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The Webb-Ferrettis embrace and love through trials and tribulations In our modern world, “family” takes on a multitude of definitions—regardless of what a little proposition known as Amendment One declares “legal.” Shea Carver interviews Christi Ferretti and Kathy Webb-Ferretti about their lives as a couple and adopting their son, Alex, including the trials, tribulations and celebrations that brought them to where they are today. This is only one of many stories that should remind us that in our society pride exists in all colors. Wilmington kicks of its fifth annual Pride celebration June 7th and encore has all details covered (pgs. 30-31), from its Pink Sheep Film Festival (pg. 22) to the Justin Ryan concert (pg. 17) to rallies and marches, festivals and, yes, even Sunday worship. You’d be surprised how many local churches welcome folks from all walks of life into their congregation; meet a few of the pastors on pages 34-35. Cover and inside photos by Sue Cothran

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Kirsti Kreutzer is the co-director of Where’s My Midwife?—an organization seeking to increase midwives in hospitals. Courtesy photo

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charged topic—probably more so in the 20th and 21st centuries than during any other time in history. Partly due to the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which finally gave women the right to vote, and partly due to the medical revolution that took place in the 20th century, which introduced synthetic oral contraceptives and in-vitro fertilization to the Western world.

I say “synthetic oral contraceptives” because throughout recorded human history people have been experimenting with birth control of different sorts. Women have long turned to pennyroyal and Vitex (or Chaste Tree) with varying degrees of success over the years. But a synthetically produced, reliable hormone taken in pill form became a complete game-changer for everyone.

The pill was approved by the FDA in 1959. By 1962, 1.2 million women used it; by 1963 the number doubled to 2.3 million. By 1965, 6.5 million women used oral contraceptives among the 194,302,900 American population.

I had the incredible honor of spending an afternoon with Dr. Carl Djerassi about 11 years ago.

He worked on the team that isolated progesterone, which was used in the development and initial drug trials of the first oral contraceptive. At one point, I made a comment about how exciting it was to talk with such a distinguished guest. He smiled at me and asked (like a scientist): “And how do you determine who is distinguished? What criteria are you using?”

“Well,” I responded, “our next guest to the theatre is a stage show hypnotist—and though he will be popular, every person on this campus has had their lives impacted by the birth control pill, whether consciously or not.”

He chuckled and conceded my point.

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biased, but throughout human history women have been treated pretty shabbily. What exactly it is that terrifies men so much baffles me. Perhaps our capacity for reproduction? Or our bodies?

It fascinates me that if we don’t spend any money on women’s reproductive health or birth control that somehow we will turn back the clock to a simpler, happier time and achieve some sort of Utopian dream that looks like the Eisenhower Era. Nice idea, but in 1950, Americans spent $200 million (not adjusted for inflation—that’s 1950’s dollars) on contraceptives: condoms, douches and, where available, diaphragms.

And that doesn’t include money spent on back-alley abortions. (My Aunt Dan had one, and though she survived, she could never have children after.)

To consciously choose to bring life into this world—arguably the single most important act anyone can be involved with—seems fraught with decisions. To begin with, around here it costs a lot to have a child. In 2011 a normal vaginal birth in a hospital cost over $9,000. A C-section came in at close to $15,000. In Canada the numbers are $3,195 and $5,980 respectively. In France, $2,536 and $4,625.

I wrote a column on healthcare reform two years ago that could be summed up with: “True healthcare reform is having a doctor who knows your name without having to look at the chart.” I am more than passing confused when I hear my female friends talking about getting passed around the OB/GYN practice and seeing pretty much everyone who works there. Really? For nine months you can’t see the same doctor?

Kirsti Kreutzer, co-director of Where’s My Midwife?. took the time to chat about the organization and its goals. She explained how midwifery in NC is complicated. Though perfectly legal to have a baby at home, certified professional midwives (CPM) are still seeking a path to licensure in our state. Families also can go it alone, which sounds pretty scary. Right now three certified nurse midwives practice at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, so women can have a baby in a hospital setting with a midwife, too.

“Certified nurse midwife (CNM) can be licensed, but in order to be licensed they must have a physician’s signature on the license by the state of North Carolina,” Kreutzer says. “That’s not desirable because then a midwife can’t just open a practice.

There are states where there is no physician’s signature required for licensure.”

Right now there is a bill in the NC House of Representatives that would create the framework for licensing CPMs. The bill has potential to be heard by the House Health Committee in the short session (folks can help engage our elected officials on this topic at www.NCFOM.org).

Ina May Gaskin—an internationally respected midwife and crusader for low-intervention birth (actually the only midwife to have an obstetrical procedure named for her)—re-introduced the idea to America in her book “Spiritual Midwifery.” One of the founders of The Farm in Tennessee, Gaskin will introduce the first annual Birth Activists Retreat at The Farm June 22nd through the 24th. The tireless ladies from Where’s My Midwife? will attend. Spaces are open but seats in the caravan are going fast. Kreutzer is very excited about the trip.

“Our goal when we come back is to engage the hospital and the parishioners to start taking active steps to improve options for women here and to improve communication.”

For folks who can’t make the retreat can take a training workshop for doulas (labor coach who supports women and their families through birth by providing informational, emotional and physical support and comfort). To be held at Carolina Beach Community Acupuncture, June 29th through July 1st, ToLabor—an organization of labor assistants for birth options and resources—will train doulas. The workshop is relevant for other professionals such as nurses, childbirth educators, massage therapists and anyone with an interest in birth. To register or for more info: www.tolabor.com.

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down with their son, Alex, to say their prayers. It’s one of their many daily rituals, like watching morning cartoons in bed, building the ultimate train track or attending karate classes. Christi Ferretti and Kathy WebbFerretti own and operate Pine Valley Market and CaféJohnnie in Cameron Art Museum (CAM). While their love for one another and their careers once guided their lives first and

a thoughtful text,” Kathy explains: “I voted for your beautiful family today. I did not vote against anything. I voted for inclusion. I voted to not hurt my gay friends.”

While in 2012 it’s easy to assume bigotry

foremost, when Alex came along a few short years ago, everything changed.

“Our world is Alex,” Kathy says one day, as the blonde-haired-blue-eyed boy flits about CAM, showing off a homemade tie-dyed Tshirt while enjoying Gummy Bears. “I mean it’s everything—every decision we make is no longer ours; it’s ours as a family.”

The Webb-Ferrettis happily mark their days by Alex’s thousand-watt smile. They are like any other family. They eat breakfast together, fix dinner together, enjoy weekends at the beach and family movie nights. They spend time with family and friends who support their life regardless of the recent passing of Amendment One. In fact, on May 8th, love notes speckled their Facebook pages and lit up their phones.

“One of my conservative friends sent me

should be narrowing, when putting progression in perspective, the gap has closed quite a lot over 30 years. In fact, in the mid ‘80s, as a college student, Kathy worked as a bartender locally and often worried about the outcome of being ousted in public.

“I worked in a gay bar downtown called David’s Lounge,” she says. “My friends and I used to have to run through the alley at night after I got off, for fear somebody didn’t kill, beat or shoot us. I just grew up with that hatred. I grew up having to hide being gay.”

Though Kathy had dated numerous guys in high school, her boyfriend during senior year brought it to her attention that she may be a lesbian. “I had no idea what he was talking about,” she says. “He said, ‘I’m just telling you: You need to evaluate.’”

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met her first girlfriend. Though people assume it was because Kathy had an unfortunate occurrence, she denies it forthright. “It’s just how I’m wired. I’ve never been abused, never had any bad experiences with guys.”

In essence, the emotional connection with a man never stuck.

Acceptance from Kathy’s family became the silver lining in her quest to realize her true self.

concerned with what others would do, say or think, especially being from such a small, conservative town.

“There were things she wanted me to do,” Kathy says. “She was a very funny lady, yet she was also very Southern. I was fake-dating a friend named Linwood at the time, and she wanted me to pretend we were getting married.” Her mom even wanted an engagement

FAMILY TIME: Christi Ferretti and Kathy WebbFerretti embrace tender moments with their son, Alex, at CaféJohnnie, one of their restaurants located in Cameron Art Museum. Photos by Sue Cothran

picture in the newspaper. Kathy held up the social graces until she decided to explore the world outside of small-town life. She hit the road, traveled across the country and then settled in St. Petersburg, Florida. She took a job with Reebok as a national account manager of apparel and found much success, a desire driven by her mother’s fears.

“My mom was old-school,” Kathy explains.

“She believed you needed a man to take care of you, so she worried I would become an old maid and not have anyone to look after me.”

Kathy proved she could provide for herself by climbing the corporate ladder. Amidst her travels, she would call home from every city.

“Mom just loved it,” Kathy remembers. “She was so proud of me, and I made a healthy living for a single woman, but I was very smart with my income, because I didn’t want her

Being from the farm town of Goldsboro, NC, primarily a Baptist community, Kathy’s mother made her opinions clear upon her daughter’s coming-out at 21.

“My mom looked at me and said, ‘I could handle it if one of my daughters were gay, but I couldn’t handle it if they were on drugs,’” she recalls. “I looked at her, and I just started crying. I said, ‘Mom, I’m gay.’ She got on her knees and just put her arms around me and said, ‘I know, baby.’”

Kathy’s three siblings, a stepdad and her biological father never questioned or ridiculed her lifestyle. Her mother was more

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Kathy’s mom succumbed to breast cancer in 1998. A devastating blow to the family, she left behind notes for all of her children—her final words of wishes and hopes. “My sisters would ask, ‘Well, what did yours say?’” Kathy remembers. Each letter varied in advice: quit smoking, leave your husband, live life to the fullest, make yourself happy.

“She asked that I didn’t change anything,” Kathy says. “She basically said we are who we are; God made us the way we are, and you just hold your head up high and don’t worry about what people say.”

Her mother’s validation and view of her as the most independent of the four siblings, one of whom she never worried about, gave Kathy the self-confidence and assuredness to pursue all of her dreams. She gave the eulogy at her mom’s funeral—to date, one of the hardest things she ever had to do.

“Today, I miss her more than ever,” Kathy says, “especially now that I have a son. I catch myself saying and doing the same things as my mom. I wish she were around, so I could thank her for all she did for me. You sacrifice a lot being a parent and you do it because you want to. I totally get it now.”

GIRL MEETS GIRL In St. Petersburg two paths crossed fatefully, as Kathy met an Orlando woman through a mutual friend. At first, they didn’t connect, but after hanging out at concerts and learning about their shared love for food and wine, they began seeing more of each other.

Kathy left her 11-year career at Reebok and became immersed in the wine business.

Christi had been a schoolteacher and worked for Herff Jones Yearbook Company, all the while catering on the side. They were in love and looking to relocate out of Florida and make a fresh start. Christi hadn’t talked to part of her family in four years because of her “choice” to be gay.

Originally from upstate New York, Christi endured a staunch Italian-Catholic upbringing, from a family of conservatives who believe not only does one marry the opposite sex but that their children marry within the religion and heritage, too. Like Kathy, Christi dated men throughout high school and college.

“I was super involved with a charismatic, born-again Christian church,” she says. “I still love a lot of the people there.” The church adhered to typical Evangelical rules: no sex before marriage, no drinking, no same-sex dating. Christi used religion to shield herself from facing the reality of her sexuality. At one point, she was even engaged to a guy, something she admits was partially to appease her family’s expectations. However, when she arrived at college and the University of Central Florida, she was exposed to differences in cultures and people.

“I grew up in Vero Beach, which once was small,” Christi says. “So, I really didn’t know gay people. When I went to college and met a stocky, good-looking Italian drummer, who was the center of the drumline and gay, I couldn’t

believe it. He wasn’t flamboyant and didn’t fit the stereotype I was exposed to. I lived in a very sheltered community.”

When Christi came out, she didn’t do it face-to-face with her family. She opted to send letters, specifically addressed and penned in regards to her relationship with each sibling and parent. A daddy’s girl, she went to her father first and asked that he pass on the notes.

“It was my Catholic guilt,” she says. “I didn’t want my sister to get it when she was around my niece, or for my mom to get it when she was driving.”

One of her older sisters accepted Christi from day one. Her brother sent her an e-mail: “I love you no matter what.” Her father’s reaction confirmed her ultimate fears. “I got your letters. I cannot deliver them. I am dead.”

Years passed with a lot of crying, yelling, avoiding each other and silence. Some of Christi’s family would leave town when they found out she was visiting from NC. Birthdays and holidays came and went with nary a present or card. “They are still under the belief that something happened to me to make me this way,” Christi says. “This couldn’t be further from the truth.”

While Christi’s previous girlfriends remained vehement on her taking a stand for their acceptance, Kathy proved more nurturing. She didn’t aggressively try to be in the family’s face. “Even before we started to date, Kathy’s the one who said, ‘You know your parents aren’t going to be around forever,” Christi explains.

With counseling and years of trying to reach common ground, through struggles of not hiding herself and wanting a relationship with her family, Christi picked up the phone once again.

Only this time, her news was very different.

She and Kathy, after six years of being together, had adopted a child.

PARENTS MEET CHILD Over three years Christi endured nine artificial inseminations and one in-vitro fertilization.

Each failed, and the emotional rollercoaster had taken its toll.

“The only medical diagnosis that doctors could give me for not getting pregnant on my own was that I was stressed,” Christi says.

“And my stress was multi-faceted: money, worrying if it was going to work, and the fact my family had no idea I was trying, and how they would react when they found out.”

After much consideration of adoption, they met a couple in Pine Valley Market one day who had fostered children and adopted their own out of the experience. The couple encouraged the ladies to consider becoming foster parents, but Christi and Kathy had fears of growing attached to a child that they would potentially have to give up.

The fact of the matter remained: They had exhausted their resources. Still, they never lost hope and reassured themselves: “There’s gotta be a kid who needs us.” So, they met with a NC Division of Social Services (DSS) worker, Jeanie Martindale, who embraced their candor and concerns.

diligence for Alex to be reunited with his biological parents, Kathy and Christi remained hopeful. They had to understand the system and its inner-workings to go through the adoption process.

When Alex was 10 months old, social services found his father, who needed to sign off on the adoption and relinquish parental rights.

“He could have walked in the next day and taken Alex from us,” Kathy says. “It was that simple.” Everyone remained on pins and needles.

DSS workers explained the child’s upbringing to the father and expressed the web of support which had been surrounding Alex.

“The father had more questions and asked if we owned our own home, how long we had been together, what our level of education was,” Christi explains. “He asked very good questions that showed his concern for his son’s well being.”

The father understood he was making a selfless decision for himself and the life he created. He also knew Alex would be so lucky to have two moms who loved him unconditionally. He signed the papers, a picture of Alex propped beside of him, tears streaming down his face. He had a seven-day grace period to change his mind; he asked to meet Alex.

“We agreed and met at Hugh MacRae Park,” Kathy says.

“We didn’t want it to be a DSS conference-room meeting, so we had toys and a blanket, and he came up...” Christi remembers, pausing between tears. When Alex’s father approached, both he and his son were dressed in plaid.

During their visit, they all agreed Christi and Kathy would be the primary caretakers and decision-makers. Yet Alex would have a father, too.

“I personally believe God laid out this plan as far back as when we were trying to get pregnant,” Christi says. “I think he was saying, ‘Y’all need to quit; I already know what is going to happen.’”

PEACE CHILD: Alex strikes a pose after playing with his mommies at CAM. Photo by Sue Cothran

“Will we be able to adopt even though we’re gay, and will you place kids with us?” topped their questions.

“Absolutely,” Martindale answered.

Christi was certain there were more than enough children in New Hanover County who needed safe homes. Though they thought about going oversees, they declined the idea of using a national agency.

“We fostered three little kids overnight— just overnight,” Christi says. “I dropped them off at school the next morning, and I bawled my eyes out. Even having them 12 hours, and they were sleeping for most of it, I was not prepared. I mean, my heart was breaking for what they’d gone through, or what they were going back to. It was really hard.”

Alex was born on October 26th, 2007, and 13 days later he arrived in the Webb-Ferretti home. Martindale felt he was the perfect fit for the ladies. Though the social workers and guardian ad litem on the case had to do due

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ready knew him. “We used to have Alex’s picture up by the register at Pine Valley Market,” Kathy says, “because everybody wanted to know about him.” The grandmother’s friends were regulars at the market. “It was a really cool connection,” Kathy notes.

Fifteen months after Alex’s arrival, he officially became Kathy and Christi’s son on February 9th, 2009. During the same year, Christi came to a halfway point with her Florida family.

They decided to stop playing games with one another, and work to “agree to disagree” to maintain a modicum of civility. Christi’s supportive sister allowed the Webb-Ferrettis to stay with her family during visits.

During a niece’s graduation, Christi visited and brought Alex without telling anyone. She extended the first olive branch to make Alex a part of everyone’s lives.

“I told my dad, ‘Alex is my son, we’re here,’” Christi says. “It was official; he was adopted. I told Dad, ‘I don’t have to bring him to your house, but it’s important for me that he meet you and know who you are, so we all have a choice in how to handle this.’”

Her dad called Christi’s mom whose first concern was appearances: How will others receive the news and view the family? It took a sweltering Florida afternoon for Christi’s mom to open her home and see first-handed the insurmountable love and adoration between mother and son.

“Alex got overheated at the graduation,” Christi recalls. “I had to take him away, so

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WALKING TALL: The Webb-Ferrettis stroll along the CAM grounds. Photo by Sue Cothran

Mom suggested I take him to their pool. I was told afterward that when everyone came back from graduation, I was in the pool with Alex and my nieces, and I guess he started calling me,

‘Mommy, Mommy!’ It hit my mom; she got emotional and realized I’m a mom, too.”

Last year, Christi’s father underwent treatment and major surgery for cancer, something he had battled for 20 years. Though they hadn’t mended wounds completely, they were trying. Having been through this health crisis during high school, when she and her father held close ties, emotional turmoil set in for Christi. Again, Kathy persuaded her to be there for her father. “She’s the one having lost her parents, saying, ‘You have to go, you have to go,’” Christi recalls.

Kathy and Christi stood firm on Alex knowing his family regardless of circumstances.

“I mean no matter what your differences are—and I’ve always believed no one has to validate our relationship—it’s important that our son know his grandparents,” Kathy says, “and that Christi feels good about how much she has tried to be a part of their lives. I think it’s important for her to have this time with her dad.”

During one of her father’s close brushes with death, Christi took Alex to Florida. She also took Kathy; she wanted her entire family around for support during this delicate time.

“Everybody was really respectful,” Kathy says. “I think it’s important that Alex has those pictures and memories when he gets older.

With him being adopted, it’s very important to me that he feels like he belongs. Though my family’s been there for us from day one, he needs to know both sides.”

Today, when walking inside Christi’s parents’ home, a portrait of Alex hangs on the wall among their other grandchildren’s. And it’s permanent. It’s not put up during family gatherings and stowed away once everyone leaves.

“That, I never thought I’d see,” Christi says happily. “There’s nothing more for me to push with them. Because the next step would be me wanting them to accept and embrace my lifestyle. I don’t expect to get there, and I don’t need that. I just needed for them not to pretend my life didn’t exist. At this point, I only need their love, not their acceptance. I respect them and I love them.”

ON MARRIAGE Though legally their bond is nil, Kathy and Christi recognized their devotion and love for one another in 2002 in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. They said vows to each other, exchanged rings and lit a candle all on their own. It remained simple and sweet—quite different from weddings they cater through Pine Valley Market and CaféJohnnie.

“We consider ourselves married, partnered, united—or whatever the word is,” Kathy says. “I don’t really get hung up on how to describe our commitment. Christi has shown me how to love unconditionally. There are no hidden agendas with us—we just really get each other.”

“Kathy has amazing compassion and is extremely intuitive,” Christi credits. “I love that we share everything with each other no matter how difficult it is—and we talk about things openly. She is my biggest cheerleader and

critic, which helps keep me in check.”

While they agree it’s shameful 61 percent of the state isn’t on their family’s side, it doesn’t scare either of them. Their lawyer reassured the ladies all legal documents are secure. They have wills, power of attorney, domestic partnership and co-parenting agreements under lock and key. Yet a fact remains: Only one can “legally” care for Alex.

“The state only recognizes one of us as a parent and so we go with the one who makes less money,” Kathy says, a very real pain elevated in her voice when describing how they decided whom to choose. “Quite honestly, it’s the taxpayers who pay more money now, too.”

With only one parent on the birth certificate, it means one can get single-parent child assistance and tax breaks. Still, nothing makes the passing of Amendment One acceptable to either Christi or Kathy.

“I just would like to be recognized as an equal in this world,” Kathy says. “What’s interesting is, until I was told ‘no,’ it was an understood thing that we were not able to get married anyway, so it was a non-issue.“ However, when it was put it into the ether for an entire society to actually vote on another’s rights, all bets fell. “Kathy and I decided a long time ago our time is too precious to spend with people who take more from us than they add,” Christi says. “Each and every one of us has the right to agree and disagree with others—and we also have the right to choose with whom we spend our time. We choose to surround ourselves with people who affirm us, not tolerate us.”

By working together as a family, standing tall and strong, and staying true to their hearts, they remain compassionate friends, companions, role models, businesswomen, and most importantly mommy and momma.

“I don’t need a piece of paper saying I’m married—our lives are determined by our hearts, not a ballot box,” Kathy states, “but I’d love to have a piece of paper saying we’re both Alex’s parents; that means the most to me. Our son has no idea any of this is going on, but when he gets older and asks, ‘What do you mean you’re not married?’—that’s why I want to speak up. I’m not an activist, and though we’re in the public eye with our businesses, our personal lives have been very private, until now. I want people to see faces with this movement. Even though we are part of the 39 percent, the majority does not speak for us.”

At CAM, Alex reaches up from his cup of Gummy Bears and hands Christi one.

“How much do you love your moms?” she asks.

With a smile and a twinkle in his eye, he stretches his arms out around his body. “This much!” Alex exaggerates.

“That’s a lot,” Christi says.

“Because we’re a family!” he yells back, cackling as a red Gummy Bear hits his tongue in sweet wonder. He tosses Floppy, his stuffed dog, and laughs loudly, as would any child surrounded by love.

NewsoftheWeird with Chuck Shepherd LEAD STORY In Sickness and in Health, But Not in Triviality and Tackiness All U.S. states have forms of no-fault divorce, but not England, which requires that couples prove adultery or abandonment or “unreasonable behavior,” which leads to sometimes-epic weirdness, according to an April New York Times dispatch from London. For instance, one woman’s petition blamed her husband’s insistence that she speak and dress only in Klingon. Other examples of “unreasonable behavior” (gathered by the Times of London): a husband objecting to the “malicious” preparation of his most hated dish (tuna casserole), a spouse’s noncommunication for the last 15 years (except by leaving Post-it Notes), a spouse’s too-rapid TV channelchanging, a husband’s distorting the fit of his wife’s best outfits by frequently wearing them, and one’s insistence that a pet tarantula reside in a glass case beside the marital bed.

Compelling Explanations Lame: Madison County, Ind., council member David McCartney admitted to the Herald Bulletin newspaper in March that he had exchanged “sexually explicit” emails with a female official in another county but would not resign. In fact, he said, he had engaged in the exchanges not for hanky-panky but in order to “expose corruption.”

He has not elaborated. Chris Windham, 27, was charged with improperly photographing a 57-yearold man in a men’s room in Trinity, Texas, in March after Windham, using a stall, allegedly snapped a cellphone photo of the man standing at the adjacent urinal. Windham explained that typically he braces himself with one hand on the floor while he wipes himself, and this time the hand on the floor was holding his cellphone.

Maureen Raymond, 49, said her roadside DUI test administered in January was unfair. According to records cited by Scripps Media, she told a deputy in Port St. Lucie, Fla., that she couldn’t walk a straight line “with her big boobies,” which she said makes “balancing” difficult. The deputy reported that Raymond helpfully offered to show him the evidence but that he stopped her.

Things People Believe She is not the typical gullible victim. Ms. Priti Mahalanobis is a college-educated mother of two who ran a franchised restaurant in Avalon Park, Fla., near Orlando, but when her health, her brother’s marriage and her business experienced problems, she bought a $20 psychic reading from “Mrs. Starr” (also known as Peaches Stevens).

The Orlando Sentinel reported in January that, over the next seven months, Mahalanobis lost about $135,000 in cash, jewelry and gift cards to Mrs. Starr. Astonishingly, neither Mahalanobis’ health nor her restaurant business noticeably improved! Among the remedies that Mahalanobis accepted: buying seven tabernacles ($19,000 each) to “vanquish (her family’s) negativity” and putting $100 bills and a piece of paper with her

relatives’ names written on it under her mattress along with a grapefruit (which, as everyone knows, attracts and then isolates the evil).

Things Leaders Believe Though recently elected Councillor Simon Parkes told the Scarborough Evening News in March that his work on the Whitby (England) Town Council would not be affected, he has famously (in a YouTube video) reported lifelong “horrific” invasive encounters with extra-terrestrials, including many visits from a 9-foot-tall, green “mother”like being who sends him “messages” through his eyes, down his optic nerve to his brain.

Arni Johnsen, a member of Iceland’s Parliament, survived a serious 2010 automobile crash a stroke of good fortune he has since attributed to a family of elves (three generations, in fact, according to an “elf specialist”) who live in a boulder near the crash site. Iceland’s Morgunbladid newspaper reported that Johnsen recently had the 30-ton boulder relocated to his own property, which he said affords the elves a better view than at their previous home. (Another elf “authority” told reporters, however, that relocating the family was bound to bring Johnsen bad luck.)

Ironies A three-truck crash on Interstate 40 in Albuquerque, N.M., in May destroyed one truck and sent two people to the hospital with minor injuries. One tractor-trailer carrying a load of charcoal and charcoal lighter fluid crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer carrying frozen meat. The lighter fluid facilitated a huge fireball/barbecue.

Only in Muncie: In April, Christina Reber, 43, was charged with assault after she entered the home of her “on-again, off-again” boyfriend in Muncie, Ind., punched him in the head numerous times and squeezed his scrotum until he finally pried her fingers loose. He was taken to Muncie’s Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Muncie college student Bakhtiyor Khafizov, 21, was arrested in April for allegedly attacking a former girlfriend in her campus dorm room. The woman said she escaped only by kicking him in the groin. The students attend Ball State University.

Obsession Felix Velazquez’s meticulous attention to detail could have served him well in legitimate endeavors, but was unfortunately displayed in a recent attempt to stalk an ex-girlfriend in Broward County, Fla. He had already been to prison for a 2008 stalking when he allegedly devised a fake double kidnapping of her and him so that he could “rescue” her and win back her affections.

According to prosecutors, he created 23 pages of maps, photos and, reported the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, an “encyclopedic amount of detail about (the woman’s) routine, her appearance, friends and driving routes to work” and thought he had convinced a former cellmate to do the abduction. However, as frequently happens, the

cellmate got queasy and told police, who devised their own elaborate ruse to sting Velazquez. He is awaiting trial.

The Litigious Society The family of a 13-year-old girl filed a lawsuit in Queensland, Australia, in April after their daughter, in a physical education tennis class at an upscale private school in Mudgeeraba, was hit in the eye by a bad shot from a fellow 13-year-old.

The injury came as the girls were “smashing” balls back to each other from the baseline during a lesson. (Brisbane’s Courier-Mail newspaper reported that several schools in Queensland state have banned such “dangerous” schoolyard activities as “cartwheels” and “red rover.”)

Henry Wolf filed a lawsuit in April in San Francisco against BMW, claiming that the Corbin-Pacific seat on its 1993 motorcycle formed such a “ridge” that Wolf developed painful priapism that has plagued him since he made a four-hour ride in May 2010. (Although the actual length of each priapic episode was not disclosed in the lawsuit’s initial filing.)

Creme de la Weird Fetishists on Parade: Gary Paterson, 36, was sentenced to community service and psychotherapy after being convicted of trying to lick clean the shoes of four boys (Glenrothes, Scotland, January).

Robert Van Wagner, 33, was arrested after three girls (ages 12 and 13) told police he asked them to put on socks he gave them and to run around a field so he could watch. (Port St. Lucie, Fla., April) Tetsuya Ichikawa, 50, was arrested after approaching a 25-year-old woman from behind in a restaurant and licking her hair (Shizuoka, Japan, April).

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tentially great and hilarious shows will be opening this week. First up is the Wilmington premiere of “Legally Blonde: The Musical” from Opera House Theatre Company. Opening at Thalian Hall on Wednesday, June 6th, it’s a story many are familiar with thanks to the Reese Witherspoon and Luke Wilson movie from 2001.

Having become a popular Broadway musical since its debut in 2007, the show stays true to the film, according to its director Ray Kennedy: “It is very, very close to the original story.” The plot involves love, empowerment and perseverance, following Elle Woods, a former sorority girl who decides to attend Harvard Law School after being dumped by her boyfriend for someone more serious. The blonde’s bubbly disposition, love for the color pink, and penchant for carrying her pet chihuahua around like an accessory do not win over scholars. But what does impress is her ability to remain focused and determined by hard work and being true to self.

Kennedy, who has been with the Opera House Theatre Company since 1988, is very excited about his newest show, which includes 38 performers. “There are a lot of actors that I’ve worked with many times before, but there are also a lot of new faces,” Kennedy states. “It’s really a mix.”

Returning Wilmingtonian Erin Sullivan will take on the irresistible Elle Woods. Though Sullivan grew up in Wilmington, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting after she graduated high school in 2000. Since, she has acted in several national tours, including “Hairspray,” “Grease,” “The Wedding Singer” and most recently “Shrek: The Musical.” Even though she’s achieved her dream of being a successful actress, there has always been one role she wanted to take on: Elle Woods. She was even on MTV’s reality show, “Legally Blonde—The Musical: The Search For Elle Woods” where she placed 24th. Naturally, when her hometown theatre group came-a-knockin’, she just couldn’t pass it up.

“This is an absolute dream come true for me,” Sullivan gushes. “I grew up in Thalian Hall and on that

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Kennedy seems to be equally thrilled to have her onboard. “She’s perfect,” he exclaims. “She’s blonde, perky and petite—a great singer, a great dancer, with a perpetually sunny disposition and, believe it or not, she has a chihuahua!”

Kennedy’s love for the Elle Woods character is what most people will find appealing about the Opera House production, a company which continues making bold choices in doing new shows. “She’s a game changer,” Kennedy says. “She has a goal and a strong personality. People look at blonde women and try to stereotype—and I hate stereotypes.”

“Everybody has a little bit of Elle Woods in them,” Sullivan confirms.

With high production and top-notch talent, “Legally Blonde: The Musical” will be running June 6-10, 15-17, and 22-24. All performances begin at 8 p.m., except Sunday matinees, which begin at 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $23 for seniors, students, and military.

THE FOREIGNER Big Dawg Productions welcomes their latest season and with a new artistic director, nonetheless, Steve Vernon. However, the choice to showcase “The Foreigner” belongs to their former artistic director, Ken Cressman, who put together the entire 2012 season before his exit. Presenting “The Foreigner,” written by Larry Shue, an American playwright, the show will be directed by Big Dawg veteran Pamela Grier. “Not only is it an amazingly funny show but it’s also fairly popular,” she says.

Following two men, Sergeant “Froggy” LaSeuer, and his painfully timid friend, Charlie Baker, during a visit to a rural Georgia fishing lodge, the show embraces the kooky hilarity often present between mixed company. “Froggy” tells the lodge guests that Charlie is a foreigner who doesn’t speak English. Why? So Charlie won’t be forced into conversations with anyone. Chaos ensues when many of the characters begin discussing their personal lives in front of Charlie, assuming he can’t comprehend the discussion any way. While some characters become incredibly fascinated with Char-

lie, because they’ve never seen a “real foreigner” before, lots of undesired attention lands upon the man’s inherent apprehension.

It’s a comparably small production, with only seven actors playing a slew of funny, twisted characters: ranging from a spoiled Southern belle, to a preacher with a dark side, a simple young boy trying to teach Charlie English, to a property inspector who plans to convert the lodge into a meeting place for the Ku Klux Klan. Grier kept these traits in mind as she was casting for the show.

“I was looking for actors who were very natural and didn’t try to be funny,” she explains. “The comedy in the show comes from the fact that the characters take themselves so seriously.”

She also kept the characters’ odd personalities in mind as they prepared the set’s fishing lodge in small-town Georgia. “It reflects the extremely Southern culture these characters have lived in their whole lives,” Grier notes.

Though creative liberties are often taken with various plays and its directors, Grier did not feel the need to mess with anything from the original script. Instead, she opted to keep it simple. “We’re being very straightforward,” Grier assures. “The show itself doesn’t need anything extra or flashy to be enjoyable.”

With auditions held in April, they all have been working full-steam on the show ever since. Opening-night will come as a relief from their staunch rehearsals.

“I’m looking forward to people other than myself getting to see the amazing work these actors are doing,” Grier shares. “They deserve the praise and recognition that I know they’re going to get. No matter what type of comedy you like (slapstick, dry, etc.) there is something in this play for everyone.”

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Shakespeare on the Green illuminates with ‘Midsummer’

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Green is celebrating their 20th anniversary this year with a reprisal of their inaugural production in 1993, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” It is stunning to think that for 20 years, a community of our size has been able to enjoy Shakespeare in the park—err, at the lake—for free every summer. Face it, this isn’t Manhattan. But in the early ‘90s, when New Hanover County had a population of just under 107,000, the late Stan Norman announced the beginning of the summer tradition that now many people look forward to seeing every year. It was a pretty remarkable idea to carry forth in our small town, which now thrives on its burgeoning theatre scene.

Greenfield Lake is one of my favorite parts of living here—and to enjoy outdoor drama there is a lovely experience. For a show like “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the venue couldn’t be more perfect or realistic. The show turns on the premise that four mortals Hermia (Elyse Rodriguez), Lysander (James Middleton), Helena (Tamica Katzmann) and

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ensue, and Titania falls madly in love with the jackass-headed mortal.

Meanwhile Bottom’s cohorts Peter Quince (Mark Basquill), Robin Starveling (Steve Gallian), Snug the Joiner (Steve Bevels), Tom Snout (Rolland Lamberton) and Francis Flute (Kewas Cambelloff) face a variety of problems: They must find their friend and the show must go on. Never fear in true Shakespearean comedy-style, all ends happily with lovers finding the right mate and joy to all.

I love the “rude mechanicals,” the tradesmen producing the play within the play. They are my favorite part of the show. Maybe it’s from a lifetime love of community theatre; they are the “Waiting for Guffman” of the 16th century: so well-meaning, so serious. If it can go wrong for them, it will.

Director Steve Vernon endures a wicked sense of humor about casting. What an interesting choice to select local playwright Mark Basquill (and former collaborator with Vernon) as Peter Quince, a very frustrated playwright nonetheless! Basquill brings a lot of realism to the role, as one used to reasoning and cajoling with uncooperative teenagers (he’s a father to a few), as he tries desperately to wrangle this disparate group into something usable.

But Steve Bevels as Snug the Joiner stole my heart (and the rest of the audience’s), trying to scare himself into being the lion. He is the ultimate cameo actor who over-rehearses his one line. Still, he is so funny, so sweet and so scared of his own roar that I couldn’t help but giggle every time he came onstage.

Cambelloff as Francis Flute was a nice surprise, since usually he is to be found in a light booth at Big Dawg Productions. This was the first time I had seen him onstage, and he has a natural feel for comedic timing. Combine that with a series of costume malfunctions that could be planned or could be spontaneous, and he had the audience in stitches during the performance of the play within the play.

Of course, it is Bottom, of all the rude mechanicals, who upstages everyone (indeed that is what his part is written to do). Kevin Wilson plays the character with a straight face (even under that donkey mask), and there is no such thing as too big or loud in this rendition. Bottom is a character that all of us know (and probably more of us embody); he is loud, boastful, and incapable of letting anyone else do or say anything! Wilson infuses him with an endless energy that garners a constant stream of laughs.

Wilson is also a talented dramatic actor, as those familiar with his work will attest. During his big final monologue, after he has been changed back into a human, Vernon brings

Titania downstage opposite him and the air between them literally tingles. It’s palpable.

It also takes two really strong performers to make the audience a key part of that experience—not something we are watching, rather something we are feeling.

Melissa Stanley as Titania is an interesting choice. She doesn’t play the Fairy Queen as capricious, flighty or overly ethereal. In her hands, Titania is a ruler who takes her job seriously. Anna Gamel’s Puck, on the other hand, is everything one would expect: playful, at times spiteful, and a sprite to be. She leaps! She jumps! She dances! Exclamation points follow her wherever she goes. She’s thin to begin with, but this performance would make anyone lose weight (I’m pretty sure I’ve been to aerobics classes that involved less activity).

My theatre companion commented after the show that Gamel was his favorite Puck yet. I think that might be tied to the actress’ careful delivery of her lines. It could be easy with all that jumping and running around to let the words run together. Elizabethan English is tough on the modern ear, but Gamel is very careful to make Puck understandable.

Actually, Vernon has done a masterful job of making all the dialog clear and accessible with very obvious, easy-to-follow blocking and visual cues. Anyone easily intimidated

by Shakespeare will find this a good production to ease into; it is one of the most accessible I have ever seen.

The mortals are incredibly human and fallible. Early on Rodriguez wins over the audience with her joyful display of excitement when Lysander asks her to elope. She puts into physicality what most women feel and think at the moment of a proposal. The mortals are the most likely part of the show to drag, but not so with these four.

Middleton’s Lysander and McKay’s Demetrius are well-matched. They are equally handsome, and equally prepared to fight for love and honor. McKay and Middelton both have an endless energy for a nearly slapstick interchange with each other, the women and their superiors. Of them all, I left with a real soft spot for Katzmann’s Helena who is driven beyond desperation. Her face, her body, her voice all carry the hallmarks of one who has forsaken dignity because she cannot live a moment longer without what she seeks.

We really are much more lucky than we realize to have Shakespeare on the Green here every year. The 20th anniversary show does great credit to the tradition, and it would be a shame to miss it. (By the way: special congratulation to Tamica Katzmann on her engagement. The encore performance of the proposal was exceptional. Bravo!)

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knife-like wounds cut by hypnotic trance as Ryan Lewis of 910 Noise revels in experimental sound. It can be daunting, jostling, awakening and equally engaging as blurred lines cross between a tweakedout, overly produced guitar riff, and Lewis’ infectious enunciation on his latest rant or rave.

910 Noise (a.k.a. area code noise) expands noise properties, bringing to the forefront all sounds as art, from the scratchiest bleeps to the innate, soothing sounds of nature.

While Lewis is best known for 910 Noise, art always has inspired him—and in all forms.

He studied filmmaking at Florida Metropolitan University and found himself drawn to sound and vision as an outlet of expression.

“I thought there was a confinement within the very medium that was intended for the visually and auditory-inclined,” Lewis says of his courses. “Stretching the medium that you are working in, beyond its normal limits and ‘guidelines,’ is something I am attracted to.”

Though its linear boundaries didn’t inspire Lewis, he graduated with a degree still. Just last year he saw his first film, “Hayagriva,” an

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“I produced and scored it in Wilmington,” he says, “and a second one is in production right now. Its soundtrack will also be original, composed using found objects, metal pieces, synthesizers and broken music instruments.”

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His work allows the viewer or listener freedom to explore his or her imagination and interpretation of visual and auditory snapshots.

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FREE: Ryan Lewis’ abstract works, including “Free,” are a part of Melodic Owl Dreams, now hanging at Bottega through July. Courtesy photo

“My first art memory is probably a collaboration collage with a friend that we did with a collection of cut-out photos from a 1950’s National Geographic,” he says. “They contained amazing images from around the globe that we kind of pieced together in our own storylines.”

Today his artistic endeavors contain sensory objectives consisting of subconscious subject matter, still fluid-flowing, according to Lewis. “All the film work, all the noise or sound art and paintings are me, my soul,” he says. “They are all diverse in their own right; it’s all one-in-the-same but can be accepted by different types of people for different reasons, for obvious reasons—if that makes any sense,” he concludes with a laugh.

Though painting and drawing for 22 years, Lewis currently has his first solo show, “Melodic Owl Dreams,” hanging at Bottega.

When he was working in his studio in the spring, Lewis noted a flock of barrel owls nesting. Their hoots and interactions commanded his attention.

“At first, I was thrilled,” he says. “But after the fifth straight night of no sleep, I began to really have some intense dreams. The

owls were carrying me through a transition in my life, pushing me to fly on my own and be my very best.”

Their ethereal inspiration dictates the artist’s current 27 works. Lewis’ color palette varies from primary reds and blues to contrasting pastels, whites and greys. Words find their way onto canvas on some, as brush strokes make textural maps and add depth.

“The paintings depict sounds, something that just happened on its own,” Lewis says of his process. “I suppose it’s a natural extension of my other avant-garde projects.”

Having been included in numerous group shows, a multitude of sonic effects become the dance of Lewis’ art. Paintings are created in tandem and by the inspiration of audio recordings, CDs, tapes or reel-to-reel film stock.

“There is a piece now called ‘Music for Falcons Part V,’” Lewis explains. “The piece uses mini CDs that are exploding with radiant colors, and, at the same time, a huge tornado of red (maybe blood) which I hope depicts the pure passion of art and sound together as one—with the yin-yang of dark and light.”

Likewise, he has a piece comprising 35mm film stock, something he wants to integrate more of into his work. In fact, the entire collection is part of something grander in scale according to the artist.

“I don’t want to divulge it right now,” he says apprehensively, “but it does involve sound work.” He expects to paint the gamut, from minute softness to frenetic-paced excitement. “I am visualizing an up-down, very fast pace of minimal to crashing to swaying sounds, and perhaps back to silence when I am working on them.”

Lewis’ Melodic Owl Dreams hangs at Bottega Art Bar and Gallery through July, sponsored by Art Soup, an arts organization which educates and promotes performance and arts appreciation across the Cape Fear. To view more of Ryan Lewis’ work, head over to http://obscuraart.com.

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2165 Wrightsville Ave. • (910) 343 5233 Mon.-Sat., noon-7 p.m. www.artfuelinc.com Artfuel.inc is a multimedia studio and art gallery, now located at the intersection of Wrightsville Avenue and Dawson Street.Artfuel’s 30th art show features Tuki Lucero, Jonas Mcluggage, Brian Mergenthaler, Stephen Bode, Nicole Nicole.

ARTEXPOSURE!

22527 Highway 17N, Hampstead, NC 910-803-0302 / 910-330-4077 Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (or by appt.) artexposure50.com From Wilmington, drive north on Highway 17 and you will encounter an art center unique to our area. Look for the big red barn! A large open space hosts 2nd Friday Opening Receptions each month at 6 p.m. Representing over 40 local and regional artists in our member’s gallery, we offer local arts and crafts in our gift shop. ArtExposure presently has studio space rented to five working artists. In addition, there is a frame shop and art supply store. Also available for receptions, weddings, meetings and the like. Along with its large open space downstairs, there is a loft area upstairs suitable for smaller gatherings.

Lynn Padgett, a local watercolor artist will be on display through June 5th. The June show is open to all NC artists. Go to the “Opportunities for Artists” page on the website to download an entry form. The theme is Pets and Animals.”

Along with regular art classes and studio time, yoga meet Mondays and Wednesdays, 6 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m. in the loft. Walk-ins are welcome to this gentle yoga class

FIGMENTS

1319 Military Cutoff Rd. Ste. II 910-509-4289 • figmentsgallery.com Mon.-Fri.: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

“Figments is an art gallery brimming with unlimited creative vision and talent. We are a community of artists who are passionate about the journey of artful creation. We have an unintimidating art boutique where you can find locally made artwork for your home. We also have a relaxed classroom space where students of all skill levels can learn and grow creatively. Come. Be inspired.

Please visit our gallery in Landfall Shopping Center at 1319 Military Cutoff Road in Wilmington, or look to our website at www. figmentsgallery.com for information on these classes and more: Living Words—Foundations of Poetry Writing with Michelle Hicks, Studio Oil Painting Workshops and Demonstrations with Alessandro Giambra, Broken Plate Mo-

ists. Almost every genre is represented here—oil, pastel and watercolor, clay and glass art, fiber art, turned wood, metal works, artisan-crafted jewelry and more. Classes, workshops, pottery studio, custom framing, Creative Exchange lecture series and Coffee With the Author series are also offered onsite.

The next featured show runs through Thursday, May 31. It’s titled “Feed Your Eclectic Soul: A showing of custom design, fine crafts and gently loved pieces from the past.” Sunset River will have a beautiful collection of unusual pillows, textural table runners and other fabric pieces by Beth Pethtal combined with gallery owner Ginny Lassiter’s eclectic eye for incorporating antiques, pottery and contemporary pieces into a warm and cohesive design.

saic with Mary Cook, Light and Loose Acrylic on Canvas with Alice Houston, Intro to Clay with Pauline Purdim, Get Wet and Wild with Yupo with Christine Farley, Mixed Media with Artist Michelle Connolly and more!”

NEW ELEMENTS GALLERY

201 Princess St. (919) 343-8997 Tues.-Sat.: 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (or by appt.) newelementsgallery.com “Outside the Lines,” showcasing works by local artist Michael Van Hout, is now on display. Hout is a graduate of UNCG and began creating his earliest sculptures in a folk-art style from found materials. Outside the Lines will feature a variety of Van Hout’s figurative pieces. He has expanded his subject matter to include musicians, portrait heads and people performing everyday activities using his signature wire sculpture techniques. The exhibition will hang through June 16th.

ORTON’S UNDERGROUND ART GALLERIES

133 N. Front • (910) 859-8441 Everyday after 5 p.m. www.ortonsuderground.com America’s oldest pool hall and Wilmington’s finest bar are also the home of Wilmington’s newest art galleries. Currently showing in the gallery: “The Long Perspective.” Immerse yourself in the bold lines and vibrant colors of art by local artist Lance Strickland. Opening Fri., June 15th at 8 p.m. is the Toilet Seat Art Show, “Art a la commode.” Peruse an amazing collection of painted poopers from some of the best local and regional artists, organized by Robert Kass. 10% of all art sales goes to the Full Belly Project.

WICKED GALLERY

WICKED GALLERY: Now showing ‘The Whimsy,’ featuring works from Allison Weeks Thomas— such as ‘Rosa (Sugar Skull Girls)’—and those from four other artists. Courtesy photo.

Wilmington through the eyes of a local!

SUNSET RIVER MARKETPLACE 10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999 Tues.- Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. sunsetrivermarketplace.com This eclectic, spacious gallery, located in the historic fishing village of Calabash, NC, features fine arts and crafts by some of North and South Carolina’s most creative, successful art-

205 Princess St. • (910) 960-7306 Tues. 12-5 p.m.

Wed.-Sat. 6:30-11:30 p.m. onewickedgallery.com Wicked is home to Gabriel Lehman’s studios upstairs. Gabriel’s paintings are whimsical and fanciful, yet sometimes dark, putting the viewer immediately in touch with their inner child. We have a great fondness for his exquisite work, and we celebrate the fantastic characters of his artistic world. In our floor-level gallery, we are currently hanging “The Whimsy,” a show with insanely ingenious artists all defining the magical, clever and fantastical whimsy in art.

On June 18th, Wicked hosts the meeting for Humanist and Freethinkers of the Cape Fear—for more info visit www.meetup.com/ humanism-182. Rope class will take place on June 20th at 6:30pm, where folks can practice tying ropes in the fashion of Japanese Shibari.

RIVER TO SEA GALLERY

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

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

Our current exhibit “Morning Has Broken” features works by Janet Parker. Come see Janet’s bold use of color and texture to reveal local marsh creeks and structures. Experience

Open for Brunch and Dinner on Mother’s Day! Brunch 11am-2pm Dinner 5pm-Until

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LIVE MUSIC

Fridays & Saturdays 7-10PM Outside on the back deck weather permitting 138 South Front Street Downtown Wilmington (910) 251-0433

Friday, June 8 DANIEL PARRISH Saturday, June 9 JEREMY NORRIS Monday, June 11 TBA 6-8:30 Friday, June 15 MYKEL BARBEE Saturday, June 16 2 CENTS WORTH Monday, June 18 RANDY MCQUAY 6-8:30 Friday, June 22 DAVE MEYER Saturday, June 23 BRENT STIMMEL DUO Monday, June 25 FRED FLYNN 6-8:30 Friday, June 29 TYLER SIMMONS Saturday, June 30 JOHN FONVIELLE DUO Monday, July 2 TBA 6-8:30 Wed., July 4 JESSE STOCKTON (6-9:15) Fri., July 6 COSMIC GROOVE LIZARD DUO- MARK Saturday, July 7 FORTCH Monday, July 9 RANDY MCQUAY 6-8:30 Fri., July 13 COSMIC GROOVE LIZARD DUO-PERRY Saturday, July 14 2 CENTS WORTH Monday, July 16 FRED FLYNN 6-8:30 Friday, July 20 BRENT STIMMEL DUO Saturday, July 21 DAVE MEYER Monday, July 23 TBA 6-8:30 Friday, July 27 JOHN FONVIELLE Saturday, July 28 JESSICA COPPOLA

In riverfront park • music starts at 6 p.m.

JUNE 8: Funky Monks, Ultimate Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute JUNE 15: Girlz Girlz Girlz,

80’s Hair Tribute Band JUNE 22: Frontiers, Journey Tribute

on stage this week

RED HOT SUMMER: Fans of Flea will engage in punk revelry as Funky Monks performs at Downtown Sundown along the riverwalk on Friday, June 8th. Comprised of Paul Guziec (drums), Mike Walker (guitar), Ryan Machnica (vocals) and Jeff Genualdi (bass), the quirky foursome has a catalogue of over 80 songs—honing in on their name as a Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band and also playing kickin’ live jams.

Funky Monks has played as far south as the Dominican Republic and Mexico, as far north as Michigan and Wisconsin, and as far west as Las Vegas. In true RHCP style, every show with this band is a celebration, and most importantly, a highly accurate tribute. Courtesy photo

LIVE MUSIC EVERY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY

OCEANIC SUMMER MUSIC SERIES JUNE JULY

07 09 14 16

Mykel Barbee Mike Frusha Travis Shallow Mike Frusha

21 23 28 30

Mykel Barbee Travis Shallow Rob Ronner Selah Dubb

05 07 12 14

Travis Shallow Mike Frusha Mykel Barbee Seluh Dubb

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LIVE MUSIC SUNDAY EVENINGS

SUMMER MUSIC LINEUP JUNE June 10 - CENTRAL PARK June 17 - MARK ROBERTS June 24 - OVERTYME

JULY July 1 - BACK OF THE BOAT TOUR July 8 - HEART & SOUL July 15 - MACHINE GUN July 22 - CENTRAL PARK

910-256-8500 • 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach www.bluewaterdining.com

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Justin Ryan offers hope to GLBTQIA youth

L

ove and acceptance: it’s the

message Justin Ryan hopes to communicate at his upcoming concert in Wilmington in celebration of the week of Pride. On June 9th Ryan will be singing at the local St. Jude Metropolitan Community Church as a part of his current tour, “I’ve Been There,” which promotes his upcoming record of the same name.

“I’ve Been There” will be released September 13th and is Ryan’s fourth solo CD since 2006. Other albums include “Surrender,” “Revive Us Again: Timeless Hymns,” “Treasured Friends” and “Where I’m Goin’.” Written by Marsha Stevens-Pino, “I’ve Been There” was first introduced as a track on his 2006 album, “Surrender.”

Six years later Ryan is using the EP to address and remember the many GLBTQIA youth suicides—unfortunate occurences continuously happening today. “This project is dedicated to the memory of those who took their lives,” Ryan tells encore, “so that the world will know what they failed to know: the simple fact that there is a community of people who care about them and are still honoring their memory.”

The album comprises 12 songs, including a duet with legendary GLBTQIA Evangelist Marsha Stevens-Pino on “Can You Reach Me From Here.” Also included are resources for GLBTQIA youth who face bullying and rejection.

An excerpt from the title song illustrates Ryan’s own journey: “I felt the wounds, I kept the scars/I can meet them where they are/I can feel their pain cause I’ve been there.”

Ryan grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, with his mom, dad and little brother. Very much involved in their local church, his family attended worship every time the doors opened. Ryan loved going to church and connected especially with hymns.

“I would sing the hymns at an early age, with all my might,” he says, “never knowing that one day I might not feel like the church or God was for me.”

Even in youth Ryan’s love for music became evident. With encouragement from his grandmother, he started singing publicly by the time he was 8 years old. During this time, his parents divorced and he began to realize he didn’t feel the same as other children he knew.

“I had to hide my attraction to the boys,” Ryan acknowledges. “I knew from the age

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GUIDED BY THE LIGHT: Justin Ryan will perform his gospel-country sound at St. Jude MCC on Saturday at 7 p.m. Courtesy photo

of 9 I was different, and also at that time, I clued in at church that this kind of attraction was bad.”

He still traveled around his hometown, singing in different churches as a teenager.

When he turned 17, everything changed.

The band he was in discovered he was a homosexual, so they terminated his position.

Ryan took the opportunity to come out to his family. Sadly, his family responded in the same way: they kicked him out of his home.

Ryan had been abandoned by his family, friends and church. Eventually, he changed his last name so his family wouldn’t have to be associated with him.

Ryan lived with a few different friends and families in the area until he started a relationship with an older man. The relationship ended up being physically abusive, at which point Ryan felt lost and disillusioned.

“Everyone around me was telling me that God didn’t love me,” he remembers. “I think one of the things that is hard about being gay, that is different from any other minority, is that you are alienated by the very people who should be accepting you: your family and the church.”

When he found out his boyfriend had cheated on him, Ryan couldn’t take anymore. “I attempted to take my own life,” he shares. “Of course, God had another plan, but I didn’t see that at the time. I was mad that I had survived and didn’t know what the next step was.”

Not long after, things began to take a turn for the better. A gay man Ryan worked with at a local retail store invited him to church.

A very apprehensive Ryan succumbed only after finding out it was accepting of the GLBTQIA community. It turned out to be an important decision.

“What a moving experience I had,” Ryan declares. “After people in my world were telling me God hated me, I realized this was not the case. Church and society may reinforce bad feelings, but it doesn’t have to be that way—and it’s not God’s way.”

Also through his newfound church, MCC of Paducah, Ryan met Marsha Stevens-Pino. He later moved to Sarasota, Florida, with her to continue his career in music.

Since, Ryan has become an accomplished background vocalist, singing with Porter Wagoner, Dottie Rambo, Christie Lynn, Mel Tillis, Lulu Roman, T. Graham Brown, Ralph Stanley and others. His solo career has taken off, as he travels and sings both Christian and country music.

With a background peppered with its fair share of ups and downs, he wants his current tour to reach out to struggling teens in a hopeful way. “I hope GLBTQIA youth will be able to discover that there are places in their communities they can turn to if they’ve been bullied or if they feel like no one cares,” Ryan says. “I was one of the lucky ones to have discovered that there was a loving community of Christians and to know that the God I thought had forgotten me was really there all along.”

While Ryan has made progress with his mother over the last few years, he still struggles with his father’s acceptance of him. He says he continues to pray about it daily.

Justin Ryan will perform a concert at St. Jude MCC, located at 19 N. 26th Street, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 9th. The concert is free but an offering for Justin’s ministry will be taken and his music will be for sale. For more information, visit Ryan’s official website at www.justinryanonline.com.

shows of the week Mike Blair and the Stonewalls Cameron Art Museum 3201 South 17th Street 6/7, 7 p.m. • $5 - $10

Americana/rock group Mike Blair and the Stonewalls has quickly become one of Wilmington’s favorite local bands. The band is comprised of two sets of siblings: Mike Blair (vocals, guitar) and Sara Blair (vocals) along with David Graham (bass) and Michael Graham (electric guitar). Their friends Nathan Purifoy (keys) and Keith Butler Jr. (drums) join the family affair with haunting tunes that echo throughout every venue they grace with their talents. Don’t miss Mike Blair and the Stonewalls as they enchant the CAM courtyard with soulful songs from their album “The Print.”

Orgone

Soapbox Laundro-Lounge, 255 N. Front St. 6/10, 8 p.m. • $10-$13/door

Pronounced with a long “O,” Los Angelesbased group Orgone combines funk, soul, and reggae into one with their hypnotic beats, making it impossible to stand still. The tenmember band formed in 1999 and has been grooving together ever since, touring around the nation and causing audiences to get an instant case of dance fever. Wilmington will be infected with the fever on June 10. Folks should put on their boogie shoes and head to the Soapbox for an unforgettable night.

All weekly music is listed on the soundboard pages.

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a preview of tunes all over town this week

WEDNESDAYS

LIVE MUSIC LINEUP 8pm-12mid Fri. June 8th

Kennedy Park

8PM-10PM

Sat. June 9th

followed by Live music on the patio by

Back 2 Back

10PM-12AM

JEREMY NORRIS

Fri. June 15th

Forrest Tabor Sat. June 16th

LIVE MUSIC

Friday June 8th

Steven Compton

Full Dish

8pm-11pm LIVE MUSIC

Friday June 15th

Mark Daffer

F

8pm-11pm Monkey Junction 910.392.7224

206 Old Eastwood Rd. (by Home Depot)

910.798.9464

TUNES FOR CHARITY: Beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 9th, Tigger Clarkson Band will kick-off a musical showcase at The Whiskey.

All donations received at the event will go directly to The CARE Project, an organization dedicated to children with hearing challenges. Doors open at 4:30 and free beer—yes, free beer—will flow starting at 5 p.m. Courtesy photo

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6

1423 S. 3rd St. 763-1607

MONDAY 2.50 Budweiser Draft $ 4 Wells 65¢ wings, 4-7 p. m.

TUE: djBe KARAOKE 8:30 p.m.

1/2 off Wine Botles & $4 Magner’s Irish Cider $

$

TUESDAY Sky Blue $3.00 $ 4.50 Absolute lemonade 65¢ wings, 4-7 p. m.

WED: PINT NITE 4 20 oz. Guinness Pints

THUR: TRIVIA w/Steve 8:00 p.m. • PRIZES! $ 2.50 Yuengling Drafts

WEDNESDAY $ 2.50 Yuengling Draft $ 2.50 Domestic Bottles 65¢ wings, 4-7 p. m.

FRI: LIVE IRISH MUSIC Inquire for details $ 2 Longnecks

THURSDAY 3.00 Samuel Adams $ 4.00 Margaritas

$

SAT: JAMES JARVIS Acoustic Jazz Piano

FRIDAY 3 Pint of the Day

$

djBe KARAOKE 9 p.m. $

SATURDAY 5 Sangria & Mimosa’s

2 PBR Longnecks

SUN: IRISH BRUNCH 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. $ 4 Bloody Mary’s and Mimosa’s JULY 1: OPEN MIC 8 p.m. - 12 a.m.

$

SUNDAY 5 Bloody Mary’s & Mimosa’s *Drink specials run all day

$

N. Water Street & Walnut Street Downtown Wilmington 910-762-4354

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KARAOKE WITH HELLZ BELLE —Marina Cafe, 110 S. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 938-2002 ACOUSTIC JAZZ PIANO WITH JAMES JARVIS —Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 DJ JAY —Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677 KARAOKE WITH DJ RICH DELUX —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 SOIREE D’ELECTRONICA WITH DJ DROBOT —Projekte, 523 South 3rd St., 352-0236 DJ SIR NICK BLAND —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 BENNY HILL —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115

JOSH SOLOMON & CARY BENJAMIN —Black Sheep Tavern, 21 N. Front St. (basement); 399-3056 GARY ALLEN’S ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 J. SWAN DOOLEY —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 FRED FLYNN —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 7721400 THE KALOB GRIFFIN BAND —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 ROB RONNER —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 MAC & JUICE —Dockside; 1308 Airlie Rd., 256-2752 DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 KARAOKE WITH DJ BREWTAL —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341 DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 LIVE ACOUSTIC

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

THE LERIN WILLIAMS TRIO (JAZZ, 8:30 P.M.) —Projekte, 523 South 3rd St., 352-0236

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 TRIVIA WITH STEVE —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 ROCKIN’ TRIVIA WITH PARTY GRAS DJ (9 P.M.) —Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 920 Town Center Dr.; 509-0805 KARAOKE —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269 OPEN MIC WITH JEREMY NORRIS —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 LIVE ACOUSTIC —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH TOMMY HUTCHINSON

—Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621

FRIED LOT —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115 TEAM TRIVIA WITH DUTCH HAWK —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 COLLEGE NIGHT WITH DJ BATTLE —Brikhouse, 208 Market St.; 523-5833 DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 DJ SWEAT —Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677 DUELING PIANOS —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 MYKEL BARBEE —Oceanic, Oceanfront Wrightsville Beach; 256-5551 STAND-UP COMEDY (6:30-8:30PM) —Barista Cafe, 225 S. Water St.; 399-3108 THE NOSERIDERS —Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 S. Lake Blvd; 458-2000

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MIKE O’DONNELL —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 SEA PANS —Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 MIKE BLAIR AND THE STONEWALLS —Cameron Art Museum; 3201 South 17th St., 395-5999 FIRESPINNING AND DRUMS; BURLESQUE CABARET SHOW WITH DEANNA DANGER —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 KARAOKE WITH DJ DAMON —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 TOP 40 DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 LOW TECH ARMY —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 ANNIE JEWELL —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St. CURREN$Y, STYLES P, MORE —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 LOWTECH ARMY —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088

FRIDAY, JUNE 8 JAZZ WITH BENNY HILL —Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395 E.S.P. —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 SNACK CRACKER —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 DUELING PIANOS —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 DJ BATTLE —Dirty Martini, 1904 Eastwood Rd, Suite 109 DJ MILK —Pravda; 23 N. Front St., Wilmington KARAOKE WITH MIKE NORRIS —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 DJ SHANNON —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621 KARAOKE —Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 ACOUSTIC JAZZ PIANO WITH JAMES JARVIS —Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091 PORT CITY TRIO —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St. VILLA VERDE, MUSEUM MOUTH, FREE CLINIC —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 OVERTYME —Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace),

1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231

BAT —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 MONICA HOELSCHER (ACOUSTIC COUNTRY, 6:30-8:30PM) —Barista Cafe, 225 S. Water St.; 399-3108 THE REAL MFA NATE NAST, CHAMPION, DJS (LIVE HIP-HOP) —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 STEVEN COMPTON (ALT-ROCK, 8-11PM) —Buffalo Wild Wings, 206 Old Eastwood Rd.; 798-9464 DANGERS OF STEREO (ROCK/BLUES) —Mayfaire Music on the Town, Mayfaire Town Center KENNEDY PARK (ROCK, POP, FOLK, 8-11PM) —Buffalo Wild Wings, 5533 Carolina Beach Rd., Monkey Junction; 392-7224 CROW HILL QUINTET (ECLECTIC MIX OF BLUES AND SOUL) —Crow Hill, 9 S. Front St.; 228-5332 CINDY HOSPEDALES (JAZZ) —Bellamy Mansion; 503 Market St., 251-3700 DANIEL PARISH —Little Dipper, 138 S. Front St.; 251-0433 UNHOLY TONGUES —Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; 399-2796 NOON30, PLAY/START —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 L SHAPE LOT —Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 7721400 EASTBOUND (CLASSIC ROCK) —Fort Fisher Military Recreation Area, Pleasure Island, 458-8434 FUNKY MONKS —Downtown Sundown; riverfront downtown, 763-7349 BLIND LEMON PLEDGE (8PM-12AM, TIKI STAGE); DJ DANE BRITT (10PM-2AM) —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 RAFAEL NAME (BOSSA NOVA 9 P.M.) —Projekte, 523 South 3rd St., 352-0236

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 DUELING PIANOS —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 DJ SIR NICK BLAND —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 HOUSE/TECHNO DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 CHRIS FRENCH (ACOUSTIC, 6:30-8:30 PM) —Barista Cafe, 225 S. Water St.; 399-3108 DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 DJ BATTLE —Dirty Martini, 1904 Eastwood Rd, Suite 109

BLACKBOARD SPECIALS Pub & Grille

Wrightsville Beach

Tuesday

$3 Imports ∙ $4 Guinness $1.50 High Life ∙ $3 Bouron

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FILTHY SATURDAYS WITH DJ FILTHY —Brikhouse, 208 Market St.; 523-5833 SONGWRITER OPEN MIC WITH JEFF ECKER (10PM-2AM) —Lazy Pirate Sports Bar and Grill, 701 N. Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach; 458-5414 GUITARIST MARK LYNCH (10:30 A.M.-1:30 P.M.) —Saltworks II, 4001 Wrightsville Ave.; 392-1241 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 OF GOOD NATURE —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 TIGGER CLARKSON BAND (5 P.M.); PHANTOM PLAYBOYS (10 P.M.) —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 DREW SMITH —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 FRED FLYNN AND THE STONES —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 MIKE FRUSHA —Oceanic, Oceanfront Wrightsville Beach; 256-5551 RANDY MCQUAY —Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 ONE PAPER CRANE —Farmers’ Market, downtown SHINE —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621 BACK 2 BACK (ROCK/COUNTRY, 8-11PM) —Buffalo Wild Wings, 5533 Carolina Beach Rd., Monkey Junction; 392-7224 CROW HILL QUINTET (ECLECTIC MIX OF BLUES AND SOUL) —Crow Hill, 9 S. Front St.; 228-5332 BALD FURY (8PM-12AM TIKI STAGE); DJ DANE BRITT (10PM-2AM INSIDE) —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 DARK HORSE (FILMING MUSIC VIDEO) —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 RAPHAEL NAME (BOSSA NOVA) —Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St. CRYSTAL BRIGHT AND THE SILVER HANDS —Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; 399-2796 JEREMY NORRIS —Little Dipper, 138 S. Front St.; 251-0433 BIG BREAK SURF ROCK —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 LEGREE —KickBack Jack’s, 418 South College Rd.; 523-5669

SUNDAY, JUNE 10 TRAVIS SHALLOW —Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington,

762-2091

DJ JAY —Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677 KARAOKE WITH HELLZ BELLE —Marina Cafe, 110 S. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 938-2002 SUSAN SAVIA —Elijah’s, 2 Ann St.; 343-1448 DJ TIMBO —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 SATELLITE BLUEGRASS BAND —Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; 399-2796 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 KARAOKE KONG —Black Sheep Tavern, 21 N. Front St. (basement); 399-3056 BENNY HILL AND FRIENDS —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 FRED FLYNN —Dockside; 1308 Airlie Rd., 256-2752 SOUTHERN TROUBLE (4-8PM) —Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621 NO DOLLAR $HOES —Ocean Grill and Tiki Bar, 1211 S. Lake Blvd; 458-2000 L SHAPE LOT (3 P.M.); CLAY CROTTS (8 P.M.) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 THE POSSUMS —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 MUSICMAN —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 PERRY SMITH (BRUNCH 12-2) —Aubriana’s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773 DJ BATTLE —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 ORGONE —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 CENTRAL PARK —Bluewater Grill, 4 Marina St.; 256-8500

MONDAY, JUNE 11 KARAOKE —Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677 STEVEN COMPTON —Barbary Coast; 116 S. Front St., 762-8996 ACOUSTIC JAZZ PIANO WITH JAMES JARVIS —Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091 DRUM CIRCLE HOSTED BY PERRY SMITH —Projekte, 523 South 3rd St., 352-0236 METAMORPHOSIS OPEN MIC —Projekte, 523 South 3rd St., 352-0236 KARAOKE

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MYSTIC MUSIC: On Saturday, June 9th, Crystal Bright and the Silver Hands will take on Satellite Bar and Lounge starting at 9 p.m. Hailing from Greensboro, the band is known for Crystal’s mega vocals and the haunting, carnival-like instrumentals. Courtesy photo

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

KARAOKE WITH DJ @-HOLE —Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 DJ RICHTERMEISTER —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 OPEN MIC & COMICS JAM —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 PENGO WITH BEAU GUNN —Mellow Mushroom, 4311 Oleander Drive; 452-3773 BRETT JOHNSON’S JAM —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 OPEN MIC WITH JOSH SOLOMON —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341 MARK DAFFER —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832

TUESDAY, JUNE 12

KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 KARAOKE WITH DJ PARTY GRAS —Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 920 Town Center Dr.; 509-0805 “IT TAKES TUESDAYS TO TANGO” LESSONS 7-9 P.M. —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 CAPE FEAR BLUES JAM —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 KARAOKE WITH MIKE NORRIS

—Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204

BENNY HILL (JAZZ) —Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.; 452-1212 CARY BENJAMIN —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 LIVE ACOUSTIC —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 TRIVIA WITH DUTCH FROM 94.5 THE HAWK —The Coastal Roaster, 5954 Carolina Beach Rd.; 399-4701 LIVE TEAM TRIVIA —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 DJ JAY —Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677 KARAOKE WITH HELLZ BELLE —Marina Cafe, 110 S. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 938-2002 JOSH SOLOMON & CARY BENJAMIN —Black Sheep Tavern, 21 N. Front St. (basement); 399-3056 DJ SIR NICK BLAND —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 SOIREE D’ELECTRONICA WITH DJ DROBOT —Projekte, 523 South 3rd St., 352-0236 ACOUSTIC JAZZ PIANO WITH JAMES

JARVIS —Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091 KARAOKE WITH DJ RICH DELUX —Orton’s Underground, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 KARAOKE —Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001 LIVE ACOUSTIC —Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133 DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 HUFTON BROTHERS, DIRTY NAMES —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 DJ —Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499 KARAOKE WITH DJ BREWTAL —Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341 BENNY HILL —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115 GARY ALLEN’S ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 ROB RONNER —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 All entertainment must be sent to music@encorepub.com by Wednesday for consideration in the weekly entertainment calendar. Venues are responsible for notifying encore of any changes, removals or additions to their weekly schedules.

SWAPPING BEATS: The Foreign Exchange, comprised of producer Nicolay (of Wilmington) and rapper/singer/songwriter Phonte (of Raleigh), is a world-renowned and Grammy-nominated hip-hop/electronica duo. They’ll play two shows in the area this week: June 8th at Lincoln Theatre and June 9th at Emerald

AMOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 SOUTH TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 377-6874 6/8: Rob Banks and Dirty Cutt 6/9: Schism (Tool tribute), Sickman, The Jupiter Tide

NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRE 511 E. 36TH STREET, CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 358-9298 6/7: Blind Pilot, Dan Mangan 6/12: Of Montreal, Yip Deceiver, Chappo

LINCOLN THEATRE 126 E. CABARRUS STREET, RALEIGH, NC (919) 821-4111 6/7: The Design, Lizzy Ross Band, My Wonderful Machine 6/8: The Foreign Exchange, Zo!, Sy Smith, Jeanne Jolly, DJ Castro 6/9: Summer Metalfest: Whitefake, Widow, Drill 187, Backtip, Eugenic Death, Enemy in Disguise 6/10: Fitz and the Tantrums, ZZ Ward, Royal Teeth

UPTOWN AMPHITHEATRE 1000 SEABOARD ST., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 916-8970 6/9: Gov’t Mule, Dr. John

THE ORANGE PEEL 101 BILTMORE AVENUE, ASHEVILLE, NC (828) 225-5851 6/9: Laura Marling, David Dondero 6/13: Dawes, Sara Watkins HOUSE OF BLUES 4640 HWY. 17 SOUTH, N. MYRTLE BEACH, SC (843) 272-3000 6/8: Little River Band 6/9: Gretchen Wilson 6/12: Gov’t Mule, Dr. John NORTH CHARLESTON COLISEUM 5001 COLISEUM DR., N. CHARLESTON, SC (843) 529-5000 6/11: Alice Cooper, Venrez

EMERALD LOUNGE 112 N. LEXINGTON AVE., ASHEVILLE, NC (828) 232-4372 6/9:The Foreign Exchange, Zo!, Sy Smith, Jeanne Jolly 6/10: What Looks Like Crazy, Running on E, Monkey in Podship 6/12: Three Bad Jakes, Girls Guns & Glory, Maggie and Her Mistakes CAT’S CRADLE 300 E. MAIN STREET, CARRBORO, NC (919) 967-9053 6/8: Paul Thorn, Lera Lynn 6/10: Battles, Fin Fang Foom 6/12: The Real McKenzie’s, Goddamn Gallows 6/13: The Bouncing Souls, Menzingers, Luther VERIZON WIRELESS AMPHITHEATRE 707 PAVILION BLVD., CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 549-5555 6/7: Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band 6/9: Lady Antebellum

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Pink Sheep Film Festival enters its second year

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ast year local activists lynn

Casper and Channing Duke boldly stepped into Wilmington’s film scene with their own contribution: the Pink Sheep Film Festival. The event, which will screen this year at City Stage on June 8th, showcases an assortment of GLBTQIA-themed films and documentaries from all over the globe.

The idea for Pink Sheep sparked during the 2010 Cucalorus Film Festival, for which Casper volunteered as a programmer. It was there that Cucalorus director Dan Brawley suggested that Casper give GLBTQIAthemed films its own outlet by launching a separate festival that could screen during Wilmington’s Pride week.

Soon after, Casper met Duke through Wilmington Pride’s Facebook page. The two began meeting weekly and planning what would later be the Pink Sheep Film Festival.

The name is intended convey what it feels like to be the black sheep of the family due to sexual orientation—hence “pink sheep.”

The films selected for the festival depict day-to-day human struggles of being different, and also delve into other issues, such as coming out of the closet, monogamy and gender. After the screenings at City Stage, the festival moves over to the Soapbox Laundro-Lounge for the after party. Presented by Homoground, the podcast website run

by Casper (also winner of the 2011 encore Webby Award), the after party features live music from Noon:30 (Washington, D.C.) and play/start (Portland, Oregon). encore spoke with the duo to discuss the Pink Sheep, Amendment One and Pride week. encore (e): Lynn, the last time we spoke, you were organizing Working Films’ Reel Equality project, which was to educate NC communities about Amendment One. Were you

surprised at the outcome of the amendment?

Lynn Casper (LC): Going into it, I had my doubts because of the conservative nature of North Carolina, especially being a part of the Bible belt. But throughout the campaign, I was really getting hopeful and thought that we might actually win. So I did get my hopes up, but I’m not really surprised that it passed.

Channing Duke (CD): I was actually really surprised; I still think that a lot of people were uneducated to what Amendment One entailed or that they were wrongly informed to vote for it. I saw so many people become less supportive of the amendment and more active in helping educate others on the harm it would cause to all citizens, and it made me really proud to stand beside the people who were also against it. e: Earlier in the week, Huffington Post wrote: “The fight against Amendment One has created a stronger, more robust progressive community [in NC].” Do you agree with this statement in regards to the Cape Fear region?

LC: I definitely saw people coming together to stand against the amendment—people I didn’t expect. It wasn’t just the Cape Fear region, but communities all across North Carolina came together to support one another. I am very proud of Wilmington and all of the people who organized against Amendment One.

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New Hanover County almost voted against it—it was very close. I am glad to know that the work we did here in New Hanover County made a difference.

CD: I really feel like things are starting to change. I’ve heard so many people say that although Amendment One passed, it only makes them want to fight harder against it.

“I feel more radicalized and more passionate about this now” is something I’ve been hearing from a lot of people. I don’t think that Amendment One has killed anyone’s spirit; I think it has helped motivate people to keep pushing forward. Change is inevitable. I think good things are coming; it’s all just a matter of time now. e: Pride Week seems to have taken on a whole new significance in the wake of the passing of Amendment One, would you agree?

CD: I feel that this year’s Pride is going to help build a lot of momentum and rejuvenate everyone’s spirit, so that they can keep fighting for equal rights. Hopefully, we can bring a lot more attention to the issues of Amendment One with Pride week and help educate more people in our community who were maybe unaware of all the negative things that went hand in hand with this amendment. e: Back to the festival—how did you select the films that are screening this year?

CD: We put out a call for entries a few months back and just waited for films to be sent in. Thanks to all the press we received last year through social media, many people had put our festival into online databases that filmmakers use to find festivals to send their work. Our number of submissions doubled from last year. Once we received the films, we organized them all in spreadsheets. After

we watched the trailers and received the full screeners, we got together and watched every film and discussed how or if we could fit the film into the festival.

e: How has the festival evolved since its debut last year?

LC: Last year we held the festival at Jengo’s Playhouse and it was a sold-out event—we had to bring in extra seats. This year we are holding the festival at City Stage, which [fits] more people. We also have two special guests, Taylor Herbert and Jon Cavenaugh, hosting the event by welcoming everyone and entertaining us during the intro and intermission. Taylor is a local favorite bartender at Costello’s, and Jon is a local favorite bar patron.

e: What are some things you’ve learned about running a film festival since the first one?

CD: Definitely organization and time management. It’s so important to be able to keep everything organized and to stay on top of action items. I feel like by being more organized and prepping ahead of time, we really cut out a lot of work for ourselves that could have caused a lot of headache if we hadn’t taken care of them in a timely fashion.

PINK SHEEP FILM FESTIVAL LIST: • “The Art of Walking Through the Streets” (Director: Rafaela Camelo) • “Gender?” (Director: Sam Berliner) • “Always Again” (Director: Estel Camprecios) • “Ketheron’s Bucket-Mending and Hymen Emporium” (Director: Anton H. Gill) • “ub2” (Director: Dan Goldes) • “Cyclicity” (Director: Jason Knade) • “What It Could Be” (Director: Pedro Paulo de Andrade) • “El Nido Vacío” (The Empty Nest) (Director: Francisco Lupini)

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back in black: Josh Brolin saves the third installation of ‘MIB’

It’s just this thing this guy has, who willingly hands it over after asking.

It would have been more difficult for Will Smith to get his driver’s license renewed than it would to get a device that would allow him to alter the fabric of history. Which leads me to point three…

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any series represents the end. For some films, it’s the final act of a trilogy, tying up loose ends and providing a sense of closure. Films like “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” and “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”—they are necessary installments in order to resolve arcs that have been carefully constructed over previous films.

Then other third-installation films exist for no other reason than to wring every last ounce from a premise in the last desperate hope to grab some cash. Do I really need to bother identifying which one “Men in Black 3” is?

“Men in Black” debuted 15 years ago and was a perfectly entertaining movie, blending the buddy-cop movie with a little science-fiction. It was fun. Will Smith got to be the cocky upstart; Tommy Lee Jones perfectly portrayed the cranky old bastard who was getting too old for this shit. After the movie hit it big, someone at Sony thought they needed a second, which produced one of the most wretched, unwatchable sacks of human excrement ever released.

For some reason, they thought a third installment would work. So, they pulled out every blockbuster cliché and convenience in a kitchen sink-style sequel that has drained the well bone dry. Still, the most shocking aspect: It’s not really that bad.

It’s stupid. Really stupid—like M. Night Shyamalan after “Unbreakable”-level stupid.

“MIB3” abandons logic and common sense in favor a giant sledgehammer-like strikes to the head, leaving gaping Heisenberg-level plot holes that Stephen Hawking would have a hard time filling. Somehow the movie is saved by its relentless stupidity and by Josh Brolin, who should now be referred to as “The Cinematic Savior” for his ability to bring a production like this back from the dead.

All praise Josh Brolin, hallowed be thy name.

The plot is remarkably similar to the first two. An alien menace named Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) escapes from a maximumsecurity facility on the moon, steals a timetravel device, and goes to the past to kill Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones). This sets a series of events in motion that will lead to an alien invasion, thus destroying humanity. Agent J (Will Smith) follows him back to 1969 in order to stop Boris before he kills K, erasing him from

THE SUIT OF STUPIDITY: ‘Men in Black 3’ dona a cover of unintelligible concepts. Courtesy photo

history and cueing up the end of life as we know it. The absurdity starts in the first 30 seconds of the film. And thus begins this week’s nit-picky Chronicles of Stupidity.

1. Boris the Animal’s Prison Escape Boris the Animal is the universe’s most dangerous criminal—so dangerous they imprison him on a secret moon base. His escape is facilitated by a super hot alien who has come to visit Boris and is somehow not only allowed on the premises but brings him a cake filled with a murderous little alien.

So you’re an intergalactic criminal so evil that you’re housed in a lunar Guantanamo Bay and they allow visitors? You can bring a cake into this space super max? I can’t even bring four ounces of liquid on a cross-country flight and these guys are allowing cakes into alien prison? I had a harder time getting through security at LaGuardia than this guy did escaping from a prison on the moon.

2. Time travel: So easy, anybody can do it!

Time-travel movies are always a difficult proposition. They either have to be extremely well thought out, like “Primer” or “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.” Or they acknowledge there are no rules, like “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.” “MIB3” goes the extra mile. They don’t just say “fuck it” and abandon the rules, they bend, break and change the rules on a whim to make it work for their story. They don’t even bother with the mechanics.

Time travel is achieved by holding this device, jumping off something very tall, and pressing a button. There’s no flux capacitors here, no lightning bolts to harness, no wellconstructed machines with dials and buttons.

3. Convenience A movie like “MIB3” doesn’t just thrive on convenience, it is fueled by it. There are a number of scenes throughout the movie where the complete abandonment of common sense and story logic will make one’s brow furrow and brain do a double take. The final 15 minutes is practically a dissertation on stupidity—and convenience is the only cure. Part of the ending involves Agent J using time travel to go back just a few seconds for a sophomore attempt at saving the day. Somehow he travels back into his own body where he can correct the mistakes he made before. But, wait. Wouldn’t there now be two of them?

They abandon the “Back to the Future” rules of time travel and change them into some kind of “Quantum Leap”-style mechanic where someone can just zip back a few minutes without causing a paradox.

Any intelligent thought would crush the entire film like an encyclopedia being dropped onto a house of popsicle sticks. Even though I’m not a fan of stupidity, and the filmmakers willingly embrace it out of laziness, I still wasn’t able to crucify it for its many sins—mainly because Will Smith and Josh Brolin are a fun pair.

But let me make this clear: this film is a miracle only because of the messianic skills Brolin uses to pull this bloated $200 million disaster from the wreckage and turn it into something marginally entertaining.

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this week in film Free Movies at the Lake

Carolina Beach Lake Amphitheater Picnics welcome; concessions sold 8:45 p.m. • Free

6/10: “Cars 2”: Returning to the silver screen are the favorite famed motor vehicles of ‘Cars.’ Star race car Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his pal Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. Rated G. 106 min.

Cropsey

Subversive Film Series Every Sunday, 8 p.m. • Free!

Juggling Gypsy • 1612 Castle St. 6/10: Cropsey is a 2009 American investigative-crime horror-documentary film, written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The film and its title uses the urban legend of “Cropsey”, akin to the various incarnations of the Boogeyman, as an introduction to what eventually leads the film to its intended subject: Andre Rand, a convicted child kidnapper from Staten Island, New York. 84 min.

Cucalorus Film Festival

Now accepting entries!

Jengo’s Playhouse • 815 Princess St. Cucalorus Film Festival is now accepting entries for their annual event. Entry fee is $25. Cucalorus accepts entries on a rolling basis, any time of the year. Completed entry form for each submission; DVD in a package that includes: title, entrant’s name and contact details, hi-res production photo for publicity, entry fee and one inappropriate collage. NC filmmakers can enter for free!

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Cinematique • Thalian Hall • 310 Chestnut St. 7:30 p.m. $8 • Monday through Wednesday 6/11-13: Story of 85-year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef and proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station. Despite its humble appearances, it is the first restaurant of its kind to be awarded a prestigious three-star Michelin review, and sushi lovers from around the globe make repeated pilgrimage. Rated PG. 81 min.

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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 11am - 11pm; Sat & Sun 11am – 11pm.

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

CATCH

Serving the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina.

Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee Chef Keith Rhodes explores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer. We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Seafood. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch. Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010.

Dubbed “Modern Seafood Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Seafood & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Potato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, Seafood Ceviche & Conch Fritters to name a few.

Larger Plates include Plancha grilled Painted Hills Steaks, Blackend Red Drum Filet, Charleston Crab Cakes, Tempura OBX Scallops, Flounder Escovitch & Pan roasted Queen Trigger fish. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Allergies) Hand Crafted seasonal desserts from Alan DeLovely. Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Fri 11am-2pm and Mon. Sat. 5pm-9pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington ■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

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BUFFALO WILD WINGS

If you’re looking for good food and an atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family, Buffalo Wild Wings is the place!

Award winning wings and 20 signature sauces and seasonings. Plus…salads, wraps, flatbreads, burgers, and more.

Tons of Big screen TVs and all your favorite sports. We have daily drink specials, a HUGE draft selection, and Free Trivia all day every day. Come in for our Weekday Lunch Specials, only $5.99 from 11am-2pm. Visit us for Wing Tuesdays with 50 cent wings all day long, or Boneless Thursdays with 60 cent boneless wings all day long. Buffalo Wild Wings is a great place to dine in or take out.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: Mon-Sat 11am-2am and Sun 11am-2am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 locations-Midtown (910-798-9464) and Monkey Junction (910-392-7224) ■ MUSIC: Live music Friday and Saturday in the Summer ■ WEBSITE: www.buffalowildwings.com

THE GEORGE ON THE RIVERWALK

Drop your anchor at The George on the RiverWalk, your destination for dock ‘n’ dine. Watch the historic Cape Fear River unfold before you while you enjoy the best in Southern Coastal Cuisine. The menu combines elegance, creativity and diverse selection of steak, pasta, salad and fresh seafood, including the best Shrimp n’ Grits in town. Warm in the sun on the expansive outdoor deck sipping an exotic, colorful martini, or unwind at the spacious bar inside boasting extensive wine and martini lists along with weekday appetizer specials from 4:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Don’t forget to try downtown’s most expansive menu for Saturday and Sunday Brunch from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

You are welcome to dock your boat at the only dock’n’dine restaurant downtown, grab a trolley, or enjoy our free, front door parking (ask for pass!) Why satisfy when you can indulge? Find the George on the Riverwalk at 128 South Water Street, 910-763-2052.

■ SERVING: Lunch: Tues. - Fri. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Dinner: Tues. - Thurs. 5 p.m. - 9 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 5 p.m. - 10 p.m., Sun. 5 p.m. 9 p.m.; Brunch: Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Saturday and Sunday Brunch / Wilmington’s only dock’n’dine restaurant.

■ WEBSITE: www.thegeorgerestaurant.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 drink 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.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

7 Days a Week Mon-Wed 11:30 am - 2:00 am Thurs-Sun 11:30 am - 2:00 am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Masonboro Loop ■ FEATURING: THE Best Rueben in Town!, $5.99 lunch specials, Outdoor Patio ■ WEBSITE: www.halligansnc.com

HENRY’S

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

Check out their calendar of events at HenrysRestaurant. com for details. 2508 Independence Boulevard, Wilmington, NC. (910) 793.2929.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Sun. –Mon.11am-10pm; Tues.- Fri.: 11am – 11pm; Sat.: 10am – 11pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Daily blackboard specials.

■ MUSIC: Live Music beginning at 5:30pm ■ WEBSITE: www.henrysrestaurant.com.

Eastwood Commons 420 Eastwood Rd

Hair Salon and Tanning Wilmington’s World-Class Concert Venue LIVE @ BAC

910-791-8268

www.SolarHairSalon.com

Chinese • Japanese Sushi • Hibachi

TAKE OUT | EAT IN | FAST DELIVERY (min $10)

Daily s!

Special 420 Eastwood Rd., Suite #103 910-395-7008 / 7005 • www.ThePaperCrane.info Thursday Night at the Winery. Every Thursday night at 7 the lights go down, the n a m Learn fro music goes up and the fun begins. Featuring g in award-winn complimentary appetizers and free drawings for winery! gift certificates to featured restaurants. Come by

the winery and enjoy great wine and beer specials.

Enjoy Red, White and Fruit wines.

Craft Beers starting at $2.50 WINE AND BEER MAKING SUPPLIES Fresh Grapes & Juice from Italy, Chile, California and Washington. Grains, Hops and Equipment

For Tickets and more information

BrooklynArtsNC.com 910-538-2939

OPEN 7 DAYS

Daily Wine Tasting • Wine by the Glass Great Craft Beers • Wine Tasting Parties

Call 910-397-7617

There is abundant FREE PARKING on North 4th St., or you can park in Historic Downtown Wilmington, two minutes away, and take the free trolley.

awarded 21 international medals in the largest competition in North America and one of the top 3 in the world. Look for our wines in the movie “Writers” starring Greg Kinnear.

Monday - Friday Join us for

K’s Cafe 420 Eastwood Rd., #109 (formerly Chris’ Cosmic Kitchen)

516 North 4th Street | Historic Downtown Wilmington, NC

57 International Medals. This year we were

910-791-6995 www.ks-cafe.net

Breakfast & Lunch and our every changing

Sunday Brunch OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

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HOLIDAY INN RESORT

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

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

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

K’S CAFE

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

“Where the people make the place” If you’re looking for a warm and friendly atmosphere with awesome home-cooked, freshly prepared meals, you can’t beat K’s Cafe. Serving Breakfast (from $3.50) and Lunch (including daily entree-and-two side specials for $6.95), and dinner. 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, crabcake sandwich, 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 which changes every week. A variety of choices will be on the menu such as Shrimp and Grits and 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 or on our website, www.ks-cafe.net.

■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: 7 DAYS A

WEEK. Open for dinner Wed. thru Sat. evenings ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Ever-changing brunch

THE LITTLE DIPPER

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

■ SERVING DINNER: Open every day at 5 p.m.

Memorial Day - Labor Day. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: 70s menu every Tues.; Special 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: Fri. & Sat. in summer ■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

PINE VALLEY MARKET

Pine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servicing the Wilmington community for years, securing encore’s Best-Of awards in catering, gourmet shop and butcher. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest ingredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger

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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.10am-7pm; Sat. 9am-6pm. Closed Sun. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals ■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com

TROLLY STOP

Trolly Stop Hot Dogs is a family owned franchise with six locations. Since 1976 they specialize in storemade chili, slaw and sauces, and as of more recent – a variety of gourmet sausages and burgers (at participating locations). The types of hot dogs include Beef & Pork, All Beef, Smoked Sausage, Fat-free Turkey (at participating locations), and Soy. Sausages include Bratwurst, Mild Italian, Spicy Beef and Polish Kielbasi. Locations are: 121 N. Front Street open Monday thru Saturday 11 a.m. ‘til 4:30 p.m. CLOSED SUNDAYS; (910).251.7799. 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach open Wednesday thru Friday 11 a.m. ‘til 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. ‘til 4 p.m. CLOSED MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS. (910) 256-1421. 4502 Fountain Drive, (910) 452-3952. open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Sunday; South Howe St. in Southport, open Tuesday thru Fri. 11 ‘til 3, Sat. 11 ‘til 4 CLOSED SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS (910) 457-7017. Catering cart available all year from $350. Call Steve at (910) 520-5994.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Throughout the Port City

■ FEATURING: Dog friendly locations

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

■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

ASIAN SZECHUAN 132

Craving expertly prepared Chinese food in an elegant atmosphere? Szechuan 132 Chinese Restaurant is your destination! Szechuan 132 has earned the reputation as one of the finest contemporary Chinese restaurants in the Port City.

Tastefully decorated with an elegant atmosphere, with an exceptional ingenious menu has deemed Szechuan 132 the best Chinese restaurant for years, hands down. 419 South College Road (in University Landing), (910) 799-1426.

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

HIRO JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE

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

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■ SERVING DINNER: Open Mon. thru Thurs.

■ SERVING DINNER: Sun.- Thurs.

4pm-10pm; Fri. and Sat. 4pm-10:30pm and Sun. 11am-10pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Hibachi style dining.

■ WEBSITE: hirojapanesesteakhouse.com/hibachi

5:00 – 10pm.; Fri. and Sat., 5pm – Midnight.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Upstairs sofa bar serving cocktails and lighter fare.

■ WEBSITE: www.capricebistro.com

INDOCHINE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

OUR CRÊPES & MORE

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. 11am- 2pm; Sat. 12pm – 3pm for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5pm – 10pm for dinner.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Balinese dancer every Fri. night.

■ 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.: 11:30am – 9:30pm; Fri.-Sat.: 11:30am – 10:00pm; Sun.: 11:30am – 9:00pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South ■ WEBSITE: www.ThaiSpiceWilmington.com

FRENCH CAPRICE BISTRO

Wilmington’s finest French cuisine can be found at Caprice Bistro, a small informal neighborhood restaurant, serving hearty food in generous portions at affordable prices. Simple is the atmosphere in the bistro, as plain white plates and tables dressed in white paper make up the decor. However, the food is far from simple, as a combination of fresh ingredients and innovative preparation delight the taste buds with a plethora of unique appetizers, entrées and desserts. The service is fast, efficient and non-intrusive, and the ambience is friendly and unpretentious. After dinner, be sure to venture upstairs into their cozy and relaxing sofa bar for an after-dinner martini, or enjoy your meal there, as a light-fare and full menus are served. Art is always on display in the sofa bar, so be sure to inquire frequently about their artist show receptions. Voted “Best French Restaurant”seven years in a row! 10 Market Street, downtown Wilmington, (910) 815-0810.

The Crêperie of Wilmington !Our Crêpes & More a family owned and operated French Crêperie, is serving authentic, homemade French cuisine to dine in or to go. Everything on their menu is under $10, and is a healthy alternative, while eating a savory meal or sweet treat. Open at 7 am Tuesday through Friday, and 8 am Saturday & Sunday, Our Crêpes & More offers a delicious variety of breakfast combos, quickly served or to take out. A must try: the Nutella Croissant! On the Savory side, the St-Malo, Quebec, Forestiere Royale or Tahiti are among the most popular. Their homemade Ratatouille, South France type Sub like the Pain Bagnat are worth the detour too! On the sweet side, The Versailles, Mt-Blanc or Crazy Nutella (with homemade Nutella ice cream) will make you come back for more! They also serve Fresh Salads or Soups depending on the seasons, amazing all natural Homemade Sorbet & Ice Cream, Croissants & Chocolate Croissants. With free WiFi and live French radio, Our Crepes & More is a pleasant and casual place to unwind. Our Crepes & More can accommodate large parties!

■ OPEN: TUESDAY – FRIDAY 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.

SATURDAY & SUNDAYS 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.

(Monday Closed.)

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown, 3810 Oleander Drive (at the corner of 39th Street) ■ FEATURING: Vegetarian and gluten-free options. Free Wi-Fi. ■ WEBSITE: www.ourcrepesandmore.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: Tue-Thu 11am2pm, 5pm-10pm; Fri 11am-2pm, 5pm-11pm; Sat 11:30am-2pm, 5pm-11pm; Sun 11:30am-2pm, 5pm-9pm.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown.

■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet, which now serves South Indian cuisine ($7.95 daily) ■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net.

IRISH THE HARP

The Harp offers the finest in traditional Irish family recipes served in a casual yet elegant traditional pub atmosphere. We are proud to use the freshest, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible to bring you and yours the best of traditional

Irish fare! We also offer a fully stocked bar featuring your favorite Irish beer and spirits. Located just beside Greenfield Lake Park in downtown Wilmington is a lovely Irish pub committed to bringing traditional Irish food and music to the Cape Fear area.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER Monday-Friday 11 a.m. – 10 p.m., Sat 11 a.m. – 11 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD Greenfield Park ■ FEATURING Home-made desserts, ½ priced bottles of wine on Wednesday and the best pint of Guinness in town.

■ MUSIC Live music every Fri.; Live Irish music 1st Fri. of each month.

■ WEBSITE www.harpwilmington.com

ITALIAN

Sun.- Thurs.

11am – 10pm.; Fri. & Sat. 11am – 11pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South.

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

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

ELIZABETH’S PIZZA

A Wilmington favorite since 1987! At Elizabeth’s you’ll find authentic Italian cuisine, as well as some of your American favorites. Offering delicious pizza, salads, sandwiches, entrees, desserts, beer, and wine. Elizabeth’s is known for their fresh ingredients, where even the bread is baked fresh daily. A great place for lunch, dinner, a late night meal, or take out. Elizabeth’s can also cater your event and now has a party room available. Visit us 4304 ½ Market St or call 910-251-1005 for take out.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

A TASTE OF ITALY

The authentic Italian cuisine served at Taste of Italy has scored them Best Deli in the Port City for years running now. The Guarino family recipes have been passed down from generation to generation to brothers Tommy and Chris, who serve breakfast, lunch and dinner to hungry diners. They also cater all events, from holiday parties to corporate lunches, including hot meals, cold trays, handmade desserts and an array of platters, from antipasto to cold cuts. In addition, Taste of Italy sells Scalfani products, Sabrett hot dogs and Polly-O cheeses in their market, all the while serving top-notch hot and cold items from their delicatessen. Located at 1101 South College Rd., P. 910392-7529, F. 910-392-9745 www.ncatasteofitaly. com Open M-F 8:00am – 8:00pm, Sat. 8:30am7:00pm, Sun. 11:00am – 6:00pm.

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

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Ponatone, Pandora, Torrone and gift baskets of all sizes!

■ WEBSITE: www.ncatasteofitaly.com

EDDIE ROMANELLI’S

land. (910) 383.1885.

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 16oz. 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, Le-

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

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

■ WEBSITE: www.giorgios-restaurant.com.

SLICE OF LIFE

“Slice” has become a home away from home for tourists and locals alike. Our menu includes salads, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, homemade soups, subs and, of course, pizza. We only serve the freshest and highest-quality ingredients in all of our food, and our dough is made daily with purified water. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”All ABC permits. Visit us downtown at 122 Market Street, (910) 251-9444, in Wrightsville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and our newest location in Pine Valley on the corner of 17th and College Road, (910) 799-1399.

■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT:

11:30am-3am, 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

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

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■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon Sat. 11am2:30pm and from 5-10pm. 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 9am to 7pm; Saturday 9am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 6pm. 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., 11am–6pm; Sat. & Sun., 11am6pm(salad bar open all the time). Market hours: Mon.-Fri., 9am-7pm; Sat., 9am-6pm; Sun., 10am-6pm ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: Organic Salad Bar/Hot Bar, New Bakery with fresh, organic pies and cakes.

Newly expanded.

■ WEBSITE: www.loveysmarket.com.

TIDAL CREEK CO-OP KITCHEN

Come dine-in or take-out from the newly renovated Co-op Kitchen at Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market. You can fill your plate or box with hot bar and salad bar items that are prepared fresh daily in our kitchen. Made-to-order sandwiches, like the Tempeh Reuben, are served hot off the Panini grill. The Co-op Café offers organic smoothies and fresh juices; local wheat-

grass shots; fair trade organic coffee, lattes, and chai tea; and our newest addition of Lenny Boy kombucha tea on tap. Don’t forget our bakedfrom-scratch baked goods! The Co-op Kitchen provides menu items that appeal to everyone, regardless of dietary demands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

SEAFOOD DOCK STREET OYSTER BAR

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

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 7 days a week.

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

■ WEBSITE: www.dockstreetoysterbar.net

EAST

The Blockade Runner offers an array of seasonal seafood specials, certified Angus beef, lobster menu on Fri. evening plus a spectacular Sun. brunch. Romantic al fresco dining is available on our dinner deck located in the center of a lush garden overlooking the ocean far away from the traffic and noise. Our lounge is eco-friendly and offers light fare nightly. 275 Waynick Blvd. Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256-2251.

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

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

brunch.

■ WEBSITE: www.blockade-runner.com

HIERONYMUS

Hieronymus Seafood is the midtown stop for seafood lovers. In business for over 30 years, Hieronymus has made a name for itself by constantly providing excellent service and the freshest of the fresh in local seafood. It’s the place to be if you

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are seeking top quality attibutes in atmosphere, presentations, flavor and ingenuity. Sugnature 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; 910-3926313; hieronymusseafood.com ■ ■ ■ ■

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

WEBSITE: www.hieronymusseafood.net

OCEANIC

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

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

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

WEBSITE: OceanicRestaurant.com

SMALL PLATES THE FORTUNATE GLASS

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

■ SERVING EVENINGS: Tues.-Thurs. 4pm-12am Fri. 4pm-2am; Sat. 2pm-2am; Sun. 2pm-12am ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Free Wine Tasting: Tues. 6-8pm.

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

■ WEBSITE www.fortunateglasswinebar.com

SOUTHERN CASEY’S BUFFET

In Wilmington, everyone knows where to go for solid country cooking. That place is Casey’s Buffet, winner of encore’s Best Country Cookin’/Soul Food and Buffet categories. “Every day we are open, somebody tells us it tastes just like their grandma’s or mama’s cooking,” co-owner Gena Casey says. Gena and her husband Larry run the show at the Oleander Drive restaurant where people are urged to enjoy all food indigenous to the South: fried chicken, barbecue, catfish, mac‘n’cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans, chicken‘n’dumplings, biscuits and homemade banana puddin’ are among a few of many other delectable items. 5559 Oleander Drive. (910) 798-2913.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 11am to 9pm and on Sundays from 11am to 8pm.Closed Mon. and

Tuesdays.

■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING:For adventurous palates, pig’s feet

and chitterlings.

SPORTS BAR CAROLINA ALE HOUSE

Voted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010 in Wilmington, Carolina Ale House is the place to be for award-winning food, sports and fun. Located on College Rd. near UNCW, 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, Wilmington, NC. (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: CarolinaAleHouse.com

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Serving up the best bar food for any local sports w fan, Fox & Hound has appetites covered. Locat“ ed next to Mayfaire Cinema 16, it’s no question that Fox is a great place to go on date night, or l to watch the big game on one of the restaurant’s t six large projection screens and 19 plasma televi- m sions. Guests can also play pool, darts or video games in this casual-theme restaurant. For start- p ers, Fox offers delicious appetizers like ultimate R nachos, giant Bavarian pretzels and spinach ar- u tichoke dip. In the mood for something more? i Try the hand-battered Newcastle fish ‘n’ chips or i chicken tenders, or the grilled Mahi-Mahi served atop a bed of spicy rice. From cheeseburgers and f sirloins to salads and wood oven-inspired pizzas, e Fox has plenty to choose from for lunch or dinner. j Finish the meal with a 6-inch Great Cookie Blitz, t a chocolate chip cookie baked fresh to order and t served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and t Hershey’s syrup. 920 Town Center Drive, (910) f 509-0805.

■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 11am– 2am, s daily m ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown ■ FEATURING: $5.99 lunch specials and free pool c until 2p.m. and $5 cheese pizzas after 10 p.m., a both Mon.-Fri. l ■ MUSIC: Trivia with Party Gras Entertainment i DJ every Thursday at 9pm s ■ WEBSITE: foxandhound.com

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This is downtown Wilmington’s Sports Pub! With t every major sporting package on ten HDTVs and t our huge HD projection screen, there is no better i place to catch every game in every sport. Our ex- e tensive menu ranges from classics, like thick An- t gus burgers or NY-style reubens, to lighter fare, t such as homemade soups, fresh salads and veg“ etarian options. Whether meeting for a business lunch, lingering over dinner and drinks, or watch- o ing the game, the atmosphere and friendly service a will turn you into a regular. Open late 7 days a t week, with free WiFi, darts, and did we mention d sports? Free lunchtime delivery on weekdays; we S can accommodate large parties. (910) 763-4133. s ■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11am-2am daily ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown ■ FEATURING: Dueling pianos Thurs., Fri., and

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My linguistic bias aside, Epic Food Company, located in the Forum on Military Cutoff Road, offers an interesting menu design and unique, healthful dining experience. Though it isn’t exactly all its name implies (“epic”), it is certainly good. I’d recommend it if only for the opportunity to try something different. Chef James Bain has done a fantastic job creating a menu with countless permutations and interesting options. I could eat there every day for a month and never have the same experience twice. Thankfully, the food makes Epic very easy to recommend.

The concept is simple, though not necessarily perfect in its execution. Diners take a menu and mark their selections with a pencil. During my visit, I wandered aimlessly for a moment, as the station to place orders is located toward the back of the room and isn’t marked quite as well as it might be. But something like that won’t deter me from a new dining experience, so I forged on.

A helpful clerk explained my options: Either select one of the predetermined meals the chef has concocted, or mix and match ingredients to my own taste. I couldn’t resist experimenting, so I went to work, concocting two bowls for myself, one over brown rice, the other over rice noodles, in their special “multi-vitamin broth.” Just out of curiosity, I ordered a small version of the “unbreaded and un-fried organic chicken nuggets” from the children’s menu. The chicken was a bit dry, but the damp lettuce wraps and some Sriracha handled that problem nicely. The sweet potato chips, served with every entrée, proved crisp and salted to perfection.

My brown rice bowl, with a house-smoked salmon base and a delightful peanut sauce, made the trip well worth it. I’ve never been a fan of brown rice’s texture, but I’m well aware of the nutritional advantages it has

LIGHT LUNCH: Try Epic Food Company’s brown rice bowl with smoked salmon, California chips and fruit-infused waters for a light, flavorful lunch. Photo

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over white. Thus, I try to bring myself to eat it when the option is available. As Epic doesn’t offer white rice, my choice became rather clear. The subtle smoky flavor of the salmon blended elegantly with the nutty rice, and the mild spice pervading the peanut sauce brought the whole dish together.

My second bowl paired organic, grilled beef with rice noodles in a vitamin broth, topped with a scallion ginger sauce. The broth didn’t prove particularly flavorful; then again, I have no earthly idea what vitamins, much less their broth, are supposed to taste like—except for maybe minerals. Thankfully, the scallion ginger sauce provided ample flavor overall, I was particularly fond of the beef. Rich and tender, it reminded me why organic meats cost more: They’re worth it.

With each bowl I was permitted up to five predominantly vegetable pairings (listed on the menu as “the good stuff”). Stand-outs from this list include the gingery veggies and the green apple pickle. Each taste pleasantly tart and make the respective dishes livelier and more interesting.

Epic genuinely impresses me with their healthful menu. Since I’ve already made one linguistic rant, I’ll make another: the vegetables on your plate are not “healthy.” In fact, they are dead, which is pretty much the opposite of healthy. However, their nutrient content and low-calorie count make them “healthful.”

I promise that will be my last complaint about culinary grammar for a while.

Diners would be remiss to overlook Epic’s infused waters. The lemon-lime version gets

billed as a sports drink and tastes fantastic. Though the pineapple-cucumber version was a bit bland, I suspect it hadn’t sat long enough to properly infuse. I’ll certainly give it another chance in the near future.

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My only real disappointment in Epic came with the discovery that they sold out of California chips earlier in the day. I was told not to miss them, yet had no choice but; still, a sold-out item is typically a popular item. I’m guessing it will be worth another trip.

Epic Food Company is worth a look and a taste. Additionally, I give the restaurant a lot of credit for offering so many vegetarian and vegan choices. While I’m an unabashed omnivore, dining with friends who eschew meat can be a chore. Restaurant managers and chefs have been exceptionally slow to embrace the vegetarian market, often leaving that task to specialty shops and a few ethnic establishments (I wouldn’t know where to take a vegetarian if not for Indian restaurants). Epic makes it so easy, I’m left to wonder why others have made it so tough.

Just as well, Epic Food Company is a good place for those of us looking to improve our diets without sacrificing flavor.

Open for breakfast, lunch and early for dinner (they close at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday), I certainly look forward to my next visit.

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One, North Carolina has been stereotyped by the nation as an “anti-gay” state. Wilmingtonians will prove that’s far from true as they celebrate Wilmington’s 5th annual Pride, a week of recognition and festivities taking place through the 14th. In support of our GLBTQIA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersexed and ally) community, all colors of the rainbow will fly among a host of events, which stand for solidarity and support for everyone in our town, regardless of background, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, religion or creed.

Once sponsored by OutWilmington, local organization Wilmington Pride now hosts the festival, continuing its dedication to supporting members of the GLBTQIA community. Since November 2011, citizens have been advocating rights and encouraging others to speak out about equality in New Hanover and surrounding counties.

“The goal of Pride is to become visible in the community, to bring awareness to Wilmington and show that we exist—and we’re not going anywhere,” T.R. Nunley, president of Wilmington Pride, says. According to Nunley, the organizers of Pride consist of the same members who recently put on events to stop a proposition from discriminating against families and individual rights.

“We spent a lot of money trying to stop Amendment One,” Nunley says, “so the way we are handling [Pride] is a little different this year. People are donating their talents more than their time.”

The GLBTQIA community isn’t letting the Amendment One issue get them down. They are determined to make this year as colorfully enriching as any. “I think [Pride] will be a lot more positive,” Nunley notes. “People are seeking connections. [The passing of Amendment One] puts us further backwards; we will continue to try and further seek connections with people.”

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As their motto goes, “pass or fail, we will prevail!”, while Pride 2012 won’t see traditional events such as the T-dance, there will be plenty of other activities underway, like karaoke, dance parties, concerts and festivals. Here is look at what’s ahead this week: THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH Kick-Off Party and Silent Auction, 7-10 p.m.

Projekte, 523 S. 3rd St. • Free Pride kicks off with a bang at downtown gallery Projekte, Wilmington’s hip hideaway for visual and performing arts. Folks can enjoy craft beer or coffee while enjoying live entertainment by acoustic soloist and instrumentalist Susan Savia. Items will be up for grabs in a silent auction with monies benefitting Wilmington Pride.

Karaoke with DJ Scott, 10 p.m.- 2 a.m. • Free The Toolbox Bar, 2325 Burnett Ave. After the kick-off party, the night will continue at The Toolbox, one of Wilmington’s premier gay bars. Folks can enjoy a cocktail and sing along to karaoke with Wilmington’s own DJ Scott.

FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH Pink Sheep Film Festival, 7 p.m. • Free City Stage, 21 N. Front St. $12 in advance/ $15 at the door Afterparty at Soapbox, 255 N. Front St. 11 p.m.-2 a.m.

See page 22 for full story on Pink Sheep. After the film fest, folks can dance into the night with live performances by Noon:30, an alternative rock band based out of Brooklyn, and Play/Start, Portland’s “make you want to get your dance on” indie-rock group.

Music Madness, 10 p.m.- 2 a.m. • Free The Toolbox, 2325 Burnette Ave.

by Eliza Dillard encore intern DJ Konversion will spin hypnotic beats and drinks will be served all night long.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH Potluck Picnic, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. • Free Greenfield Lake, 3rd St. and Greenfield St. All families and allies are welcome to Greenfield Lake for a picnic. Bring a covered dish and enjoy the natural surroundings, mingling and paddleboating on the lake.

Justin Ryan Concert, 7 p.m. • Free St. Jude’s MCC, 19 N. 26th St. See page 17 for full story.

Gold Party, 9 p.m.- 2 a.m.

Ibiza, 118 Market St. Ibiza, home of some of Wilmington’s premier drag queens, will be hosting a Gold Party sponsored by Maclovia Underwear. Nationally recognized, Denver-based DJ Sean O’Grady will be rocking the club with his disco beats, ensuring everyone’s on the dance floor.

Blackout Party, 10 p.m.- 2 a.m. • Free The Toolbox, 2325 Burnett Ave. While Ibiza is going for the gold, The Toolbox is blacking out. Folks can enjoy cocktails and glow under the black lights until the wee hours of the morning.

SUNDAY, JUNE 10TH Church Service, 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. • Free St. Jude’s MCC, 19 N. 26th St. St. Jude’s MCC will offer two worship services with Reverend John McLaughlin. Singer Justin Ryan will also make a guest appearance at both.

Equality Rainbow March, 5 p.m. • Free Front St. between Market and Princess St. Community members, family and friends are all

welcome to march in the Pride Week Equality Rainbow March. Participants will be meeting at Bailey’s Theatre park between 4 and 5 p.m.

The march will begin at 5 and travel through the streets of historic downtown Wilmington until the procession reaches City Hall. A 125-foot rainbow banner will be carried during the march in support of the GLBTQIA community.

Wilmington Pride Festival, 5:30-9 p.m. • Free City Hall, Innis Park, 3rd & Princess St. Once the Equality Rainbow March ends at City Hall, the 5th annual Wilmington Pride Festival will rock City Hall and Innis Park. The festival will include vendors and live music. from bands such as acoustic duo Someone’s Sister, singer-songwriter Bethany Taulbee and Wilmington’s own Folkstar, plus several more.

Amateur Talent Show, 10 p.m-2 a.m. • Free The Toolbox, 2325 Burnett Ave. Don’t just end the night after the Pride Festival—mosey on down to The Toolbox to see what kind of local talents are hidden in Wilmington. The Amateur Talent Show is sure to give everyone a good laugh.

MONDAY, JUNE 11 Pride Ladies Night, 7 p.m.- 2 a.m. • Free Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess St. Come out to Costello’s Piano Bar, one of Wilmington’s classiest places for live music and superb nightlife. Enjoy the nightly drink specials and all-female entertainment, including a performance by mystical acoustic

singer Bethany Taulbee.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12 Family Fun Day, 6 - 9 p.m.

Jungle Rapids, 5320 Oleander Dr. $10-$20 Jungle Rapids, Wilmington’s most popular park for mini golf, go-carts, laser tag and more, is hosting Family Fun Day in support of Pride. Bring the whole family and enjoy an evening of non-stop games and fun.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 Pride Karaoke, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. • Free Ibiza, 118 Market St. A Wednesday evening spent singing tunes with Wilmington’s GLBTQIA community doesn’t sound half bad, huh? A night at Ibiza is never a dull one; come with those pipes warmed up a bit!

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 Drag King Show, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. • Free Ibiza, 118 Market St. Cost Varies Watch some of Wilmington’s best male transformations strut their stuff on the dance floor during the midnight Drag King Show.

There will be an abundance of dancing, singing, surprises and laughs.

Karaoke w/DJ Scott, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. • Free The Toolbox Bar, 2325 Burnett Ave. Get one last dose of karaoke at The Toolbox with Wilmington’s DJ Scott. Enjoy the singing, the drinks, the company, and end a week of Pride with delight!

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Pastors of inclusive churches reach out to GLBTQIA with open arms

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ow gay is your church?”

Some people have asked this of Reverend John McLaughlin at St. Jude Metropolitan Community Church.

His response is simple and noble. “I don’t know—we don’t check cards at the door.”

Given the recent pandemonium surrounding the passing of Amendment One—where even friends bashed each other based on personal beliefs rooted in religion or lack thereof—we couldn’t think of a better time to profile some the leaders of local GLBTQIAfriendly religious communities. What we found during our quest was, regardless of denomination, a few themes emerged between the ministers: interpreting scripture until finding a compassionate understanding; loving all human beings in the way that Jesus Christ loved; and realizing that some scripture is just plain outdated.

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new Christianity, one that’s not based on exclusion and judgment but on inclusion,” Rev. McLaughlin says.

St. Jude’s MCC in Wilmington is a closeknit church with about 150 members. Last year, the congregation grew by 50 to 60 percent solely because of its inclusive message.

“We don’t exclude anyone here, and we particularly get people from the GLBT community. But we also say that anyone living on the margins of society—which can be a religious, financial or cultural margin—if they’re not being fed spiritually in their location in the community, then we have a message for them.”

The pastor bases his sermons on love being the core tenet of all scripture. He shares, “We insist that our form of Christianity is actually based on what Jesus Christ taught. His teachings in life and ministry were all about radical inclusion. Everyone’s invited; God loves all; never did he condemn; never did he exclude—and so ST. JUDE’S METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY neither do we.”

CHURCH Rev. McLaughlin neither believes there is 19 N. 26th St. • 762-5833 one interpretation of all scripture, nor that we www.stjudesmcc.org are called to live by the laws of the Torah. “The Worship Services: 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. best way for me to look at it is a lot of the scripReverend John McLaughlin grew up in a ture that seems to condemn homosexuality— Roman-Catholic home. He attended Catholic by the way, the word didn’t even exist until the school for his elementary years and went to late 1800s—is not talking about homosexualchurch every Sunday. Overall, his Catholic up- ity. It’s talking about same-sex sex, and usually bringing was a positive experience, though it did about sex that is rape or abusive, not loving,” spark confusion. “I didn’t hear hatred preached Rev. McLaughlin says. to me,” he recalls. “I remember thinking every He recalls much of scripture which conflicts now and then that what the nuns were teaching the ways we live today. “There’s one in Levitius didn’t sound right, but I have no animosity cus that says if your children are unruly, take toward anything that happened.” them outside the city gate and stone them to During college Rev. McLaughlin shied away death,” he says. “We don’t act that way anyfrom Catholicism. Only 10 years ago, because more; we don’t condone slavery anymore; we of a tragic experience, did he turn to God for don’t think of women as property anymore— help once again. certainly we can think of loving, same-sex re“I didn’t find the Catholic church to be filling lationships as just that: God-given and loving.” me anymore, or a lot of other churches I tried, St. Augustine, an early influence of Christian until I found a Metroplitan Community Church theology, once called his followers to not leave in D.C., I fell in love with the inclusive message an interpretation of scripture until they have and the people there realized I had come home found a compassionate understanding for it. to church.”

Rev. McLaughlin follows in the saint’s words.

The MCC was founded in 1968 by a South“In response to people that are finding hateern Pentecostal minister who’d been kicked ful and judgmental interpretations of scripture, out of his church because he was gay. He real- I ask: Which Christian tradition are you followized God still loved him and wanted to spread ing? If the father of the church tells us to find a this message. MCC completed the first same- compassionate interpretation of scripture, then sex union in 1969—before it was an issue as that’s what we should do,” he says. it is today. During the AIDS crisis, it was one St. Jude’s MCC is known for teaming up of the few churches to bury victims or care for with Wilmington Pride and CARE, a support their families. Soon after, MCC became known organization for families with HIV/AIDS. St. as the human-rights church.

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MINISTER OF COMPASSION: Rev. John McLaughlin teaches that Christianity should be radically inclusive—meaning all are welcome at St. Jude’s MCC. Photo by Bethany Turner

HIV and AIDS, though there is no St. Jude-led GLBT support group. “We’d rather be part of the community in that effort,” he explains.

“We get so many people who have been hurt by church or are looking for spirituality in their lives that is lacking,” Rev. McLaughlin continues. “A lot of our work is to minister to people when they come here on Sunday and let them know that God is a God of love—that they are accepted here. We minister to the soul of people; we really restore people’s dignity to allow them to go back into the world with their head held high.”

CHURCH OF THE SERVANT 4925 Oriole Dr. • 395-0616 www.cosepiscopal.com Holy Eucharist: Sun., 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m.; Wed., 12 p.m., followed by brown-bag lunch Growing up in an Episcopal church, Reverend Catherine Powell also had a pleasant experience with religion as a child. Her home church was open, warm, friendly and affirming, and that she loved attending the congregation was reason to go into ministry. However, while she was attending seminary, women were not yet ordained in the Episcopal denomination.

Though she was raised in Fayetteville, NC, Rev. Powell worked mostly in D.C. and Boston before returning to the South. “The year that I graduated, [women being ordained] was legalized,” she details. “Of course a moderate-toconservative diocese wouldn’t be hiring women [then]—it was too new and uncomfortable.

Even in D.C. we were kind of an oddity.”

When Rev. Powell did look in the East Carolina diocese, what she found in Church of the Servant was as welcoming a church as she grew up in. “Our gay and lesbian members are just totally with everybody else—they serve on the vestry and sometimes teach in Sunday school,” she says. “This church was formed in the ‘70s and people were much more open and comfortable here—they didn’t ever have to ask, ‘Will we or won’t we [accept GLBTQIA]?’

Because from day one they’ve always had gay and lesbian members.”

There are two reasons why Rev. Powell feels such a need to be a part of an inclusive church.

For one, she attributes her two years of work at a small church during the AIDS epidemic. “At that point, people were really scared because they didn’t yet have the scientific information, but because I was in D.C., we had the National Institutes of Health,” she tells. “My congregation had gay members and people with HIV, so early on we had a support group.”

That group featured hospital nurses and a member of NIH who dealt with hemophiliacs— people who had blood transfusions to alleviate one disease but ended up contracting HIV. “That support group was designed to educate, but it had people who were emotionally involved. They cared about the people who were struggling with this new, horrible thing. I’m sure that further educated and sensitized me.”

As well, Rev. Powell herself faced a portion of backlash in the religious community for being ordained. “I think being a woman priest, where we weren’t accepted, and people said all sorts of incredible things to us about what the Bible said—I experienced that so I know what it’s like,” she says. “It’s not the same, of course, but it’s a little bit of knowing what it feels like to be a target of other people’s prejudice.”

For all Episcopalians, scripture is interpreted not line by line but as an entire message. Rev. Powell asks, “What is the whole story of God working with people about?” Her answer is that it plainly speaks of love, compassion and increasing levels of acceptance.

“God started with one family, then it was a bigger group, then a country,” she explains.

“In the beginning, Christians would only accept Jews—then there was a huge uproar and they said, ‘No, actually, anybody.’ The ever-widening circles, I think, are clearly God’s way in history to accept with open arms wider and wider.”

As for religious text that seems to denounce homosexuality, she agrees that the Bible can castigate a number of things. “The language to condemn adultery is just as strong,” she says. “I don’t have any argument except that there are statements against homosexuality— but there are also statements against women speaking in church, too.”

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Once a shark on Wall Street, Reverend Cheryl Walker changed careers because she believed her life was in conflict. “I felt the work I was doing was making people who had more than enough richer, while it was also making other people poorer,” she tells. “While attending a Unitarian Universalist congregation in New York, I was running a small homeless shelter. I was spending my days making people homeless, and then spending my nights trying to fix it. One of them had to give.”

As a minister of UU, Rev. Walker doesn’t believe that the Bible is the inerrant word of God. She also recognizes it’s quite an old text.

“These people did not have some basic understandings,” she says. “They didn’t understand that women and men were co-creators. Given that, their views of women and homosexuality are all based upon some belief that we now know is not knowledge. In their context, they could not imagine a loving, equal relationship between same-sex people.”

Rev. Walker compares the entire story of the Bible to the facts of the 21st century. “Sometimes we say, ‘We’re not working with this text in this area,’ because it’s too rooted in a spe-

cific culture and time with a specific knowledge that we have surpassed.”

She says she does not engage those who spew hatred within religion. It is her personal belief that God loves us into existence and loves us still. “If I believe that, I have to be part of a religious community which lives that out,” Rev. Walker shares. “UU doesn’t say some are worthy and some are not. We affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person, and we mean every person. For me, it’s just important on a very basic level as a human being, and as an out lesbian, it’s really important for me to be part of a community where I can be myself.”

On Sun., June 10th, UUF of Wilmington will hold a Pride-based service.

PEARSALL MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN 3902 Market St. • 763-2220 www.churchonmarket.org Worship Service: 11 a.m.

Celebrating nearly 20 years at Pearsall Memorial Presbyterian, Reverend June Highfill says her congregation is a small but growing fellowship of open-minded people. “[We] place great importance on belonging to God and to one another, and believe Jesus’ way of compassion and [non-judging] is essential for every human being to experience and practice.”

As Rev. Powell experienced, three decades

ago Rev. Highfill was ordained at a time when women priests were almost unheard of. “I knew I wanted to be a pastor when I was a child, but since I didn’t know of any women ministers, I didn’t picture myself in that role,” she details.

“After graduation from seminary, I was called to pastor a small church in Albertson, NC, which was open-minded enough to break through the barrier of that day and call a woman minister.”

Likewise, Rev. Highfill lives her life and leads her sermons in much the same way, welcoming all to Pearsall regardless of controversy. “It’s important to be part of an inclusive church because that best reflects the spirit of Jesus, who was a boundary buster.”

UNITY OF WILMINGTON 717 Orchard Ave. • 763-5155 www.unitywil.com Worship Services: 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Though his family was not overly religious, Rev. Richard Levy was introduced to Judaism at the age of 13—when his divorced parents forced him to have a bar mitzvah. He remembers most that there was a lot of drinking and embarrassing moments. “I decided if that’s what God was about, I didn’t want anything to do with that particular version of God.” At 22, Rev. Levy was supposed to be on a flight from Miami which crashed in the Ever-

glades, killing 250 passengers. For an unknown reason, he switched flights. “It was an epiphany of the highest caliber,” Rev. Levy remembers.

“I felt like I’d been given the gift of another life.”

Today, he helps those who are searching for meaning within their own lives, in a place where they’ll feel loved and accepted: Unity of Wilmington. “The whole planet is trying to find something that we already are,” he says. “We are beings of love—and judging, anger and fear are our own creations. God didn’t create doubt, pain and shame—we did. Learning how to love yourself as God already loves you is the journey of a whole lifetime.”

When interpreting the Bible, Rev. Levy asks, “What is it that Jesus modeled?” He says he doesn’t take literally what was written by men hundreds of years after the words were dictated. “Jesus said, ‘God is love. Worship God, worship love, with all of your heart, soul, mind and body. And love your neighbor and your enemy as yourself,’” he recalls.

For those who follow Rev. Levy’s teachings, he says there is one true moment of recognition. “One of the most beautiful things about watching people come into Unity is that they realize the message they were getting when they were younger—the Bible pounded into them or whatever it was—was just a misinterpretation by others who misconceived.”

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Chapter 12: My Own Private Purgatory

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real experiences. I had managed to land a literary agent after my second film had found a distributor. Once agents know you’re capable of making money, someone will step up to take 10 percent of it.

I went from a tiny, one-bedroom studio apartment to a Quality Inn on La Brea. I had spent the last four years living in hotels of varying quality. This one was about average.

I chose it based on proximity to my agent’s office, as well as a strip mall across the street featuring a Cuban restaurant, Chinese takeout and a seedy bar called Purgatory, which specialized in pasty-skinned kids in heavy black makeup. I was no fan of the bar and far too unhip to patronize it.

But this was California, which meant everyone was forced to smoke outdoors.

From my balcony, I could see girls in skintight vinyl and men draped in grays and blacks, enjoying their cigarettes. In my day, these kids would have painted their fingernails black while listening to The Cure or The Smiths—anything sullen and British. Now, kids were painting black circles around their eyes and listening to anything industrial and German. I didn’t care for it.

In my opinion, music had peaked with the 1980 release of The Clash’s “Sandinista!”

After that, it all sounded like shit.

I found a better alternative to smoking alone. For the first two weeks, I didn’t even bother going inside. Instead, I started taking my smoke breaks while hovering around the Purgatory front door. It was at least two more weeks before anyone said a word to me. A girl with painted raccoon eyes, a leather bustier

and striped leggings asked to borrow a smoke. She looked like concept art for an unfilmed Tim Burton movie. Yet, among these heavily made-up eyesores, I was the odd peg.

“Nice sports coat,” she said while taking a drag of her borrowed cigarette.

“A little warm for this time of year, don‘t you think?”

I was raised in the strictest of Catholic households. When men left the house, we left wearing a jacket. This was as fundamental a truth to me as daily showers and pairing red wine with red meat.

The intent was to always go out the door looking the best, but there were situations where it made me look like a substitute teacher or a yacht club applicant.

Her name was Veronica. She was a college dropout who had been studying English Lit until she decided academic pursuits were a waste of time. Her goal was to save up some money before heading on a two-year worldwide trek.

The first leg of her journey would be teaching English to students in rural Korea. From there she would bounce across Asia: Beijing to Taipei, Taiwan to Bangladesh. She talked about it with such passion and precision. For her, it was only a matter of time before she escaped. I, on the other hand, had just gotten here and was hoping to establish some roots.

It’s probably why we clicked. Trains passing in the night. Yada, yada, yada.

Four days later, we were having semi-regular sex. My hotel room had become Veronica’s first stop after last call. It was safer than driving home drunk and cheaper than calling a cab. My charm might have played a small role in it, but I still give the majority of the credit for this relationship to convenience.

Every day was very much the same. I spent my mornings nursing a hangover, eating flank steak, black beans and fried plantains, while trying to make sense of the random pages I

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had churned out the previous night. Afternoons were spent by the pool, reading e-mails about potential projects and notes from my agent on spec scripts. Evenings started with a couple of drinks at Purgatory before returning to my room for several hours of marathon script-writing. Eventually, I’d lose all sense of reality and begin staring at the cheap art that adorned the walls of my room—simple, watercolor desert landscapes in yellow, orange and red.

Each drink made my vision a little more hazy and the colors would bleed together, while forming fascinating shapes and images—like one of those three-dimensional posters you had to stare at just right. Only this one required a fifth of bourbon and an ounce of imagination.

Then, inevitably, there would be a knock at the door around 2:15 a.m. On the other side would be an inebriated Veronica, already un-

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hooking buckles from her garters and shedding clothes as she made her way to my bed. If we had the energy, or the sobriety, we would share a few cigarettes on the balcony. She wouldn’t bother getting dressed; instead, she would drape the sheets around her like a makeshift toga and head outside. Sometimes we’d spend all night talking on that balcony—long conversations about places she’d never been but hoped to see. I mostly talked about whatever story I was working on at the time. I had no social contact outside of random calls from my agent and the nonsensical chatter at restaurants, where English was spoken as a second language.

The idea of writing interested her, but she found the film industry boring. She was a student of counterculture, and there were far too many people in this town whose ideas were tied into entertainment. To be a rebel here was to reject the glamour and the glitz in favor of a more meaningful existence.

“Don’t get lost in it,” was her advice.

This came from a personal place. Her mother was one of the millions who never made it—a minor tragedy in a city where failure was far more the exception than the rule.

“Mom is one of those people who spent too much time wondering what could have been,” Veronica said. “All she sees now are the spaces between successes—and as those spaces become greater so does that sense of loss.”

It was a far better line than anything I’d written in the six weeks I’d been in Hollywood. I ran to the bathroom to scribble it into a notebook before the inebriation took hold.

Every so often Veronica would clean up, change her clothes and accompany me for a Cuban breakfast. Without the makeup she was almost unrecognizable. The transformation was remarkable. In this state she looked almost average: freckled skin, a glimmer in her eyes that was undetectable when she was wearing colored contacts. I wanted to take our relationship out of the half block of commerce and concrete of my self-imposed exile. I wondered if it would work beyond the confines of this little world I had constructed.

Where the breakfasts were Cuban, the dinners were Chinese, and every day provided clean sheets. This was a good thing since my wild nights with Veronica, the sweat of sex mixing with her make up, had left my bed looking like I had murdered a mime.

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standing up for our community: Opposing Titan is not about opposing jobs My mother once told me – don’t marry the first guy who asks you. She turned her first suitor down, and, not too long after, accepted my dad’s proposal. He was the right match for her and she was glad she had been “picky” enough to wait.

Right now our own community is facing a similar proposal – from a suitor in the form of a huge cement company, aptly named Titan. Titan proposes to bring jobs, a tempting offer for many. But are they the right jobs for our community?

A recent study on the impact of cement manufacturing on the Cape Fear region, conducted by Dr. Craig Galbraith and Dr. Curt Stiles of UNCW, pointed out several important considerations about the Titan promise and whether it is a match for our special community.

They say that the Wilmington region currently has a very unbalanced economy of low tech/heavy industry and amenity/ ambience-driven sectors such as tourism.

According to their research, amenitybased industry tends to have a much more positive impact than does heavy industry on an area’s economy, employment and social activities related to non-profits and education.

The professors also contend that amenity-based industries have a much greater propensity to attract new firms into a region, especially high-tech, service-based and financial enterprises. In contrast, the heavy industry sector can actually repel these types of industries, not to mention future visitors and residents.

They also make the point that we are not a large region that can easily accommodate a variety of industries in harmonious coexistence. Plus, we already have a “product” to sell – our beautiful, recreation-friendly environment and quality of life – a persona that many economic development recruiters from other communities would kill for.

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So why say yes to a suitor who gives us a few jobs in return for enormous risks? Here are some of the impacts Titan will have: • Create a 2500 + acre mine, over 70-feet deep that would destroy over 1000 acres of irreplaceable wetlands, wildlife habitat and potentially harm critical surface and ground water.

• Emit nearly 350 tons of particulate matter each year, a substance that contributes to tens of thousands of premature deaths annually from heart attacks, strokes, and asthma attacks.

• Withdraw millions of gallons of water per day from the Castle Hayne and Pee Dee aquifers, lowering the water table and risking contamination of a major source of our drinking water.

• Be one of the highest mercury emitting facilities in New Hanover County.

Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that causes disabilities in children, infants, and the unborn. New Hanover County already has some of the highest mercury emissions in the state.

• Expose an estimated 8,500 students enrolled within 5 miles of Titan’s property to pollutants known to cause increased rates of asthma and other respiratory illnesses.

As a small business person, I am asking other business people to join in and get involved in helping our community understand what it means to be picky, to seek out the right jobs, not just any jobs.

We all need to speak up against actions that jeopardize (1) our region’s ability to attract the right industries for future economic growth and, needless to say, (2) our own health and quality of life. We need to demand economic development efforts that seek out the best matches for our unique community.

A message to business recruiters: turn down the brutes; find the soul mates.

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5TH ANNUAL GAY PRIDE WEEK Now organizing the 5th annual Gay Pride Week for 6/7-14. Week of celebration includes film festival, educational workshops, ecumenical services at St. Jude MCC Church, potluck picnic and Rainbow Pride March and downtown festival with music and entertainment. Pride March on 6/10 on riverfront, beginning and ending at the Lennon Alton Federal Building. Afterward, a concert kicks off celebration! www.wilmingtonpride.com.

FIREWORKS BY THE SEA Fireworks by the Sea. Music at 6:30pm; fireworks at 9pm. Join us for the first weekly fireworks display throughout the summer. Free music at the gazebo and on CB Boardwalk weekly. Free. 910-458-8434. www.pleasureislandnc.org/fireworks-by-the-sea.

SEAMLESS SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM Seamless Summer Food Service Program for Children, New Hanover County Schools, starts Tues., 6/26. Nutritional meals will be provided to children 18 years old and younger without charge through 8/9. Acceptance and participation requirements for the program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided at the following Wilmington locations at the specified times, operating Monday – Thursday with no meals provided on Fridays. Freeman School of Engineering, 2601 Princess Place Dr. noon1pm; Creekwood South, 714 Emory St., 11:45am-

MILLER MOTTE COLLEGE 7/20, 7pm: Miller Motte College will have their annual graduation ceremony w/over 1200 in attendance. Students from medical, dental, cosmetology, esthetics, massage therapy, business, IT, accounting, criminal justice and paralegal will be participating in the ceremony. Guest speaker will be Farad Ali from the “Minority Business Enterprise Center” of the NC Institute of Minority Economic Development. 1 Estelle Lee Place CFCC BOAT SHOW Cape Fear Community College is currently seeking boats of all types for the annual CFCC Boat Show on 7/21. College invites all professional and amateur boatbuilders to show off their work to fellow builders and the general public. Feats. everything from one person kayaks to large sailing vessels.

No matter what the finished product looks like, all boatbuilders. Cost to enter a boat: $50 per, and includes free t-shirt and admission to the aftershow dinner. Pro vendors and sponsorships available. All proceeds from the event benefit student scholarships. Jason Rogers at (910) 362-7403 or jrogers@cfcc.edu.

SIGNUP NOW! VOLLEY FOR PAWS Everyone knows Captain Bill’s Backyard Grill is the premiere spot for fun in the sun. But they’re also the place to be come June 23rd, as Port City Ruritan hosts a fund-raiser for Paws Place Dog Rescue, a nonprofit, no-kill local shelter. The charity volleyball tournament includes an $80 advance registration fee through the 22nd with six people per team (after or day-of, it’s $100). There will be a silent auction during the event, as well as raffles and giveaways! Visit www.pcruritan. org/volleyball/html to sign up today!

charity/fund-raisers COAST TO THE CAPITAL The Coast To The Capital (C2C) is a long distance relay which will cover approximately 145 miles beginning in Carolina Beach on 6/7, 9am, and ending in Raleigh 6/8, 1pm. One-of-a-kind event in will consist of only 7 runners tackling the entire 145 mile distance. On 6/9, team will participate in the Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure before heading back home. The route will carry the team out of Carolina Beach on Hwy 421 and will continue on Hwy 421 to Garner, then Hwy 401 into Raleigh with the relay ending on Hillsborough Street. The team will travel with a support vehicle throughout the entire event, but will travel with only the bare necessities to complete the distance. Mike Worley: 910-508-0349 or www.coasttothecapital.com NEWBRIDGE BANK BRIDGE TO BRIDGE CFCC Foundation and Sea Devil Athletics are proud to partner with NewBridge Bank to bring the Wilmington community the Inaugural “NewBridge Bank Bridge to Bridge 4.0 run / 1.0 walk”. 4-mile course will take participants from the Isabel Holmes Bridge to the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge through some of the most scenic areas of downtown Wilmington, 6/14, 6:30pm. The finish line leads participants inside the Schwartz Center to celebrate a great finish accompanied with food, beverages and community supporters. Proceeds will support student scholarships at Cape Fear Community College. 910-362-7191 or 910-362-7042.

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS 6/14, 8pm: “Spread the Word to End the Word” featuring Broadway veterans, Ben & Amy Wright joined by Kendra Goehring-Garrett. A concert of Broadway music plus the World Premiere of the Wright’s new song, “It Starts With A Voice.” As the proud parents of two children with intellectual

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PORT CITY RURITAN VOLLEYBALL TOURNEY 6/23: Port City Ruritan is hosting its 4th annual charity beach volleyball tournament at Capt’n Bills Backyard Grill, located at 4240 Market St. Four-person coed team registration is $80 in advance or $100 the day of the tournament, (up to six players per roster). Advance registration through 6/22, Capt’n Bills. Free and spectators encouraged to attend. Event feat. exciting raffle giveaways and a silent auction. Proceeds will support Paws Place Dog Rescue (www. pawsplace.org), a non-profit, no-kill local shelter. www.pcruritan.org/volleyball.html

5K RUN AT THE BELLAMY 7/22, 8am: 5k run at the Bellamy, 8am, 5th Ave and Princess St. 5K and 1 mile fun walk. Race and then come back to the mansion for some breakfast! $25 pre-register, $30 day of 1 Mile/Fun Run: $15 preregister, $20 day of packet pick-up: Thursday, July 19 and Friday, July 20. Race begins at Bellamy.

Awards given in ages, teams, individuals. 910-2513700 x102.

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LEGALLY BLONDE 6/6-10, 15-17 and 22-24: Opera House Theatre Company presents ‘Legally Blonde,” w/ book

by Heather Hach, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. Based on the novel

by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Perky, sweet, and strikingly blonde sorority girl Elle Woods is dumped by Warner, her college sweetheart, for someone more serious.

Unwilling to give up on love, Elle follows Warner to Harvard Law School., and proves by her hard work and determination that being true to your self never goes out of style. (910) 632-2285, www.thalianhall. org. Season tickets and gift certificates are ordered through our office, (910) 762-4234. All shows at Thalian Hall. Wed-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm.

SHAKESPEARE ON THE GREEN The Shakespeare Youth Company kicks off the 20th season festival performing “Shades of Shakespeare {featuring 12th Night},” directed by Cherri McKay, 6/6-7, and Mon-Thurs, 6/11-14. • The annual adult company performs “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Steve Vernon (and first performed in 1993). Guest appearances from locals (Steve and out of town CFSOTG alumni.

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Sun shows, 6/21-24 and 28-7/1. Thursdays are CFSOTG Actor Appreciation Nights. Gates at 6:30pm. Come early, picnic or enjoy a snack from our concession. To Greenfield Lake Amphitheater take Carolina Beach Rd to Tennessee Ave. 910399-2878. www.capefearshakespeare.org CLUE 7/13, 6:30pm: Clue: The Play Murder Mystery.

The cast sets the stage for intrigue, murder and mayhem. The audience holds the key to unlock the mystery and uncover the conspiracy. Come and participate in a life-size board game. Watch as the well-known characters; Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green, Professor Plum, and Mrs. Peacock, take you on a comedic trip through the board game to discover which suspect, with which weapon killed the owner of Boddy Manor. $45 before or $50 day of, with food catered from Middle of the Island. brooklynartsnc. com, porchtheatre.com, at 910-232-6611. 910538-2939. Doors, 6:30pm; show, 7pm. Seating is limited. BAC cash bar will provide lovely liquid refreshments. 520 North 4th St. THE FOREIGNER Sergeant “Froggy” LeSeuer arrives at a rural Georgia fishing lodge along with his friend, a pathologically shy young man named Charlie, who is overcome with fear at the thought of making conversation with strangers. So “Froggy”, before departing, tells everyone that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and speaks no English. The fun begins as the other guests, assuming Charlie cannot understand a word they are saying, speak freely around him revealing more than they shouldevil plans, two-faced behavior, relationship drama

and many other damaging revelations. What he overhears fuels nonstop hilarity and leads the play through a series of uproarious circumstances! 6/724, Thurs.– Sat., 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Cape Fear Playhouse, 613 Castle St. $20; $18 students, seniors, military. $15 for all every Thursday (910) 367-5237 or www.bigdawgproductions.org.

CAMP ROCK THE MUSICAL Thalian Association Children’s Theater is proud to present Camp Rockthe Musical! June 8-10 and 1517. Friday & Saturday 7pm, and Sunday 3pm. Hannah Block 2nd Street Stage, 120 South 2nd Street. $10 GeneralAdmission. (910) 341-7860 BROWNCOAT PUB AND THEATRE All shows are $15 GA, $8 student admission. 111 Grace St. • 6/14-30: Harvey Fierstein’s “Torch Song Trilogy,” opening gala on 6/14, 8pm; Fri/ Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. Doors open half-hour prior to show. Tickets: $8-$15. www.browncoattheatre. com A CHORUS LINE 7/4-8, 13-15 and 20-22: Opera House Theatre Company presents “A Chorus Line,” conceived and originally directed and choreographed by MichaelBennett, w/book by James Kirkwood & Nicholas Dante; music by Marvin Hamlisch; and yrics by Edward Kleban. A bare stage in an empty theatre, casting for the chorus of a new Broadway musical is almost complete. It’s down to 17 finalists, but only 8 are needed for the show. During the audition, the director asks the performers to talk about themselves—each of the usually anonymous chorus members steps into the spotlight to tell their story. (910) 632-2285, www.thalianhall.org.

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through our office, (910) 762-4234. All shows at Thalian Hall. Wed-Sat, 8pm; Sun, 3pm.

AUDITIONS FOR CHOIR Seeking adult men & women singers for a gospel choir to perform at Benefit Concert 6/14 at Thalian Hall. Choir will be filmed at concert and featured in a music video for world-wide release. Interested?

Email wrightfam5@mac.com Mandatory rehearsals Mon. 6/11 6-7pm and Thurs. 6/14 3-4pm. Concert 6/14 at 8pm. 100% proceeds from benefit concert donated to Special Olympics.

comedy NUTT STREET COMEDY ROOM Nutt St. Comedy Room is located in the baasement of the Soapbox Laundro Lounge and features local, regional, national and international touring standup acts. • 6/8-9 —Erin Jackson (showtime) • 15-16—Pink Collar Tour • 23-24— Lachlan Patterson (comedy central) • 30-31—Tony Woods (BET, showtime).

255 N. Front St. 910-520-5520. www. nuttstreet.com

A benefit concert, “Spread the Word to End the Word,” will held at Thalian Hall and filmed for a world-wide release as a music video. Featuring Broadway veterans and music, it will also premiere a new song, “It Starts with a Voice,” written by the program’s performers, Ben and Amy Wright. Folks who are interested in auditioning should e-mail wrightsfam5@mac.com to get the details.

Mandatory rehearsals will be Monday the 11th from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday the 14th from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. The concert will be the 14th at 8 p.m. with all proceeds benefitting the Special Olympics.

IMPROV ACADEMY Intensive workshops beginning in June!

Learn Exactly the methods of Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Kristen Wig from Groundlings, UCB, and Second City.Professional Comedy Instruction. 347-468-2614; 4 two-week sessions to choose from.

CABINEER’S PROMOTIONS 6/23: Comedy Show and ‘70s Party at The Sportsmen Club. Two early-bird tickets, $15 (through 5/20); $10 5/21-6/8; otherwise $15 adv and $20 at door. Mother’s and Father’s Day: 2 for $15 tickets now before they’re gone! Show feat. comedian J Smooth, known for his Tina Turner act. Comedian Poochie will host the evening. Don your best ‘70s attire; free fish, 7-8pm (must have a ticket to receive meal)! 910-200-3683. Ticket locations: Wilmington Sportsmen’s Club, 910-343-8977; or Johnson’s Groceries, 910-254-0350

WECT SOUNDS OF SUMMER Wrightsville Beach Parks and Recreation hosts WECT Sounds of Summer Concerts at Wrightsville Beach Park. Bring picnic, lawn chairs, and blankets for an evening of music and fun! Thursday, 6-8:30pm, 6/21-8/9. 910-256-7925 or www. townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE A benefit concert for Cape Fear Shakespeare on the Green will be held 6/23, feat. G. Love Special & Sauce. www.greenfieldlakeamphitheater.com

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CAPE FEAR BLUES FESTIVAL 7/27-29: The centerpiece of our region’s summer music season is a tradition among

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Duran in support of new album, All You Need is Now. Tickets on sale 3/30, 10am • Jethro Tull will perform 9/29. In April, Anderson will release a newly-recorded sequel to Jethro Tull’s seminal 1972 album Thick as a Brick, followed by a solo tour that will feature him performing both the original album and its new sequel back-to-back live in their entirety. Tickets go on sale 3/16, at 10am.

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CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD 7/3: Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater n support of their debut studio album, “Big Moon Ritual.” (To be released June 5 via Silver Arrow/Megaforce Records). The album will soon be followed by companion album “The Magic Door” in September, both of which were produced by Thom Monahan (Veticer, Devandra Banhart, Papercuts). Tickets: $25 at Gravity or greenfieldlakeamphitheatre.com DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 7/8: Crosby, Stills and Nash, with tickest on sale 4/13. • 7/31-8/5: Christie Brinkley stars as Roxie Hart in “Chicago.” Catch her red-handed during a a full week of eight performances. • 8/21: Duran

Blues listeners and musicians, far and wide.

Events include the Cape Fear Blues Cruise on the Henrietta III, live Blues shows at local clubs, a Blues workshop, the All-Day Blues Jam, and a Guitar Giveaway. Sponsored by the Cape Fear Blues Society. Information: www.capefearblues. org or 910-350-8822.

MUSIC INSTRUCTION Music instruction at Modern Music with Lucian Rowland, who has 20 years experience as a professional recording and performing musician. Private lessons available for guitar, mandolin, banjo, and bass. (910) 508-1111 or rockinrowland@hotmail.com.

dance OVER 50’S DANCE The Over 50’s Dance will be held June 12 at the New Hanover Senior Center 7:30-10:00 pm. Music by DJ Buddy Langley. Couples, singles and all ages welcome. Admission: $5, plus finger food or 2-liter drink. 799-1694 WILMINGTON SINGLES CLUB All meetings at Am. Legion Post 10 unless otherwise noted. Music, 8-11pm; no shorts, miniskirts or denim jeans allowed. Adm: $8-$10 w/DJ or $10-$12 w/band. Schedule: 6/8 DJ Robert Clemmons • 6/15 The Colors Band • 6/22 DJ Baby Boomer • 6/29 The Classic Collection Band “4th of July” dance. Married couples allow at this dance. Dale Thompson (910)619-1054 AZALEA COAST NC USA DANCE The Azalea Coast NC USA Dance Wilmington chapter invites you to join us for our monthly social dance and group dance lesson. Sat., 6/9, New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd. Entry level social ballroom dance lesson begins at 6:45pm. Open dancing to a custom mix of ballroom and latin music begins at 7:30pm. $10 for non-USA Dance members, $5 military w/ID, $3 students w/ID. Admission includes lesson and open dancing. No partner necessary to participate.

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www.azaleacoastNCusadance.org, LINE DANCING Line dancing is ideal for singles and for partners of non-dancers. Classes held in four-week sessions, Sun., 4-5pm, in the Fran Russ Rec Center located behind Town Hall at Wrightsville Beach Park. Session 1: 6/10, 17, & 24, 2012. Session 2: 8/5, 12, 19, & 26, 2012. Pre-reg.: 910-256-7925. www. towb.org.

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 TECHNIQUES IN MOTION 2012 Techniques In Motion School of Dance classes and camps offered, 6/4-7/27. Tap and ballet, hip-hop and musical theatre, and more! Camp schedules available in studio lobby and on website: www.techniquesinmotion.com 799-3223 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 SURFER TANGO Salsa on 2 NYC style, Thurs, 8pm, $5/person at Orton’s Pool Hall. Lesson at 7pm; all welcome and no partner needed. Surfertango@gmail.com www. surfertango.com CONTRA DANCE Tuesday night dances, 5th Ave United Methodist Church on South 5th Ave at Nun, 7:30-9:30pm.

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

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

art ART SHOW AND SALE Through end of June at the Community Art Center in the Hannah Block Historic USO Building, 120 South Second St. Art work in a variety of mediums and styles will be offered at very reasonable prices by artists who have participated in various painting classes since January 21012, taught by well known artist, Joanne Geisel, at the art center in former USO building.

SPECTRUM ART GALLERY Join us Friday, June 8 from 5-7 for Spectrum’s monthly open house. Enjoy tasty treats, flowing wine and live music by John Kubilas! 125-H Military Cutoff Rd. 910-256-2323 SILVER COAST WINERY The Silver Coast Winery Art Gallery is proud to display the works of “The Myxolydian Artist” James Davis. Mr. Davis’s career has covered almost 40 years of dedication and innovation. His works display thousands of shades and the layering of colors. James is the founder of the Myxolydain School of Modern American Painting, which originated as a term for the primary Jazz scale. MOn display until 9/10. Public is invited. www.silvercoastwinery.com or 910 287 2800.

K-12 DISPOSABLE CAMERA PHOTOS Ordinary Magic: Disposable Camera Photographs

by New Hanover CountyK-12 students will be on

canvas with paints, inks, cassette tapes, reel to reel tape and more. Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St. 910-763-3737

NOW: TECHNIQUES IN MOTION Haven’t signed up your kids for summertime camps yet? Techniques in Motion will be having tap, ballet, hip-hop and musical theatre camps throughout the summer! From Disney Shake it Up camp to Beach Luau camp, themes abound for every interest level and age group. Log onto www.techniquesinmotion.com for full details and dates. Camps last through the 27th of July and mostly are week-long events, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to noon. (910) 799-3223. view at the Art Gallery at the Cultural ArtsBuilding, UNCW, through 8/31. In the spring of 2012, one hundred disposable cameras were distributed to public and private schools throughout New Hanover County. The resulting 2,700 photographs by K-12 students comprise Ordinary Magic consisting of one print from each school and a slide show of all the photographs taken throughout the project. Gallery will be open Monday through Thursday from noon until 4 p.m. during the summer.

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHT Fourth Friday Gallery Nights 2012 are free monthly events where local galleries, studios and art spaces open their doors to the public in an afterhours celebration of art and culture. Self-guided tours feature exhibitions of various artistic genres, as well as opening receptions, artist discussions, demonstrations, live music, wine, food and other traditional and nontraditional art-related activities.

Dates: 6/22, 7/27, 8/24, 9/28, 10/26, 11/23, 12/28. Galleries: 621N4TH Gallery, Acme Art Studios, Bottega Gallery & Art Bar, Calico Room, Cape Fear Native, Caprice Bistro, Checker Cab Gallery, Five Star Tavern, Golden Gallery, MC Erny Gallery at WHQR, New Elements Gallery, Old Books on Front Street, Opera Room & Gallery, Port City Pottery & Fine Crafts, Projekte, Riverside Dental Arts, Wicked Gallery, Wilmington Wine. www.wilmingtonfourthfridays.com.

NEW ELEMENTS New Elements Gallery announces the official grand opening at its 201 Princess St. location. New exhibition at the gallery, Outside the Lines, showcasing works by local artist Michael Van Hout. Van Hout began creating his earliest sculptures in a folk-art style from found materials. Outside the Lines will feature a variety of figurative pieces and expanded subject matter like musicians, portrait heads and people performing everyday activities, using his signature wire sculpture techniques. Exhibition hangs through 6/16. Hours are 11am-6pm daily or by appointment. 201 Princess Street IVEY HAYES UNCW is the first college in the state to host the artwork of native son Ivey Hayes, as the result of a campus effort headed by the Ann Flack Boseman Gallery. 16 pieces will hang in the Azalea Coast Room of the Fisher University Union. The work will be on permanent exhibition, with new pieces rotating in each academic semester through 6/30/2012.

RYAN LEWIS Art Soup, a local nonprofit arts organization, and Bottega Gallery present “Melodic Owl Dreams: a presentation of abstract paintings, featuring work

by Wilmington artist Ryan Lewis.” On display through July 2012. Utilizing thick, bright, chaotic brushstrokes alongside three-dimensional form, Lewis’ recent series of paintings showcase an interpretation of sound and emotion illustrated on

ARTFUL LIVING GROUP Artful Living Group located at 112 Cape Fear Blvd., 910-458-7822. info@artufllivinggroup. com. June: Candy Pegram’s folk art. Opening, 6/7, 6:30-8:30pm. • July: Gabriel Lehman’s whimsical paintings. Opening, 7/5, 6:308:30pm. • Aug: Mike Bryand’s Photography.

Opening, 8/2, 6:30-8:30pm. • Sept: Melanie Heinrick’s photography on metal. Opening, 9/6, 6:30-8:30pm.

ART FOR THE MASSES AFTM 2012, 10th anniversary, will take place 10-5, Sat., 11/17, Burney and Warwick centers on the UNCW campus. All-original fine art priced at $250 or less, with UNCW student art also available for purchase. AFTM is free and open to the public, with a requested $3 door donation to help fund public arts projects at the university. Artists exhibiting at AFTM will retain 100 percent of the proceeds; register starting in July. Info/reg. materials: www.uncw.edu/artforthemasses. Artists’ fees will be used to fund the event the following year.

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BOTTEGA EVENTS Now showing Ryan Lewis’ latest works through July.• Tues (4pm-midnight): Starving artist night and open paint. • Wed (4pm-mid.): Weekly wine tastings, 7pm. bottegaartbar@gmail.com. • 208 N. Front St. 910-763-3737, www.bottegagallery.com.

PROJEKTE “Chiaroscuro”— a new exhibit showcasing photographs which recognize the light when it happens and try to incorporate it into a scene that has impact and good composition, with shadows and highlights adding depth and dimensionality. Wine tasting, live music and light hors d’ouevres. Artwork hangs through 6/30. • Every Mon in June: TV Video and Stills Porductions presents Spotlight Talent Search. Only 5 acts per night, no profanity, one selected forwrad to next week w/audience participation and judges’ decisions, participants notified day of performance with 15 min. minimum to perform. Prizes up for grabs and finale winner crowned. • Weekly events: Live music Wed-Sat; Mon: drum circle, 7-8pm; Sun. Metamorphosis open mic, 9pm ;Tues, Projektion Theater Film Series, sundown; Wed, Soiree d’Electronica, 9pm; Thurs. wine tasting, 7pm. 523 South 3rd St. 910508-8982. www.theprojekte.com

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NC DUCKS UNLIMITED 8/18: NC Ducks Unlimited “Carver of the Year” and “Decoy of the Year” championship. North Carolina State Convention in Wilmington, NC. Help us promote and celebrate our waterfowling heritage by using your skills to depict a selected waterfowl species in woodcarvings and paint. Our “Carver of the Year” category uses IWCA Working Decoy rules to showcase a combination of function and art in a working decoy. The species this year is the elegant Drake Pintail. The North Carolina “Gunning Decoy of the Year” will be a Drake Redhead. Judging will take place in conjunction with the banquet reception on Saturday night at the Wilmington Convention Center along the Cape Fear River. The Best of Show winners will receive a purchase award and recognition at the banquet along with the notoriety of being the “First Annual NCDU Carver/Decoy of the Year”. The 1st place Best of Show decoy in both Divisions will be sold at live auction that night.

State Convention begins Thurs, 8/16m with plenty of activities leading up to the banquet on Saturday night. www.ncducks.org/stateconvention.

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museums/programs USS BATTLESHIP Summer Hours: Hours of operation for the Battleship NC are 8am-8pm and will return to closing at 5pm after Labor Day. • 6/9, 8am-4pm (Legacy) and 10am-4pm (101): Battleship 101 and The Legacy Series: Armored Cruiser NC and the Great War 2nd Saturdays Programs. Battleship 101 visitors engage with ship volunteers stationed throughout the ship as they create dialogue on specific subjects relative to daily shipboard life including gunnery, radar, sickbay, galley and engineering areas. Battleship’s new Legacy Series as part of the 2nd Saturday programs, where folks learn about the Battleship’s nine round trips covering 60,000 miles. www.battleshipnc.com. Jct of Highways 17/74/76/421 on the Cape Fear River.

OAKDALE CEMETARY HISTORICAL TOUR 6/16: Tour NC’s oldest rural cemetery and learn about history. 10am. Admission charge. Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington. 910-762-5682; www.oakdalecemetery.org.

CAPE FEAR MUSEUM EXHIBITS: Through 7/15: Cape Fear Treasures: “Shoes” takes a glimpse into a selection of footwear from Cape Fear Museum’s permanent collection. 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries featuring spectator oxford pumps, lace-up boots, satin slippers, Air Jordans and more! • Shopping Around Wilmington: In an era before mega-malls, online ordering and big-box stores, shopping in Wilmington centered around downtown. Museum will explore ways in which increasing suburbanization changed people’s retail experiences. • Toys and

Games (through 9/9): View historical images of people at play and toys and games from our collection, and play with a variety of interactives. Adults and children alike enjoy viewing toys from the past, and you can enjoy playing together as a family.

EVENTS: Volunteer Open House held first Wed. of mo. Opportunities are available in museum store, working with the historic collection, and as an education docent. • New Hanover County Resident’s Day: Residents admitted free first Sun. ea. mo.

• Creative Chemistry, 6/9, 16, 23, 30, 1-4pm. Is Explore solids, liquids, and gases and experiment with mixtures! Unravel a colorful mystery and experiment with acids and bases. • Cape Fear Skies: A realistic planetarium experience the third Sunday of each month w/admission. • 6/17: Greek Myths & Legends, 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30pm, all ages. Explore the night sky while listening to Greek star-inspired stories. • Cape Fear Museum’s Summer Shorts, a fun-filled, educational hour of hands-on adventures for groups of 10 or more children and their adult chaperones. 6/12-8/17. Exciting 60-minute adventures: Cape Fear Indians, Bugs!, Star Quest, Toys and Games. Tues/Wed/Thurs/Fri, 9:30am, 11am, 1pm. Appropriate for children ages 5–14; $6/child.

910798-4362 • Grown-up Game Night, 6/15, 7-10pm. $5 for members; $7 for non-members; memberships available on game night. Bring some friends, grab some appetizers and a seat, and get your game on! Admission includes access to great games (instructions if needed!), snacks and drinks, and a visit to the Museum’s Toys and Games exhibit.• Volunteers are needed in the Museum Store on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons from 1-4 pm. Interested? Please call Karen Smith at 798-4366 or email at kasmith@

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FORT FISHER HISTORIC SITE 6/9: Fort Fisher State Historic Site will host the first of three 2nd Saturday programs open to the public this summer season. “Model Military: Visualizing History in Scale” will spotlight the use of models and miniatures in creating history in a scale format.

Local artisans and hobbyists with Eastern Carolina Plastic Modelers will display their creations and discuss model research and hobby tips. Also on hand will be noted Civil War author and historian Michael Hardy, who will be signing his books in the visitor’s center. The fort’s 12-pound Napoleon cannon will be fired throughout the day and costumed tours of the fort’s remaining earthworks, 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Free, though donations are appreciated. All Fort Fisher programming is made possible by the Friends of Fort Fisher, the nonprofit group that supports the site. 610 Fort Fisher Blvd S, Kure Beach.

(910) 458-5538. www.nchistoricsites.org/fisher/.

CAMERON ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS: Out of Fashion, Hughes Wing, through 8/19; In 1815, when the first cotton mill was established in Lincoln County, NC, it stood as one of the physical and symbolic cornerstones of an industry that would come to define the economic and cultural being of NC. Following the offshore exodus of the 1990s, today NC is rebuilding through hybrid development, with one of the fast-

est growing markets in the state being the export of intermediate/unfinished goods that overseas firms turn into finished products. These materials are in a raw, in-between state—their promise yet to be realized—much like the textile industry of the 21st century, and our current understanding of it. • Julie VonDerVellen, Hughes Wing, through 8/19; Represents the first museum exhibition featuring work by this emerging artist, Julie VonDerVellen, a recent MFA graduate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. A close inspection of these seemingly pedestrian garments of everyday wear reveal highly crafted, intricate constructions made entirely of handmade paper derived from recycled cotton clothing. Garments evoke memories; memories evoke garments. • Elliot Dangerfield: Art and Life in NC. Opening reception, 6/1, 6-8pm. Dangerfield will have over 60 paintings and drawings from private and museum collections, influenced by Impressionist and Symbolist artists, his work is ethereal. Hangs in Brown Wing through 8/19. • Exhibition tours every Wed. at 12:30pm Sun. at 2:30pm.

Tours led by staff and docents. Museum adm. • 6/7, 7-8:15pm: Music in the Courtyard w/Mike Blair and the Stonewalls, Americana/Rock/Blues. $5-$10. Two sets of siblings, Mike Blair (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Sarah Blair (vocals) and David Graham (bass, vocals) and Michael Graham (electric guitar, vocals) and close friends Nathan Purifoy (keys) and Keith Butler Jr. (drums) play tight, clean sounds that showcase uniquely soulful voice.

• Performance from Forward Motion Dance, 6/14, 7-8pm. $5-$10. Premiere works and excerpts from pieces that were part of 2011 Dance-a-lorus (Cucalorus Film Festival) and the 2012 NC Dance Festival. Modern, contemporary, jazz dances set

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Group meets in Reception Hall. Participants provide own dry drawing materials and watercolors. $70/6-wks. • Museum School summer master classes for middle and high-school students; and summer adult art classes, one-to-two-day workshops to six-week classes. • Hand and Wheel Pottery Techniques: Mon/Wd, 5/30-7/29, 9am-noon, or Tues/Thurs, 5/29-7/26, 5:30-8:30pm. CAM Members: $250; Non-members: $300. Hiroshi Sueyoshi teaches handbuilding, wheel throwing, glazing and finishing techniques. Class size is limited. Open to all skill levels, ages 16+. • Museum School: New classes. www.cameronartmuseum. com/adult.php or call 910-395-5999 (ext. 1008 or 1024).• Tai Chi, Yoga and Zumba! Beginners are always welcome. dmoore@cameronartmuseum. com. Corner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd. Tues-Sun,11am-5pm; Thurs: 11am-9pm.

Museum members free, $8 non-members, $5 students with valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. www. cameronartmuseum.com or 910-395-5999.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 6/11-15, Session II; 6/18-22, Session III. 8:30noon. French Immersion Camps are enrichment opportunities for 3 to 8 year olds to expand their French language skills. Camps blend the Language Workshop For Children® unique playgroup approach, language immersion fun and a flavor of the French culture. $150 910-763-3387 or Elizabeth@ accentsonfun.com • 6/8-9, 9-1pm: Splash Into Summer w/Children’s-Museum-style Pool Party!

Slip n’ slide, inflatable pools, and help wash the School Bus. Bring a swimsuit and towel to dry off.

• 7/4, 5-8pm 4th of July Celebration: Air Rocket Challenge, Firework Painting, Sound Makers.

6pm, 7pm & 8pm: Soda Explosions. 6:30pm: Giant Game of Twister. 1/2 off admission for immediate military family members or personnel who show ID! • 8/10-11: Mud Day: Explore Magic Mud, a substance with properties of both a solid and a liquid at the same time, make mud pies, try a mud mask, create a traditional Mud Cloth painting, and cover yourself in lots and lots of mud! Wear bathing suit or old clothes and bring a towel and a change of clothes! • Mon, Little Sprouts Storytime, 10am, and Go Green Engineer Team, 3:30pm. • Tues., Leading to Reading Literacy Class , 9am, and 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 • Sat, Discovery Fitness, 4pm; Sun., Acting Club 2pm. • 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 NC AQUARIUM Exotic Aquatics Gallery has added white-spotted jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata) to its collection.

The Exotic Aquatics Gallery traditionally features non-native marine species. Guests can learn more about the life cycle of a jellyfish while viewing these beautiful animals. Educates the public on the importance of well-balanced ecosystems. • Events: Aquarist Apprentice, Behind the Scenes Tour, Breakfast with the Fishes, Mommy and Me, Canoeing the Salt Marsh, Surf Fishing Workshop.

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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in the turn of the century Myers CotLooking to enjoy life on the water this summer but don’t tage, exists to preserve and to share the have a boat? Or a captain? Well, allow Captain Joe Abhistory of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville bate to escort you and your family along the Intracoastal Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early Waterway during a multitude of Wrightsville Beach Scenic days of the beach including Lumina Pavilion, Tours. They’re offering a Father’s Day Fishing Aboard our hurricane history and information about the Shamrock on the 17th, along with their normal taxi the interaction between the people and our natural environment which have shaped the service and enviro-ed learning programs of Masonboro, 100 year history of Wrightsville Beach. • Anas well as kids art and science tours. See wrightsvillenual Shrimperoo fund-raiser, Sun., 5/9, 6-8pm, beachscenictours.com for full info and rates. at Lumina Hall. Motts Channel is providing the shrimp and Middle of the Island is catering the rest of the menu. There will be live music. It is a BELLAMY MANSION fun, beach-community event. Tickets: $20 w/beer One of NC’s most spectacular examples of anteand wine sold by glass. 256-2569. 303 West Salisbellum architecture, built on the eve of the Civil War bury St. wbmuseum.com. (910)256-2569 by free and enslaved black artisans, for John Dillard WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM Bellamy (1817-1896) physician, planter and busiExplore railroad history and heritage, especially of ness leader; and his wife, Eliza McIlhenny Harriss the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilming(1821-1907) and their nine children. After the fall of ton for 125 years. Interests and activities for all Fort Fisher in 1865, Federal troops commandeered ages, including historical exhibits, full-size steam the house as their headquarters during the occupaengine and rolling stock, lively Children’s Hall, and tion of Wilmington. Now a museum, itfocuses on spectacular model layouts. Housed in an authentic history and the design arts and offers tours, chang1883 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accesing exhibitions and an informative look at historic sible and on one level. By reservation, discounted preservation in action. • Jazz at the Mansion: 6/8 group tours, caboose birthday parties, and afterCindy Hospedales; 7/13, The Frog Project; 8/10, hours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st & Dixieland All Start; 9/14 New Hanover High School 3rd Mondays at 10:30 am, only $4 per family and Jazz Band. Tickets: $5-$12; wine and beer sold includes access to entire Museum. Admission for onsite. • 6/4, 9/17 and 12/17: Spring Tea at the 2012 only $8.50 adult, $7.50 senior/military, $4.50 Bellamy, 2pm. Tea service with finger sandwiches child age 2-12, and free under age 2. North end of and sweets while listening to the romantic music of downtown at 505 Nutt St. Phone 910-763-2634, Susan Savia. Champagne toast to celebrate whaton the web at www.wrrm.org. ever is happening in your life! $35; 10% discount at the Bellamy’s gift shop that day and an optional LATIMER HOUSE guided walk through the Bellamy’s restored period Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the regardens led by a member of the Floral Belles garstored home features period furnishings, artwork dening team. RSVP: 910-251-3700 ext. 103. Proand family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10amceeds go to operations of Bellamy Mansion Mu4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and seum. www.bellamymansion.org. 503 Market St Sat. at 10am. 126 S. Third St. Adults $8, children $4. 762-0492. www.latimerhouse.org

CAPE FEAR SERPENTARIUM Cool down in front of “Anaconda Splash” exhibit in the indoor tropical jungle. See, photograph and even touch rare animals assembled from all over the planet in beautiful simulations of their natural environments. Meet colorful jungle birds, crocodiles, king cobras, black mambas and many more.

Open from 11am-5pm, Sat. from 11am-6pm. 20 Orange Street at Front Street on historic downtown riverwalk. (910) 762-1669. www.capefearserpentarium.com.

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH SCENIC TOURS 6/17: Father’s Day Fishing Aboard the Shamrock—an inland fishing excursion. Wrightsville Beach Scenic Tours is letting dad come for free!

Reserve two seats at $30 each and dad comes free of charge. Two-hour trip on our 28’ beach catamaran includes knowledgeable fishing captain, rod, tackle, bait and license. • Wrightsville Beach Scenic Tours offers taxi service to Masonboro Island, Hands-on environmental education programs, coastal birding tours and workshops with renowned ornithologist Joe Abbate, scenic sunset and harbor Cruises, Inshore Fishing excursions, Art and Science Tours, Pirate Treasure hunt adventures and private charters. • Art and Science Summer Fun on Masonboro Island: 3-hour Island excursion, on a catamaran-style marine vessel, includes a shell hunt on the beach and eco-education talk of Masonboro Island. The talk will teach participants about the function and importance of our coastal marine ecosystems. This unique trip encourages children to explore the shore and find treasures from the sea to use in an art project.

Lead by Captain Joe, renowned field ornithologist. Projects range in difficulty to include children of all ages. This adventure is offered to children grades K-7 from 9am-12pm; rates include a small snack, drink and art supplies. Rates are $25 per child $20 per parent. • Moonlight Tours depart Mon-Sat,8:30-9:30,$25 per passenger. • Family Fishing departs Mon-Sat, from 9-11am, $30 includes everything to catch NC Founder and Black Sea Bass. RSVP: Joe at 910-200-4002. www.wrightsvillebeachscenictours.com

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

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river. • 6/17: Father’s Day Cruise of the Cape Fear River. This 90-minute narrated catamaran cruise includes a light meal. Departs at 12 noon & 2pm.

Admission charge. Wilmington Water Tours, 212 S. Water Street, Wilmington. Reservations: 910338-3134; www.wilmingtonwatertours.comRSVP. Wilmington Water Tours, 910-338-3134. www. wilmingtonwatertours.com WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH PARKS & REC Tennis lessons for youth & adults, tennis ladder, cape fear cotillion, performance club, bridge workshops, line dancing, shag lessons, youth art & jewelry camp, youth tennis camp, youth lacrosse camp, youth soccer camp, adult basketball league, kayaking & SUP workshop, NC Coastal Shorebird workshop, yoga, pilates, boot camp, tone & stretch, and low impact aerobic classes. 910-256-7925 or www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

ATHLETE SCREENINGS Free athletic screening examinations are being offered to New Hanover County Schools athletes and cheerleaders by physicians in the New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society in conjunction with the New Hanover County Health Department and NHCS. All North Carolina students who plan to participate in athletics or cheerleading during the 2012-13 school year must undergo a state-mandated screening examination. Boys’ exams: Thurs., 6/7 at the New Hanover County Health Department located at 2029 South 17th St. Free exam dates for 2012-2013 school sports.

Students should report to the NHC Health Department at the following dates and times:www.nhcs. net/athletics for dates and times per school.

HALYBURTON EVENING NATURE SERIES Enjoy a Wednesday evening in the park with your family learning about nature. Programs are presented by the North Carolina Aquariums and Halyburton Park Naturalist. 6/13: Birds of a Prey, two presentations at 6:30pm & 7:30pm. $5/participant. Pre-registration required. Get a close look at live birds of prey from the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter. A Peregrine Falcon, Barred Owl and Eastern Screech Owl will be introduced as you learn about these amazing birds.

• 6/27, 6:30pm: Snakes of North Carolina, $5/participant. Preregistration required. Discover the many species of snakes living in the coastal plain of North Carolina during this presentation by Keith Farmer with the N.C. Herpetological Society. A wide variety of venomous and non-venomous snakes will be on display. 341-0075.

WILMINGTON SHARKS BASEBALL GAME 6/14: Wilmington Sharks Baseball Game. Does Dad like baseball? Take him to a Wilmington Sharks game (7pm). Admission charge. Legion Sports Complex, Wilmington, 910-796-0076; www.wilmingtonsharks.com

SURF FISHING WORKSHOP 6/14: Surf Fishing Workshop. 3-hour surf fishing workshop (begins at 8am). Spend an hour learning knot-tying, rod and reel maintenance, bait tips, and general knowledge about N.C. fishing. Then, take your skills out to the beach! Ages 10-14 must

be accompanied by an adult. Admission/program charges apply. Pre-registration required. NC Aquarium at Fort Fort Fisher, Kure Beach. 910-458-7468; www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher.

WILMINGTON HAMMERHEADS SOCCER 6/15: Wilmington Hammerheads Soccer Game.

Enjoy professional soccer action when the Wilmington Hammerheads play the Richmond Kickers (7:30pm). Legion Sports Complex, Wilmington, 910-777-2111. wilmingtonhammerheads.com AUDOBON NC BIRDING TOURS 6/15: Audubon NC Birding Tours. A free guided tour (9am) of the Mason Inlet Waterbird Management Area is sure to impress. Wrightsville Beach.

910-686-7527; www.ncaudubon.org RIVERBOAT SIGHTSEEING CRUISE 6/15-17: Narrated Riverboat Sightseeing Cruise.

Relaxing day on the water during a narrated scenic tour of the Cape Fear River. Boarding begins at 2pm. Cruise from 2:30pm-4pm. Lunch and dinner cruises also available. Admission charge. Henrietta III Riverboat; Boards riverfront at S. Water & Dock Streets, Wilmington. Reservations: 910-343-1611; 800-676-0162; www.cfrboats.com CARNIVOROUS PLANT HIKE 6/16 & 17: Hike with a park ranger at Carolina Beach State Park and learn about carnivorous plants like Venus flytrap. 10am. Free. 910-4588206; www.dpr.ncparks.gov/dprcoe/findPub.php.

INLAND BOTTOM FISHING 6/16 & 17: Fishing in Masonboro Inlet. 10am12pm. Rod, tackle, bait, license included. Admission charge; fathers free w/2 paid family members!

Boards across from Blockade Runner Resort (Waynick Blvd.), Wrightsville Beach. Reservations: 910-200-4002; www.capefearnaturalist.com.

WILMINGTON WATER TOURS Eagle’s Island Cruises 50 minute cruises on the hour at 1, 2 & 3pm daily Tues-Sat See the beauty of the Cape Fear River, and enjoy snacks and drinks for sale onboard. • Saturday’s Sunset Dinner Cruise w/buffet by Front Street Brewery. Captain will be share light stories of the Wilmington area, but mostly you will be enjoying the evening with some relaxing music and a calming float down the

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ALLIGATOR ALLEY TOURS Cape Fear River Adventures with Captain Charles Robbins feat. tour of Cape Fear, departing from the downtown dock and headed through the gorgeous waters of the old Wilmington rice plantaions toward Alligator Alley. See nature, learn a little history and hopefully spot an alligator or two. Cape Fear Riverwalk between Orange and Ann Streets, 10am-sunset. RSVP: 910-620-0296. www.capefearriveradventures.com. Also Children’s Fishing, Sunset Cruises, GeoCaching and Three Sisters Swamp Cypress Tree day trips.

films SUBVERSIVE FILM 6/10: Cropseyis a 2009 American investigativecrime horror-documentary film, written and directed

by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The film and its title uses the urban legend of “Cropsey”, akin to the various incarnations of the Boogeyman, as an introduction to what eventually leads the film to its intended subject: Andre Rand, a convicted child kidnapper from Staten Island, New York. • 6/17: The Profit is a feature film written and directed by Peter N. Alexander. Distribution of the film was prohibited by an American court order which was a result of a lawsuit brought by the Church of Scientology, although the filmmaker says that the film is not about Scientology. It was widely seen as a parody of the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. • 6/24: DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A documentary investigates dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an endogenous psychoactive compound, which exists in humans and numerous species of plants and animals. It traces Dr. Rick Strassman’s government-sanctioned, human DMT research and its many trials, tribulations, and inconceivable realizations. Juggling Gypsy, 1612 Castle St., free MOVIES AT THE LAKE Free Weekly Movies at the Lake. 8:45pm. Free.

Outdoor family films shown Sunday evenings during the summer months. Carolina Beach Lake Amphitheater. 6/10: Cars 2; 6/17, Zookeeper; 6/24, Dolphin Tale; 7/1, We Bought A Zoo; 7/8, Hugo; 7/15, Judy Moody and the not Bummer Summer; 7/22, The Muppets; 7/29, Big Miracle; 8/5, The Adventures of Tin Tin; 8/12, Mars Needs Moms; 8/19, Happy Feet Two; 8/26, Blue Hawaii (Elvis); 9/2, Journey 2. 910-458-8434; www.pleasureislandnc.org CUCALORUS ACCEPTING ENTRIES Cucalorus Film Festival is now accepting entries for their annual event. Entry fee is $25. Cucalorus accepts entries on a rolling basis, anytime of the year.

Completed entry form for each submission; DVD

in a package that includes: title, entrant’s name and contact details, hi-res production photo for publicity, entry fee and one inappropriate collage. NC filmmakers can enter for free! Jengo’s Playhouse, 815 Princess St., Wilmington, NC 28401

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CITY OF ILM SUMMER CAMPS The City of Wilmington is offering a variety of camps including: Adventure Camp, Art Camp, Basketball Camp, Day Camp, Nature Camps, Skatepark Camp, Special Olympics Camp and Tennis Camps. 341-7855. www.wilmingtonrecreation.com

NATURE PROGRAMS FOR PRESCHOOLERS For ages 2-5, $3/participatnt. Little explorers will enjoy nature through stories, song, hikes, crafts and more. 6/5-6, 10-11am: Silly Snakes. 6/18-19, 10-11am: Beautiful Butterflies. 4099 S. 17th St. 910-341-0075. www.halyburtonpark.com.

H BEGINNER SKATEBOARD CLINICS 6/9, 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18, 10:30am-noon: Beginner Skateboard Clinics. The Greenfield Grind Skatepark is offering beginner clinics for youth ages 7-12. Class will be split into small groups to facilitate personalized instruction. Each clinic will be taught by Skatepark staff. Greenfield Grind Skatepark, Greenfield Lake(behind 302 Willard St.) $15/ participant includes a pass to skate free for that day plus 2 free day passes. Skater will become familiar with his/her equipment. Identify potential safety hazards. Begin to understand the “setup”O of a skatepark. Establish and begin to develop fundamental skateboarding skills. Helmet and pads requred. Pre-reg: 362-8222

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WB MUSEUM CAMPS British Soccer Camp, Hammerheads Soccer Camp, Lacross Camp, QuickStart Tennis, Performance Club, Art and Jewelry and more! (910) 256-7925 www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com.Preregistration is required.

CAPE FEAR MUSEUM SUMMER CAMPS Museum is offering the following six hands-on, exciting week-long camps! Ages 5-6: Incredible Insects: Delve into the world of the 6-legged creatures among us. • Dinos and More allows children to discover dinosaurs and their modern relatives! • Ages 7-8: In Science Masters, campers take on the role of different scientists to explore the how’s and why’s of what they do! • Ages 7-10: Time Travelers will discover different eras of our region by exploring the Museum’s collection, investigating time capsules, cracking codes, creating toys and more!

• Ages 9-10: Cape Fear Wild uncovers just how wild our region is! Eco-minded campers explore animals, plants and the wild weather of the Cape Fear Region! • Ages 11-14: In Museumology, campers design and install their own exhibit for Cape Fear Museum by selecting artifacts and telling their stories. Weekly camp fees are $70 for members and $90 for non-members. *Museumology is $90 for members and $110 for non-members. www.CapeFearMuseum.com or 910-798-4362.

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BASKETBALL CAMP Basketball Camp, MLK Community Center, 401 S. 8th St., 6/11-14, 9am-noon. Ages 8-15; $30.

Believe to Achielve Basketball Camp—basketball fundamentals, teamwork, all with an emphasis on the development of character building traits. Boys and girls. Pre-reg: 341-7803. MLK Jr. Community Center, Rec & Downtown Services Division, City of Wilmington, 401 S. 8th St. 910-341-7866. www. facebook.com/wilmingtonrecreation HALYBURTON PARK CAMPS

Halyburton Park offers a variety of summer camps for kids ages 5-13. Early drop-off, 7:30 available w/add. $30 fee. • Jr. Naturalist Camp, ages 7-9, 7/16-20, 8am-5pm. Discover diversity of plants and animals in NC w/field trips to various natural areas and attractions. Reg. by 7/2. $225. • Eco Camp, ages 10-13, 7/25-29, 8am-5pm. Discover seashells of the coast, go hiking and canoeing, take a fossil hunt, crab and seine to discover marine life.

On Friday we’ll travel to Raleigh and visit the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences and watch an IMAX movie. Reg by 6/11, $225 • Nature Art Camp, ages 7-9, 7/9-13, 8am-5pm (reg by 6/25). 10-13, 8/6-10, 8am-5pm (reg. by 7/23). Discover nature through artists’ eyes as you spend the week drawing, painting, sculpturing, and journaling. Field trips will be taken to various parks, museums and the Ft. Fisher Aquarium. *Art supplies not included. $225.

• Adventure Camp, ages 10-13, 7/30-8/3, 8am5pm. Activities include kayaking, canoeing, mountain biking and fossil collecting. Lunch not included.

Reg by 7/16. $275. www.halyburtonpark.com

HAPPY LITTLE SINGERS Sing, dance and play rhythm instruments with your little one! Early Childhood Music and Movement for 6 months to 5 years. Tuesday 9:30 a.m. at Downtown Community Arts Center, Drop ins welcome. $10 per family. 910-777-8889 www.happylittlesingers.com

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OLD BOOKS ON FRONT STREET The Going Green Book Club Selections for the next few months: Environmental Book Club: 7/3: “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things,” by William A. McDonough & Michael Braungart (2002). Books available and members receive a 15 percent off. • Bloomsday: Staged reading of the play within the book, feat. Jef Pollock, of both The Scoop Ice Cream and Hotdogs and Changing Channels fame, will be directing. We still need performance readers: (910) 409-5047.

Festivities are 6/17, 4:30pm, Old Books on Front St. The Scoop will be serving a hotdog inspired by Ulysses, maybe a Bloomsday Ice Cream, and of course we will be purchasing delicacies from Sugar on Front St! Bloomsday celebrates James Joyce’s contribution to literature! • Melissa Wilgis’ “A Humble History; Black and White Photography”— Celebrating National Historic Preservation Month, A Humble History is a collection of black and white images, processed and printed by hand in a traditional darkroom. Imagine doorknobs, windows, paint flakes, fixtures and tools are intriguing clues to a humble history that’s within our sight. (910) 76-BOOKS (26657) • www.OldBooksOnFrontSt.

ARIES (21 Mar. – 20 April) If your destiny has gotten tweaked by bias or injustice, it’s a good time to rebel. If you are being manipulated by people who care for you—even if it’s allegedly for your own good—you now have the insight and power necessary to wriggle free of the bind. If you have been confused by the mixed messages you’re getting from your own unconscious mind, you should get to the bottom of the inner contradiction. And if you have been wavering in your commitment to your oaths, you’d better be intensely honest with yourself about why that’s happening.

TAURUS (21 April – 20 May) Diamonds are symbols of elegant beauty, which is why they’re often used in jewelry. But 80 percent of the world’s diamonds have a more utilitarian function.

Because they’re so hard and have such high thermal conductivity, they are used extensively as cutting, grinding, and polishing tools and have several other industrial applications. Now, let’s apply this 20/80 proportion to you, Taurus. Of your talents and abilities, no more than 20 percent need be on display. The rest is consumed in the diligent detail work that goes on in the background—the cutting, grinding and polishing you do to make yourself as valuable as a diamond. In the coming week, this will be a good meditation for you.

GEMINI (21 May – 20 June) The pain you will feel in the coming week will be in direct proportion to the love you suppress and withhold.

So, if you let your love flow as freely as a mountain spring in a rainstorm, you may not have to deal with any pain at all. What’s that you say? You claim that being strategic about how you express your affection gives you strength and protection? Maybe that’s true on other occasions, but it’s not applicable now. “Unconditional” and “uninhibited” are words of power.

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CANCER (21 June – 21 July) What actions best embody the virtue of courage?

Fighting on the battlefield as a soldier? Speaking out against corruption and injustice? Climbing a treacherous peak or riding a raft through rough river water?

Certainly, all those qualify. French architect Fernand Pouillon had another perspective; he said, “Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one’s feelings.” That’s exactly the nature of the bravery you are best able to draw on right now, Cancerian. So, please, do draw on it in abundance.

LEO (22 July – 22 Aug.) In his book “The Four Insights,” author Alberto Villoldo tells the following story: “A traveler comes across two stonecutters. He asks the first, ‘What are you doing?’

John Wayne (22 Across) was born in Winterset, Iowa, the county seat

and receives the reply, ‘Squaring the stone.’ He then walks over to the second stonecutter and asks, ‘What are you doing?’ and receives the reply, ‘I am building a cathedral.’ In other words, both men are performing the same task, but one of them is aware that he has the choice to be part of a greater dream.” By my astrological reckoning, Leo, it’s quite important for you to be like that second stonecutter in the months ahead. I suggest you start now to ensure that outcome.

VIRGO (23 Aug. – 22 Sept.)

Harpo Marx was part of the famous Marx Brothers comedy team that made 13 movies. He was known as the silent one. While in his character’s persona, he never spoke, but only communicated through pantomime and by whistling, blowing a horn or playing the harp. In real life, he could talk just fine. He traced the origin of his shtick to an early theatrical performance he had done.

A review of the show said that he “performed beautiful pantomime which was ruined whenever he spoke.”

In other words, Harpo’s successful career was shaped in part by the inspiration he drew from a critic. I invite you to make a similar move, Virgo: Capitalize on some negative feedback or odd-mirroring you’ve received.

LIBRA (23 Sept. – 23 Oct.) What is your relationship with cosmic jokes, Libra? Do you feel offended by the secrets they spill, and the ignorance they expose and the slightly embarrassing truths they compel you to acknowledge? Or are you a vivacious lover of life who welcomes the way cosmic jokes expand your mind and help you lose your excessive self-importance, and show you possible solutions you haven’t previously imagined? I hope you’re in the latter category, because sometime in the near future, fate has arranged for you to be in the vicinity of a divine comedy routine. I’m not kidding when I tell you that the harder and more frequently you laugh, the more you’ll learn.

SCORPIO (23 Oct. – 21 Nov.) In addition to being an accomplished astrophysicist and philosopher, Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) possessed mad math skills. Legend has it that he was one of only three people on the planet who actually comprehended Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. That’s a small level of appreciation for such an important set of ideas, isn’t it? On the other hand, most people I know would be happy if there were as many as three humans in the world who truly understood them. In accordance with the astrological omens, I suggest you make that one of your projects in the next 12 months: to do whatever you can to ensure there are at least three people who have a detailed comprehension of and appreciation for who you really are.

SAGITTARIUS (22 Nov. – 21 Dec.) Yesterday the sun was shining at the same time it was raining, and my mind turned to you. Today I felt a surge of tenderness for a friend who has been making me angry; again, I thought of you. Tomorrow maybe I will sing sad songs when I’m cheerful and go for a long walk when I’m feeling profoundly lazy. Those events, too, would remind me of you. Why? Because you’ve been experimenting with the magic of contradictions lately. You’ve been mixing and matching with abandon, going up and down at the same time, and exploring the pleasures of changing your mind. I’m even tempted to speculate that you’ve been increasing your ability to abide with paradox. Keep up the good work. I’m sure it’s a bit weird at times, but it’ll ultimately make you even smarter than you already are.

CAPRICORN (22 Dec. – 20 Jan.) Be on the alert for valuable mistakes you could capitalize on. Keep scanning the peripheries for evidence that seems out of place; it might be useful. Do you see what I’m driving at, Capricorn? Accidental revelations could spark good ideas. Garbled communication might show you the way to desirable detours. Chance meetings might initiate conversations that will last a long time. Are you catching my drift? Follow any lead that seems witchy or itchy. Be ready to muscle your way in through doors that are suddenly open just a crack.

AQUARIUS (21 Jan. – 19 Feb.) An article in the “Weekly World News” reported on tourists who toast marshmallows while sitting on the rims of active volcanoes. As fun as this practice might be, however, it can expose those who do it to molten lava, suffocating ash and showers of burning rocks.

So, I wouldn’t recommend it to you, Aquarius. But I do encourage you to try some equally boisterous but less hazardous adventures. The coming months will be prime time for you to get highly imaginative in your approach to exploration, amusement and pushing beyond your previous limits. Why not get started now?

PISCES (20 Feb. – 20 Mar.) According to my reading of the astrological omens, you would be smart to get yourself a new fertility symbol. Not because I think you should encourage or seek out a literal pregnancy. Rather, I’d like to see you cultivate a more aggressively playful relationship with your creativity—energize it on deep unconscious levels so it will spill out into your daily routine and tincture everything you do. If you suspect my proposal has some merit, be on the lookout for a talisman, totem or toy that fecundates your imagination.

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(26657) • www.OldBooksOnFrontSt.com NOVEL SIGNING Vallie Lynn Watson, UNCW graduate student and seasonal Wilmingtonian, will be signing her novel (set partly in Wilmington), A River So Long (Luminis Books, 2012) on Thursday, June 7. Please join at Old Books at Front Street between 7 & 8:30; wine and refreshments will be served. www.vallielynnwatson.com BARNES AND NOBLE All events are free and open to the public and Barnes and Noble in Mayfaire Town Center. Schedule: 6/12, 7pm, reading and singing w/Dorothea Benton Frank, Porch Light (release date!). New York Times best selling author is back with her latest low-country novel.

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME 8/16, 11:30am: “There is No Place Like Home” AMEZ Housing Community Development Corporation is holding a fundraising luncheon at the Terraces on Sir Tyler from 11:30-1 on 8/16/12. AMEZ Housing has been providing affordable housing services to low and moderate income families in New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender and Columbus counties since 1993. The proceeds from the luncheon will help them to continue to assist families with affordable housing concerns. Marilynn R.G. Davis: innevents2@ ec.rr.com

This high-voltage keynote will focus on energy sustainability and its importance to our environment and ourselves. She will give insight on how to beat stress, banish procrastination, and find fast methods to renew and sustain energy. Luncheon at City Club at de Rosset; RSVP, www. womeninbusinessnc.com

classes/workshops LABOR DOULA TRAINING Labor Doula Training at Carolina Beach Community Acupuncture, 6/29-7/1. Certification pro-

NOW! ART CLASSES

The power of creating something is profound. Why not enjoy its benefits this summer by signing up for art classes with professional instructor Lois DeWitt? DeWitt offers a host of classes from watercolor to collage, drawing to painting, and even a kid’s workshop on Saturdays for ages 6 to 12!

Classes are only $80 for four weeks and include materials. Be sure to email loislight@bellsouth.net for more information. Classes are Monday through Saturday morning and afternoon.

WOMEN IN BUSINESS 6/28, 11:30am: Professional business speaker, trainer and coach, Dr. Barnsley Brown will present “How Smart Women Beat Stress and Burnout.”

gram to help empower women so they can have the healthiest and best birthing experience with their babies. Childbirth education class based on

midwifery model of care and evidence-based practices. 910-200-8646.

FIGMENTS GALLERY Through June: Figments Art Boutique will have poetry classes with Michelle Hicks every Tues in May and June, 7pm. Students will encounter guided poem starters and free writing, instruction on poetic form, exploration of contemporary poets, and supportive workshop. Advanced poets can polish manuscripts and receive guidance in seeking publication. Materials: Journal, pen/pencil, folder. $25/ class. Figments Gallery, 1319 Military Cutoff Rd, Landfall Center. 910-509-4289. Figments Art Gallery, Landfall Shopping Ctr, 1319 Military Cutoff Rd. SAFETY AND HEALTH SCHOOL Established in 1950, the Wilmington Regional Health and Safety School is a non-profit organization committed to bringing important safety and health information to the public. The 62nd annual Wilmington Regional Safety and Health School takes place on Wed., 7/25-Fri., 7/27, at the Best Western Coastline Inn in downtown Wilmington. Great opportunity for employers and employees in many industries to learn about safety and health in the workplace.Attendees will receive10 hours of MESH credit . Mini social on Wednesday night, and a Moonlight Shrimp A Roo Cruise on Thursday and more speakers on Friday. Guest speakers include NC Department of Labor Commissioner, Cherie K. Berry and William Gerringer. www.wilmingtonsafetyschool.com.

ART CLASSES Professional instruction with Lois DeWitt, MFA. Over 30 years of art teaching experience.

Small classes, individual tutoring available. loislight@bellsouth.net. Four weeks, $80. Watercolor: Mon, 11am-1pm; or Sat., 3-5pm. • Artful Cooking, 4wks, $150. Mon, 2-5pm. Sketch a still life using the ingredients from recipes from my toaster oven cookbook. Then, we will cook the ingredients and eat them! Bring a beverage of your choice. • Collage: Tues, 11am-1pm. • Portraiture—Drawing With Pencil, Tues, 3-5pm. shading, lighting, capturing the character of a face and rendering details to create a beautiful portrait. • Painting Your Garden—Acrylic Painting , Wed., 11am-1pm.

Basics and how to paint flowers, leaves and your floral landscape. Working from photos or on site. • Coastal Subjects—Oil Painting, Wed., 2-4pm: Skills for depicting North Carolina beaches, rivers, ocean, and local sites. Work from a photo or on site. • Draw and Paint Kid’s Workshop- $20/ twohr session; materials included. Sat, 11am-1pm.

Ages 6 – 12 experiment with different drawing and painting materials. A small class, each child is guided towards learning drawing and painting skills towards producing an awesome completed drawing or painting project at the end of the session.

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ARTS COUNCIL OF ILM The Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County is now accepting applications for NC Arts Council Grassroots Arts Program subgrants through 6/15. Provides citizens access to quality arts experiences, and using a per capita based formula, the program provides funding for the arts in all 100 counties of the state through partnerships with local arts councils. 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 arts organizations (theaters, galleries, choral societies, festivals), arts in education programs conducted by qualified artists, and

other community organizations that provide arts programs in the county. Grassroots funds are not generally awarded to arts organizations that receive funding through the North Carolina Arts Council’s State Arts Resources. Projects must occur between July 1, 2012 – May 31, 2013. Application forms and grant guidelines are available: www.artswilmington.org. Awards announced in September. 910-343-0998 or artscouncilofwilmingtonandnhc@gmail.com.

CAPE FEAR PARROT CLUB Cape Fear Parrot Club meets monthly. Schedule: 6/16, Basic avian nutrition , short video social time.

• 7/21: Household dangers and toxins, short video and social time. • 8/18, Toy making. • 9/15, Identifying when your bird is sick, short video social time.

• 10/20, Treat exchange • 11/11: TBD • 12/TBD, Christmas party. Ces Erdman: 910-386-6507 or cesnc1978@hotmail.com

TRANSGENDER SUPPORT GROUP Transgender Support Group, 1st Thurs./mo., 7-8pm. For more information please contact Therapist Nova Swanstrom: 910-343-6890. You must talk with Nova first before coming to a support group meeting!

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CULINARY ADVENTURES TOUR Eat your way through Wilmington’s food history and delights! Culinary Adventures Tour with food writer/chef Liz Biro; under a mile, wear comfortable shoes. Top Chef Farmers Market Tour and Cooking Class, Heart of Downtown, Drinks Downtown, Downtown Brunch Stroll, Foodie Shopping Tour, Custom and Special Group Tours and more! $25 and up! www.lizbiro.com. 910-545-8055

WEEKLY FARMERS’ MARKETS Riverfront Farmer’s Market Saturdays, Downtown Wilmington (Through Dec.; www.wilmingtonfarmers.com); Carolina Beach Farmer’s Market Saturdays, Carolina Beach Lake (Through 9/15; 910-431-8122); Wrightsville Beach Farmer’s Market Mondays, Causeway Dr. (Through 9/3; 910-256-7925; Poplar Grove Plantation Farmer’s Market Wednesdays, 10200 US 17 N., Wilmington (Through 11/22; www.poplargrove.com). Feat. over three dozen food, arts and crafts vendors.

Music feat. every week with Cindy Rhodes on hammered dulcimer.Cooking classes: 6/6, 20, 7/11, 25, 8/15, 29, 9/12, 26, 10/31 and 11/7.

FEAST DOWN EAST BUYING CLUB Enjoy the quality, value and convenience of the Feast Down East Buying Club. It costs nothing to join. The benefits are immeasurable. It is a great way to eat healthier, while knowing you support your local farm families and community. Log on at www.FeastDownEast.org and start buying fresh local food, sourced from Southeastern NC farms.

Choose a pick-up spot, and check out at the online cashier and you are done! Orders must be placed by 11am Monday for Thursday delivery. Consumer pickup is Thursday 3:30-6pmm Cameron Art Museum, THE POD (located next to Dunkin Donuts on UNCW campus) or Burgaw Historic Train Depot.

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