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LIVE LOCAL, LIVE SMALL:

Hard work and determination propel Elise Seifert forward and on to California

BY: GWENYFAR ROHLER

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amily lore holds it all started with an “instrument petting zoo.”

“A small chamber group will perform a piece geared toward children, and then afterward, they will sit in the lobby and let the children run their hands on the instruments and sometimes make a sound,” Elise Seifert explains of the concept with a grin. “I barely remember, but I made a note on a bassoon.”

Two decades later, Seifert’s composition, “Bassembly,” is performed in woodwind circles all over—including the International Double Reed Society Conference of 2017. Her piece for bassoon and electronics was inspired by Seifert’s bassoon instructor at UNCG, who mentioned casually there was a piece of music for disassembling a bassoon whilst performed.

“My first thought was whether there was a piece where the bassoon was assembled? No obvious one came to mind so I wrote one.” Seifert notes matter-offactly. For a couple of years, the idea of turning reed-making sounds into a beat had been percolating in the back of her head. So she sampled and looped the process.

“There’s scraping and cutting, there are some machines that take off a very thin amount with each stroke but are not automated,” she explains. “You have to slide back-and-forth, and it makes a ginormous clunking sound. Reed-making is definitely a craft—the old-world sense of craft, passed down from teacher to student.”

Meanwhile the performer is assembling a bassoon while playing it. Readers can listen to “Bassembly” at soundcloud. com/eliseseifert/bassembly.

As a living composer, Seifert’s music is considered “new music,” but for laypeople (like myself) it sure sounds like classical music. “A lot of people understand what I mean when I say the word ‘classical,’” Seifert acknowledges. “It’s a similar audience, it’s performed by similar instruments, orchestras, chamber ensembles, pianos . . . it has a more complex harmonic and melodic structure than pop music.”

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But she isn’t a dead white guy with a wig, which is the other connotation

people have for classical music. Actually, she’s very much alive, and her dream as a composer is not to play harpsichord with a candelabra sitting on it, but rather to compose film scores. That dream is taking her to Los Angeles at summer’s end. In some ways it’s an old story: talented young person, loading up the car, heading to the land of the great golden West, with dreams in the pocket in search of their fortune. “[Film music] is the way most people are informed of what an orchestra sounds like—and I want to be part of that. I want to help people understand what classical and orchestral music can sound like,” Seifert explains. She points to John Williams’ work (“Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones,” “E.T.”) as inspiration. “He still writes all of his own music with paper and pencil, and orchestrates. I look up to him because he made film music recognizable.”

school and transcribed a couple of pieces for marching band,” Seifert says, and points out they weren’t brilliant pieces, but what she learned in the process was invaluable.

Along the way, the penny dropped and she realized a passion for scoring films.

One of the first CDs she ever bought for herself was the soundtrack for “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.”

“It is the first film score I distinctly remember as I came out of the theater—I could hum along the melody,” Seifert recalls with a smile. Nevertheless, it’s probably the late Jóhann Jóhannsson (“Theory of Everything”), who comes closest to her own work and aspirations.

“He’s one of those composers who does a completely different sound for each movie he works on, but he uses a lot of electronics and percussion,” she explains. “I like that he continues to put out albums and create concert music in addition to his film scores, all of which have their own stories. . . . I balance the film scoring and concert music. As I get to know more performers, I write more pieces and a wider range of concert music.

Then the performers can help me record film scores and continue to network.”

Though Seifert’s journey started with a note on the bassoon at chamber music group, it followed a path of public school band classes, piano lessons and parents who supported a budding interest in music. Band class was where a lot of pieces came together: finally learning to play bassoon, the instrument she met at the The system seems to work. She just petting zoo, and discovering the excitefinished scoring the pilot for an animated ment of creating music with others. children’s show about animal communica“I started taking theory lessons in high

tion, and in early summer she is headed to Florida to record two new pieces.

“I get most of my ideas from specific people that I am working with,” she details, “their feelings toward their instrument or what hasn’t been done in their own instrumental genre.”

A conversation with a base clarinetist, who always thought of the base clarinet as “a slimy great big fish,” inspired another composition set to be recorded in Florida this summer. “So I interpreted as a wriggling up-and-down melody and a little bit of a gritty sound,” Seifert describes.

“And the piece is called ‘Snakehead,’ which is a big ugly fish.”

Seifert’s most recently recorded piece, “This Hour” (soundcloud.com/eliseseifert/ this-hour) is written for piano and whistler.

It is the perfect example of her philosophy of composing.

“I worked on stage crew while at UNCG, and one of my friends likes to whistle while he works,” she says with a grin. “[He] can whistle the saxophone repertoire he’s learning, orchestra music and jazz classics. He always joked about having a ‘concerto for whistler’ and after sitting down at the piano we figured out he has a three octave whistling range.”

Just for a point of reference, it makes Axl Rose’s opening to “Patience” look

like kindergarten playtime. All of this is in addition to short independent films she already has under her belt. As well Seifert keeps up a pretty relentless pace working a day job, volunteering at WHQR and composing constantly. Her output is nothing short of inspiring, but it is not a surprise.

Despite not having a job waiting for her in Los Angeles, her big leap to California is planned for the end of the summer. “The reason I’m doing this is I’m young enough to start building up my network out there and I feel like Los Angeles is the best place for me to grow as a film composer.”

She pauses for a moment, trying to articulate the next piece.

“It’s very easy nowadays to find cheap beats online to put in your film. But if you use a living composer, I integrate melodic character themes and change my music to interact with the action of emotion happening on screen. I want to fit the director’s vision and I can do that better than a quick Google search.”

Readers can enjoy Seifert’s work now and remember her name. Someday she is going to walk across the stage at the Oscars, and she will get there the oldfashioned way: hard work and determination, both of which she has in abundance.

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A Canada goose got its final revenge on Feb. 1 when, after being shot out of the sky by a hunter in Easton, Maryland, it struck Robert Meilhammer, 51, of Crapo, Maryland, seriously injuring the waterfowler. NPR reported that Meilhammer was hunting with a group when one of the large geese flying overhead was killed and fell about 90 feet, landing on Meilhammer’s head and knocking him out. It also dislodged two of Meilhammer’s teeth. Adult Canada geese weigh about 12 to 14 pounds and can have a wingspan of 6 feet. At press time, Meilhammer was in stable condition after being airlifted to a hospital.

CRIME REPORT

When the city gets to be too much for Jo and Lonnie Harrison of Houston, they escape to their pre-fab vacation cabin, nestled on a 10-acre plot in Madisonville, Texas. Having last

visited the property in November, Lonnie set out on Feb. 2 to check on it. But when he arrived, he told KTRK-TV, “I didn’t see the house.

All I saw were blocks and pipes sticking out.

The whole house gone.” Sgt. Larry Shiver of the Madison County Sheriff’s Department later said, “I’ve never had a house reported stolen in my career yet.” (Update: The house was found a few days later, having been repossessed from the previous owner.)

Aaron Meininger, 29, of Hernando Beach, Florida, was arrested on Feb. 2 after Hernando County deputies caught him stealing items from the Demarco Family Funeral Home in Spring Hill. When officers arrived, Meininger was carrying a tub of formaldehyde out of the building. They also found makeup, nail polish, electric clippers, soap and other items used in funeral preparation in Meininger’s car. Curiously, the Tampa Bay Times reported, Meininger told deputies that he was “bored” and “messed up” and didn’t even know what kind of busi-

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SOMEBODY in Muskegon, Michigan, didn’t want the Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl LII. Immediately following the Eagles’ victory over the New England Patriots on Feb. 4, Subaru of Muskegon ran an ad on local NBC affiliate WOOD-TV that featured 30 seconds of silence and a written message: “Congratulations Patriots!” WOOD-TV reported via Twitter that the business had submitted only one version of the ad and had specified that it run regardless of the game’s outcome.

PRECOCIOUS

When a Texas stripper arrived at her 11:30 a.m. gig on Feb. 1, she smelled a rat: Her destination turned out to be Noel Grisham Middle School in Round Rock, Texas. Rather than going inside, the performer called the school and reported a prank. Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, a district spokesperson, told the Austin American-Statesman the student jokester had used his cellphone to order the stripper and paid for it with his parents’ credit card. He is now facing disciplinary action.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT

Houston Realtor Nicole Lopez is sporting a new nickname these days: The Taco Lady.

Since late 2017, Lopez has incorporated a novel incentive for buyers of homes she’s listed: $250 in free tacos with the purchase of a home. “Let’s be honest, everyone in Texas loves tacos,” Lopez told KHOU-TV. “And so, it’s really been this ‘taco the town,’” she laughed. Lopez cited as proof of her success a $170,000 home that’s under contract “and they are super excited for their taco party at the end of this month.”

Prason Sukkorn, owner of Coffee on the Day in Chonburi, Thailand, had his marketing idea laid bare after he posted “obscene materials” online — photos and videos of model/barista Arisa Suwannawong, 22, wearing nothing but an apron while drawing shots and serving customers. Suwannawong, who goes by the nickname “Jaenae with the big boobs,” glances down at her breasts in the video while gushing, “The coffee is so good, they use plenty of milk.”

Police commander Thanachai Usakit from the Sattahip district station told Metro News that Sukkorn “didn’t realize it would break the law, because the model in the photos wasn’t fully naked.” Nevertheless, the owner faces three to five years in jail or a fine of 100,000 Thai baht, or about $3,200.

NEWS THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE

Staff at an internet cafe in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, had to call paramedics on Jan. 28 when a gamer lost all feeling in his lower limbs after playing the same game for more than 20 hours straight. Newsweek reported that the unnamed man didn’t realize he had

become paralyzed until he tried to use the restroom and couldn’t move his legs. As he was being carried out on a stretcher, he was heard begging his friends to finish the game for him.

WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME

A parking lot in Augusta, Georgia, became the scene of a nightmare for an unsuspecting motorcyclist and his 1982 Honda bike on Jan. 31. On his way to exchange some shirts at Target in the Augusta Exchange shopping center, Don Merritt told WJBF-TV, “I was going to go around the back to avoid the speed bumps,” but when he did, he and his bike fell into a sinkhole. Firefighters were called to rescue Merritt, who suffered a skull fracture and a loose tooth as a result of the 15-foot fall. The bike was totaled. “It’s not good customer relations,” Merritt said about the sinkhole. The center property manager reportedly is fixing the hole.

SMOOTH REACTIONS

Sonny Donnie Smith, 38, of Clackamas, Oregon, was feeling snubbed in September 2016 when both his father and his brother were invited to a family wedding, but Sonny wasn’t. As a perfectly reasonable revenge, Sonny made anonymous phone calls to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and the Midland International Air and Space Port in Midland, Texas, claiming that his father and brother were terrorists and would be traveling through the airports. An FBI investigation revealed no terrorist threats, and after interviewing the father and brother, they were both released. On Feb. 1, Sonny Smith pleaded guilty to making the calls, according to The Oregonian, and will be sentenced on May 10.

REDNECK CHRONICLES

Cheryl Merrill, 60, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, was arguing with her boyfriend of five years about who would win Super Bowl LII on Feb. 4 and became so enraged shortly after kickoff that she picked up a wooden shelf and threw it at him. St. Johns County sheriff’s deputies were called and found Merrill “extremely intoxicated,” according to reporting by WJAXTV. Merrill was charged with aggravated battery and taken to the St. Johns County Jail.

Her boyfriend was unable to sign an affidavit because of the hand injury he sustained in the assault.

FALSE ALARM

A Scottish farmer called Police Scotland after spotting what he believed to be a tiger in his cow shed near Peterhead in Aberdeenshire on Feb. 3. An armed response team scrambled to the farm and within 45 minutes, established that the fierce big cat was in fact a large cuddly toy. “Any call reporting a potential danger to the public has to be taken seriously,” Peterhead Inspector George Cordiner told Metro News.

“Until you know exactly what you are dealing with, every option has to be considered.”

NEWS>>LIVE LOCAL

AS THE WATER HAS ALWAYS RUN: Making sense of the feud over oyster farms

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erty is being developed. Similar disputes over oyster farms have been reported recently by the Associated Press, between Chesapeake Bay watermen in Virginia and the owners of mansions onshore. Would there be the same amount of fuss if the farms were up an isolated creek somewhere, out of sight and mind of the neighbors? Probably not. As Wilmington and other coastal towns grow more crowded by the minute, the chances of anything being in true isolation anymore will vanish.

BY: JOHN WOLFE

ryan Pearson wants to start an oyster farm. As a local captain, fisherman and Wilmington native, he’s no stranger to the water. Besides potential for profit, he wants to help make his home waters healthier.

“We want people to fish around it, we want to help the water quality out, and we want to be good stewards and good neighbors,” Pearson said. “There have been three sewage spills in the sound since Christmas . . .

Putting more oysters in helps everybody.”

Oysters are a keystone species which provide habitat for fish and other aquatic life— and clean the water, to boot. A single adult oyster can filter 50 gallons of water per day.

With wild oyster populations dipping below 10 percent of historic levels (and more and more people’s palates craving the tasty shellfish), his timing couldn’t be better.

And he’s not alone.

There were 17 new applications for oyster farms in New Hanover County alone in 2017, 11 of which were for water column leases (a new method of farming elevating the oysters off the sea floor in cages to produce a more consistent product). The southeastern coast has seen a surge in popularity in oyster growout operations; last year, NPR called our region the “Napa Valley of Oysters.”

In recent months there has been a spat (pun fully intended) over Pearson’s proposed leasing site in the waters of Masonboro Sound. Tom Cannon’s nearby farm has already caught the eye and ire of some of the wealthy occupants of the bluff overlooking it, including local surgeon Dr. Hormoze Goudarzi. In the StarNews last week Dr. Goudarzi claimed Cannon’s farm has “confiscated [his] right to enjoy the beauty” of the view from his window.

During a phone interview with encore, Dr. Goudarzi got emotional, spoke passionately about the beauty of Masonboro Sound and equated the presence of the farm to someone coming into his house and “going to bed with [his] wife because she is beautiful.” His main complaints seemed to be the Department of Marine Fisheries “slipped this one through,” and the farm structures (which is mostly dry at low tide and far from any navigational channel) posed a hazard to navigation to jet skis.

“I’m going to fight this until I run out of money or I die,” he said.

He also claims his deed shows he owns the water in front of his house—all the way

HEALTHIER HOME WATERS: Bryan Pearson wants to start an oyster farm in ILM to help keep our coast clean. Photo by John Wolfe

out to the Intercoastal Waterway. He’s been paying taxes on it.

The question of “who owns the water” is old and complex. I’m no lawyer, but I am a sailor who has spent enough time on the sea to recognize ownership of the water as an inherently fallacious concept. The law does provide, however, who owns the land the water flows over.

The history is interesting: In Ancient Rome, the emperor Justinian I proclaimed “Aqua currit et debet currerer, ut currerer solebat,” or, “water runs, and should run, as it has always run.” To the Romans the sea and shore could be used by everyone and were incapable of private ownership. Later, in English Common Law (from which our American legal system descended), the sovereign owned both the sea and seabed—and any lord who owned waterfront property found their ownership stopped at the mean high-water mark. Even though the king “owned” the sea, the public was allowed to use it for navigation and commercial purposes, like fishing.

When America became her own country in 1776, the title for submerged lands reverted from the crown to the states, and the waters and intertidal zone became “public trust,” belonging to we the people who make up the states.

From an excellent pamphlet on Public Trust Waters from NC Marine Fisheries: “This concept . . . flowed from the assumption that public ownership was essential to prevent private individuals from asserting

monopolistic rights [that] would inhibit economic growth.”

So, really, the water and land below the high-tide mark belongs to you and I, the citizens who make up the great state of North Carolina—not to any one of us more than any other, no matter the wealth.

So, if I wanted to (and I have always wanted to do this), my working-class butt could paddle up to private Figure Eight Island on my battered old kayak, land on the beach at low tide, and grill hot dogs all day, until the water lapped around my ankles. Essentially, there isn’t a damn thing any millionaire could say about it.

Mr. Pearson provided encore with public documents from the Register of Deeds, which clearly showed that “any portion of [Dr. Goudarzi’s property] which may reside below the mean high water line… is excluded.” He also found a letter from the DMF, which states an interest in a previous shellfish lease claim at the site expired in 1998, which makes it fair game. Also worth a mention: There have been shellfish leases in various locales behind Masonboro Island for more than 100 years.

Perhaps complaints about their property views can be dismissed as the whining of the wealthy—or an advanced onset of Mufasa syndrome (i.e., thinking they own “everything the light touches”). But it might be fair to recognize them as a form of NIMBY-ism (Not In My Back Yard). All the homeowners I’ve spoken with, including Dr. Goudarzi, have been adamant they love oysters and have nothing against the farmers themselves.

But let’s dig a little deeper. It isn’t just happening here. More people are moving to the coasts country-wide, and more waterfront prop-

This point was brought up by the NC Marine Fisheries Commission during their meeting on Valentine’s Day, held to discuss, among other things, potential resolutions for oyster lease conflicts. Anne Deaton and Mike Rowan, who coordinate the shellfish-leasing program, recognized there is a struggle for what little space is available for grow-out. Much of the waters in the county are off limits because they are already closed for shellfish harvesting, due to pollution (like sewage spills and runoff caused by development) or part of the protected estuarine research reserve of Masonboro Island.

The leases also must be compatible with existing public trust uses, according to Deaton.

MFC director Stephen Murphey commented on the challenges of regulating the new industry, especially during a time of explosive growth. “It’s like trying to fix a car while it’s speeding down the interstate,” he said.

Many people getting into the new leases, he said, weren’t in the “traditional commercial fishing community,” but were entrepreneurial, looking at oyster farms more as business investments. The potential for litigation from homeowners complaining about spoiled views, he added, also have the capacity to overwhelm the existing program. “But the job of the board,” he said, “is to promote agriculture in ways conducive with other activities.”

Potential solutions to disputes like the one behind Masonboro included the establishment of a board as a “prior administrative remedy” to the appeal for contested cases; create a hold on leases until a UNC Policy Collaboratory finishes developing their statewide shellfish aquaculture plan, due at the end of this year; and condition new leases maintain a minimum clearance at mean low water, to reduce navigation hazards.

It looks like Pearson’s farm will have to wait a little longer. After discussion, the board passed a motion, 8-1, to “temporarily stop issuing shellfish leases and accepting shellfish-lease applications from Bogue Sound south until the division can fully assess safety concerns and other regulatory needs and report back to the commission at its May 2018 meeting.”

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BIG BAND, BIG VOICES:

Postmodern Jukebox’s LaVance Colley highlights the talent and songs heading to Wilson Center any given time. Each singer has their own repertoire, so it can be difficult for Bradlee to design a set list for each particular tour.

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“I

love mixing different genres together to make a completely new sound for my audience to hear,” soulful singer LaVance Colley. Colley is one of many performers of Postmodern Jukebox, the brainchild of pianist and arranger Scott Bradlee.

For years after studying jazz at the University of Hartford, Bradlee experimented with ragtime and jazz arrangements of pop tunes from the ‘80s (and even recorded some selfreleased digital albums) and started posting these experimentations on YouTube in 2009.

Since, Postmodern Jukebox’s big-band has played swinging takes on well-known radio hits in contemporary pop, rock and all genres in between.

Colley joined Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ) after a former musical director, Todd Schroder, called him in to emcee and tour with the growing family of performers three years ago. “At that time I had never even heard of the group,” he admits, “but I quickly did my research, and decided to say ‘yes.’ The first show I did was completely sold out, with over 3,000 in attendance, and I thought to myself, I can get use to this!” (laughs)

BIG COVER CONCEPTS: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox is coming down to Wilmington’s Wilson Center for a one-night show. Photo by Gregg Braverijah.

they stand firmly apart from their original versions. Unique twists and turns get constructed, such as in “Halo.” Bradlee wrote and arranged a bass piano intro and Colley added different nuances to the chorus, such as the doo-woppish, “I pray you won’t fade away / Postmodern Jukebox’s last release of Halo, hey / Halo, halo, halo / Halooooooo.” songs in “The Essentials” features hits by “We felt it made the song our own,” Colley Miley Cyrus, Radiohead, Beyoncé, OutKast and more—all performed in a mashup of vin- tells. “It really is a 50/50 process.” tage swing, doo-wop, soul and blues. Their Colley’s high tenor easily goes up a few 2018 tour will bring them to CFCC’s Wilson octaves for a finish worthy of Queen B. Center for a one-night run Thursday.

Aside from his work with PMJ, Colley also While Colley’s artistic style would normally released an a cappella cover of Whitney differ from PMJ’s world of big-band stan- Houston’s “I Have Nothing” on YouTube. dards, he loves the blending of genres and Colley travels the world with PMJ, along mixing urban music with electronic and soul. with roughly rotating 50 vocalists and musiColley started his tenure with a rendition of cians these days. Together, they build gran“Halo” by Beyoncé—which was an instant diose cover concepts from humble beginsuccess and now approaches 5 million views nings at Bradlee’s home. Each artist comes on YouTube. with a list of potential songs to sing. The trick “At first I didn’t like what we came up with is each artist and Bradlee putting their PMJ for the song,” he admits. “I actually came to mark on what works.

Scott’s house with a list of songs to sing, and “We will literally sing through all of the we were both thinking I was going to sing songs and [Bradlee] will change the songs ‘Unbreak My Heart’ by Toni Braxton, but we on the spot to give it his PMJ style,” Colley both decided to try ‘Halo’ a second time after says. “Whatever song we decide sounds singing through my list. . . . I am still thinking best is the song we choose to record and put about trying to do ‘Unbreak My Heart.’ I think out on his YouTube channel. Sign, sealed, it would be great to add into the set somedelivered!” time. I think the song would resonate with a PMJ has seen upward of 70 different perlot of people; it’s just so epic!” formers in its tenure. Depending on who joins While hits remain comfortably recognizthe cast, songs are switched and changed at able for audiences, PMJ plays the covers so

Currently, audiences will hear old classics with modern updates, such as Sara Niemietz’s version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.”

“It’s absolutely breathtaking,” Colley says. “Vonzell Solomon sings the hell out of ‘Every Breath You Take’ by The Police. She makes the song sound authentic and soulful.

She is a powerhouse. We also have newcomer, Olivia Kuper Harris, who sings ‘Last Friday Night’ by Katy Perry—and when I tell you she is a true jazz vocalist, and sings that song as if Ella Fitzgerald is on stage, it’s jaw-droppingly beautiful to hear!”

and misses with PMJ’s concept. While Dani Armstrong’s (a.k.a. Jack Dani) version of “This Love” by Maroon 5 was a red-hot hit with Latin vibes tingling through vintage jazz tones and horns, Katy Perry’s “Hot n Cold” didn’t sit well with Colley’s voice.

“We wound up changing the song to ‘Forget You’ by Cee Lo Green,” he remembers, “and that song is super fun to do live.”

DETAILS:

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

Thursday, Feb. 22 Doors: 7 p.m.; Show: 8 p.m.

CFCC Wilson Center 703 N. Third St. Tickets: $35 – $65 cfcc.edu/capefearstage/postmodern-jukebox

Nevertheless, Colley admits there are hits

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FULL OF LOVE:

Mike Adams and friends come together to release two-disc ‘Belly Full of Songs’ that night and leaving her husband nothing better to do than write another song.

BY: LINDA GRATTAFIORI

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“Falling Out the Mountains” says romance puts you in a better mood. It is interpreted by the illustrious blues musician, Randy McQuay, who’s won copious awards, including the 2015 International Blues Challenge Winner and the 2012 Lee Oskar Harmonica Award.

n Thursday evening The Annex at Brooklyn Arts Center will host Renaissance man Mike Adams’ release of “Belly Full of Songs.” An accomplished and revered musician in his own right, Adams invited several local and regional artists to sing almost three dozen songs his deceased father inspired him to write. Samuel G. Adams was a big contributor to Good Shepherd Ministries and Nourish NC, so the concert’s “love donations” will benefit both charities.

“Our aim was to capture the idea that these organizations are dealing with hunger issues,” Jean Dobbs Fonvielle says of the title “Belly Full of Songs.” “Music itself is a nourishing form of art.”

Covering most genres and forms of the human condition, “Belly...” has 27 tunes on two CDs. Adams has played and written songs for 50 years—from the time he was rocking around with his buddies in garage bands to present day. But in 2007, after caring for his father until death, Adams had a dream.

“I was going to have 10 different groups sing 10 different songs,” he explains. “But when Woody (Dobson) and I got together, he said, ‘What about the dog? What about the rocking chair?’ So it took 10 years, and we ended up with 27 songs.”

Adams was concerned each artist/group would all want to sing the same song, but Kelly Jewell, co-owner of Ted’s Fun on the River, reminded them how many musicians have different tastes. “‘Belly Full of Songs’ is a snapshot of the music scene in Wilmington right now,” he observes.

Adams, too, refuses to be tethered to genre; his CD covers folk, reggae, rock, gospel and blues. They also carry over a range of emotions. Adams gave each group permission to change the lyrics and melodies to suit themselves—and they did.

Both CDs begin and end with the same song “Upper Hand,” about 2012’s Sandy Hook shooting. The first recording, sung

by Kelly, Jesse and Carson Jewell, sounds more hopeful. But Al Hall’s final recording clearly reflects the anguished wail of parents left without their children. As Adams says, “‘Crazy’ still seems to have the upper hand!”

LOVING LYRICS: Mike Adams has penned several songs to honor his father, as well as his wife, Stephanie (above), in ‘Belly Full of Songs.’ Courtesy photo

A piano trill is heard in the next melody, a love song, “I Tried to Tell Me You Weren’t Mine,” by Andy Belinski of Blowing Rock, North Carolina. “I recorded a country polka version of the song,” Belinski says. “It has this tongue-in-cheek, yet hopefully romantic thing about it that caught my ear.”

Another tune, “Life’s Dice,” performed

by Jeff Reid, is about “stormy weather” as it pertains to hard times in marriage: “Remember what you said / You’d be true? / So pack your boots for stormy weather.”

“Mike stressed he wanted my interpretation of ‘Life’s Dice,’” Reid iterates. “I wanted the sound to be lonesome and distant, yet still close enough to touch you in the living room. The harmonica (Reid) and the mandolin (John Fonvielle), hopefully, create the feeling.”

Adams’ wife of 30-plus years, Stephanie, “the only person who has stuck by me,” is the subject of “Guardian.” She was the first choice for director Sandy Errante and the Girls’ Choir of Wilmington (75 performers). Sandy’s husband, Steve, arranged the song for piano.

“The lyrics were kind and gentle, and the melody flowed beautifully,” Errante explains. “In addition, sometimes people refer to our girls in the choir as ‘angels,’ and because the chorus repeatedly refers to the angel, the guardian angel, we felt like this was meant to be.”

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While “Guardian” carries soft angelic tones, “Step Back,” performed by Jerry Powell, is a rock song with lots of synthesized instruments. Overcome at times by his father’s long decline, Adams wrote the lament “Head Above Water,” which is performed by folk musician Kyle Lindley and features harmonica. It’s a theme continued with Stray Local’s rendition of “Desperate.”

Originally about Adams’ grief over losing his father, Hannah Lomas and Jamie Rowen turn the love song into raw passion for one another. Even love songs like “Since Then” feature piano-based blues as only Jim Nelson can play. He sings about times when loved ones have gone away and the aftermath left of feeling alone.

Barry Langston changes the mood with an upbeat take on “Perpetual Smile,” and Laura McLean’s “Santa Marta” describes the time Adams took off to Costa Rica in order to escape his dad. “Everyone in my family was mad at everyone else, and I just had to get away for a while,” Adams says and smiles. “Everything there is me! I can’t stand for my songs to sound alike; each one is different.”

Continuously inspired by his wife, who happens to make a delicious cup of joe, Adams has a tune on the CD called “Coffee.” Acoustic-cello duo The Upstarts and Rogues play the ditty, which follows a loving couple who are very in sync with one another: “You make the coffee, I’ll play guitar.”

Adams and Stephanie attended LEAF Festival awhile back, and unknowingly pitched their tent next door to the drum circle. Steph ending up sleeping in the car

Heavy-hitters continue to appear throughout CDs one and two. Disc one takes a bow with “Sunshine and Sand” by Nina Repeta, Stewart Shaw, Wilson Godwin and Rick Gardner—better known as Nina’s Blues Band. Disc two begins with Al DiMarco’s accordion and the “Sound of Love.” The song stresses the need we all have to be touched. Two other melodies about touching and holding hands round out disc two. The Wolfe Gang (Michael Wolfe) sings “Holding Hands,” and Susan Savia sings an enchanting waltz, “Touch Your Hand.”

Local indie performer Jesse Stockton takes on “It’s All Me.” While Stockton adds his poignant musical style, the ego-driven song is defined by one haunting line: “This walk would be more dangerous / if either one of us knew the meaning of regret.”

“I love Mike so very dearly,” Stockton says. “It was a huge blessing for me to be a part of his album. I can’t wait to see everyone performing in it at BAC!” Adams recorded “Belly Full of Songs” at childhood friend Woody Dobson’s home studio, Hardwood Soundtracks. “When we play our own music, I feel like I’m playing with my brother, heart-to-heart,” Dobson says of his friend.

“I am so very thankful to everyone who gave their time [playing on the CD] for free with love,” Adams adds.

DETAILS:

Belly Full of Songs Album Release

Thursday, Feb. 22, doors at 7 p.m.; show at 7:30 p.m.

The Annex at BAC • 516 N. 4th St. Donations to benefit Good Shepherd and Nourish NC brooklynartsnc.com Dedicated to the memory of Samuel G. Adams, and to honor Stephanie Adams and all the strong women who continue to bless Mike Adams’ life.

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ANTHRACITE SOUL:

JB Boxter brings songs of his hometown to Wrightsville Beach Brewery BY: JESSICA RUSSELL

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orn in the dying coal country of Orwin, Pennsylvania, JB Boxter writes music to honor the working spirits of men and women who remain in the nearly vacant town. Boxter sings of his hometown’s few job opportunities and rising poverty rates to the tune of what he calls “anthracite soul.”

It is a blend of Americana and country, with an emphasis on vocals and storytelling he will bring to Wrightsville Beach Brewery on Feb. 22.

Boxter’s start in music was a little different than other songwriters. Neither parent was a musician, and he did not start playing guitar until he was 17. But he enjoyed listening and singing along to music; The Grateful Dead reeled him in during childhood.

“They had so many influences,” Boxter explains. “They had country and blues and rock ‘n’ roll and improvisational jazz. They were a jam band, but then they had these storytelling songs.”

Boxter’s admiration for storytelling and multi-genre artists would lead him to singers like Jeff Buckley and Ben Harper, who laid the foundation for Boxter’s own sound.

His family provides inspiration, too. Boxter’s father passed away in December 2009 and left behind a broken-hearted son who made it his goal to write music his dad would have liked.

months after graduating, before packing and moving to North Carolina.

songs I would listen to with him. [Music] is a living thing and it’s always there.”

“I had no interest in the place,” Boxter mentions. “Most people are like, ‘When I’m done with school, I’m out of here!’—and I was. I don’t think I realized until years later, when I was writing songs, how much growing up in a place like that really comes back into my songwriting and my music.”

Boxter’s current project is a full-length album he hopes to release in summer 2018. Named for his “Shenandoah” track off of “Carter,” the album will contain new tracks and fresh recordings of old songs.

He will collaborate with Turchi once again and hopes to begin recording in April at The Bomb Shelter in Nashville. A Kickstarter to help fund Boxter’s project will soon be available. More info can be found at www.facebook.com/JBBoxter.

Boxter now returns to his hometown to visit his mother with his 18-month-old son, Jackson, in tow. He realizes why he incorporates the impoverished town so much into his work, too. “It’s almost a way for me to pass it down to my son,” Boxter suggests.

“It’s almost like a self-preservation thing, for my son to see and hear how his dad grew up.”

Boxter, once a full-time history teacher, now works as an educator testing curricula for schools. Carter Charter Community School in Durham actually provided space for Boxter to record his EP, “Carter” (September 2017). Instead of recording songs at a traditional studio, Boxter worked with his friend and collaborator Reed Turchi to create an album in Carter’s assembly hall, during a torrential rainstorm.

“Not long before he passed,” Boxter remembers, “I was in a state of big-time artist’s block. [My dad] was like, ‘Well, you don’t write anything!’ and ‘I just hear you always playing the same cover song. When are you going to write a new song?’ Then he passed away and I wrote 30.”

“I had about 10 to 15 songs I was demoing,” Boxter recounts, “but nothing was turning out right. So I called my friend Reed, and he said he had a handheld field recorder he’d been using to create simple and stripped-down porch recordings of old North Mississippi blues artists who had never recorded songs before. He asked, ‘Do you have a space where we could do that?’ At about 8 or 9 on a Saturday night, we went to my school and set up a chair and mic and recorded them. When I heard them, I thought to myself, This is awesome.”

Boxter’s song “Shenandoah” references the plight his father and other working-class employees suffer in small, rural towns—with long hours at work and little pay. “Shenandoah” is named for a nearby town once booming with life from a successful coal-mining industry, but now it lies dormant. It is where his grandparents grew up and his father was laid to rest. Boxter sings, “My daddy died here . . . and his daddy, too.”

The school assembly hall’s open space allowed for Boxter’s songs to have a natural reverb without any added effects. He also chose to keep any mistakes or vocal hiccups intact on recordings, to maintain authenticity and preserve moments of the night. Much of Boxter’s inspiration stems from such moments. He believes music is the soundtrack of everything and a connecting element for different memories.

Yet the artist would not remain in his dying hometown of Orwin. With only one road in and out, and the closest stoplight 20 minutes away, he needed to experience something larger. At 18 he left for a college three-andhalf hours away, only to return for a few

“I know my son was born at 1:35 p.m.,” Boxter reminisces. “I can also remember Ryan Adams’ ‘Chin Up, Cheer Up’ was playing when he was born. As I get older and forget my dad’s voice a little bit, I can at least remember the songs he would listen to and

DETAILS: JB Boxter

MULTI-GENRE: Singer-songwriter JB Boxter brings his Americana-country blend to Wrightsville Beach Brewery on Feb. 22. Photo by Shannon Lynn Clapp

Feb. 22, 6-9 p.m.

Wrightsville Beach Brewery 6201 Oleander Dr. Free www.facebook.com/JBBoxter

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THURSDAY

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

MONDAY

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THE SOUNDBOARD Comedy in Hell’s (9pm; Free)

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

Open Blues Jam (8pm; Free)

SATURDAY

$3 Fat Tire & Voo Doo $5 Jameson • $2 Tacos Pub Trivia on Tuesday Live music from Rebekah Todd

$3 Miller Lite $4 Deep Eddy Lemon Drop shots $5 Deep Eddy Grapefruit and Soda All floors open

$2.75 Miller Lite • $4 Wells, 1/2 price bottles of wine $2 off a dozen oysters Live music from Jeremy Norris

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WEDNESDAY

EVENTS ACROSS TOWN THIS WEEK

—The Calico Room, 107 S. Front St.

Hooked on Sonics: Experimental & Electronic Sounds (8pm; Free)

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

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22

JB Boxter Live (6pm; Free; Americana)

—Wrightsville Beach Brewery, 6201 Oleander Drive

Open Mic Comedy (7pm; $0-$3)

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Belly Full of Songs Benefit Concert (7pm; Donations) —Brooklyn Arts Center, 516 N. Fourth St.; 910-538-2939

John Toppings ‘Desparado’ (7pm; $3; SingerSongwriter) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Espresso Yourself @ Coffee-oke & Open Mic (7pm; $2) —Morning Glory Coffeehouse, 1415 Dawson St.

Trivia Night w/Party Gras Entertainment (7:30pm; Free) —Fox and Hound, 920 Town Center Drive; 910-509-0805

Trivia from Hell’s (7:30pm; Free)

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

Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (8pm; Free)

—Landfall Country Club, 800 Sun Runner Place

The Werks & Groove Fetish (8:30pm; $15; Funk) —The Calico Room, 107 S. Front St.; 910-762-2091

TreeHouse! Live (10pm; TBD; Rock, Reggae) —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; MY TREE: Brooklyn-based jazz and soul band Maitri (“my tree” in sanskrit) continue their winter tour with a stop at Satellite Bar & Lounge on Feb. 23. Their new full-length album “After Glow” is out now. Courtesy photo.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 Port City Trivia w/Dutch (6:30pm; Free)

—Blossoms Restaurant, 1800 Tommy Jacobs Drive

Trivia Night w/Party Gras Entertainment (7pm; Free)

—Hoplite Pub and Beer Garden, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd.

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Improv Comedy (7pm; $3)

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

Live aura McLean (7pm; $3; Singer-Songwriter) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (7pm; Free)

—Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, 11 Van Campen Blvd.

Jazz Piano with James Jarvis (7pm; Free)

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

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Port City Trio (7pm; $3; Jazz)

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

Justin Cody Fox Live (7pm; TBD; Rock) —Bill’s Front Porch, 4328 Market St.

Cafe Nouveau (7pm; Free; Jazz)

—Platypus & Gnome, 9 S. Front St.

OroborO, Malhound and Bitter, Inc. (8pm; $5; Rock)

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

SIRSY & Pepes Tacos (8pm; Free; Rock) —Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

Piano Jazz (8pm; Free)

—Bottega Art & Wine, 723 N. Fourth St.

COAST Poetry Jam (8pm; $5-$10)

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

The Billy Walton Band (8pm; $7-$10; Blues) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. Fifth Ave.

Paagtheaan, Pathogenesis, Horns of Baphomet, Organ Trail (9pm; $7; Metal) —Reggie’s 42nd St. Tavern, 1415 S. 42nd St.

Rob Ronner (9:30pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter)

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

Kicking Bird + Maitri (9:30pm; TBD; Rock)

—Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.

Parrot Sanctuary Fundraiser with Live Music from The Barefoot Gypsies (3pm; Donations) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; 910-763-2223

Justin Cody Fox Live (4pm; Free; Rock)

—Waterline Brewing Company, 721 Surry St.

Bluegrass Sunday (6pm; Free)

—Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; 910399-2796

Open Mic Night (7pm; $3)

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

Funk You (10pm; TBD)

ACRONYM (7:30pm; $15-$30; Instrumental)

Sundried Vibes and The Gossin Brothers (10pm; TBD; Rock, Reggae)

The Temptations and The Four Tops (7:30pm; $45$130; Blues, Soul)

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.

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

Striking Copper (10pm; TBD; Rock)

—Palm Room, 11 E. Salisbury St.; 910-509-3040

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Sean Gregory Live (3pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Wrightsville Beach Brewery, 6201 Oleander Drive

Rhythm Bones and Allagash Brewing (6pm; Free; Rock, Soul, Blues) —Fermental, 7250 Market St.; 910-821-0362

Soul-R Fusion (7pm; Free)

—Beale Street Barber Shop, 616B Castle St.

Ainsley Short (7pm; $3; Singer-Songwriter) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

—UNCW Beckwith Recital Hall, 5270 Randall Drive

—Wilson Center, 703 N. Third St.

The Balkun Brothers (10pm; Free; Rock) —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.

House Of Dues (8pm; TBD; Blues, Funk) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. Fifth Ave.

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.

Comedy Bingo (6pm; $2)

—Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St. —Sloppy Poppy’s, 4540 Fountain Drive

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

DJ Elementary (10pm; Cover TBD)

—Palm Room, 11 E. Salisbury St.; 910-509-3040

L Shape Lot (9:30pm; TBD; Americana)

—Blossoms Restaurant, 1800 Tommy Jacobs Drive

Port City Trivia w/Dutch (6:30pm; Free)

The Dung Beatles (10pm; TBD; Cover)

Trivia Night w/Party Gras Entertainment (7pm; Free)

Moonwater: A Tribute to Widespread Panic (10pm; TBD; Cover)

Improv Comedy (7pm; $3)

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.

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

Into The Fog (10pm; TBD; Bluegrass)

—Palm Room, 11 E. Salisbury St.; 910-509-3040

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Ed Stephenson (10:30am; $18; Flamenco)

—Blockade Runner Beach Resort, 275 Waynick Blvd.

Wilmington Sacred Harp Singers (1:30pm; Free) —Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th St.; 910-395-5999

Books, Beer & Jazz Piano (3pm; Free)

—Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St.; 910-76-BOOKS

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The Jillettes (7pm; $3; Rock, Pop, Country) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (7pm; Free)

—Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, 11 Van Campen Blvd.

Jazz Piano with James Jarvis (7pm; Free)

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

The Celtic Tenors (7:30pm; $30-$50; Irish, Folk) —Wilson Center, 703 N. Third St.

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

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

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

The Gossin Brothers (9:30pm; Free; Rock)

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

$5 Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas *Drink Specials run all day

Trivia from Hell’s (7:30pm; Free)

The Drum Circle with Drum & Dance Downtown (7:30pm; Free)

—Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

$3.50 Sweet Josie $4 Margaritas

$5 Mimosas $5 Car Bombs

—Buffalo Wild Wings, 140 Hays Lane #B15

Live Music from Randy McQuay (7pm; TBD; Blues) Massive Grass and TGeaux Boys (8pm; Free; Bluegrass)

$3.50 Pint of the Day $4 Fire Ball

$3.50 Sweetwaters $4.50 Absolute Lemonade Cheeseburger & Pint $12

Port City Trivia w/Dutch (7pm; Free)

Chris Frisina Live (7pm; TBD; Singer-Songwriter) —Holiday Inn Resort, 1706 N. Lumina Ave.

WEDNESDAY

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26

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DISCOVER NEW MUSIC AT 98.3 THE PENGUIN PLAYLIST SAMPLE:

DOUBLE DUTY: Diet Cig makes two stops in North Carolina this month at the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte on Feb. 26 and Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro on Feb. 27. Photo by Nick Grennon.

NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE NORTH DAVIDSON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 358-9298 2/22: Brandy Clark and Maggie Rose 2/23: The Steeldrivers, Kieran Kayne and more 2/26: Diet Cig, Great Grandpa and more 3/1: Choir! Choir! Choir!

3/2: Joan Oates and The Good Road Band 3/3: Tab Benoit, Jeff McCarty and Eric Johanson THE FILLMORE 820 HAMILTON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 916-8970 2/22: Molotov 2/25: AWOLNATION 3/2: Face 2 Face THE UNDERGROUND-FILLMORE 820 HAMILTON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 916-8970 2/22: Emancipator Ensemble 2/23: Mako 3/1: Lotus 3/6: Missio MOTORCO MUSIC HALL 723 RIGSBEE AVE., DURHAM, NC (919) 901-0875 2/22: Driftwood 2/26: Aubrey Logan 2/28: Cris Jacobs 3/1: Alsarah and The Nubatones 3/2: Ellis Dyson & The Shambles and more 3/3: Choir! Choir! Choir!

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 123 VIVIAN ST. DURHAM, NC (919) 688-3722 2/23: Rain

LINCOLN THEATRE 126 E. CABARRUS ST., RALEIGH, NC (919) 821-4111 2/23: Emancipator Ensemble and Flamingosis 2/24: Weekend Excursion and Kasey Tyndall 2/25: Eric Johnson and Arielle 2/28: Railroad Earth and Roosevelt Collier Trio 3/2: Jazz is PHSH 3/3: Lotus and Marvel Years CAT’S CRADLE 300 E. MAIN ST., CARRBORO, NC (919) 967-9053 2/21: Pedro the Lion and Marie/Lepanto 2/22: Lights, Chase Atlantic and DCF 2/22: Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams (back) 2/24: Andrea Gibson and Chastity Brown 2/24: Caleb Caudle and Jake Xerxes Fussell (back) 2/26: PopUp Chorus 2/27: Diet Cig, Great Grandpa and more (back) 3/1: Quinn XCII 3/1: Mark Holland (back) THE ORANGE PEEL 101 BILTMORE AVE., ASHEVILLE, NC (828) 398-1837 2/21: Maitri, Shane Parish and Millie Palmer 2/22: AJR, Grizfolk and Hundred Handed 2/23: Natural Born Leaders, Window Cat and more 2/26: Window Lake, Æsoterra and more 2/28: Washed Out 3/1: Railroad Earth and Roosevelt Collier Trio 3/2: Chaos Among Cattle and more HOUSE OF BLUES - MYRTLE BEACH 4640 HWY 17 S, NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (843) 272-3000 2/24: K. Michelle 3/2: Scotty McCreery

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FANTASY, MAGIC AND DREAMS:

Best Of 2018 benefits the experiential learning at DREAMS Center for Arts Education

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BY: SHEA CARVER

s Wilmington’s premier magazine for arts in town, encore prides its community partnership we have culled over the years with local nonprofit DREAMS Center for Arts Education. 2018 will mark the third year DREAMS has been the beneficiary of encore’s annual Best Of Wilmington awards party, held on Sat., Feb. 24, and hosted by local comedy troupe PineappleShaped Lamps at North Fourth’s Street Brooklyn Arts Center. The relationship is simpatico: They rear generations of kids in need of mentorship in the arts; we celebrate all the arts do to keep our port city creatively engaging every week “We’re outside the box, thinking about the arts these days,” says Matt Carvin, executive director of DREAMS. “‘Arts’ is very broad.”

Take their “Arts of Nature and Container Gardening,” for example, led by Mike Johnson. Johnson showed the kids how to build raised beds to grow their own food. The outcome for DREAMS students and the whole northside district of downtown Wilmington, where DREAMS is located, will be about 300 pounds of food given to residents in the surrounding food desert.

“In the event of an apocalypse, master gardener Mike Johnson is the guy you want by your side,” Carvin quips. “He knows everything: how to build anything, how to take space and turn it into opportunity. That’s what DREAMS is about, ultimately. “ In addition to kids learning skills—ranging from traditional classes, like dance, pottery, painting, to nontraditional ones, like podcasting, vlogging, murals—Carvin hopes they learn ways to apply ideas to real-life.

An important one is how to overcome challenges.

“The gardening class shows how you can break generational poverty,” Carvin tells. “If they can’t buy it, grow it yourself. Learn the solution. The kids saw Mike get inspections and permits to build the beds—to do what it takes to problem-solve. When kids see that firsthand, it trickles down. Next thing ya know, a C-plus becomes a B-plus becomes an A-plus. It’s really about hope.”

DREAMS just celebrated two decades of working with at-risk youth by providing highquality, free-of-charge programming in the literary, visual, multimedia and performing

arts. They have proven themselves successful with a 99-percent rate of DREAMERS who go on to college or join the military.

Murrill, and choreographer Kevin Lee-y Green. DREAMS teachers do outreach community work as well with schools like GLOW and DC Virgo.

Aside from engaging in various unique ideas in arts, whether through Lego classes and hopefully in the future taking 3D printing classes, Carvin says they’re goal now is to focus on experiential learning. They want to teach a kid how to sculpt or draw, play a guitar or make jewelry, but then they want to connect the dots between the fun of creating and the reality of having a careers in arts.

“We are hosting field trips right now, teaching and showing students examples of other artists making a living,” Carvin says. They have visited Mayfaire’s Lumina Gems, wherein a jewelry line, Revolve, was created specifically with proceeds going to DREAMS. Founder Brad Bass started it from the ground up as a jeweler, and after Carvin toured the facility and saw the equipment and this gentleman making a career for himself, a light bulb went off.

“It’s a very attainable career,” Carvin says.

“Here is a guy doing it, who has experienced all the scary and exciting possibilities of starting a career that’s in arts. Our kids can learn from this . . . it’s about entrepreneurship and arts, taking the final step to connecting the two, so they’re not just fancy dreams in youth.”

DREAMS students will tour the North Carolina School of the Arts for a week-long field trip to experience firsthand how to mold the drive and passion for success in the arts.

They also have a local ongoing partnership with CFCC’s Wilson Center, which brings in professional touring musicians, dancers, actors, and such, to work directly with the kids as part of a masters class.

“Last Sunday we did Urban Bush Women,” Carvin tells of the Brooklyn-based dance troupe. Wilson Center provides DREAMS students tickets to various shows but then it goes one step further. Urban Bush Women visited a DREAMS dance class to see what students were working on and offer advice on their craft.

“They send superstars to DREAMS as mentors,” Carvin emphasizes. “And students are hearing about what that life is like and how they can attain it. They see firsthand how they can get it.”

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ART TO ART: DREAMS staff and students meet four times a week for various arts classes. Photo by Holland Dotts

Aside from teaching kids artistic skills and then showing them how to make a living from it, the financial challenges to pursue it sometimes looms. DREAMS hopes to sidestep worries as well. They have started fellowships to help with the funding piece of the puzzle. “We help them pay for college,” Carvin tells. “$2k can go a long way to help with their books and other tools.” They also assist the kids in filling out FAFSA forms, nailing their auditions, and working with their coaches.

“It’s really paying off,” Carvin continues.

“We’re seeing results: a kid will go to college, we will send them a check for $2k, and hear back they’re doing great. Hopefully, they will want to keep in touch, and down the road, if they come back, they can become a teaching artist for the next generation.”

DREAMS works with traditional students, offering four classes a week for two age groups: 8-10 and 11-17. Kids take cumulative classes each semester—two days focusing on, say, comic-strip drawing, and the other two on, say, radio broadcasting.

DREAMS is currently at capacity, serving 150 students afterschool. They also added a homeschool program this semester during the day, wherein they’re serving 40 students.

Students also get an opportunity from numerous community partnerships that utilize the performing arts venue, Garage at DREAMS, which is in full swing and booked practically every weekend throughout the year.

“It’s an arts incubator, certainly,” Carvin says. Take for instance Dram Tree Shakespeare, which hosted their production of “Comedy of Errors” at DREAMS. “Our kids learn set-building by sitting in with these folks setting up their shows,” Carvin notes. “Instead of just teaching kids theatre, now we have production companies coming in and working with them—to show them, and then they get connections.”

Saturday DREAMS welcomes the community to celebrate encore’s 2018 Best Of. Hosts will be funny folks Pineapple-Shaped Lamps, with music from Striking Copper, along with food and raffles from Best Of nominees. A costume contest will take place for the best female and male who dress in medieval, fantasy, Renaissance, or sorcerylike attire (think “Game of Thrones,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Harry Potter,” etc.).

Advance tickets are on sale for $15 through Saturday morning; $20 at the door.

Proceeds from the event will send 150 kids to DREAMS’ summer camp. That’s something worth celebrating.

DETAILS:

Best of 2018 Awards Party to benefit DREAMS Center for Arts Education

Brooklyn Arts Center, 516 N. 4th St. Tickets: $15 adv/$20 day of Comedy from Pineapple-Shaped Lamps, music from Striking Copper, food and raffles from best-of nominees, costume contest, Eight to 10 students fill each classroom and tons of awards! for one-on-one experience with their teachwww.encoredeals.com ing artist and a volunteer. There are 30-40 teaching artists every year, such as community stalwarts like sculptor Michael Van Hout, paper artist Fritzi Huber, saxophonist Darryl

WHAT’S HANGING AROUND THE PORT CITY

GALLERYGUIDE ARTEXPOSURE!

22527 Highway 17N, Hampstead, NC (910) 803-0302 (910) 330-4077 Tues. - Sat. 10am - 5pm (or by appt.) www.artexposure50.com The public is invited to a one man show “Escape into Plein Air” featuring Robert Rigsby.

The show will highlight oil paintings from Rob’s 6 month trip visiting all fifty national parks. Rob also wrote a book about his journey and it is available under the same name on Amazon.

On Saturday November 10, we will host an Open House from 11 am-4 pm. Join us and see artists working, as well as a live model.

The public is invited to paint or draw from the model. Just bring your own supplies or visit our art supply store. This is our kick-off to the holiday season and there will be fun and refreshments.

ART IN BLOOM GALLERY

210 Princess St. Tues. - Sat. 10am - 6pm (or by appt., Sun. and Mon.) (484) 885-3037 www.aibgallery.com Established in October 2015, Art in Bloom Gallery is in a renovated 19th century horse stable in historic downtown Wilmington. The gallery presents an eclectic mix of original paintings, ceramics, sculpture, blown glass, stained-glass mosaics, photography, mobiles, jewelry, limited-edition prints, and mixed media by established and emerging artists. The featured art exhibit, “Synergy: Art by Catherine Porter Brown and Jeff Brown” continues through Saturday, March 10, 2018. View Jeff Brown’s found-object art plus luminous dreamscapes and portraits by Catherine Porter Brown, a classically trained oil painter. Art in Bloom Gallery is open until 9 pm on Fourth Friday Gallery Nights.

ART OF FINE DINING

www.aibgallery.com In addition to our gallery at 210 Princess Street, Art in Bloom Gallery partners with local restaurants and Checker Cab productions to exhibit original art in other locations. The following exhibits continue through Dec. 2017.

“Contemporary Art by Stephanie Mobbs Deady” with mixed media at Platypus & Gnome Restaurant, 9 South Front Street.

“Southern Embrace: New Art by Debra Bucci” with oil paintings at The District Kitchen and Cocktails,1001 N. 4th Street.

“Empty Faces and Abstract Spaces by Joan McLoughlin” with paintings at Pinpoint Restaurant,114 Market Street..

CHARLES JONES AFRICAN ART

311 Judges Rd., Unit 6-E cjart@bizec.rr.com (910) 794-3060 Mon. – Fri. 10am - 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm - 4 pm Open other hours and weekends by appointment www.cjafricanart.com African art: Museum quality African Art from West and Central Africa. Traditional African art for the discerning collector.

Cureent Exhibition: Yoruba beadwork and Northern Nigerian sculpture. Appraisal services, curatorial services and educational exhibitions also available.

Over 30 years experience in Tribal Arts. Our clients include many major museums.

EXPO 216

216 N. Front St, Wilmington, NC (910) 769-3899 Wed. – Sun., Noon – 6 PM www.expo216.com Over 5,000 square feet in historic downtown of thought-provoking art and fashions! Expo 216’s one-year expositions are theme-driven: currently addressing Death & Dying . Works by local artists, Joan McLoughlin, Niki Hildebrand, Chad Starling, and many more will intrigue you.

Fashions such as Flatliner and The Cyclist’s Widow will stun you. Exhibits, such as The History of Funeral Care and Mourning Practices, provide an educational element. Expo 216 is a supporter of the Wilmington music scene and provides live music during the Fourth Friday Gallery Night. Expo 216 is a 501(c)3 non-profit.

prints available for purchase. Open daily from noon to six.

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. 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 Mon.- Sat. 10am - 5pm www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com Sunset River Marketplace showcases work by approximately 150 North and South Carolina artists, and houses some 10,000 square feet of oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels,

mixed media, art glass, fabric art, pottery, sculpture, turned and carved wood and artisan-created jewelry. There are two onsite kilns and four wheels used by students in the ongoing pottery classes offered by the gallery.

A custom framing department is available.

There are realistic and abstract art classes as well as workshops by nationally and regionally known artists.

WILMA W. DANIELS GALLERY

200 Hanover St. (bottom level, parking deck) Mon.-Fri., noon-5pm http://cfcc.edu/danielsgallery The Wilma Daniels Gallery will be hosting works from the No Boundaries International Art Colony, commemorating it’s 20th anniversary. Alumni artists include Sergej Adreevski, Fritzi Huber, Eric Lawing, Luc Marelli, Innocent Nkurunziza, Gonul Nughoglu, Gerlinde Pistner, Dick Robers, Arrow Ross, Lone Seeberg, Pamela Toll, Gayle Tustin, and Barbara Anne Thomas. Opening reception: Nov. 18, 6-9pm; alumni reception, Dec. 1, 6-9pm; closing reception, Dec. 22, 6-9pm.

NEW ELEMENTS GALLERY

271 N. Front St. (919) 343-8997 Tues. - Sat.: 11am - 6pm (or by appt.) www.newelementsgallery.com “Time & Place” features ceramic work from YiFenn Strickland and mixed media paintings

by Shelia Keefe Ortiz. Both of these Wilmington artists masterfully create striking work from soft, organic forms.

New Elements has been offering the best of regional and national fine art and craft since 1985. We invite you to learn more about the artists we represent, featured exhibitions, and gallery news. We regularly update the work available online, so return often to view our many different selections if you can’t drop into the gallery.

PEACOCK FINE ART

224 S. Water St. #1A • (910) 254-4536 Monday through Sunday, noon - 6 p.m. www.peacocksfineart.com.

Adjacent to the River to Sea gallery, Features paintings by Wilmington based plein air painter Jim Bettendorf. Local scenes of Wilmington and surrounding areas cover the walls.

Original oil paintings and a selection of giclée

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SPECTACULARLY TERRIFYING: Second Stage’s ‘Murder Ballad’ is highlight of productions this weekend BY: GWENYFAR ROHLER

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obin Heck saunters through the door of North Front Theater, starts the jukebox, and turns to face the audience. It is the opening of “Murder Ballad,” Second Star Theatre Company’s new musical, and it is clear she has a story to tell. It’s also clear she is up to no good. The 2012 musical by Juliana Nash and Julia Jordan chronicles the age-old love triangle ... or does it? Heck assures it does, but she also makes us wonder if she is trustworthy. Already things are interesting.

Heck is the narrator of “Murder Ballad,” which seems to be about a young dissolute couple, Sara (Kire Stinson) and Tom (Beau Mumford). Tom is the original bad boy, whose greatest aspiration in life is to own his own bar, but if that doesn’t work out, a little bit of sadistic control of the peo-

ple around him will suit him just fine.

In “I Love NY” we watch these two party kids escape daylight for the dark world of alcoholism and sex. As Mumford slowly reveals the ever-more-violent and controlling side of Tom, Sara begins to shrink away until one day she literally bumps into Michael (Jay Zadeh), an NYU student with a love of literature and a kind heart. He always envisioned himself as a knight in shining armor and now here is a maiden in distress. With “Troubled Mind/Promises,” we get to watch the sweet, kind man act out his fantasy, and a distressed young woman start to develop the idea that love isn’t necessarily painful and terrifying.

They marry, move into a nice apartment in a nice neighborhood and have a beautiful little girl, Frankie. Things are so normal, they’re almost idyllic. Then the housewife discovers she doesn’t know what to do with herself when Frankie starts school. In “Coffee,” we start to see the fraying of the edg-

es. Stinson’s Sara isn’t so happy with family life: having to get up every morning and get a kid ready for school. What happened to her wild nights? To the sense of excitement? To partying? Inevitably, she doesn’t appreciate or value her new life enough and finds herself walking in the door of Tom’s bar. Everyone except Sara seems to know the likelihood of her escaping this situation alive is incredibly slim. She’s playing with fire and part of her craves it.

As the narrator tells us in the beginning, someone is gonna die. The question is: Who?

Stinson’s Sara is particularly mind-boggling. Her voice is stunning—absolutely stunning—but she brings very little to the table of the relationship with either of these men. Michael wants to protect her, and Tom wants to control her. Outside of that, she’s not appealing as a person—a habitual drunk who is selfish and self-destructive.

Director David Heck assembled a great cast and talented team to give life and depth to the script. Since it is a sung-through musical, as in the music doesn’t stop for 10 “I wouldn’t even want to take an elevator minutes of dialogue (think “Les Mis”), cho- ride with her,” my date commented. I have reographer Kevin Lee-y Green has the to agree. challenge of making the visual component To her credit, Stinson commits to all of of the story comprehensible.

Sara’s motivation, but doesn’t try to make The shifting power dynamics onstage her a hero or even someone worthy of the are really important to understand the plot, redemption Michael offers her time and and make the unfolding of the human heart time again. If she did, the climax of the and deeper reaches of psychology believ- show wouldn’t work. able. Music director Billy Heathen (who is Watching both Mumford and Zadeh dethe guitarist) has assembled a rockin’ band scend into two poles of madness over a (Paul Miller on keyboard, Matthew Marino woman is interesting. The obsessive nature on bass, and Phil Covington on drums); of this kind of situation is really scary. I kept they capture a range of young excitement, thinking about how well they dramatize the from sweeping love ballads to blinding pas- process of spiraling from a perfectly calm, sion. Actually, the balance between the normal person—who goes to work and band and singers is really great because takes care of the kids—to someone prewe can still understand the singers who are pared to kill another person. Everyone on telling the story, but the band is rockin’ out stage goes through the transformation on and putting on a great show, too. So often some level. When the climax comes, it is it feels like audiences get one or the other a genuine toss-up which one is going to be in a musical, but here both work in concert the victim. and it is awesome. Talk about great voices!

“Murder Ballad” hits on all cylinders. DiAll four performers can sing and put on a rector David Heck should be very pleased great show! with the show and what he and his team Watching Zadeh’s Michael brings to mind have brought to the stage. The cast really a young Anthony Lawson back in the hey- sell it without spoiling the climax. I would day of City Stage: a bearded, singing, won- go see it again just to listen to them sing der-mining depth and nuance from witty lyr- the score. ics. Mumford’s Tom is genuinely scary, to watch his transition from interested young

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lover to stalking psychopath. I haven’t seen him sing a solo onstage since he played Seymour in “Little Shop of Horrors” at the Browncoat. His growth as a performer and his confidence onstage are really remarkable. Perhaps what makes his Tom the most terrifying is his relatability. As my date said, “I know all those people—and I don’t what to be around any of them.”

DETAILS:

Murder Ballad

Feb. 23-25, 8 p.m.

Tickets: $15-$20 Front Street Theatre 21 N. Front St., Fifth Floor #501 (910) 833-5751

ARTS>>THEATRE

CREATIVELY UNIQUE:

UNCW theatre presents a modern update on 16th century ‘Dr. Faustus’ BY: GWENYFAR ROHLER

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irector Christopher Marino of UNCW’s theatre department tackles a new take on Christopher Marlowe’s 16th century “Dr. Faustus.” For the production, Marino collaborated with local composer Adrian Varnam to set Marlowe’s blank-verse drama to music.

Marino opens the evening with a curtain speech and notes, for the most part, UNCW doesn’t do curtain speeches. However, his rendition of “Dr. Faustus” really warrants a bit of context. He’s right; the experimental nature of the production—which meshes Elizabethan and modern theatre—is unusual. Wilmington’s audiences are seeing a particular script and score for the first time on stage.

Scenic designer Randall Enlow has taken the unique blending as a guiding principal. The traditional balcony for the orchestra found in Elizabethan and Jacobian theatre is paired with a raked center platform. Farther forward—and sometimes masking the elements—are a series of sliding screens filled with projected images, and for a pivotal scene, a shadow play. Extreme stage right we see Dr. Faustus’ desk piled with books, a skull and the tools of his trade as a philosopher. It is clear we are in a world of mystery, shadow and mysticism.

The show opens with a prologue by the prophet (Darien Faison); he is essentially the chorus of the production. Think of Derek Jacobi’s role in Branagh’s “Henry V” similar to what Faison is tasked with: Explain the exposition to the audience in a compelling and comprehensible way. Unlike Jacobi, he has to do so while singing a solo before a live audience.

We meet Dr. Faustus (Tommy Goodwin), a young man whose thirst and greed exceed the bounds of the physical world.

Let’s say he has fallen in with a bad crowd.

First he’s got Valdes (Savannah Dougherty) and Cornelius (Trevor Tackett), two local occult practitioners tempting him with the possibilities of what he can achieve with magic. Then there are two angels sitting on his shoulders: good angel (Madeline Boltinghouse) and bad (Naswana Moon)—both of whom argue for his very soul. Valdes and Cornelius pull off some remarkable work with German accents in singing and story-

telling. They get a lot of laughs for their portrayal of German performance artists—kind of like more serious and satanic versions of Mike Myers and Dana Carvey’s Sprockets from “Saturday Night Live.”

When Faustus summons Mephistopheles (Sarah Kilgore), it gets really interesting. He is faced with a legitimate crossing of the rubicon. Mephistopheles demands he sign over his soul to Lucifer (Michael Pipicella) on a scroll written in his own blood. With the enticement of Kilgore’s Mephistopheles, Goodwin’s Faustus transforms. He seems to need someone to play off of—the difference between his monologues and interaction with her are like night and day.

Kilgore is tempting, taunting and demanding. The possibility of willingly following her into eternal damnation is completely believable—and Goodwin goes in spite of numerous warnings to the contrary.

Pipicella’s Lucifer is a captivating blend of Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart at the height of both of their popularity. It’s a boogie-woogie televangelist, who will steal your soul and charm you to hell. Between he and Kilgore, there needs to be a warning sign of some kind to unsuspecting souls.

program, and to that end, this is far outside of the experience for many students who are trying something new for the first time. Most of them are singing solos. Moreover, they are singing new music—a challenge for all performers to learn. Varnam has set a lot of the text directly to music, so it doesn’t have the structure an individually written song does, with lyrics created specifically for a certain piece of music. The lyrics are part of a larger text, and so it makes the storytelling elements a different challenge than a traditional musical.

In fact, audiences should not approach the show expecting a Kander and Ebb or Rodgers and Hammerstein experience, with soaring voices like powerhouses Kendra Goering-Garrett or Heather Setzler give on the local scene. This is a different ball of wax entirely. Adrian Varnam scored the entire show so there is incidental music, there are sound effects produced by the band, and then there are the songs. Varnam incorporates a lot of

musical elements of the 16th and 17th centuries but he doesn’t make the entire show sound like “Greensleeves” (thankfully). It is raucous, loud and intense. Valdes and Cornelius sound like German synth pop. No doubt the music manifests a lot of the characters’ struggles.

In many ways, this first run of Marino and Varnam’s “Dr. Faustus” seems more of a workshop of entirely new material rather than a revival of a classic play. It is very creative and experimental.

DETAILS: Dr. Faustus

Feb. 22-25; 8 p.m. or Sun., 2 p.m.

Mainstage Theatre in UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building 601 S. College Rd. Tickets: $6-$15 uncw.edu/arts/tickets

Marino has an amazing sense for successful visual theatre—so much so the choices for who the Seven Deadly Sins (Bailey Watkins, Josh Browner, John Williams, Maddie Brien, Nick Raeff, Zachary Beehler, Jack Towner) appear to be is quite a poignant choice for our day and age. Audiences who saw Marino’s rendition of “Measure for Measure” as a protest against HB2 will see his visual choice continues in using theatre as a form of statement and protest. It is an interesting update and really does put the presence of the sins in our daily lives in clear context. How quickly and easily can we slide into each of these mistakes?

On that note, in the second half, when Sean Owens’ Pretender appears to engage with his fellow plotters, what we get visually is unmistakable. Marino and costumer Mark Sorensen paint a picture we have all seen many times in the last year and it is visceral.

Owens gives a frightening rendition to clearly show he is committed to his course of action—and how easily it is for one to fall into.

What Marino succeeds in communicating with the scenes is incredible in its detail and visual power.

UNCW isn’t primarily a musical theatre

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TALE OF LOVE, JAZZ AND TRAGEDY:

Larry Reni Thomas talks exclusive interview featured in ‘I Called Him Morgan’

BY: SHANNON RAE GENTRY

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ournalists are often inundated with story pitches and breaking-news cycles, or tracking down their own leads.

Then there are times when writers catch lightning in a bottle, interviews or scoops which have lasting impact on their careers and others’ lives. Larry Reni Thomas, a Wilmington native, landed a lead in 1989 after meeting Helen Morgan—common-law wife of jazz trumpeter and composer Lee Morgan. Helen murdered Lee on Feb. 19, 1972, at a jazz club in New York City.

“When she told me she was Lee Morgan’s wife, I asked her for an interview because I knew it would be of historical significance,” Thomas recalls. “I am a historian with an M.A. in history. I was teaching Western civilization at Shaw University CAPE in Wilmington when I met Ms. Morgan. She was one of my students. . . . Nobody knew her side of the story.”

The two-hour interview, recorded at Mor-

gan’s Wilmington home in February 1996, has since been a major resource for Thomas’ work, including an article “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan” (2007); a short radio documentary, “The Helen Morgan Radio Project” (2007), aired on WCOMFM, 103.5 FM, Chapel Hill-Carrboro; and a book Thomas penned in 2014, also called “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan.”

Thomas grew up listening to what he refers to as the “most sophisticated music in the world.” He listened to famed artists and composers, such as pianist Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and more before he even knew or appreciated masters of the craft.

“By the way, I don’t call it ‘jazz’ (short for jackass),” he quips. “I call it ‘American classical music.’ My father, Rodderick Harold Thomas, was a mailman who, when he came home from work, would put ‘jazz’ on the record player. . . . We didn’t like the music then (we called it ‘old folks music’), but when I matured, in graduate school at UNC-Chapel Hill, I learned to appreciate it.”

“[The interview] went worldwide,” Thomas continues. “[Then] a filmmaker in Sweden named Kasper Collin read it and contacted me. He wanted a copy; I sent it to him. Later, he used it in a film.”

The 2016 documentary, “I Called Him Morgan” (icalledhimmorgan.com), about the life, times and death of Lee Morgan, uses Thomas’ audio to help narrate the film alongside others interviewed to tell the ill-fated story. The documentary has been shown at major film festivals across the globe, from Venice to Telluride, Toronto to New York, Paris to London. Timed with Black History Month and presented as part of North Carolina Black Film Festival’s monthly film

ILL-FATED LOVE STORY: Lee and Helen Morgan (above) are subjects of the documentary ‘I Called Him Morgan,’ directed by Kasper Collin. Courtesy of the Afro-American Newspaper Archives and Research Center.

series, “I Called Him Morgan” will screen at Jengo’s Playhouse this Sunday.

Hosted by Speller Street Films and Cucalorus Festival, Thomas, who is featured in the film, will be at the screening for a post-viewing Q&A. He also will have copies of his book, “The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan.”

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“[‘I Called Him Morgan’ is] a very important film because it answers a great deal of questions jazz lovers have had for years,” Thomas notes. “Most never knew the full story—her side of the story. It’s a movie that’s been given high praise from folks who are not necessarily fans of the music because it is a tender love story about redemption.”

Thomas describes Helen as “candid” in what was a “very frank interview.” He thinks there may have even been a sense of urgency for her to tell her story before the end of her life. Moreover, after several years of conducting oral histories, Thomas thinks Helen was willing to talk more openly and freely to another person with an AfricanAmerican perspective.

“I think she said things to me she wouldn’t have said to anybody else,” he clarifies.

“She had to tell it to somebody and because she realized I was African-centered, knew the New York scene and had, in her words, ‘been in the world,’ I would understand her point of view.”

In fact, Thomas has made a career as an American classical music writer and radio announcer. He started programming music in grad school at a student-operated station, WXYC-FM, in 1978. Thomas has since worked at seven stations, including WHQR-FM (1984-94) in Wilmington. “To me, I am much more than ‘a fan,’” he continues. “I am a gentleman, a scholar and servant of the people.”

While Thomas says most people who know anything about jazz history know about the Morgans, his interview ultimately shed light on a very dark corner that may not have otherwise been explored. Helen Morgan died a month after Thomas interviewed her in March 1996.

“She helped resurrect [Lee Morgan’s] career—one that had been full of drug addiction and hard times,” Thomas details. “He helped her because she had led a life of tough times. They became a couple who would experience good times together. The tragedy was the good times didn’t last and ended in disaster for both of them. He died of a gunshot wound to the heart and she died of a broken heart.”

Larry Reni Thomas is now writing “Carolina Shout: That Wonderful, Soulful Blessing—The Carolina Jazz Connection!” He also is a featured scholar in another wellknown documentary film about the infamous 1898 riots, “Wilmington On Fire.”

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BY: ANGHUS

o many comic book movies fail to interest me anymore because the material feels stale, like day-old saltines in the Serengeti. Superhero films have become so frequent, and their formulaic framing so consistent, the entire genre is in desperate need of something fresh. Enter Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther,” remarkably spry and original in a day and age where a guy putting on Spandex and fighting bad guys has become so redundant.

Meet T’challa (Chadwick Boseman), Prince of Wakanda, who lost his father back in “Captain America: Civil War.” Now he’s the heir apparent to the throne of the secret African nation that houses the most powerful substance SUPERB CAST: Lupita Nyong’o, Chadwick Boseman on Earth: Vibranium. For generations the and Letitia Wright in ‘Black Panther,’ 2018. Courtesy Royal Family of Wakanda has helped protect of Marvel Universe their sovereign nation with the use of technology to keep their advanced society cloaked “Black Panther” is kind of insane, but in the best way possible. while pretending to be a third-world country.

Not everything in the country is perfect.

Some of their precious metal has been stolen, forcing T’challa to hunt down criminals using superpowers and nigh-indestructible Black Panther armor. Did I forget to mention the King of Wakanda gets to drink this purple herb that makes him super-strong and fast, and can be buried in red sand, in order to send him to the afterlife to talk with dead relatives?

Well, he does and he can.

The movie moves around a lot and spends no time indulging audience questions. Coogler opens the door to the world of Wakanda and pushes us in. It’s a vast, colorful and often fake-looking world. Fortunately, the story of what’s happening in Wakanda has far more texture than some of the dodgy effects work used to create the fictional realm. The wardrobe is an absolute crazy collection of old and new: fantasy-meets-futuristic with George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars thrown in to add a little sass.

So after T’challa becomes king, he takes off to recover the stolen Vibranium. Through a series of convenient events we’re introduced to our main villain, Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan). He’s a killing machine with a mean streak and quite possibly the best haircut ever for a bad guy. Killmonger wants the crown for himself, so he can use the superior technology of Wakanda to arm the disenfranchised and overthrow the power structure of the world we know. T’challa must stop Killmonger before he can use spaceships to transport laser guns to the outside world. The plot for

“Black Panther” has more in common with “Flash Gordon” than “Spider-Man” or “Thor.” It is a big, colorful, fun piece of melodrama, unafraid to dwell in the weird, wonderful world of Wakanda. There’s no attempt at making the material gritty or grounded. It’s off-the-wall science fiction with some great characters.

In fact, I’d say the characters are the best thing about the movie. The cast is brimming with talent and manages to bring a lot of electricity to each role. Michael B. Jordan does a particularly good job as the villain, while Lupita Nyong’o is radiant and charming as a conflicted character who tries to balance the love for our hero and her responsibilities to a continent desperately in need of heroes.

ies miss but doesn’t deliver in the one area where they consistently succeed. There are some imaginatively written concepts for action scenes, but they end up looking like a bunch of poorly rendered pixels and composited green-screen backgrounds rather than actual people fighting in a physical location.

Still, the film is highly entertaining and succeeds where other blockbusters often fail: great characters, an interesting story and a world previously unexplored in this genre.

DETAILS:

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Directed by Ryan Coogler

Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan Lupita Nyong’o

Feb. 21: (Extra screening on 21, 4 p.m.)—“Call Me By Your Name” is a three-time Golden Globe nominee and three-time Academy Awards nominee, with an extra show Wednesday in the Ruth and Bucky Stein Theatre.

It’s the summer of 1983, and precocious 17-year-old Elio Perlman is spending the days with his family at their 17th-century villa in Lombardy, Italy. He soon meets Oliver, a handsome doctoral student who’s working as an intern for Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of their surroundings, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Feb. 26-28: (Extra screening on 28, 4 p.m.)—Nominated for six Academy Awards, “Phantom Thread” will be shown in the Ruth and Bucky Stein Theatre. Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with distinct style of House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, and provide the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps.

There are some heavier themes at play in “Black Panther” than other movies in the genre. The concepts of duty, sacrifice, responsibility and abandonment are woven into the story seamlessly and manage to make pretty strong arguments about society in its current fractured state. It’s a testament to the film’s success that a big-budget comic book adaptation can manage something a little more complex than “Good Guy A punches Bad Guy B.” It’s not a masters class thesis of sociology, but my brain appreciated an attempt to make a blockbuster about a little something more than eye- and ear-fucking into a state of catatonia.

I have a few complaints, still: The action is boring, the editing is sloppy and the special effects look kind of cheap. “Black Panther” nails all the other stuff most comic book mov-

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AMERICAN BLUEWATER WATERFRONT GRILL 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 break-

fast 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, Wilmington 910-523-5362.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, 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. Breakfast served until noon each day!

■ 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 CAM CAFÉ CAM Café, located within the CAM delivers delightful surprises using fresh, local ingredients. The café serves lunch with seasonal options Tuesday thru Saturday, inspired “small plates” on Wednesday nights, an elegant yet approachable dinner on Thursday and brunch every Sunday. Look for a combination of fresh, regular menu items along with daily specials.

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courtesy photo As part of dining in an inspiring setting, the galleries are open during CAM Café hours which makes it the perfect destination to enjoy art of the plate along with the art of the museum. 3201 S 17th St. (910) 777-2363.

■ SERVING LUNCH, BRUNCH & DINNER: Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-2pm; Thursday evening, 5pm-9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.camcafe.org 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 11:3010:00; Friday and Saturday 11:30-11:00 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington Kids menu available

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 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 HOPS SUPPLY CO. 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 local 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 JOHNNYLUKES KITCHENBAR Good eats, good drinks, and great times is what JohnnyLukes KitchenBar is all about. JohnnyLukes KitchenBar serves Wilmington, NC a variety of 19 rotating craft beers on tap, a hand selected eclectic American wine list, fun cocktails, and of course, exceptional food. Our two-story layout brings the best of both worlds under one roof. Downstairs at JohnnyLukes KitchenBar pair your beer or wine with our Parmesan Crusted Pork Chop, Chicken Pot Pie, Ribeye, or one of our many main entrees and sharable plates. Or, join us upstairs at JL’s Loft and pair a beer with one of our multiple burgers, JL’s roast beef sandwich, meatball sandwich, or one of our many appetizers (we recommend both!). So next time you are looking for a new and exciting restaurant in Wilmington, NC where you can experience both great craft beer and amazing food, be sure to head over to JohnnyLukes KitchenBar and JL’s Loft!

5500 Market Street, Suite 130. (910)-769-1798 ■ OPEN: JohnnyLukes KitchenBar: Mon to Sun: 11:30am to 10pm; JL’s Loft: Mon to Sun: 11:30am to 2am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.johnnylukeskb.com THE LITTLE DIPPER Wilmington’s favorite fondue restaurant! The Little Dipper specializes in unique fondue dishes with a global variety of cheeses, meats, seafood, vegetables, chocolates and fine wines. The warm and intimate dining room is a great place to enjoy a fourcourse 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 MUNCHIES The most unique restaurant in Wilmington is Munchies. Located adjacent to the UNCW campus, Munchies provides a new take on classic American fare. Selling items unavailable anywhere else

such as the famous “Fat Sandwiches”, decadent milk shakes, and fried desserts set Munchies apart, while the incredible flavor of traditional items such as burgers and wings make Munchies stand out. Open until 3 am daily, and offering dine in, take out, and delivery options, as well the choice of ordering online, Munchies is a new American classic for todays modern world. Perfect for lunch, dinner or a late night snack, and totally customizable, Munchies makes sure you get your food, your way, all day. 419 S. College Rd., Unit 35, 910-798-4999. Dine in • Delivery • Take out ■ OPEN LUNCH AND DINNER: 12pm - 3 am daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: munchiesfoodco.com PINE VALLEY MARKET Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encore’s Best-Of awards in catering, gourmet shop and butcher. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest ingredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger to classic Reuben, Italian sub to a grown-up banana and peanut butter sandwich that will take all diners back to childhood. Served among a soup du jour and salads, there is something for all palates. Take advantage of their take-home frozen meals for nights that are too hectic to cook, and don’t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it. 3520 S. College Road, (910) 350-FOOD. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Fri.10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Sun. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: South Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals ■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com RISE Serving up the best dang biscuits and donuts in Wilmington, Rise is not any typical breakfast spot.

Our donut menu includes an assortment of ‘old school, new school, and our school’ flavors; and our buttery, flaky biscuits filled with country ham, bacon, sausage, fried chicken, and fried eggplant “bacon” are crave-worthy. Lunch is on the Rise with our new chicken sandwiches on potato rolls and fresh salads.

1319 Military Cutoff Rd. (910) 239-9566 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.- Sun. 7 a.m.

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■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ WEBSITE: http://risebiscuitsdonuts.com SPOONFED KITCHEN & BAKE SHOP Newly opened Spoonfed Kitchen & Bake Shop is bringing their love for great food and customer service to Wilmington! Spoonfed Kitchen & Bake Shop specializes in creating wholesome, delightful foods to feed your lifestyle. Please join us in our cafe for breakfast, lunch & weekend brunch. We offer coffee & pastries, great foods to go from our deli & freezer cases (appetizers, salads, entrees & sides), bakery items (scones, cinnamon rolls, cookies, brownies, pies & more), gluten-free bakery items, and specialty market, cheeses & beverage. Catering is also available for all budets from personal to corporate to events. #feedyourlifestyle. 1930 Eastwood Road, Suite 105, Wilmington, NC 28403, (910) 679-8881.

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■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH ■ SERVING BRUNCH: Sat. & Sun. 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ WEBSITE: www.spoonfedkitchen.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), all-beef, pork smoked sausage (Carolina Packer), Fat Free (Turkey) & 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 check out our website at www.trollystophotdogs.com. Catering available, now a large portion of our business. All prices include tax.

Call Rick at 297-8416 for catering and franchise information.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ LOCATIONS: Wilmington, Fountain Dr. (910) 452-3952 Wrightsville Beach (910) 256-3921 Southport (910) 457-7017 Boone, NC (828) 265-2658 Chapel Hill, NC (919) 240-4206 ■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

ASIAN HIBACHI TO GO Hibachi To Go is a locally owned, family business serving only the freshest ingredients with three loca-

Cheeseburger & Pint Tuesday

sert and drink special are also on order. Check out their website and Facebook for more information. 16 S. Front St. (910) 771-9151.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Thurs., 11am-10pm; Fri.-Sat., 11am-11pm; Sun., 12pm10pm. Last call on food 15 minutes before closing.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.nikkissushibar.com/

CAPE FEAR SEAFOOD COMPANY www.capefearseafoodcompany.com tions. We invite you to try our menu items at either our Hampstead drive-thru location, where you can walk-up, take-out, or call in and pick up your meal or our Ogden location with dine-in or take-out options. Our new Wilmington location (894 South Kerr Avenue) offers dine-in, take-out or drive-thru service.

We’re convenient for lunch and dinner. Open 7 days 11 am - 9 pm. Our popular Daily Lunch Specials are featured Monday-Saturday for $4.99 with selections from our most popular menu items! We always have fresh seafood selections at Hibachi To Go, like delicious hand peeled shrimp, fresh local flounder and always a fresh catch fillet in-house. We scratch make every item on our menu daily. We offer your favor-

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ite hibachi meals and some of our originals like our pineapple won tons. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for the most up to date information on Hibachi To Go. Always fresh, great food at a super good price. Hampstead Phone: 910.270.9200. • Ogden Phone: 910.791.7800 Wilmington Phone: 910833-8841 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open 7 days 11am9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, North Wilmington, Hampstead ■ WEBSITE: www.hibachitogo.com INDOCHINE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE If you’re ready to experience the wonders of the Orient without having to leave Wilmington, join us at Indochine for a truly unique experience. Indochine brings the flavors of the Far East to the Port City, combining the best of Thai and Vietnamese cuisine in an atmosphere that will transport you and your taste buds. Relax in our elegantly decorated dining room, complete with antique Asian decor as well as contemporary artwork and music. Our diverse, friendly and efficient staff will serve you beautifully presented dishes full of enticing aromas and flavors. Be sure to try such signature items as the spicy and savory Roasted Duck with Red Curry, or the beautifully presented and delicious Shrimp and Scallops in a Nest.

Be sure to save room for our world famous desert, the banana egg roll! We take pride in using only the freshest ingredients, and our extensive menu suits any taste. After dinner, enjoy specialty drinks by the koi pond in our Asian garden. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues.- Fri. 11 a.m.2 p.m.; Sat. 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. for dinner.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.indochinewilmington.com NIKKI’S FRESH GOURMET For more than a decade, Nikki’s downtown has served diners the best in sushi. With freshly crafted ingredients making up their rolls, sushi and sashimi, a taste of innovation comes with every order. Daily they offer specialty rolls specific to the Front Street location, such as the My Yoshi, K-Town and Crunchy Eel rolls. But for less adventurous diners looking for options beyond sushi, Nikki’s serves an array of sandwiches, wraps and gyros, too. They also make it a point to host all dietary needs, omnivores, carnivores and herbivores alike. They have burgers and cheesesteaks, as well as falafal pitas and veggie wraps, as well as an extensive Japanese fare menu, such as bento boxes and tempura platters. Daily des-

OKAMI JAPANESE HIBACHI STEAK HOUSE We have reinvented “Hibachi cuisine.” Okami Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse is like no other. Our highly skilled chefs cook an incredible dinner while entertaining you on the way. Our portions are large, our drinks are less expensive, and our staff is loads of fun. We are committed to using quality ingredients and seasoning with guaranteed freshness. Our goal is to utilize all resources, domestically and internationally, to ensure we serve only the finest food products. We believe good, healthy food aids vital functions for wellbeing, both physically and mentally. Our menu consists of a wide range of steak, seafood, and chicken for the specially designed “Teppan Grill.” We also serve tastebud-tingling Japanese sushi, hand rolls, sashimi, tempura dishes, and noodle entrees. This offers our guests a complete Japanese dining experience. Our all-you-can-eat sushie menu and daily specials can be found at www.okamisteakhouse.com! 614 S College Rd. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Thurs., 11am2:30pm / 4-10pm; Fri., 11am-2:30pm / 4pm-11pm; Sat., 11am-11pm; Sun., 11am-9:30pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.okamisteakhouse.com SZECHUAN 132 Craving expertly prepared Chinese food in an elegant atmosphere? Szechuan 132 Chinese Restaurant is your destination! Szechuan 132 has earned the reputation as one of the finest contemporary Chinese restaurants in the Port City. Tastefully decorated with an elegant atmosphere, with an exceptional ingenious menu has deemed Szechuan 132 the best Chinese restaurant for years, hands down. 419 South College Road (in University Landing), (910) 799-1426.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch specials ■ WEBSITE: www.szechuan132.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) 7633172.

■ 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.

YOSHI Yoshi Sushi Bar and Japanese Cuisine offers something the greater Wilmington area has never seen before. We are seeking to bring true New York Style Sushi to Wilmington, with classic sushi and sashimi, as well as traditional rolls and some unique Yoshi Creations. We offer a variety of items, including Poke Bowls and Hibachi - and we also are introducing true Japanese Ramen Bowls! Come try it today! 260 Racine Dr, Wilmington 28403 (910)799-6799 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun. 12pm11pm, Mon.-Thurs. 11am-10pm, Fri.-Sat. 11am-11pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.yoshisushibarandjapanesecuisine.com

BAGELS BEACH BAGELS Beach Bagels is the best spot for breakfast and lunch in Wilmington. Serving traditional New York Style Bagels is our speciality. We boil our bagels before baking them, which effectively sets the crust and produces a perfect bagel made with love.

Don’t forget about our selection of custom sandwiches that are always made to order. Try out our breakfast options like The Heart Attack filled with Egg, Country Ham, Bacon, Sausage, and American Cheese, or the Egg-White Dun-Rite with Egg Whites, Avocado, Pepper Jack Cheese, Spinach, and Tomato. Our Boar’s Head meats & cheeses are the perfect accoutrements for assembling the perfect sandwich, every time! Check out our Cuban Chicken Lunch Sandwich, complete with Boar’s Head Chicken Breast, Ham, Swiss, Pickles, Lettuce, Mayo, and Yellow Mustard. You can also make your own! Not in the mood for a bagel? Don’t worry, we have ciabatta bread, croissants, Kaiser rolls, biscuits, wraps, salads, bowls, omelettes, and more! Make your lunch a combo for $1.50 more, and get a small drink, potato salad or chips, and a pickle spear. Visit us at 5906 Oleander Drive or 7220 Wrightsville Avenue right before the drawbridge to Wrightsville Beach. Look out for our third location, coming to Monkey Junction soon!.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown and Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Homemade bagels, biscuits, croissants, sandwiches, and more!

■ WEBSITE: www.BeachBagels.biz

CARIBBEAN JAMAICA’S COMFORT ZONE Tucked in the U-shape of University Landing, a block from UNCW is Wilmington’s fave Caribbean restaurant, serving diners for over nine years.

Family-owned and -operated, Jamaica’s Comfort Zone provides a relaxing atmosphere along with a blend of Caribbean delights. Our guests have graced us with numerous compliments over the years: “explosive Caribbean culinary experience”; “every year we are here on vacation—you are our first stop”; “flavors just dance in my mouth.” From traditional Jamaican breakfast to mouth-watering classic dishes such as Brownstew chicken, curry goat, oxtail, and jerk pork, our selections also include many vegetarian and select seafood options.

Student meal options are $6.99, and catering options are available. University Landing, 417 S. College Road, Wilmington

SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues-Sat., 11:45am-9pm. Closed Sun. and Mon. NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown WEBSITE: www.jamaicascomfortzone.net, and follow us on Facebook or Twitter

DINNER THEATRE THEATRENOW 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 ■ FEATURING: Dinner shows, jazz brunches, and more ■ WEBSITE: www.theatrewilmington.com

IRISH THE HARP Experience the finest traditional Irish family recipes and popular favorites served in a casual yet elegant traditional pub atmosphere. The Harp, 1423 S. 3rd St., proudly uses the freshest ingredients, locally sourced whenever possible, to bring you and yours the most delicious Irish fare! We have a fully stocked bar featuring favorite Irish beers and whiskies. We are open every day for both American and Irish breakfast, served to noon weekdays and 2 p.m. weekends. Regular menu to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. weekends. Join us for trivia at 8:30 on Thursdays and live music on Fridays – call ahead for schedule (910) 763-1607. Located just beside Greenfield Lake and Park at the south end of downtown Wilmington, The Harp is a lovely Irish pub committed to bringing traditional Irish flavor, tradition and hospitality to the Cape Fear area.

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

■ WEBSITE: www.harpwilmington.com

■ WEBSITE: www.antoniospizzaandpasta.com FAT TONY’S ITALIAN PUB Fat Tony’s has the right combination of Italian and American influences to mold it into a unique familyfriendly restaurant with a “gastropub” feel. Boasting such menu items as 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 am-10 pm; Fri.-Sat., 11 am-Midnight; Sun., noon-10 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) 2562229 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/week, 365 days/year.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, Downtown and Wilmington South.

■ FEATURING: Largest tequila selection in town!

■ 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 made-from-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 8:00am-8:00pm, Saturday 8:30am-7:00pm, Sunday 9:30am-4:30pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.atasteofitalydeli.com ■ FEATURING: Sclafani goods, Polly-O cheese, Fer-

ITALIAN ANTONIO’S Serving fresh, homemade Italian fare in midtown and south Wilmington, Antonio’s Pizza and Pasta is a family-owned restaurant which serves New York style pizza and pasta. From daily specials during lunch and dinner to a friendly waitstaff ensuring a top-notch experience, whether dining in, taking out or getting delivery, to generous portions, the Antonio’s experience is an unforgettable one. Serving subs, salads, pizza by the slice or pie, pasta, and more, dine-in, take-out and delivery! 3501 Oleander Dr., #2, and 5120 S. College Rd. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. and Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-10 p.m. (Sun., open at 11:30 a.m.)

■ NEIGHBORHOOD DELIVERY OFFERED: Monkey Junction and near Independence Mall

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MEXICAN EL CERRO GRANDE In January, El Cerro Grande will celebrate 25 years serving authentic, delicious Mexican cuisine to the greater Wilmington area. With an ever-evolving menu, they have introduced eight new exclusive soft tacos as part of Taco Fiesta! They churn out mouth-watering enchiladas, fajitas, quesadillas, chef specialties, and more, in a colorfully inviting dining room marked by a friendly staff and attention to detail. Check out El Cerro’s daily drink and food specials at their three different locations, including $3.50 margaritas on Tuesdays off Military Road, on Wednesdays at 341 S. College Road, and on Thursdays at 5120 S. College Road. Mondays feature fajita dinners for 10.99 at all locations, and they even have karaoke every Wednesday at 341 S. College Rd, starting at 6 p.m.

Serving lunch and dinner daily.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Fri., open at 11 a.m.; Sat-Sun., open at 11:30 a.m.

■ LOCATIONS: 341 S. College Rd., 910-793-0035; 5120 S. College Rd., 910-790-8727; 1051 Military Cutoff Rd., 910-679-4209 ■ WEBSITE: www.elcerrogranderestaurant.com 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 $4.95 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

ORGANIC LOVEY’S NATURAL FOODS & CAFÉ Lovey’s Natural Foods & Café is a true blessing for shoppers looking for organic and natural groceries and supplements, or a great place to meet friends for a quick, delicious and totally fresh meal or snack.

Whether you are in the mood for a veggie burger, hamburger or a chicken Caesar wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte Lovey’s Cafe’ menu. The Food Bar—which has cold, organic salads and hot selections—can be eaten in the newly expanded Lovey’s Cafe’ or boxed for take-out. The Juice Bar offers a wide variety of delicious juices and smoothies made with organic fruits and vegetables. Specializing in bulk sales of grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices.

Lovey’s has a great selection of local produce and receives several weekly deliveries to ensure freshness. Lovey’s also carries organic grass-fed and free-range meats and poultry. wheat-free and gluten-

free products are in stock regularly, as are vegan and vegetarian groceries. Lovey’s also carries Wholesome Pet Foods. Stop by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 am to 6 p.m.. Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Rd in the Landfall Shopping Center; (910) 509-0331. “You’ll Love it at Lovey’s!”

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington in the Landfall Shopping Center ■ FEATURING: Organic Salad Bar/Hot Bar, Bakery with fresh, organic pies and cakes.

■ WEBSITE: www.loveysmarket.com

SEAFOOD CAPE FEAR SEAFOOD COMPANY Founded in 2008 by Evans and Nikki Trawick, Cape Fear Seafood Company has become a local hotspot for the freshest, tastiest seafood in the area. With its growing popularity, the restaurant has expanded from its flagship eatery in Monkey Junction to a second location in Porter’s Neck, and coming soon in 2017, their third location in Waterford in Leland. “We are a dedicated group of individuals working together as a team to serve spectacular food, wine and spirits in a relaxed and casual setting,” restaurateur Evans Trawick says. “At CFSC every dish is prepared with attention to detail, quality ingredients and excellent flavors. Our staff strives to accommodate guests with a sense of urgency and an abundance of southern hospitality.” Cape Fear Seafood Company has been recognized by encore magazine for best seafood in 2015, as well as by Wilmington Magazine in 2015 and 2016, and Star News from 2013 through 2016. Monkey Junction: 5226 S. College Road Suite 5, 910-799-7077. Porter’s Neck: 140 Hays Lane #140, 910-681-1140. Waterford: 143 Poole Rd., Leland, NC 28451 ■ SERVING LUNCH AND DINNER: 11:30am-4pm daily; Mon.-Thurs.., 4pm-9pm; Fri.-Sat., 4pm-10pm; Sun., 4pm-8:30pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, north Wilmington and Leland ■ WESBITE: www.capefearseafoodcompany.com CATCH Serving the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina. Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee, 2013 Best of Wilmington “Best Chef” winner, Chef Keith Rhodes explores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer.

We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Seafood. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch.

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

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

■ SERVING DINNER: Mon.-Sat. 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 MICHAEL’S SEAFOOD’S RESTAURANT Established in 1998, Michael’s Seafood Restaurant is locally owned and operated by Shelly McGowan and managed by her team of culinary professionals.

Michael’s aspires to bring you the highest quality and freshest fin fish, shell fish, mollusks, beef, pork, poultry and produce. Our menu consists of mainly locally grown and made from scratch items. We count on our local fishermen and farmers to supply us with seasonal, North Carolina favorites on a daily basis. Adorned walls include awards such as 3 time gold medalist at the International Seafood Chowder Cook-Off, Entrepreneur of the Year, Restaurant of the Year and Encores readers’ choice in Best Seafood to name a few. 1206 N. Lake Park Blvd. (910) 458-7761 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days 11 am – 9 pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Carolina Beach ■ FEATURING: Award-winning chowder, local seafood and more!

■ WEBSITE: www.MikesCfood.com 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: Mon – Sat 11am – 11pm, Sunday 10am – 10pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Dine on renovated Crystal Pier.

■ WEBSITE: www.OceanicRestaurant.com THE PILOT HOUSE

Saving money at local businesses has never been so easy.

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

We specialize in 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. 910-343-0200 2 Ann Street, Wilmington, NC 28401 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11am9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm and Sunday Brunch 11am3pm. Kids menu ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Riverfront Downtown Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Fresh local seafood specialties, Riverfront Dining, free on-site parking ■ MUSIC: Outside Every Friday and Saturday ■ WEBSITE: www.pilothouserest.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: 11am-Midnight ■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Carolina Beach and Downtown ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials. Like us on Facebook!

■ WEBSITE: www.TheShuckinShack.com

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

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

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

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

■ WEBSITE: www.caseysbuffet.com RX RESTAURANT & BAR Located in downtown Wilmington, Rx Restaurant and Bar is here to feed your soul, serving up South-

ern 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; Fri-Sat, 5-10:30pm; Sun., 10am-3pm and 5-9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.rxwilmington.com

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

317 South College Road. (910) 791.9393.

■ 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 JAX 5TH AVE. DELI & ALE HOUSE Locally owned and operated, Jax offers a laid-back atmosphere, welcoming foodies, sports fans, and craft beer enthusiasts alike. We provide a full eclectic menu of quality Boar’s Head sliced meat and cheeses, and feature unique items like our smoked

salmon deviled egg, a legendary Italian sandwich, and famous pita pizzas that bake up lite and crispy.

20 HDTVs feature premium sports packaging for all the games! Supporting local craft breweries with 24 drafts and over 100 different bottles and cans, enjoy it all inside the shiny silver building or outside on the dog-friendly patio at 5046 New Centre Dr. Carry out: 910-859-7374.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: Full menu until 2am daily.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, near UNCW ■ FEATURING: Daily food and drink specials.

■ WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/ JaxFifthAveDeliAleHouse

TAPAS/WINE BAR THE FORTUNATE GLASS WINE BAR The Fortunate Glass is an intimate venue showcasing globally sourced wines, plus creative small plates and craft beers. The serene ambiance is created by the beautiful wall mural, elegant glass tile bar, castle rocked walls and intimate booths.

There are wines from all regions, with 60 wines by the glass and 350 wines available by the bottle. The food menu consists of numerous small plates, fine cheeses, cured meats and decadent desserts that will compliment any wine selection.

■ SERVING DINNER & LATE NIGHT: Tues. - Thur., 4 p.m. - midnight; Fri., 4 p.m. - 2 a.m.; Sat., 2 p.m. 2 a.m.; Sun., 2 p.m. - midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown, 29 S Front St. ■ FEATURING: Weekly free wine tasting Tues., 6 - 8 p.m. Small plates, and wine and beer specials.

■ WEBSITE: www.fortunateglass.com

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 | 1:00 P.M. Women’s Tennis vs ECU

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 | 4:00 P.M. Baseball vs Appalachian State

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 | 1:00 P. M. Men’s Tennis vs Longwood

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 | 2:00 P. M.

SEAHAWK SOFTBALL CLASSIC FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Maine vs Bucknell | 10:00 A.M. UNCW vs Maine | 12:30 P.M. UNCW vs Longwood | 3:00 P.M. Longwood vs Bucknell | 5:30 P.M.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Men’s Tennis vs Hofstra

UNCW vs Maine | 10:00 A.M. UNCW vs Longwood | 12:30 P.M. Maine vs Bucknell | 3:00 P.M. Bucknell vs Longwood | 5:30 P.M.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | NOON

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Baseball vs Appalachian State

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | NOON

Women’s Tennis vs Hofstra

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he shivered as she walked through the swinging doors. She could feel it: passing into the land of the pleading. Every available space was covered with people sprawled across the strategically uncomfortable furniture. In the back of her mind, Kitty noted film people probably spent a lot of time in airports, which had the same awful uncomfortable metal and vinyl chairs bolted to the floor in rows. At least the airport had carpeting and hope—not in an emergency room. In an emergency room people negotiated with the divine. Apparently, the hospital’s decorator wanted to reflect Puritan ideals: the more uncomfortable the surroundings, the more effective people would believe their prayers.

Kitty noticed some people were huddled in prayer; two women were silently crying. The bank of pay phones on the wall were filled with people frantically calling out updates, waving their credit cards as they gesticulated into the phones.

Kitty scanned the room to figure out where to start. She had a job to do, a story to get. In the midst of tragedy, her job was to assemble an explanation and transmit it to the world. It was power. It was responsibility. Finally, her eyes rested on Hank, Jeffrey Chen’s stunt double and childhood friend.

“Hey Hank…” she dropped her voice to a coaxing tone and sat down next him. As a film-beat reporter, she had been by the set almost everyday. They all knew her.

“Hi Kitty,” he heaved a deep sigh. “You heard? Do you know anything we don’t know?”

“All I know is there was an accident on the set and Jeffrey was rushed into surgery here.”

The PR guy for the hospital had given her specific times for the ambulance’s arrival and commencement of surgery, doctor’s names, things she would need for her story. Hank didn’t want to be bothered with that. “Were you there? What happened?”

“Were you filming a scene?” She tried a different tack.

Hank looked across the room at Stan who was staring at his hands.

“We were filming the rape scene, when he walks in to find the thugs raping her and they kill him. Something happened and he didn’t get up. I don’t know if it was the squib or the

gun? We tested the gun and we can’t figure it out.”

“Something went wrong with the squib maybe?” She tried prompting.

Hank just stared at Stan. The idea of squibs always made Kitty uncomfortable—the idea of a blood pack detonating on a body just seemed wrong on every level.

Hank still wasn’t looking at her. He was staring at Stan. Stan wasn’t making eye contact with anyone. The sound of someone moaning quietly faded in and out of the background.

“Do they know if Jeffrey is going to be OK? What have the doctors said?” she asked.

Hank shook his head. “Nothing much, just they’re working on it. Oh, fuck!” He buried his face in his hands. Kitty could just hear a muffled, “Jeffrey, why did this happen?”

She took a deep breath to try to calm her nerves. Sometimes focusing on someone else makes it not so much about you—but the smell of the waiting room was making her gag. Her body seemed to think she was back in the waiting room from the night her mother was killed.

“So you two grew up together, right?”

Hank nodded slowly.

“Yeah, after he came back from Asia, he came to school with us. You have to understand it wasn’t a big school. I mean…

“But Jeffrey stood out from the first. He was shiny? I guess is what I’m trying to say. All the bullies were attracted to him. Hell, everyone was attracted to him. It didn’t help he was Lee Chen’s son, you know? Like it became a badge of honor to pick a fight with him. And they didn’t get that he was just in grief over his dad—like what the fuck do you do when you are 8 years old and your father has an opencasket funeral on international television? Jesus Christ, man.”

“So was he super angry as a teenager?” she pressed.

“No, more ... morbid. Really obsessed with his dad’s death and his own.”

He cracked a grim half-smile and asked, “Do you know what his first car was?”

Kitty shook her head.

“Right, movie star’s kid—plenty of money in the family, right. We went to school with lots of Hollywood kids. You would expect a sports car, right?”

Kitty nodded encouragingly and smiled.

“Sure, what 16-year-old boy wouldn’t want a sports car? Hell, I want a sports car.”

“Right.” Hank nodded. “Jeff asked for, begged for, and finally talked his mom into a hearse. A hearse. It’s like fuckin’ ‘Harold and Maude’ time, right? I mean the kid was goth before there was goth.”

“So how did the kids at school react?”

“Man, there was no pleasing anybody at that school. But, you know, by that time he had become such a show-off. He drove it in reverse when everyone was leaving at the end of the day—like in reverse through the pick-up line In front of the school.”

“Wow.” “Yeah, he got suspended for that one— again,” he said over his shoulder while walking to the soda machine.

Kitty followed, not wanting to lose him or the story.

“He was crazy and so much fun.”

“You said he got suspended a lot?”

“I told you, man: He was Lee Chen’s kid, right? So, like, everyday someone wanted to fight him. Yeah, he got suspended a lot.”

“Why did they want to fight him? I don’t get it.”

“It’s a young, dumb, testosterone thing.

It was bragging rights to beat up the world’s most famous martial arts star’s son. And, come on, he was probably going to go into movies, too. I mean, he couldn’t stop showing off, we all knew he wanted to be an actor before he knew he wanted to be an actor.”

“So bragging rights?”

“Yeah, call it that. Bragging rights.”

“OK, so he got suspended for fighting a lot?

What about the other guys in the fights?”

Hank shrugged. “It was worth it for them, I suppose. A lot depended upon who threw the first punch as to how the punishment got doled out. Jeff was suspended so many times he finally—well, let’s say he escaped from school. He finished up at home.”

“He dropped out?”

“He escaped.” Hank smiled. “Let’s call it that ... right?”

es, training. I don’t know.” He shrugged. “We were just always around, you know?”

“Well, you are his stunt double: How did you learn to fight like him? Did you train together?”

Hank noded, “Yeah, we did. It took him a while to come back to the dojo after his dad died. I heard stories the first time they brought him to the dojo, when they came back to the states—like, you walk in and there were these life-size pictures of Lee Chen lining the walls, all action shots—and apparently Jeffrey ... I mean, the kid was what 8 years old, right? He walks in and sees these huge portraits of his dead father staring down at him; he just bursts into tears and ran out the door. Can you blame him?”

She shook her head slowly. “I don’t think I could manage that now—let alone at 8. Jesus.”

“So, yeah, he eventually came back to the dojo and I started there. I guess, if I’m honest, it was Lee Chen’s last movie that got me interested in martial arts. And when I learned there was a dojo teaching his methods, that’s where I wanted to go. I honestly didn’t connect Jeffrey with it at first—like I was surprised to see him there the first time I walked in, right?

Like aren’t you in my science class? Like, weird man.”

He looked up at the ceiling. “Then I guess we were just both there all the time and had the same interest and now—fuck, man. Why this?”

“Why do you keep talking to Stan and not me?” Kitty finally exploded.

Hank shook his head. “I didn’t realize I was.

It’s just—I can’t stop seeing him.”

“Yeah, you’re staring at him.”

“No I mean seeing him pull the trigger. He was holding the gun. He ... shot Jeffrey.”

“I didn’t know, man!” Stan was on his feet, screaming at Hank. “I didn’t know! I didn’t mean ... I didn’t ...”

Out of words, he turned his head left and right. “I didn’t know!” He said again to the room then ran toward the parking-lot doors.

No one spoke. Even the people at the pay phones stopped. It was the heaviest silence Kitty had ever experienced.

“I think, I will ... ah ... go check on him.” Kitty finally volunteered as she pushed herself out of the uncomfortable metal chair. All the eyes “Well, we were at school together and I in the room watched her walk to the exit. No started hanging out at the dojo, taking classone offered to come with her. encore | february 21 - february 27, 2018 | www.encorepub.com 31 “So how did you two meet?”

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MUSEUM AFTER DARK

Feb. 22, 6:30pm: Does cilantro taste like soap? Take a genetic marker test to find out why. Figure out what’s in the mystery box – by touch alone. Build a structure, with your sight impaired. Smell ingredients and match them to the accompanying beer. Find out how delayed hearing affects your speech. Chat with local experts about how your senses work and MORE. Ages 18+. Sponsored by Cape Fear Museum Associates. Food and beverages available for purchase from Bombers Bev Co., Poor Piggy’s and T’Geaux Boys. Tickets: $6

members/$8 non-members in advance. capefearmuseum.com/programs. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

TIDEWATER CAMELLIA CLUB

Feb. 24, 10am: Tidewater Camellia Club proudly announces its free-and-open-to-thepublic 68th Tidewater Camellia Club Sho, feat. exhibitors from all over the Southeastern US. These camellia experts will display over 1,000 blooms representing many varieties for evaluation by American Camellia Society judges. Other show highlights include camellia care education displays to help answer any camellia growing questions you may have as well as floral arrangements highlighting camellias presented by various garden

clubs. Special Children’s Art Display will be presented by local public school art students new. Interactive Children’s Corner to Touch, Smell, and Learn about Camellias. www.tidewatercamelliaclub.org. New Hanover County Arboretum, Oleander Dr.

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Feb. 24, 10am-4pm: Pop-Up Market at Tidal Creek, rain or shine. Drop by and shop among some incredible local vendors and artists. Handcrafted jewelry, lovely health and beauty products, and many other fantastic items. Tidal Creek is hosting Goat Yoga

by Be Life Farm & will have a health coach in store that day. Bring your friends and family, and enjoy a great shopping experience!

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REVERSAL OF FORTUNE GALA

Feb. 23. 6pm: Annual NHHS Lyceum Academy Boosters Reversal of Fortune. $100/per ticket includes dinner, entertainment and a chance to win! Cash bar. Tickets: https://goo. gl/forms/EQhvUMER0dMvfmXy1. Wilmington Convention Center, 515 Nunn St. Questions? lyceumboosters@gmail.com.

MIRACLES IN MOTION RACE

Feb. 24, 10am: Miracles in Motion 5K and 1 Mile Run, Walk, or Roll is the original universally accessible race in the Cape Fear Region for all participants, with and without disabilities.

Run, walk, or roll alongside your friends, coworkers, and family in this day filled with celebration, inclusion, and joy benefiting ACCESS of Wilmington operators of The Miracle League of Wilmington, Project Soar, and ACCESS Fit. Be a buddy to a Miracle League player or ACCESS Fit participant. BRAX Stadium PPD Miracle Field, 5510 Olsen Park Ln.

BURLESQUE NIGHTS

Feb. 24, 8pm: Get ready for the first Burlesque Nights of 2018! We have a fabulously fierce cast for you this February! Performances by: Evelyn DeVere, Rusty Dawn, Puppie Buffé.

Hosted by the wonderful Arianna! Doors at 8 Show at 9; $13 in advance/ $18 at the door.

Pre-sales go until 4pm the on day of show.

Cash only at the door. Bourgie Nights, 127 Princess St.

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A boat ride at sunset on the river! Join us for a 1.5 hour cruise on the Cape Fear River. Sip a drink from our full bar, enjoy the sights, while listening to music by local musicians. $27.

Book: 910-338-3134. Wilmington Water Tours, 212 S. Water St.

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ILM SACRED HEART SINGERS

Feb. 25: Wilmington Sacred Harp Singers presents a traditional Sacred Harp Singing and invite you to join in the music and raise your voice in song! This dynamic form of a cappella social singing dates back to Colonial America, using a modern reprint of an 1844 songbook The Sacred Harp. The music is loud, vigorous and intense. It is meant to be sung, not just observed. No previous experience is necessary. 1:30pm Instruction for beginners; 24pm Entire Group. Songbooks provided, beginners welcome! Free and open to the public. Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall.

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75 Half an activities twosome 76 Pokes fun at 78 Sleep disturbers 84 Part of ICBM 85 Elbow roughly 86 Twinkly at night 87 Cleveland: The only one who __ 91 Tire edge 94 Gear parts 95 Star Wars series mentor 96 Young’__ (kids) 97 Israeli novelist 99 One-stripe GI 102 Ranch structures 104 Ark passenger 107 Exclamation of elation 108 Some hours ago 112 Antioxidant berry 114 Ft. Myers locale 115 Coolidge: The only one __ 119 Revise 120 Substantive content 121 “America the Beautiful” pronoun 122 Justice Sotomayor 123 Try another shade on 124 Window frame 125 Pardner’s mount 126 It’s south of Brigham City DOWN 1 Media mogul from Mississippi 2 Oscar actress Witherspoon 3 Device 4 Urban rd.

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Feb. 24, 7:30pm: Hailed as “groundbreaking” and “gutsy,” ACRONYM is more like a contemporary music group than an early music string band (yes, they call themselves a “band”), so don’t expect to hear anything stiff or artificial.

Their sound is luxurious; their interpretations unabashedly expressive and warm. These modern troubadours perform the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century, bringing to light delightfully lesser known composers of the early Baroque alongside fresh interpretations of Vivaldi and Telemann. Their “Baroque with a Twist” selections are loaded with rhythmic and harmonic surprises and heartbreaking tunes. Tickets: $15-$30. UNCW Beckwith Recital Hall, 5270 Randall Dr. Tickets (910) 962-3500. chambermusicwilmington.org.

TEMPTATIONS AND FOUR TOPS

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Feb. 25, 7:30pm: Motown legends The Temptations and the Four Tops join forces to present an amazing evening full of their favorite hits, songs which helped define the sound of a generation. Two iconic groups have each been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and sold out performances around the world for decades. Now, they bring their outstanding talent to the Wilson Center stage. Wilson Center, 703 N. 3rd St. Tickets: www.capefearstage.com

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Feb. 28, 7:30pm: With a polished international reputation and just over a million album sales under their belts, The Celtic Tenors offer something truly unique. The skill, range and ability of world-class tenors combined with the personality and fun of genuine performers. The group has performed together for 15 years, and offer more than beautiful voices and musical knowledge. Matthew Gilsenan, James Nelson and Daryl Simpson are comfortable in all genres from classical and folk to Irish and pop, they bring you, the audience, on a real musical voyage. Wilson Center, 703 N. 3rd St. Tickets: www.capefearstage.com

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Feb. 22-24, 8pm; Feb. 25, 2:30pm: What happens when you make a bargain with the devil?

A play so notorious for its time that it was said real devils appeared on stage and drove the audience mad. Set in a rock and roll dream world, this adaptation of Dr. Faustus utilizes song to tell the story of Dr. Faustus’ deal with Mephistopheles complete with a live band and original music by Beauty and the Beast composer Adrian Varnam. The process for creating Dr. Faustus is unlike any show UNCW has done before. Varnam and director Christopher Marino have collaborated with the actors in the show to create music that suits their voices and matches the rock concert vibe of the show.

Think bands like Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Recommended for mature audiences. Cultural Arts Building, 601 S. College Rd.

CABARET

Feb. 20-21, 8pm: Cape Fear Stage is proud to present Sam Mendes (“Spectre,” “American Beauty”) and Rob Marshall’s (“Into the Woods” and “Chicago,” the films) Tony Award-winning production of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff’s “Cabaret.” Come hear some of the most memorable songs in theatre history, including ”Cabaret,” ”Willkommen” and ”Maybe This Time.” Right this way, your table’s waiting

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at the musical the New York Post calls ”one for the ages.” Cabaret contains mature content.

Approx. run time: 2hrs, 30mins. (15 Intermission). Group tickets (for 10 or more) & Opera Boxes are available. 910-362-7999. Tickets: www.capefearstage.com. Wilson Center, 703 N. 3rd St. THE WEIR

By Conor McPherson, directed by Phill Antonino, Feb 23-Mar 24, Fri.-Sat., 7pm. Seating begins at 6pm. Complimentary valet parking.

Tickets $18-$42 with discounts for seniors, students, military and groups. In a small bar called The Weir in a rural town in Ireland, three local men are settling down for the night, enjoying good beer and company. Their normal routine is shaken up when their friend Finland enters the bar and introduces them to Valerie, an attractive woman from Dublin who has just moved into an old haunted house in the town. As the night (and the amount of liquor) progresses, each local from the bar starts to tell a tale of ghostly happenings in the town.

What starts as innocent braggadocio between the men turns into a real fright when Valerie reveals a real, haunted tale of her own from the past. Examining chances of missed opportunity and the loneliness that results in it, The Weir is a haunting play with its roots in Irish folklore. TheatreNOW, 19 S. 10th St.

CABINEER’S PROMOTIONS

Feb. 24, 7pm: Cabineer’s Promotions is presenting Joke and Jazz, to bring the essence of comedy to its finest with stand-up comedian Spike Davis and friends. Spike has been seen on several T.V., shows and is now on tour expelling his comical talent. We’ll also be entertained by Darryl Murrill’s Jazz Trio, with a dance to follow. Also opening with the celebration of Black History Month. The Scottish Rite Temple, 1415 S 17th St. (910) 523-8916

PCPP GROUP

Port City Playwrights’ Project next meets on Sat., Feb. 24, at the Community Arts Center on S., 120 S. 2nd St. We’ll start a little earlier, 10:45 a.m. As always, PCPP welcomes new writers and actors. Questions? portcityplaywrightsproject@gmail.com, or visit https://portcityplaywrights.wordpress.com.

NINE

Book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Adaptation from the Italian by Mario Fratti. Wed., Feb. 28 – Mar. 4, Mar. 9-11, 8 p.m., or Sun., 3 p.m. World-famous film director Guido Contini is facing both a mid-life and a marital crisis as he attempts to come up with a plot for his next film. Flashbacks reveal the substance of his life as he examines his relationships with the many women he has known and as each comes to remind him of who he is, why they love him, and why he needs them.

Based on Fellini’s 8 ½ , Nine is a celebration of the power of women and the many roles they play in man’s life – mother, sister, teacher, temptress, judge, nurse, wife, mistress, muse. A score full of passion, romance, and brio brings this sultry and enchanting musical to unforgettable life. Rich and thrilling night of theatre, Nine garnered both the 1982 Tony for Best Musical and the 2003 Tony for Best Revival. (910) 632-2285 or online at thalianhall. org. Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut St. $32.

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BIO4KIDS: FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Feb. 20, 3:45pm: Kids and parents are especially invited to enjoy a Biography Channel film for Black History Month: “Bio4Kids: Frederick Douglass.” After the film, Reference Supervisor Jimi Rider will talk briefly about several online library resources students can use when researching African American history and other homework topics. “Bio4Kids” tells the prominent abolitionist’s story for children, and runs 45 minutes. It’s distributed by A&E Television Networks. 910-798-6301 or Jimi Rider at jrider@nhcgov.com. New Hanover County Library, 201 Chestnut St.

PLANETARIUM FILM

Feb. 25, 1:30pm, 2:15pm, 3pm: Free for members or with general admission. Astronauts Scott Parazinsky, Tom Jones, Gene Cernan, and veteran space reporter Walter Cronkite are your tour guides on this adventure to the International Space Station and to the past and future moon. Includes full-dome imagery using OUR fisheye lens on the ISS! (24 min.). Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

art MEET LOCAL ARTISTS

Meet working artists, and see their works in progress. Everything from sculptures to fine jewelry in this unique location. Free parking, fun for everyone. Over 45 artist’s works to enjoy. Free, and we participate in the 4th Friday Art Walks, 6-9pm, 4th Fri. ea. mo. theArtWorks, 200 Willard St.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT

Fourth Friday Gallery Nights, Wilmington’s premier after-hours celebration of art and culture, 6-9pm, fourth Friday of ea. month. Features art openings, artist demonstrations, entertainment and refreshments. Administered by the Arts Council of Wilmington & New Hanover County, numerous venues participate. Full list: artscouncilofwilmington.org

PED ART

Pedestrian Art public sculpture series, a program of The Arts Council of Wilmington/NHC, features the installation of 10-12 sculptures throughout downtown Wilmington. 2017 program is made possible through support from the City of Wilmington, The Artworks, Craige & Fox LLC, Art in Bloom Gallery, the Dreams Center for Arts Education, and the Downtown Business Alliance. Amy Grant: grantamyn@ gmail.com, 484-885-3037; or Rhonda Bellamy: info@artswilmington.org, 910-343-0998.

ART EXPLOSIONS

Closing reception: Feb. 23, 6pm—Jeffery Geller creates outside-of-the-box art, original art with paper, clay, paint, wood, and often found objects. Experience shadow boxes and art explosions outside of shadow boxes. View clay and paper mobiles, mixed-media collages, paintings, and ceramics. Exhibit runs until Feb. 24. Art in Bloom, 210 Princess St.

ART ATTACK: BAD ART

Feb. 23, 4pm: At this new program teenagers can express themselves on a different theme each month. The group will be a judgment-free zone and no prior artistic experience is required. February’s theme will be “Love Stinks, or Bad Art FTW! (For the win).” Art Attack is free and for teens only. To make sure we have enough supplies, reg. on the calendar, NHCLibrary.org or 910-798-6371. Librarian Pamela Penza: ppenza@nhcgov.com or 910-798-

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6371. Northeast Regional Library, NHC, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd. GATHERING THE FLOCK

Feb. 23, 5pm: “Gathering the Flock” is a muchanticipated tribute show to recognize Dina Wilde-Ramsing and her long artist career creating form and fantasy from clay. Hosted by Acme artist Dick Roberts, the show takes visitors on a tour of Dina’s world, an artist’ journey that winds through her early years, education and artistic influences that stem from archaeology and art history, teaching days including daylong raku firings, aspects of her studio workings, and the various awards that recognize her talents. The main gallery features many of Dina’s signature pieces that trace her progression over four decades of clay art. Other spaces exhibit Dina’s functional ceramic pieces and her occasional venture into the painters world. dmwilderamsing@gmail.com. Acme Art Studios, 711 N 5th Ave.

HOLDING ON TO TRADITION

Opening Reception: Feb. 23; closing reception: March 23. In t“Holding on to Tradition: A View of Changing Cultures,” photographer Barbara Michael and painter/photographer Evin Leek explore cultural changes in pre-war Yemen and post-war Guatemala. Through paintings, photographs, and displays of traditional clothing, these artists offer a view into the daily lives of two unique cultures. Although they are geographically distanced, both communities share a common desire to preserve fading traditions. This exhibition tells the stories of survivors, and gives insight into the challenges they face on the brink and in the aftermath of tragedy. On display through April 13. MC Erny Gallery at WHQR, 254 N. Front St.

EXPO 216

Feb. 23, 6pm: Opening reception for “I Will Live On,” by Kristen Crouch, is a sculptural tribute to her brother, who passed in 2006. This collection consists of five works created from wood, bronze, and iron. • Expo 216 is hosting Notary Night on Feb. 23rd from 6-9pm! Come out to view the Death & Dying exhibit, fill out an Advance Directive, and have it notarized on the spot. This event is in conjunction with Fourth Friday Gallery Night. Music by two harpists will enchant you and light hors d’oeuvres will be served. • Feb. 23, 6pm: Blank Canvas Awareness Art addresses the undiscussed struggle of 20% of the population. This 20% have a language-based learning disability, such as dyslexia. Expo 216 is currently displaying the artistic expression of this pain as felt by children and their parents. This show will be on display for the month of February at Expo 216.

Expo 216 gallerium, 216 N. Front St. Wed-Sun, noon-6pm, 910-769-3899, www.expo216.com

VERONICA’S VEILS

Mar. 1, 5:30pm: One of North Carolina’s most honored artists, Herb Jackson has been engaged for nearly forty years in the series of paintings titled “Veronica’s Veils.” All the paintings are 60 x 48 inches, and are built up in many layers of acrylic mixed with pumice, which are scraped off as they are being applied. The final outcome is the result of a process of discovery similar to the life experience itself. We will display a selection of works chosen from over 240 paintings produced in the suite thus far. CAB Art Gallery Cultural Arts Building UNCW, 601 South College Rd.

dance

CAPE FEAR CONTRA DANCERS

Come on out for two hours of energetic, contemporary American country dancing with live music by Box of Chocolates band—fiddle, percussion, guitar, dulcimer, bass, mandolin and more! Dress cool & comfortable, softsoled shoes. All ages. 2nd/4th Tues, 7:30pm.

United Methodist, 409 S. 5th Ave.

LINE DANCING CLASS

The Dance Element presents classes for adults and seniors w/Sheryl Pacelli on Mon., 1-2pm, in the Ogden Business Park. No previous experience Is necessary; no advance enrollment required. Drop in for inrto session which runs 7 weeks through Mar. 19. $7-$35. www.thedanceelement.com. 7211 Ogden Business Ln. #205

comedy OPEN MIC

The wildest open mic in town ... anything goes. (except cover songs). Stand-up comedy, slam poetry, video, live music, odd talents—performances of all kinds. Hosted by 6-beer Steve.

Sign up, 8pm, and runs all night. Juggling Gypsy 1612 Castle St. ILM, (910) 763-2223 daily after 3pm for details. www.jugglinggypsy.com.

COMEDY BINGO

Brent Blakeney headlines comedy bingo at Dead Crow, Tuesday nights, 8pm. Free show featuring the best comics from all over the Southeast, all while playing bingo along with the words they say! Win prizes and enjoy discount tacos! Hosted by Louis Bishop with in-booth side kick comedian Lew Morgante.

Dead Crow Comedy Club, 265 N. Front St.

GRUFF GOAT COMEDY

On the first Wed. ea. month, Gruff Goat Comedy features Three Guest Comics Under a Bridge. No Trolls. Waterline Brewing Company, 721 Surry Lane

PRIMETIME COMEDY

Come see some of North Carolina’s best stand-up comedians in a world class venue!

This month our super talented performers are: Brett Williams, Cordero Wilson, Grant Sheffield, Louis Bishop, and Tyler Wood. Hosted by: Wills Maxwell. N Front Theatre (formerly City Stage), 21 N Front St.

COMEDY IN HELL

Feb. 21, 9pm: Join us at Hell’s Kitchen for Comedy Night! Show starts at 9pm. Free.

Hell’s Kitchen-Wilmington, 118 Princess St.

CAROLINA COMEDY CUP

Wed. 9pm: Comedy King of the Carolina’s, Louis Bishop, will be bringing the Carolina Comedy Cup to the Lazy Pirate again this year. Louis started this well-anticipated Comedy Show here over 6 years ago and it is now the longest-running independent Comedy Competition in the Carolinas. More than 50 aspiring comics will be competing for beloved CCC Trophy and a grand prize of $500. For more details on the show and how to compete contact Louis Bishop. www.facebook.com/

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louisbishopcomedy. Lazy Pirate Island Sports Grill, 701 N Lake Pk Blvd.

museums CAMERON ART MUSEUM

State of the Art/Art of the State: (through July 8): Focusing on contemporary art by artists currently living in, or native to, the state of North Carolina. Artists bring a single work of art to be installed in the museum, delivering the work within 24‐hour period. No fee. During this time frame, four curators from North Carolina institutions greet each artist and talk about their work. The design of this project provides any participating artist equal opportunity to meet a significant curator working in the field of contemporary art today. CAM organized with a visual schematic for reference to the over 600 intensely installed artworks. • CAM Café open and serving delicious menu with full bar, 5pm-9pm. Tues.-Sun., 11am-2pm; Thurs. nights, 5pm-9pm 910-395-5999. www.cameronartmuseum.org. 3201 S. 17th St.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM

WB 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 WB. (910) 256-2569. 303 W. Salisbury St. www.wbmuseum.com.

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 after-hours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mon. at 10:30am, only $5 per family and access to entire Museum. Admission only $9 adult, $8 senior/military, $5 child, ages 2-12, and free under age 2. 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-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.

CAPE FEAR SERPENTARIUM

World’s most fascinating and dangerous reptiles in beautiful natural habitats, feat. a 12foot saltwater crocodile, “Bubble Boy” and “Sheena,” a 23-ft 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 St. 910-762-1669. capefearserpentarium.com.

BELLAMY MANSION

open at Cape Fear Museum. The exhibit is on loan from the UNC Library’s North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives and will be on view through September 2018. To create Photographs by Hugh Morton, Stephen Fletcher, photographic archivist at UNC Library’s North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, selected images from the library’s collection of Morton’s estimated quarter-million negatives and transparencies. Shows experiences as a photojournalist; as a soldier in the Pacific Theater during World War II; and as owner and operator of Grandfather Mountain tourist attraction in Linville. Exhibits more than 50 images feature dozens of his lesser known or unpublished photographs, as well as some classics. Will feature brochures, postcards and prints. CF Museum, 814 Market St.

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, it focuses on history and the design arts and offers tours, changing exhibitions and an in- EXPO 216 Newly opened exhibit feat. end-of-life issues. formative look at historic preservation in acEnter Grandma’s House and address the eltion.910-251-3700. bellamymansion.org. 503 ephant in the room. Pick up an advance direcMarket St. tive. Review the History of Hospice . ContemBURGWIN WRIGHT HOUSE plate individual responses of compassion in 18th century Burgwin-Wright House Museum the arena. Wed.-Sun., noon-6pm. 216 N Front in the heart of Wilmington’s Historic District, St. www.expo216.com. 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/Market St. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Last STORY EXPLORERS tour, 3pm. 910-762-0570. www.burgwinwrightCameron Art Museum, every Thurs., 10house.com.

10:30am: Admission by donation. Bring your CAPE FEAR MUSEUM infant, toddler or preschooler for story time, See NC through the eyes of Wilmington-born gallery exploration and an art project! georphotographer Hugh MacRae Morton (1921gia@cameronartmuseum.org for more info.

2006). His captivating images will be featured 3201 S. 17th St. in the traveling exhibit “Photographs by Hugh LITTLE EXPLORERS Morton: An Uncommon Retrospective,” is now

Thurs. and Sat., 10am: Meet your friends in Museum Park for fun hands-on activities! Enjoy interactive circle time, conduct exciting experiments, and play games related to a weekly theme. Perfect for children ages 3 to 6 and their adult helpers every Friday. Free! Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St. AERODYNAMICS FUN

Kids ages 6 to 13 are invited to build and test a variety of paper airplanes at this free library program. They’ll learn about the four forces of flight (lift, weight, thrust, and drag) as they observe the performance of different airplane designs. How far will it fly? How accurately will it land? Will it loop-the-loop? No registration is required for this free program for kids ages 6 to 13. Meaghan Weiner: mweiner@nhcgov. com/910-798-6385.

SATURDAY STORY HOUR

Miss Shannon will lead interactive story hours for kids ages 3-6 on the first and third Saturdays of May at the Main Library in downtown Wilmington. Saturday Story Hour is free and no pre-registration is needed. Opens with a picture book and end with a project or activity at the end, and include time to play, learn, and laugh in between. Ea. child should bring a participating adult. Shannon Vaughn: 910-7986303. svaughn@nhcgov.com. 201 Chestnut St.

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FRENCH PLAYGROUP

Thurs., 10am: Chantez! Jouez! Rencontrez des nouveaux amis! Sing, play, and meet new friends at French Playgroup at the main library!

Informal hour where young kids and parents/ caregivers can hear and try out some French words. Free and no advance registration is needed. Main Library Children’s Room at 910798-6303 or sdemarco@nhcgov.com. NHC

Main Library, 201 Chestnut St. TEEN COSPLAY WORKSHOP

Feb. 20, 5:30pm: Cosplay is short for costume play, or dressing like a character from a movie, book, or video game, and it’s especially popular with anime and manga fans. At this free workshop, teens will make convincinglooking cosplay weapons and accessories with cardboard, tape, and paint! Teen Anime and Manga Club follows immediately after this workshop, and participants are welcome to stay and con. Participation is free and open to teens ages 12 to 18. Basic materials provided, but feel free to bring additional materials you may want for your costume. Space is limited and registration on the calendar at www. nhcgov.com or by calling 910-798-6373. NHC Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

TEEN ANIME AND MANGA CLUB

Feb. 20, 6:30pm: Manga Club meets once a month, and is open to teens ages 13 to 17 with an interest in Japanese anime and manga. Participants are invited to suggest topics for discussions. Free library activity, and teens don’t need to register in advance to attend. Manga Club contact Shannon Vaughn at svaughn@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6379.

Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

HALYBURTON LITTLE EXPLORERS

Dino Dig: Thurs, 2/22, 10-11am, or Fri, 2/23, 10-11am or 11:30-12:30pm; Birds: Our Feathered Friends, Thurs, 3/8, 10-11am, or Fri, 3/9, 10-11am, or 11:30-12:30pm; ABCs of Nature, Thur, 3/22, 10-11am, or Fri, 3/23, 10-11am or 11:30-12:30pm; It Starts with a Seed: Thurs, 4/5, 10-11am, or Fri, 4/6, 10-11am or 11:3012:30pm; Oh My Deer: Thurs, 4/19, 10-11am, Fri, 4/20, 10-11am or 11:30-12:30pm. Pre-reg

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Eagle Island Cruises North & South bound

Cruising Friday, Saturday & Sunday - 50 min. narrated cruises $12

Even hours we cruise north along the Historic Downtown Riverfront & behind Eagles Island towards the Brunswick River. You will get up close to the Battleship, learn about rice plantations, and view Shipwrecks, Flora & Fauna. On the odd hours we cruise south to the State Ports, learn about the importance this port played during the Civil War & much more. Do both for 1 hour 40 min for $23 encore | february 21 - february 27, 2018 | www.encorepub.com 39

rqd for programs: www.halyburtonpark.com ENGINEERING CHALLENGES FOR KIDS

Feb. 22, 3:30pm: Kids ages 5 to 10 are invited to to discover engineering principles while solving problems like using limited materials to design and build tall towers, strong bridges, and catapults with range and impact! No registration is needed for this free family program.

Meaghan Weiner at mweiner@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6385. NHC Pleasure Island Library, 1401 N. Lake Blvd.

KIDS BOOT CAMP

Feb. 22, 4:25pm: Kids Boot Camp / Yoga focuses on keeping your child active and engaged while learning about fitness, teamwork, good sportsmanship, and the importance of developing a healthy lifestyle. Parents/Caregivers are welcome to stay and join the fun! Free with YMCA membership; $10 for drop-insExpress YMCA, 11 S. Kerr Ave.

FLUTE FUNDAMENTALS CLASS

BARGELLO QUILTING CLASS

2/22-3/15, 5:30-8:30pm: Room A-314. Quilting is a heritage craft with a rich and varied history, influenced by many cultures and individual quilters. Besides providing warmth as functional household items, quilts feature vivid patterns and scenes which often offer a glimpse into the time period in which they are made.

Bargello quilts feature colorful flame-like patterns similar to the embroidery technique of the same name of Italian and Hungarian origin. In this course you will construct a throwsized quilt top (54”x75”) using the No Measure Bargello Pattern which is easy enough for the “advanced beginner”; it should not be your first quilt unless you already have good sewing knowledge. Supplies required; please contact the Community Enrichment office at 910-3627199 for a supply list. Wilmington Campus. 12 hours. $70. CFCC, 411 N. Front St.

SNOW SPECTACULAR

Feb. 23, 9am: Ages: 5/under Cost: $5/child 2/22, Thurs., 5:30-7:30pm: Purpose of applied Adults: Free. Join us for Snow Spectacular! flute instruction is to develop each student’s We will make snow, have games, snack & spemusicianship and artistry to the fullest of his/ cial art activity! Fit For Fun Center, 302 S. 10th her potential. In this class students will develop St. 341-4630. www.fitforfuncenter.com. all aspects of flute playing such as tone, techBASEBALL PITCHING CAMP nique, interpretation and performance while Coastal Athletics pitching clinic on Sat., Feb. expanding their knowledge of the flute, flute 24, 3-6pm. Ages: 8-12 welcome. Price: $60. literature and pedagogy. Lessons will be con2049 Corporate Dr. 910-452-5838! Coastal ducted in a group setting. Prerequisites: 1-2 Athletics, 2049 Corporate Dr. South. years of flute playing recommended - contact 910-362-7199 for more information. Wilmington Campus. 12 hours. $120. Use course code 98523 to register at https://www3.cfcc.edu/cesched. Room WA-2046. Cape Fear Community NC BIRDING TRAIL College, 411 N. Front St.

outdoors/recreation

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Ea. mo. we explore different sites along the NC Birding Trail in the Coastal Plain. Each hike will be appx 2 mi. Transportation from Halyburton Park included. Wrightsville Beach Thurs 12/21, 8am-noon; ages: 16 and up.

Halyburton Park, 4099. S. 17th St. BLACKWATER ADVENTURE CRUISE

Two-hour cruise up the Northeast Cape Fear River, still largely unchanged and underpopulated as it was when Wilmington was colonized in the late 1600’s. Cruising through the Castle Hayne Aquifer and by the Bluffs of the Rose Hill Plantation. A narrated cruise based of the history and ecology of the area. 910338-3134. ILM Water Tours, 212 S. Water St.

HARBOR CRUISE

Weds, 3pm: Set sail on the Shamrock for a cruise around Wrightsville Beach’s Harbor Island—the island which separates the barrier island of the beach proper from the mainland.

Locations of historical, ecological and cultural note will be featured. Learn what year the first buildings on Wrightsville Beach were built.

Additionally, learn about the different types of marsh grasses, shorebirds, and fish we have teeming in the water surrounding the beach.

RSVP rqd. $15-$25. WB Scenic Tours, 275 Waynick Blvd.

SWING INTO SPRING

Feb. 24, 9:30am: Abilities Tennis Association will be sponsoring Swing Into Spring. This Adaptive Tournament gives individuals with intellectual disabilities an opportunity to learn tennis, compete in tournaments and share fellowship with other players. All experience levels welcome. Althea Gibson Tennis Complex,

Empie Park, 3405 Park Ave. FIRST FRIDAY BIRD HIKES

Mar. 2, 9am: Ages: 5/up—Join park staff for a leisurely bird-watching stroll around Halyburton Park. We’ll search for migrants, winter residents and point out year-round bird species too. These walks are for beginner birders and all are welcome. Pre-reg. rqd. for all programs.

Register online at www.halyburtonpark.com.

Halyburton Park, (910) 341-0075 or andy.fairbanks@wilmingtonnc.gov. 4099. S. 17th St.

classes ART CLASSES

Lois DeWitt art classes, $100/4 (two-hour).

Meditative Drawing: Wed., 10am and 2pm. • Thurs. and Fri, 5pm: Art it up—Nice and Easy! • Sat. 10am: Learn how to pour color shapes and define them with drawing. • Mon, 10am/2pm: Collage Magic • Tues, 10am and 2pm: Draw With Colored Pencils. All materials provided. www.free-online-art-classes.com (click on Wilmington Art Classes).910-547-8115 or loislight@bellsouth.net

NEW BASIC YOGA CLASSES

At the Midtown YMCA are happening now!

Join me on Tuesday nights from 6-7 pm for a challenging and relaxing way to end your day. See the schedule for a full list of classes.

Free with YMCA Membership or $10 drop-in.

Temple Baptist Church Activity Center, 709 George Anderson Dr.

PAPERMAKING CLASSES

Wed., 6pm: Adults explore different paper-

making techniques so you can make each sheet of paper unique. All materials included, but we encourage bringing in some of your own materials that you can include into your paper—such as flat mementos and plants.

See samples on our Facebook and website.

Adult and children classes held on Sat., 2pm.

Sign up: www.alunaworks.com. Aluna Works, 603 Castle St. POWER YOGA

Join us for power yoga on Sundays at Capt’n Bill’s, 3pm. Drop in fee of $8. Bring your own mat. 4240 Market St.

NATURE IN A NUTSHELL

Meet at grassy area next to picnic shelter #2 (by restrooms). Our nature themes will be brought to life through stories, songs, games, hikes, and other hands-on activities. Please dress for the weather (including closed-toe shoes) to be ready for outdoor fun! Whether the Weather be Cold, Sat, 2/10, 10-10:30am; Dino Dig, Sat, 2/24, 10-10:30am; Birds: Our Feathered Friends, Sat., 3/10, 10-10:30am; ABCs of Nature, Sat., 3/24, 10-10:30 am; It Starts with a Seed, Sat., 4/7, 10-10:30am; Oh My Deer!, Sat. 4/21, 10-10:30am. Pre-reg rqd for all programs: www.halyburtonpark.com.

Halyburton Park, 4099. S. 17th St.

ESSENTIALLY LIVING

Grab a delish cup of tea or coffee from Old North Coffee and Join us for this free class on learning how to incorporate essential oils into your life and home for a more natural lifestyle.

We will introduce you to CPTG oils & teach you the different ways to use them. Old North Coffee, 1207 S. Kerr Ave Ste. 1

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Through 2/22, 5:30-7pm:Speaking in public is often cited as the number one fear in America, and yet we all must do it at some point. Learn to overcome your anxiety in this brief course designed to help you boost your confidence and learn to become better skilled in everyday communication. Learn to recognize areas for improvement in a compassionate setting while developing a toolkit to overcome public speaking challenges. You will also learn to develop your own personal elevator speech to use confidently in daily life. Wilmington Campus.

4 hours. $40. Course code 98555 to register at https://www3.cfcc.edu/cesched. Room: U-153, CFCC, 411 N. Front St.

CFCC CLASSES

Drone Foundations: Through 2/22, M/T/W/Th, 9am-2pm: NA-237. Course will provide entrylevel drone/UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) enthusiasts a firm foundation into the basics of practical and applicable knowledge. This training is intended to provide knowledge of responsible drone/ UAV flight, and applications in the field of drone/ UAV operation. All students will participate in 8 hours of actual drone/UAV hands-on flight practice. North Campus. 20 hours. $150. Use course code 98363 to register at https://www3.cfcc.edu/ cesched/. Cape Fear Community College, North Campus, McKeithan Center, 4500 Blue Clay Rd. • Stress/Pain Management: Through 3/26, Mondays 9-10:30am: WA-1045. Practicing mindfulness allows you to bring awareness to what is going on in your mind and body at any given moment, helping you to slow down and live your life more fully. Learn how to become more focused, present and relaxed regardless of what is going on in your life!

Wilmington Campus. 9 hours. $75. Use course

code 98373 to register at https://www3.cfcc. edu/cesched. • Yoga Over 50: Through 3/26, Mon., 11am-12:30pm: WA-1045. Want to do something about that achy, stiff body that crept up on you somewhere along the way? Or want to avoid getting that way? Are you recovering from or coping with acute or chronic pain or illness? Try Yoga Over 50 to help you stay at your best. Pre-requisite: ability to get up and down off the floor. Wilmington Campus. 9 hours. $75. Use course code 98374 to register at www3.cfcc.edu/cesched. • Yoga for All Levels,Through 3/26, Mon., 1-2pm: WA-1045.

Take a break from your busy day! Step out of auto pilot, re-connect, renew and enjoy this alignment-based All-Levels Yoga class. We will move from seated stretching through invigorating standing poses into calmness and relaxation. Poses, integrated with the breath, will be presented with options for varying levels of challenge to meet the needs of all, regardless of Yoga practice experience. This class will “just enough” for a mid-day refresher! Wilmington Campus. 6 hours. $55. Cape Fear Community College, 411 N. Front St. CIRCLE OF LIFE

Feb. 20, 7pm: Free workshop will discuss.

Does life seem to kick you when you least expect it? The answer is here! Blockage of truth is the normal sate of the average human mind.

Information one wishes not to see inhibits the ability of the mind to show that information.

To see through this blockage one must have guidelines for determining the appropriateness of behavior. This workshop provides empowering behavioral guides with which to keep your own mind on tract and always have the highest and best information possible for making our decisions opening to actual choices! Unity of Wilmington, 717 Orchard Ave.

COASTAL AMBASSADOR TRAINING

Feb. 21, 7pm: The first Coastal Ambassador training will focus on engaging, training and updating new and current ambassadors with the planned outreach efforts for 2018. The training will also introduce some of the work that the federation is undertaking in the Cape Fear River. The federation is working with stakeholders on the Cape Fear Blueprint, which will provide a roadmap for future conservation work in the estuary. Southeast Coastal Ambassadors are a special group of volunteers that help spread the word about the work of the federation and engage the public in our projects. Ambassadors serve as representatives of the federation at festivals, programs and other outreach events. Benefits of being a Coastal Ambassador include monthly trainings, special field trips, and recognition through Ambassador tshirts and name tags. Fred and Alice Stanback Education Center, 309 W. Salisbury St.

A COURSE IN MIRACLES

Feb. 21, 7pm: Dr. Ryce has taught The Course In Miracles for over 30 years and has been proclaimed a “teacher of teachers”. One participant, who has studied The Course for several years said “I realize now The Course is like a giant jigsaw puzzle and until now I didn’t have the box top. Everything just fell into place! What I knew from my years of study of The Course I now understand! My enthusiasm has skyrocketed!” Unity of Wilmington, 717 Orchard Ave.

INTRO TO FINDING GRANTS

Feb. 21, 2pm: New to the field of grant seeking for nonprofit organization? Free workshop about Foundation Directory Online, the major national search tool for philanthropic funding,

which is available for use at no charge using NHC Library computers in Library buildings.

Workshop will cover 10 important questions for grant seekers, including how to identify appropriate potential funders for your project and make the first approach, and what the potential funders will want to know about your organization. Free but space limited. Register on the calendar, NHCLibrary.org or 910-798-6301.

PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY ONLINE

Feb. 21, 3pm: Hands-on computer class will provide tips and options to help you protect your privacy online. Topics will include creating strong passwords, privacy settings on social media sites, and an overview of browsers and search engines. Workshop is free but space limited. Register on the calendar, NHCLibrary. org or 910-798-6371.

LEGAL INFO WITH WESTLAW

Feb. 21, 5pm: Not sure where to start with a legal issue? Law Librarian Natasha Francois will explain how to search for case law, statutes, forms and more using Westlaw, a major online legal research tool available in the Law Library at New Hanover County’s Main Library. Experienced users may be interested in tips about targeted searching and information about the recently added content. Free but space limited. Register on the calendar, www.nhclibrary. com, or 910-798-6301.

LOCATE LEGAL INFO

Feb. 21, 5pm: Not sure where to start with a legal issue? Law Librarian Natasha Francois will explain how to search for case law, statutes, forms and more using Westlaw, a major online legal research tool available in the Law Library

at New Hanover County’s Main Library. Experienced users may be interested in tips about targeted searching and information about the recently added content. Free but space is limited. www.nhclibrary.com or 910-798-6301.

Natasha Francois: nfrancois@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6301. NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St. COURSE IN MIRACLES

Feb. 21, 7pm: Dr. Ryce has taught Course In Miracles for over 30 years and has been proclaimed a “teacher of teachers.” One participant, who has studied The Course for several years said, “I realize now The Course is like a giant jigsaw puzzle and until now I didn’t have the box top. Everything just fell into place!

What I knew from my years of study of The Course I now understand! My enthusiasm has skyrocketed!” Unity of Wilmington, 717 Orchard Ave.

ART FOR ADULTS: ORIGAMI

Feb. 22, 3:30pm: Origami is widely practiced in South Korea, the host of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Learn to fold some basic origami designs at this free workshop. Workshop is intended for adults. It’s free and supplies will be provided, but space is limited. To make sure you have a seat, register on calendar, www.NHCLibrary.org, or 910-798-6371. NHC Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

NATUROPATHIC KEYS TO HEALTH

Feb. 22, 7pm: Free workshop; Dr. Ryce has doctorates in Naturopathic Medicine and Wholistic Philosophy, that, combined with his background in electronics, uniquely qualifies him to make sense of how nutrition, the mind and body work together. New discoveries

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about the power and importance of Greens will be reviewed! This information will change the way you view everything. Unity of Wilmington, 717 Orchard Ave. FIRST AID, CPR AND AED CLASS

Feb. 23, 9am-3pm: NB-125. The course is designed to teach basic CPR, first aid and AED use and how to relieve choking. North Campus. 6 hours. $70. Use course code 98534 to register at https://www3.cfcc.edu/cesched.

Cape Fear Community College, North Campus, McKeithan Center, 4500 Blue Clay Rd.

THE YOGA WAY

Feb. 23, 6pm: Concentrated overview of the human condition from ancient yogic and modern psychological perspectives. We review yogic concepts related to understanding the mind, including koshas, kleshas, samskaras, and the gunas. We explore how these concepts fit together with western ideas of mind and how they may be useful in understanding and treating dysfunction. Students will learn Tantra Hatha yoga therapy methods for managing or assisting in healing psychological difficulties, including depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress responses. Wilmington Yoga, 5329 Oleander Dr., Ste 200

ARAMAICISM

Free workshop on health and healing, with doctorates in Naturopathic Medicine and in Holistic Philosophy. The focus of Dr. Ryce’s studies has combined “bodymind” principles, physics and ancient Aramaic studies into a unique body of pioneering work in the fields of self-healing, healing through relationships, anger and grief resolution, world peace and the inner process of forgiveness. Unity of Wilming-

ton, 717 Orchard Ave. COMPUTER CLASS: CREATING DOCS

Feb. 26, 5pm: Hands-on computer class at the downtown Library will help you get started creating documents in Microsoft Word. Google Docs will also be covered, for participants with Google accounts. You’ll get comfortable with basic formatting, and learn how to use templates. Class is free but space is limited, so please register on the calendar, www.nhcgov. com. Natasha Francois at nfrancois@nhcgov. com/910-798-6301. NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St.

BASIC YOGA

Feb. 27, 6pm: Basic Yoga is a challenging and relaxing way to end your day! Classes are taught at the level of the participants, modifications are given for those who need it, and mats and props are available for use. Classes are taught on alternating Tuesdays by Wendi Epps and Steve Unger. Free for YMCA members; $10 for drop-ins. YMCA MIdtown, George Anderson Dr.

INTRO TO PROPOSAL WRITING

Feb. 28, 2pm: Whether you’re new to grant proposal writing or just want a quick refresher, this free class is for you. You’ll also learn about Foundation Directory Online, the major national search tool for philanthropic funding, which is available for use at no charge using NHC Library computers in Library buildings.

Workshop gives an overview of how to write a standard project proposal to a foundation that makes grants to nonprofit organizations.

You’ll learn the basic elements of a proposal, “do’s” and “don’ts” of writing and submitting a

proposal, and how to follow up whether the answer is “yes” or “no.” Free but space is limited, register on the calendar at www.NHCLibrary.org or 910-798-6301. Natasha Francois at nfrancois@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6301.

NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St. INTRO TO BLOGGING

Feb. 28, 3pm: If you have a lot of thoughts you want to share with the world on a regular basis, you may want to put them in a blog, your own personal but very public online journal.

Free library workshop will help you get started blogging. Topics include an explanation of what blogs are and how people find them, free software available online for publishing your blog attractively, and basic blogging tips. Hands-on workshop is free but space is limited. Register on the calendar at www.

NHCLibrary.org or 910-798-6371.

lectures/literary BEGIN THE CONVERSATION CLINICS

Lower Cape Fear Hospice will host free Begin the Conversation clinics from 10-11 a.m. the third Fri. of ea. mo., Phillips LifeCare & Counseling Center, 1414 Physicians Dr. Free, 18 and older, will provide attendees information and resources to think about and plan for future healthcare decisions. Attendees will receive specific strategies for initiating conversations that can significantly reduce family stress and improve quality of care. Advance directives supplied so healthcare instructions can be legally documented. Jason: 910-7967943. jason.clamme@lcfh.org.

LET’S TALK BOOKS

Join a different kind of book club! Weekly meeting, Wed., 11am, offers book lovers a chance to meet and compare notes about favorite books and authors. Attendance is free and advance registration is not needed, just drop in! Teresa Bishop at tbishop@nhcgov. com / 910-798-6385. NHC Pleasure Island Library, 1401 N. Lake Blvd.

TECH TUESDAYS: WINDOWS 10

Feb. 20, 1pm: Confused by Windows 10?

Register for this basic class on the new operating system, and learn tips and tricks for personalizing it for all your needs. Remember to bring your charged device, cords, passwords and library card with you. Hands-on workshop is free but space is limited. Register on the calendar at www.NHCLibrary.org or 910798-6385. Pleasure Island Manager Teresa Bishop at tbishop@nhcgov.com or 910-7986385. New Hanover County Library/Pleasure Island, 1401 N Lake Park Blvd.

RACE MATTERS DISCUSSION GROUP

Feb. 20, 6:30pm: New group will meet monthly to discuss racial issues in American society, beginning by reading and discussing Debby Irving’s memoir “Waking Up Whit and Fining Myself in the Discussion of Race.”

Books have been donated to the Library for this group and will be distributed at the first meeting. Everyone is welcome. Dorothy Hodder at dhodder@nhcgov.com or 910-7986301. NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St.

WINDOW INTO WILMINGTON’S PAST

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Feb. 22, 11am: David A. Stallman – The Cotton Exchange: A Window into Wilmington’s Past will feature the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society’s first book talk of the year. Stallman will be speaking about his book “The

Cotton Exchange: A Window into Wilmington’s Past.” All book talks are Thurs. at 11am with an optional lunch following in the Tea Room at noon. Nonmembers: $5 for the talk, $15 for talk and lunch. LCFHS members: free entry, $10 for lunch. Latimer House at 910-762-0492 (leave message after hours) to make a reservation for talk/lunch by Tues. on the week of the presentation. 126 S. 3rd St. GALLERY TALK: STATE OF THE ART

Feb. 22, 6:30pm: Artists Ashly Farley (Bob’s Office, found materials, LED Lights), Addison Jones (Christian’s Piece, charcoal) and Claire Mains (Petunias in Watering Can, watercolor) whose work is on view in CAM’s current exhibition. State of the Art/Art of the State come together for an informal conversation on their art work. Join in the discussion about their inspiration and process. Hughes Wing. Members: Free; museum admission all others. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th St.

UNCW HONORS’ SPRING SPEAKER

Feb. 22, 7pm: UNCW’s Honors College presents its annual spring speaker: Dr. Brian Hare.

Dr. Hare is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience in Duke’s Institute for Brain Sciences. He is the co-founder of Dognition, a truly revolutionary new service for dog lovers who wonder about their dog’s intelligence. His talk is titled “Survival of the Friendliest: From Dogs to Democracy.” UNCW, Burney Center, 601 S. College Rd.

SPOKEN WORD POETRY

Feb. 23, 8pm: Listen to poets puttin’ down the true spoken word, hosted by Bigg B and Sandra, themiddaymiss of COAST Radio (97.3 FM) with music by DJ Mike Lang. For details or to participate as a poet email: sandra@coast973. com or call the studio line: 910.763.0973. Purchase seats the night of at the door; cash bar available. Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall. Admission: $10, Students with valid college ID, $5. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th St.

clubs/notices LA LECHE LEAGUE

Sat., 10am, meetings are informal and open to pregnant women, mothers, babies and children. If you have questions or just would like to meet other breastfeeding mothers, this is the meeting for you. La Leche League Leaders are experienced mothers who have breastfed their own babies and who have been trained and accredited by La Leche League International to help mothers and mothers-to-be with all aspects of breastfeeding. Bump & Beyond, 4712 New Centre Dr. #106.

NHC HAZWAGON

New Hanover County encourages residents to safely dispose of toxic materials with its new mobile collection unit, the HazWagon. stationed various days at three different locations in New Hanover County to collect household hazardous waste and electronics free of charge. Residents can bring items to the following locations each week: Mon., 10am2pm, at Ogden Park ball fields; Wed., 10am2pm at Wrightsville Beach Municipal Complex in the Farmers’ Market field by the recycle center; Fridays at Carolina Beach Mike Chappell Park (in the south side of the park across from the tennis courts), 10am-2pm.

FRIDAY NIGHT MAGIC

Format of Magic: The Gathering tournaments, WHAT’S YOUR STORY Feb. 21, 6pm: Join us at The Foxes Boxes the held on Friday nights in gaming stores and third Wed., of every month from 6pm-8pm, to associations all across the world. They are be inspired by the many personal stories of designed to be a beginner-friendly introducthose living in our community. Every month we tion to organized play. Standard format. $6 fee will hear different individuals who will share paid towards prize support for event. Prizes their personal experience living in our comare a pack per win and also if you complete all munity. February will include representatives 4 rounds. Event begins at 7pm, reg. begins at from LINC, Phoenix Hometown Hires (StepUp 6pm. Arrive early for event reg. Free play, $6 Wilmington and EDSI. In addition we will have entry fee first FNM Free. Cape Fear Games, a special speaker, Tony Shook, a local resi4107 Oleander Dr., Ste D. dent who found himself incarcerated for 23 POKEMON LEAGUE years. These representatives will give details On Sunday evening learn to play the Pokemon on how you can get more involved with causes Trading Card game, battle and trade in the you care passionately about. The Foxes Boxvideo games, or enjoy the store’s Pokemon es, 622 N. 4th St. Go Pokestop. Ages are welcome to our family friendly environment. www.facebook.com/ NEW HANOVER NAACP MONTHLY MEETING Feb. 22, 7pm: New Hanover NAACP monthly groups/CFGPokemon. Cape Fear Games, meeting at St. Stephen AME Church, 501 Red 4107 Oleander Dr., Ste D Cross St. Information regarding vital commuBIRTH CIRCLE nity and state issues will be on the agenda, Every 3rd Sat. come for our Birth Circle, someas well as upcoming New Hanover NAACP thing always different every month. Check out Branch events. Members and friends are enwebsite for more details of what we have in couraged to attend. 765-0102 or email nhcstore this month & exact time of each event! naacp@gmail.com. www.thebumpandbeyond.com. Bump & BeUN MEMBERS’ BREAKFAST yond, 4712 New Centre Dr. #106.

Feb. 24, 9am: Coastal Carolina Chapter of the CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM United Nations Association USA is hosting its We explore God using the methods and guidannual breakfast meeting. This year’s speaker ance of Moses, Jesus, the prophets and a rich is Dr. Anup Phayal, a UNCW professor and sampling of delightful saints including Thereformer UN peacekeeper who will be speaksa of Avila, Meister Eckhart and Thomas Aquiing on “Poverty, Conflict and UN Peacekeepnas. We will meet twice a month for fellowship, ing.” Anup Phayal is an assistant professor at poetry, instruction in spiritual practices, group the Public and International Affairs where he meditations and playful spiritual fun. First and teaches the Conflict Management and Resoluthird Sundays of each month, 2pm. Parking tion Program and was a research fellow at the on 15th St. Respond to me, John Evans, at inHoward H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, sightbuilders@gmail.com. Morning Glory CofUniversity of Tennessee. $20 students/$15 feehouse, 1415 Dawson St. RSVP by Feb. 20, boomershinea@gmail.com.

WILMINGTON FENCING CLUB Facebook: www.facebook.com/UNACoastAdults meet Tues/Thurs, 7:45-9pm, and Youth alcarolina. New membership $25 for the first meet Wed, 6:45-7:45pm. Class is open to year, and $50/year after, with half of that rethe community, beginners welcome, and all turning to the local chapter. McNeill Hall, equipment is provided! Sessions are 6 weeks UNCW, 601 S. College Rd. long and the cost is just $5 per class! FencMAKE A BLANKET DAY ing incorporates agility, strength, coordinaFeb. 24, 10am: Quilters, knitters, crocheters, tion, balance, and timing. In fencing, physical and crafters, drop in at Northeast Library to ability is just as important as having a strong make hand-made blankets for local children mental edge. Competitors of a fencing match in need or crisis. Drop in or stay for all five wear protective gear including a jacket, glove, hours. Free and pre-reg. not rqd. Participants and head gear. Sport of fencing features three can bring sewing machines, afghans in progdifferent levels, which are categorized by the ress, or whatever you need to work on a blantype of weapon used in each level. The weapket or two. All blankets and donated materials ons used include the epee, foil, and the saber. will go to the New Hanover/Brunswick/Pender Fencing is an aerobically challenging sport. In chapter of Project Linus. The nonprofit orgaorder to condition one’s body, initial fencing nization’s mission is to provide love, a sense training consists of challenging conditioning of security, warmth and comfort to children exercises. Express YMCA, 11 S. Kerr Ave. who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise ATHENIAN AT LARGE in need. Useful donations for Make A BlanSun., 3pm: Athenian Press & Workshops is ket Day include kid- and teen-friendly woven reintroducing its At Large series. Every Sunfabrics in cotton/cotton blend, flannel, and day, we will hold a town-hall style community fleece; non-woolen yarn; quilt batting; spare meeting in which woman and femme creators sewing thread; quilting pins; sewing machine (artists, writers, arts entrepreneurs, etc.) are needles; and scissors. Materials must be new, invited to discuss current events. Provides unused, washable, and free of mold, mildew, an opportunity to connect with fellow creators and smoke. Project Linus cannot accept upand survivors of marginalization, and it offers holstery fabric, synthetic or knit fabrics, wool, a forum to use writing as healing. Each week or novelty yarns. Leigh Thomas at lethomas@ the Athenian team invites its guest to parnhcgov.com or 910-798-6371. ticipate in a writing prompt at the end of the FEMME SPEAK OUT meeting. Following will be Athenian Yoga with Mar. 2, 7pm: Femme Speak Out is a powerful Heather Gordy, who curates a practice that open mic/showcase for women and femmes allows guests to decompress, explore creativto speak out in a safe space in forms of poity, and reflect upon the discussion (although etry, comedy, song, monologue, or rant. both events can occur independently if guests Pre-opening celebration in Athenian Press cannot attend both). Pomegranate Books, & Workshops’s brand new space. Special 4418 Park Ave. guests, music, and other artists to be an-

nounced soon. $5. creative@athenianpw.org.

Athenian exists to provide spaces for marginalized voices, especially people of color and queer folk. Athenian Bookstore & Lounge, 2231 Wrightsville Ave.

culinary FERMENTAL

Free tasting every Friday, 6pm. Third Wed. of each month feat. musical and brewing talents alongside an open mic night, as well as the opportunity for homebrewers to share, sample, and trade their creations: an evening of beer and an open stage. PA and equipment provided. All genres and beer styles.• Feb. 24, 6pm: As part of their monthly brewery series, Fermental proudly welcomes Allagash Brewing of Portland, Maine for an evening of beer tastings, giveaways, live music, food trucks, and more! Rare beers and everyday favorites will be featured including past vintages of annual releases as well as a few of their coveted sours on draught: White Ale Saison James Bean Confluence Fluxus Hibernal Fluxus Interlude James & Julie Hive Victor and more. Soulful Twist food truck and music from Rhythm Bones [rock-soul-blues]. www.fermental.net. 910-821-0362. 7250 Market St.

FREE BREWERY TOURS AND TASTINGS

3pm, 3:45pm, 4:30pm everyday at Front Street Brewery, 9 N. Front St. Learn how we brew our beer, meet brewers and get two free samples.

PORT CITY FARMERS’ MARKET

Tues., 5pm: Join us for a wonderful, exciting night of fun. Port City Farmer’s Market at Waterline Brewing Co. 100% local, 100% handmade. Shop among some incredible local vendors, artists and farmers. Support small businesses in your area. Fresh local produce, beef and pork products, sweets, pickled items, handcrafted jewelry and art.

Waterline Brewing Company, 721 Surry Ln. BEER BINGO

Every Thursday night for beer bingo. No charge for cards. Great prizes. Food and drink specials. Capt’n Bills Backyard and Grille, 4240 Market St.

NEMA LOUNGE AND EATERY

Hump Day Happy Hour: 5-7 pm every Wednesday at NeMa Burger & Pizza Lounge! $5 Angus beef burgers and $2.50 16 oz Buds/Bud Lights. Martini Tastings every Friday and Saturday, 4-8 pm. 5 tastings + one small order of NeMa Fancy Fries, $20/ person. NeMa Lounge & Eatery, 225 S. Water St., Chandler’s Wharf

FARMERS MARKET

Wrightsville Beach Brewery, 6201 Oleander Dr, Thursdays 2-6pm, year-round, excluding major holidays. Support local farmers and artisans in the beer garden Thursday afternoons. Shop for veggies, meat, eggs, honey and hand-made crafts while enjoying one of the Brewery’s many delicious beers. Stay afterward for live music! wbbfarmersmarket@ gmail.com

SHAKESPEARE BRUNCH

Shakespeare Brunch, Sundays, 12-2pm. $20. ($8 Reading Only). Reserved seat-

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ing. Monthly Sunday Brunch featuring a greatly abridged reading of one of Shakespeare’s classic plays. Brunch and dessert with choice of entrée included in your ticket.

Drinks and gratuity not included. Portion of proceeds donated to Shakespearean educational outreach programs. Mar.18: Taming of the Shrew; Apr. 22: Hamlet; May 20: Two Gentleman of Verona; June 17: The Tempest.

TheatreNOW, 19 S. 10th St. SWEET N SAVORY CAFE

Every Wed. we uncork 5-7pm delicious wines from all over the world. You never know what we have planned for the week, but our weekly newsletter will keep you updated. • Tues. Couples Night: Purchase any dinner entrees & any bottle of wine to enjoy a free shared appetizer and a free shared dessert.

• Fri.: $10 off all bottles of wine over $35 from 650+ wine selection. Epicurean Dinner Menu changes monthly—amazing dishes at affordable prices; full menu at sweetnsavory.cafe/epicurean-wilmington-nc. $2 pints daily. www.sweetnsavory.cafe/winetastingwilmington-nc. Sweet n Savory Cafe, 1611 Pavillion Pl.

WINE AT WATERLINE

Feb. 21, 6pm: Wine at Waterline free wine and cheese pairing, presented by Blockade Runner Head Chef Jessica Cabo & Art in Bloom Gallery’s featured artist Debra Bucci.

Hand picked bright, floral and fresh wines to feature, each paired perfectly with just the right cheese! Live music by TK and beautiful floral inspired art showcase and sale courtesy of http://bit.ly/ArtInBloomGallery. Waterline Brewing Company, 721 Surry Lane

support groups WILMINGTON PRIDE YOUTH GROUP

Middle school and high-school students: Wilmington Pride and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation have joined together to create and facilitate a youth group for children/ youth (middle school and high school) who are LGBTQIA, plus straight allies. A safe space for kids to talk about orientation, gender, racial equality, political consequences, religion, self harm and self-care. Needed: youth facilitators, especially those who are trained to work with kids, and speakers to talk about important topics. Meets Thurs., 7:30pm, UU Congregation of Wilmington, 4313 Lake Ave, (across from Roland Grise Middle School). Sue Graffius: dre@uufwilmington.org).

ANXIETY / OCD SUPPORT GROUP

Group meets 1st and 3rd Thursday, 7-8:30pm, of each month at Pine Valley United Methodist Church, 3788 Shipyard Blvd. Building B. Christopher Savard, Ph.D., with Cape Fear Psychological Services, gives a presentation the 1st Thursday of each month. The 3rd Thursday meeting is member led. Everyone 18+ welcome. Alayne: 910-763-8134

TEEN TRANSGENDER SUPPORT GROUP

Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Support Group, free, facilitated by TR Nunley and Jamie Alper. This group will focus on the mental health needs unique to transgender and gender non-conforming adolescents (13 years old -18 years old). Topics covered will include but are not limited to: understanding one’s own gender, bullying, discrimination,

and violence, family dynamics, coming out, being misgendered, handling invasive personal questions from others, safety and safe spaces, anxiety and mood stability. Nova Swanstrom first at (910) 442-8480 x3009 with Delta Behavioral Clinic.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Life Community Church, located inside Independence Mall, will have a recovery meeting every Monday evening at 6:30 pm starting with fellowship followed by a large group meeting at 7pm. Support groups for men and women follow at 8 pm. The meeting is in the Extension located across from Branches bookstore and the church auditorium. Jodie: 910-547-8973, 791-3859 or Lifecc.com. 3500 Oleander Dr.

EXPECTING MAMA’S CIRCLE

Sat, noon: Chat with other pregnant mamas who are going through the same thing as you!

Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Breastfeeding USA counselor, and Postpartum Doula, Jess Zeffiro will moderate a free Pregnancy Meetup Group. Expectant mothers are invited to pop into the group at any time to share their stories, ask questions, and connect with great area resources. Share stories and have any pregnancy and birth related questions answered in a supportive environment. The Bump & Beyond, 890-3 S. Kerr Ave.

CHADD

Wilmington Area CHADD meets on the 2nd Monday of every month from 7-9pm at the Pine Valley United Methodist Church, 3788 Shipyard Blvd., Building B. This free support group is open to a growing group of parents, grandparents and individuals affected by AD/ HD who understand what it takes to face its daily challenges. Free. Pine Valley United Methodist Church 3788 Shipyard Blvd., bldg B. WilmingtonCHADD.org

ANXIETY / OCD SUPPORT GROUP

Group meets 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. Pine Valley United Methodist Church , 3788 Shipyard Blvd. Building B. Christopher Savard, Ph.D., with Cape Fear Psychological Services, gives a presentation the 1st Thursday of each month. 3rd Thursday meeting is member led. Everyone 18+ welcome. 910763-8134

WILMINGTON MS SUPPORT GROUP

Wilmington MS Support Group will resume regular monthly meetings on Thurs., Jan. 11.

New Hanover Regional Medical Center Campus, 2131 S. 17th St.

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First Mon/mo. at UNCW, in the Masonboro Island Room #2010, 7pm.

LUPUS SUPPORT GROUP

Meets third Saturday each month. Free; dropins are welcome. Group provides participants an opportunity to receive introductory info 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. Guest speakers, DVD presentations and open group discussion. info@lupusnc.org or at 877-849-8271, x1. lupusnc.org. Northeast Regional Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

LIVING WITH GRIEF

Lower Cape Fear Hospice is offering a no cost grief group for those coping with the loss of a loved one. Living with Grief: Coping with the Death of a Spouse/Partner will meet Wed., through Feb. 21. Free! Prereg. rqd: 910-7967991. Most of us have loved and lost special people in our lives and we understand that coping with grief is a challenging process. If you and/or your friends and family are having difficulty dealing with the loss of a loved one, we are here to help. Throughout the year, we offer compassionate care, educational and enrichment opportunities that support many types of loss in safe and familiar environments. Leland Library, 487 Village Rd. • Feb. 21, 2:30pm: Lower Cape Fear Hospice is offering a no cost grief group for those coping with the loss of a loved one. Living with Grief: Coping with the Death of a Spouse/Partner will meet Wed. through Feb. 21. Free. Prereg. rqd. 910-796-7991. Dr. Robert M. Fales Hospice Pavilion, Conference Room, 1406 Physicians Dr.

tours CAM WEEKLY EXHIBITION TOURS

Cameron Art Museum allows participants to explore current exhibitions with Anne Brennan, CAM’s executive director, in a new series of public tours. Free for CAM members.

Wed., 1:30pm. 3201 S. 17th St.

LITERARY HISTORY WALKING TOUR

Explore the rich culture of our 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. Saturdays, 1:30pm, Old Books on Front. 249 N. Front St. www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1282390 INSIDER’S TOUR

Explore the history of community at Cape Fear Museum. Take the Insider’s Tour offered the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 10am. Tours are free with admission and include a “behind the scenes” sneak peek.

Pre-registration is required: 910-798-4362 or cfmprograms@nhcgov.com. Free w/general admission or membership. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE TOURS

Narrated horse drawn carriage and trolley tours of historic Wilmington feature a costumed driver who narrates a unique adventure along the riverfront and past stately mansions. Market and Water sts. $12/adult, $5/child. (910) 251-8889. www.horsedrawntours.com

GHOST WALK

6:30 & 8:30pm. Costumed guides lead visitors through alleyways with tales of haunted Wilmington. Nightly tours at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Admission charge. Water & Market sts. RSVP rqd: 910-794-1866. hauntedwilmington.com

HISTORY WALKING TOUR

A two-hour exploration of downtown Wilmington with author Dan Camacho! A $10 donation is suggested. .bellamymansion.org or email info@bellamymansion.org with any questions. Bellamy Mansion Museum, 503 Market St.

BELLAMY MANSION

Guided tours start on the hour, as well as self-guided tours, which start at any time.

Mondays is only self-guided tours.* Follow curved oyster-shell paths through our lush Victorian garden shaded by 150-year-old magnolia trees. Climb the stairs to the elegant main entrance surrounded by soaring columns and gleaming windows. Hear the stories of the Bellamy family, as well as those of the free and enslaved black artisans who built the home and crafted intricate details throughout the house. Know that you are walking through history. Bellamy Mansion Museum, one of NCs most spectacular examples of Antebellum architecture. Adults $12; senior and military discount, $10; students, $6; children under 5, free. Bellamy Mansion, 503 Market St.

ARIES (Mar. 21–April 20)

When you’re playing poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else. That’s always a good thing!

In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

If you gorge on 10 pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please, don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence.

Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect in coming weeks you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

According to British philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe the meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

During the next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing and sex. The astrological omens suggest these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual.

They will not only give your body, mind and soul the precise exercise they need most; they also will make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

Have you ever had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: “akrasia.” I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to “akrasia” in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Paleontologist Jack Horner says developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus—a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and dinosaur. The project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and modern bird. Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

“There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” inventor Buckminster Fuller said, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

During World War II, British code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating—thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In April 1972 three American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot

The little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response I bid you to bark “enough!” at all meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s t-shirt. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

In her novel “The Round House,” writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

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