pool of funds for the artists. Grant awards to artists generally range from $500 to $1,000, and follow a competitive application and review process. The Arts Council of Wilmington & NHC is seeking applications for the 2015–2016 Regional Artist Project Grants. The deadline to apply is Friday, August 31, 2015. The Regional Artist Project program is administered by the Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County through a partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council and local arts councils working as a consortium. Counties include New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus and Pender counties. Grants totaling $15,000 will be awarded to regional artists. Applications must be received no later than Friday, August 31, 2015, at the Arts Council of Wilmington, 221 N. Front St., Suite 101. Workshop at main library, 201 Chestnut St. Additional workshops can be scheduled in partner counties. For more information, call 910-343-0998.

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Primary objective of the program is to train New Hanover County citizens to assist their families and neighbors in disasters. Schedule: 9/10: Disaster Preparedness; 9/17: Fire Safety; 9/24: Disaster Medical Operations Part 1; 10/1: Disaster Medical Operations Part 2; 10/8: Light Search and Rescue Operations; 10/15: CERT Organization/Disaster Psychology; 10/22: CERT and Terrorism; 10/24: Course Review and Disaster Simulation Drill. NHC Management: 910-798-6900. NHC Emergency Management Center, 220 Government Drive 200 HR. YOGA TRAINING

9/11, 6am: The three-month format will meet for six (6) extended weekends over the course of 3 months (two Friday evening through Sunday afternoon sessions per month). This training is perfect for those who have obligations during the week.

The three-month format is geared towards yogis who would like to take more time to assimilate the covered material and dive deeply into the suggested texts in order to fully comprehend the material and to weave the experiences into their daily lives! Longwave Yoga, 203 Racine Drive #200

AFTERSCHOOL FENCING

9/14, 3:30pm: Cape Fear Fencing Association 8 week afterschool fencing class starts the week of September 14th at 3:30 pm in the basement of the Tileston gym. Class will meet for 1 hour, Students should attend twice per week, once Monday/Tuesday and once Wednesday/Thursday. All fencing equipment provided, students should wear loose fitting clothing and sneakers. Appropriate for 2nd - 8th grade. Cost is $50 plus a $10 membership to USA Fencing good until July 31, 2016. Taught by Internationally accredited instructor. Tileston Gym at St. Mary, 5th and Ann.

AMERICA’S BOATING CLASSES

The Cape Fear Sail and Power Squadron is proudly offering the very best in safe boating education with their newly revamped boating course which will be offered three times per year at the Cape Fear Community College. The course is centered around the 8-hour America’s Boating Course® now offered on a single Saturday (8am-5pm).

This class is NASBLA approved and USCG recognized and will satisfy NC safe boating requirements for anyone under 26 years of age. For new boaters or boaters new to the Cape Fear coastal area we have expanded the program to include “Local Knowledge” on the second Saturday. This will address the challenges and complexities of boating in our local coastal environment. Finally, where better to learn about boating than on the water? The last exclusive segment is to take students out on the actual local waterways (river and ICW) to tie everything together.

The dates of all the classes follow: 19 September 2015 – ABC classroom CFCC L107 8 AM – 4:30 PM; 26 September 2015 – Local Knowledge CFCC L107 9 AM – 1 PM; 27 September 2015 – OTW begins. Total cost is $70 per person or 2 family members can share the textbook at the discounted price of $115. Visit the websites or http:// capefearboatingcourse.org/#xl_xr_page_index or http://www.wilmingtonboatingclass.org to learn more and to enroll.

URBAN FITNESS

Adult Creative Movement, Sat., 10am: A class for adults of all ages and skill level. Using a modern dance basis, we will discover the beauty of what our bodies’ CAN do! We will celebrate the joy and freedom of movement that lifts your spirit (soul).

There are few shortcuts to happiness, but dance is one of them—self expression, fitness, have always wanted to try a dance class or continue their dance study. All dance classes are taught in a relaxed, encouraging atmosphere that enables adults of all levels to achieve, grow, and always, to have fun. Admission: $12 per class / $42 for the month. Children’s Creative Movement, Wed., 5pm: Ballet, Jazz, Hoola Hoops, and all forms of creative movement. Easy to follow. All genders

welcome. Admission: $10 per class / $32.50 per month. • Salsa Fitness, Wed, 6pm: Dance your way to health with Salsa Fitness. This class is designed for all levels and is easy to follow. Admission: $10 per class / $80 for a package of 10 classes. • Bootcamp with Fabio, Sat., 9am: The class will consist of 10 minutes of dynamic stretching and cardio. 20 minutes of core work, 20 minutes full body strength training and 10 minutes of cool down and stretching. Balancepoint Barre, Barre combines the basics of ballet, Pilates, and yoga. No dance experience is needed however. It is a fun, low-impact workout targeting those problem areas. It is safe for all ages and body types. It works to strengthen your muscles and tighten your core, leaving you feeling taller and leaner without adding muscle mass. You will mainly use your own body weight for resistance, but will also use a variety of tools to enhance the workout. The class is set to upbeat music to help keep you motivated.

Admission: $15 per class / $100 for a package of 10 classes. Zumba, Fri., 6pm: Let’s shake, move, and groove those calaries away. Easy to follow steps, fun and exciting music. All levels welcome.

Admission: $7 for walkins / $30 for 5 classes / $55 for 10 classes. Urban Fitness, 5739 Oleander Dr. CFFA BEGINNING FENCING

Cape Fear Fencing Association 6 week beginning fencing class starts August 18th at 6:30 pm in the basement of the Tileston gym, 5th and Ann streets.. Class will meet for approximately 1 hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays, All fencing equipment provided, students should wear loose fitting clothing and sneakers. Appropriate for ages 8 80. Cost is $50 plus a $10 membership to USA Fencing good until July 31, 2016. Taught by Internationally accredited instructor.

clubs/notices AME ZION MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE MEETING

8/29, 10am: Rev. Dr. Henry J. Young invites all Brunswick County ministers to attend a Ministerial Alliance Meeting on August 29, 2015, from 10 am until 2 pm, to be held at Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church. The purpose is to meet and become acquainted with area ministers and gain a perspective on perceived needs, as well as collective planning for the future. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by email to johnsonchapel@ gmail.com or by phone call to the church at 910371-0037. Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church is located at 1882 Lincoln Road NE, Leland, NC. Johnson Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, 1882 Lincoln Road NE.

CAPE FEAR MUSIC TEACHER’S ASSOCIATION

8/21: The Cape Fear Music Teachers Association (CFMTA) invites instructors of piano, instrumental music, and vocal music to their lunch meeting, Friday, 11am-1pm, in at 421 Pettigrew Drive (Pine Valley). We will review 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. The organization also serves as a referral service for parents looking for music instructors for their children. CFMTA supervises a Student Musician Certification Program that encourages students to attend concerts, participate in performance activities, and set musical goals for themselves. CFMTA is an affiliate of Music Teachers National Association and the North Carolina Music Teachers Association. Music instructors interested in finding out more about CFMTA and/or details of the lunch meeting should contact Joanne Riesz at 910-262-6224.

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A BRUNCH OF COOL CARS

8/22, 10am: The Greater Porters Neck Area Foundations 2nd Annual car show to benefit Poplar Grove Animal Sanctuary. We will line the fairway with some of the most beautiful, unusual and cared for cars you will come in contact with. We will have activities for KIDS and adults. We hope you can come support and help save the animals. Contact Erica Haines for information erica@ brushinup.com. Sponsored by Haines Financial, LLC. Porters Neck Country Club, 8403 Vintage Club Circle.

NEW HANOVER NAACP

8/22, 7pm: Members and friends are invited to attend. For more information, 910-798-2004; nhcnaacp@gmail.com. St. Stephen AME Church, 501 Red Cross St.

HUMANISTS AND FREETHINKERS

8/24, 7pm: Humanists and Freethinkers of Cape Fear will feature a video from the American Humanist Association which presents scientific data on why atheists have such a negative image. The AHA concludes by stating that Humanism presents the best chance for secularists to advance as a movement. Free and open to the public.

RSVP; www.meetup.com/humanism-182.

SERIOUS MUSINGS BOOK CLUB

8/25, 6pm: This month’s selection: “Go Set a Watchman.” Books at a discount for club members from Old Books on Front St. 249 N. Front St.

SERIOUS MUSINGS BOOK CLUB

8/25, 6pm: Month’s selection: “Go Set a Watchman.” Books available at a discount for club members from Old Books on Front., 249 N. Front St.

WWII REMEMBERED GROUP

8/26, 9:30am: Southeastern North Carolina’s World War II Remembered Group will host a ser-

vice-connected military memorabilia jamboree for all area veterans on August 26 at the New Hanover County Senior Resource Center, 2222 South College Road. The exhibition hours are 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. Exhibitors can set up at 9:00. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to public visitation. Although the bulk of the group’s membership and regular attendees are WWII veterans, home front workers, and family members, the jamboree welcomes participation by veterans of the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and by those who served at other times.

WWII veterans are expected to display memorabilia from the Battle of the Bulge, Pacific naval and Marine Corps combat, and Air Force missions over Europe, among others. Veterans wishing to exhibit must contact John Nelson for additional information at fjn39@ec.rr.com, or 399-7020. New Hanover County Senior Resource Center, 2222 College Rd. PORT CITY PLAYWRIGHTS

8/29, 1pm: The Port City Playwrights’ Project will meet at 1:00 p.m. on August 29 at the Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Road, Wilmington.

This two-year-old organization provides support, feedback and education to writers for both stage and screen, Writers at all levels of development are welcome. In addition to the annual staged readings of work by its members, the group is planning a full production next year in 2016. Second meeting is slated for 9/12 at the same location. portcityplaywrightsproject@gmail.com. https://portcityplaywrightsprojectblog.wordpress.com.

LELAND’S FOUNDER’S DAY PARTICIPANTS

This year on Saturday, September 12 the Town of Leland will celebrate its 26th year with the biggest Founders’ Day to date. Each year on the second Saturday of September, the Town celebrates its birthday with a grand party for the community

featuring entertainment, food, children’s activities, arts and crafts/business vendors, fireworks and more. This year’s Founders’ Day will take place at the Brunswick Forest commercial area just off Highway 17 (1090 Brunswick Village Blvd.) from 3 pm until 9 pm. The event will feature special musical performances and a patriotic salute to veterans. Mark your calendars now and stay tuned for additional information on schedules and activities.

If you are interested in becoming a vendor (food or arts/crafts), please visit www.townofleland.com/ recreation for more information and an application.

If you would like to volunteer or would like more information on Founders’ Day, call 910-332-4823 or e-mail aryan@townofleland.com LAMPLIGHTERS TOASTMASTER MEETING

Lamplighters Toastmasters is a local chapter of Toastmasters International, a non-profit organization which helps people learn and hone their public speaking and leadership skills. Anyone who is nervous about standing before an audience can benefit greatly from this organization. All are welcome. New Hanover Government Center, 230 Government Center Drive (off Racine.

THE BASICS

Free education program by the Alzheimer’s Association. This program provides information about detection, causes, and risk factors, stages of the disease and much more. Northeast Branch, New Hanover County Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

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8/30, 3pm: by the women of Myrtle Grove AME Church. The guest speaker will be Evangelist Linda Southerland of Hooper’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Leland. Myrtle Grove AME Church, 216 Old Fayetteville Road

GOING GREEN BOOK CLUB

9/1, 6pm: “Dream of Earth,” by Thomas Berry.

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Books available at Old Books on Front St at discount to book club members. 249 N. Front St. WAA MEETING

9/10, 6:30pm: Please join the WAA 9/10, General Meeting. The meeting is open to the public. Social - 6:30 pm; Business Meeting - 7pm; Educational Program - 8:00pm. This month’s program will be a panel discussion on how artists use social media for marketing their work. New Hanover County Arboretum, 6206 Oleander Drive

CHURCH WOMEN UNITED AREA IX MEETING

Wilmington Church Women United Area IX Meeting will be held Fri., 9/11, at St. Andrew’s-Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1416 Market St. Registration and coffee are at 10:00 AM followed by meeting at 10:30am. St. Andrew’s-Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1416 Market St.

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culinary FARMERS’ MARKETS

Fruits, vegetables, plants, herbs, flowers, eggs, cheese, meats, seafood, honey and more! Poplar Grove, Apr-Nov, Wed, 8am-1pm. 910-686-9518. www.poplargrove.com • Riverfront Farmers’ Market open on Water St., downtown, every Sat., through Dec., 8am-1pm. Food, arts & craft vendors and live music. www.wilmingtondowntown. com/farmers-market • Carolina Beach Farmer’s Market every Sat., May-Sept, 8am-1pm, around the lake in Carolina Beach. Free parking; vendors align the lake, from artists and crafters and musicians. www.carolinabeachfarmersmarket.com. • Wrightsville Beach Farmers’ Market, 21 Causeway Dr. Fresh NC-grown produce, seafood and other locally produced consumables. A variety of unique craft vendors have also been added to the market this year. Mon., 8am-1pm, first Mon. in May- Labor Day. • Town of Leland Farmers’

Market at Leland Town Hall, alternating Sundays, 11am-3pm, May-Aug. This market is focused on local food and agricultural products. • Oak Island Farmers’ Market, Mon., April-Nov., 7am-1pm. Middletown Park, Oak Island • Southport Waterfront Market, Wednesdays, May-Sept., 8am-1pm. Garrison Lawn in Southport, NC. • St. James Plantation Farmers’ Market, Thurs., May-Oct., 4-7pm, at the Park at Woodlands Park Soccer Field.

YELP WILMINGTON LAUNCH PARTY

Wed, 8/19, 6pm: Yelp is expanding! We will be hosting the kick off party in downtown Wilmington at A tasting Room. Complimentary local business samplings and fun with Heather Rogers, Char Oden, Beer Barrio, Pinpoint restaurant, Fork N Cork, Boombalattis, and Queensboro Shirt Company! 21 and over only; bring your ID and drink responsibly. A Tasting Room, 19 South 2nd Street

ILM’S EPICUREAN EVENING

9/3, 5:30pm: Dozens of the region’s most talented and innovative epicureans will bring their best to the table for Wilmington’s Epicurean Evening—a culinary extravaganza to benefit the children and families served by Methodist Home for Children. Wilmington’s Epicurean Evening is one of the year’s most anticipated charitable events. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. at the Wilmington Convention Center. Tickets are on sale now at www.wilmingtonee.com. Join us to taste the competition! Wilmington Convention Center, 10 Convention Center Dr.

TAPAS TUESDAY

$10 Tapas from 5:30 - 7:00 Every Tuesday! Half Off Craft Cocktail List and Select Wines. Catch, 6623 Market St.

support groups LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP

8/18, 6:30pm: This group meets the third Tuesday of each month. There is no charge to attend the meeting, and drop-ins are welcome. Contact the LFANC at info@lupusnc.org or at 877-849-8271, ext. 1. For more information, visit www.lupusnc. org. This group provides participants with an opportunity to receive introductory information about lupus, encourage the expression of concerns, provide an opportunity to share experiences, encourage and support positive coping strategies, and emphasize the importance of medical treatment. Meeting programs vary from guest speakers to DVD presentations and open group discussion. Northeast Regional Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Road ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUP

Caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia?

Take advantage of this opportunity to share your concerns and learn helpful strategies that can be applied to your personal situation. A better way to get through each day with tips on how to reduce stress for both you and your loved one. Thursdays, 6pm. Livingstones Tabernacle, 127 Sloop Point Loop Rd.

CAREGIVERS AND COFFEE

Free monthly meeting on the third Friday of each month, 9:30am. Every day, staff and volunteers of Lower Cape Fear Hospice see the challenges faced by those caring for loved ones. Caregivers and Coffee was created to offer caregivers assistance and encouragement. Each month, LCFH will offer a Caregivers and Coffee session where caregivers can come, share their experiences, encourage each other and learn about valuable resources and support. Meetings will be facilitated by hospice staff, but will also feature topics selected by the group, including visits from other community organizations. Caregivers and Coffee will include informal conversations, learning opportunities and coffee. Chris Scott at 796-7927 or

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chris.scott@lcfh.org. Phillips LifeCare & Counseling Center, 1414 Physicians Drive TREMOR SUPPORT GROUP

Wed, 4pm: Support for individuals with essential tremor and their families and friends. New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd.

tours LITERARY HISTORY WALKING TOUR

Saturdays, 1:30pm: Have you ever wanted to meet authors living and dead, tour locations from books, poems, and plays? Explore the rich culture of this talented Southern town with a 90 minute walking tour of the literary history of downtown Wilmington, NC. Visit “The Two Libraries”, walk the streets of your favorite novels, and stand where Oscar Wilde did when he lectured here. Cost $8: www. brownpapertickets.com/event/1282390. Old Books on Front Street, 249 N. Front St.

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 TuesdaySunday, Narrated lunch cruises 12:00 noon 1-1/2 hours Tuesday-Saturday. May-Oct: Murder Mystery Dinner Cruises, Tuesday & Thursday evening 2 hours 6:30 pm; AprDec: Friday evening dinner cruises 2-1/2 hours 7:30 pm, Saturday evening dinner cruises 3 hours 6:30 pm.

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GHOST WALK

6:30pm & 8:30pm. Costumed guides lead visitors through alleyways with tales of haunted Wilmington. Nightly tours at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Admission charge. Meets at Water & Market streets. Reservations required: 910-794-1866; www.hauntedwilmington.com

OAKDALE CEMETERY WALKING TOUR

9/19, 10am: This month’s third Saturday walking tour of Oakdale Cemetery will be given by local historian, Michael Whaley.

Mr. Whaley will lead you to many interesting folks in Oakdale and tell the stories as if you were on his front porch on an early fall morning. Learn all about North Carolina’s oldest rural cemetery, a local jewel! Admission: Event will be cancelled in the event of inclement weather. $10, non-members; free for members. 520 N. 15th St.

ARIES (Mar. 21–April 20)

You’d probably prefer to stay in the romantic, carefree state of mind. From what I can tell, you’re ripe for a new phase of your long-term cycle. Your freestyle rambles and jaunty adventures should now make way for careful introspection and thoughtful adjustments. Instead of restless stargazing, I suggest patient earth-gazing. Despite how it may initially appear, it’s not a comedown. In fact, I see it as an unusual reward that will satisfy you in unexpected ways

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

In accordance with the current astrological omens, I recommend the following activities: Sing a love song at least once a day. Seek a message from an ancestor in a reverie or dream. Revisit your three favorite childhood memories. Give a gift or blessing to the wildest part of you. Swim naked in a river, stream, or lake. Change something about your home to make it more sacred and mysterious. Obtain a symbolic object or work of art that stimulates your courage to be true to yourself. Find relaxation and renewal in the deep darkness. Ruminate in unbridled detail about how you will someday fulfill a daring fantasyl.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

The ancient Greek epic poem the “Iliad” is one of the foundation works of Western literature. Written in the eighth century BCE, it tells the story of the 10-year-long Trojan War. The cause of the conflict was the kidnap of Helen of Troy, reputed to be the world’s most beautiful woman. Yet, nowhere in the “Iliad” is there a description of Helen’s beauty. We hear no details about why she deserves to be at the center of the legendary saga. Don’t be like the “Iliad” in the coming weeks, Gemini. Know everything you can about the goal at the center of your life. Be very clear, specific and precise about what you’re fighting for and working toward.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

The comedian puppets known as the Muppets have made eight movies. In “The Great Muppet Caper,” Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one is a green frog and the other a brown bear. At one point in the story, we see a photo of their father, who has the coloring and eyes of Kermit, but a bear-like face. I bring up their unexpected relationship, Cancerian, because I suspect that a similar anomaly might be coming your way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch your ideas about what influences you might want to connect with.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

English author Barbara Cartland published her first novel at age 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she had written more than 700 other books.

Some sources say she sold 750 million copies, while others put the estimate at 2 billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I foresee a Barbara Cartland-type period for you in the coming months, Leo. Between now and your birthday in 2016, I expect you to be as fruitful in your own field as you have ever been. And here’s the weird thing: One of the secrets of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to chill out. “Relaxed intensity” will be your calming battle cry.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

‘On or about December 1910, human character changed,’’ wrote English author Virginia Woolf in 1924. What prompted her to draw that conclusion?

The rapidly increasing availability of electricity, cars and indoor plumbing?

The rise of the women’s suffrage movement? Labor unrest and the death of the king? The growing prominence of experimental art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso? The answer might be all of the above, plus the beginning of a breakdown in the British class system. Inspired by the current astrological omens, I’ll borrow her brash spirit and make a new prediction: During the last 19 weeks of 2015, the destiny of the Virgo tribe will undergo a fundamental shift. Ten years from now, I bet you will look

The BRONZE STAR (23 Across)

back at this time and say, “That was when everything got realigned, redeemed and renewed.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble,” psychologist Carl Jung said. “They can never be solved, but only outgrown.” I subscribe to that model of dealing with dilemmas, and I hope you will consider it, too—especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don’t guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but I’m confident you can render them at least 60 percent less pressing, less imposing and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration. There were nonstop feasts, games and religious ceremonies. Community-building was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal Makahiki last for four months, but could you at least manage three weeks?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, fortune cookies for dogs, and breath mints that resemble vials of crack cocaine. The most frequent visitors to the museum are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors to avoid in their own companies’ future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius. Take an inventory of the wrong turns you’ve made in the past. Use what you learn to create a revised master plan.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.” Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behaviorial pattern. I am happy to report that the coming weeks will be a favorable time to quit your insanity cold turkey.

In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to make a heroic effort? Here’s a good way to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it,” confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe your experience, too?

If so, events in the coming months will help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last 10 years, you will have the power to liberate yourself through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather than stress and force.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“Most people love in order to lose themselves,” Hermann Hesse wrote in his novel “Demian.” But there are a few, he implied, who actually “find” themselves through love. In the coming months, Pisces, you are more likely to be one of those rare ones. In fact, I don’t think it will even be possible for you to use love as a crutch. You won’t allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That’s good news, right? Here’s the caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires—some of which may be hidden from you right now.

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