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Reflections on finding authenticity and purpose in life, thanks to Earl Owensby BY: GWENYFAR ROHLER

SHLEBY FILM MAN: Earl Owensby is the poster boy for independent film in NC and runs his Early Owensby Studios still today in Shelby, NC. Courtesy photo.

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ou know if Cucalorus was serious about celebrating independent film in North Carolina, they would do a retrospective of Earl Owensby,” I commented to Jock.

Jock agreed and began recounting the stories from his first years here with Dino De Laurentiis, when the majority of his lighting crew came from Shelby, North Carolina, where they had gotten the movie bug working for Earl Owensby. Jock’s favorite anecdote from the era is about lining up the guys in front of

the lighting truck and drilling film terms in Italian with them so they could communicate with Dino’s Italian camera crews.

When talking about independent film, Ownesby is the poster boy. Referred to by some as “The Dixie DeMille” and others as the “Redneck Roger Corman,” Owensby was a former Marine who wanted to make movies. So he bought a movie camera, and in 1973 started work on Challenge, an homage to “Walking Tall.” Over the next 15 years, he built a movie studio on farm land and cranked

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out a steady stream of Grindhouse films.

When I say, he built a movie studio, I mean eight sounds stages, including a water stage, offices, dressing rooms, catering facilities, a hotel on the premises for housing cast and crew, a runway...

The man was serious. Were his movies going to Cannes or getting Oscars? No. They were legitimately entertaining and low-budget (“each for under a million,” he used to say in interviews).

Last week I found myself watching “Wolfman,” his 1979 werewolf pic (which

Owensby stars in). The art direction is a little confusing—it could be set in the 1870s or the 1970s.

I kept wondering aloud to Jock, “Mmmm, she just needs to get her cape, but for the ‘big hunt down the wolf’ scene.

All the guys have really great pump-action rifles...

“Mmmm, it looks like the crew were asked to bring their hunting rifles to work that day…

“But Earl managed to get David Allen

Coe to work with him—and Ginger Alden, who was Elvis’ fiancée at the time the King left us for the great rhinestone-covered stage in the sky. She starred as a version of herself in a thinly-veiled biopic of Elvis, titled ‘Living Legend: The King of Rock and Roll.’”

“Playing Elvis himself!” Jock exclaimed. “Now that takes balls—to play the King with his former fiancée. That’s interesting.”

Jock nodded his head. “In a film about Elvis’ life—just after he died? Woah.”

We saw one of the jumpsuits on display at the History of NC Film Exhibit in Raleigh last year.

I was cutting vinyl for the life-sized Scrabble board while watching “Wolfman.” I became pretty impressed with Owensby.

ress, a play that has been nagging at my consciousness for a few months now, a novella. Chief among the projects has been the second-floor renovation project at the bookstore (my country music song as I refer to it. I’ve been working on it so long, the refrain has become, “This year I’m going to…., this year I’m going to….”).

But the leap forward is just amazing, and I am months away from opening a literary loft for lodging themed around North Carolina writers. At the center is a life-sized Scrabble board on the living-room floor, with tiles almost a foot in size. The entire space is pretty remarkably curated, if I do say so myself. What I finally realized last week is I have been consumed by a giant art-installation project and rather than failing to do anything creative, I have actually been hard at work on a project of vast scale.

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The second realization that came via Earl Owensby is a bit more complicated: Success isn’t measured by the yard stick others hold up for you. Owensby’s films are works of love—even the strangely violent ones that almost got an X rating instead of R. But they were his—what he wanted to do. He built it from the ground up in the most improbable place and made movies he loved without the backing and infrastructure of the HollyFor someone who can’t spell, I have wood-studio machine. He was true to his spent a lot of time meditating on Scrab- calling. I have been so obsessed by one ble lately. To be honest, it is destroying project I couldn’t see the forest at all, let me from the inside out—or so I thought. alone realize there were trees instead of I keenly have been aware I haven’t had leaves. This curated art-installation projthe mental or emotional space to work ect is supposed to celebrate and honor on any of the creative writing projects North Carolina writers in a way that has on my “to do” list since last year. Finally, never really been explored before: to last week, while laying out the grid on the literary eat, sleep and play, immersed Scrabble board, I had a break-through within their words. None of that would realization. Over the last few months, I be possible without having grown up surhave not been producing anything close rounded by those creators, nor having to my best work at the keyboard. It’s spent my adult life with their work. Doing painful to know that is the case—to not this is essential to what I need to do to have a wonderful feeling of satisfaction stay on track and find—to ultimately cuthat starts in my stomach and spreads rate my own voice. upward when I’ve written something I’m What I forget (in moments of self doubt really proud of. Usually that only happens and melancholia) is this amazing comabout twice a year if I’m lucky, but right munity is where I finally found my voice. now I cannot remember the last time I ac- Keeping on track with the work is what, complished it ... maybe the earlier part at the end of a life, one has to look back of 2015. Part of it is I have been writing on and has been part of something larger “safe” things to avoid confrontation and than one’s self. injured feelings (that doesn’t mean those things haven’t happened—I’m just saying I’ve made more of a conscious effort to . select stories that fall into those categories). That’s not a good sign for a writer.

My job should be to provoke discourse, not smooth the waters.

1974 wasn’t like today in filmmaking: The digital-camera revolution has made it much easier and more affordable to be an independent movie producer.

Earl was buying old-fashioned film by the foot, running it through a camera that probably cost more than my car, and then paying to process it. By comparison, my reflections on the Scrabble board seemed a bit paltry.

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ON ANGER AND PRIVILEGE: No room for aggrieved entitlement BY: MARK BASQUILL

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laying the victim card will put you in the White House, and having white skin and a penis will put you in prison.” He glared at the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee plastered on the front page of the StarNews as we both waited for coffee.

People say what’s on their mind before the first drop of Joe hits—often a one-off that has a 100,000 watts of power behind it.

The man wore a black T-shirt with “Problem Solved” emblazoned below an image of one male stick figure with an outstretched left arm and a nagging female stick figure falling from the punch.

Maybe he thought that was a riot, too.

I didn’t laugh.

Neither the vitriol of his remark or his T-shirt surprised me. The man’s age did.

He looked to be in his mid-thirties. He wasn’t from my dad’s generation—not that my father would have been as callous or gotten morning coffee at a shop.

Dad lived in the pre-Starbuck’s era, when men were men, and made their morning coffee by dropping a teaspoon of Maxwell House instant in a cup.

My father raised us in the social tumult of the ‘60s and ‘70s. He had every reason to live angry at a lot things, including the fact like the generals fighting the last war, most of the maps he was given to teach his children how to navigate their future were flawed or out of date before they were printed. He did get angry.

He didn’t live angry. He was rarely the brightest guy in the room, and often not the soberest, but always among the kindest and least judgmental.

I struggled to apply Dad’s wisdom when the angry white guy sat down and opened his notebook. He couldn’t see the violent sexist message on his shirt from inside its skin, and was blind to its potential impact on others. He was a bit like any white male in America blind to the fact that women, descendants of African-American slaves, and people with the LGBT community are not “playing the victim card” when they achieve success.

They are swimming against a tide of privilege. Or that the woman raped by the

Stanford swimmer isn’t playing the victim card—she is a victim. (Despite his flaws, if any of his sons raped an unconscious woman, I can’t envision my father writing a letter of leniency to the court.)

During one interview to discuss his 2012 book, “Angry White Men,” Stony Brook sociologist Michael Kimmel said, “Privilege is invisible to those who have it.” The accident of being born a white male in a Western society that white men have been running—at least since Caesar said, “I came. I saw. I conquered”— blinds most of us to this unearned privilege. Our status is just the way the world should work. When the way the world should work breaks down, it pisses off a lot of people.

Dr. Kimmel studies gender identity, specifically the roles we adopt as men.

He coined the term “aggrieved entitlement” to label the angry white male experience in America when the world breaks down against how they think it should work. These guys don’t just get angry; they live angry. They grieve the loss of their former positions of privilege, live mad as hell, and feel entitled to take back their power from whatever enemy they identify as having robbed it.

The combination of loss, hurt, and rage, is the chronic and dangerous version of the temporary combination of hurt and anger Yankees fans experience when the Yanks lose the World Series.

“Yanks Win the World Series!” That’s the way the world should work, right?

One of our presumptive nominees is adept at turning “aggrieved entitlement” into votes. If that notion seems absurdly left-wing, stream Bill O’Reilly’s April 4, 2016 commentary: “All the polls say the same thing: Donald Trump’s rise is being fueled largely by white men, who are both angry and furiously angry with both political parties.”

As the election season progresses and some people become enraged at the prospect of the first woman president following the first African-American president, I might consider Dad’s Maxwell House for my morning Joe. For today, I thought of my dad, smiled at the barista, Sarah, and said, “Coffee, black, no room for aggrieved entitlement.”

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LEAD STORY — WHO’S A GOOD BOY?

Life is good now for British men who “identify” as dogs and puppies, as evidenced by a BBC documentary (“Secret Life of the Human Pups”) showing men in body outfits (one a Lycra-suited Dalmatian, “Spot”), exhibiting “sexual” expressions (stomach-rubbing, ear-tickling and nuzzling their “handlers”), eating out of bowls, gnawing on chew toys, wearing collars (so as not to be a “stray”), and jumping in the air for “treats.” (However, decency demands that a Pup must only feign urinating against a lamppost.) Said Spot (aka Tom), “It’s about being given license to behave in a way that feels natural, even primal.” Added “Bootbrush,” “(We) are trying to grasp the positive elements of the archetype of the dog.”

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As an alternative to the more costly in vitro fertilization, researchers at a Dres-

den, Germany, institute announced (in the recent Nano Letters journal) that they had developed a motorized device tiny enough to fit around a sperm’s tail and which could be commanded to propel it to “swim” faster toward the target egg, increasing the chances of fertilization. A prototype is still in the works.

The Internet pornography behemoth PornHub recently added to the glut of physical fitness “apps” with one designed to help users tone up sexual muscles. The BangFit’s routines include the “squat and thrust,” the “missionary press,” and other ways to practice what the company describes as the “one activity people are always motivated to do and (for) which they are never too busy.” (Imagine, for example, wrote Mashable.com, “quantify(ing) your dry humps.”)

BRIGHT IDEAS

Argentina’s TV channels have many of

the same taboos as U.S. broadcasting, including restrictions on women’s hands-on demonstration of how precisely to examine themselves for breast cancer. However, as AdWeek reported in March, the agency David Buenos Aires apparently solved the problem with an explicit TV public service announcement featuring a model (facing the camera, topless) showing exactly how such an exam should go, e.g., where to press down, where to squeeze. The secret? The model was an overweight man with generous-sized “manboobs.”

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(1) Efrain Delgado-Rosales was sentenced to five years in prison in March for smuggling noncitizens into the country. (The Border Patrol had caught him 23 times previously, but had declined to file charges.) (2) Sean Pelfrey, 38, told his judge in May that the two assault charges against him in Framingham, Massachusetts, do not make him a “threat to society,” even though the current arrest was his 38th. (3) Matthew Freeland, 29, was convicted of several home-invasion offenses in Kingston, Ontario, in May, and the judge, considering a proper sentence, found only two previous probation orders — but then, looking further, found 59 convictions and sentenced Freeland to more than two years in prison.

difficult are male nursery web spiders that (according to May research in Biology Letters journal) instinctively “court” females with food wrapped in silk — offerings that (a) increase the males’ chances of scoring and (b) decrease, by 84 percent, their chances that the female will spontaneously eat the male. The study also found that males sometimes try to mate using nonfood items wrapped in silk (with mixed results) and also that sometimes unscrupulous females accept food gifts but nevertheless immediately devour the male.

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South Carolina Chutzpah! (1) James Kinley III, 27, was charged in York County, South Carolina, in May with dealing marijuana. He apparently had the (unfounded) belief that York County deputies do not monitor Craigslist — because that is where Kinley advertised (“I Sell Weed”), in a notice with his photo, address and price ($200). (2) Grady Carlson, 58, went to the Carolina Title Loans office in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on May 25 to apply for a high-interest “payday” loan — and nervously paced while answering questions.

The Carolina employee asked if anything was wrong, and Carlson allegedly disclosed that he needed money — fast! — to purchase methamphetamine. A subWEIRD ANIMALS sequent police search turned up a glass Among the critters for which life is most container and drugs.

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Justin Cody Fox debuts a new album at Waterline Brewing on Saturday BY: SHANNON RAE GENTRY

NC SHOWCASE: Justin Cody Fox will celebrate the release of “Going Down Swinging,” which features lots of local guest talents, on June 18 at Waterline Brewing. Photo by Danny Rose.

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took my time with this project,” Justin Cody Fox says of his soon-tobe released record, “Going Down Swinging.” For more than a year, he’s been working on the album while playing live shows four to six nights a week. “Squeezing in studio time is a challenge,” he cracks.

Nevertheless, Fox completed the album and is ready to celebrate its release on June 18 at Waterline Brewing—alongside a lot of folks who helped make it happen.

The record, heavy with country, soul and Americana, was produced and recorded by Worth Weaver at his Red Room Recording studio in Leland. With Weaver, Fox wanted to showcase as much North Carolina talent as possible. Guest performers throughout “Going Down Swinging” include Randy McQuay II, Allison Donnelly and Jacquie Lee from Striking Copper, as well as Worth

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side of Me.”

Fox took some time to tell encore more about the new songs and its featured guests.

e: You perform around town a great deal—are these mainly songs you’ve been playing for a while live? How have they developed from stage to recording studio?

encore (e): Tell our readers a little more about who you worked with on the songs.

Justin Cody Fox (JCF): Sara McDaris is on the majority of the album and provides backup vocals. Jacquie and Allison are featured on “Better Days” and “Hurt Me,” providing classic Motown backing vocals.

Randy McQuay II plays harmonica on “Be My Truth.” Rhett Huffman plays keys on “Go Down Swingin,” “Better Days,” “Hurt Me,” and “Hold On.” Richard Welsh adds dobro to “Popcorn Sutton.” Adam Carswell plays rhythm guitar on “Don’t Wake Me Now,” and Worth plays rhythm on “Light In-

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JCF: Mostly, no. I’ve tried to keep a wrap on most of the songs and play them rarely until the release. The few that were played live mostly just got a light polishing in the studio, with arrangement changes and lyrical tweaks. e: Why choose “Going Down Swinging” as the title track? How does it reflect upon this album/project as a whole?

JCF: I’m 30 years old; I’ve been playing music for a living since I was 15. No joke. I rented a house from my parents at 15. After 15 years of writing, performing and record-

ing without a major break, you get a sense of fight or flight. It’s a fight to make it work financially, especially with a wife and two children. So I called the record “Go Down Swinging” as a poke at career stereotypes for musicians. A small number of musicians like myself make a living doing this.

We aren’t rich but we are dedicated. We’re not pretending and we aren’t wasting time.

We are living a life of dedication to craft.

If we are fighting a generally losing battle, why not go down swinging? e: Can you tell readers more about the meaning and storyline of “You’re My Faith”?

JCF: It’s my redemption song in a way.

I wrote it for my wife and boys. Until she came along, I had a lacking faith in life and what comes after. This song is about their love giving me strength to believe in a big-

ger ending—or after-ending rather. e: What do your kids think about the record?

JCF: I have two boys ages 3 and 8 months. They love all of my music, but I think they may be a little biased... e: What was it like working with Jared Sears and November1718 Films on the video for “You’re My Faith”?

JCF: Jared is amazing. That’s a simple fact. He’s got it all put together, and it’s a pleasure to work with that type of professionalism. e: “Popcorn Sutton” is more hard Southern rock about making “damn good moonshine” and the sheriff turning a blind eye. How did you come to write this?

JCF: I wrote this song about Popcorn Sutton. He was a famous moonshiner, born in NC. He lives in Tennessee, and makes moonshine in the old-fashioned way and lives by his own rules. I respect that and wanted to give him a nod in this song. e: What does this record represent, in terms of your growth as a songwriter and musician?

JCF: I think it represents the very term in question: growth. I wanted to make a record that was all about the songs—not the image. Not the genre. Just feeding each song. Growing them from ideas into productions.

Copper come aboard as special guests for the show?

JCF: Girl power. Or should I say woman power! The ladies from both acts are killing it right now. Rebekah is a lively performer with great originals. She is recording a new album as we speak and I know it will be great!

Striking Copper has a new record out that was also recorded at Red Room. The songs and band are amazing. Allison and Jacquie also sang on my record as I mentioned. Together with third vocalist Matt [Donnelly], they have some incredible harmonies.

Justin Cody Fox’s free album release show will be family friendly and all about local music, beer, food, and fun. Rebekah Todd will start things off at 4 p.m., with Striking Copper taking the stage at 5:30 p.m. before Justin Cody Fox wraps up at 7 p.m. Visit the Facebook event page for details and updates.

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e: I have to ask: Your Facebook background photo has nine guitars lined along a couch—are those all yours?

JCF: Well, I must say it’s a portion of my horde. We talked about my career length earlier, and as a guitarist, I like to have a lot of tools for any musical situation. e: Can you tell readers more about your collection?

JCF: Two of my main guitars are “Woody” and “Cherry.” Woody is an early ‘80s Warmoth parts Stratocaster that has an unfinished body and a lightly finished flamed maple neck with jumbo frets. It has Mojotone Custom Wound pickups, handmade

by David Shepherd. Cherry is a 1974 Gibson Les Paul with jumbo frets and Custom Wound pickups also made by David Shepherd of Mojotone. All of their awesome products can be seen at mojotone.com e: Tell us about your CD release party at Waterline and why you chose to debut your album there.

JCF: Waterline only does original music at their brewery, and I think that’s important.

They support local musicians and make local beer. I’d love to have an incredible turnout that night to show them how awesome that support is for our musical community. e: How did Rebekah Todd and Striking

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FROM THE ROUNDTABLE: Chamomile and Whiskey head back to Wilmington BY: SHANNON RAE GENTRY

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ots of folks have heard the adage “Don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched.” In Chamomile and Whiskey’s case, it’s, “Don’t count the records before they’re pressed.” It was a lessoned they learned the hard way with their first EP “The Barn Sessions” (2012); they booked their release show before they had a record in hand.

“About four or five days before our release, the CDs came in the mail and didn’t have any sound on them,” Koda Kerl (guitar, vocals) remembers. “So we had all these blank CDs with all of our album artwork, and guys burning CDs while we were playing [at the party] and running up to the merch table. We’ve really learned a lot since then.”

It was a year later when Chamomile and Whiskey debuted their first LP “Wandering Boots.” Much of their time since has been spent on the road. From Chicago to Nashville to New Orleans, they’ve logged hundreds of shows during extensive touring since 2014.

They took some time off this year to work on a new record, but are now getting back on the road for summer. The Whiskey in downtown Wilmington will be one of their first stops on June 17.

“We’re anxious to get in the van again,” Kerl says, “and we love Wilmington . . . we’ve always been received well there and we’ll be playing a lot of new material from the record.”

Kerl originally started off as one part of a duo with fellow band mate Marie Borman (fiddle, vocals) in 2011. After touring around the country for a brief time, the two realized they wanted a full band. “It’s more fun playing with

a drummer and having a bigger sound,” Kerl explains. “As soon as we got back, we started looking for musicians.”

Though they didn’t really have an exact idea of what they wanted their band to sound like, once they picked up Ryan Lavin (banjo, vocals), Brenning Greenfield (drums, washboard) and Tim Deibler (upright bass), things started to fall into place.

Whiskey and Chamomile are a product of a growing musical plane of sub genres and marriages of rock, Americana, ‘grass, punk, and everything in between. There’s a touch of storytelling in their style, not unlike Drive-ByTruckers, from which one of Kerl’s influences emerged. “I’m a big Jason Isbell fan,” he tells.

“He’s phenomenal and one of the great songwriters of our generation right now.”

Kerl didn’t grow up classically trained in music. Like many artists he learned by sitting and picking around the proverbial campfire, while sipping whiskey. He and Lavin write most Chamomile and Whiskey songs, but each piece is built from the ground up by the band. It’s like sitting at a roundtable: One person starts a ditty and the next adds to it, and so on. “Everyone adds different bars and we arrange the song as a group,” Kerl explains.

“That goes for live shows or in the studio.”

Chamomile and Whiskey are in the studio now working on an album to be released later in the fall. While they’ve always written songs individually and come together as a group to work on them, Kerl says this record will feature the first song co-written by him and Lavin. The working title is “Riding Hard.”

So far the tracks encompass stories of the road, relationships, parties, as well as fun and hardships that inherently have come and gone.

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ON THE ROAD: Chamomile and Whiskey are leaving the studio to test some new songs from the studio. Photo by Rich Tarbell.

“Being on tour we’ve been able to play in some really beautiful areas and that’s influenced the record, too,” Kerl adds. “When you’re traveling you meet a lot of really cool people, and I think that’s something people will be able to pick up on in the record as well.”

This time around they’re also thinking about subtleties to give each song its own identity on the album. Though, live, it will be a different beast. As a whole, relationships with live audiences are built upon people dancing and being engaged. A record is a whole different experience.

“They’re in their car [or] at their house making dinner; they’re listening in a different way, so we’ve been trying to think about that in the studio,” Kerl explains. “We’re not one of those bands where it’s the same thing every time. We try to stay flexible when we’re live and keep it in the moment.”

“Nelson County” is based on Kerl and Borman’s hometown in Virginia, near Charlottesville. They call it a special place to be reared.

“It influenced us both musically and with its people,” Kerl tels. “I always wanted to write something that pays tribute to this awesome place. That’s [a song] I’m particularly excited about, for sure.”

Fans who have followed Chamomile and Whiskey’s live shows will recognize a couple of tunes on this record. A lot of them came together on the road during their last extensive tour. They’ll feature half of the works in progress this go ‘round. Other tracks are unique to studio sessions. Some encompass a larger sound, while others have been stripped down in ways like taking out percussion and slowing tempos.

“We’re trying to really vary things,” Kerl says. “We get kind of bored if we stick with the same thing for too long. I feel like this is going to be a good representation of what we’ve been up to for the last few years; our musical influences are always changing and evolving.

While Kerl is usually on guitar, he’s been I’m hoping that we’re able to pull that off with playing a bit of piano on new tracks. Rather the record and to show where we’re headed than traditional banjo sounds, Lavin plays his as a band.” instrument almost like a blues guitar. As well Chamomile and Whiskey will sell singles they’ve invited guest performers like James from now until their full release sometime in Darling on the dobro. fall of 2016. They can be seen at The Whiskey “We’re really excited to see what he’ll bring to the table,” Kerl says. “He’s a phenomenal player. . . . We’re definitely trying to take each song and think individually what we can do to make it as interesting as possible on the record. We’re definitely going to add a lot more instrumentation. This record will sound a lot bigger than the last one.”

on June 17.

DETAILS:

Chamomile and Whiskey

Friday, June 17, 10:30 p.m.

The Whiskey 1 S. Front St. Tickets: $5 www.chamomileandwhiskey.com

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CONSTANT EVOLUTION: Local blues festival undergoes changes for 2016 the festival is experiencing the first year without its popular blues cruise, since the Henrietta permanently deported from Wilmington’s Cape Fear River. However, Nichols teamed with Wilmington Downtown Inc. (WDI) to utilize the riverfront and their Downtown Sundown concert series as part of the weekend’s main events. In essence, it will expose even more people to the genre and help grow the festival.

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hat formed in 1987 as an organization to preserve and support the industry of blues music—locally, regionally and nationally—Cape Fear Blues Society (CFBS) has grown and evolved over its three-decade span. This weekend they will host their 21st Cape Fear Blues Festival (CFBF), which also continues to change and welcome any where from 700 to 1,000 people celebrating the legacy “Ed Wolverton at WDI wasted no of such soulfully enriching music. time in contacting us about an opporLed by CFBS director Lan Nichols, the fes- tunity to ‘cross-support,’” Nichols says. tival returns in 2016 with cooler temps. For “Like any event that you work with over years it was held at the end of July, but the heat a long period of time, conditions can proved too oppressive on the southeastern change at any moment. Roll with it. coast despite the sizzling sounds providing re- Find resources in your community that spite. So last year Nichols took note. “Late July want to work with you. Look and listen has been good to us, but the opportunity to shift to new ideas.” to a (potentially) cooler month really motivated Downtown Sundown normally books the change,” he tells. cover bands throughout the summer Change is nothing new to Nichols. In 1996, months to provide free-of-charge conhe decided to take a page out of the book of certs on the riverwalk to the public. On Icehouse owner Joe Carney, whose music Friday, June 17, they’ll be hosting origivenue was a main hub for blues in Wilmington nal blues act Southern Avenue out of at the time. Nichols wanted to steer the Cape Memphis, Tennessee. With Israeli-born guitarFear Blues Festival down a new road than it had ist Ori Naftaly, vocalist Tierinii Jackson, and her younger sister Tikyra Jackson on drums, as well been traveling. as Daniel Mckee on bass, the band’s music is a “Joe had ideas and advice from staging previ- mashup of gospel, soul, funk, and rock. Openous versions of the event with the society,” Nich- ing will be local blues outfit Snake Malone and ols tells. “He encouraged us to find a new path the Black Cat Bone. and presented us with the first sponsor check.

“We’ve kept local performers involved evIn addition, new sponsors wanted us to brand ery year,” Nichols explains. “These acts work it more distinctly and give it a comprehensive format. The society agreed, voted for a decision hard to get booked in local clubs, they perform to move into the future, and the upgrade suc- around our region throughout the year, and ceeded. . . . Joe was right: Finding a new way to that’s important.” do business was a turning point for us.”

After Downtown Sundown, local blues haAnd the evolution continues today. This year ven The Rusty Nail (1310 S. 5th Ave.) will host

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The Rusty Nail has been a major influence in the society’s constant outreach, which hosts a talent competition and 64 blues jams annually. Owner Sandy Williams recently upgraded the sound system at the Nail to elevate live performances. In fact, the last day of the blues festival is quintessential to its success. The festival holds an All-Day Blues Jam and welcomes musicians on all fronts to participate.

BLUESMAN HEADLINER: John McDonald will headline Saturday night’s show at The Rusty Nail; tickets are $20-$25. Courtesy photo

Piedmont blues ensemble The Fat Bastard Blues Band, beginning at 9 p.m. On Saturday the festival will bring back its blues workshop at Finkelstein’s Music (6 S. Front St.). Louisiana singer/songwriter and piano maestro Jim Nelson will lead the free, family-friendly event at 11 a.m. At 1 p.m. festival-goers can head to Ted’s Fun on the River (2 Castle St.) to enjoy free acoustic blues by local musician Spider Mike Bochey and friends.

The headlining concert ($20 adv./$25 at door) will take place Saturday night at The Rusty Nail.

Chicago bluesman Jon McDonald has worked with the likes of Magic Slim, Koko Taylor, Hubert Sumlin, and Junior Wells. His guitar will be backed by Dave Thorton (drums), Vic Herold (bass) and Nel Nichols (blues harp). Before McDonald takes the stage, Rusty Nail will welcome local opening acts Slippery Jake and the Bad Brakes, David Bolton and Cassiopeia Duo with Jay Killman. The music starts at 3 p.m. under the tent outside the Rusty Nail. Inside, at 9 p.m., The Rusted Rails, out of Raleigh, NC, will play their brand of blues and rockabilly.

“All of our artists bring unique experiences to the table,” Nichols tells. “We create a stage where they can perform and share the blues experience with the audience.”

“Novice and professional musicians can share the stage with a beginners,” Nichols tells.

“That formula has worked well and yielded some memorable moments. Watching Randy McQuay cut his teeth on the blues jam stage, develop as a regional artist, and witness his rise to the top by winning the International Blues Challenge in 2015 is an epic example of what the jam can do. Musical relationships are forged. Friendships are made.”

At its heart, the festival maintains dedication to keeping the sounds and attitude alive in blues music. It is the foundation of so many genres, yet constantly struggles to be heard.

However, its players are dedicated to never see its demise.

“Remaining true to the roots of blues and finding ways for the music to grow is fraught with pitfalls,” Nichols adds. “There are artists who stick to tried-and-true formulas, and the rest are looking for ways to innovate. It’s a constant push-pull effect that yields interesting results. If the new releases that cross my desk at WHQR [for my Friday-night Front Street Blues show] are any indicator, there are artists playing a melange of blues and rock, musicians who blend ‘old school’ soul, or north Mississippi hill country boogie, or other genres, and a seasoned slice of veterans who stick to straight-up blues, both acoustic and electric.”

A little bit of it all can be heard this weekend.

DETAILS:

Cape Fear Blues Festival

June 17-19 Various venues and artists!

Full lineup: www.capefearblues.org Free-$25

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WEDNESDAY,JUNE 15 Mykel Barbee (6pm; Free; Singer, Guitarist)

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

Trivia Night (6:30pm; Free)

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

Trivia with Jim and Glenn (6:30pm; Free)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Brooke Thompson (9pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter)

Just Friends (7pm; Free; Ska, Punk Pop)

Sex Toy Bingo (9pm; Free)

Fire and Drums (8pm; Free)

Melodime (9pm; Cover TBD; Alt Rock) —The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

Open Mic & Homebrew Share (7pm; Free)

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

THURSDAY, JUNE 16

James Jarvis (7pm; Free; Jazz Piano)

Eric Miller (6pm; Free; Americana)

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

—Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.

Laura McLean’s Songwriter Showcase (7pm; $3)

Machine Gun (6:30pm; Free; Rock, Variety)

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

—Carolina Beach Boardwalk, 100 Cape Fear Blvd.

Open Mic Comedy (8pm; Free)

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

—Browncoat Pub & Theatre, 111 Grace St.

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

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—Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666 —Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

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—Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St. —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

Acoustic Blues Jam (8pm; Free)

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

Kottonmouth Kings (8pm; $15-$20; Hard Rock, Rap)

$2.50 Budweiser Draft $4 Wells 65 Wings, 4-7pm

—Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; 910-769-4096

Thirsty Thursday Karaoke (9pm; Free)

$3.50 Sweetwaters $4.50 Absolute Lemonade 65 Wings, 4-7pm

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Griffin Limerick (9pm; Free; Guitarist, Singer) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666

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Heter Pan’s Open Jam (9pm; Cover TBD)

DJ Riz (10pm; Free)

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Bass Station (10pm; Free)

Jenny Pearson (10pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter)

—Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

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Southern Avenue (6pm; Free; Blues Festival)

—Downtown Sundown Concert, 11 Princess St.

Robbie Berry (6pm; Free; Acoustic)

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

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

—Fort Fisher Rec Area, 1000 Loggerhead Rd.

Stray Local (7pm; Free; Americana) —Flytrap Brewing, 319 Walnut St.

Derwin Hinson (7pm; $3; Bluegrass, Country Gospel) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

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

Tyler Mckaig (7pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter)

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Mary Mack w/ Tim Harmston (7pm, 9:30pm; $18; Comedy)

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Deadline every Thurs., noon!

SUNDAY, JUNE 19 Books, Beer, & Jazz Piano (3pm; Free)

—Old Books on Front Street, 249 N. Front St.

Machine Gun (4pm; Free; Eclectic Cover) —Bluewater Grill, 4 Marina St.;

Live Music on the Deck (4pm; Free) —Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

The Imitations (5pm; Free; Beach, Rock n’ Roll) —Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave.

Show Tunes Sunday (9pm; Free)

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

MONDAY, JUNE 20 Music & Comedy Open Mic (8:30pm; Free) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.

Elena Woodard (9pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter)

—Goat & Compass, 710 N. 4th St.

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

Cross Creek (7pm; Free; Acoustic Variety)

Brewtal & Friends (9pm; Cover TBD; Electric)

—The Ogden Tap Room, 7324 Market St.

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

Sick of Stupid Comedy Tour (8pm; $10-$15) —Bourgie Nights, 127 Princess St.

Just Yesterday (8pm; Free; ‘90s Cover)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Jim Ashley (8pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Bellas Bar LoCAL, 19 Market St.

Faux-Show Comedy Variety Show (8:30pm; Free) —Gravity Records, 612 Castle St.

Travis Shallow (9pm; Free; Americana)

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

DJ UK (10pm; Free)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Trivia with Dutch (7:30pm; Free)

—Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

Comedy Bingo w/ Carrie Adams & Tom Emmons (7:30pm; Free) —Dead Crow Comedy Club, 265 N. Front St.

Cape Fear Blues Jam (8pm; Free) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.

College Night Karaoke (9pm; Free)

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

Monica Jane (10pm; Free; Singer-Songwriter) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St.; 910-362-9666

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22

Chamomile & Whiskey (10:30pm; $5; Americana)

Robbie Berry (6pm; Free; Acoustic)

—The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

—The Oceanic Restaurant, 703 S. Lumina Ave.

Trivia Night (6:30pm; Free)

SATURDAY, JUNE 18 Jazz Piano on Front St. (6pm; Free) —The Calico Room, 107 S. Front St.; 910 762-2091

Coastal Collective (7pm; Free; Hip Hop)

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

Stray Local (7pm; $3; Americana)

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

Mary Mack w/ Tim Harmston (7pm, 9:30pm; $18; Comedy) —Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

Karaoke with DJ Damo (9pm; Free) —Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

Mr. F (9pm; Cover TBD; Jam, Rock, Funk) —The Whiskey Bar NC, 1 S. Front St.

Bibis Ellison Band (10pm; $10; Rock, Pop)

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

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

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

Trivia with Jim and Glenn (6:30pm; Free)

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

James Jarvis, Jazz Piano (7pm; Free)

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

Barry & Jill (7pm; $3; Acoustic Duo) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; 910-231-3379

Open Mic Comedy (8pm; Free)

—Browncoat Pub & Theatre, 111 Grace St.

Donna Merritt (9pm; Free; Piano)

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

Sex Toy Bingo (9pm; Free)

—Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

Colt Ford (9pm; $22-$27; Rock-Country) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market St.; 910-769-4096

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NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE NORTH DAVIDSON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 358-9298 6/18: Jonathan Jackson and Enation 6/23: Gaelic Storm 6/25: Jay Farrar Trio 6/29: Los Van Van THE FILLMORE 820 HAMILTON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 916-8970 6/17: Lake Street Dive 6/22: Lil Uzi and more 6/25: Slippery When Wet AMOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 S. TRYON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 377-6874 6/16: George Lynch and the Lynch Mob 6/18: The Wombats 6/23: Comfortably Nuts and Medicine Man 6/25: Djinn the Nitechylde, Purgatory All-Stars & more MOTORCO MUSIC HALL 723 RIGSBEE AVE., DURHAM, NC (919) 901-0875 6/16: Robbie Fulks and Brian McGee 6/17: Los Rabanes 6/19: Jim Lauderdale and Jeanne Jolly 6/22-24: Sara Juli 6/25: Dirty White Girls HOUSE OF BLUES MYRTLE BEACH 4640 HWY 17 S., MYRTLE BEACH, SC (843) 272-3000 6/21: Lil Uzi and more 6/25: Jeezy Live

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ilmingtonians love Southern writer Celia Rivenbark. Her weekly Sunday column in the StarNews covers much of what’s happening in our world from a humorous perspective that can advise any Yankee real quick on how to properly dine at a fish camp. Whether buoying the discrepancies between Donald Trump’s misogyny eerily backed by Christian evangelicals or dishing out reality to upcoming graduates, her cheeky 500 words of observations manage an escape into clichéd Southern humor.

She’s also got quite a few books to boot, which TheatreNOW has turned into productions in their dinner-theatre setting over the last two years. They’ve adapted “Rude Bitches Make Me Tired” and its sequel, and now artistic director Zach Hanner has turned the pages of Rivenbark’s national bestseller “We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tar-

Some of the funnier moments take place at the beginning, especially as they properly divulge “How to Become Honest-to-Jesus White Trash”:

nished Southern Belle” into a worldpremiere stage adaptation.

As in “Rude Bitches” we see the return of some of the same actresses, including the zany Belinda Bizic Keller and Katherine Rudeseal, whose demure strength appropriates every Southern woman with a touch of class. Tamara Mercer, Lynn Ingram and Pam Smith round out the cast to help move the show from skit to skit. It’s set up in a multitude of “chapters,” so to speak, including “What Type of Southern Woman Are You?”, “The Man Bun” and “Day at the Spa Went Shit Creek,” among others. The five ladies interact across two hours, dishing and advising about their hangups with family, friends, acquaintances, and life’s general ups and downs. It’s almost like they’re front-porch sittin’, armed with daily gossip and the help of a four-pack of wine coolers—maybe some spiked lem-

“Don’t file tax returns...”

“Dress the kids in NASCAR but teach them to hate Jeff Gordon...”

“Buy tons of lottery tickets; the children can eat mustard sandwiches all week...”

“Ever give birth on a pool table?”

SOUTHERN BABES: (L-R) Pam Smith, Belinda Keller, Celia Rivenbark, Lynn Ingram, Kathy Rudeseal and Tamara Mercer. Courtesy photo

onade—Stringbean’s Lemonade, to be precise.

They use the character Stringbean to discuss funerals in the South—more specifically the proper ways to eat at one.

Lynn Ingram’s quip about someone being so thoughtful to die in the summer really resonates: “Fresh butter beans and tomatoes straight from the garden will be served.” In fact, Ingram closely parallels Southern women I know well—presumably from rural towns and who make simple statements they truly mean no harm by but somehow come loaded with slices of insensitivity. Her dialect is perfect: Not one syllable (especially when turning one-word syllables into two, like “chip”— “chee-up”) feels forced or fake.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Pam Smith’s voice is perfectly suited for NPR. Why is this a big deal? Well, a bonafide Southern drawl feels integral to delivering Rivenbark’s words. Thus, Smith may be the most “progressive” Southerner in the show. She wrangles it back in for the bit about elders not having their dark meat at the local KFC. Rudeseal and Keller are seasoned for Rivenbark’s work. They have the one-up of already gelling and understanding a flow and vibe to take on the material. Even when Keller slipped up on the text during Friday night’s opening, it fit to near perfection: “Well, [shit,] I forgot where I was.” I’ve heard that numerous times on my grandmother’s back porch in Belmont, NC.

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But the real kicker is watching Tamara Mercer attempt to drive and “shave down there” simultaneously. The best euphemism for a vagina I may have ever heard is uttered to produce, at least for me, the funniest cackle of the night: “love rug.”

While there are moments of sincere laughter that take place, there are also moments of browbeating a joke. It’s obvious the text of the 2005 book has been updated by Hanner, as it includes recent thoughts on HB2. However, it devolves into a way-too-long scene about paper potty covers that churn out few laughs.

If anything, it seems like too many hands were in the writing pot. This dilutes Rivenbark’s voice instead of elevating it. Already soddened by stereotypes I would rather get away from as a Southerner, the show doubles down on it with the inclusion of only country music (and I’m not talking the good kind, a la Dolly, Loretta, George, Willie, Waylon, or Johnny) and at times unnecessary memes that compete with what’s being verbalized. Timing and flow waxes and wanes except when Rivenbark herself is showcased via video, and the audience hears her tone and cadence weave the fabric of a Southerner’s life. Maybe it’s the writer in me, but if TheatreNOW takes another go at her work, I personally would like to hear Rivenbark deliver it live.

DETAILS:

We’re Just Like You, Only Prettier TheatreNOW, 19 S. 10th St. Fri.-Sat., through July 20 Tickets: $17-$37 www.theatrewilmington.com

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Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ opens in protest of HB2 at Sputnik

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hen HB2 passed in March, local professor, actor and director Chris Marino felt compelled to do something out in unity and compassion for equal rights among the LGBT community. Thus he reached into the arsenal he knows best: Shakespeare.

More specifically, he redirected the setting of “Measure for Measure” to fit the current-day political and social climate of North Carolina. In Marino’s version, the setting will be post election 2016 and under the guise that the current administration, including Pat McCrory, gets re-elected. The rhetorical question of the text looks to have its audience gauge the notions: How will we regress and what detrimental rights will be stripped of humans, more specifically of the LGBT community, if in fact we continue on this current path?

Marino, who co-founded Taffety Punk Theatre in Washington, D.C., and is known for their bootleg Shakespeare productions, is setting the stage in a gay nightclub rather than traditional Vienna. In this case, it takes place in Sputnik, a former nightclub in downtown Wilmington.

“Modern theaters lend themselves to a certain passivity in viewing, sometimes even closely resembling movie theaters,” he tells.

“Shakespeare is anything but passive; it needs a space that’s as alive as the text is. When I go to the theater, I want to be surprised. I don’t want to see something I can see everyday and immersive experiences can sometimes offer that kind of event.”

Though they’ve been working on the show for the last month, Sunday’s mass shooting at Orlando’s gay nightclub, Pulse, which left 50 dead and 50 or more injured, is a chilling concurrence of reality—not just politically, in having politicians and leaders stripping rights from Americans, but also where we are societally, in allowing hate and violence to continue at such a rapid pace, without active measures in place to protect the safety of every American.

“It’s a rather sad coincidence that we are setting this in a club and one of the worst mass shootings in history of the United States just occurred in an LGBT club,” Marino tells. “It makes me angry and even more resolved that this production was the right thing to do. In the face of hatred and intolerance, art needs to be a loud voice of discontent.”

Marino has changed characters to fit the production. Yet, he kept the original dialog pretty much in tact, aside from additions of biblical passages to punctuate the hypocrisy so imminently apparent within Shakespeare’s play.

“The play is about legislating morality and the problems inherent when you do that,” he explains. “That’s brilliant enough but it goes one step further and shows the hypocrisy of those that would engage in this sort of thing. We have hundreds of examples going back even just five years from the Sanford case to Ted Haggard and all variations in between. The play is attacking this type of person, and I think HB2 and the architects of it are no different then the hypocrites we’ve seen before. What’s incredible is this play was written 400 years ago, so in a sense, nothing has changed.”

The premise surrounds the arrest of Claudio, who impregnates an unmarried woman. The Duke of Vienna has gone away and left his assistant duke, Angelo, to rule in his stead. Angelo begins a staunch theological cleansing, so to speak, hellbent on ensuring its people abide by puritanical actions. So he hunkers down on brothels and inappropriate sexual activity, including out-of-marriage wedlock. Yet, in the midst of his rulings, he orchestrates an unrighteous sexual assault of his own behind closed doors with Claudio’s sister Isabella—a nun who pleads for leniency for her brother but is presented with an ungodly price to pay for it.

“I’ve included text from The Buggery Act of 1533,” Marino tells of his inspiration in switching the law from out-of-wedlock sex to being gay. From the Tutor period, Henry VIII enacted the first civil sodomy law that declared “unnatural sex acts against the will of God and man” unlawful.

“It outlaws homosexuality, equates it to bestiality and says it’s a felony,” Marino notes. “You’ll be put to death and all your property will be seized. So that’s what we’re saying; that’s the world we’re basing ‘Measure for Measure’ in.

So the minute Angelo comes into power, that’s the first law he enacts. It results in Claudio arrested for, in our version, being gay and caught with his partner in a bathroom.”

Claudio will be played by local actor Brendan Carter, and rather than being in love with Juliet, as Shakespeare originally wrote, Marino has changed his lover to Juliano (played by Grant Hedrick). Marino has cast peers from his Taffety Punk Theatre group, Esther Williamson as Isabella and Ashley Strand as Pompey. He has brought in professional theatre and TV actors Fletcher McTaggart (“Leap of Faith,” Broadway) as the duke/governor and Fred Grandy (most known for his role as Gopher on “Love Boat” and as a U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa’s 5th district) as Escalus. Marino will play Angelo, whose role is akin to the lieutenant governor or attorney general of NC. Lucio— the flamboyant comic relief of the play—will be played by local actress Hannah Elizabeth

Smith, a girl who identifies as a boy. Mistress Overdone—head of a Vienna brothel but in Marino’s version a drag queen—will be played by Josie Sanchez Brooks, a trans-identified actor.

“Two things are en vogue with Shakespeare currently,” Marino tells. “Mark Rylance has been putting on all-male productions of ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Richard III.’ DonMar Warehouse is making a very strong commitment with their all-female ‘Henry IV.’ In our production you get a bit of both.”

Really, though, it’s not new territory for Shakespeare. In Elizabethan England only males were allowed to perform and boys often took on female characters. Marino’s Taffety Punk has been switching genders in their productions for more than a decade.

“To have Josie playing Mistress Overdone is perfect,” Marino explains. “That’s a window into probably what the actors were like [back then]. I could be wildly wrong about the scholarship here, but I don’t see a lot of the boy actors who play female roles strongly tracking into male leads. My suspicion is that they were boys that had something about them inherently feminine—and probably somebody along the profile who would now transition, which I think is fascinating to see.”

Smith playing Lucio as a female who identifies as male is a natural fit for Marino’s vision, too. “As long as you embrace the energy of the character, it works,” he concludes. In fact, Marino doesn’t find verbatim approaches to Shakespeare resonate as much. “It was never written to be literal,” he states. “It’s poetry. So it’s metaphor.”

Helping mold the tone of the show will be lighting by John McCall, costuming by Jessica Gafney, and recorded and live music, the latter of which will be performed by locals Adrian Varnam and Cole Marquis. An Antony and the Johnson’s song will be played (the performer, now known as ANOHNI was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Manta Ray,” but boycotted the awards ceremony after not being asked to perform, which she associated as a slight against her transgender identity). “I Enjoy Being a Girl” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Flower Drum Song” and David Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging” will be heard, too.

Marino has taken the merging of art and advocacy one step further in presenting “Measure for Measure.” Essentially, he’s doing it in protest of HB2 and has secured sponsorship from the Frank Harr Foundation and Brandi Carlile’s Looking Out Foundation. He will donate a portion of box-office proceeds to local LGBT groups, and he’s reached out to com-

munity organizations to set up in the lobby of the production in the adjoining nightclub KGB (where theatre-goers will enter before heading up to Sputnik). Cape Fear Equality, Stonewall Kickball, PFLAG, and UNCW Pride will offer literature and swag, as well as have advocates available to speak with attendees about the causes.

“The other component is UNCW Pride will host three talk backs, one each weekend on various issues: HB2, the trans experience, and they will choose the third,” Marino tells. “They will populate the panels, so the audience on those nights can stay after and talk—or people can just come up for those panels. I wanted it to be a hub for activity.”

The goal is to use art to speak out, to be effective and educated in its approach, especially by being inclusive and accepting of everyone in its community. Marino fears what our world would like if the current leaders were allowed a chance to continue guiding constituents down the present narrow-minded path.

“I think the next step would be closing down LGBT clubs and arresting people for being different,” he says. “The play itself spends more time on the ramifications of these laws. . . . The tragedy in Orlando [over the] weekend highlights the need to prevent legislation like HB2.

These sorts of aggressions exist on a continuum, and the denial of basic social rights rapidly becomes a denial of basic humanity.”

The biggest difference in “Measure for Measure” will come with its ending. Marino didn’t want to victimize the protagonist, Isabella, in his updated text. With the world being bogged down with hate speech, hate crimes and hateful laws, he wanted a glow of light to emanate after the curtain closes.

“If we victimize Isabella at the end, what are we really saying?” he asks. “For the LGBT community, it had to be positive, and I wrestled with that. I could do this dark thing where Josie is led in and her makeup is off, and really make a spectacle about, did it change or did it stay the same or get worse when the governor comes back? I really found it needed to end hopefully.”

DETAILS:

Measure for Measure

June 17-19 Thurs.-Sat., June 16-July 2, 7:30 p.m.

Sputnik Nightclub Enter through KGB, 16 Princess St. GA: $20 • VIP: $27 www.measureformeasurenc.com

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BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE: ‘Spamalot’ is a side-splitting good time BY: GWENYFAR ROHLER

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pamalot,” produced by Opera House Theatre Company at Thalian Hall, is the perfect antidote to the summer doldrums. That statement should be obvious; I mean, how can you not love Monty Python, King Arthur and musical theatre all rolled into one zany show? Throw in Jason Aycock as director and it’s a night of side-splitting fun entertainment. That is evident from the moment Aycock appears for the curtain speech in a bowler hat and dark suit, paying homage to John Cleese’s “The Ministry of Silly Walks,” (from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”). No matter what your day was like before, that moment proves it’s about to get much funnier.

Just to play catch-up: In 1969 “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” a sketch comedy show, aired on the BBC. Nothing was ever going to be quite that same after that.

Monty Python, composed of Eric Idle, John

Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones would go on to produce multiple live albums, concerts, TV specials, tours, and feature films.

Among them: the much-beloved “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975), an incredibly bizarre and ridiculous adaptation of the King Arthur legend.

In 2005, under the direction of Mike Nichols, “Spamalot,” a musical theatre adaptation (book and lyrics by Eric Idle), opened on Broadway and was an immediate hit. What the stage adaptation does so well is to include the jokes and bits that hardcore Python fans (like myself) want to see, with new material that nods to the new form. So we still begin (after a brief detour to Finland) with King Arthur (Robin Dale Robertson) and his trusty side kick, Patsy (Heather Setzler). They “trot” about to look for knights to join Arthur’s court at Camelot.

“Trotting” is of course in quotes because the only horse Arthur has is the two halves of coconuts that Patsy clicks together to

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make horse sounds. The role of Arthur in the film was played by Graham Chapman as a rather imperious, easily frustrated and mildly confused monarch. Tim Curry’s rendition in the original Broadway cast was as a big, loud, smiling straight man to every joke. (Seriously, he was simultaneously dead pan and amused it was bizarre.) Robertson goes a different direction, while still embracing the bafflement that is essential to the role.

His Patsy (Gilliam in the movie, Michael McGrath on Broadway) also doesn’t try to recreate Gilliam. To begin with, just when I think I understand the depth of Heather Setzler’s talent and ability, she manages to surprise me again. Covered in dirt, bearing a heavy pack and playing second fiddle to a man who is the butt of every joke, Setzler wrings unexpected laughs from the role and still doesn’t upstage her king. For “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” it is no surprise she sells the tune with great dancing and beautiful singing, but it is her desperate plea to be noticed in “I’m All Alone”—the lament of King Arthur that he is abandoned in the world (which of course he is not, but we all feel that way when we get down in the dumps). She really shines and hits the physical comedy perfectly in synch with the witty writing and Robertson’s performance.

Of course every Python fan has a favorite character, and somehow Sam Robison managed to get cast not only as Lancelot, but also Tim the Enchanter, the Knight who Says Ni! and the French Taunter. Aside from Lancelot (who is very different in the stage show from Cleese’s role in the film), the other three roles all come with very specific expectations from audience members. Robison does not disappoint: He hits the parody square (it is just hard for him not to laugh at the same time!). Of course, that’s not a problem just for Robison. Much of the cast are clearly Python fans.

Christopher Rickert plays the Black Knight as a rather confused man who fails to understand that, after losing all his limbs, he has clearly lost the battle, as well as Prince Herbert’s Father at Swamp Castle and Sir Denis Galahad, a young would-be anarchist-turned-knight. His role as Denis offers wonderful insight into the mythical and mystical verses modern thought with the line, “Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”

The stage adaptation had significant is-

sues to address in juxtaposition to the film.

The first problem: There is no female lead in the movie. Python was an all-male group (given to drag), but there really wasn’t a real female lead. The Lady of the Lake (Annie Tracy Marsh) is basically the token principal female role. Her appearance to Sir Denis with the song “The Lady of the Lake,” sung with the able help of her Laker Girls (Tammy Sue Daniels, Beth Swindell, Avery Hoederman, Kendall Walker, Sophie Whisnant, and Hunter Wyatt) owes a lot of debt to “Hey Mickey!” with its cheerleading theme. But the duet between Rickert and Marsh for “The Song That Goes Like This” is not to be missed. It is a glorious sendup of Andrew Lloyd Webber (the set pieces for the Broadway show were a direct steal from “Phantom of the Opera”). These two talented signers manage to really enjoy the song and milk the humor while hitting some extraordinary notes.

The supporting cast play more roles than most people can fathom, including Greg Beddingfield, Chris Connor, Maggie Millerm Kire’Ann Stenson (who can carry a drum almost as big as she is!), Tammy Sue Daniels, Anna Gamel, Beau Mumford, Qaadir Hicks, Blaine Allen Mower, Maroln Ramos, Hunter Wyatt, Sarah Parsons, Beth Swindell, Kendal Walker, and Sophie Whisnant.

They play villagers, knights, minstrels, and more. All expected Python homages from the principal characters aside, without the ensemble completely on point, the show would collapse.

If there is one drawback, it is the scarcity and paucity of actual set pieces. Honestly, the performances are so great, one hardly notices. Part of what made Python so successful was just the sheer beauty of watching those six men preform together.

This cast taps into that energy and brings it to the stage. It is a night of exceptional fun and laughter.

DETAILS: Spamalot

June 17-19 and 24-26, 8 p.m.; Sun. matinees, 3 p.m.

Tickets: $24-$32 Thalian Hall • 310 Chestnut St. (910) 632-2285 www.thalianhall.org

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eral local artists. The current show will enthrall visitors with its eclectic collection of original paintings, photography, sculpture, glass, pottery and jewelry. “Morning Has Broken” features works by Janet Parker. Come see Janet’s bold use of color and texture to reveal local marsh creeks and structures.

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2165 Wrightsville Ave. Mon. - Sat., noon - 7pm www.artfuelinc.com • (910) 343-5233 Artfuel is pleased to host Vol. 43, “Window Shopping Art Show,” featuring work by Zak Duff, Char Oden, Scott Ehrhart, and Kimberly Coffman. Hangs for eight weeks.

ARTEXPOSURE!

22527 Highway 17N, Hampstead, NC (910) 803-0302 • (910) 330-4077 Tues. - Sat. 10am - 5pm (or by appt.) www.artexposure50.com Summer Camps for Children are coming! They will start in June and run through August. Please check the website at www. artexposure50.com and click on Classes for Children for dates and information, or call ArtExposure at 910-803-0302.

All North Carolina artists are welcome to enter the 2nd annual “Artist Choice Invitational” in August. Entry forms and information are available on the website under the Call for Entries page. Each artist may enter TWO

pieces of 2D or 3D work. This will be a juried show and cash awards will be given.

ART IN BLOOM

210 Princess St. Tues. - Sat. 10am - 6pm (or by appt., Sun. and Mon.) (484) 885-3037 • www.aibgallery.com Established in 2015, the Art in Bloom Gallery is in a renovated, 19th-century horse stable at 210 Princess Street in downtown Wilmington.

The gallery focuses upon international and national fine art including painting, sculpture, ceramics, glass, wood, encaustic, and mixed media. Current exhibits include: Full Circle: New Art by Elizabeth Darrow, Traudi Thornton, and Susan Francy in Gallery 1; “Looking Within: Encaustic Paintings by Helen Lewis” in Gallery 2; and “Wind,” a marble sculpture by Wendy Zhang and Junhua Cheng in the courtyard as part of the Pedestrian Art Program organized by the Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County.. The gallery is open until 9 pm on Fourth Friday Gallery Nights.

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Thurs. - Sat., 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Sun.., noon - 6 p.m. • Call for appointment!

As a longtime leader in local art curation, Crescent Moon strives to be an ambassador for their artists and to make their customers art collecting, decorating and gift-giving experience an easy one. The gallery showcases work from more than 50 local and national artists. New this Summer is Anne Andersson’s new installation of her handmade life-like sisal animal sculptures.

Anne is a pioneer in this form of fiber art and it is truly extraordinary to see. Made out of agave fibers, each sculpture is one-of-a-kind with its very own look and personality! Crescent Moon is also excited to welcome back to the gallery NC artist Beth Hill. Beth purposefully creates her compositions to appear as “portraits” using experimental paint techniques. Inspired by nature and a love of animals, Beth hopes that each viewer makes a connection with the personalities and peculiarities of the images while enjoying the colors, shapes and patterns.

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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.

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201 Princess St. (919) 343-8997 Tues. - Sat.: 11am - 6pm (or by appt.) www.newelementsgallery.com Salt of the Earth Features new works from mixed media artist Victoria Primicias and traditional painter Owen Wexler. Both artists look to the natural world for inspiration. Primicias produces abstracted landscapes where Wexler paints true-to-life scenes. Salt of the Earth on display through June 18, 2016.

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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 sev-

The Forum • 1125 Military Cutoff Rd, Suite H (910) 256-2323 Mon.- Sat. 10am - 6pm www.spectrumartandjewelry.com Spectrum Gallery presents “SEE-Shore – Coastal Inspired Art” by Chip Hemingway, Rebecca DiMaio, Kimberlee Maselli, and Susan Hecht. Opening Reception at Spectrum Gallery on Thursday, June 16, 2016 from 6-9pm.

There will be refreshments and live music.

Spectrum Gallery is located at The Forum on Military Cutoff Road, right next door to the Osteria Cicchetti. For more info, and to view all the art currently offered please visit www.

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10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999 • Tues.- Sat. 10am - 5pm www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com In the historic fishing village of Calabash, NC, over 10,000-plus square feet of fine arts is showcased. Clay art and pottery; oil paintings, watercolors, mixed media, pastels and acrylics; plus award-winning metalworks, wood pieces, hand-blown glass, fiber art, artisanmade jewelry and more. Sunset River Marketplace has become a popular destination for visitors, a gathering place for artists and a center of the community, thanks to its onsite pottery studio, complete with two kilns; a custom master framing department; and art classrooms for workshops and ongoing instruction.

WILMA W. DANIELS GALLERY

200 Hanover Street, CFCC parking deck First level • (910) 362-7431 Tues.- Sat., noon - 5pm CFCC’s Wilma W. Daniels Gallery is pleased to present Shaun Richards Recent Works. The exhibition will run through June 18th. Richards, born in 1977, attended UNCW, where he earned a BA in Art in 1999. In 2003, he enrolled in SUNY Empire State College as a nonmatriculated graduate student. Richards left NYC and returned to NC to pursue art full time in 2006, and since has been awarded the Regional Emerging Artist Residency at Artspace and a three-month residency at The Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, and has had shows every where from Wilmington’s CAM to Alexandria’s Target Gallery, to the Greenhill Center for NC Art, and Flanders Art Gallery.

In 2015 Richards formed Peregrine Projects, an artist co-op that works with business to promote local artists through Public Art, and short-term exhibitions. Richards continues to reside and hold studio space in Raleigh, NC.

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Lates Ninja Turtles installment feels like a brain punch

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Thalian Hall • 310 Chestnut St. $8, 7pm • www.thalianhall.org

BY: ANGHUS

June 13-15 (additional showing June 15 at 4 p.m.): Cultures collide when an American businessman (Tom Hanks) is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime.

Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wisecracking taxi driver (Alexander Black) and a beautiful Saudi doctor (Sarita Choudhury). (R, 97 mins)

had a friend who told me a story once, and it might be the best anecdote anyone ever shared with me. Not only because of how amazing and mindblowing the story is, but how deadpan it was in the delivery. I won’t go into too many details, but the story was about learning torture techniques in order to extract information from someone who just doesn’t want to talk. He walked me through the different steps they went through—a heinous process known as a “brain punch.” It’s so terrible it makes the brain swell and contract, causing the unfortunate victim to simultaneously void their bowels, empty their bladder and vomit like a pledge at their first frat party. After watching “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,” I feel like I understand a brain punch better.

My brain hurt after watching this movie. It was like a theme park ride where the goal was to see how many of the riders’ senses would feel like they had been scrubbed with pipe cleaners. Or perhaps it’s akin to a water-park slide made of unfinished wood that deposits its victims into a pool of lemon juice and Sriracha. I’m fine with the occasional piece of mindless entertainment, but “mindless” implies our brains drift into a catatonic-like state. This movie is more like a barrage of punches to the central nervous system.

This second attempt at creating a new Mutant Turtle franchise feels even more painful than the tone-deaf original. We once again meet the turtles who whip through New York City in a nausea-inducing sequence that, once again, proves how capable special effects have become. Much of the action attempts to attain a sense of lucidity, as we see virtual tracking shots that attempt cinematic fluidity but just come across as super annoying. The turtles are still lurking in the shadows as they try to save the good people of New York, while enjoying plain cheese pizza and occasionally pine to walk among normal people on the streets. Before we can delve any deeper into an existential crisis, their arch nemesis, Shredder, is broken out of jail faster than you can say, “El Chapo.”

There are more things to worry about than a crazed, knife-happy samurai. This time around there’s an inter-dimensional world conqueror, Krang, who wants to open a portal above New York to assemble a massive Death Star-like battle station to take over the world—because that’s what villains do in these brainless comic-book movies. They open portals and try to invade New York, even though every piece of empirical evidence has proven New York is the last place to stage such a conquest. How

TURTLES INVADE NY: Donatello, Michaelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael return to slay evil villians in a useless piece of cinema. Courtesy photo.

many more films do I need to watch decide the best place to stage an invasion is our most populated city? There are so many villains that could have actually conquered the Earth if they just decided to stage their invasion in El Paso, Texas, or Bismarck, South Dakota. Here’s a hint: All the superheroes are in New York?

So our turtles go on a quest to take down Shredder as he attempts to open the standard inter-dimensional villain portal. Of course, it involves recovering special items at different locations to assemble the device, because the universe’s most advanced technology always requires assembly. This gets our plucky heroes into a number of action-y scenarios required for a lazy summer blockbuster.

What transforms this movie from a painfully average summer blockbuster to an agonizing, excruciating ordeal is its execution. The turtles are horribly unlikable and annoying. I suppose that’s all part of the shtick with them being teenagers, but there have been some decent movies made with these characters. The original “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” (filmed right here in Wilmington) was charming and managed to capture the spirit of the comic books with lo-fi effects work and likable characters.

This new incarnation takes the source material and filters it through a lethal dose of crystal meth, to turn it into a blinding, loud disaster of constant momentum. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a shark: If it stops moving, it will die. So the movie just continues to foolishly jump from scene to scene in a story

so incoherent it could have been written by paint-huffing junkies using their feet to type out the script on an old typewriter where the space bar no longer works.

This movie is bad. B-A-D! Run, don’t walk, away from the theater. Everyone forced to watch it should close their eyes like “Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark” and pray that it doesn’t melt their faces like silly putty.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Zero stars!

Rated PG-13 Starring Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry Directed by Dave Green

WILMINGTON ON FIRE Williston Middle School 401 S. 10th St. $10, 1pm and 4pm

June 18: Speller Street Films L.L.C. will host two public screenings of “Wilmington on Fire,” a doc about the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in Wilmington—a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the Port City. www. wofwilmington.eventbrite.com or at the door on the day of the event.

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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 award-winning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sunday April - October. Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC. (910) 256-8500.

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

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

BLUE SURF CAFÉ

Sophisticated Food…Casual Style. We offer a menu that has a heavy California surf culture influence while still retaining our Carolina roots. We provide a delicate balance of flavors and freshness in a comfortable and inviting setting. We offer a unique breakfast menu until noon daily, including specialty waffles, skillet hashes and unique breakfast sandwiches. Our lunch menu is packed with a wide variety of options, from house roasted pulled pork, to our mahi sandwich and customer favorite, meatloaf sandwich. Our dinner features a special each night along with our favorite house entrees: Braised Beef Brisket, Mojo Pork and Mahi. All of our entrees are as delicious as they are inventive. We also have a full beer and wine list. Come try the “hidden gem” of Wilmington today. 250 Racine Drive Ste. 1, 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!

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■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily Specials, Gluten Free Menu,

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.camcafe.org

Gourmet Hot Chocolates, Outdoor Patio, New Artist event first Friday of every month and Kids Menu.

■ WEBSITE: www.bluesurfcafe.com

THE DISTRICT KITCHEN & COCKTAILS

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. 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: Tues-Sat: 11am – 3 pm; Wed-Thurs: 5 – 9pm; Sunday Brunch: 10am – 3pm

A new addition to the Brooklyn Arts and downtown area, The District Kitchen & Cocktails is serving fresh, seasonal menus in a polished casual atmosphere. We feature locally sourced ingredients when available.

For lunch, we offer delicious burgers and sandwiches, while dinner features steaks, chops and seafood all handcrafted by executive chef Luke Poulos. Within blocks of CFCC and the Riverwalk, The District welcomes diners to enjoy inspired wines, craft cocktails and NC draught beers at their renovated bar and restaurant, located at 1001 N. 4th St. 910-796-6565 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues.-Thurs.11am9pm, Fri.-Sat., 11am-10pm. Lunch menu served ‘til 4pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Brooklyn Arts District ■ WEBSITE: www.districtnc.com

ELIJAH’S Since 1984, Elijah’s has been Wilmington, NC’s outdoor dining destination. We feature expansive indoor and outdoor waterfront dining, with panoramic views of riverfront sunsets. As a Casual American Grill and Oyster Bar, Elijah’s offers everything from fresh local seafood and shellfish to pastas, sandwiches, and Certified Angus Beef selections. We offer half-priced oysters from 4-6 every Wednesday & live music with our Sunday Brunch from 11-3. Whether you are just looking for a great meal & incredible scenery, or a large event space for hundreds of people, Elijah’s is the place to be.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs 11:3010:00; Friday and Saturday 11:30-11:00 ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington Kids menu available

THE DONUT INN

A first for donut shops in Wilmington. Huge hand-cut gourmet donuts are made fresh daily on site, and a sizzling grill serving up every kind of breakfast sandwich imaginable! Don’t forget about us for lunch! Sandwiches are piled high with Boar’s Head meats and cheeses.

Our coffees are specially brewed in an Italian Cimbali espresso machine. Come for visit and make yourself at home! 1427 Military Cutoff rd. (910)679-8420 ■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: Mon - Fri 5:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Sat & Sun 5:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington

ETERNAL SUNSHINE CAFÉ

Wilmington’s new unique restaurant, Eternal Sunshine Café, is conveniently located between downtown and Wrightsville Beach, also close to UNCW. It is a great spot to savor a gourmet breakfast, like cinna-swirl pancakes with coffee cream cheese syrup or a southwest benedict with chipotle hollandaise on a made from scratch biscuit. The lunch menu is filled with fresh delectable salads, sandwiches on house baked breads, and pitas. Come experience the innovative twist on breakfast classics and a casual lunch guaranteed to make you a regular customer. May the tranquility of Eternal Sunshine Cafe’s atmosphere shine upon your face and reinvigorate your day. Serving breakfast all day.

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

THE FELIX CAFE The Felix Cafe is a restaurant experience like no other in Wilmington, N.C. Our eatery is a unique and relaxing gem situated near the port, and at the edge of Sunset Park on Burnett Blvd. We believe fine dining doesn’t have to come with all the fuss. From our homemade soups to the locally sourced produce, we let the ingredients speak for themselves in a fun and friendly atmosphere. Folks will enjoy the outdoor seating, our vibrant staff, the colorful interior, and our cabana style tiki bar. You will come here as a customer and leave as a friend. 2140 Burnett Blvd. (910) 399-1213.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Thurs.-Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun.-Wed..: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Sunset Park, Downtown Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Daily specials, full bar,freejazz and wine tastings on Thursdays ■ WEBSITE: www.thefelixcafeonline.com

HENRY’S

A local favorite, Henry’s is the ‘place to be’ for great food, a lively bar and awesome patio dining. Henry’s serves up American cuisine at its finest that include entrees with fresh, local ingredients. Come early for lunch, because it’s going to be packed. Dinner too! Henry’s Pine Room is ideal for private functions up to 30 people.

2508 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington, NC. (910)

793.2929.

SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun. - Mon. 11 a.m.-10

p.m.; Tues.- Fri.: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.; Sat.: 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily blackboard specials.

■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com

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

Lovey’s Natural Foods and Café Stop in before you hit the beach!

Smoothies • To Go Wraps Fresh Salads • Cold Beer

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 four-course meal, or indulge in appetizers and desserts outside on the back deck or in the bar while watching luminescent jellyfish. Reservations are appreciated for parties of any size. Located at the corner of Front and Orange in Downtown Wilmington. 138 South Front Street. (910) 251-0433.

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■ 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

LOW TIDE PUB

Located across from UNCW’s campus, Low Tide Pub serves up delicious fare and great drink specials in a fun atmosphere. Enjoy the biggest and best wings in town for only $0.50 on Sundays, a $5 daily lunch special, $2 daily beer special, and even taco Tuesdays.

Their Mother Clucker is served just in time for the holidays: slow-roasted chicken with cranberries, housemade stuffing, lettuce, and tomato. Their Thai or Buffalo shrimp wrap, famed Monte Cristo and 1945-family secret cheesecake recipe will keep customers coming back for more. Karaoke Saturdays begin at 9:30 p.m., and trivia Tuesdays get underway weekly at 7:30 p.m. Low Tide has a beautiful, private deck, perfect for hosting parties and events. It’s midtown Wilmington’s favorite pub—”where on the rocks is a good thing.”

4540 Fountain Drive, beside of PT’s. 910-313-2738.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER AND LATE-NIGHT:

Mon., 6 p.m. - 1 a.m.; Tues.-Thurs., 11 a.m. - 1 a.m.; Fri., 11 a.m. - 2 a.m.; Sat., noon - 2 a.m.; Sun., noon - 9 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown Wilmington, near UNCW ■ FEATURING: Daily specials, Saturday karaoke and Tuesday trivia night.

■ WEBSITE: www.lowtidepub.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

THE PUB

A true public house. A gathering place. In house fresh ground burgers made with short rib, brisket and chuck on Sweet n Savory’s, made from scratch, bread along with 40 other sandwiches and meals under $12.

32 beers on tap, friendly service and a relaxed atmosphere where you can hang out with friends and enjoy live music, your favorite NFL game or the BEST burger you’ll ever eat! 2012 Eastwood Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, (910) 679-8101, Hours: 11am-2am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Causeway ■ WEBSITE: www.sweetnsavory.pub

SPICOLI “In crust we trust.” Spicoli specializes in classic NY

style pizza with a totally unconventional (AND DELICIOUS) sourdough crust. We also feature one-of-akind burger creations, Jumbo wings complete with our perfect, house-made blue cheese or ranch. Or enjoy any of our unique vegan or gluten-free options. But Spicoli is not just amazing food. We keep it awesome with a killer juke box, classic arcade games, and great deals on everything at our full bar. Share some brews over PacMan or enjoy the area’s only 20in pie on our outdoor patio. Just make sure you are having fun.

Don’t worry!! If you can’t come see us, we also have the largest delivery radius in town!! 1978 Eastwood Road, (910) 256-0339.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach

SWEET ‘N’ SAVORY CAFÉ

The Real Wizard Behind the Food. Anyone who has seen the Wizard of Oz knows that the wizard was just a scared old man hiding behind the curtain. Restaurants are no different. Making incredible food is not magical or mystical and instead just requires heart (Tin Man), brains (Scarecrow), courage (Lion) and love (Dorothy).

At Sweet n Savory we have pulled back the curtain because we don’t believe that we need smoke, mirrors, over inflated prices or pretentiousness to offer you the best and freshest food your money can buy. 1611 Pavillion Place, Wilmington, NC 28403, (910) 256-0115 Hours: 7am-10pm.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, BAKERY & CATERING ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Causeway ■ WEBSITE: www.sweetnsavorycafe.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 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 in-

225 South Water St ∙ 910-769-3709

Globally Inspired Cuisine & Handcrafted Spirits

Scratch Made • Pure Ingredients • Vegan, Gluten & Allergy Friendly Grass-fed Burgers • Hormone Free • Featuring Local NC Beef & Pork

Wine Down Wednesdays: 1/2 OFF Wine Martini Tastings: Friday 5-7pm Book your private luncheon events with us

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HOURS: Mon. Closed • Tues. - 4pm – 9pm • Wed. 4pm – 10pm Thurs. - Sat. 11am – 10pm • Sun. 11am – 9pm

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gredients, 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

SZECHUAN 132

KABUKI KOREAN CAFÉ AND SUSHI

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch Specials ■ WEBSITE: www.szechuan132.com

Family-owned and operated, Kabuki Korean Café and Sushi is Wilmington’s only authentic Korean restaurant, freshly renovated and boasting a brand new menu! They feature delectable Korean BBQ, and are best known for traditional items like their bibimbop and bulgogi. But they also feature a large variety of Asian cuisine, from fresh sushi to fried rice to teriyaki dishes, dumplings, edamame and more. Open daily, Kabuki welcomes diners for lunch from 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and dinner 4:30 to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. Stop by Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 10 p.m. 4102 Oleander Drive, Suite 2, at the corner of 41st Street, behind the Hess gas station. 910-3503332.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, off Oleander Drive.

■ FEATURING: ILM’s only authentic Korean restaurant!

■ WEBSITE: www.kabukikoreancafe.com

KYOTO ASIAN GRILLE

Kyoto Asian Grille specializes in crafting mouth-watering food and providing superb customer service.

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

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

■ WEBSITE: www.kyotoasiangrille.com

OKAMI JAPANESE HIBACHI STEAKHOUSE

We have reinvented “Hibachi Cuisine”. Okami Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse in Wilmington, NC is like no other.

Our highly skilled chefs will not only cook an incredible dinner, but they will entertain you on the way. Our portions are large, our drinks are less expensive, and our staff is loads of fun. At Okami Japanese Hibachi Steakhouse, we are committed to using quality ingredients and seasoning with guaranteed freshness. Our goal is to utilize all resources, domestically and internationally, to ensure that we serve only the finest food products. We believe that good healthy food aids the vital functions for well-being, both physically and mentally. Our menu consists of a wide range of Steak, Seafood, and Chicken for the specially designed “Teppan Grill,” to the taste bud tingling Japanese Sushi, Hand Rolls, Sashimi, Tempura dishes and Japanese Noodle entrees. This offers our guests a complete Japanese dining experience. Check out our all you can eat sushi menu and daily specials at www.okamisteakhouse.com!

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday - Thursday 11am - 2:30pm / 4pm - 10pm; Friday 11am - 2:30pm / 4pm - 11pm; Saturday 11am - 11pm; Sunday 11am - 9:30pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.okamisteakhouse.com

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

THAI SPICE

From the flavorfully mild to the fiery spiced, Thai Spice customers are wooed by the dish that’s made to their specifications. Featuring a tasteful menu of traditional Thai standards to numerous delectable house specials, it’s quickly becoming the local favorite for Thai cuisine.

This family-run restaurant is sure to win you over. If you haven’t discovered this gem, come in and be charmed.

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

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

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

YOSAKE DOWNTOWN SUSHI LOUNGE

Lively atmosphere in a modern setting, Yosake is the delicious Downtown spot for date night, socializing with friends, or any large dinner party. Home to the neverdisappointing Shanghai Firecracker Shrimp! In addition to sushi, we offer a full Pan Asian menu including curries, noodle dishes, and the ever-popular Crispy Salmon or mouth-watering Kobe Burger. Inspired features change weekly showcasing our commitment to local farms. Full bar including a comprehensive sake list, signature cocktails, and Asian Import Bottles. 33 S. Front St., 2nd Floor (910) 763-3172.

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

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

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

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

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

ate pleasing menu items, including their “fancy fries”, doused with truffles and Parmesan. Borkowski takes pride in hand-crafted food, while the NeMa staff offers helpful, friendly knowledge. They offer vegan, glutenand-allergy-friendly fare and Wine Down Wednesday (1/2 off glasses and bottles of wine). 225 S Water St. 910-769-3709 ■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER AND BRUNCH: Closed Monday, Tuesday 12pm -9pm, Wednesday-Friday 12pm -10pm, Saturday 10am - 10pm, Sunday 10am 9pm, Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10am - 2pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown, Chandler’s Wharf ■ FEATURING: Worldly eats, including vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free items ■ WEBSITE: www.nemalounge.com

INDIAN KABOB AND GRILL Welcome to Kabob and Grill, downtown Wilmington’s only fine Indian restaurant. Located on Water Street, overlooking the Cape Fear River, Kabob and Grill innovatesexotic flavors of Indian kabobs and curries.

Kabobs are baked to perfection in our “tandoor” clay oven fresh, daily. We take pride in offering a great selection of vegetarian entrees made with healthy spices, vegetables and herbs. We also serve vegan and glutenfree items, all aromatic and full of flavor. Our professional chef ensures our lavash and extensive menu appeals to all palates, whether choosing vegetarian, chicken, lamb, goat, or seafood. Our dining area is modern and upscale, yet steeped in Indian tradition. We have a fullservice bar and are open seven days a week. We do take-out, delivery and welcome private parties. Live music and dance every Saturday. Please, check our website or facebook page for more information. www. kabobandgrilldowntown.com - 5 S. Water Street, (910)

833-5262.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Lunch Sunday through

Saturday 11am-3pm. Dinner Sunday through Thursday 5-10pm, Friday & Saturday 5-10:30pm.

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

■ WEBSITE: www.kabobandgrilldowntown.com

IRISH HALLIGAN’S PUBLIC HOUSE

“Failte,” is the Gaelic word for “Welcome,” and at Halligan’s Public House it’s our “Motto.” Step into Halligan’s and enter a world of Irish hospitality where delicious food warms the heart and generous drinks lift the spirit. Be sure to try Halligan’s house specialty, “The Reuben,” number one with critics and of course our customers. One bite and you’ll understand why.

Of course, we also serve a full selection of other delicious entrees including seafood, steak and pasta, as well as a wide assortment of burgers, sandwiches (Halligan’s Cheese Steak), and salads. And if you are looking for a friendly watering hole where you can raise a glass or two with friends, new and old, Halligan’s Public House boasts a comfortable bar where fun-loving bartenders hold court daily and blarney fills the air. Stop by Halligan’s Public House today, “When you’re at Halligan’s....you’re at home.” With 12 beers on tap and 16 flat screen TVs, you can watch your favorite game and enjoy your favorite drink. Enjoy two locatons: 3317 Masonboro Loop Rd., and 1900 Eastwood Rd. in Lumina Station.

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

■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Masonboro Loop and Lumina Station ■ FEATURING: The Best Reuben in Town! $5.99 lunch specials, Outdoor Patio

Dine-In, Take Away & Delivery

Life is a combination of magic & pizza!

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

HEALTHY NEMA LOUNGE AND EATERY

Open since the summer of 2015, NeMa Eatery and Lounge boasts the delicacies of Chef Borkowski.

Serving bold flavors in a variety of menu items form grass-fed burgers to artisan pizzas to small plates, the NeMa team takes diners across the world through pal-

Hours: Monday - Thursday: 11am -10pm Friday & Saturday: 11am - 11pm Sunday: 11am - 9pm Delivery service available: $1000 Minimum - 3 mile radius 3926 Market St, Suite 201 • (910) 399-6723

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■ WEBSITE: www.halligansnc.com

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

ITALIAN FAT TONY’S ITALIAN PUB

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

crobrews 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.

MAMMA BELLA PIZZERIA

Mamma Bella’s is Wilmington’s latest pie palace, offering fresh and unique pizzas, strombolis, sandwiches, salads, wings, and more. Diners can enjoy eating in their quaint dining space or have Mamma deliver to their doorstep ($10 minimum, three-mile radius). Nothing is frozen, and everything is made with top-notch ingredients, from the house meatballs to the pesto, salad dressings to marinara sauce, and beyond! Mamma bakes bread fresh several times daily and helps produce the most scrumptious cinnamon and/or pizza knots. In fact, through Feb. 29, either flavor of knots are free with the purchase of any large pie; or customers can get 12 free wings when ordering two large 2 topping pizzas (dine-in or delivery; offers cannot be combined). With a knowledgeable staff providing excellent customer service—all of whom “respect the pie”—every order is cared for from placing it to picking it up. 3926 Market St. 910-399-6723.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon - Thurs 11am 10pm; Fri - Sat 11am - 11pm; Sun 11am - 9pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.mammabellapizzeria.com

SLICE OF LIFE

“Slice” has become a home away from home for tourists and locals alike. Our menu includes salads, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, homemade soups, subs and, of course, pizza. We only serve the freshest and highestquality ingredients in all of our food, and our dough is made daily with purified water. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”All ABC permits. Visit us downtown at 125 Market Street, (910) 251-9444, in Wrightsville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and in Pine Valley on the corner of 17th and College Road, (910) 799-1399.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11:30 a.m.-3 a.m., 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, Downtown and Wilmington South.

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

A TASTE OF ITALY

Looking for authentic Italian cuisine in the Port City? Look no further than A Taste of Italy Deli. Brothers, Tommy and Chris Guarino, and partner Craig Berner, have been serving up breakfast, lunch, and dinner to local and visiting diners for twenty years. The recipes have been passed down from generation to generation, and after one bite you feel like you’re in your mamas’ kitchen. Along with the hot and cold lunch menu, they also carry a large variety of deli sides and 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 8:00am8:00pm, Saturday 8:30am-7:00pm, Sunday 11:00am6:00pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.ncatasteofitaly.com ■ FEATURING: Sclafani goods, Polly-O cheese, Ferrara Torrone and much, much more!

JAMAICAN JAMAICA’S COMFORT ZONE

Free at the Felix...

• Wine tasting Thursdays • Jazz music Thursdays • Peanuts on every table

serving lunch & dinner • full bar • live music • daily specials Sun-Thurs: 11am-9pm • Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm • Closed Mondays 2140 Burnett Blvd. • (910) 399-1213 • www.felixcafeonline.com 26 encore | june 15- 21, 2016 | www.encorepub.com

Tucked in the corner of University Landing, a block from UNCW is the hidden gem of Wilmington’s international cuisine scene - Jamaica’s Comfort Zone. This family owned restaurant provides a relaxing blend of Caribbean delights – along with reggae music – served up with irrepressible smiles for miles. From traditional Jamaican breakfast to mouth-watering classic dishes such as curry goat, oxtail, jerk and curry chicken, to our specialty 4-course meals ($12.00) and $6.99 Student meal. Catering options are available.

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

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

LATIN AMERICAN CEVICHE’S

Come enjoy the tropical flavors of Panama and Central America...from our fresh fish to our handmade empanadas, traditional arroz con pollo to fresh inspired salads, We hope you will be transported to simpler time with warm, friendly service, and festive vibe. Large selection of beer and wine, including red and white sangria, tropical mimosas, drink specials daily. Just before the bridge at Wrightsville Beach. 7210 Wrightsville Ave. (910) 2563131.

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

SAN JUAN CAFÉ

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

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

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

MEXICAN 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 $4.25 on Mondays and Tuesdays at all locations, and every meal is complete. Serving the Port City since1996, folks can dine indoors at the Oleander and both Market Street locations, or dine alfresco at both Market Street locations. 3617 Market St.; 8024 Unit 1 Market St.; 5622 Oleander Dr. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun-Thurs until 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. until 11 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

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

SAN FELIPE MEXICAN RESTAURANT At San Felipe, we pride ourselves in offering the best Mexican cuisine combined with a Mexican inspired dining experience that will instill a sense of “familia” with our patrons. Ditch the regular fare and try one of our Mexican inspired favorites such as our sizzling Certified Angus Beef Fajitas or our Carolina Chimichanga. Visit any of our 10 North Carolina locations to see for yourself and while your at it, try one of our delicious Margaritas! See you soon Amigos! Independence Mall, 3522 Oleander Dr - Wilmington, NC (910) 791-9277 and 1114 New Pointe Blvd - Leland, NC (910) 371-1188.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington, Leland & Southport ■ WEBSITE: www.sanfelipenc.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 takeout. 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

WHOLE FOODS MARKET

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

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

SEAFOOD CATCH

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 Oys-

ters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, & Seafood Ceviche to name a few. Larger Plates include, Charleston Crab Cakes, Flounder Escovitch & Miso Salmon. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest.

(Vegetarian, Vegan & Allergies) Hand-crafted seasonal desserts. Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405, 910-799-3847.

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington

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.

■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

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

■ 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) 7622827.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week.

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

■ WEBSITE: www.dockstreetoysterbar.net

OCEANIC

Voted best seafood restaurant in Wilmington, Oceanic provides oceanfront dining at its best. Located in Wrightsville Beach, Oceanic is one of the most visited restaurants on the beach. Choose from a selection of seafood platters, combination plates and daily fresh fish. For land lovers, try their steaks, chicken or pasta dishes. Relax on the pier or dine inside. Oceanic is also the perfect location for memorable events, such

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & SUNDAY BRUNCH:

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

■ WEBSITE: www.OceanicRestaurant.com

THE PILOT HOUSE

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 fa-

Celebrate Father’s Day with some great food and beer!

Food and Drink Specials All Day Sunday Brunch 11-3pm Live Music on Patio 5-8pm 5500 Market Street www.johnnylukeskb.com (910)-769-1798 • Mon - Sun: 11:30aM - 2aM

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vorite 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 poboys, 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 Southern cuisine made with ingredients from local farmers and fishermen. The Rx chef is committed to bringing fresh food to your table, so the menu changes daily based on what he finds locally. Rx drinks are as unique as the food—and just what the doctor ordered. Join us for a dining experience you will never forget! 421 Castle St.; 910 399-3080.

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

PEMBROKE’S A seasonally inspired and locally sourced Southern cuisine dining experience, Pembroke’s was created by the owners of downtown’s Rx Restaurant. Pembroke’s focuses on the same values and excellent service as its sister restaurant, purveying local companies for the best in seafood, proteins and produce.

They work with local fisherman and farmers to ensure your meal will be freshly grown and hand chosen. A new dinner menu is churned out daily to ensure the chefs are working with the freshest ingredients. Plus, the bartenders are creating new drink menus daily as to never bore your taste buds. 1125 A Military Cutoff Rd. 910-239-9153.

■ SERVING BRUNCH & DINNER: Open for dinner Tues-Sun, 5pm-close, with live music Fri-Sat nights.

Sunday brunch, 10am-3pm.

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

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SPORTS BAR CAROLINA ALE HOUSE

Voted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010 in Wilmington, Carolina Ale House is the place to be for award-winning food, sports and fun. Located on College Rd. near UNC W, this lively sports-themed restaurant. Covered and open outdoor seating is available. Lunch and dinner specials are offered daily, as well as the coldest $2 and $3 drafts in town. 317 South College Road. (910) 791.9393.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT:

11am-2am daily.

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

jector TVs in Wilmington.

■ WEBSITE: www.CarolinaAleHouse.com

DIG AND DIVE

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

Play. 3525 Lancelot Lane. 910-202-9350.

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

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

■ WEBSITE: www.DigandDive.com

HELL’S KITCHEN

Downtown Wilmington’s Sports Pub shows every major sporting package on 10 HDTVs—and a huge HD projection screen! There is no better place to catch every game in every sport. Our extensive menu ranges from classics, like thick Angus burgers or NY-style Reuben, to lighter fare, such as homemade soups, fresh salads and vegetarian options. Whether meeting for a business lunch, lingering over dinner and drinks, or watching the game, the atmosphere and friendly service will turn you into a regular. Open late 7 days a week, with free WiFi, pool, and did we mention sports? Free downtown lunchtime delivery on weekdays; we can accommodate large parties. (910) 763-4133.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & ■ LATE NIGHT: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Half off select apps, Mon.- Thurs.,

4-7pm

■ WEBSITE: www.hellskitchenbar.com

JAX 5TH AVENUE 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

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AN ORGANIC GEM:

Porches Café Swings open the door to authentic farm-to-table dining

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BY: ROSA BIANCA

don’t know much about Castle Hayne.

I’m a downtowner, so my comfort zone stretches from Front to North 4th street.

But here’s what I learned about Castle Hayne last week: Our coastal town just seriously stepped up its food game.

Nestled into the gorgeous riverfront community of River Bluffs (picture Landfall’s mini-me) is Porches Café. In January the restaurant welcomed in members of their luxurious neighborhood—as well as the public—and have been utilizing fresh, organic crops right from their very backyard ever since. I’m not just hashtagging “eat local” here. Thanks to a 10-acre farm that resides on the development, Porches takes full advantage of their bounty and plates straight from their farm to (you guessed it) table. Many modern eateries take a helping hand from native growers, but how often does a place produce the goods themselves?

I was doing cartwheels before I even glanced at a menu.

As of now, the café’s hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Despite having a trendy bar (that I’m sure River Bluffs’ residents would love to stumble home from), Porches offerings are mostly meant for lunch. And, yes, that includes booze. Wine, spirits and a small selection of beer is up for grabs—just don’t roll in after dinner looking to party.

Porches offers a few breakfast items (homemade muffins, scones, etc.), but the majority of the menu boasts sandwiches and salads. With several smoothies available (and the reminder that fruits and veggies are coming from out back), I started my edible adventure by getting my slurp on. The “Green Giant” smoothie had my name all over it, and I needed something to wash down the housemade granola bar. Into the blender went kale, spinach, apples, banana, yogurt, honey, and

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texture. Maybe it’s just me, but slimy isn’t a word I want to use to describe a mouthful of food. Other than that snag, all sandwiches were exceptionally well-made.

SOUTHERN STAPLE: Smoked ham, bacon jam and pimiento cheese top this pressed sandwich at Porches.

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wheatgrass. With such outrageously fresh ingredients, I was expecting more pizazz, but unfortunately the drink could’ve used more sweetness to mellow out the greens. Porches had all of the right components, but didn’t execute as fruitfully as expected. Had my server given the smoothie the straw-taste-trick, I might have received a more balanced mixture. The granola bar had similar issues in that, while the flavors were present, the crumbliness of the oats made it difficult to eat. A little nut butter might keep it more intact.

Now for the lunchtime lineup.

I decided to try out three sandwiches from different ends of the spectrum. I started with the Mt. Mitchell—a pressed Cuban roll with roasted eggplant, red peppers, Portobello, and briny feta. Though I didn’t pick up on the pepperoncini aioli, all other fillings in this vegetarian creation were smoky, salty and mingled well.

Next up was the Cape Fear. This classic combo of turkey, bacon and avocado, with the addition of chipotle aioli and Swiss, on lightly toasted sourdough was excellent, to say the least. As with practically every menu item, each ingredient was high-quality and every sauce was homemade.

I assumed my third choice of the Southern Staple was a fan-favorite because, well, bacon jam. Thanks to a hearty portion of smoked ham, the unctuous spread was lightly smeared on as to not overpower each pimiento cheesy bite. While I appreciate the idea of pickled okra, I couldn’t get past the

For sides: I opted for the slaw, house salad and soup of the day.

The coleslaw (although visually appealing) was take it or leave it, as the dressing didn’t hold up to the superior nature of the rest of the meal. But the ranch—oh, my ranch! It was a 15-minute drive to Porches, and I would walk back for the ranch. Not only was this herby dressing bursting with fresh dill and garlic, but the simple salad itself was thoughtfully constructed, with sliced cherry tomatoes, shaved red onions, cucumbers, celery, and carrots. The only thing tastier than the ranch was the luxuriously silky local yellow squash bisque. The seasonal soup was garnished with tangy herb goat cheese and each addictive spoonful was buttery and brimming with love. Can’t. Stop. Drooling.

With a garden around the corner, I knew sampling an entrée salad was a must. I respect a restaurant who bases their cuisine on which crops are popping up. I originally planned on the “Beets Me,” but found a similar item on the specials list loaded with in-season produce. This refreshing fusion showcased elegant microgreens (sunflower and pea shoots), candied walnuts, local strawberries, watermelon radishes, shaved fennel, and goat cheese. The salad was dressed in a striking pink strawberry vinaigrette, and I ate the multicolor masterpiece like someone was going to take it away from me. The vivid watermelon radishes—limey green on the outside with stunning crimson flesh—were shaved and slightly peppery, while the strawberries brought a bright burst of sweetness.

No matter where diners reside—downtown, midtown, in Wrightsville Beach, or Ogden— they need to mosey up to Porches before the crowds go wild. Despite a few hiccups, “bravo” is an understatement for this organic gem!

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CARPE LIBRUM:

ies, Maple’s book reminded of another debut novel dealing with people and circumstances that are not what they seem: “Williwaw”

by Gore Vidal. Published in 1946, it was Vidal’s first book and one of his more clearly autobiographical.

The narrative traces events on a ship in the Aleutian Islands during WWII and a death that might or might not be accidental. He wrote it in his log book while he was on night watches. The setting is on and around the very ship on which he served.

The starting point of two authors BY: GWENYFAR ROHLER

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ilmington’s literary community keeps gaining accolades (two National Book Awards nominees in 2015) and attention in the press. With multiple established publishers in the state (Algonquin, John F. Blair) and new smaller presses gaining traction (Eno, Bull City), it is timely to shine a light on discussions around literature, publishing and the importance of communicating a truthful story in our present world.

Welcome to Carpe Librum, encore’s biweekly book column, wherein I will dissect a current title with an old book—because literature does not exist in a vacuum but emerges to participate in a larger, cultural conversation. I will feature many NC writers; however, the hope is to place the discussion in a larger context and therefore examine works around the world.

The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More: A Great Wharf Novel

By Meredith Marple Cinder Path Press, 2015, 467 pages Williwaw

By Gore Vidal EP Dutton, 1946, 222 pages

“The Year Mrs. Cooper Got Out More” is the debut novel from Meredith Marple.

In many ways it typifies the dreams of a lot of Americans: Write a book later in life, once the kids are on their own and responsibilities are done. “The Year Mrs.

Cooper Got Out More” follows the trials and tribulations of Mrs. Cooper, a recent empty nester and agoraphobic who is trying to hold together both herself and her marriage. Parts of it ring incredibly true: the confusion and loss of purpose that comes with being unemployed and no longer necessary to your children. But the book surprises, too, in how it unintentionally turns out to be a murder mystery.

I say “unintentionally” because, really, the book is about Mrs. Cooper’s personal journey. Along the way she has to learn some tough lessons and one of them results in murder.

I adore Vidal’s body of work. I sought out “Williwaw” after years of reading his other books—and, frankly, it surprised me. Compared to everything else, it was terrible. That is because I first encountered him as an experienced craftsman who refined his style and became confident with his tools. But “Williwaw” is him at the very beginning—trying to see if this will work.

Will things come together? How obvious is too obvious? How much to telegraph to the audience? It is slow-moving (he has yet to learn the pacing that would make creation at almost twice the length fly by)—and unwieldly. I remember being shocked this was the same author who had “Lincoln.”

If there is one thing Marple does exceptionally well, it is show that evil does not wear a flashing sign. Angie Weller seems nice, approachable and reasonable in the brief interactions people have with her at her gift shop. Yet, what lurks beneath the surface is far more sinister than most people guess. Isn’t that what the real world is like: “She seemed so nice!” Yes, people must be pleasing in order to insinuate into others’ lives and take advantage of them. If evil wore a warning sign, we all would steer clear.

Marple steals a play from her Maine neighbor Stephen King’s playbook, in using the mistreatment of a pet as a flaw to disclose the nature of the character. The pet in question, Celestine, does however get the last laugh in the most improbable way. She is a very well drawn and thoughtful character who inspires great empathy in the reader.

The other piece Marple nails with Mrs. Cooper is the side plot told through let-

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ters from grandparents. I was hooked— I actually flipped through and read all of those first before finishing the main story line. Marple manages to write a book about late-life rediscovery that happens to include a murder as a parallel for the personal mystery that her protagonist is trying unravel within her own head. The psychological journey is clearly what interests Marple more than solving the murder (hence Mrs. Cooper is not really a sleuth in the typical way).

On the note of unintentional myster-

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At the same time, it was incredibly reassuring: If he could start here, with such an unimpressive book, and go on to produce the remarkable work that came later, there was hope for me and other aspiring novelists. It is reassuring to know we all have to start somewhere.

In Vidal’s case that somewhere went considerably farther than most people can imagine, and he produced work in multiple genres: trashy romance novels, classic mystery novels, and even science fiction, in addition to essays, memoirs, play scripts and film.

If anything both of these books serve to remind us it is that success in life requires showing up. From the startling mediocre beginnings of “Williwaw,” Gore Vidal carved out one of the more distinguished careers in 20th century American literature. Marple, now at her own beginning, does the same with a long and distinguished line of books that only get better with each volume.

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ALSO PERFORMING: 6/17, Snake Malone & The Black Cat Bone (Downtown Sundown, 6 p.m.); 6/18, Mike Bochey & Friends (Ted’s Fun on the River, 1 p.m.) and David Bolton and Casioppeia Duo (Rusty Nail, 3 p.m.); 6/19 All-Day Blues Jam (Rusty Nail, noon) OTHER EVENTS: Finkelstein Blues Workshop, 6/18, 11 a.m., with Jim Nelson; Rusty Nail Blues Party with The Rusted Rails, 6/18, 8 p.m.

Tickets: www.capefearblues.org or call Rusty Nail (910-251-1888).

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HAPPENINGS & EVENTS ACROSS WILMINGTON

TO-DO CALENDAR events KURE BEACH MARKET

Enjoy beautiful ocean views as you shop for locally grown produce and handcrafted goods from over 30 various vendors at the Kure Beach Market. The Market is held throughout the summer months on Tuesday mornings from 8 am - 1 pm at Ocean Front Park. The dates for 2016 are Tuesday, June 14th through Tuesday, August 30th.

Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Avenue

WILLARD STREET POP-UP

6/18, 9am-3pm: Willard Green Alliance will hold the 2nd annual Pop-Up Market, to benefit local charities, in support of buying local. 2nd Street, between Greenfield St. And Willard St. (near

Greenfield Lake & Satellite & theArtWorks). Featuring food, 50/50 raffle, live music all day, food trucks, local vendors in fine arts, arts and crafts, pottery, demos, pro face-painting and more. Jim Knowles at theArtWorks: 910-352-7077 or vision1@bellsouth.net.

WORLD REFUGEE DAY

6/18, 9:30am: Interfaith Refugee Ministry’s annual celebration of World Refugee Day. Free event at Empie Park brings together Wilmington’s new residents with the community. A great cultural event for the whole family. Activities include: Carnival Games, Ethnic Food Tasting, Yoga and Martial Arts, Inflatable Obstacle Course, Face Painting and more. Join in a Soccer Tournament. Sara Pascal: 910-264-7244. pascal@helpingrefugees.org.

WILMA’S WOMEN TO WATCH

Through 7/1: Southeastern North Carolina’s magazine for successful women has opened nominations for the Women to Watch (W2W) Awards competition. W2W Awards seeks to spotlight upand-coming women in the tri-county area who actively contribute to their profession and/or community. Nominations are open in the following categories: Arts, Education, Health Care, Business, Public Service, Nonprofit/Volunteer and Rising Stars (this last category is for women under 30).

A panel of judges comprised of local professional women will review all applications, choosing 35 finalists and seven overall category winners. Winners featured in the October issue of WILMA and on the website (WILMAOnTheWeb.com), as well as honored at a special awards event in October.

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INK AND ARMS TATTOO GUN SHOW

Ink & Arms Tattoo and Firearm Expo at the Wilmington Convention Center, 10 Convention Center Dr., 6/24-26. Feat. over 80-plus tattoo artists from around the globe, 20-plus gun manufacturers, as well as other unique exhibitors, including a variety of gear, clothing, and novelty vendors. Show attendees will have the opportunity to get tattooed, converse with firearm manufacturers and dealers, participate in seminars and demonstrations, enjoy sideshow performances, and participate in the Ink and Arms Tattoo Contest during the weekend festivities. Friday, June 24th, 2pm-10pm, Saturday, June 25th, 11am – 10pm, and Sunday, June 26th, 11am – 6pm. Admission is $20 for a one-day pass, $35 for a two-day pass and $40 for a three-day pass. Tickets will be purchased at the Box Office located inside of the Wilmington Convention Center. Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Kids under 12 get in free. www.inkandarms.com. $20 for a 1 day pass, $35 for a 2 day pass and $40 for a 3 day pass

charity/fundraisers TROPICAL SMOOTHIE

Kick off the summer and celebrate National Flip Flop Day on Friday, June 17th, with a free smoothie from Tropical Smoothie Cafe! Guests who walk into any Tropical Smoothie Cafe® wearing flip flops will receive a free 24 oz. Jetty Punch smoothie from 2 – 7 pm. The annual holiday created by Tropical Smoothie Cafe raises money for their corporate partner, Camp Sunshine. Camp Sunshine is a week-long retreat that provides children with life-threatening illnesses and their families medical treatment and fun activities free of cost. Tropical Smoothie Cafe hopes to donate over $1 million to Camp Sunshine this year! Donations between $1 and $4 will be rewarded with a paper flip flop sign that will hang in the restaurant and guests who donate $10 or more will receive a re-usable mug, featuring artwork designed by a previous Camp Sunshine camper. Tropical Smoothie Cafe, 2804 South College Rd.

GOOD HOPS 5K RUN

6/18, 8am: Benefiting the Friends of Pleasure Island State Parks. Live music, food trucks, and door prizes! Sign Up: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/ CarolinaBeach/GoodHops5kBeerRun. Join us Father’s Day Weekend for some backyard fun! This is a 5k beer run starting at Good Hops Brewing, to be run through the neighboring Carolina Beach State Park. All registered runners will receive an official t-shirt. Runners will also receive the official Good Hops 5k Beer Run pint glass, and runners over 21 years old will receive a ticket good for one pint of beer from Good Hops Brewing. This is a

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dog and walker-friendly event! Come support your neighbors and meet the owners and employees of Good Hops Brewing who brought fresh-brewed beer to Carolina Beach.

BUILDING KIDS UP BREAKFAST

6/21, 7:30am: Kids Making It will hold its Building Kids Up fundraising breakfast on Tuesday, June 21st from 7:30am-9:00am at the Coastline Convention Center. Kids Making It works with youth to teach skills and offer tools to help keep them in school, out of trouble, to gain self confidence and to become amazing, independent individuals.

Learn more about our unique program. There is no cost to attend, however guests will be invited to make a gift at the event. Reservations are required and space is limited. Sponsorship info: kim@kidsmakingit.org, 910-763-6001. www.kidsmakingit. org. Coastline Conference and Event Center, 501 Nutt St.

music/concerts BASS STATION

Thursdays at The Juggling Gypsy Cafe is a weekly event presented by Bass Cadet Productions and centered around bringing an immersive interactive platform to highlight artists from around the East Coast and beyond. The event spotlights DJs, VJs, flow artists, painters and fire performers each week. This is more than a scene, it’s a movement.

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CAPE FEAR BLUES FESTIVAL

The Cape Fear Blues Festival (June 17-19) features 10 different acts in a variety of local venues, including Downtown Sundown, Ted’s Fun on The River, Finkelstein Music, and The Rusty Nail. Performers include Chicago’s Jon McDonald, Southern Avenue, The Rusted Rails, The Fat Bastard Blues Band, Jim Nelson, Slippery Jake & The Bad Brakes, and many more! Free events every day.

Ticket information at 910-251-1888 or visit www. capefearblues.org. Sponsored by the Cape Fear Blues Society.

identity. Meanwhile, a satirical subplot unfolds as a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming a count is derailed by the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. Put all these people together and you have a delightful poignant symphony of miscommunication, misconception and non-comprehension, all fueled by romantic desire. Add the lush backdrop of Greenfield Park and you have the makings of a perfect summer outing. Performances at 8pm; 6/10-12; 17-19; and 24-26, with an additional Actor Appreciation show on Thurs., 6/23.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

The Shakespeare Youth Company kicks off the season festival performing “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” Shakespeare’s first romantic comedy, featuring privileged youths with no real responsibility, living in a world where adults are on the parameter. It’s exuberant, impulsive and prankishly sophomoric. The perfect setting for a great family evening underneath the stars. Performances are staged Mon-Thu, June 15-16, 8pm. Cape Fear Shakespeare, Ltd.: 910 399 2878. www.capefearshakespeare.com. Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre, 1941 Amphitheater Dr.

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE

See cover story, page 17.

PAGE TO STAGE: SUMMER LOVIN’

6/22, 6:30pm: Page to Stage Unlimited presents a series of staged readings of original, locally-written works offering a mix of comedy and drama with a different theme the fourth Wednesday of each month. For June: come experience an evening of thought-provoking and lively new works written by local playwrights. Feel free to bring friends along and give your reactions and feedback in a nurturing environment to Page to Stage’s more than forty local members. Free and open to the public, donations appreciated. Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall, Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th St.

ILM SACRED HARP SINGERS

6/26, 1:30pm: 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 called The Sacred Harp. The music is loud, vigorous and intense. It is meant to be sung, not just observed. No previous experience is necessary. Learn more about this singing at http://bit.ly/WilmNCSacredHarp. Songbooks provided, beginners welcome! Free and open to the public, donations appreciated. Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall, Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th St.

JOHN BROWN JAZZ QUARTET

6/29, 10:30am: UNCW’s Presents: Seahawk FAM (Family Art Matinees) series begins with a concert by the incredible John Brown Jazz Quartet! John Brown and his musicians are committed to jazz education – for all people, at all levels. John is a Professor and Director of the Jazz Program at Duke University and makes education a part of his daily life. Kenan Auditorium (UNCW), 601 S. College Rd.

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Directed by Adrian Monte, Shakespeare on the Green presents one of Shakespeare’s most perfect comedies. The romantic plot revolves around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken

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6/18-19, 7pm/9:30pm: From Comedy Central and Last Comic Standing, Mary Mack will be performing at the Dead Crow Comedy Club. She is returning for two shows on Friday and Saturday. Dinner is available during the shows. Come out and support Wilmington’s only full time comedy club, where you can see the best comedians in the country.

Featuring Tim Harmston from Late Night with David Letterman and Last Comic Standing. • 6/24, 7pm/9:30pm: Best known from NBC’s hit reality show “Last Comic Standing,” Rich Vos is one of the most exciting and broadest headlining comedians in the country. Back Stage Magazine says of Vos, “He has an uncanny ‘Everyman’ ability to likeably bond with anyone in the audience…” The excitement of a Rich Vos show stems from his unique, no-holds-barred perspective on relationships, divorce and parenthood. Vos pulls no punches when it comes to comedy. On many occasions, he will deliver some of the quickest crowd banter, leaving audiences not knowing what to expect next. Tickets: deadcrowcomedy.com. Dead Crow Comedy Room, 265 N. Front St.

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Music from Fatesealer . Hosted by Jack Nelson & Troy Coleman with DJ King Mom. Gravity Records, 612 Castle St. OPEN-MIC COMEDY

After a long absence, the Browncoat is excited to once again host Open Mic Comedy, hosted by Hal Cosec! You think you’ve got what it takes to make an entire theater laugh? Come on out and prove it!

Doors open at 7:30pm for signups, and the show starts at 8pm. Free! Browncoat Pub & Theatre, 111 Grace St.

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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. Signup, 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.

SICK OF STUPID COMEDY TOUR

6/17, 8pm: Three southern comics, Cliff Cash (Laughs on FOX, Comedy Central UpNext), Tom Simmons (BET Comic View, Comedy Central Live at Gotham) and Stewart Huff (NPR, Wall Street

Journal), have joined forces to form the Sick of Stupid Comedy Tour. A new brand of Southern comedy for the new South. Bourgie Nights, 127 Princess Street

dance CONTRA DANCE

Evening of energetic, contemporary American country dancing—exercise that’s actually fun, done to live music by Box of Chocolates band— fiddle, percussion, guitar, dulcimer, bass, mandolin and more! Dress cool & comfortable, soft-soled shoes. 2nd and 4th Tues each month. All ages welcome. United Methodist Church, 409 S. 5 Ave.

MAKS AND VAL ON TOUR: OUR WAY

6/24, 7pm: Maksim and Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the hottest stars of ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars, will bring their Our Way tour to 45 cities this summer. Brothers Maksim and Valentin Chmerkovskiy are bringing to life the show they have dreamed about since childhood, combining an honest and unfiltered narrative of their life story, with the world class dancing, creativity and passion they are known for. Collaborating with the greatest choreographers in the business and supported by a cast of fellow dance professionals, the show will surprise and delight with timeless elegance and steamy seduction. MaksandValTour. com and VIP packages are available through VIPNation.com. CFCC Humanities and Fine Arts Center, 701 N. Third St.

art FOREIGN SPACES

“In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard reveals time after time that setting is more than scene in works of art, that it is often the armature around which the work revolves”. When I experience a new place, I become open to the poetics of that space. Take my Grand Tour of art inspired by places around the world. Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

Duncan Hill’s photographic exhibition ‘Artificial Light’ on view at UNCW’s Boseman Gallery through Aug. 5th. http://uncw.edu/boseman. UNCW Boseman Art Gallery, 601 S. College Road

KATIE MARTIN

Flytrap Brewing presents “Life Alive” from local artist, Katie Martin. Martin received her B.A. in Studio Art from UNCW, where the wilderness and natural beauty of her surroundings played an integral role in the inspiration for her artwork. Pairing a bold color palette with a slightly abstract, contemporary style, she depicts wild, natural environments and the wildlife that inhabits them. Display through 6/30. 319 Walnut St.

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Call for Artists by Wilmington Art Association for 2D Visual and 3D Heritage Arts adults 50 and over— Statewide Art Competition plus Exhibition and sale for three days. -$15 to enter 5 pieces of art. No uploading images Deadline to enter 4/25. www. wilmington-art.org

BY THE SEA

Paintings and drawings of Lois DeWitt at the Fort Fisher Aquarium Gallery, through May 31. www. free-online-art-classes.com. Admission to Aquarium required. 900 Loggerhead Rd.

NO BOUNDARIES ARTIST APPLICATIONS

No Boundaries, Inc. is seeking applications for

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its 2016 Art Colony, a two-week artist residency on Bald Head Island. This year’s No Boundaries International Art Colony will provide twelve local and regional artists to spend eleven days living and working on Bald Head. Hosted by Bald Head Island Limited at Captain Charlie’s Station for the first two weeks of November, No Boundaries Art Colony strives to bring local and regional artists together for collaborative and independent artistic engagement. Twelve spots available from Monday, November 7th through Friday, November 18th with an exhibition of a selection of work from the Art Colony opening on Saturday, November 19th at CFCC’s Wilma W. Daniels Gallery. Email noboundariesartcolony@gmail.com to receive an application.

SPRING SHOW REDUX

ACME Art continues its’ celebration of 25 years with Spring Show Redux featuring the work of over 20 ACME artists. The show closes June 17. Acme Art Studio, 711 N 5th Ave.

SALT OF THE EARTH

Salt of the Earth opens at New Elements Gallery.

Exhibit features new works from mixed media artist Victoria Primicias and traditional painter Owen Wexler. Both artists look to the natural world for inspiration. Primicias produces abstracted landscapes where Wexler paints true-to-life scenes.

Salt of the Earth will remain on view until 6/18. 201 Princess Street, the corner of 2nd and Princess, in historic downtown Wilmington. Hours are Tues-Sat from 11am-6pm or by appt.

JILLIAN BOVIAN

Jillian Boivin’s dot-style art has evolved into intricate patterns that remind us of heritage quits and fun pinwheels blowing in the wind. The name of the show is “Playful Impressions” The pieces are a

Starring Cape Fear!

View artifacts, images, and movie clips from television and film projects produced in the Cape Fear region, including: Firestarter Cat’s Eye Blue Velvet Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Super Mario Bros.

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continued study of quirky patterns and vibrant color, while featuring the whimsical subject matter that has come to exemplify her artwork. Art fans can expect new and unique compositions, while recognizing much of my classic imagery as well. The pieces reflect abstract interpretations of patterns and themes found in nature. On display throughout June. 910-458-7822. ArtfulLivingGroup.com. 112 Cape Fear Blvd.

FULL CIRCLE

“Full Circle: New Art by Elizabeth Darrow, Traudi Thornton, and Susan Francy”—new work including oil pastel and collage on canvas by Elizabeth Darrow, raku and stoneware ceramics by Traudi Thornton, and fine-art prints by Susan Francy.

Closing reception Friday, September 30th, 6-9 pm.

Art in Bloom Gallery, 210 Princess St.

SEE SHORE ARTISTS’ RECEPTION

6/16, 6pm: Spectrum Gallery will feature coastal works by artists Chip Hemingway, Rebecca DiMaio, Kimberlee Maselli, and Susan Hecht. Live music and refreshments are provided. Come and meet the artists for a nice evening. 1125 J Military Cutoff Rd.

ARTISTS OPEN STUDIOS

6/11, 10am: Over 40 Artist Studios indoors to explore! Meet with local Artists and see their fabulous works! Free and free street parking! Open 4th Fridays from 6 to 9pm for the Wilmington ArtWalk! theArtWorks, 200 Willard St.

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Exhibits: Through 7/10: Raise the Curtain: Galleries

become two working studios in this presentation of the original front curtain unveiled October 12, 1858 during the premier opening of Wilmington’s Thalian Hall. The 32’ curtain painted by Russell Smith, Hudson River-inspired Pennsylvania artist, undergoes conservation treatment while local artists paint a 19’ x 32’ replica of the venerable scene, featuring arrival of Viking long ships to Apollo’s temple, as oracles are read on the eve of the Olympic games.

• Through 9/11: She Tells a Story celebrates the work of women artists from CAM’s permanent collection and connects the art forms of visual and literary arts. Fifteen Wilmington-area women writers contribute text (of their chosen format) on select works from the exhibition. The juxtaposition of the artwork with the written word will illuminate how these artists and writers explore their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium. • Through 7/17: Patchwork North America: Paintings by Virginia Wright-Frierson: From extensive travel by road and by air, Wright-Frierson has created over 100 paintings framing scenes, as if looking through a window, across the US and Canada. • Through 9/11: She Tells a Story: Celebrates the work of fifty-two visual artists from CAM’s permanent collection and connects the forms of visual and literary arts. Exploring the catalytic relationship between visual imagery and text, CAM invited fourteen Wilmington-area writers to compose new work inspired by these selections. This juxtaposition of visual with word illuminates how artists communicate their experiences, perspectives and world views through their chosen medium. CAM Café hrs: Tues,-Sat,, 11am-3pm; Sun., 10am-3pm; Wed.-Thurs. 5-9pm. 910-395-5999. www.cameronartmuseum.org. 3201 S. 17th St. WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM

Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in

the turn of the century Myers Cottage, exists to preserve and to share the history of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early days of the beach including Lumina Pavilion, our hurricane history and information about the interaction between the people and our natural environment which have shaped the 100 year history of WB. (910) 256-2569. 303 W. Salisbury St. www.wbmuseum.com.

STARRING CAPE FEAR

New Hanover County’s Cape Fear Museum is proud to showcase highlights of the region’s film history with the opening of its newest exhibit, Starring Cape Fear! Exhibit April 22nd and visitors can explore the history of the local film and television production industry from the 1980s to the present day. View artifacts from several productions including Firestarter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill and Tammy. See a cape and the ear from Blue Velvet, an Iron Man 3 mask, and the jet ski beloved by Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) in Eastbound & Down. • 5/13, 7pm: Pulling Back the Curatin: Free for members and students with ID and $5 non-members. Ever wonder how characters, props and creatures are made for television and film? Take a behind the scenes look at the film industry with award-winning makeup, special effects makeup and prosthetics artist Jeff Goodwin. His credits include David Lynch’s cult classic Blue Velvet, Rambo III, The Last of the Mohicans, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Empire Records, Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil, A Walk to Remember and War and Peace.

Co-sponsored by the Cape Fear Independent Film Network. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM

Explore railroad history and heritage, especially

of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for 125 years. Interests and activities for all ages, including historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively Children’s Hall, and spectacular model layouts. House in an authentic 1883 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level. By reservation, discounted group tours, caboose birthday parties, and afterhours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mondays at 10:30am, only $5 per family and access to entire Museum. Admission only $9 adult, $8 senior/military, $5 child age 2-12, and free under age 2. Northend of downtown, 505 Nutt St. 910-763-2634. www.wrrm.org.

LATIMER HOUSE

Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the restored home features period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am. $4-$12. The Latimer House of the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society is not handicapped accessible 126 S. Third St. 762-0492. www.latimerhouse.org

CAPE FEAR SERPENTARIUM

World’s most fascinating and dangerous reptiles in beautiful natural habitats, feat. a 12-foot saltwater crocodile, “Bubble Boy” and “Sheena,” a 23ft long Reticulated Python that can swallow a human being whole! Giant Anaconda weighs 300 lbs, w/15 ft long King Cobras hood up and amaze you. See the Black Mamba, Spitting Cobras, Inland Taipans, Gaboon Vipers, Puff Adders, and more! Over 100 species, some so rare they are not exhibited anywhere else. One of the most famous reptile collections on earth. Open everyday in summer, 11am5pm (Sat. till 6 pm); winter schedule, Wed-Sun. 20 Orange St, across from the Historic Downtown Riv-

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erwalk, intersecting Front and Water Street. (910) 762-1669 or www.capefearserpentarium.com.

BELLAMY MANSION

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

BURGWIN WRIGHT HOUSE

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

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

SUPER SATURDAY FUN TIME

Appropriate for ages 4-10, but all ages welcome.

Dock the Dog and Dock Street Kids for 10 exciting episodes of Super Saturday Fun Time, TheatreNOW’s live theatrical show featuring local history and mystery and super guest stars, hosted by Captain Coy T. Plunkett (Zach Hanner). Live music, games, cartoons, short films, and his favorite surf “nuggets.” Dock Street Kids and their alwayshungry dog, Dock, solve adventures. Parents can even drop off kids ages 5+. Kid-friendly snacks and drinks available for purchase. We also do custom birthday packages with a chance to interact with all the characters and even step onstage and be a part of the action.

STORY EXPLORERS

Cameron Art Museum, every Thurs., 10-10:30am: Admission by donation. Bring your infant, toddler or preschooler for story time, gallery exploration and an art project! georgia@cameronartmuseum. org for more info. 3201 S. 17th St.

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6/24, 9am: Mud Day: Free with admission or membership. Join us for the messiest fun you can imagine! Celebrate International Mud Month at our annual MUD DAY event! Squish, stomp, and slide in the mud, make mud pies in our mud kitchen, explore Magic Mud and other new gooey concoctions. The mission of International Mud Month is to connect children to the joy of playing in nature; come see how we put our own Children’s Museum spin on playing in the MUD. Wear a bathing suit or old clothes and bring a towel and a change of clothes. We’ll have a rinsing area to clean off. •

Mon, Little Sprouts Storytime, 10am, and Go Green Engineer Team, 3:30pm. • Tues., Kids Cooking Club, 3:30pm • Wed., Preschool Science, 10am; Discover Science, 3:30pm; and Mini Math, 4pm.

• Thurs. StoryCOOKS, 10am; and StART with a Story, 3:30pm • Fri., Toddler Time, 10am; and Adventures in Art, 3:30pm • Drop off gently used books at our museum to be used for a good cause.

Ooksbay Books uses book collection locations to help promote literacy, find a good use for used books, and benefit nonprofits. playwilmington.org.

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Ages 7-12: Beginners clinic will familiarize campers with equipment, and they’ll identify safety hazards, and understand the setup of the skatepark.

Developing fundamental beginners’ skills. $15/ clinic: June 18, July 2, 16, 30, Aug. 13 and 27.

10:30am-noon. Includes 2 free skatepark passes.

Greenfield Lake Park, 310 Willard St. CFCC SUMMER CAMPS

Cape Fear Community College is offering affordable half-day summer camps that immerse children (ages 8—13) in creative, fun, and educational activities that focus on encouraging a sense of exploration and adventure, broadening cultural and creative horizons, and teaching important home economic skills. Choose from: Discover Scuba, Sew Much Fun, Painting with Acrylics, Kids in the Kitchen, and Spanish Immersion. Camps run from Jun 20-Aug 4, Mon-Thurs, 9am-1pm. Cost: $150$200 (additional supplies may be required). Prereg. required. www.cfcc.edu/summercamp

FITNESS ROOM FOR KIDS

Summer time is time to move and get fit! On Monday and Wednesday mornings between 10noon, through Aug. 3, families can drop in at Main Library’s Fitness Room for Kids. It’s free and you don’t need an appointment. Kids can roll the Fitness Dice and attempt yoga moves, feats of balance, and other physical movement challenges.

Then they can record their achievements on the Brag Wall! Parents can pick up even more fitness and nutrition tips to try out at home. Julie Criser: jcriser@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6303. www.nhclibrary.org. NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St.

STORYTIME BY THE SEA

6/15, 10am: Join characters from Fairytales and Dreams by the Sea at Ocean Front Park for stories, crafts and games. Fun activities for both boys and

girls, as well as time for photos with the Princesses. This free event is held Wednesday mornings from 10 - 11:30 am starting June 15th and running through August 31st. Come dressed as your own favorite character to add to the fun. We hope to see you there. Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave. UP AND ACTIVE

Move your body, move your mind. Join Lynne and the Wave for an hour of music, games, and fun for everyone in the Ocean Front Park lawn from 6:307:30 pm. Face painting provided by P3 Planning.

This family-friendly program begins Thursday, June 16th and runs through Thursday, August 18th. Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Avenue

FITNESS ROOM FOR KIDS

Summer time is time to move and get fit! On Monday and Wednesday mornings between 10 and noon, June 13 through August 3, families can drop in at Main Library’s Fitness Room for Kids, 201 Chestnut St. It’s free and you don’t need an appointment. They can roll the Fitness Dice and attempt yoga moves, feats of balance, and other physical movement challenges, and record their achievements on the Brag Wall! Parents can pick up even more fitness and nutrition tips to try out at home. Julie Criser: jcriser@nhcgov.com or 910798-6303. www.nhclibrary.org.

WII FITNESS FRIDAYS

Kids can get active in the Children’s Room at Northeast Library on Friday mornings in June and July. Wii Sports and Just Dance video games will be available from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. No reservations are needed to play on Wii Fitness Fridays, but a parent must sign for their child’s use of game controllers. Max Nunez at 910-798-6373 or email mnunez@nhcgov.com. Northeast Regional Library, NHC, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

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KIDS AT CAM

6/18, noon: Guest artist Ally Favory will help us create beautiful mosaics! Explore our four wonderful exhibitions, and make Minnie Evans-inspired art projects you can take home! All Ages Welcome.

No pre-registration necessary. Prental supervision required at all times. Kids @ CAM is fun for the whole family! For more information contact: georgia@cameronartmuseum.org. Admission by donation. Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th St.

MOVE AND GROOVE SUMMER STORYTIME

6/21, 10am: Toddlers and Preschoolers will Move and Groove at Main Library, 201 Chestnut St., with storytimes this summer! Instead of sitting down for a traditional half-hour of listening to stories, kids and parents can dance and sing their way through interactive stories and games, using rhythm instruments and colorful scarves and ribbons. Library storytimes are free and no registration is needed.

For these hour-long sessions, please come for any part of the hour that works for your family. Children’s Librarian Julie Criser planned to encourage healthy habits for the whole family. jcriser@nhcgov. com or 910-798-6303.

MAKE A NO-SEW BANDANA

6/23, 3pm: Kids ages 10 and older are invited to this free crafts program, where they can make a handbag or sports tote out of bandanas. Please register on the calendar at www.nhclibrary.org so the Library will have enough bandanas! Children’s Librarian Julie Criser at jcriser@nhcgov.com or 910-798-6303. NHC Main Library, 201 Chestnut St.

TURTLE POWER!

6/23, 4pm: Meet live turtles from the NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher,* make turtle crafts and enjoy a slice of pizza - a ninja turtle favorite. Then, at 5:30 PM, watch the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, PG, 1hr, 33 min) movie. Visit the Starring

Cape Fear! film exhibit and see an original turtle animatronic head. If you’ll be joining us for pizza, please RSVP by calling (910) 798-4361or emailing jsisco@nhcgov.com. *Note: Live turtles will be included in the Aquarium’s presentation, however live sea turtles will not present. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St. SUMMER CAMP

6/24, 8:30am: Enrichment camp for individuals of ALL abilities with activities designed and facilitated by certified teachers with the purpose of educating body, mind and soul. Elementary Camps will involve community field trips based off weekly themes. Teen Camps will focus on motivation, goal setting and job skills. Exceptional Educators, LLC, 5022-C Wrightsville Ave.

YOUTH KINGS AND QUEENS BALL

6/25, 4pm: Young Bosses United (YBU) presents the Youth Kingdom Kings and Queens Ball at the Community Arts Center in downtown Wilmington for the youth ages 6-16. Kings have a chance to wear their royal crown, suits and ties, while the Queens will don crowns and tiaras, and dress elegantly. VIP transportation (Trolley Ride ages 6-10/ Party Bus ages 11-16) options available, food, surprise guest, and photos on the fancy carpet is what you don’t want to miss! Early bird tickets $15, At the door $25 and VIP style $40.Ticket available at Raquell’s Hair Salon, Phenomenal Hair Care, Coastal Kicks, Church’s Fried Chicken, and Dr. Stylz. 4-6pm (ages 6 to 10); 8-10pm (ages 11 to 16). Tavia Spencer, (910) 604-2324. YBUfestival. org. ybufestival@yahoo.com.

SKYQUEST: MOON AND CONSTELLATIONS

6/26, 1:30pm, 2:15pm, 3pm: Free for members or with general admission. Locate the major summer constellations and look face to face with the Man in the Moon. Parental participation is required. Cape

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Fear Museum, 814 Market St. SUNSHINE CAMP

Three Sunshine Camp sessions will be offered in New Hanover County, 8:30am.-12:30pm, Mon-Fri. Week one is June 27-July 1 for rising second- and third-graders. Week two is July 11-15 for rising fourth- and fifth-graders. Week three is July 25-29 for rising sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. The program gives children who have lost a loved one the opportunity to connect with other children who have experienced loss. It’s a supportive environment where they can express their feelings and deal with grief. It can make a difference in the way they cope with loss throughout their lives. Led by Lorraine Perry and Marty Hernandez. Space is limited. Call to get an application; campers and their guardians must attend this brief meeting prior to camp. Free, but donations appreciated. Melinda McKeon: (910) 796-7991.

SUMMER POP-UP: WEATHER WONDERS

Investigate the sun, wind and rain to learn about our weather. Watch a cloud form, measure the air movements around us, and make a solar bracelet.

Parental participation is required. June 27th-July 2nd, 11am and 2pm. Cape Fear Museum, 814 Market St.

outdoors/recreation RUN, RIDE AND ROLL

In celebration of National Trails Day, Run Ride & Roll offers participants the opportunity to get outdoors for a healthy and fun way to discover the beauty of Greenfield Park. The event is free for all ages! 5K Run is a is a non-competitive, flat, out and back course that follows the Greenfield Park trail around the lake with beautiful scenic views. Leashed pets

and strollers welcome. 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk along the same scenic course as the 5K. For runners and walkers. Leashed pets and strollers welcome.

Scavenger Hunt participants can run, walk, bike, or skate along the trail, solving clues and completing challenges related to Greenfield Park. Solve the clues and turn your answer sheets in by noon to be eligible for prizes. The team that with the most correct answers wins. 10am: Day of Event Registration; 11am-noon: 5K & 1 Mile Fun Run (non-competitive for runners & walkers); 11amnoon: Scavenger Hunt (bike, skate, run or walk) noon-12:30pm: Scavenger hunt and raffle winners announced. Greenfield Lake Park, 310 Willard St. SUMMERTIME BIRD FEEDING PROGRAM

6/18, 9:15am: With birds in their breeding plumage and new fledglings taking their first flights, summer is a great time of year to offer a variety of bird foods at your feeders. Join Wild Bird & Garden for a free program where you will pick up some super summer bird feeding tips that will help you attract a flock of feathered friends to your yard. Wild Bird & Garden (ILM), 3501 Oleander Dr (Hanover Ctr).

HEALTHY HABITAT PROGRAM

6/25, 9:15am: Join Wild Bird & Garden and entomologist and local farmer Sam Marshall for a FREE program on healthy backyard habitats. Learn how you can create a sustainable environment that is both beautiful and beneficial to our local birds, pollinators, and other wildlife. After the program, we’ll be holding a Native Plant Sale on our sidewalk until 1pm. Be sure to stop by and get a head start on your healthy habitat. Wild Bird & Garden (Wilmington), 3501 Oleander Dr (Hanover Center)

BREWERY TO BEACH BIKE RIDE

6/25, 11am: Come spend your Saturday afternoon with us and enjoy a fun bike ride, beer, and food!

The bike ride with start at Wilmington Brewing

Company and go through the cross-city trail finishing at Lighthouse Beer & Wine. There will be four drafts from Wilmington Brewing Company as well as Vittles Food Truck from 1-3 p.m. Wilmington Brewing Company, 824 South Kerr Ave.

film CUCALORUS CALL FOR FILMMAKERS

Cucalorus is officially accepting applications for the 22nd annual Cucalorus Film Festival and CONNECT Conference, 11/9-13! Artists can submit films (all genres, all lengths), performances, dance, music videos, virtual reality, artistic interventions, installations and multi-media stories. Entrepreneurs can submit to the CONNECT Conference; applications for speakers, panels, workshops, and pitches are being accepted now. Cucalorus’ general call for entries extends through late July, with separate deadlines for Dance-a-lorus performance pieces and Works-in-Progress. The regular deadline is 6/23 and the late deadline is 7/14.

Cucalorus is also currently accepting submissions for the fifth annual Surfalorus Film Festival and a range of other year-round programs. Natalie Lentz at programming@cucalorus.org. 815 Princess St. cualorus.org.

A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING

6/15, 7pm: Cultures collide when an American businessman (Tom Hanks) is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wise-cracking taxi driver (Alexander Black) and a beautiful Saudi doctor (Sarita Choudhury). (Rated R, 1 hour 37 minutes). Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut St. $8

MOVIES WITH MR. MAX

6/16, 3pm: Beat the heat! Youth Services Librarian Mr. Max will show family movies at Northeast Library on Thursday afternoons this summer. The shows are free and you don’t need to register to attend. Feel free to bring covered drinks and light snacks. Family movies are rated G, PG, or PG-13.

Please check the Library’s calendar at www.nhclibrary.org for film titles, descriptions, ratings and lengths, or call 910-798-6373 for this information.

Northeast Regional Library, NHC, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

DOCUMONDAY

6/20, 10am: “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning” at Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd., on June 20. Free and reservations are not required. More than four decades of 20th-century American history are filtered through Dorothea Lange’s camera lenses. Her haunting “Migrant Mother,” a photograph of a poverty-stricken mother of seven stranded in a camp in California, awakened a national awareness of the scope of the Great Depression when it and other powerful images were published in 1936. As America matured into a world power, Lange and her cameras bore witness to mass migration, increasing urbanization, and the cost of war at home. Her images still bring subjects alive, transmit raw emotions, and capture the human condition. • Queen Elizabeth: In Their Own Words, 6/27. This PBS documentary covers her remarkable life, from her youth, when no one expected she’d ever wear the crown, through her eventful reign of more than 60 years. Among those interviewed are former Prime Minister Sir John Major, actor Sir Ben Kingsley, biographer Sally Bedell Smith, screenwriter David Seidler (The King’s Speech), and others. http://libguides.nhclibrary.org/newse/documondays, and individual films are listed on the calendar at www.NHCLibrary.org. Carla Sarratt at csarratt@nhclibrary.org or 910-798-6371.

THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY

6/20-22, 7pm (4pm and 7pm on 22): Written and directed by Matthew Brown, The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of friendship that forever changed mathematics. In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian mathematics genius, traveled to Trinity College, Cambridge, where over the course of five years, forged a bond with his mentor, the brilliant and eccentric

professor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), and fought against prejudice to reveal his mathematic genius to the world. The film also stars Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry and Toby Jones. This is Ramanujan’s story as seen through Hardy’s eyes. (Rated P-13, 1 hr 48 min). $8. Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut St.

classes METAL WORK AND JEWELRY CLASSES

Metal and wire work jewelry classes held every Tuesday morning, 10am-noon at the Hannah Block Community Arts Center at 2nd and Orange streets. $30/2 hour class (includes all supplies and tools for use in class). Pre-reg: Karen Keffer Pridemore, takeyourpickdesigns@yahoo.com.

ART CLASSES

Oil Pastels And Colored Pencil Workshop, Mon, 2pm-4pm: Tropical Flowers with oil pastels and colored pencils. • Pencil Drawing Classes, Tues, 2-4pm: “Sea Shells” with pencil. • Water Color and Pencil: Wed, 10am-noon: Three Mermaids with water colors and colored pencils. • Collage Workshops: Wed., 2-4pm: “Beach Towel Design” using decorative papers. • Acrylic Painting, Thurs, 2-4pm: “Coastal Sunset” with acrylic paint. Easy, fun projects. $20/workshop. All art materials supplied. Email loislight@bellsouth.net or call 910 5478115. Sun Room Studio, 6905 Southern Exposure

INTEGRATIVE HEALING ARTS

Gentle Beginner Yoga, 8:30-9:15am, with Lisa Keating. Bring yoga mat and wear comfortable clothing. Lisa will lead you through gentle yoga postures and breathwork as you find and connect with your inner self. • Workshops 9:30am-4:15pm: Delve into information provided by knowledgeable teachers and learn about yourself through self-hypnosis, hand analysis, psychic and intuitive practices,

WILMINGTON ON FIRE

6/18, 1pm: Speller Street Films L.L.C. will host two public screenings of “Wilmington on Fire,” a doc about the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in Wilmington, at 1pm and 4pm on June 18, at Williston Middle School Auditorium, 401 S 10th St. Wilmington Massacre was a bloody attack on the African-American community by a heavily armed white mob with the support of the North Carolina Democratic Party on November 10, 1898 in the Port City. It is considered one of the only successful examples of a coup d’état in the United States that left countless numbers of African-American citizens dead and exiled from the city. Speller Street Films L.L.C. is also working with The Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC in Wilmington and will have a table at the screening from 12:30pm-4pm. The Food Bank in Wilmington is working to support families who are food insecure during the summer months when children are home and out of school, having no access to free school lunches. Attendees are asked to please bring can goods or monetary donations to contribute to The Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC in Wilmington. A percentage of the proceeds from ticket sales to benefit Williston Middle School students. Tickets: $10. www. wofwilmington.eventbrite.com or at the door on the day of the event.

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physical movement, meditation, massage, and more. Learn to maintain the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body in a timeless condition of vibrant natural harmony. We offer four session with 19 different workshops to choose from. unitywil. com. Unity of Wilmington, 717 Orchard Ave. MINDFUL-AWARENESS YOGA/MEDITATION

6/18, 11am: As you go into yoga poses and hold them, focus on how you are feeling at the moment; bringing your awareness to the moment, accepting it fully. Observing what is happening without judgment. As you hold a pose, you will gently come to the understanding that through your awareness of this moment, you can choose to focus on the positive. Perhaps even being grateful that you have the opportunity to have a yoga practice and for being here today. We will finish with Mindful Meditation that is sure to leave you feeling elevated and peaceful. Admission: donation. Harmony: A Wellness Center & Yoga, 3504 N. Kerr Ave.

YOGA IN AIRLIE GARDENS

Class is part of a limited-time offering of yoga on the lawns at Airlie Gardens! Join us through June 21st, every Tuesday for an all levels vinyasa flow surrounded by nature and beautiful landscapes!

These classes are included in your class packages but pre-reg. recommended. June 14th: Bottle Chapel Lawn; 21st: Pergola. 300 Airlie Rd.

YOGA CLASSES

Weekly yoga classes offered at Halyburton Park: Thursdays, 6 p.m. 7-week session begins June 16. Cost: $52 • Fridays, 11 a.m. 7-week session begins June 17. Cost: $52. Pre-registration is required: 341.0075 for more information. Halyburton Park, 4099 S. 17th St.

SAND SCULPTING FOR BEGINNERS

6/18, 10:30am: Create wonderful memories with

this short sand sculpting lesson. You will learn three ways to pack sand for carving, basic tools and carving techniques, and how to add dramatic features (doors, stairs, windows, and arches) to your sculpture. Instructor will provide hands-on learning and each participant will receive a starter kit of tools to use and keep. The skills you learn will be easy to remember for future beach outings with family and friends. Wrightsville Beach Access #4. 2398 N. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach, NC. Class costs $45 (tools included). Pre-Registration is required. Register online at www.cfcc.edu/ce or call 910-362-7199.

SUMMER SOLSTICE KIRTAN

6/20, 7:30pm: Kirtan is the ancient practice of call and response chanting. Each syllable and vowel has a vibration, and when you string them together you get names/words. The chants are called “Mantras,” which means “to cross over the mind.” The mantras represent universal energies in the form of sounds which already lie within us and within all things. When we awaken and stir these energies, they purify our mind and subtle body (the space between the atoms), cross over the disturbances of the mind, and leave one feeling clear and refreshed. A person does not need to know about yoga or meditation or kirtan to receive the benefits of mantras. Eddy Nataraj brings this ancient practice into the modern world with a fresh and innovative style of kirtan that is a fusion of traditional harmonium-based kirtan and the dynamic colorings of Spanish-flamenco guitar. Donations appreciated, $15. Longwave Yoga, 203 Racine Dr.

STAINED GLASS CLASSES

6/23, 7pm: Ms. Hildebrand holds a glass degree from The Rhode Island School of Design and has been working in glass for 17 years. She has taught

at UNCW, The Cameron Art Museum and Penland School of Crafts. Students will make an original piece of stained glass, either in the Tiffany method or more traditional lead channel method, up to 11” x 17” panel. 4 weeks will include direct instruction

by Ms. Hildebrand, and all necessary tools and supplies. Two weeks will be “open studio” time for completing student project work. Class will conclude with a wine and cheese reception with a display of student art along with Ms. Hildebrand’s work. Coastal Designer Glass, 5424 Oleander Drive, Suite 3; 910-395-1989. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stained-glass-class-at-coastal-designer-glass-tickets-15835151364

lectures/readings PEDALING FOR PAGES BOOK CLUB

Arrive by bike to receive the bicycle discount everyday. We do have a bike rack just outside the door and two more on the block. The group will read a selection that includes, fiction, biography, history, and memoir. Open to all levels of bicycle interest and ability. Meetings are last Thursday of the month at 6pm. June—Half Man, Half Bike. The Life of Eddy Merckx by William Futheringhom. July— The Yellow Jersey by Ralph Hurne. August— Rusch to Glory: Adventure, Risk, and Triumph on the Path Less Traveled by Rebecca Rusch. Oct— Two Wheels: A Cycling Murder Mystery by Greg Moody. Nov—Bike Snob: Systematically and Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling by BikeSnobNYC. Old Books on Front St., 249 N. Front St.

ART CONSERVATION: KARL BUCHBERG

6/16, 6:30pm: Buchberg is Senior Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and will highlight his work with Jodi Hauptman, Senior Curator,

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on two MoMA NY exhibitions: Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (Oct. 12, 2014 – Feb. 9, 2015) and Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty (March 26 – July 24, 2016). Buchberg will also include the conservation of Matisse’s The Swimming Pool, the large cut-out he conserved in preparation for the 2014 exhibition.

For both the Matisse and Degas exhibitions Buchberg co-authored an essay focusing on materials and methods. He is the author of “Seurat: Materials and Techniques” in the MoMA catalogue, Georges Seurat: The Drawings, authored by Jodi Hauptman.

Seats are available for purchase on Cameron Art Museum’s website: www.cameronartmuseum.org, by phone or stop in and purchase at the Visitor Services desk. CAM Members: $50.00, Non-Members: $75. Held in the Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall at Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th St. CONSERVATION LECTURE: MIKE DUFFY

6/16, 6:30pm: CAM’s Conservation Lecture Series continues with Michael Duffy, specializes in the treatment of modern and contemporary paintings as conservator at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. In 2004, he conserved Picasso’s iconic painting, “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”. For the exhibition “Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary 1926–1938” Duffy completed extensive work on MoMA’s holdings by René Magritte. This work led to the discovery of a lost painting titled “La pose enchantée” (The Enchanted Pose), 1927. Purchase seats on CAM’s website: www.cameronartmuseum.org, by phone or stop in and purchase at the Visitor Services desk.

Cameron Art Museum, 3201 S. 17th St.

clubs/notices NC GRASSROOTS GRANT PROGRAM

Applications are available for non-profit organiza-

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tions whose purpose is to promote and develop diverse cultural arts programming in New Hanover County. Funding priority is given to qualified arts organizations (theaters, galleries, choral societies, festivals), arts in education programs conducted by qualified artists, and other community organizations that provide arts programs in the county.

Grassroots funds are not generally awarded to arts organizations that receive funding through the North Carolina Arts Council’s State Arts Resources. Projects must occur between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. www.artswilmington.org.

BE A FOSTER PARENT OPEN HOUSE

“Every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story!” Consider becoming a Foster Parent! Easter Seals UCP invites you to our Open House on Thursday, June 2 to answer the questions: “What is Foster Care in 2016? How can you help children in our community who need a loving home?” Learn about Therapeutic and IAFT Foster Care. We’ll have a Q&A session following the presentation. Snacks and beverages will be provided.

Easter Seals UCP, 4130 Oleander Drive Suite 100

ILM NEWCOMERS CLUB

6/16, 9:30am: The ladies of the Wilmington Newcomers Club will meet at Cape Fear Country Club, 1518 Country Club Rd. Social followed by monthly membership meeting at 10am. Warren Lee, with New Hanover Emergency Management will provide information in preparation for this year’s hurricane and storm season. For meeting location and other information, please visit the website www. wilmingtonncnewcomers.com. (No jeans please at the membership meeting.) Anyone new to New Hanover and Pender counties in the past four years is invited to join.

HUMANISTS AND FREETHINKERS

Humanists and Freethinkers of Cape Fear will meet on Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 6 PM at the YWCA Bridge Center, 127-40 S. College Rd., Wilmington.

Our special feature speaker will be Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association who will present ‘Creating Change Through Humanism.” Free and open to the public.

RSVP: www.meetup.com/humanism-182

TOUCH TANK TUESDAYS

Through Aug., 10am-1pm: What’s better than seeing shells at the beach? Being able to touch, interact and learn about the living creatures inside. From slimy kelps to cute, shy hermit crabs to friendly whelks our weekly touch tanks will introduce you to some of the most interesting creatures that roam the N.C. coast. Guests invited to drop in anytime during the event every Tues.. Fred and Alice Stanback Ed. Center, 309 W. Salisbury St.

ARIES (Mar. 21–April 20) The coming months will be a favorable time to boost your skills as a cagey warrior.

I don’t mean you should push people around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave and crafty. You’ll refrain from forcing story lines to unfold before they’re ready, and you’ll rely on strategy and good timing instead of brute strength and the decree, “Because I said so.” Now study this counsel from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also known as Crouching Dragon: “The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Everything you do in the coming days should be imbued with the intention of enhancing the flow. It’s high time to identify where the energy is stuck, and then get it unstuck. You have a sacred mandate to relieve the congestion ... to relax the tweaks ... to unravel the snarls if you can, or simply cut through them if necessary.

You don’t need to tell anyone about your secret agenda. Just go about your business with zealous diligence and unflagging purpose. If it takes more effort than you wished, so be it. If your progress seems maddeningly gradual, keep the faith.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) My long-term predictions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astrological omens. Here we go: 1. You will have an excellent chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your romantic karma. 2. You will outgrow any addiction you might have to frustrating connections. 3. Unrequited love will either be requited, or else you’ll become bored with the futile chase and move on. 4. You’ll be challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past mistakes in a new intimacy. 5. You will have an abundance of good ideas about how to install the theme of “smart fun” at the heart of your strongest alliances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Author Courttia Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: “How will you go about finding the thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?” In response to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to him: “Even more important than the journey itself, is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to find comfort moving forward without quite knowing where you are going.” I nominate these to be your words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian: Have open-hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious and impossible secrets! I’m confident you will track them down—especially if you’re willing to be lost.

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Sat., 6/25, 10am-2pm: St. Paul’s Episcopal Parking Lot. $5 for kids, $10 for adults, $25 for fami-

“Stonewall.” Instead, gravitate toward lively choices like “Dazzler,” “FluxLuster,” “Hoochie-Coochie,” or “FreeBorn.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) During the next 15 months, you will have an unprecedented chance to materialize a fantasy you’ve harbored for years. Essential to your efforts will be a capacity to summon more ambition than you ever have before. I’m not talking about the grubby self-promotion that typically passes for ambition, however.

Arrogant self-importance and selfish posturing will not be part of your winning formula. Rather, the kind of ambition I’m referring to is a soaring aspiration that seeks the best and highest not just for yourself but for everyone whose life you touch. I mean the holy hunger that drives you to express impeccable integrity as you seek to master the tasks you came to Earth to accomplish. Get started!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) During the next 15 months, composting should be a primary practice, as well as a main metaphor. If you have been lazy about saving leftover scraps from your kitchen and turning them into fertilizer, now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts. The same is true if you have been lax about transforming your pain into useful lessons that invigorate your lust for life. Be ever-alert for opportunities to capitalize on junk, muck, and slop. Find secret joy in creating unexpected treasure out of old failures and wrong turns.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Have you ever made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven’t, your yearnings probably aren’t deep enough.

Most of us, on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for connection with such unruly intensity that we have made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable behavior. That’s the weird news. The good news is, now and then, the impulse to leave our safety zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe this is one of those times for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) During the next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices can you engage in on a daily basis that will build your potency, authority and clout? How can you gain access to more of the helpers and resources you need to carry out your life’s master plan? These are excellent questions to ask yourself every day between now and July 2017.

It’s time to find or create your ultimate power spot.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your homework is to write a story about the life you’re going to live between now and next April. The length of this predictive tale should be at least three pages; although, it’s fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations to lubricate the flow of your imagination. 1. What three questions would you love to have answered during the next 42 weeks? 2. Of the numerous adventures that might be fun to explore, which are the two that would be most consistently energizing? 3. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about your attitude or revamp about your life? 4. What new privilege will you have earned by April 2017?

The prison population in the U.S. is over two million, more than twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps about 41,000 people in jail, Italy 52,000, and France 66,000. That’s the bad news. The good news, at least for you and your tribe, is that a relatively small percentage of you will be incarcerated during the next 15 months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Aquarians all over the world will specialize in liberation. Not only will you be extra ethical; not only will you be skillful at evading traps; you will also be adept at emancipating yourself from your own delusions and limitations.

Congratulations in advance! It’s time to start singing some new freedom songs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

According to an old Chinese proverb, if you want to get rich, you must have a nickname. My meditations on your future suggest this curious formula may have some validity. The next 15 months will be a favorable time to attend to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your wealth. And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity—such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like “Ace” or “Vixen” or “Sharpie,” as well as off-putting ironic monikers like “Poker Face” and

The English word “catharsis” is derived from the ancient Greek “katharsis,” which was a technical medical term that meant “purgation” or “purification,” as in flushing out the bowels. Aristotle converted “katharsis” into a metaphor that described how a drama performed in the theater could “clean out” the emotions of spectators. These days catharsis may refer to any event that precipitates a psycho-spiritual renewal by building up and then releasing tension.

I foresee at least one of these strenuous blessings in your immediate future

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lies. Live music by Susan Savia! Plus face painter, juggler, magician, clown, balloon animals, food truck, costumed characters, and bouncy castle!

Proceeds benefit the Wilmington Boys Choir. www. facebook.com/events/852382551559310. www. wilmingtonboyschoir.org. 910-622-6046. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 16 N. 16th St. FERMENTAL

Free tasting ever Friday, 6pm. • Third Wednesday 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. Share cups available. All genres. All beer styles. • 6/18, 2pm: A variety of wine from France, Italy, Germany, Australia, and the US, certified sommelier, Ryann Harris, of Empire Distributing takes us on an afternoon tour of whimsical wines that pair well with a summer afternoon, a backyard barbecue, or with the featured fare from a local food truck. Live music from jazz musician Roger Davis accompanied by the YehMon Jamaican Food Truck. Free event, 21+ years old for tasting. Call 910-821-0362 for details. www.fermental.net. Fermental, 7250 Market St.

SEASONAL SUMMER SUPPERS

6/15, 22, 6pm: CFCC Culinary Academy: Seasonal Summer Supper! Relax with Chef Gwen on Wednesdays from 6-8 pm while preparing a fabulous farmer’s market supper featuring delicious seasonal recipes. Learn about local food heritage and discover new culinary secrets as you cook.

The menu will change weekly, depending on what Chef Gwen picks up at the market! $40 registration fee per section includes class and dinner. For more information or to register, visit www.cfcc.edu/ culinaryacademy. 910-362-7254 or enrich@cfcc.

edu. CFCC Union Station, Rm 517, 502 N. Front St. OSKAR BLUES TAP TAKEOVER

6/17, 6:30pm: Join the guys from Oskar Blues Brewery for a funfilled night of great beers, a giant beer pong tournament, and amazing friends and food. Dig and Dive, 3525 Lancelot Ln.

support groups CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Life Community Church, located inside Independence Mall, will have a Celebrate Recovery meeting every Monday evening at 6:30 pm starting with fellowship followed by a large group meeting at 7 pm. 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. For more information. contact Jodie at 910-547-8973 , 791-3859 or Lifecc.com. Life Community Church, 3500 Oleander Dr.

6609 Windmill Way

PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

Thurs., 6pm: Meets in Classroom C, Ground Floor.

Men and spouses welcome from the entire Cape Fear area. Discussion and programs. www.wilmingtonprostatecancersupportgroup.com. wproscasupportgp@aol.com or 910-792-9953.

MS SUPPORT GROUP

Thurs, 7pm: Those with MS, families and friends welcome. Meets at New Hanover Rehabilitation Hospital 1st floor conference room (behind Betty Cameron Women’s Hospital), 2nd Thursday each month. Details: Lisa, 399-7252; Burt, 383-1368.

CHADD

Wilmington Area CHADD meets on the 2nd Monday of every month from 7:00-9:00 p.m. 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

PFLAG

PFLAG Meeting is first Mon/mo. at UNCW, in the Masonboro Island Room #2010, 7pm.

GRIEF PROGRAM

Lower Cape Fear Hospice will offer a free six-week grief program for those coping with the loss of an

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adult child. It will be from 2-4 p.m. Mon., through 6/27, at the Dr. Robert M. Fales Hospice Pavilion, Conference Room, 1406 Physicians Dr., Wilmington. Discussions on the phases of grief and the grieving process, along with other areas of concern. Registration is mandatory and closes once the series begins: (910) 796-7991. Donations are appreciated. Additional groups will form throughout the year. www.lcfh.org.

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tours LITERARY HISTORY WALKING TOUR

Ever wanted to meet authors living and dead, and tour locations from books, poems, and plays? 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 St. 249 N. Front St. www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/1282390

CONFEDERATE WALKING TOURS

Experience Wilmington’s people, history and architecture in the late antebellum period and during the conflict, conducted by noted Wilmington historian Bernhard Thuersam. Walk in the footsteps of George Washington, James Monroe, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens and more. In-depth 90-minute tours are by appointment only, Sunday through Saturday, call 910.619.4619 or bernhard1848@gmail. com for current prices. Step-on and personalized tours downtown and local forts available. Tour begins at foot of Market St. www.cfhi.net.

GHOST WALK

6:30pm & 8:30pm. Costumed guides lead visitors through alleyways with tales of haunted Wilmington.

Nightly tours at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Admission charge. Meets at Water & Market streets. Reservations required: 910-794-1866; www.hauntedwilmington.com

HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE TOURS

Narrated horse drawn carriage and trolley tours of historic Wilmington feature a costumed driver who narrates a unique adventure along the riverfront and past stately mansions.Market and Water streets. $12 for adults, $5 per child. (910) 2518889. www.horsedrawntours.com

HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR

6/18, 10am: Historical Walking Tour will be held at Oakdale Cemetery, 520 N 15th Street, Wilmington, NC, on Saturday, June, 18, 2016. The two-hour tour begins at 10:00 AM and will be given by local historian, David Rice. Mr. Rice will be accompanied by the Superintendent, Eric Kozen, as they take you back to the time of the Yellow Fever Epidemic in 1862. $10 for non-members. Free for Friends of Oakdale members. The tour is cancelled in the event of inclement weather.

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In-Out Calls • Casual Events Two Girl Show • Bachelor Parties 24/7 Dancers • Serious Inquiries Only

always Hiring 910-726-5323

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4weeKS - ONlY $50 cAll 791-0688 FOR detAilS

FREAKY TIKI corner of 4th & Brunswick

Your Late Night Cocktail Bar Open Until 2am

FREE POOL Acoustic Jazz Piano on Front St. with James Jarvis Wednesday @ The Blind Elephant Saturday @ The Calico Room Sunday @ Old Books on Front St.

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A Night ON the tOwN For Executives and Refined Gents Brunette Model/Social Companion 5’5”, 36DDD, Very Assertive

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across from Goat & Compass

want while enjoying the FULL Menu Til MIDNIGHT Every Night At the Brewery!

Cape Fear Stage’s Closest Cocktail Bar ~ Front Street Brewery 910.251.1935 Concert Night Specials 9 North Front Street, Downtown Wilmington Open 2am nightly

FrontStreetBrewery.com

PRIVATE PIANO

1st UBER RIDE FREE, up to $20

Pianist Barbara McKenzie an expert, dedicated artist-teacher

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Join us for Father’s Day for all your fav orites!

Deviled Eggs Sweet Potato Pie Carved Ham Turkey

Ask your mama where the Southern food tastes the best — the answer is always Casey’s Buffet!

BBQ Pork • Pig Feet • Fried Chicken • Baked Chicken Chicken & Pastry • Catfish • Whiting • Clam Strips Fat Back • Fries • Chitlins • Rutabagas • Green Beans Mac-N-Cheese • Sweet Potato Casserole • Cabbage Boiled Potatoes • Corn • Field Peas • Turnips Collards • Baked Beans • Green Peas • Rice Lima Beans • Chicken Salad • Coleslaw Mashed Potatoes & Gravy • Potato Salad Pan Fried Okra • Rolls • Hushpuppies • Cheese Biscuits Apple, Blueberry & Peach Cobbler • Cherry Cheesecake Bread Pudding • Banana Pudding • Ice Cream

(910) 798•2913 • 5559 Oleander Drive (across from the batting cages)

BEST OF 2016

WINNE

OPEN: Wed.-Sat. • 11a.m. - 9 p.m., Sun. - 11a.m. - 8 p.m.

CATERING AVAILABLE www.facebook.com/caseys.buffet

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Locally owned and operated since 2005

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