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EVENT OF THE WEEK Saturday, June 7th, 8 p.m. Meet Joanna Cole

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WAX + VINE, composed of husband-and-wife artists Scott Irvine and Kim Meinelt, feature a 24-photo collection entitled “Hantued” at The Gallery at SALT Studio (as shown on cover). It will hang through June 24th. Their work merges soft and hard textures, and avoids color. Irvine’s introverted approach to art and Menielt’s extroverted approach serve as a yin and yang, though their work complements each other. Irvine also will feature portraits in the series, such as the above depiction of Nick Zinner and Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Courtesy photo.

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Kelley Stoltz, who recently opened for Jack White and recorded an album under his label Third Man Records, comes to Ocean Grill and

N. Water St. between Market & Princess at Riverfront Park.

The author of the much famed Magic School Bus series, Joanna Cole will be at the Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center, 309 W. Salisbury St. The event will be an ice cream social, and will feature fun games and a book signing. Dressing up as your favorite character is encouraged. To register visit www.nccoast.org or call (910) 509-2838. For more information email nccf@nccoast.org.

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Live Local Live Small:

uch like the New Year’s resolution list printed in the first Live Local column of the year, it has become tradition to check in at the halfway point, too. I want to update readers on how things are coming along with my resolutions. Here is a quick reminder of what I hoped to accomplish in 2014: 1. Pay off one more credit card and don’t charge anything else on a card. 2. Finish the second-floor apartment at the bookstore, thereby putting several tradesmen to work. 3. Start shopping again. 4. Bring national attention to the Live Local movement. 5. Start an economics reading and discussion group. 6. Support film incentives any way I know how. It’s a big priority for me this year; in fact, I hope it is for everyone who lives in NC. 7. Get back to charitable giving and donating. 8. Explore Wilmington’s expanding transit options. To be honest, I think I wanted to look back at this to see if I am making any progress or just treading water. Lately I feel like things have taken a swift tilt off the normal axis in my life. But the Live Local journey is one I find I can continue to feel rooted and grounded in.

So with my first resolution—pay off one or more credit card and don’t charge anything else on a card—I have to say I did really well with the latter part on either of my last two credit cards. Well, that is until mid-May. Then things happened, and I had to charge some stuff for the bookstore and, well, here we are. Still, I’m working on it. I hope to get some major headway soon. Things are moving along with the second floor apartment at the bookstore and the employing of local trades people. This excites me. It is far from move-in ready, but there are walls up in half of it, the HVAC has been installed (thank you, Tim’s), the electrician (Bill Ladd) has been busy, and Joey over at Steven’s Hardware has endured a lengthy conversation about getting kitchen cabinets ordered. Soon, the plumber (Bart Duarte) will make his magic happen. So, I am definitely moving along and spending money locally on this front. Though the number of boxes that migrated downstairs to make this possible seems more than overwhelming to look at (sigh). One step forward, two steps back, right? The shopping thing hasn’t really spread beyond groceries and the necessities. However, I have gone shopping for Daddy, a lot. New sheets and loungewear from Tomlinson’s

Checking in at the halfway point on 2014's resolutions By: Gwenyfar rohler

Above: From the Wilmington film rally and protest against changes to the NC film incentives, held three weeks ago in downtown Wilmington. Photo by Bryan Moss 4 encore | june 4–10, 2014 | www.encorepub.com

have headed the list, as well as a tremendous amount of takeout food from The Scoop, Slice of Life and Kyoto Asian Grille. Yet, shopping for me or my household is still on hold, with high hopes for the second half of the year. Stay tuned. To be quite blunt, I’ve not really made plans about generating national attention for the Live Local movement. I guess I need to get more clear about what this goal actually looks like, because I obviously am making no headway. And speaking of no-starters, I hoped to see my plans for the economics reading and discussion group start in April, around tax time. It seemed like economics would be on people’s minds then. Another fail—maybe a “not yet” would be more positive. To be fair, though, the film incentives have been occupying a lot of my time—as it should be. I have attended and spoken at the local rallies; I interact with film crews on a daily basis through their ongoing patronage at the bookstore; I have friends and family that work in the industry. I hope the incentives are top priority in other people’s lives, too. Actually, by the time this is in print, I likely will be in Raleigh as part of the delegation to lobby on behalf of the film incentives and a better plan than the one Governor McCrory proposed last week. The film industry is just too important to lose at a time when we don’t have anything on the horizon offering anywhere near the same ongoing economic investment in our area. Please, if you haven’t contacted your representatives in the NC General Assembly or the governor, take a moment and do so by going to www.ncleg.net. On the charitable-giving front, I am happy to see progress. I am not back to the level I would like, but I will have a couple of receipts by the end of the year. I have two commitments that I was unable to honor in 2013, which I hope to be able to by the end of the year. I am grateful to see some progress. Also, I have done fairly well with exploring our transit options. Regular readers know I took a cross-country train trip in March. It was part of testing out how the thruway connector service with Greyhound and Amtrak worked. I also wanted to see how long-distance train travel compared to air travel. For me train travel won, hands down: no TSA-screening

misery, plenty of room to spread out, privacy, food, and I got lots of work done! It was great. I am still planning to take a bus to the beach—or at least attempt to do so. Hopefully, I will have a report on that experience soon. Though, as a preliminary, I used the calculator on WAVE Transit’s website to estimate how much money I would save if I took the bus for my commute. According to them, it would cost me an additional $536.26 annually to take the bus to work. Since I walk many days, I am not the norm, but it just seems like maybe things are a little skewed if I work two blocks from where the buses transfer downtown. It would be cost prohibitive for me to use public transit—something to think about. So through self-grading, I would give myself about a 40 percent, which is not great for almost halfway through the year. Though, the film incentives are so wide-reaching and important, I think focusing on them is essential for our state: We all will feel the pinch if we lose them. Perhaps the message hidden between the lines is: Keep trying and I will. I think seeing progress on the credit-card front has been huge. Getting two paid off felt like the vice around my head loosened. Getting these last two out of my life will be remarkable—absolutely remarkable! It would be the first time in my adult life I wouldn’t be carrying debt. What I didn’t realize when I put together this list in January was that, together, they do represent a cohesive approach to community finance: personal debt, personal spending, investments in housing and the commercial sector, education, legislation, philanthropy, and public transit. These things all need to work together to truly make local economic change happen. A citizenry must be educated to lobby their leaders for change. The connections that can be built through public transit could be transformative, but it has to be functional and affordable before that can happen. Rather than looking above for change, we must make it happen on our own. The year is not yet over; I still have time to continue making progress! Until then, please, contact our state representatives about keeping our film incentives in tact. And shop local. The job you save might be your own!

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lice, “but lately I had this craving for meat.” He also had trouble with honesty, initially denying his guilt before finally confessing to the officer that “I have let Lord Buddha down.” (Buddhists traditionally are strict vegetarians.)

Gigadollars and Cents In April, Anton Purisima filed a claim in Federal District Court in New York City that the Lowering The Bar blog calculated was for the largest monetary demand ever made in a lawsuit -- “$2,000 decillion” (or 2 followed by 36 zeroes, which of course is many times more money than exists on planet Earth). Purisima’s lawsuit names Au Bon Pain, Carepoint Health, Kmart, the New York City Transit Authority and LaGuardia Airport among the parties allegedly causing him so much distress (by fraud, civil rights violations and even “attempted murder”). Lowering The Bar also noted that “$2,000 decillion” could also have been accurately nominated as “$2 undecillion” or even “two octillion gigadollars.” The Continuing Crisis Only in Florida -- (1) Calvin Rodriguez was arrested in Port St. Lucie, Florida, in May as the man who had been using a shaved key to steal a series of cars from parking lots. His spree came to an abrupt halt as he sped away from police in a stolen Honda Civic only to crash into a huge alligator in the road. (2) On May 1st, a wildlife trapper called to Pine View School in Osprey, Florida, south of Sarasota, removed four alligators (one of which was 8 feet long) from the campus while classes were in session (but without disruption). (3) Beachcombers in the Gulf of Mexico town of Redington Beach, Florida, were treated on May 17th to the sight of a full-grown elephant treading water about 20 yards offshore. (The animal had made its way to the water after being unloaded for a commercial birthday party appearance.) Democracy in Action -- (1) During a regional session of Spain’s parliament in February, a photographer from the newspaper El Diario Montanes captured a shot of legislator Miguel Angel Revilla looking at a picture of a nude woman (in a magazine otherwise concealed inside a folder). (He explained later that he was of course just reading the articles.) (2) In May, U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia of Florida was captured on a C-SPAN camera during a House Judiciary Committee hearing casually eating his earwax. In the sequence, described

on a Time magazine blog, he dug into his ear, inspected the results, placed them in mouth, then went “back for seconds.” (Rep. Garcia explained later that he was actually dealing with a “hangnail.”) One of the leading theories as to the cause of a radiation leak at a nuclear waste dump near Carlsbad, New Mexico, in February is the facility’s recent, unanticipated switch to “organic” kitty litter. Previously, an inorganic variety had been used to absorb liquid in the waste drums shipped to the facility from bomb-making plants that had been temporarily storing the waste pending creation of a permanent nuclear waste storage site. Latest Religious Messages In April, India’s Delhi High Court judges declined to halt the local government’s program of posting pictures of deities on the walls of buildings in order to discourage public urination (that surely no one would soil his lord). The plaintiffs pointed out that the campaign was so clearly ineffective that perhaps the deities’ images were even making the problem worse -- that “evidence” so far shows that confronting the images might even compel some people to relieve the “pressure on the bladder.” An unnamed 60-year-old Buddhist monk was arrested in Nantou County, Taiwan, in April after a convenience-store manager said he was caught red-handed swiping packets of beef jerky. “I don’t know why,” he told po-

Fine Points in the Law: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled in 2013 that it was not necessarily illegal for teachers to send students sexually oriented text messages -- that the state law banning the practice violated “free speech.” As a result, in February 2014, prosecutors in Tarrant County dropped their case against a junior-high teacher who had exchanged 688 text messages with a 13-year-old female student over a six-day period in 2012, on topics such as “sexual preferences and fantasies” and whether either of them ever walked naked around the house. The messages would be illegal, the Court had ruled, only if they led to a meeting or an offer of sex. Despite a 1971 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court declaring that governments could not punish people who are merely “annoying,” dozens of towns (according to a March Wall Street Journal report) continue to regard the behavior as criminal. (The justices decided the word is too “vague” to give fair warning of which behaviors are illegal, but an Indiana deputy attorney general told the Journal that anyone with “ordinary intelligence” knows what is annoying.) New York has such a law, as do Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Cumberland, Maryland -among the 5,000 mentions of forms of “to annoy” in a computer search of municipal ordinances. (Britain’s House of Lords in January blocked a proposed anti-annoyance law.) Among the discretionary punishments authorized to Georgia judges is banishing an offender from the county in which he com-

mitted the crime. Complained driver Ricardo Riley (who as of February is barred from Walton County), “I didn’t commit no murder, I’m not a sex offender, I’m not a criminal. I just got a speeding ticket.” Judge Brad Brownlow, perhaps irritated at Riley’s request to reduce the original $250 fine, instead piled on punishments -- including banishment. Walton County is just outside the Atlanta metro area, and Riley, from adjacent Gwinnett County, has friends and co-workers who live in Walton -- but whom he can no longer visit. Update Ethan Couch, 17, was convicted of DUI manslaughter last year after killing four people, but benefited at sentencing from a counselor’s testimony describing him as a victim of “affluenza” -- a condition in which children of wealthy families hopelessly feel “entitlement” and are prone to irresponsibility. In April, the Vernon, Tex., hospital providing Ethan’s court-ordered rehabilitation announced that Ethan’s “wealthy” parents would nonetheless be billed only for about 6 percent of the cost of treating the “affluenza” -- $1,170 of an anticipated $21,000 monthly tab -- with Texas taxpayers picking up the remainder.

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Unadultared Passion:

n Friday, June 6th, the Carolina Beach Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar will host American singer-songwriter Kelley Stoltz. The folk-psychedelic artist will entertain the crowd with his Bob Dylanlike looks and Velvet Underground musicality. His most recent LP, “Double Exposure,” released by Jack White’s Third Man Records in 2013, encompasses an eerily warm and clean sound. Kelley Stoltz isn’t like other musicians. He doesn’t force out records to keep his name on the minds of his listeners. He tours to spread his music and makes clear his unadulterated passion for it. “I actually got into listening to music as a young kid,” Stoltz tells. “I had an older step-brother who was really into music, kind of a new-wave guy with cool hair and played synthesizer. I just thought he was cool and I wanted to be like him. I was about 12 when I actually started playing guitar and listened to a ton of music everyday. It just blossomed from there.” In his early 20s, Stoltz headed to New York City with a job interning for the great Jeff

Buckley’s management company. The opportunity was kismit, really. After only a few years on the East Coast, Stoltz, running low on money, moved to the West Coast to find something new. Earning a living as a teacher in San Francisco, he somehow managed to create his first official release, “The Past Was Faster,” which was self-recorded on his eight-track tape recorder at his home. “I have a love of eight-track recorders that kind of came into my life like San Francisco did,” Stoltz remarks. “I just kind of guessed. I needed something to record on, and I actually hadn’t really saved up any money. I was at the very tail end of the credit card I was living on, but miraculously was able to buy an eight-track on eBay, and it was exactly what I wanted. It was small and only about $350, so I bought it and started recording right off my desk.” In 2001, Stoltz followed in the same footsteps by recording his second album, “Antique Glow,” on a new and improved eight-track, reel-to-reel tape recorder at home. He played

Kelley Stoltz makes his local debut at the Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar By: Chad Lovette

Above: Kelley Stoltz in his video, “Kim Chee Taco Man,” a song off his latest album from Third Man Records, “Double Exposure.” Photo by Ryan Browne 8 encore | june 4–10, 2014 | www.encorepub.com

all of the strange instruments himself, and originally released only 300 vinyl records of “Antique Glow.” “At one point when I was recording, I actually had my bed, my drums, my guitars, my piano, and guitar amps all in one room,” he remembers. “I didn’t ever get any noise complaints somehow, but I was just really lucky I had good roommates that didn’t mind coming home from work and hearing me bashing away on the drums for hours at a time.” The self-painted album sleeves he originally released are now rare collector’s items. The album revealed a nearly flawless self-recorded sound Stoltz was capable of producing. It gained wider distribution and popularity when the record label Jackpine Social Club released it in the U.S. and The Beautiful Happiness label released it in the UK and Australia. This allowed Stoltz to quit his teaching job and make music his priority. “It was great to be able to stop and just start focusing on my music and some other odd jobs,” he says, “but I actually really enjoyed teaching and being around kids. I would bring my guitar to class sometimes, and I even showed them how to use the eight-track. We tried to record some songs; it was a fun time teaching mainly first and second graders.” At the tailend of 2001, Stoltz decided to record a track-by-track cover of his idols, Echo & the Bunnymen. They’re 1980’s album “Crocodiles” became “Crockodials” by the time Stoltz finished it. “I was trying to cre-

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ate something everyday, but some days you find a really great song, and some days you make shitty songs that you can’t quite put together,” Stoltz recalls of the process. “At that time, I was kind of going through a hard time where nothing really was inspiring me, so to stay busy. I recorded that album to get my mind out of my own music and just get back into having fun.” Stoltz finally hit the road to travel across the United States and Australia for the first time. On his tour through Australia in 2003, he recorded a live nine-song album, “Australian Tour,” which went directly to disc through Corduroy Records. Between travel and publicity, his music began dotting the map, and his album “Antique Glow” received excellent reviews. After his Australian tour in 2004, Sub Pop Records swept up Stoltz and released “The Sun Comes Through” EP in 2005. The enchantingly smooth sound led Stoltz back on tour through Europe and Australia. His first full-length album with Sub Pop, “Below the Branches,” came out in 2006, rife with sonic detail that Stoltz so carefully honed. To make good use of his newly rising fame, he released the first album ever to use the Green-e Program. The making of “Below the Branches” incorporated amps, mics, PA systems, and recording equipment all powered by renewable energy. “My girlfriend at the time actually hooked us up with the Green-e Program, which provided us with the wind power,” Stoltz ex-

plains. “Then everything else was figured out by exactly how much energy we were using to make the music, and then we were able to turn it all into renewable energy, which was really cool to be a part of.” In 2006 Stoltz took to the road again and through a friend, who happened to be Jack White’s nephew, he began opening for White’s band, The Raconteurs. Stoltz also had the honor of playing at Lollapalooza in Chicago with a few all-time greats, such as The Shins, Ryan Adams and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Since, Stoltz has released two more albums with Sub Pop: 2008’s “Circular Sounds” and 2010’s “To Dreamers.” “Circular Sounds” once again proved his immaculate skill in the studio with layered, thick and juicy sounds matched by intrigue and oddly catchy, unidentifiable background instruments on “To Dreamers.” Stoltz’s Third Man release, “Double Exposure,” has the sound of a musician reaching greater heights. “I am a perfectionist in the studio to some degree, but in a lot of ways I’m not,” Stoltz notes. “Double Exposure” was mixed and mastered by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control. “I have just had great teachers help me along the way,” Stoltz says. “Whether it is now, 1950, or 2050, there is always certain musical knowledge that is very helpful. I just try to work fast. I jump in on an idea and go for it.” “Double Exposure” showcases a variety of music, from the folk-rock track “Storms,”

to psychedelic groovy tunes, like “Kim Chee Taco Man,” to the funky blues of “It’s Summertime Again.” He utilizes vintage synths, 17 guitars, tape echos, mellotrons, a ‘50s jukebox, and more to sonically enrich the recording. Though legendary for his self-recordings, Stoltz isn’t in the business to compete with or copycat musicians of his ilk: Sonny and the Sunsets, Brian Wilson, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen. Still, all the players around him in San Francisco know him quite well. “I play a show about every month or two at home and have a great time,” he explains. “I almost always get to jam with good friends, which makes it fun.” Wilmingtonians will be able to catch him in Charlotte, opening for Jack White at the Fillmore on June 5th. Or head to the Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar in Carolina Beach on Friday, June 6th, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

DETAILS: Kelley Stoltz June 6th, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. • Free Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar 1211 South Lake Park Boulevard www.kelleystoltz.com www.oceangrilltiki.com

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Wednesday, June 4

Karaoke w/ DJ AMP (8pm; Free) —Locals Tavern, 6213-D Market St.

Mac & Juice Quartet (12am; Free; eclectic) —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street; 399-2866

Jeremy Norris (8pm; Free; country) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

Benny Hill (6:30pm; Free) —Sweet & Savory Cafe, 1611 Pavilion Plc.

Karaoke (9pm; Free) —Bourbon Street, 35 N Front St.

Trivia Night (6:30pm; Free) —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Bomb Night w/ DJ (9pm) —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.

Open Mic w/ Thomas and Oglesby (7pm; Free) —Half Time Sports Cafe, 1107 New Pointe Blvd.

DJ Lord Walrus (9pm) —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave.

Open Music Jam (7pm; Free) —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901-B Wrightsville Ave. Jammin’ with Jax (7pm; Free) —Jax Fifth Ave. Deli & Ale House, 5046 New Centre Dr. Nutt House Improv Troupe (7pm) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832 Wednesday Night Trivia (7pm) —Hoplite Pub and Beer Garden, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd. Witty Wednesdays Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (7pm; Free) —Buzz’s Roost Wilmington, 15 S. Front St. Trivia Night with Steve and Missy (7:30pm; Free) —Joe’s Oasis, 6400 Carolina Beach Rd.

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DJ Hood (9pm; Free) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

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Thursday, June 5 Thirsty Thursday w/ DJ (5pm) —The Dirty Martini, 1904 Eastwood Rd. Jazz Night (6pm; Free) —Atlanta Bread Company, 6886 Main St. Trivia Night (6pm; Free) —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff Rd. Open Mic/Songwriters’ Night (7pm; Free) —Grinder’s Caffe, 5032 Wrightsville Ave.

Karaoke (9pm; Free) —Brass Pelican, 2112 N. New River Dr.

Karaoke (7pm; Free) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Beach Ave N.; (910) 707-0533

Open Mic Night (9pm; Free) —The Calico Room, 107 S Front St.

Thirsty Thursday Team Trivia (7pm; Free) —Whiskey Trail at the Creek, 4039 Masonboro Loop Rd.

Karaoke (9pm; Free) —Ibiza, 118 Market St.

Trivia Night (7pm; Free) —Giant Cafe, 1200 N 23rd St Suite 209

DJ TwoClikz (9pm) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

Hits Through the Ages (7pm; $12) —Historic Hannah Block Comunnity Arts Center, 120 S. Second St.

Browncoat Karaoke (10pm; Free) —Browncoat Pub & Theatre, 111 Grace Street Chris James (10pm; country) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; (910) 362-

Music in the Courtyard with Rick Tobey (7pm; $5-$12; jazz) —Cameron Art Museum, 3201 South 17th Street; (910)

395-5999 Trivia Night Steve and DJ Maximum Miss (8pm; Free) —The Harp, 1423 S. 3rd St. Open Mic Night Dennis Brinson (8pm; Free) —Locals Tavern, 6213-D Market St. Fire and Drums (8pm) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; (910) 763-2223 The Other Guys (8pm; free; rock) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Beach Ave N.; (910) 707-0533 Karaoke (8pm; Free) —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive Open Mic Night with DJBe (8pm; Free) —Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

Open Music Jam Hosted by Shannon Gilmore & Tommy Kaiser (7pm; Free) —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901-B Wrightsville Ave. Loose Wheel Bluegrass Jam (7pm) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 231-3379 Friday Comedy Showcase (7pm) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832 Kelley Stoltz (7pm; singer/songwriter) —Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 South Lake Park Boulevard; (910) 458 2000 Hits Through the Ages (7pm; $12) —Historic Hannah Block Comunnity Arts Center, 120 S. Second St. Jerry Powell (7pm; Free; blues) —The Pub, 2012 Eastwood Rd.

Mike O’Donnell (8pm; Free; folk rock) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

Seneca Guns (8pm; free; rock) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Beach Ave N.; (910) 707-0533

Open Mic Comedy Night (9pm; Free) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

Live Music (8pm) —Hoplite Pub and Beer Garden, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Open Mic (9pm; Free) —Bottega Art Bar and Gallery, 208 N. Front St.

DJ & Drag Show House/Techno (9pm; $5-$10) —Ibiza, 118 Market St.

Open Mic Night (9pm; Free) —Brass Pelican, 2112 N. New River Dr.

DJ (9pm) —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.

DJ TwoClikz (9pm) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

DJ Battle (9pm) —Level 5, 21 N. Front St.

Thirsty Thursday (9pm; Free) —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.

Live Music (9pm) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

DJKAHUNA (9pm) —Billy Goats, 6324 Market St.

DJ TwoClikz (9pm) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

Top 40 DJ (9pm; $5-$10) —Ibiza, 118 Market St.

The Apache Relay (9pm; $10-$15; folk/indierock) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market Street; (910) 769-4096

Dirk Quinn Band (9pm; $5; jazz) —Orton’s, 133 N Front St. Discotheque Thurs. with DJ’s DST and Matt Evans (10pm) —Pravda, 23 N Front St.

DJ Ash B (10pm) —Cardinal Bands and Billiards, 5216 Carolina Beach Rd.

Karaoke (10pm; Free) —Katy’s Grill and Bar, 1054 S College Rd.

Temple5 (10pm; reggae/jazz) —The Calico Room, 107 S Front St.

Jesse Stockton (10pm; free; americana) —Goat and Compass, 710 N 4th St.

Phil Bevilicaqua (10pm; singer) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; (910) 3629666

Clay Whittington (10pm) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; (910) 3629666

Sea Pans Steel Drums (7pm; free) —Gabby’s Lounge, 1706 N. Lumina Ave; 256-2231

Cell Block 2 (10pm; Free; elclectic) —Hell’s Kitchen-Wilmington, NC, 118 Princess St. Overtyme (7pm; free; eclectic mix) —Gabby’s Lounge, 1706 N. Lumina Ave; 256-2231

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Doug Wilcox (7pm; ) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.; (910) 231-3379

Mac and Juice (5pm; free; eclectic rock) —Sweet N Savory Pub, 2012 Eastwood Rd; (910) 679-8101

DJ TwoClikz (9pm) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

Hits Through the Ages (7pm; $12) —Historic Hannah Block Comunnity Arts Center, 120 S. Second St.

Satellite Bluegrass Band (6pm; Free) —Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; (910) 3992796

Mr. Elevator (9pm; $5; psychedelic rock) —Orton’s, 133 N Front St.

Shake & Shag Beach Music Night (7:30pm; $3) —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave.

DJ Battle (8pm; Free) —Fibber’s Public House, 1610 Pavillion Pl.

Supersonic (8pm; free) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Beach Ave N.; (910) 707-0533 Edomode, All the Locals (8pm; alt./grunge) —The Calico Room, 107 S Front St. Live Music (8pm) —Hoplite Pub and Beer Garden, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd.

Jazz Jam with Christopher Luther (8pm; Free) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S 5th Ave. Southern Trouble (8pm; free; southern rock) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Beach Ave N.; (910) 707-0533

DJ Techno/House (9pm; $5-$10) —Ibiza, 118 Market St.

Orange Colored Sky Concert with Jeff Phillips (8pm; $15-$25) —Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian Church, Wilmington NC, 3902 Market St.

DJ Battle (9pm) —Level 5, 21 N. Front St.

Tyler Perry’s Chill Beats Lab (10pm) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; (910) 763-2223

Live Music (9pm) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

Acoustic Koozie Sundays (10pm; $2) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market Street; (910) 769-4096

DJ TwoClikz (9pm) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

Monday, June 9

Donna Merritt (9pm; piano/vocals) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; (910) 3629666 Blackberry Smoke (9pm; $25-$30; southern rock/country) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market Street; (910) 769-4096 Wes Sayer and Fred Flynn (9:30pm; Free; eclectic) —Hell’s Kitchen-Wilmington, NC, 118 Princess St. DJ Riz (10pm) —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; DJ Sir Nick Bland (10pm; $3) —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave. Carolina Beach Music Festival (All Day; $20-$25) —Carolina Beach Boardwalk, 100 Cape Fear Blvd.

Live Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (6:30pm) —Cape Fear National clubhouse, 1281 Cape Fear National Drive; Fruity Oaty Bars (7:30pm; Free) —Browncoat Pub & Theatre, 111 Grace St. Trivia (7:30pm; Free) —Hell’s Kitchen-Wilmington, NC, 118 Princess St. Open Mic Night (8pm) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; (910) 763-2223 Jason Jackson, Justin Fox, and Jeremy Norris (8pm; Free; country/rock/ americana) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832 Uncle Hairy (5pm; free; Rock & Soul) —Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Avenue, Kure Beach

Finer (9:30pm;electronic/ rock) —The Calico Room, 107 S Front St. Open Mic Night (10pm; Free) —Katy’s Grill and Bar, 1054 S College Rd. College Night Karaoke (10pm; Free) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; (910) 3629666

Wednesday, June 11 Benny Hill (6:30pm; Free) —Sweet & Savory Cafe, 1611 Pavilion Plc Trivia Night (6:30pm; Free) —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; Open Mic w/ Thomas and Oglesby (7pm; Free) —Half Time Sports Cafe, 1107 New Pointe Blvd. Open Music Jam (7pm; Free) —Wired on Wrightsville, 3901-B Wrightsville Ave. Jammin’ with Jax (7pm; Free) —Jax Fifth Ave. Deli & Ale House, 5046 New Centre Dr. Nutt House Improv Troupe (7pm) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832 Wednesday Night Trivia (7pm; ) —Hoplite Pub and Beer Garden, 720 N. Lake Park Blvd. Witty Wednesdays Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (7pm; Free) —Buzz’s Roost Wilmington, 15 S. Front St. Trivia Night with Steve and Missy (7:30pm; Free) —Joe’s Oasis, 6400 Carolina Beach Rd. Karaoke w/ DJ AMP (8pm; Free) —Locals Tavern, 6213-D Market St. Ryan Scarberry (8pm; folk/rock) —The Calico Room, 107 S Front St.

Travis Shallow (7pm; free; classic rock) —Gabby’s Lounge, 1706 N. Lumina Ave; 256-2231

Tuesday, June 10

Jeremy Norris (8pm; Free; country) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

The Fustics (10:30pm; free; rock) —Duck & Dive Pub, 114 Dock St., 399-2866

Melvin and Sayer (7pm) —SeaWitch Cafe & Tiki Bar, 227 Carolina Beach Ave N.; (910) 707-0533

Karaoke (9pm; Free) —Bourbon Street, 35 N Front St.

The Brady Smith Band (9:30; free; country/ americana) —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff Rd.

Sunday, June 8 Nina Repeta Trio (12pm; $15-$20; jazz) —TheatreNOW, 19 S. 10th St. Acoustic Jazz Piano with James Jarvis (1:30pm; Free) —Old Books on Front Street, 249 N. Front St. TACT Radio: Hits Through the Ages (3pm; $12) —Historic Hannah Block Comunnity Arts Center, 120 S. Second St. Port City Music Festival (5pm; Free) —Frank H. Kenan Chapel in Landfall, Free Concert Series (5pm; Free) —Ocean Front Park, 105 Atlantic Ave.

Dueling Pianos and Comedy Night Blayr Nias (7pm; $5) —Ziggy’s By The Sea, 208 Market Street; (910) 769-4096 Tuesday Trivia with Sherri ‘So Very’ (7pm; Free) —Halftime Sports Bar and Grill, 1107 New Pointe Blvd

Bomb Night w/ DJ (9pm) —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St. DJ Lord Walrus (9pm) —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave. DJ Hood (9pm; Free) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

Port City Music Festival (7:30pm; Free) —Windemere Presbyterian Church,

Karaoke (9pm; Free) —Brass Pelican, 2112 N. New River Dr.

Indie Music Night (8pm) —Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St.; (910) 763-2223

Open Mic Night (9pm; Free) —The Calico Room, 107 S Front St.

Pub Wars Team Trivia (8pm; Free) —Low Tide Pub, 4540 Fountain Dr.

Karaoke (9pm; Free) —Ibiza, 118 Market St.

Rob Ronner (8pm; Free; southern rock) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; (910) 251-1832

DJ TwoClikz (9pm) —SideBar, 18 S. Front St.

Trivia Night and Drink Specials (8pm; Free) —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Dr.

Donna Merritt (9pm; piano/vocals) —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; (910) 3629666

Stray Local (free; americana) —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff Rd.

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DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 123 vivian ST., DURHAM, NC (919) 680-2727 6/5: Weezer 6/6: Keith Sweat, 112 UPTOWN AMPHITHEATRE 1000 NC MUSIC FACTORY BLVD., CHARLOTTE (704) 916-8970 6/10: Boston HIGH BALL STEPPER: Legendary guitarist and musician Jack White comes to The Fillmore on Thurs- LINCOLN THEATRE 126 E. Cabarrus stREET, raleigh, nc day, June 5th. Photo by David James Swanson

HOUSE OF BLUES 4640 Hwy. 17 sOUTH, myrtle beach, sc (843) 272-3000 6/6: Tuesday’s Gone (Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute) 6/7: Drive-by Truckers 6/11: Future KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE 8003 regency pkwy, cary, nc (919) 462-2052 6/6: The Music of John Williams (NC Symphony) 6/11: Boneslinger THE ORANGE PEEL 101 bILTMORE AVE., ASHEVILLE, NC (828) 398-1837 6/5: Soumu 6/6: Failure 6/7: Houndmouth 6/8: Waka Flocka Flame 6/11: Poliça ZIGGY’S 170 W. 9th st., winston-salem, nc (336) 722-5000 6/6: Trial By Fire; Band of Ales, Linus Jones (RH Tavern) 6/7: Shadow of Myself (RH Tavern); Leftover Salmon NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE NORTH DAVIDSON ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 358-9298 6/7: John Mark McMillian AMOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 South Tryon STREET, Charlotte, NC (704) 377-6874 6/5: Black Star Riders 6/6: Whitey Morgan and the 78’s 6/7: Foxy shazam 6/8: Tantric 6/10: Future 6/11: Animals as Leaders

(919) 821-4111 6/5: Big Something 6/6: Leftover Salmon 6/7: Jerry Garcia Cover Band, Breathe 6/8: Whitey Morgan and the 78’s

CAT’S CRADLE 300 E. MAIN STREET, CARRBORO, NC (919) 967-9053 6/7: Marti Jones & Don Dixon, Lynn Blakey 6/10: Andrew Bird and the Hands of Glory, Tift Merritt 6/11: Dr. Dog, The District, The Hawkes THE ARTS CENTER 300-G E. Main st., carrboro, nc (919) 969-8574 6/6: Songs from the Circle 3 6/8: Jeanette & Johnny Williams with Louisa Branscomb

TWC MUSIC PAVILION AT WALNUT CREEK 3801 ROCK QUARRY rd., Raleigh, nc (919) 831-6400 6/7-8: Luke Bryan GREENSBORO COLISEUM 1921 W. Lee St. Greensboro, NC (336) 373-7400 6/7: Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel with Greensboro Symphony

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Behind the Moon, Behind the Rain...

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Oz awaits ‘over the rainbow’ at Thalian Hall By: Cassie Weber

here is a place, somewhere over the rainbow, wherein at least once in our lives we travel to with awe—perhaps a little trepidation. Mostly, though, we welcome its childlike sense of adventure that will never go away. The initial journey through Oz—down that famous yellow brick road to the Emerald City with hopes of seeing the Wizard, Glinda as our guide, and all the while avoiding the Wicked Witch of the West—tells a story which lingers in the hearts and minds of all who see it. Released in 1939 to the silver screen, “The Wizard of Oz” stepped up as a film masterpiece because of its Technicolor use. It captivated audiences across the United States because of its time period—when the black and white of everyday life could only be escaped by the illuminated hues of vivid images and lighthearted songs on the big screen. Nominated for multiple Academy Awards, the film continues to be listed American Film Institute’s series of “100 Best…”—in multiple categories that include “Best Movie,” “Best Heroes and Villains” and “Best Quotes.”

Under the experienced direction of Suellen Yates, the Opera House Theatre Company will open its season with this magical world on June 4th. Director Yates has been a lifelong fan of the story and its abundantly lyrical structure. It’s her first time directing the show. “I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t know the story and love the movie,” she clarifies. “The music always makes me smile and who can resist singing along?” Donning the iconic blue gingham gown and ruby slippers will be Abbey Bowman, an actress who has portrayed a resident of Munchkinland earlier in her theatrical career. Now, she takes on the lead role of Dorothy Gale, one she has loved since childhood. “[Dorothy] is one of those characters that you kind of always keep in your heart,” Bow-

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man notes. “The music and dialogue sort of resonate with you for the rest of your life.” Taking on a timeless classic is no easy feat. This particular production is a script adapted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and follows closely to the movie. “It has stood the test of time,” Yates says, “No drastic changes.” There will be no shortage of magic in the production, either. Yates and the creative team are making sure of that, though to what extent will remain a mystery until the curtains rise on opening night. The team is looking forward to dazzling the audience: Terry Collins (set), Dallas LaFon and John Deveaux (lights and sound), Jason Aycock (choreography), and Juli Harvey (costumes), and an eight-piece orchestra led by Lorene Walsh. “Performing live in front of an audience provides its own special alchemy with an audience,” Yates adds. Children ages 5 to 13 will become citizens of Munchkinland. And who can forget that adorable little dog, Toto? “Working with any animal is challenging, since you can never be sure exactly what they will do,” Yates explains. “Luckily, he is my children’s dog, and they will be backstage with him, making sure he makes all his entrances and exits.” The cast members take on multiple roles in the production—from trees to crows, to winkies, monkeys or Ozians (oh, my!). Jason Aycock will tackle the very physical role of the Scarecrow, as well as undertaking assistant

director and choreographer duties. “All of our team is giving this our best because we love being a part of this story,” Aycock says. The cast also faced the challenge of breathing their own life and instilling their own voices into these icons. After all, it’s hard to hear Dorothy and not think of Judy Garland—or Ray Bloger as the Scarecrow and Bert Lahr as The Cowardly Lion. “I’ve enjoyed trying to find a balance [in] my portrayal of him and being able to pay homage to Bolger’s time enduring performance,” Aycock maintains. “I think the popularity of the story and the character is kind of a double-edged sword,” Bowman adds. “It’s been hard not to just resort to trying to play it exactly like Judy Garland did, but I’ve been focusing on discovering everything I can about Dorothy and her life, and portraying her in the most honest way.” Despite any pre-show jitters, Yates is the first to extol the virtues of the talent with which she works. “The leads are all very talented, experienced actors and singers who have embraced their characters and made them so lovable,” she praises. “Their incredible voices really do justice to the great music and helps make the songs that everyone has heard hundreds of times over sound new and fresh.” The cast will be filled out with: Abby Bowman as Dororthy Gale, Tony Rivenbark as Professor Marvel/Wizard of Oz, Amy Tucker Morgan as Auntie Em/Glinda, Jason Hatfield as Uncle Henry/Guard, Chris Rickert as Zeke/ Cowardly Lion, James Ellison as Hickory/Tinman, and Samantha Mifsud as Ms. Gultch/ Wicked Witch of the West. Opening night is Wednesday, June 4th, and the show will continue through Sunday, June 22nd.

DETAILS: The Wizard of Oz Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut St. June 4th-8th, 13th-15th, and 20th22nd, 8 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m. Tickets: $30-$35 www.thalianhall.com

Mullets, Death and Crazies:

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Ron Hasson brings farce to Cape Fear Playhouse While organic onstage chemistry and a distinct Southern expertise help his performance, Davis' real shining moment will come from his state-of-the-art mullet (forget Billy Ray Cyrus). However, its heart will come in capturing an entire family and myriad townsfolk in the confined space of Cape Fear Playhouse. “Giving birth to a space onstage that exists free of moving parts was a challenge, made necessary for this production,” Hasson says. “Chairs and benches move, but lights, sounds and especially words will be the real moving parts.” Audrey McCrummen is tasked with generating a set that accommodates the ensemble cast. Lights will be used to spotlight humor, and versatile steps and platforms will allow movement in the largely open space. The stage will be designed for fluidity, allowing the pace of scene changes to keep up with the

By: Christian Podgaysky

unerals aren’t funny; but, with the eccentric characters found in the South, they can be. Bringing family members together, funerals provide the perfect catalyst to air dirty laundry. Add to it an eclectic set of misfits, drunks and crazies, and hilarity and chaos ensues. Coming to Cape Fear Playhouse, Big Dawg Productions’ imagining of “Dearly Departed” aims to deliver laughs through farce. The play was performed at Thalian Hall by Opera House Theatre Company 10 years ago. Originally conceived by playwrights David Bottrell and Jesse Jones, it debuted in 1991 at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. The same year it made its way to Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre and to much acclaim. Eventually, “Dearly Departed” came alive on the silver screen under the name “Kingdom Come,” and starred Whoopi Goldberg, L.L. Cool J., Jada Pinkett Smith, and Loretta Devine. The play chronicles the Turpin family as they gather for their father’s funeral. RayBud (Randy Davis) turns to the sauce. Junior (Joshua Lowry) deals with financial ruin and a rowdy bunch of children. Delightful (Beth Raynor), their spinster sister, finds comfort in food. A slew of eclectic neighbors and friends aid them in their hour of need. Ron Hasson, 2013 Wilmington Theater Award nominee (Best Original Production, "One Up") takes the director’s chair; a perfect fit given his orientation toward comedy. He has performed in many plays and for numerous theatre companies across town (Big Dawg, Browncoat, TheatreNOW) and has written original comedies “One Up,” “Chat Room,” and “Severe.” Plus, he's no newbie to direction, as he oversaw Hank Toler’s “Murder on the Set" and two original productions of “A Christmas Carol." Hasson now turns his attention to capturing the humor of “Dearly Departed.” “[It’s] one of a few plays that echoes a variety of tragic elements,” he describes. “But the main point is the laughs—finding them and feeding them to the audience.” The play yucks it up with all things Southern. Hasson details that, while the play is not a musical, singing and dancing will delight viewers. The comical tunes will come from the Joy of Life Singers, comprising Susan Auten, Eliccia N. Edwards, Brandy Jones, and John Perkinson. "'Dearly Departed’ affirms the power of family to bring otherwise incompatible people together,” Hasson tells. “In that way, it plays a familiar tune. Through humor, it makes its

points in unexpected, sneaky ways. With the father’s funeral as the backdrop, there are genuine feelings that erupt through all the ritual and tedium. What sparks these fires is often funny, but it is just as often resolved with a poignant message.” Adding to the farce, the play’s 12-show run will feature a different deceased father each night. Big Dawg is calling for bids on 12 different men to take on the role, whether they're community leaders, business owners, or simple theatre supporters. Bud will have no lines, and he is only on stage for a brief moment. To bid, folks must make a minimum donation of $100; Big Dawg will donate a portion of proceeds to local dog rescue groups. All winners will receive a curtain speech and two reserved seats to the performance. (Bids can be submitted via email to bigdawgpro@gmail.com, using the subject line"Dearly Departed.") Randy Davis, playing Ray-Bud, is quite familiar with the script already. He took on the role of Bryce in Opera House Theatre Company’s previous Wilmington production of “Dearly Departed.” With 20 years of comedy and improv experience, he's been active in Wilmington's theatre scene for last two years. Vanessa Welch, Davis’ better half for 15 years, will play Ray-Bud’s wife also of 15 years. “Our house will be full of relatives for the run of the show (to help watch the kids), so Ray’s frustration at having his house invaded by all these people will [hit] very close to home,” Davis quips.

quick-witted narrative. Costuming comes with a communal approach; Hasson presents ideas to cast members, but given they dress themselves according to what they think their characters would wear. While family gatherings are often stressinducing, “Dearly Deaprted” promises to be a laugh riot. The family dysfunction begins Friday, June 5th.

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Dearly Departed Cape Fear Playhouse 613 Castle Street Thurs.- Fri., June 5th-7th, 12th-14th, 19th-21st, 8 p.m. Sun., June 8th, 15th and 22nd, 3 p.m. Tickets: $15-$20 (910) 367-5237 www.bigdawgproductions.org

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Shakespeare’s classic tale of mistaken identity opens this week By: Christian Podgaysky

elighting thespians since the 16th century, Shakespeare is known as the greatest and most prolific writer in the English language. Countless renditions of his work find their way to the stage every year, and his catalogue has left an invaluable mark on the dramatic structure. His creations have found modern-day retellings through the infamous Ethan Hawke millennium film-version of “Hamlet,” the 2001 film “O,” and “10 Things I Hate About You,” which is based on “The Taming of the Shrew.” Like many cities, Wilmington boasts an annual celebration of his work with Cape Fear Shakespeare on the Green (CFSOTG). In its 22nd year, his plays come to life at the Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, which has hosted everything from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” to “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” A free event, CFSOTG simply aims to satisfy long-standing enthusiasts of the Bard and introduce his works

to newcomers. The Shakespeare Youth Company kicked off the 2014 season with “As You Like It,” which will play through June 12th. Now the adults have their turn, bringing to life one of Shakespeare’s early plays, “The Comedy of Errors.” Director Rob Mann has been with CFSOTG off and on since its second season. He first directed “The Taming of the Shrew” as part of the third season, and even played Antipholus of Syracuse in Michael Granberry’s CFSOTG production of “The Comedy of Errors.” The Wilmington dramatist has worked in miscellaneous crew positions, directed productions such as “The Lion in Winter,” ”Shadowlands,” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” He's also shown off his acting chops across Wilmington in plays like “Of Mice and Men” and “Around the World in 80 Days.” Taking on Shakespeare always proves a fun challenge for Mann. A dedicated follower of the Bard, he praises the expanse of writing, even the lesser-known pieces which still captivate today. “I enjoy how much of it is still relevant,"

audience,” Mann says. “This is doubly important any time you do a comedy.” Utilizing bright colors and crafting set pieces that boast a European flair, they also incorporate bits of modernity to ensure the centuries-old play finds commonplace with the audience. Having previously worked in light design, Mann will be rendering a simple setup for this production. Tamica Katzman, who plays Luciana, will paint the set and do costume design. Given the play revolves around two sets of identical twins, wardrobe largely creates the likeness by dressing the actors in mirroring get-ups. The actors, too, have aided the process by carefully simulating like mannerisms to add to the physical comedy and also to complete the illusion. “It is still going to require a certain suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience, but if we can get [audiences to] buy into the idea, lots of fun will be had,” Mann tells.

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Mann says, "and with [his] comedies, how many of the jokes still work. It’s just fun to work on any show with good writing.” “The Comedy of Errors” explores the tale of two sets of identical twins who were separated at birth. Mishaps revolving around mistaken identity ensue when Antipholus of Syracuse (Nick Reed) and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse (Patrick Basquill), arrive in Ephesus—home of their respective twins Antipholus of Ephesus (Luke Robbins) and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus (Alissa Fetherolf). The cast also comprises Ashley Burton as Adrianna, Tamica Katzman as Luciana, John Bailey as Asgeon, and Teresa Lambe as Emilia. Some newcomers and veterans to CFSOTG will render slapstick comedy with heart as they take on Shakespearean dialogue. “It is, at its heart, a very funny play,” Mann details. “It’s got all the hallmarks of his later works: intricate wordplay, broad physical comedy, carefully crafted monologues, etc.” CFSOTG’s previous production took “The Comedy of Errors” and placed it in the West; however, Mann and Cherri McKay, director of the youth company, have taken the setting back to its Greek roots. They crafted a Mediterranean port city version of Ephesus. “It’s not a matter of ‘setting it apart’ from other productions as ‘making it our own,’ and shaping the story so that it comes across as clearly as it can to a modern

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Spoofing Pirates:

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Zach Hanner opens his original semi-musical about Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard this weekend By: Shea Carver

erhaps no where in the states is a production about pirates more applicable than on southeastern NC’s shoreline. Stories of Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet run rampant among our murky waters. Just in 2011 a 3,000-pound anchor from Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, was found among the depths of our Atlantic. With tourist season now in high, not only will Wilmington’s TheatreNOW host a dinner show of sheer enjoyment but also with a stream of historical education threading its original production, “The Gentleman Pirate.” Written by TheatreNOW’s artistic director—and local actor, musician, writer, and all-around creative guru— Zach Hanner, the show will be a fun romp for pirate fans of all ages. “I loved the direct tie-in to the NC coastal community and history,” TheatreNOW proprietor Alisa Harris says. “Who doesn’t love a good pirate story? It’s been a particular focus with TheatreNOW to tailor shows to the community or local history. . . . This show was all Zach’s baby. He has cast some of his Superstar Academy high-schoolers [from TheatreNOW’s after-school acting classes and workshops], so we will have some ‘kids’ in the lineup, too.” Hanner will present his rendition as a tailored family-friendly version. Yet, he has a full-length musical in the works, too, which will become a tawdry piece with adult-themed dialogue. encore spoke with Hanner about the show, its inspiration, themes, and other highlights folks can expect of its run, which starts this weekend. encore (e): Tell me about the writing process: Where did the inspiration come from? Zach Hanner (ZH): My good friend “Jungle” Jim Shaugnessy introduced me to the Stede Bonnet story probably a dozen years ago. He thought it would be a good screenplay idea. I did some perfunctory reading and even wrote perhaps a dozen pages or so, but the project cooled in light of other things I had going on. However, it was something that stuck with me all this time. I listen to a podcast called “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” and last fall they had an episode on Stede Bonnet which lit the spark once again. As we planned our 2014 TheatreNOW schedule, it was something I thought would be fun to finally stage, but would have mass appeal. After all, who doesn’t love pirates? e: What’s the basic plot? ZH: I followed the historical path of Stede Bonnet in order to assemble the play. It opens with him in Charleston, SC, recounting his life story which begins as a privileged child of a wealthy

plantation owner in Barbados. Married off early and suffering a mid-life crisis in his 20s (that was midlife back then), Bonnet decides to abandon his family, his wealth and all his comforts for a life of adventure and plunder. However, being mostly book smart rather than practically so, he is a terrible pirate. He does all sorts of things wrong and is widely mocked by his crew. After sustaining injuries during a botched robbery, Bonnet meets Blackbeard, who takes him under his wing and tries to teach him the ways of piracy. The two meet with some success and eventually stage a successful blockade of the port of Charleston. The pair receive pardons and are free to live their lives as legalized privateers—but do they? e: Through your research on pirate history, what did you learn that’s included in the show? ZH: I read a ton of stuff about pirates, which for me was a great pleasure. The audience will learn the difference between a pirate and privatee. They’ll get some insight into Blackbeard’s dramatic “showbiz” approach to piracy. They’ll learn the rules of a pirate ship and, of course, some interesting history that occurred right in our own backyard. Plus, you’ll learn that “walking the plank” rarely happened, despite tales to the contrary!

“The Life of the Sea,” which is a thematic piece that encompasses the overall vibe of the show. We also do a traditional seafaring tune called “The Irish Rover.” Craig wrote an original ode to beer called “Hops and Barley.” I, as Blackbeard, rock a reworking/parody of the Patti Page/White Stripes tune “Conquest” and Bonnet closes the show with “The Parting Glass.” I consider this show an “alpha” version that I will eventually write completely original songs for, but I simply didn’t have the time to put all that together as well as write the show. I envision a more adult version down the road that will be bawdier and more saucy.

e: Is this a comedy and drama? ZH: Definitely! The historical nature of the violence of piracy lends itself toward drama, but the idea of Stede Bonnet as a bungling idiot was just too appealing for me to quash my comedic sensibilities. When I pictured a famous person playing Bonnet, Rowan Atkinson immediately came to mind, and that’s the sort of slapstick, vaudevillian humor I went for. The show is very funny, and all of our actors are so skilled at comedy that I think there will be laughs all around.

e: What do you love most about writing original musicals? ZH: I have this inner conflict with musicals. I’m built to do them. I love to sing, to play and write music, and to act. But I find most musicals, especially 20th century ones, to be rather dull or corny. I do like sendups of genres so perhaps that’s what I hope to do with this show eventually, spoofing the classic musical with some selfreferrential humor that crossed the line.

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e: Tell me a little about your characters and how the cast is impressing you most. ZH: Cabot Basden portrays Bonnet, and he’s doing a wonderful job finding the proper mix between over-the-top comedy and subtle humor. He’s the pillar the rest of the show balances on; he’s both hilarious and pitiable in his portrayal. Reid Clark plays his first mate, David Herriot. Reid is a top-notch comic, and his improv in rehearsal have become part of the show (as with many of the cast members). Instead of a caucasian of British descent, we’ve had Reid, an African-American actor, portray Herriot as more of an islander, sporting a Barbadian accent, which serves him well with some of the jokes. Liz Bernardo, Arriana Tysinger, and Zeb Mims are a hilarious trio that portray various characters during the show, from children to pirates to old ladies. Craig Thompson and I play in the Irish band, The Blarney Brogues, and I brought him on to add some live instrumentation onstage but he’s doing a great job with his character. This is his first play! I also play a handful of characters, including Blackbeard. Of course, when you write the show, you sometimes get to be the coolest character! e: So, it’s a “musical”; who wrote the music? ZH: As the musical aspect goes, it’s somewhat of a mix of things. There are five numbers in the show. The first is an original song I wrote called

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Solid Evening:

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Red Barn Studio Theatre brings comedy to its intimate stage By: Gwenyfar Rohler

ast autumn Thalian Association took over 3rd Street's Red Barn Studio from Linda Lavin and Steve Bakunas. The association announced the intention of resurrecting their summer season of straight plays in the intimate space. Last fall Tom Briggs directed “Other Desert Cities” as the inaugural show. Currently, Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” (VSMS), directed by Nicole Farmer, ushers in the summer season. Though it has been a while since Durang fans have had a chance to see his work onstage locally, past productions of “Beyond Therapy,” “Baby with the Bathwater,” “Sister Mary Ignatis Explains It All For You,” and others have brought a lot of joy to audiences over the years. Durang seemed in a bit of a slump before he scored an unqualified hit, opening "VSMS" OffBroadway in 2012. It moved to Broadway in 2013 and took the Tony for Best Play (Durang’s first Tony win). Though an homage to the dark humor of

bITTER SIBLINGS: Mike O’Neil and Holli Sapperstein thrive in their roles as self-absorbed siblings Vanya and Sonia. Photos courtesy Red Barn Studio

Chekhov, "VSMS" is not a direct adaptation of any one show by the great Russian. Even if you don’t know or like Chekhov, "VSMS" is very ap-

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proachable because it culls a comedy about family, sibling rivalry and a fear of aging. Durang has also finally learned how to write an ending, which might be why he finally won a Tony. Vanya (Mike O’Neil) and Sonia (Holli Saperstein) are aging adults still living in the house of their childhood. Instead of having lives of their own, they‘ve spent the last 15 years caring for their now-deceased parents, changing their diapers, feeding them, and coping with Alzheimer’s. They have a beautiful, glamorous, movie-star of a sister, Masha (Tamera Mercer). They alternately live vicariously through her and seethe with jealousy at her exciting life. Vanya and Sonia’s only real human interaction comes with their cleaning woman, Cassandra (Mirla Criste), who—true to her name—is a soothsayer. Though it can take a while to understand her dire warnings, such as “Beware of hootie-pie.” The veneer of calm depression that marks their lives is disrupted by the appearance of Masha with Spike (Jacob Keohane), her sexy but dumb young hunk. Masha has just ended her fifth marriage and her career has slowed. She spirals downward in a perpetual tizzy, brought on by insecurity, fear and selfishness. Her presence exhausts everyone around her. Mercer spills an unbelievable amount of energy onstage. She nails that pretty, skinny, sexy-yetaging disappointment thing. Masha infuriates Sonia so much; I could feel Saperstein physically recoiling in horror every time Mercer entered. This is some of Saperstein’s best work; though it will be a long time before anything surpasses her performance in “‘Night Mother.” Mike O’Neil as Vanya boasts one of Durang’s classically long and ridiculous monologues halfway through Act II. His ability to get through the circular and passionate soliloquy astounds. (The audience was so impressed—“We licked stamps!”—he got a round of applause when he left the stage).The subject matter hits home with many, as well. Though one of the youngest people in the audience, the frustration with a generation that doesn’t understand how a post office works or why letters are important, really speaks to me. Criste’s Cassandra comes very close to stealing the show. Partly due to Durang’s writing, her delivery is spot-on hysterical. Cassandra is the first character with whom audiences can connect. She has warmth, compassion, joy, and most importantly a fabulous sense of comedic

timing. Her voodoo dance in Act II particularly showcases her talent. Spike and Nina (the young aspiring actress next door—remember Chekhov’s “The Seagull”?) provide interesting foils for the older generation. Hannah Elizabeth Smith as Nina yields the sweetness and innocence the role demands, but not the guile or heat from “The Seagull.” She just blows onstage as a regularly needed breath of fresh air. Her presence resonates. Spike, on the other hand, begins dumb and ends dumber and ruder. And in all honesty, it may be an accurate portrayal of empty, shallow young men who have no education or interest in anything outside of their own beauty. Keohane’s comfort in his own skin (he wears little else for much of Act I) and his oblivious interactions succeed. He plays Spike sweetly ignorant rather than lacking a conscience. The production design is a source of conflict. Attention to detail in the form of mulch at the edge of the stage for the yard is nice; however, a few rocky moments with lighting cues are present. I associate it most to opening-weekend jitters. Yet, the current setup of Red Barn is a little challenging sight-line wise. Chairs for the audience scatter in the shape of an “L” as part of them elevate on risers. Thus, the extreme downstage left is hard to see from the top row. I went for one of my favorite seats: the last one, front-row, house-left. I only had to sit there briefly before I realized I would miss entrances and exits from two of the doorway obstructions. The whole set could move over three feet and lose the “yard” outside the screen door without sacrificing the integrity of the writing or the performance; it would make the action easier to see. At $25 a ticket in such an intimate space, every seat should have a great view. Chekhov’s themes and characters continue to ring true across generations and translations. I just wish Durang trusted his audience enough to not telegraph the jokes—even if his lack of faith in American intelligence is perhaps well-founded. Either way, the show is funny and brings a solid evening of theatre to Red Barn Studio.

DETAILS Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike ★★★★★

Red Barn • 1122 S. 3rd St. Fri.-Sun., June 6th-21st , 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 3 p.m. Tickets: $25 • thalian.org/redbarn or (910) 251-1788

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Borough to Borough:

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NYC's WAX+VINE make SALT Studio their new haunting ground By: Jay Workman

he Brooklyn Arts District (BAD) is in the midst of a resurgence: Condos are rising, sauces are reducing, beer is flowing, and the arts are arting. These are the cornerstones of big cities’ hip districts, which is why the timing couldn’t be better to welcome artists from the NYC borough of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Wilmington’s northside borough, BAD. They’re coming to cast shadows across The Gallery at SALT Studio (805 N. 4th St.). “Haunted” consists of a multi-layered photographic collaboration by WAX+VINE, made up of husband and wife creatives Scott Irvine and Kim Meinelt. They created the 24-photo collection exclusively for their SALT exhibit after receiving an invitation from the studio’s co-proprietor Kelly Starbuck—who also happens to be a a long-time friend of the couple. Mirroring Irvine and Meinelt’s collective exhibition persona, “Haunted” blends soft and hard textures—like lead, cotton, concrete, leaves, bone, and feather—to produce a pressed and tangled amalgam of illusory scenes. Though not scary, the imagery captivates and com-

pletely avoids color. “I didn’t want ‘Haunted’ to have a negative feeling to it,” Irvine states. “It’s an interesting word, like an echo.” Irvine rejects terms like “darkness” that paint black-andwhite photography in a bad light. “It’s about finding those weird moments in the mundane where something is really interesting that’s maybe overlooked,” he says. Describing the duo is a lot like explaining the juxtaposition of yin and yang: Their presence is magnetic and surreptitiously affects the other. Irvine is reserved; he prefers to pull back from subjects and takes comfort in a wide field shot. Meinelt is the opposite; she’s outgoing and approaches people and photography through a macro lens. Their introverted-extroverted energies find harmony and create a balance in the relationship while amplifying personal style.

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HAUNTING 4TH STREET: Untitled work by WAX+VINE created exclusively for ‘Haunted’ exhibit, showing at SALT Studio. Courtesy photo.

In high school Irvine cut his teeth on a 35mm camera, and began shooting old buildings and factories near his home. While attending Rochester Institute of Technology, he studied abroad for a year in Salzburg, Austria, which he credits toward his artistic development. “Before then, I really hadn’t been knowledgeable about art history,” he says. “Living and traveling throughout Europe helped me understand the history of both art and photography, which I believe helped to make me a better photographer in general.” After graduating with a BFA in photography and sculpture, he moved to New York City, established a darkroom, and practiced the traditional silver-gelatin development process. The formula creates rich photographic texture and imposes a degree of deterioration. He used the techniques to create stunning portraits which fueled his freelance career. Incidentally, he received his biggest payoff when they caught Meinelt’s eye. “Everything is in color, and to me color is very distracting,” Meinelt explains. “The feeling of black and white draws you into sort of a different era. It feels calmer.” A fan of Irvine’s work five years prior to meeting him, Meinelt owned one of his pieces. She took it down when he visited her for the first time. After attending the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem for set design and scenic painting for two years, Meinelt began working as a freelance designer and painter in NYC. In 1993 she crossed paths with designer

Eileen Fisher. After two years of designing window displays for Fisher, Meinelt joined full-time as the creative concept director, a title she still holds today. Three months after they met, Irvine and Meinelt traveled to Southeast Asia, a trip foreshadowing their foray into collaborative photography; they only packed one camera. The creation process for their new show pays homage to their trip and places two opposing techniques together with as little resistance as possible. Preparing for “Haunted” proved a visually taxing experience for the pair. “For every one that worked, there were a hundred that didn’t,” Irvine explains. Wanting the pieces to evolve organically, they spent two months sorting through existing photos, both digital and film, all from their travels, neighborhood and natural history museums. Hundreds of images were uploaded to the computer and fused by Photoshop until a unique combination surfaced. “We really [tried] not to be too precious about it,” explained Meinelt. “It feels really important to me. I feel like it’s about having fun.” Meinelt, who is no stranger to serious design editing, spent a lot of solo time flipping through images for shapes and shadows and noting how artifacts related to each other in positive and negative spaces. The result: a geologic layering of light, shadow, texture, and beauty that transforms two individual visions into one. “It’s a consistency of seeing things a certain way,” Irvine says. “It all starts to add up to be this one thing. So then it’s not just one photo; it’s a vision of images that become the show.” In addition to “Haunted,” a portrait collection by Irvine is on display. Reminiscent of his roots, all of the portraits were developed in his darkroom and feature a discontinued sepia tone that he will one day re-create. The subjects range from friends and neighbors to artists and wellknown musicians, like Interpol, Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls), Ian Astbury (The Cult), and Nick Zinner and Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs).

DETAILS Haunted Work by WAX + VINE Hanging through June 21st The Gallery at SALT Studio 805 N. 4th St. • 910-367-5720 www.saltstudionc.com

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ArtExposure is sponsoring an invitational to all artists for its annual “Art of the Car” show. First, second and third place awards will be presented. We will be starting our Children’s Art Camps at the end of June. We also have classes offered on the “Classes for adults and teens page.”

CAPE FEAR NATIVE

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Jared Tramaglini shows his natureinspired oils and mixed-media on wood. Tramaglini's colorful collection will be up until June 25. Cape Fear Native features art, jewelry, pottery, photography and more, all original designs by local artists in the Cape Fear area. We also have sail bags by Ella Vickers and jewelry by Half United. Stop in and support your local creative community.

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“Natural Design” features recent works by Richard Garrison and Mary Rountree Moore. The show examines the structure and elegant simplicity of line, form and color as it relates to our environment. For Moore, this examination involves a rendering down of information to the most basic, while Garrison focuses on the intricacies of detail and engineering. The exhibition will remain on display through June 21st.

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River to Sea Gallery 225 S. Water St., Chandler’s Wharf (free parking) • (910)-763-3380 Tues.-Sat. 11am-5p; Sun. 1-4pm.

River to Sea Gallery showcases the work of husband and wife Tim and Rebecca Duffy Bush. In addition, the gallery represents several local artists. The current show will enthrall visitors with its eclectic collection of original paintings, photography, sculpture, glass, pottery and jewelry. “Morning Has Broken” features works by Janet Parker. Come see Janet’s bold use of color and texture to reveal local marsh creeks and structures.

SUNSET RIVER Marketplace 10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999 Tues.- Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 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, artisan-made jewelry and more. Sunset River Marketplace has become a popular destination for visitors, a gathering place for artists and a center of the community, thanks to its onsite pottery studio, complete with two kilns; a custom master framing department; and art classrooms for workshops and ongoing instruction.

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The Wilma W. Daniels Gallery presents "Awkward Sensibility," a solo exhibition by Jon Jicha, Professor of Art in the School of Art and Design at Western Carolina University An opening reception for the artist will be held May 30, 2014 from 6-9 p.m, and a closing reception will be held June 27, 2014 from 6-9 p.m. Regular gallery hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12-5 p.m.

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BLACK RIVER CRUISE Sunday June 8th - 12pm - $55 Cruise up to the Black River in comfort. The Black River is a tributary of the Cape Fear River, approximately 50 miles long. We will travel approx. 14 miles above Wilmington to reach this waterway. In recent years, the Black River has returned almost entirely to its natural condition and is now used primarily by sportsmen, hunters, and fishermen. This cruise is especially designed for wildlife & bird lovers & any nature photographer. Captain Doug will be your guide and introduce you to this wonderful hidden gem in your backyard. This cruise is 4 hours - $55 ** Includes Lunch catered by Front St Brewery

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UPCOMING CRUISES:

Visit us on the Riverwalk! 212 S. Water Street

June -”Friday the 13th”- Full Moon Cruise

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June 14th - Beer Tasting

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June 15th - Father’s Day Hot Dog Cruises

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A Sequel with Restraint:

arts > film

reel to reel

‘Days of Future Past’ makes time travel not so exhausting

films and events this week

By: Anghus

Cinematique

t used to be that you could talk about comic-book movies in broad strokes. It’s been 25 years since Michael Keaton donned a cape and cowl in the ultimate summer blockbuster, “Batman.” Tim Burton’s imagining of the vigilante hero launched a modern superhero cinematic movement. In those days, there was one major comic-book release every few years—each adaptation fitting the mold and displayed for comparison. But this isn’t 1989. I know because I’m not currently getting drunk behind the garbage dumpsters of the Palm Beach Gardens’ Publix, blasting N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton” through a boombox before racing grocery carts through the parking lot. This is 2014, where comic-book movies are so frequent that I’m reviewing my third in two months. The “X-Men” movies have carved out their own little corner of the geek-o-sphere. A popular comic book for decades, it’s had a slew of hit-and-miss movie adaptations. The series has been, at best, marginally entertaining. At worst, they’re a schizophrenic mess that is harder to follow than a Terrance Mallick film translated into Magyar. “Days of Future Past” attempts to streamline a lot of frayed, loose ends the series has created and comes as something of a reset for the whole shebang. It succeeds wonderfully on both fronts. This was no easy feat as 2011’s “X-Men: First Class” attempted a similar reboot with far less substantial results. There were still fans clamoring for the original cast, featuring Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Patrick Stewart’s Professor X. Only some preferred the fresh start with James McAvoy as a young Professor X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto. Director Bryan Singer had the epic chore of merging these two narratives. He succeeds in making something better than the sum of its parts. We start in the future where superpowered mutants are being hunted to extinction by an army of killer war machines called “Sentinels.” The world has been ravaged by these robots and the X-Men have one last-ditch effort to save the world by traveling to the past and preventing the incident that set the apocalyptic events in motion. The plan revolves around scientist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), the architect of the Sentinel robots. His creations can detect mutants and wipe them out with extreme prejudice. Trask’s experiments on superpower mutants begin to yield smarter and more resilient models, all of which lead to genocide.

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Polyester action: Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Wolverine, journeying back in time to the groovy ‘70s to save the world. Courtesy photo

Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back in time to rally the troops to prevent Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from orchestrating a chain of events that will doom both humanity and “mutanity.” As convoluted as time-travel plots are in big-budget blockbusters of this caliber, it fittingly ties together all the various generations of X-Men that have been portrayed on film. Once he successfully travels back in time, Wolverine ends up in the polyester-clad ‘70s. There, President Nixon is looking to the military-industrial complex to provide a solution to America’s growing mutant problem. He has to assemble a team to help save the day, but it’s no easy task. (Is it ever?) As well, the blast to the past contains a drug-addicted Professor X who has lost his way. Magneto is a prisoner of the state, jailed a hundred floors underneath the Pentagon. Getting the band back together isn’t exactly a cakewalk. “Days of Future Past” works so well because it doesn’t try to be another ever-escalating series of set pieces, building to a ridiculous climax. Every scene feels perfectly suited for the story and there’s a strong focus on the characters. I marveled at the restraint Singer shows in staging such a large story. Nothing feels pointless or extraneous. Even the massive effects-laden scenes suit the scale of the story. So many comic-book films feel like they’re getting away from the filmmakers as they try to unleash as much destruction, carnage and seizure-inducing visuals as possible, in

the end exhausting their audience (“Amazing Spider-Man 2,” I’m looking at you). “Days of Future Past” demonstrates a rarity among comic-book movies: It relays a really good story without throwing everything and the kitchen sink at the synapses. It’s a great summer blockbuster that’s smart enough to not make you feel stupid, which in this day and age says something.

DETAILS

X-Men: Days of Future Past ★★★★★ Starring Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman Directed by Bryan Singer Rated PG-13

6/9-11: John Turturro writes, directs, and acts in the light-hearted comedy, “Fading Gigolo,” about a man struggling to find his place in life. Fioravante (Turturro) works part time as a florist and makes very little money. His friend Murray (Woody Allen) owns a rare book store that is being forced to close. Murray, on a visit to his dermatologist Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone), gets into a conversation with her that turns to sex. Highly reluctant, Fioravante eventually consents to a strange new business venture. Also co-starring Sofia Vergara, Liev Schreiber, Max Casella, Vanessa Paradis and Bob Balaban, “Fading Gigolo” delivers serious laughs. (Rated R, 1hr, 38min)

Disposed “The Disposable Generation” Party Jengo’s Playhouse • 815 Princess St. Thursday, June 5th, 7 p.m. Free www.whoisgenwhy.com Filmmakers Graham Patterson and Ryan Jaccard (Cucalorus’ communications manager) have an innovative new project up their sleeves. Commenting on Generation Y, their short film, “The Disposable Generation,” uses the narrative style of “Slacker.” The camera becomes its own character and is attracted to sex, violence and the grotesque. Following a group of youths at a run-of-the-mill house party, the film captures the millennials’ tendency to find comfort in apathy. In order for their ambitious venture to succeed, they need support. Folks can donate at indiegogo. com/projects/the-disposable-generation. Celebrate with them at their campaign party (6/5), featuring an interactive donation station, a cash bar and music deejayed by Quinn Blake. Donate before the party and receive special perks.

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Southeastern NC’s premier dining guide

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The Pilot House

2 Ann St (910) 343-0200

American BLUEWATER

Enjoy spectacular panoramic views of sailing ships and the Intracoastal Waterway while dining at this popular casual American restaurant in Wrightsville Beach. Lunch and dinner are served daily. Favorites include jumbo lump crab cakes, succulent seafood lasagna, crispy coconut shrimp and an incredible Caribbean fudge pie. Dine inside or at their award-winning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sun. during the summer months. Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC. (910) 256.8500. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Fri 11a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sat & Sun 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining ■ MUSIC: Music every Sunday in Summer ■ WEBSITE: www.bluewaterdining.com

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 waffles, skillet hashes and sandwiches. Our lunch menu is packed with a wide variety of options, from house roasted pulled pork, to our mahi and signature meatloaf sandwich. Our dinner features a special each night along with our house favorites 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, Wilmington 910-523-5362. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday to Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily Specials, Gluten Free Menu, Gourmet Hot Chocolates, Outdoor Patio, New Artist event first Friday of every month and Kids Menu. ■ WEBSITE: www.bluesurfcafe.com

The dixie grill

The Dixie Grill has undergone numerous transformations over the years. It has been a white linen establishment, a no-frills diner and pool hall, a country café and now a classic American diner. The menu hearkens back to an aesthetic that equated good food with freshness, flavor and a full stomach. This combination has earned The Dixie Grill the Encore Reader’s Choice award for “Best Breakfast” and “Best Diner” several times. Call the Dixie an homage to the simplicity of southern cuisine, call it a granola greasy spoon, call it whatever you like. Just sit back, relax and enjoy!. ■ SERVING BREAKFAST and LUNCH:

OPEN 7 days a week. Serving Breakfast and Lunch daily from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown Wilmington

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.

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Elijah’s

Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010. Dubbed “Modern Seafood Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Seafood & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Potato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, & Seafood Ceviche to name a few. Larger Plates include, Charleston Crab Cakes, Flounder Escovitch & Miso Salmon. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Allergies) Hand-crafted seasonal desserts. Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405, 910-799-3847. ■ SERVING DINNER: Mon.-Saturday 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

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

BUFFALO WILD WINGS

HENRY’S

If you’re looking for good food and an atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family, Buffalo Wild Wings is the place! Award winning wings and 20 signature sauces and seasonings. Plus…salads, wraps, flatbreads, burgers, and more. Tons of Big screen TVs and all your favorite sports. We have daily drink specials, a HUGE draft selection, and Free Trivia all day every day. Come in for our Weekday Lunch Specials, only $5.99 from 11am-2pm. Visit us for Wing Tuesdays with 60 cent wings all day long, or Boneless Thursdays with 60 cent boneless wings all day long. Buffalo Wild Wings is a great place to dine in or take out. ■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: MondaySaturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 locations-Midtown (910-7989464) and Monkey Junction (910-392-7224) ■ MUSIC: Live music Friday and Saturday in the Summer ■ WEBSITE: www.buffalowildwings.com

A local favorite, Henry’s is the ‘place to be’ for great food, a lively bar and awesome patio dining. Henry’s serves up American cuisine at its finest that include entrees with fresh, local ingredients. Come early for lunch, because its going to be packed. Dinner too! Henry’s Pine Room is ideal for private functions up to 30 people. Henry’s is home to live music, wine & beer dinners and other special events. Check out their calendar of events at HenrysRestaurant. com for details. 2508 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington, NC. (910) 793.2929. SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun. - Mon. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Tues.- Fri.: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m.; Sat.: 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily blackboard specials. ■ MUSIC: Live Music beginning at 5:30 p.m. ■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com.

Holiday Inn Resort

Oceans Restaurant located in this oceanfront resort is a wonderful find. This is the perfect place to enjoy a fresh Seafood & Steak dinner while dinning outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Chef Eric invites you to experience his daily specials in this magnificent setting. (910) 256-2231. 1706 N Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach. ■ BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.-Sat.. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining ■ WEBSITE: www.holidayinn.com

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

K’s Cafe

Visit us in our new location on the corner of Eastwood and Racine - 420 Eastwood Rd, Unit 109. “Where the people make the place” If you’re looking for a warm and friendly atmosphere with awesome home-cooked, freshly prepared meals, you can’t beat K’s Cafe. K’s Cafe is the best deal in Wilmington.They offer chargrilled burgers, including their most popular Hot Hamburger Platter smothered in gravy! They also offer great choices such as fresh chicken salad, soups, and even a delicious Monte Cristo served on French toast bread. K’s also offers soup, sandwich and salad combos and a great variety of homemade desserts. On Sundays they offer a great brunch menu. A variety of choices will be on the menu such as Eggs Benedict. Visa and Mastercard accepted. Give K’s Cafe a try...you won’t be sorry. 420 Eastwood Rd., Unit 109, 791-6995. Find us on Facebook. ■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: 7 DAYS A WEEK. Monday - Friday. 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. And Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Serving several pita options, as well as new lighter selections! ■ WEBSITE: www.ks-cafe.net

Ogden tap room

Wilmington’s go to Southern Gastro-Pub. With a menu featuring some southeast favorites and a few from the bayou. Ogden Tap Room offers a selection the whole family will enjoy. With 40 beers on tap from around the world, The O Tap is a Craft Beer Enthusiast dream come true. Ogden Tap Room also has a great wine selection as well as a full bar featuring the areas largest Bourbon selection. You are sure to leave Ogden Tap Room a happy camper. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Thurs 11:00amMidnight, Fri & Sat 11:00am-1:00 am, Sunday Noon - Midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Ogden ■ FEATURING: Live Team Trivia Tues 7:30-9:30pm ■ MUSIC: Every Thursday 8:00-10:00 ■ WEBSITE: www.ogdentaproom.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. ■ SERVING DINNER: 5pm Tue-Sun; seasonal hours, Memorial Day-Labor Day open 7 days a week. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: “Date Night” menu every Tues.; Ladies Night every Wed; $27 4-course prix fixe menu on Thurs.; 25% off a’ la cart menu on Fri. from 5-7 p.m. and half price bottles of wine on Sun. ■ MUSIC: Mon., Fri. & Sat. in summer from 5-7 p.m. ■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

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BLUE ASIA

Blue Asia serves a wide range of Asian and Pacific Rim cuisines, in Chinese, Japanese and Thai, prepared by experienced chefs. By offering only the freshest seafood, meats and vegetables, chefs prepare classic sushi rolls, nigiri and sashimi, as well as hibachi tempura dishes, and favorites like Pad Thai or chicken and broccoli. A large selection of appetizers, such as dumplings and spring rolls, along with homemade soups and salads, make Blue Asia a fusion experience, sating all palates. Folks dine in an upscale ambiance, transporting them to far-away metropolises. We always serve a full menu, and we specialize in the original all-you-can-eat, made-to-order sushi for lunch ($11.95) or dinner ($20.95). With specialty cocktails and full ABC permits, we welcome families, students, young professionals and seasoned diners alike. 341 S. College Rd., Ste 52. 910-799-0002.www.blueasiabistro.info ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Wed, 11am-10pm; Thurs-Sat, 11am-10:30pm; Sun, noon-10pm. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, near UNCW ■ FEATURING: All-you-can-eat, made-to-order sushi for lunch ($11.95) or dinner ($20.95). ■ WEBSITE: www.blueasia.info

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Pine Valley Market

Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encore’s Best-Of awards in catering, gourmet shop and butcher. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest ingredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger to classic Reuben, Italian sub to a grown-up banana and peanut butter sandwich that will take all diners back to childhood. Served among a soup du jour and salads, there is something for all palates. Take advantage of their take-home frozen meals for nights that are too hectic to cook, and don’t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it. 3520 S. College Road, (910) 350-FOOD. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Mon.-Fri.10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Sun. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals ■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com

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 (Sabrett), pork smoked sausage, Fat Free (Turkey) & Veggie. Call Individual Stores for hours of operation or Look at our website trollystophotdogs.com Catering available, now a large portion of our business. Call Rick at 297-8416 for catering and franchise information. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ LOCATIONS: Wrightsville Beach (910) 256-3921

Southport (910) 457-7017 Front St. Wilmington (910) 251-7799 Fountain Dr. (910) 452-3952 Boone, NC (828) 265-2658 ■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

From the minute you walk through the door to the wonderful selection of authentic Thai cuisine, Big Thai II offers you a tranquil and charming atmosphere - perfect start to a memorable dinner. For the lunchtime crowd, the luncheon specials provide a great opportunity to get away. The menu is filled with carefully prepared dishes such as Pad Thai (Chicken, Beef, Pork or Tofu pan-fried rice noodles with eggs, peanuts, bean sprouts, carrots, and chives in a sweet and savory sauce) and Masaman Curry (The mildest of all curries, this peanut base curry is creamy and delicious with potatoes, cashew nuts and creamy avocado). But you shouldn’t rush into a main entrée right away! You will be missing out on a deliciously appetizing Thai favorite, Nam Sod (Ground Pork blended with fresh chili, green onion, ginger and peanuts). And be sure to save room for a piece of their fabulous Coconut Cake! A trip to Big Thai II is an experience that you’ll never forget. If the fast and friendly service doesn’t keep you coming back, the great food will! 1319 Military Cutoff Rd.; 256-6588 ■ Serving Lunch: Mon-Fri 11 a.m. -.2:30 p.m. ■ Serving Dinner: Mon-Thur 5 p.m. -.9:30 p.m.; Friday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday 4 p.m. -.10 p.m.; Sunday 4 p.m. -.9:30 p.m. ■ Neighboorhood: Mayfaire ■ Featuring: Authentic Thai Cuisine ■ Website: www.bigthainc.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

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

INDOCHINE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

If you’re ready to experience the wonders of the Orient without having to leave Wilmington, join us at Indochine for a truly unique experience. Indochine brings the flavors of the Far East to the Port City, combining the best of Thai and Vietnamese cuisine in an atmosphere that will transport you and your taste buds. Relax in our elegantly decorated dining room, complete with antique Asian decor as well as contemporary artwork and music. Our diverse, friendly and efficient staff will serve you beautifully presented dishes full of enticing aromas and flavors. Be sure to try such signature items as the spicy and savory Roasted Duck with Red Curry, or the beautifully presented and delicious Shrimp and Scallops in a Nest. Be sure to save room for our world famous desert, the banana egg roll! We take pride in using only the freshest ingredients, and our extensive menu suits any taste. After dinner, enjoy specialty drinks by the koi pond in our Asian garden. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

Tues.- Fri. 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.; Sat. 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. for dinner. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ WEBSITE: www.indochinewilmington.com

THAI SPICE

From the flavorfully mild to the fiery spiced, Thai Spice customers are wooed by the dish that’s made to their specifications. Featuring a tasteful menu of traditional Thai standards to numerous delectable house specials, it’s quickly becoming the local favorite for Thai cuisine. This family-run restaurant is sure to win you over. If you haven’t discovered this gem, come in and be charmed. Whether it be a daytime delight, or an evening indulgence, your visit will make you look forward to your return. Located in Monkey Junction at 5552 Carolina Beach Rd., Ste. G. (910) 791-0044. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tue.-Th.: 11:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat.: 11:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.; Sun.: 11:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ WEBSITE: www.ThaiSpiceWilmington.com

Indian TANDOORI BITES

Located on College Road, just opposite Hugh MacRae Park, Tandoori Bites offers fine Indian cuisine at affordable prices. Try one of 74 dishes on their lengthy menu, featuring a large range of side dishes and breads. They have specialties, such as lamb korma with nuts, spices and herbs in a mild creamy sauce, as well as seafood, like shrimp biryani with saffron-flavored rice, topped with the shellfish and nuts. They also have many vegetarian dishes, including mutter paneer, with garden peas and homemade paneer, or baingan bharta with baked eggplant, flamed and sautéed with onions, garlic and ginger. Join their cozy eatery, where a far east escape awaits all diners, among a staff of friendly and helpful servers, as well as chefs who bring full-flavored tastes straight from their homeland. Located at 1620 South College Road, (910) 794-4540. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon. - Fri. 11-2:30 pm (Lunch Buffet) & 5-10 pm (Dinner), Sat. - Sun. 11:30 -3:00

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pm (Lunch) & 5-10 pm (Dinner) ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet ■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net

Irish THE HARP

Experience the finest traditional Irish family recipes and popular favorites served in a casual yet elegant traditional pub atmosphere. The Harp, 1423 S. 3rd St., proudly uses the freshest ingredients, locally sourced whenever possible, to bring you and yours the most delicious Irish fare! We have a fully stocked bar featuring favorite Irish beers and whiskies. We are open at 5 a.m. every day for both American and Irish breakfast, served to noon weekdays and 2 p.m. weekends. Regular menu to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. weekends. Join us for djBe Open Mic & Karaoke - Irish songs available! - 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. and half-price wine bottles all day Tuesdays; Harp University Trivia with Professor Steve Thursdays 7:30 p.m.; djBe karaoke and dancing 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Saturdays and live music Wednesday and Fridays - call ahead for schedule 910-763-1607. Located just beside Greenfield Lake and Park at the south end of downtown Wilmington, The Harp is a lovely Irish pub committed to bringing traditional Irish flavor, tradition and hospitality to the Cape Fear area. ■ SERVING BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Open at 6 a.m. every day for both American and Irish breakfast, served to noon weekdays and 2 p.m. weekends. Regular menu to 10 p.m. weekdays and 11 p.m. weekends. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Greenfield Lake/Downtown South ■ FEATURING: Homemade soups, desserts and breads, free open wifi, new enlarged patio area, and big screen TVs at the bar featuring major soccer matches worldwide. ■ MUSIC Live music Wednesdays and Fridays call 910-763-1607 for schedule; djBe open mic and karaoke Tuesdays 8:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m, and djBe karaoke and dancing Saturdays 9 p.m - 1:30 a.m. ■ WEBSITE www.harpwilmington.com

Italian EDDIE ROMANELLI’S

is a family-friendly, casual Italian American restaurant that’s been a favorite of Wilmington locals for over 16 years. Its diverse menu includes Italian favorites such as Mama Romanelli’s Lasagna, Baked Ziti, Rigatoni a la Vodka and, of course, made-from-scratch pizzas. Its American influences include tasty burgers, the U.S.A. Salad and a 16 oz. Marinated Rib Eye Steak. Romanelli’s offers patio dining and flat screen TVs in its bar area. Dine in or take out, Romanelli’s is always a crowd favorite. Large parties welcome. 503 Olde Waterford Way, Leland. (910) 383.1885. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.- Thurs. 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South. ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials ■ WEBSITE: www.RomanellisRestaurant.com

AMORE PIZZA AND PASTA

We believe fresh ingredients and good conversation are what makes a meal. You will discover that pleasure and happiness does not stop with the food we prepare, but will spill over into the warm, casual atmosphere we provide. Every guest is a welcome part of our family from the moment they walk through the doors. Whether you are looking for a fresh salad from the garden, a hot sub from the oven, a dish of pasta, or a pizza straight from your own creation; you will find it here! From calzones, strombolis and meatballs, every dish is made fresh to order. Our homemade dough and sauce is made daily, as we strive for the best, using the highest quality ingredients. Complete your meal with our decadent desserts, such as the popular Vesuvius cake or our Chocolate Thunder cake. We serve cheesecake, cream puffs, and made-to-order cannolis and Zeppoli. We offer cozy outdoor seating, big-screen TVs—and ice cold beer served with a frosted glass, as well as wine. Please call for daily specials, such

as homemade lasagna and brisket. 2535 Castle Hayne Rd.; (910) 762-1904. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Thurs: 11am to 9pm; Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm; Sun: 11am-7pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington near the airport ■ FEATURING:$4.99 lunch special: 2 slices and a drink, from 11 am-3pm; $4.99 10in. pizza after 3pm; $4.99 for 6 wings all day

ELIZABETH’S PIZZA

A Wilmington favorite since 1987! At Elizabeth’s you’ll find authentic Italian cuisine, as well as some of your American favorites. Offering delicious pizza, salads, sandwiches, entrees, desserts, beer, and wine. Elizabeth’s is known for their fresh ingredients, where even the bread is baked fresh daily. A great place for lunch, dinner, a late night meal, or take out. Elizabeth’s can also cater your event and now has a party room available. Visit us at 4304 ½ Market St or call 910-251-1005 for take out. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 10am-Midnight every day ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown (Corner of Market St and Kerr Avenue). ■ WEBSITE: www.epwilmington.com ■ FEATURING: Daily specials, kids menu and online coupons.

Fat Tony’s Italian Pub

Fat Tony’s has the right combination of Italian and American influences to mold it into a unique family-friendly restaurant with a “gastropub” feel. Boasting such menu items as Veal Saltimbocca, Eggplant Parmigiana, USDA Prime Sirloin, and award-winning NY style hand-tossed pizzas, Fat Tony’s is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Their appetizers range from Blue Crab Dip to Grilled Pizzas to Lollipop Lamb Chops. Proudly supporting the craft beer movement, they have an ever-changing selection of microbrews included in their 27-tap lineup – 12 of which are from NC. They have a wide selection of bottled beers, a revamped wine list, and an arsenal of expertly mixed cocktails that are sure to wet any whistle. Fat Tony’s offers lunch specials until 3pm Monday through Friday and a 10% discount to students and faculty at CFCC. They have two pet-friendly patios – one looking out onto Front Street and one with a beautiful view of the Cape Fear River. With friendly, excellent service and a fun, inviting atmosphere, expect to have your expectations exceeded at Fat Tony’s. Find The Flavor…..Craft Beer, Craft Pizza! ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday-Thursday 11 am-10 pm; Friday-Saturday 11 am-Midnight; Sunday Noon-10 pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ WEBSITE: www.fatpub.com ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials until 3pm and late night menu from 11pm until closing.

siena trattoria

Enjoy authentic Italian food in a beautiful, warm, casual setting. Whether dining indoors or in our courtyard, Siena is the perfect neighborhood trattoria for the entire family to enjoy. From our delicious brick oven pizza to elegantly prepared meat, seafood, and pasta specials, you will find a level of cuisine that will please the most demanding palate, prepared from the finest and freshest ingredients. ■ SERVING DINNER: at 4 p.m. Daily. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South. 3315 Masonboro Loop Road, 910-794-3002 ■ FEATURING: Family style dinners on Sundays ■ WEBSITE: www.sienawilmington.com

SLICE OF LIFE

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

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(910) 799-1399. ■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11:30

a.m.-3 a.m., 7 days a week, 365 days a year. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, Downtown and Wilmington South. ■ FEATURING: The largest tequila selection in Wilmington ■ WEBSITE: www.grabslice.com

Jamaican JAMAICA’S COMFORT ZONE

Tucked in the corner of University Landing, a block from UNCW is the hidden gem of Wilmington’s international cuisine scene - Jamaica’s Comfort Zone. This family owned restaurant provides a relaxing blend of Caribbean delights – along with reggae music – served up with irrepressible smiles for miles. From traditional Jamaican breakfast to mouth-watering classic dishes such as curry goat, oxtail, jerk and curry chicken, to our specialty 4-course meals ($12.00) and $5.99 Student meal. Catering options are available. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tuesday - Saturday 11:45am - 9:00pm and Sunday 1:30pm - 8:00pm Sunday. Monday - Closed ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown – University Landing 417 S. College Road ■ FEATURING: Weekly Specials updated daily on Facebook ■ WEBSITE: www.jamaicascomfortzone.net

Latin American SAN JUAN CAFE

Offering the most authentic, gourmet Latin American cuisine in Wilmington. With dishes from countries such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba you’ll be able to savor a variety of flavors from all over Latin America. Located at 3314 Wrightsville Avenue. 910.790.8661 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter for live music updates! ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon Sat. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and from 5-10 p.m. Closed Sunday. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Nightly specials ■ WEBSITE: www.sanjuancafenc.com

Organic LOVEY’S MARKET

Lovey’s Market is a true blessing for shoppers looking for Organic and Natural groceries and supplements, or a great place to meet friends for a quick, delicious and totally fresh meal or snack. Whether you are in the mood for a Veggie Burger, Hamburger or a Chicken Caesar Wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte Lovey’s Cafe’ menu. The Food Bar-which has cold salads and hot selections can be eaten in the newly expanded Lovey’s Cafe’ or boxed for take-out. The Juice Bar offers a wide variety of juices and smoothies made with Organic fruits and vegetables. Specializing in bulk sales of grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices. Lovey’s has a great selection of Local produce and receives several weekly deliveries to ensure freshness. Lovey’s also carries Organic Grass-Fed and Free-Range meats and poultry. Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free products are in stock regularly, as are Vegan and Vegetarian groceries. Lovey’s also carries Wholesome Pet Foods. Stop by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 am to 6 p.m.. Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Rd in the Landfall Shopping Center; (910) 509-0331. “You’ll Love it at Lovey’s!” ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Café open: Mon.-Fri., 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 11 a.m.-6 p.m.(salad bar open all the time). Market hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown FEATURING: Organic Salad Bar/Hot Bar, New Bakery

with fresh, organic pies and cakes. Newly expanded. ■ WEBSITE: www.loveysmarket.com.

Seafood DOCK STREET OYSTER BAR

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

The Pilot House

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 11am-9pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm and Sunday Brunch 11am-3pm. Kids menu ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Riverfront Downtown Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Fresh local seafood specialties, Riverfront Dining, free on-site parking ■ MUSIC: Outside Every Friday and Saturday

HIERONYMUS

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

shuckin' shack

Shuckin’ Shack Oyster Bar is thrilled to now serve customers in its new location at 109 Market Street in Historic Downtown Wilmington (910-833-8622). It’s the place you want to be to catch your favorite sports team on 7 TV’s carrying all major sports packages. A variety of fresh seafood is available daily including oysters, shrimp, clams, mussels, and crab legs. Shuckin’ Shack has expanded its menu now offering fish tacos, crab cake sliders, fried oyster po-boys, fresh salads, and more. Come in a check out Shack’s daily lunch, dinner, and drink specials. It’s a Good Shuckin’ Time! The original Shack is located in Carolina Beach at 6A N. Lake Park Blvd.; (910) 458-7380. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Sat 11am-2am; Sun noon-2am ■ NEIGHBORHOODS: Carolina Beach and Downtown ■ FEATURING: Daily lunch specials, join the mailing list online ■ WEBSITE: www.pleasureislandoysterbar.com

OCEANIC

Voted best seafood restaurant in Wilmington, Oceanic provides oceanfront dining at its best. Located in Wrightsville Beach, Oceanic is one of the most visited restaurants on the beach. Choose from a selection of seafood platters, combination plates and daily fresh fish. For land lovers, try their steaks, chicken or pasta dishes. Relax on the pier or dine inside. Oceanic is also the perfect location for memorable wedding receptions, birthday gatherings, anniversary parties and more. Large groups welcome. Private event space available. Family-style to go menu available. 703 S. Lumina Avenue, Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256.5551. ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach ■ FEATURING: Dining on the Crystal Pier. ■ WEBSITE: www.OceanicRestaurant.com

FISH BITES

something for everyone. Daily food specials and Drink Specials offered. Kids Menu available. So come in and enjoy the most amazing seafood you have ever tasted! 6132-11 Carolina Beach Rd. (910) 791-1117 ■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Sun 11am-9pm. Kids menu ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: South Wilmington ■ FEATURING: The freshest seafood in town, and Wilmington’s only Live Lobster Tank! ■ WEBSITE: www.fishbitesseafood.com

Southern

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 projector

TVs in Wilmington. ■ WEBSITE: www.CarolinaAleHouse.com

CASEY’S BUFFET

Home of the freshest seafood in town, and Wilmington’s only Live Lobster Tank. Try one of our signature entrees like Fish Bites Tuna Filet, Stuffed Flounder or The Fishermans Stew. We have unique appetizers like Oyster Bombs, Shrimp Bombs, or Grouper Cheeks(who knew Groupers had cheeks!!). Have your Fresh Catch prepared to your delight, pan seared, grilled, blackened, broiled or fried. We will accomodate any taste. The Daily Special Board features creative dishes that highlight our Chef’s creative culinary skills. We make a fantastic steamer platter with Crab Legs, Shrimp, Clams, Oysters and Mussels. The possibilities are endless. We have the largest selection of seafood in the area. Not only are we a seafood restaurant, but a fresh market as well. Take home your Fresh Seafood selection and cook it your favorite way. We also have take out. Don’t forget our made from scratch desserts. Come in and enjoy a fresh beverage from our full service “Bottems Up Bar”. Whether you just need something to curb your appetite or a full meal, we have

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,” coowner 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.

Sports Bar CAROLINA ALE HOUSE

Voted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010

Hell's Kitchen

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

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June 7th: The Possums June 14th: Mac & Juice Quartet June 21st: Crash Box June 28th: The Flannel Rebellion July 5th: Root Soul Project July 12th: Boneyard July 19th: Groove Fetish July 26th: Weaving the Fate August 2nd: The Paris Thieves August 9th: dark horse

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August 16th: Justin Fox Trio August 23rd: The Casserole August 30th: The Coastal Collective September 6th: Jah Creation September 13th: Eastbound September 20th: Krash September 28th: Machine Gun October 4th: Jeremy Norris and the Buckshot Band

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BBQ cookoff lands at Old River Farms By: Shea Carver

C is so serious about barbecue, it has its own comradeship dedicated to the love of swine: the North Carolina Barbecue Society, Inc. When visiting www.ncbbqsociety. com, one will find info on how to become a member, learn about events, and sign up for judge’s certification classes. Perhaps one of the most interesting bits on the site comes from the map of their barbecue trail. Various pork joints dot the state, starting on the East Coast in Greenville, NC (where vinegar-based sauces run rampant), and meandering through the Piedmont from Burlington to Statesville, before ending in the western part of NC in Murphy (where tomato-based sauces reign). BBQ lovers who wish to go rogue from the trail can do so this weekend in Burgaw, NC, at Old River Farms. The working farm maxes out at 450 acres and touts North Carolina agritourism. Owned by Dean and Susan Lanier, Old River raises cattle and hogs, primarily. They opened in 2011 and have offered field trips through schools as a hands-on educational experience. Old River signed on to host the first annual Cape Fear BBQ Festival. Founder of Wilmington’s Cape Fear Wildlife Expo, held every March in downtown Wilmington, WC Lanier (brother to Old River’s Dean Lanier) wanted the festival to cultivate a weekend of family fun. Also, he looked at it as a way to raise money for charities. “We just want to give back to local charities and improve the quality of life in the community,” Lanier says. “Funds will be donated to JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), Cape Fear Wildlife Foundation, [which benefits from the annual expo], and the Methodist Men’s Club.” The event will center on a barbecue competition. Since announcing the festival last fall, they’ve received applicants all across NC, including Newport, New Bern, Morehead City, and more. The cutoff to apply was May 30th. Judges will rank the pork on appearance, brownness, skin crispiness, moisture, meat and sauce flavors, as well as completeness. “Judges are certified by the North Carolina Pork Council,” Lanier informs. “The three judges are from Newport.” Attendees will be able to buy BBQ plates and sandwiches for $4 to $7. “We buy the pigs and give them to the cooks who enter the cook-off,” Lanier says. “After they

are cooked and judged, the BBQ is then chopped and sold as sandwiches, plates, or by the pound.” The cookoff won’t focus on one style of BBQ. Seasonings and spices are limited, and sauces are offered on the side. As well, there will be hot dogs, kettle corn, ice cream, cotton candy, candy apples, and other food stuff for sale. The two-day family affair will feature a host of kids activities, such as a petting zoo and bouncy houses. “There will be camel and pony rides,” Lanier adds. “Pender County members of the NC Wild Turkey Federation will have the BB gun range open, and the NC Bowhunters will have an archery tent for kids.” Live music will play both days, with beach, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll coming from The Imitations on June 7th, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. On June 8th, from 11 a.m. to noon, a Southern gospel group, Greatly Blessed, will play. Bluegrass will fill the acreage for the rest of the day, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., with Nate Gordon. “Bring your own lawn chairs and sunbrellas,” Lanier encourages. “Sit back, relax, and listen to some really great, local musicians.” The Cape Fear BBQ Festival will showcase a parade of vendors, too, from arts and crafts and beyond. Duplin Winery, Dough Bowls by Van, Grendeddy Dave’s BBQ Sauce, Marine Fisheries, Bluegreen Vacations and others will be on hand to showcase services and wares. “We have all kinds,” Lanier promises, “from Destiny Parson’s face-painting, to Hot Rod’s Hauling, to [folks selling] hair bows, hats, lockets and charms, suncatchers, dresses, sporty crafts, and more!” It’s only $5 admission, with all proceeds split between the three beneficiaries. Visit www.capefearbbqfestival.com for more information.

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Writing Along the NC Trail:

magine a job where stand-up paddleboarding and hang-gliding along the coast of the Outer Banks is part of the fringe benefits. Or try to fathom getting paid to sample Asheville’s vast craft brews and explore the Blue Ridge Parkway. Doesn’t sound half bad, huh? Welcome to the life of local writer Jason Frye. Originally from West Virginia, the Marshall University graduate found his way to Wilmington in the early aughts after teaching middle school in Virginia for a brief stint. He went to graduate school at UNCW, but after finishing landed a coveted role as community member and NC cheerleader. The freelance writer has been assigned pieces across a wide array of topics for local and regional publications, such as Wrightsville Beach Magazine, North and South Brunswick magazines, Salt, The Raleigh News and Observer, alongside visitor sites and guides galore. He’s a food writer for Star News, as well as Our State, and he also frequently pens food blogs. “The first story I wrote [locally] was a piece on Bald Head Island for North Brunswick

Magazine’s second or third issue,” Frye says. “Looking back, it was a wreck. It took way too long to write; I had no confidence in what I put on paper, I had no faith that it was any good. I had no idea how to do this for a living. But then I wrote it and Justin Williams assigned another story, so I must’ve done something right.” Frye’s submersion into the freelance world has been eye-opening. He initially thought about doing outdoor adventure writing yet realized his athleticism on the coast wasn’t exactly up to par. “I’m not a surfer, sailor or diver, so that was out if I wanted to live in Wilmington,” Frye tells. “What we did have was a great landscape and a growing core of great restaurants. I started seeking and pitching stories that let me write about food, chefs, beer, wine, tourism, and those sorts of things. Over time, I developed a solid portfolio and began writ-

Local freelancer Jason Frye holds book signing for NC travel guides By: Shea Carver

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ing for bigger outlets.” In college, Frye and his buddies often held pig pickin’s, wherein slow-cooking a hog all day or night served a juicier taste of pride when biting into the tender, pulled swine.

Jason Frye highlights the best of North Carolina. Photo by Holland Dotts

searched areas for their calendar of events in high and low seasons, as well as found the popular and off-the-beaten-path spots he thought travelers would most be interested in enjoying. “Asheville’s phenomenal,” he states, “and I have a number of great bars and restaurants to go to when I’m there. But I’d say two favorites stand out: WinstonSalem and Durham. Both have great, growing food scenes, they’re easy to get to from Wilmington, and I’ve always had a good time in both cities.” Along with his wife, Lauren, they spent a great deal of 2013 discovering their state with newfound eyes. They received personal, behind-the-scenes guidance to the Biltmore Estate and Harrah’s Cherokee in the western part of NC. “I loved getting to drive along the Outer Banks with my wife on her first visit there, too,” Frye says. Despite the never-ending options of intriguing destinations, it's the beautiful landscape of our state that captivates Frye most. He says practically everything can be enjoyed even more from nature—“the beach, the sunrise over the marsh, and the tidal rivers call folks to the coast. Busy city life and buzzing art scenes draw others to cities like Raleigh and Charlotte. The slow country life brings people to small Piedmont towns. Fall’s color show, the chance of winter snow and the stunning Blue Ridge bring others to the mountains. No matter where you go, NC’s best asset is all around you.” His love for Wilmington grows daily, too. Aside from the visible perks—the beautiful shoreline, the rich history, the culturally vibrant arts scene, the culinary offerings—it’s the camaraderie he and Lauren continually build with others that remain so important. “There’s a sense of town pride here that is stronger than in other parts of the state,” he explains. “When you tell someone you’re from Wilmington, they always have a fond memory of a visit here.” Frye will be signing copies of his Moon travel guides this weekend, including one focused completely on the coast, at Barnes and Noble in Mayfaire Town Center. He also will offer sage advice and tips on trekking across the state this summer, dishing on a

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shoppers and dozens of vintage vendors from around the region, Spring Flea is a three-day event. It offers a wide array of vintage, retro, and upcycled treasures. Wilmington’s finest food trucks on hand, a coffee shop in the courtyard, and the BAC cash bar serving liquid refreshments. $5—good for all three days and includes a raffle ticket (kids 12 and under are free). Parking in the North Fourth neighborhood is free. www.brooklynartsnc.com. CAPE FEAR BONSAI SOCIETY SHOW 6/7, 9am: The Cape Fear Bonsai Society’s annual show includes a large exhibit of bonsai trees styled by local bonsai artists. Several bonsai demonstrations will be offered by local and regional artists free to the public. Vendors will be present selling bonsai tools, pots and bonsai treesAdmission: Free. New Hanover County Arboretum Auditorium, 6206 Oleander Dr. SOUTHPORT IN BLOOM Sponsored by Downtown Southport, Inc. and the Southport Garden Club, 6/7 (rain date 6/8). Visit unique private gardens in downtown Southport. Tickets $10, available at Fort Johnston-Southport

Museum & Visitor Center, 203 East Bay S, and Ricky Evans, 211 North Howe St. Also available the day of the Tour at the Hospitality Tent located at Garden #1 at Lois Jane’s Riverwiew Inn, 106 West Bay St. Raffle for a handcrafted wooden potting bench and garden obelisk will be held on the day of the tour day at the Hospitality Tent. Drawing to be held on tour day. $10 GWBJ POWER BREAKFAST 6/10: Greater Wilmington Business Journal Power Breakfast is from 7:30am to 10:00am. For general information and speaker information please call 910-343-8600. Parking is available in the attached Wilmington Convention Center Parking Deck. www.wilmingtonbiz.com. Wilmington Convention Center, 10 Convention Center Dr., $15. FRIDAY VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT SERIES Variety of dates, variety of entertainment—bring your beach chair or blanket and enjoy the show! Select Friday evenings (through 9/19). Ocean Front Park, Kure Beach

LEGACY OF LITERACY CELEBRATION 6/5, 11:30am-1pm; 6-9pm: Day-long celebration will honor adult students who have changed their lives at CFLC and the literacy partners who have contributed to their success. Honoring exiting director Linda Lytvinenko. Local leaders, past employees, volunteers, students, and board members in attendance. 910-251-0911. www.CFLiteracy.org. $50-$300. FUNDRAISING LUNCHEON 6/6, 11:30am: Coastal Horizons Center is pleased to announce that Darryl Strawberry, four-time World Series Champion and 1983 rookie of the year, will be the featured speaker at their annual fundraiser luncheon on June 6, 2014. During his 17-year long career, he helped lead the New York Mets to a World Series Championship in 1986 and the New York Yankees to three World Series Championships in 1996, 1998 and 1999. Coastal Horizons Center will host its annual fundraising luncheon at the Country Club of Landfall where 300 people are expected to attend to raise funds for the non-profit organization that addresses the needs of those seeking crisis intervention, prevention, substance abuse and mental health, and criminal justice alternative services. Reservations may be made by contacting Jamie Thompson at 910-790-0187 or jthompson@coastalhorizons.org. Reg.: www.coastalhorizons.org FRIESLAND FAMILY FUNDRAISER 6/7, 11am: Fundraiser to show our support for Paige Friesland and her family in their fight against brain cancer. Serving Baked Potato with Toppings, Toss Salad, Dessert, Drink. Advance tickets $8 each or 4 for $30 available for purchase at Winter Park. At the door $10 ach or 4 for $35 cash-only. Dine in or to go. Musical entertainment provided by local muscians between 1-4pm. Kathy Elliott at Winter Park 350-2159 ext. 204. $8 adv; $10 at door. $8-$10. Winter Park Elementary School, 204 S. MacMillan Ave. RUN, RIDE AND ROLL 6/7, 10am: Arbor Park @ Autumn Hall; enter from Dungannon Blvd. off Eastwood Free! Pre-registration is suggested. Walk up reg. takes place 6/7, 10am. Scavenger Hunt at Cross City Trail begins at 10:30am. Games at Arbor Park take place from 10am-noon. Walk, run, bike, or skate! 1202 Eastwood Rd. Free admission WSO GOLF CLASSIC 17th Annual Wilmington Symphony Golf Classic, Eagle Point Golf Club, Mon., 6/9. Benefiting the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra and its youth education programs Course: Exclusive 18-hole course designed by Thomas Fazio and No. 48 on Golf Digest’s annual ranking of America’s 100 greatest golf courses, featuring 7,170 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. Plus stunning scenery, great amenities and fabulous food. Format: Best Ball . Shotgun start: 8:30am; breakfast and registration: 7:30-8:30. Luncheon and a brief awards ceremony follow play. Entry Deadline: Closed when filled. Provides a great opportunity to put a team of friends together or to use as employee or client recognition. Entry Donation: $325/player; $1,100/ team ($275/player). Includes caddied round of golf at Eagle Point, continental breakfast, beverages and snacks during play, luncheon, great prizes and gratuities. No gimmicks, just great golf. HIPPIE BALL 6/20, 6:30pm: To benefit Kids Making It! Let your freak flag fly, $45. Dinner catered by Bon Appetit, we have awesome auction items, far out drinks, and live music by the Steady Eddies. We will have contests for the best dressed hippie as well as the grooviest dancers. 7pm; tickets are $45, (includes dinner, live music and two raffle tickets). 910-7636001, x108 to purchase physical tickets you can

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COMEDY SLIDE SHOW 6/8, 8pm: Comedy Slide Show is a multimedia variety show that allows comedians and musicians the use of graphics, videos, pictures, and websites to enhance their sets. Starring the hilarious Jarrod Harris (Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham” and TBS’s Lopez Tonight). Also feat: Bridget Callahan,

discussing inspirational meems; Lace Larrabee, discussing her days on the beauty queen circuit; Johnny Gray, interviewing Joshua Prindiville, director of the upcoming documentary Stop Titan, about south-eastern NC’s fight to keep the notorious industrial polluter, Titan Cement from opening a facility in the area. Musical Guest: Astro Cowboy—critically acclaimed, smart indie rock duo. Hosted by: Internet Carl, who is called Internet Carl ‘cause he lives inside of the internet and his name is Carl. $10. Bourgie Nights, 127 Princess Street. FRIDAY COMEDY SHOWCASE Come out for our Friday comedy showcase! 7pm, cover charge. Reel Cafe 100 S. Front St. (910) 2511832 COMEDY COURT 6/25, 7:30pm: Comedy Court is an interactive show where comedians play lawyers and judges to put audience member cases on trial. Husband have a snoring problem? Roommate can’t clean up after themselves? Bring them and $3 to comedy court at TheatreNOW 7:30pm doors. This sessions lawyers will be: Reid Clark, Owen Wilson, Drew Harrison, Anthony Corvino, Jordan Bench, Johnny Gray. Honorable Judge: Chris Harje. $3. TheaterNOW, 19 S. 10th Street JOKES ‘N’ SMOKE Every first Mon. of month will feature a stand-up comedy showcase Hosted by Brian Granger; performances by Reid Clark, Colton Demonte and more of Nutt Street Comedy Club’s finest. 3021 Market St. Arabian Nights Hookah Bar. 9pm; $4. DEAD CROW COMEDY Wed. Nutt House Improv, 9pm ($2), Reel Cafe. • Thursday Open Mic Night, 9pm (no cover) • Friday/Saturday National touring comedians 8pm & 10pm. City Stage/Level 5 and Fibber McGees. Timmy Sherrill: deadcrowcomedy@aol.com or 910520-5520

music/concerts 100 ANNIVERSARY CENTENNIAL CONCERT Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian Church’s 100th Anniversary Centennial Concert, “Orange Colored Sky,” with Jeff Phillips. 6/7, 8pm. Anyone who has had the pleasure of watching Jeff Phillips perform on stage knows well that he relishes inhabiting a character and that he is emotionally generous. “Orange Colored Sky” will be the singing actor’s cabaret show. Song list includes famed Nat King Cole reference, as well as selections by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, Elton John and Bernie Taupin and more. Tickets $15 or 2/ $25. J. Shortell: banksjws@hotmail.com Limited seats available. CAROLINA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL See page 10. JAZZ AT THE MANSION Bellamy Mansion hosts concerts from the Cape Fear Jazz Society. 6:30pm on the lawn; bring a picnic. $12 adm.; $10 members; children under 12 free. 6/12, Serena Wiley; 7/10, Darryl Donnell Murrill; 8/14, Geno and Friends; 9/11, Liz Pina w/The Frog Project. 503 Market St. THE GAMBLER, KENNY ROGERS TRIBUTE 6/18-26: Performer Tim Sells presents a show that provides smiles, crowd participation, and enjoyment for all ages, and honors the music and persona of “The Gambler,” Kenny Rogers. Tim has the look and sound of Kenny, and provides all the favorites that make Kenny Rogers the musical icon he has become. Ticket includes show and 3-course meal. Fri/Sat nights. Doors at 6pm. Show at 7pm. Tickets $38 adults/$24 for children under 12. Beverages and food service gratuity not included.

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dance AZALEA COAST USA DANCE 6/14, 6:45pm: Monthly social dance/lesson. Join us Saturday, June 14th, for an evening of social ballroom dance and a basic group dance lesson at the New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC. Group lesson in West Coast Swing by Sally Deo from 6:45 to 7:30pm. No partner necessary for the lesson. Open dancing to our own custom mix of ballroom smooth and latin music from 7:30 to 10pm. Admission $8 members, $10 non-members, $5 military with ID, $3 students with ID. IRISH STEP DANCE Traditional Irish Step Dancing Beginners to Championship level ages 5-adult! Mondays nights. The studio is located at 1211 South 44th St. www. walshkelleyschool.com. BABS MCDANCE Shag, swing, hip-hop, Latin, belly dancing, ballroom, Zumba, kids’ and adults’ classes, and more—weekly with various pricing. • Friday Night Dance Parties, 7:30-10:30pm. $10, buy one get one free. Babs McDance, 6782 Market St. www.babsmcdance.com 76’ERS SQUARE DANCE CLUB Modern Western Style Square Dance. Club meets Thurs. nights at 7pm at the Senior Center for a new workshop on square dancing. Info: 270-1639 CAROLINA SHAG CLUB DJs play favorite beach music and shag tunes every Sat, 8pm to close. $4/members; $6/ guests. Carolina Shag Club, 103 N. Lake Park Blvd. Carolina Beach, NC 620-4025

Tuesday night dances, 5th Ave United Methodist Church on South 5th Ave at Nun, 7:30-9:30pm.Social dance for all levels; singles and couples, families, college and high school students and folks of all dancing abilities are invited to come. $4. (910) 538-9711. TANGO WILMINGTON Tango classes and social dancing, Fridays, Carolina Lounge of Ramada Inn. 5001 Market Street (between College and Kerr). 8-9:45pm. $5 lounge entrance includes beginners’ lesson, 7:30.

art/exhibits EARTH, SEA AND SKY WHQR presents work by Gail Henderson and Liz Hosier, two artists whose works are expressions of elements of earth, sky, horizon and atmosphere

6/11: ENIGMATIC Local artist Blair Nidds has curated a show to hang for eight weeks at Canapé on N. 4th Street. “Enigmatic” will feature a host of 2D and 3D work from local artists like Fritzi Huber, Michelle Connolly, Nicolle X Nicolle, Dallas Thomas, Elizabeth Darrow, Niki Hildebran, Jonathan Guggenheim, and others. A video installation will show from James Martin and live music will be played from the kids at Squidco Records (also on 4th Street). Food and drink specials served, too. The artists’ reception takes place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 1001 N. 4th Street on Wednesday, June 11th. The show will hang for eight weeks!

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conveyed through their unique use of color, paints, and materials. The show will remain on display until June 6th. A portion of the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR. Third floor of The Warwick Building at 254 N. Front St. 30 NC ARTISTS: SELF-PORTRAIT SHOW Free and open to the public. Exhibit is made up of two components: 36” x 53” black and white photographs of the participating artists being wheatpasted to trees surrounding the gallery. Enlarged photos are part of the global “Inside Out Project” and is a group participatory action sponsored by Diane Hause/2TEN HAUSTUDIO. The second part consists of the 30 artists exhibiting self-portraits inside the gallery that they have created in various media. Participants include Kinga Baransky, Benjamin Billingsley, Michelle Connolly, MJ Cunningham, Elizabeth Darrow, and more. 2TEN HAUSTUDIO, 15930 NC Hwy 210 E, Ivanhoe, NC 28447 (Bladen County). (910) 874-3535, haustudio@earthlink.net JON JICHA: AWKWARD SENSIBILITY See page 21. JANETTE HOPPER Third chapter through Janette Hopper’s visual blogging has an emphasis on clouds, looming overhead, moving, swirling with light burning through them, ever changing, always there and yet we cannot touch them: vapor. Series of paintings takes the viewer from the farmlands of the east to the vast open spaces of the west and to Europe, all emphasizing the sky—out and up at the light of sunrises and sunsets interacting with the swirling forms and masses of clouds. Free Costello’s is open 7 days a week from 7pm-2am. ENIGMATIC “Enigmatic” art show opening on Wed., 6/11, 7pm, curated by Blair Nidds. Feat. 2D and 3D work by Fritzi Hu-

ber, Michelle Connolly, Nicolle X Nicolle, Elizabeth Oglesby, Dallas Thomas, Elizabeth Darrow, Ryan Lewis, Jonathan Guggenheim, Eric Hine, Niki Hildebrand, Kinga Baranksy, Toni Sunseri, Blair Nidds, James Martin, and John Tyhacz. Music by Squidco. Drinks and food specials from Canapé. 1001 N. 4th St. canaperestaurant.com. Show hangs for wight weeks. ARTS COUNCIL OF WILMINGTON The Arts Council of Wilmington & is now accepting applications for North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Arts Program subgrants through 6/30. Applications are available for non-profit organizations whose purpose is to promote and develop diverse cultural arts programming in New Hanover County. Funding priority is given to qualified 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, 2014 and June 30, 2015. Application forms and grant guidelines: www.artswilmington.org. 910-343-0998 or info@ artscouncilofwilmington.org. ARTIST SHOWING A Frame of Mind Gallery is honored to show some of the many works of local artist, author and world traveler David D. Hume. Delightful, original water colors by Eunice G. Andrews will also be on display thru September 2014.Located in historic 100 year old house in Carolina Heights.Come and check us out as one of the best kept secrets in Wilmington since 1991. Hrs: Mon.-Fri.-10am-5:30pm and Sat. 10am - 2:30pm. 1903 Princess St. (910)251-8854. Wilmingtonart@aol.com. Garden tours often given in the spring, specializing in unique citrus. Free

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use and conduct a scientific experiment to review the states of matter and the Earth’s water cycle. Parental participation is rqd. •Sat., Stormfest: 6/21, 10am-4pm. Free and open to the public. Explore the science of weather with the National Weather Service, local broadcast meteorologists, and community safety experts. Engage in fun, hands-on experiments to investigate air pressure, precipitation, and wind. Present your own forecast and make weather tools you can use at home. Hours: Tues-Sat, 9am5pm; Sun., 1-5pm. $4-$7. Free for museum members and children under 3. New Hanover County residents’ free day is the first Sun. ea. month. 814 Market St. www.capefearmuseum

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT “Fourth Friday Gallery Night” is now coordinated by The Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County, feat. 16 local art galleries and studios that will open their doors to the public in an afterhours celebration of art and culture, from 6-9pm, every fourth Friday of the month through 2014. Rhonda Bellamy at 910-343-0998, 221 N. Front St. Ste 101. artscouncilofwilmington.org

museums/programs CAPE FEAR MUSEUM Exhibits: A View From Space: Since the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957, satellites have dramatically changed the way we study our planet. A new, bilingual (Spanish and English), highly interactive, hands-on science exhibit, will allow visitors to see the world from a satellite’s perspective. Includes numerous hands-on activity sections such as the Satellite Activity Area. • World War II: A Local Artist’s Perspective: In time for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing and the Normandy campaign, Cape Fear Museum will be exhibiting one of the region’s most powerful collections of World War II artifacts. • Collection Selections: Handbags, artifact collection includes more than 100 handbags. Contrast their styles as you view a selection of bags drawn from the 19th and 20th centuries. • Cape Fear Stories presents artifacts, images, models, and 3D settings to explore people’s lives in the Lower Cape Fear from Native American times through the end of the 20th century. • Michael Jordan Discovery Gallery, Williston Auditorium, giant ground sloth, Maritime Pavilion and more! 910-798-4370. • Weatherwise: 6/7,14, 28, 1-4pm. Free for members or with museum admission What is wind? How does weather impact our daily lives? Explore air, atmospheric pressure, and air temperature. Examine the tools meterologists

NC AQUARIUM 6/14, 9am: Canoeing the Salt Marsh: A three-hour exploration of the Zeke’s Island Estuarine Research Reserve by canoe. Activities may include crabbing, seining or birding. Participants should be able to swim, be capable of sustained physical exertion and wear closed-toed shoes. $22.50-$25. • 6/23, 8:30: How can North Carolina’s aquatic environments be recreated and maintained in an Aquarium setting? By exploring natural habitats, campers will gain a better understanding of how to investigate and preserve the environment we all share. Activities that campers will enjoy this week include canoeing on the Cape Fear River, surf fishing, visiting the sea turtle hospital, and snorkeling. Dates: 6/23-27, 7/711, 7/28-8/1. $207-$230. 900 Loggerhead Rd, Kure Beach. POPLAR GROVE PLANTATION Through 7/31: Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc. announces the upcoming opening of their new permanent exhibit “From Civil War to Civil Rights: The African American Experience at Poplar Grove.” Poplar Grove Plantation invites the public to a series of lectures during the months of April, May, and June in preparation for the unveiling of the permanent exhibit space and Juneteenth Celebra-

tion on Thurs., 6/19, 6:30pm. Poplar Grove Plantation10200 US Hwy 17 N

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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Mon, Little Sprouts Storytime, 10am, and Go Green Engineer Team, 3:30pm. • Tues., Kids Cooking Club, 3:30pm • Wed., Preschool Science, 10am; Discover Science, 3:30pm; and Mini Math, 4pm. • Thurs. StoryCOOKS, 10am; and StART with a Story, 3:30pm • Fri., Toddler Time, 10am; and Adventures in Art, 3:30pm • Drop off gently used books at our Museum to be used for a good cause. Ooksbay Books uses book collection locations to help promote literacy, find a good use for used books, and benefit nonprofits. • www.playwilmington.org 116 Orange St. 910-254-3534

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

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in the turn of the century Myers Cottage, exists to preserve and to share the history of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early days of the beach including Lumina Pavilion, our hurricane history and information about the interaction between the people and our natural environment which have shaped the 100 year history of Wrightsville Beach. • WB Museum of History’s June program is set for Thurs., 6/26, from 10-10:45am at the museum. The theme is preparing for hurricanes. This program will be led by long-time Red Cross Disaster Team Volunteer, Drew Hoge. We will read a book about preparedness, pack a togo bag, do a craft, and have light refreshments. For elementary school-aged children. Space is limited. Call 256-2569 to register. Register by June 24 and be entered in a raffle for a special gift. Other upcoming programs in this series through Oct. Reg: (910) 256-2569. Free. 303 West Salisbury St. www.wbmuseum.com. WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore railroad history and heritage, especially of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for 125 years. Interests and activities for all ages, including historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively Children’s Hall, and spectacular model layouts. House in an authentic 1883 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level. By reservation, discounted group tours, caboose birthday parties, and afterhours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mondays at 10:30am, only $4 per family and access to entire Museum. Admission only $8.50 adult, $7.50 senior/military, $4.50 child age 2-12, and free

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BELLAMY MANSION One of NC’s most spectacular examples of antebellum architecture, built on the eve of the Civil War by free and enslaved black artisans, for John Dillard Bellamy (1817-1896) physician, planter and business leader; and his wife, Eliza McIlhenny Harriss (1821-1907) and their nine children. After the fall of Fort Fisher in 1865, Federal troops commandeered the house as their headquarters during the occupation of Wilmington. Now a museum, itf ocuses on history and the design arts and offers tours, changing exhibitions and an informative look at historic preservation in action.910-251-3700. www.bellamymansion.org. 503 Market St. CAMERON ART MUSEUM Exhibits: Floating Sculpture: Bruce Barclay Cameron Duck Decoy Collection, through 6/1. Avid hunstman, sportsman and philanthropist Bruce Barclay Cameron collected duck decoys throughout his lifetime, and CAM will showcase them. • “Requiem in a Glass”—Installation by Harry Taylor commissioned by CAM pays homage to the industrious work of famed American Civil War photographer Matthew Brady. Brady’s glass negatives were recycled after the war to build greenhouses, but as the years went by, the sun’s rays burned the imagery from the glass and these images were lost. Taylor reimagines them. • James Grashow’s “Corrugated World”—Brooklyn born sculptor and woodcut artist James Grashow (American, b. 1942) is known for his large-scale sculptures and installations made out of cardboard. Exhibition will feature whimsical installations of flora and fauna as we as pieces created especially for the CAM. • Corner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd. Tues-Sun,10am-5pm; Thurs: 10am-9pm. Museum members free, $8 nonmembers, $5 students with valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. • CAM Café hrs: Tues-Sat, 11am-3pm; Sun, 10am-3pm; Thurs. dinner. www.cameronartmuseum.com or 910-395-5999. www.cameronartmuseum.org

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

sports/recreation CARDIO TENNIS Althea Gibson Tennis Complex, Empie Park. 3405 Park Ave. 910-341-4631. 6/4, 11, 18, 25; 7/9, 16, 23, 30, 5:30-6:30pm. $11/clinic. Pre-registration and pre-payment required for all programs. empiepark.com or 910-3414631. NATIONAL LEARN TO ROW DAY Cape Fear River Rowing Club will hold open house at Wilmington Marine Center, 3410 River Rd, on Sat., 6/7, 8:30am-noon, in conjunction with the 13th annual National Learn to Row Day sponsored by USRowing and Concept2. Visitors will tour the club’s boathouse, learn proper rowing technique on a rowing machine, then row on the Cape Fear River with experienced club members. Free! Attendees must be at least 14 years old and in good physical condition to use the rowing machine and participate in on-the-water rowing. Wear fitted athletic clothing, socks and sun protection. GIRLS’ VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT 6/7, 3pm: Four-man coed volleyball tournament. Registration at 3pm Games start at 4pm Pre-reg., $80; day of reg. $100. Cornhole 5pm $20 a team. Courts and Sports , 3525 Lancelot Lane STRENGTH IN MOTION BOOT CAMP oin the fun and lose weight, burn fat, tone muscle

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6/18: CUCALORUS SUBMISSIONS Filmmakers, listen up! Through June 18th, the Cucalorus Film Festival will accept submissions for its 20th annual event, taking place this November. They’re looking for documentaries, features, shorts, videos, and more to screen across the five-day soiree. All submissions need an entry form, fee, and inclusion of an invitation to your funeral or a postcard from your future self in 20 years (for realz). Have more questions? Contact Ms. Natalie Lentz at programming@cucalorus.org. Oh, and if you’re an ILM local, you can submit for free! 910 470-0820. Techniques In Motion School of Dance, 5543-100 Carolina Beach Rd NEWBRIDGE BANK BRIDGE TO BRIDG 6/12, 6:30pm: Attention Wilmington Road Runners! Register now for the 2014 NewBridge Bank Bridge to Bridge 4.0! The race will be held June 12 in downtown Wilmington at the Cape Fear Community College Schwartz Center. Proceeds benefit student scholarships at CFCC! Cape Fear Community College, 411 N. Front Street

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60 seconds or less. A minute goes faster than you think! Stay for one-on-one networking after (and a musician’s showcase too). Don’t forget your business cards! Each Month a new sponsor! Volunteer Staff: Megan Petersen & Lauren Danaher. Giant Cafe, 1200 N 23rd St Suite 209, Free.

kids’ stuff STUDIO CLASSES/CAMPS Youth and Children Studio Classes including iPad Adventure, clay, painting, drawing, mixed media and textiles. Open registration is now open for these exciting weekly classes that start on June 23 and run through August 15. • Kids @ Museum Camp provides students 5 to 8 year olds or 9 to 12 year olds a chance to explore art through 3 core options held during specific weeks from June 16 to August 22: Storytelling With Art, Outside The Box and Learn From The Great Artists. Regi: www.cameronartmuseum.org/museumschool. Keith: 910-395-5999 ext. 1008 for more details. STORYTIME BY THE SEA Wed, 10-11:30am (6/11-8/27). Join the Princess and her fairytale friends at Kure Beach’s Ocean Front Park for stories, crafts and games. Fun activities for both boys and girls. Free. KIDS MUSIC FEST 6/14, 9am: New Hanover County Public Library announces its First Annual Music Festival for Children! Free family event is scheduled for Saturday, at Ocean Front Park and Pavilion, 105 Atlantic Avenue, Kure Beach. Free. Performers at the Music Fest will include Mommie, Mr. Mark, the Port City Irish Band, and Zach Hanner, NHCPL Rap Club. Register for NHC Library’s Summer Reading Club, and the first 500 will get a special bag. Free. WILMINGTON KID PROV 6/19, 6pm: New at Techniques In Motion School of Dance, Thurs for 7 wks. Starts 6/19, 6-8pm. Wilmington Kidprov, ages 8-12. $105. Learn the foundational tools and techniques of W.I.’s unique take on improv training, including storytelling and playing games. The Beginner Improv series is a supportive, fun, and accessible atmosphere perfect for kids to interact with each other. Learn how to release your creativity, have fun, and spin captivating stories on the spot. Matt Warzel: warz65@yahoo.com. 5543100 Carolina Beach Rd. wilmingtonimprov.com SUNSHINE CAMP Reg is open for Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter’s Sunshine Camp, a camp for children coping with the death of a loved one. Three sessions are from 8:30am-12:30pm. Mon-Fri, June and July, Phillips LifeCare & Counseling Center, 1414 Physicians Dr. The sessions are: 6/23-27, rising second- and third- graders; 7/7-11, rising fourth- and fifth-graders; and 7/21-25, rising sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. Children talk, play,

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lectures/readings BARBARA SULLIVAN Thursday, 6/5, at Bellamy Mansion. Sullivan will speak on Gardening the Carolinas, 6:30-7:30pm. Bellamy Mansion Museum, 503 Market St. 910251-3700, ext 306. Brooks Murphrey <bmurphrey@bellamymansion.org> COASTAL SPEAKER SERIES 6/11, 7pm: Spend the evening with Andy and Carson Wood, co-founders of Coastal Plain Conservation Group. Andy is a world-class ecologist, educator, storyteller and radio commentator. Carson, a fifth-generation biologist, monitors Camp Lejeune’s red-cockaded woodpecker population. They will offer an engaging talk on exploring nature and how we can protect local wildlife. Minimum donation of $10 is requested of nonmembers. Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center, 309 W. Salisbury St. WILMINGTON FAVS SPIRITUAL BOOK CLUB Free! Meets 4th Monday every month. Old Books on Front Street, 249 N. Front St.

classes/workshops DEMYSTIFY CREDIT 6/10, 6pm: Think most classes about credit are dull and boring? This not your ordinary credit seminar! Syble Solomon is back to talk about how you can save hundreds to thousands of dollars once you know the myths, facts and surprises about credit. Discover some of the small tips that can make make a big difference in this in this fun, interactive, not-so-ordinary credit seminar. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Call 910-798-6306 or email jroach@nhcgov.com to reserve your seat today! Free. Northeast Regional Library, NHC1241 Military Cutoff Rd SWEETGRASS BASKET MAKING Barbara McCormick will lead two sweetgrass basket workshops. Participants will make a candy dish and basket at Poplar Grove Plantation. McCormick was raised in Mount Pleasant where her grandmother taught her to weave. Wed., 6/11, 9am1pm or 3-7pm. Take both classes. $60/class and includes materials. Snacks welcome. Held in barn on plantation, 10200 US Hwy 17 N. 910-686-9518

ted and thorough acting education. $150/mo. Giant Cafe, 1200 N 23rd St Ste. 209. SERVSAFE Looking to get ServSafe Certified? Call Jaime Chadwick at 910-617-4791 or jaimechadwick728@ yahoo.com to reserve your spot. Pre-registration required. Upcoming online tests date are 6/18, 7/22. Or schedule your own date. Call for rates. PARENT/TOT SWIM CLASS Thurs, 6/25-8/7, 11-11:30am (followed by free swim until noon). Ages: 8 months - 36 months. $25 (7 week session) or $5/class. Try class for free on June 18! Help your child become comfortable in water; begin swim skills introduced through songs & games, led by American Red Cross certified insructor. Swim diapers required. Space is limited so register early. 910-343-3682. Robert Strange Pool, 410 S. 10th Street SPANISH FOUNDATION/CULTURE 6/19, 7pm: Museum School at Cameron Art Museum. Your Spanish Foundation: Language and Culture—all levels. Thurs., 7-8:30pm, 6/5-7/17. Tuition: $105/$90 CAM member. Your Spanish Foundation focuses on an understanding of the structure of the Spanish language so you can advance in conversation. Goals by the end of the 6 weeks include having a working knowledge of Spanish fundamentals and a working knowledge of Hispanic culture. You are encouraged to have fun, mess up, meet new friends and ask that question you’ve always wanted answered! Plus, students have the unique feature of applying their new knowledge through the museum’s current exhibitions. Instructor: Craig Stinson. $90-$105. CAM, 3201 S. 17th St. ENERGY CLEARING MEDITATION 6/20, 6:30pm: Please join us for this guided group meditation. No experience necessary. All are welcome. No need to pre-register. Just drop-in, or email with questions. Donation. The Open Space, 411 Chestnut St. NOFO YOGA AND WINE NIGHT Thurs., 6:30pm: Join us on the north side for B.A.D. Yoga & Wine with Amy! Classes take place in the loft on the corner of 3rd St. and Brunswick, all levels welcome. Then, extend the zen at the Goat & Compass for yogi wine specials. Namaste! $5 suggested donation. FENCING CLASSES Evening fencing class for teens and up. Learn fencing footwork, bladework, rules, refereeing, history, and end with an in-class tournament. All fencing equipment provided. Class meets every Tues/ Thurs, 6:30pm. Cost is $35 per month plus a once a season $5 membership to USA Fencing $35 per month + $5 membership. St. Mary’s Tileston Gym, $40

ARIES (21 Mar. – 20 April): Surreal hope” means having faith in a future opportunity that at first appears in an outof-context situation. Say, for example, that you have an unsettling initial exposure to a stranger whom you will eventually realize is an important ally. Maybe when you see this person for the first time, he or she is looking dazed and disheveled on a street corner with tear stains on the cheek, having just broken up with a lover. And maybe you feel a strange attraction to this weirdo despite his or her unflattering appearance. Having surreal hope, in this instance, would mean that you’d refrain from being dismissive and judgmental, but would instead entertain the possibility that your fascination might portend an interesting link under more favorable circumstances at a later date.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem,” wrote English novelist John Galsworthy. In other words, most people find it easier to stick to their noble beliefs and neat theories when they don’t have to deal with the messy details of real life. I trust that you will be a stirring exception to this rule in the coming weeks, Taurus. Judging from the astrological omens, I predict that you’ll be a master of utopian pragmatism. As you penetrate further and further into the heart of every matter, you’ll come up with workable strategies for bringing out the best in people.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suggest we title this chapter of your life story “The Perplexing Joy of Hundreds of Emotions,” or maybe “The Wild Peace of Way Too Many Feelings.” That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but it’s an apt reflection of your immediate future: extreme, expansive, melodramatic, spectacularly educational, and filthy rich with intrigue. You may not break the world’s record for most mood shifts in a good cause, but you could very well smash your own personal record.

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milder and more useful sacrifice you can make instead. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The geography of your heart is evolving. In places, coastlines are disappearing. Elsewhere, new islands have risen out of the sea. Boundaries are shifting, as some nations dissolve and others are born. Even the climate is changing, with warm winds blowing where once there was year-round chill, and monsoon-like conditions invading desert ecosystems. Roads that formerly led to the center of the action no longer do, and highways that used to be peripheral are now main routes. I suggest you take note of all this by redrawing your map, Leo. Get up to date with your heart’s new landscapes. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dwight D. Eisenhower was President of the United States for eight years after serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II. Early in his career, however, he didn’t win many accolades. Referring to his mediocre stint as an undergraduate at the U.S. Military Academy, he said, “If anybody saw signs of greatness in me while at West Point, they kept it to themselves.” Keep his story in mind during the coming weeks, Virgo. You may have to summon an extra measure of self-motivation as you keep pushing towards your goal de-

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Imagine what it feels like to rub your hand over the stubble that’s just beginning to spring from the skin you shaved. Visualize a single small purple flower jutting through the dry brown stalks lining the trail you’re hiking along. Remember a moment, after an argument with an ally, when the first tentative spark of reconciliation flowed between your eyes and his or hers. These are good metaphors for the kinds of experiences you should seek out, cultivate, and concentrate on in the coming week.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For millions of years, the great rivers of the world have flowed into seas -- or at least they have up until now. Because of their overuse by humans, several ancient rivers are in danger of drying up before they reach their destinations. Among them are China’s Yellow River, the Tigris and Euphrates in the Middle East, and America’s Rio Grande. I offer this as a cautionary metaphor to consider as you contemplate your long-term future. There are things CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ve gotten a little you can do in the next six weeks to ensure that the river of addicted to habits that are rooted in fear and worry. I sugyour life will always connect to a greater source. I suggest you gest we resort to exotic measures to pry you out of your make that a high priority. rut. After you read the proposed actions below, compose CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Quetzalcoatl instructed four more of a similar nature, then go out and actually do the Aztecs to offer hyacinths and copal [a resin] to their idols at least half of them. (1) On an empty milk carton, paste a instead of human flesh,” wrote Edward Dahlberg in his book collage of cut-out images and phrases that symbolize your The Sorrows of Priapus. Alas, the priests didn’t heed their anxieties. Then put it on the floor and stomp it to death as god’s directive. Their predilection for ripping the hearts out you growl. (2) Slap your own hand briskly 10 times as you of their sacrificial victims is infamous. Now I’m asking you to bark, “Stop being such a wuss!” (3) Everywhere you go, attend to a less dramatic but comparable matter, Cancerian. visualize yourself being accompanied by three great warYou have a prime opportunity to stop making an extreme sac- riors who’re dedicated to your well-being. (4) Gaze at a rifice you’ve been doing for a long time. The gods no longer picture of a person who makes you nervous, and yell, “I’m demand it of you; it serves no holy purpose; and there’s a not afraid of you, you mysterious slime-sucking bastard.”

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FELTMAKING WORKSHOP 6/14, 10am: Feltmaking is an ancient art form used for both the creation of wearables as well as artistic self expression., providing the building blocks to take feltmaking in any direction you chose. The workshop is $75. If you sign up before June 1st, the class is only $50. Limited to 15 people. Materials fee is $15. Participants should bring a hand towel, scissors, large sponge, large bowl and a plastic bag to take home wet items. Just Sew, 616 Castle St.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In their translation of a poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell write, “I’m the chimp of chance, the champ of chance, I’m a chum of chance and a chump of chance.” Judging from your astrological omens, Libra, I suspect it’ll soon make sense for you to speak those words yourself. Dumb luck and blind fate will be swirling around you, whipping up both unexpected pleasures and knotty challenges. What can you do to be more of a champ and a chum of chance, and not so much of a chimp and a chump of chance? Welcome everything that happens, with no exceptions. Love the easy and the difficult, the playful and the contrived, the lucid and the confusing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 18th-century France, the public was sometimes invited to watch when the women of the king’s family gave birth. Can you imagine the modernday equivalent? As the actresses and pop stars of Hollywood brought their babies into the world, TV news teams would be there on the scene, their cameras rolling. It’s probably not going to happen anytime soon (though be on the alert if you hear Paris Hilton is pregnant). But I suggest you seek out the nearest metaphorical equivalent in the coming week. You’ll really benefit from being in the presence of a primal, ecstatic, royal hatching. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the ancient Gnostic Gospel of Philip, discovered in Egypt last century, the author writes of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. In one place, he says, “Jesus often kissed Mary on the . . . .” Unfortunately, there’s a hole in the original document right where that next word was. Did Jesus kiss her on the cheek? The mouth? The neck? Unless other versions of the old text are found, we’ll never know. On the other hand, I predict that you will soon solve a comparable mystery in your own love life. Some gap that has long mystified you will be filled in. A missing clue will turn up.

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Southern Exposure. 910-547-8115. ACTING 101 Background acting experts and extras casting pros as we’ll as guest appearances by Talent Agents make this workshop & seminar a fun filled event— last Sunday of each month, 2pm-4pm; limited seating. Fun and informative way to get your acting career off to a great start! This class will prepare you for being on set, what to expect, the ethics of BG acting as well as how to take it to the next level. Advance sale only! Online or at cafe register: Giant Cafe, 1200 N 23rd St Suite 209. $35

clubs/notices/tours NBNC INSTALLATION LUNCHEON/ MEETING The North Brunswick Newcomers Club, 6/13, to thank the current board for a job well done and to install the new Board for the 2014-2015 year. This event will be hosted at the Hilton Riverside Wilmington with Registration and Social time beginning at 11:00am. Doors for the luncheon will open at 11:30am followed by lunch at 12:15pm. At 3pm the celebration will continue on the Hilton’s Riverside Deck until 4pm. Cash bar available. This is the final meeting for the 2013-2014 year. Reservations are required. Hilton Wilmington Riverside. The speakers will be the exciting and dynamic duo of Jon David and Ben David, District Attorney’s for Brunswick and New Hanover Counties. Donations welcome. 301 N Water St. SUBURBS WALKING TOURS Every Sat., 10am. Discover ILM through neighborhood walking tours. Forest Hills was the first automobile-oriented suburb in Wilmington, while Streetcar Suburbs tell about the restoration and renewal of Carolina Place and Carolina Heights. Tours: $10

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(students, $5). 1.5 hrs; wear comfortable clothing and shoes. SCREEN GEMS STUDIOS TOURS Guests get an insider’s look at the largest studio complex east of California and experience the rich history of EUE/Screen Walk the 10-stage working lot have access to sounds stages and go behind the scenes of the CBS series “Under the Dome.” Guests will see a visual history of the NC film and television industry in the screening theater where many famous producers, directors and actors have reviewed footage of productions shot at the studio. Tours hosted Sat/Sun, 10am, noon and 2pm; weather permitting throughout the summer. 1223

6/9: MARKET CRAWL AND CLASS The NC Coastal Federation has opened the Fred and Alice Stanback Coastal Education Center at 309 West Salisbury Street on Wrightsville Beach. Every Monday through August they will begin hosting a Market Crawl and Cooking Class with Aubriana’s Chef Tyson Amick at 10 a.m. Amick will take the participants to the nearby WB farmers’ market and fish house to procure local ingredients before heading back to the center to make a healthy and delicious meal. It’s $65 to participate! Folks must also buy a $25 club membership to the N.C. Coastal Federation.

23rd St. North $12 for adults; $10 for students and military personnel with an ID; $5 for children under 12. Cash only at this time. (910) 343-3433 or http://studios.euescreengems.com/nc/tours. OAKDALE CEMETERY TOURS Most tours are 10am-noon; free for members or $10 otherwise. Tours cancelled if inclement weather. 6/21: Historical walking tours of North Carolina’s oldest rural cemetery will be given by local historian and Civil War Author, Bob Cooke. Hear the tales of some of the Civil War notables. $10. www.oakdalecemetery.org or 910-762-5682

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Our 9 Year Anniversary

Southern soul food at its finest!

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

WE ALSO DO CATERING!

5559 Oleander drive • 910.798.2913

Wednesday-Saturday 11am-9pm • Sundays 11am- 8pm • Closed - Mondays Tuesdays