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wilmington’s interesting folks pgs. 34-36 There are people all over our town who captivate our attention, from musicians to artists, realtors to plumbers, barmaids to matrons. Carly Yansak happened upon a few over the past few months and interviewed them about their lives and what they do to make it a little more interesting. Meet Kelly Jo stull (cover), Karl Metzger (left) and steven Vineis on pages 34-36.

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4 live local live small: Gwenyfar Rohler breaks down her purchases in undergoing a downtown bookstore historic renovation.

6 stop titan: Lauren Hodges takes a look at the latest development in the Stop TItan campaign.

7 news of the weird: Chuck Shepherd reports on news of the strange and odd.

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8 theater: Shea Carver previews the City Stage tradition, ‘Santaland Diaries.’

10 art: Lauren Hodges previews Art Soup’s latest project, ArtBalls.

11 gallery guide: Find out what exhibitions are hanging at local galleries.

12 music: Justin Lacy gets all the scoop

All photos by Carly Yansak.

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late-night funnies

They broke ground at the George W. Bush Presidential Library out there in Dallas. I know you’re snickering already. The guy never read a book in his life but he’s got a library. How does that happen?”—David Letterman

“In a ranking of 35 cities, by ‘Travel and Leisure’ magazine, Los Angeles finished second to last in intelligence. All I can say, thank god for Washington, D.C. Thank god for Washington, D.C.”—Jay Leno “Donald Trump wants to see if people think he should run for President. So a website has been launched called ‘Shouldtrumprun.com.’ Yeah, don’t worry the American public has responded with their own website ‘No.com.’”—Conan O’Brien “The Situation from ‘Jersey Shore’ just shot a PSA with Bristol Palin about safe sex and abstinence. Wait, they wanted to do a psa about not having sex and getting pregnant and they chose The Situation and Bristol Palin? Who’s doing their anti-drug campaign, Lindsay Lohan?”—Jimmy Fallon

penguin wednesdays EDITORIAL: Editor-in-ChiEf: Shea Carver Editorial assistant: Lauren Hodges Editorial intErns: Carly Yansak, Justin Lacy, Claire LaSure, Marco Raye ChiEf Contributors: Adrian Varnam, Gwenyfar Rohler, Anghus Houvouras, Claude Limoges, Jay Schiller, Lauren Hodges, Tiffanie Gabrielse, Tom Tomorrow, Chuck Shepherd, Christina Dore, The Cranky Foreigner encore is published weekly, on Wednesday, by Wilmington Media. opinions of contributing writers are not necessarily the opinions of encore.

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Wanna know what’s in encore for the week each Wednesday it’s published? Listen to Shea Carver on the Penguin 106.7, with Glenn every Wednesday morning at 9:15.

They’ll keep you informed first on what’s happening in the Port City—followed by great music, too.

winner of fact or fiction

Congratulations to Trey Branch, our 2011 winner for the annual Fact or Fiction writing portion. Branch’s first installment will be published in our January 5th edition, along with other submissions.

on the annual Thanks For Nothing Fest, held at Soapbox this weekend.

14-19 soundboard: See what bands and performers are playing in venues all over town.

23 film: Anghus reviews the latest roadtrip comedy, ‘Due Date.’

24-25 holiday events: Wanna get in the fa-la-la-la-la spirit? We have a host of events listed to help you on your merry little way!

grub & guzzle ....... 27-31 27 thanksgiving eats: Marco Raye

finds out where to dine during the most delicious holiday of the year!

28-31 dining guide: Need a few suggestions on where to eat? Flip through encore’s dining guide!

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32 book feature: Tiffanie Gabrielse and encore book club members review “Fierce Style” and talk to the author, Christian Siriano, about the book.

33 crossword: Let Stan Newman test your mind with our weekly crossword!

34-36 cover story: See black box.

38 eco-life: Claire LaSure gets the scoop of B+O Design Studio.

39 nonprofit event: Shea Carver gets all the details on The Rainbow Party and its cause, It Gets Better Project.

40-46 calendar/’toons/ horoscopes/corkboard: Find out where to go and what to do about town with encore’s calendar; check out Tom Tomorrow and encore’s annual ‘toons winner, Jay Schiller; read your horoscope and the latest saucy corkboard ads.

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Live Local. Live Small: Locals help build a bookstore inside and out

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n the early ‘90s, I used to see the bumper sticker “Historic Preservation is the Ultimate Recycling� in Wilmington a lot. Growing up in a historic house with a father serving on the Historic Preservation Commission, it was on my radar. Though I lived through the 16-year renovation project of my parent’s house, I was still unprepared for the reality, intensity and magnitude of directing my current historic renovation.

When we began renovating the new space for the bookstore I stressed to our contractor, Rob Zapple of Rob Zapple Design and Build, that we would pay more for “made in the USA� and especially “made in NC� products whenever possible. During that meeting, Jock [Brandis, the love of my life,] and I cited the then recent Chinese Drywall excitement as something we preferred to avoid. Rob agreed that this was a

by: Gwenyfar Rohler worthwhile goal and assured us to work toward this in every way possible.

Purchases for the project have included bookshelves, paint, cleaning products, fasteners—all of which I have purchased locally. I have spent close to $6,000 at Stevens’ Hardware alone since this began. Colin, one of Stevens’ associates, assures me that I am the only person who has ever ordered two cases of sanding belts, at least that he can remember.

All the folks at the hardware store—Joey, Ed, Colin and Heather—have succeeded in filling my requests. We are purchasing many items in quantity like never before, such as sanding belts and 480 angle brackets to attach bookshelves to the walls. Joey has responded by

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rewarding our repeat business (and, I think, our inventiveness) with great discounts. No chain store in town can compete with their level of service: They load my car, greet me by name and with a smile, ask about our family and pets, and once stored 30 gallons of paint for four days until I could pick it up.

Last week, Joey and I were chatting about Jock and his adventures while looking for my special order, before he stopped to say, “Good night, Mom.� The kindly lady, who has covered the front during times of rush, smiled as she walked out. I realized once again how lucky I was that I was spending money at Stevens’ instead of a chain store.

For readers who don’t know, Stevens’ has expanded significantly in the last couple of years.

Their location on 13th and Castle streets is now exclusively their paint division. I have been practically living there for the last three weeks.

Housed in this quaint little hut amid cans and pails of paint is the paint guru: Gavin. No matter how ridiculous the question—“Do I really have to prime dry wall before I paint it? “So I need to paint a metal column‌â€?—Gavin just smiles, takes a deep breath and then guides me and the rest of the public through the treacherous world of liquid color and wonder. Painting 14 foot ceilings, walls, columns, metal and wooden bookshelves, a bathroom and a commercial kitchen is a process I would absolutely not have survived without Gavin’s guidance. No matter how far I push his patience, I think he is scared I am just going to ask him to come help.

The lumber for our bookshelves has all come from Godwin’s—a trip worth itself if just to see the lumber barn. It is breathtakingly beautiful: two stories with cat walks running side to side, sky lights, bays of wood of every size, shape and type imaginable, and all in a gently curving L shape. I really catch my breath each time I enter; it is such an experience. Wayne, who has loaded most of our purchases in the pickup truck, is very concerned that I have been buying 2 x 6’s, which he tells me “is just terribly crappy wood. It’s meant for framing to be inside a wall where nobody’ll see it.� Since I persist in buying 2 x 6’s for what should be pretty bookshelves, he sifts through the whole bin to find me the best of what he’s got.

While down at the bookstore one day, one of the carpenters mentioned that they were waiting on a delivery from Godwin’s. Apparently, the rest of the 2 x 6’s in the bin were being

used to frame our interior walls. The next time I visited, I mentioned that Godwin’s was supplying our lumber inside and out! The guys behind the desk nodded sagely, acknowledging that all was right with the world. Then, one asked how old our new building was. “It was built in 1910,�

I replied. Everyone chuckled. “Well we’ve been here since 1909, so chances are we supplied the original wood, too!�

Most recently, we had come to a tricky part in the renovation process: the countertop for the lunch counter, which is located in the middle of the store. Originally, I wanted to do something exotic from Sapona Green Building (I am so in love with their stuff!), but we have gone 10 rounds on permitting the cafĂŠ, and we decided that if we ever wanted to open the doors, we needed plain formica that every inspector would look at, recognize and pass. Consequently, I asked that Stevens Hardware order it because I knew Ed and Joey would pick out something really lovely for me. Moreover, I knew if there was a problem, they would fix it immediately.

Believing that was the course we were set upon, I hadn’t thought about it in weeks—until Monday. I asked Rob if he had ordered the countertop yet. “No, and at this point we have to just buy something off the rack.� “What does that mean?� “Lowe’s or Home Depot or some place like that.� “Rob, I do not shop at those stores� I shook my head. He began to laugh at me. “Rob, I do not shop at those stores,� I repeated. “OK, Gwenyfar, OK,� he said, and the topic moved on to the trials and tribulations of the second-floor windows. The next day I came into paint the ceiling, and Rob showed me the newly delivered countertops. “They look fine,� I said. “That’s it? You didn’t even look!� he said, as if mocking a woman asking a man if she looks fat. “Besides, I thought about our conversation and they came from Meyers—a local company.�

Gwenyfar Rohler is the author of “The Promise of Peanuts. A real life fairy tale about a man, a village, and the promise that bound them together,� available at OldBooksonFrontSt.com. All profits go to Full Belly Project (fullbellyproject.org).

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Support from the North: $1.2 million grant and NY-based success story boost Stop Titan

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he fight against Titan Cement’s plans for a local plant got a big vote of confidence last week. The support came in the form of a large grant from the Education Foundation of America, a contributor to the arts, education and environmental issues based in Westport, Connecticut.

Until now, the activists at the Stop Titan Action Network (STAN) have had to rely on private donations, bake sales and small fund-raisers for contributions. Mike Giles, of the North Carolina Coastal Federation, is among the citizens against a Titan Cement plant and says the grant is instrumental in further legitimizing their cause.

“We are going to be bringing in some experts now,” he says. “We can hire scientists and medical professionals to do some research on the environmental and health impacts this cement plant would have on our area.”

The plant has been in the works for years.

Titan America, a cement manufacturing corporation, with locations in nine states and Canada, eyed Castle Hayne as the perfect spot and began filing permits. Opposition to

by: Lauren Hodges the idea was immediate, spawning activism groups like Friends of Lower Cape Fear and Citizens Against Titan, who have teamed up with organizations like Cape Fear River Watch, PenderWatch and Conservancy, UNCW ECO, the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club and the Southern Environmental Law Center. Work and action is documented on STAN’s popular website, stoptitan.org, where press releases are generated to keep the public informed. A recent issue was the large tax incentive that Titan was able to secure from the city. This month Titan returned the $4.5 million and stated that the money would “delay the project by two years.” Using information from the NC Department of Administration, STAN refuted that statement and claimed instead that Titan did not want the accountability of revealing its environmental impact reports.

By law the company would have to provide full disclosure of that information if given public funds. Giles refers back to the

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RALLY EQUALS GRANT: The Stop Titan rally, held last week at UNCW, landed the movement a $1.2 million grant in their fight against the cement plant’s construction in Castle Hayne. Courtesy photo.

grant proposal filed by Titan years ago when they first requested the money.

“They claimed that they needed that money to be able to build a plant here,” he says.

“Clearly, since they are going ahead with the plans after returning the money, that was not true. That is just one example of their deceptive practices.”

Bob Odom is the general manager of Carolinas Cement Company, a subsidiary of Titan America. He is confused about STAN’s decision to hire experts because of the studies conducted by Titan in April of 2009.

“No one believed our studies because we paid for them,” Odom said. “Now, the people at Stop Titan are paying for their studies, too. I’m very interested to see the results of those because I believe they will be the same as ours.”

As for the returned tax incentives, Odom explains the statement he made about a two-year delay. “We can get our air permits ahead of schedule and start designing our equipment. That is a two-year process.

We’re not trying to avoid any study or test. I promise that we will not build a plant until we have every single permit.”

As for a recent discovery that Governor Bev Perdue’s son, Garrett, works for a lobbying firm hired by Titan Cement to help obtain the permits, Odom had no comment.

Senator Julia Boseman wrote a letter to the governor last week and asked her to delay Titan’s air permit because of the conflict.

Those who have kept up with Stop Titan’s efforts were probably aware of the rally held on November 14th at UNCW’s Lumina The-

ater. STAN called the event their campaign kick-off, updating those in attendance about their new strategies and showing the documentary “Two Square Miles.” The movie follows a true story from Hudson Valley, New York, where a similar movement stopped the building of a cement plant in the community.

The producers and stars of the film were at the rally to field questions. Giles says their presence was very encouraging.

“It was so great to meet people who fought the same thing we are fighting right now,” he says. “They had gone up against a $60 million campaign put forth by the cement manufacturing company and were still able to get their message through.”

After meeting the activists from New York, Giles is more certain than ever about the main ingredient to successfully winning the fight: people.

With that in mind, STAN was able to quickly decide on a spending direction for the $1.2 million grant. Without giving away any specifics to the opposition, Giles promises that Stop Titan has big plans for the money, including beefing up their grassroots efforts.

With a passionate team of canvassers and educators, Giles and his colleagues are going to focus on community outreach. He says that educating the citizens is the most important aspect of the fight.

“We feel that this is not an appropriate project for this area,” he says. “We don’t think they have been upfront with the people. It is going to do serious damage to the air and the water, causing big health problems for the residents of Cape Fear, among other issues.”

Once the public is more widely aware of their work, Giles is confident that action will be taken. “This is our community,” he says, “and we need to have a voice.”

d r i e w e h t f o s w e n LEAD STORY Librarian Graham Barker, 45, of Perth, Australia, casually revealed to a reporter in October that his hobby of 26 years harvesting his own navel lint daily, just before he showers has now won acclaim in the Guinness Book of World Records. His threejar collection (a fourth is in progress) has been sold to a local museum. His pastime, he told London’s Daily Mail in October, “costs nothing and takes almost no time or effort so there is no compelling reason to stop.�

Barker, who also collects McDonald’s tray liners, said he once did a “navel lint survey,� and “a handful of respondents� “confessed� to the hobby. “One guy might have persisted, but he got married, and his wife ordered him to stop.�

The Continuing Crisis Bolivia’s president Evo Morales, the former union leader and coca farmer known for hardnosed political combat, is also a fanatical soccer player and drew worldwide video attention in October for an incident during a supposedly friendly match between his pals and a team headed by the mayor of La Paz. After absorbing a vicious foul five minutes into the contest (resulting in a leg gash), President Morales confronted the offender and kneed him in his (as local media described it) “testicular zone,� leaving the player curled on the ground. Afterward, Morales’ bodyguards briefly threatened the gasher with arrest.

Fathers of the Year: Real Father: In September, a judge in Kent County, Mich., finally ordered Howard Veal, 44, to prison to serve at least two years for failure to pay child support. He is more than $500,000 behind in payments to 14 mothers for the 23 children he has fathered. Authorities suspect there are even more. Fake Father: French officials arrested a 54yearold immigrant in September on suspicion of welfare fraud. They had recently begun to notice the man applying for government benefits for 55 children by 55 different mothers. (He may have fathered none at all.)

Swiss artist Gianni Motti has been displaying (through the end of November) a bar of soap at Zurich’s Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, claiming it was made from fat that had been liposuctioned from Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Motti said a clinic employee had surreptitiously given him the fat following Berlusconi’s treatment in 2004, but the clinic has denied any involvement.

David Rees draws the political cartoon “Get Your War On,� but in his new day job, he is an artisan of pencilsharpening. “With an electric pencil sharpener, a pencil

is meat,� he complained to the Los Angeles Times in August. For $15 (postage paid), Rees will lovingly, painstakingly sharpen a customer’s favorite pencil or one of his own classic No. 2’s and ship it in a secure tube to protect its newly supersharp point. Rees also gives periodic exhibitions, wearing safety goggles and apron, to demonstrate his guarantee of “respect� for the instruments “an authentic interaction with your pencil.�

The investigative journalism website ProPublica.org, curious about the workers being hired in the mortgage industry’s massive, rushed reexamination of home loans previously foreclosed upon but which may have been processed illegally, began scouring the classified ads in October and November. Result: Though most employers “preferred� college graduates with creditindustry experience, it was clear from the entrylevel wages offered that many were accepted only with high school educations, with at least some barely familiar with the concept of mortgages. (One staffing agency, offering $10 to $12 an hour, sought a “Supervisor of Foreclosure Department,� but that position, also, required only a high school diploma.)

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Life Imitates 100 SciFi Movies: At a conference in Vancouver in October, University of California, San Francisco researcher Charles Chiu disclosed that a neverbeforedetected virus that partially wiped out a monkey colony in a lab in Davis, Calif., recently appeared to have “jumped� from its species onto a human scientist at the facility. However, Chiu and his research team said there is “no cause for alarm at this time.�

Smooth Reaction: In November, after her fourthgrade son was allegedly slapped by his teacher at a Kansas City, Mo., elementary school (son, black; teacher, white), Lisa Henry Bowen submitted a 40page list of reparations she expects from President Obama and two dozen other officials. Included in the many demands: $1.25 million in cash, $13,500 in WalMart gift cards, free college education, Disney World vacations, private tennis lessons, an African safari, her mortgage paid off, home remodeling, nine years of free medical and dental coverage, and a nineyear “consulting contract� with the school district at $15,000 a month. Anticipating criticism that she had gone too far, she added that opponents can “kiss my entire black ass! I haven’t begun to go far enough!�

Centuries ago, women who devoted themselves to the Hindu goddess Devadasi were priestesses from upper castes, but over time, the temples began to use “Devadasis� merely as prostitutes to raise

money, according to a new British documentary by Sarah Harris, who was interviewed in September by London’s The Independent. As before, girls are offered to the temples by their parents by age 3 and perform chores, but nowadays, at puberty, the temple begins to cash in on them. India made this practice illegal in 1988, but it endures, largely because the “Devadasis� (now, almost exclusively from lower castes) have, as career alternatives, only farm labor and latrinecleaning.

Incoming University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley told reporters in September of encountering one unexpected problem: staph infections caused by “the worst shower discipline of any team I’ve ever been around.� He said he had recently run a clinic on “application of soap to the rag� and “making sure you hit all your body.�

Latest Research Formulas: In July, researchers at University of Manchester devised a mathematical formula for the perfect handshake. Said psychology professor Geoffrey Beattie, “(U)ntil now there has not been a guide showing people how they should shake hands.� Professor Beattie’s work incorporates 12 key measures, including cool, dry palms; firm wrists; strong grips; eye contact; and using “three shakes.� Researchers from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Canada and the University of Portsmouth in England, in a journal article released in May, “proved� by “flotation dynamics� and “rotation dynamics,� altered for “external surface area,� that giraffes can swim although they are probably terrible at it because of their odd shape.

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A Cranky Christmas Tradition: Crumpet and his ‘Hos’ return to City Stage

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haven’t scared myself artistically in a long time,” Michael Brady says.

Brady takes on the cynically captivating Crumpet in City Stage’s annual holiday tradition of presenting “Santaland Diaries.”

Seemingly, he’s found the appropriate rope to climb in challenging both himself and the audience. Enacting a David Sedaris holiday monologue comes with its own set of rules regarding endurance and irreverence.

Perhaps the beauty of Sedaris comes from the interpretation of his reader, listener, or in this case, watcher. The writer gives us the story’s main elements: man in an elf suit works at Macy’s for the holidays, and is jaded by Christmas consumerism and its snot-nosed hellions, who sit on an old man’s lap during a holiday of over-blown proportions. We can take it how we please. After all, Sedaris connects in his world of comedic verbosity and readings. Thus, when giving the material to someone else to portray, things could easily go awry.

“The obvious answer [to fearing this performance] is trying to remember everything, I guess,” Brady explains of the houror-so-long monologue. Like his character, Crumpet, he digs for more angst. “Really, the most difficult thing is trusting the words themselves. There’s a sense of overcompensation—at least in my case—as I try to make sure that this will be a worthy night of theatre for folks. I’m most afraid of trying too hard. I am very much looking forward to working without a net, despite still being afraid of heights.”

Caroling breaks will also provide Brady a

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“The Ho Ho Hos have maintained their disheveled, grungy, cynical style throughout the years,” Ito says. “The challenge is to make each experience different so that it’s fresh for us and also for the audience.”

Hosting the set in alleyways, a Macy’s break room and even Crumpet’s apartment in previous years, the scene becomes a surprise—and usually far from a Norman Rockwell painting. Likewise, the Hos add to it by breaking the angelic façades Christmas so brightly paints. “It’s a welcome diversion

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HO HO HOS: (left to right) Chiaki Ito, Heather Setzler and Katherine Vernon return to the ‘Santaland Diaries,’ as the popular Ho Ho Hos. Courtesy photo.

from all of the syrupy sweet holiday messages that inundate us at this time of year,” Ito reflects. “Audiences are not expecting such a cynical bunch to sing [a capella and] with such tight harmonies.”

It follows suit back to our main character, whose dream for employment turns into a nightmare—“and then he woke up,” Brady jokes. Everything any disgruntled holidaygoer has thought, wished to say or dreamt at some point or another, Crumpet says.

“He does some things that are particularly not nice,” Brady explains. “But we must like watching him, at the very least, right? ... Everyone knows that Christmas is over-commercialized and ‘isn’t what it used to be,’

but truly venting that risks tarnishing someone else’s holiday season. Crumpet is the average person’s releasevalve for their annual holiday frustration.”

Though Brady doesn’t claim to master the role like the man himself, Mr. David Sedaris—even Eric Bogosian or Spaulding Gray, for that matter—it’s a role he’s had his eye on for quite some time.

If anything can be said, it’s that passion becomes him, as proven by his 20-year dedication to theatre, one that’s served him on our local scene since 1997.

“The first draw [to ‘Santaland Diaries’] was really the idea of seeing my buddy Michael Granberry take that whole stage by himself,” he explains. “After that initial exposure, I knew it was something I wanted to do.”

Brady isn’t sold on Crumpet being completely naughty, either—even if discovered through subtleties.

Who knows? By the show’s completion, he may be a contender for Santa’s nice list.

“If he is transformed at all, I’d like it to be because there was a little spark that got fanned into a flame, rather than depict an unrealistic 180-degree turnaround,” Brady explains.

A story of redemption? Maybe. A story of validation? Absolutely. While tinsel and lights hang throughout our town squares, and malls pack in shoppers to the hilt, some people may not be so inclined to see Christmas sparkle and glow. “I think the story is validating in a way that, yeah, we’re not alone in rolling our eyes when we see reprehensible behavior at Christmas,” Ito says.

Crumpet—the new Christmas hero.

Sedaris knew what he was doing when he penned him. Don’t miss “Santaland Diaries,” opening Thanksgiving weekend, Friday the 26th, and running through December 14th, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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Jingle Balls: Art Soup creates a holiday vending machine

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upporting the arts has never been easier for Wilmingtonians. As if beautiful work wasn’t already accessible everywhere in our collection of galleries, festivals and shops, Art for the Masses moved into the new convention center this year to make the buying experience less crowded— and with indoor bathrooms. Now, with Art Soup’s latest project, making an original art purchase is as easy as grabbing some Mike ‘n’ Ikes in the doctor’s waiting room.

Steve Gibbs, founder and organizer of Art Soup, called for submissions a few months ago and asked artists to make pieces small enough to fit into tiny plastic balls found in quarter-operated vending machines. Known as ArtBalls. Gibbs is putting them all in a machine that charges one dollar per ball for holiday shoppers.

“This is an idea I’ve had in the back of my brain for several years,” Gibbs says. “Being a father, I think I enjoy the toy gumball machines more than most kids do. I love turning the handle and opening that capsule for the first time. It’s easy, simple fun. Four

by: Lauren Hodges

ArtBalls Fine art vending machine, sponsored by Art Soup • $1 each Edge of Urge • 18 Market Street www.art–soup.org quarters, and you get a surprise gift. It’s a true treasure of spontaneity.”

Accessible art is an idea that Gibbs is fully behind. He says that in financially trying times, it’s important to make all people feel included in the arts instead of presenting it as an unattainable luxury. “People are sometimes hesitant or too broke to buy artwork or to support the arts,” he says. “The thought behind ArtBalls is to make original art available to people in a new, entertaining format.

It’s sort of a vending machine for art.”

His favorite part of the idea is the random nature of the machine, which holds 180 unique balls. “The consumer doesn’t get to SURPRISE COLLECTING: Original, handmade art can be found in the ArtBalls vending machine at Edge of Urge, featuring surprise creations from local artists. Photo by Carly Yansak

select the piece or the artist they wish to purchase,” he notes. “Instead, they just add coins, turn the dial, and out comes prepackaged, original art.”

Gibbs is more than aware of how some critics are viewing the machine. For anyone who might initially see the project as a way to commercialize or cheapen art, Gibbs promises that the motive behind the project is meant only to publicize the artists involved.

“It doesn’t lessen or belittle the art or the artist,” he says. “It actually serves as a marketing tool for each ballmaker, as every capsule includes the artist’s name, website and contact information.”

In this economy, no artist can afford to turn down smart marketing. Gibbs reminds that not all patrons are locals, so the idea of ready-to-take art is a good way to spread artists’ names outside the city.

“In a tourist town, you never know who’s going to pick up an ArtBall,” he says. “Curiosity is a disease. Art is the cure. ArtBalls make a simple, contemporary remedy. All artists currently working on the ArtBall project are professional working artists with lots of creativity to offer in a two-inch capsule.”

Gibbs intends to make the project a permanent fixture, refilling the ArtBalls as needed

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with new art and more artists. The first batch will include mini work from Addie Wuensch, Teo Nincovik, Nicole Dobias-Shaw, Ryan Lewis, Kristen Patton, Gregory Junt, August Traeger and Jonathan Royal. Gibbs has been impressed with the level of creativity each artist brings to the project.

“We received everything from sculpted silverware, found-object assemblage, artist prints, drawings, sketches, paintings, photographs and more,” he says. “Some pieces are abstract, some are more traditional.

Most of all, they’re original, local and fun!”

Art Soup chose Edge of Urge as the primary location for the vending machine. Gibbs is hoping that the creative atmosphere of the store will be the perfect home for ArtBalls, bringing in just the sort of contemporary crowd that will appreciate them. In the future, he also hopes to expand the project by having a few other locations and some more artists involved. For now, the balls are mostly for adults, and Gibbs warns parents to inspect the art pieces before letting children play with them. However, he hopes to bring kid artists into the mix soon, letting them contribute and use the machines to raise money for their classrooms.

Anyone interested in submitting art for the project must keep their piece no larger than 1.5” in diameter and contact Gibbs at www. art-soup.org. All proceeds of the ArtBalls machine go to support Art Soup’s arts and education programs.

Artfuel.inc

1701 Wrightsville Ave 910 343 5233 Mon-Sat, 12-9pm; Sunday, 1-6pm www.artfuelinc.com www.myspace.com/artfuel_inc Artfuel.inc is located at the corner of Wrightsville Ave and 17th street. Housed in an old gas station, we offer resident artists working in studios alongside a gallery space used to exhibit other artists work. We hope to connect artists with each other and offer many styles of work to fuel the public’s interest.

Vol. 25, Groovy art from The Artfuel Bunch: Luke Worley, Sarah Peacock, Josh Payne and Sam Guin.

Caffe Phoenix

35 N. Front Street (910) 343-1395 Monday-Saturday: 11:30am - 10pm Sunday Brunch: 11:30am - 4pm Now exhibiting works by Elizabeth Darrow and Mio Reynolds in Ode to Joy through January 1st. The opening reception is Thursday December 9th from 6-9 p.m. For more info, call 910-797-3501.

Crescent Moon

332 Nutt St, The Cotton Exchange (910) 762-4207 Mon.-Sat., 10am-5:30pm; Sun., 12-4pm www.crescentmoonnc.com Crescent Moon—the retail gift gallery specializing in fine hand-crafted art glass and metal sculpture has new blown glass perfume bottles by Roger Gandelman. Exquisitely detailed with a richness of color they are elegant art glass perfume bottles with hand blown glass flowers suspended inside the crystal.

Roger’s bottles, although small in scale, make a grand statement. He has been blowing glass for 30 years and early in his career he decided to put the bulk of his energy into making art glass perfume bottles. It is believed that he is the only glass artist in the country, perhaps in the world, who has devoted his full artistic efforts into making this object.

There is always something new and creative arriving at Crescent Moon. Gift Wrapping is free. Located in The Cotton Exchange where parking is free while shopping or dining. Follow us on twitter or become a fan on Facebook by searching Crescentmoonnc!

Hampstead Art Gallery

14712 Hwy. 17 N. • (910) 270-5180 Mon.-Sat. 11am-5pm, or by appt.

Hampstead, NC “Beautiful; lots of variety.” “Love the place.” “Beautiful art work.” “Very nice.”

“Art rocks your socks, and you know that.”

These are just what a few customers had to say about Hampstead Art Gallery. Come and tell us what you think.

Affordable prices on prints and originals.

Local artists with various styles and taste are just excited about having the opportunity to share their work with all art lovers.

Our artists offer different sizes from what we have on display and low rates on commissioned work.

Owner Charles Turner invites all artists and art lovers to just hang out in our new Artist Lounge any time. Look for our upcoming Expos and Open House. Hampstead Art Gallery is located in Hampstead on the corner of Factory Road next to CVS Pharmacy.

Sunset River Marketplace

Wilmington Art Association Gallery

10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999 Tues- Sat. 10am-5pm Closed Mon. in winter sunsetrivermarketplace.com myspace.comsunsetrivermarketplace This eclectic, spacious gallery, located in the historic fishing village of Calabash, N.C., features fine arts and crafts by some of North and South Carolina’s most creative, successful artists. 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 on-site.

616B Castle St. • (910) 343-4370 www.wilmington-art.org Join us for the the Friday Gallery Walk on November 26th! A double-feature reception from 6 p.m to 9 p.m highlights the NC Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America, showcasing more than 20 nationally recognized and award-winning artists from all over North Carolina. These paintings demonstrate a diversity of styles, techniques and mixes of media available when working with colored pencils. And the “Featured Artist” for the month of December is the gallery’s own manager, Kathleen McLeod.

Her show “Mixing it Up” represent a year’s work in two media - oils and colored pencil. Recently transplanted from California, Katheen is adjusting both her eye and palette to the light, color and textures unique to the Wilmington area. Both shows run until December 22nd.

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New Elements Gallery

216 N. Front St. • (919) 343-8997 Tues-Sat: 11am-5:30pm or by appointment www.newelementsgallery.com 26th Annual Holiday Show: November 26th through January 8th, with opening reception on November 26th, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Join us for the festivities as we complete our Silver Anniversary and officially begin the 2010 holiday season! This will be a special night, as we feature paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, jewelry and wood by over 40 extraordinarily talented artists. A percentage of all sales that evening will benefit Lower Cape Fear Hospice.

Raffle tickets sold to raise monies, too; winner gets $250 gallery gift card.

Wanna be on the gallery page?

Call Shea Carver by Thursday, noon, at (910) 791-0688, ext 1004

35 North Front Street Downtown Wilmington (910) 343-1395

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Introducing our $4.95 Tapas Menu! avaiable 4pm-10pm daily and 10pm-Midnight on Saturday and Sunday

Weekly Specials:

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Thanks for Nothing!

Festival thrashes out the Turkey Day holiday

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lack Friday—a perfect occasion to put on a pair of Goth pants and head down to the Soapbox. Really, there’s no better prescription for a post-Turkey-Day tryptophan overdose than diving into a mosh pit or concussing your head against the air.

It’s the Thanks for Nothing Fest MMX—two nights of 35 ungrateful bands filling both Soapbox stages.

The man responsible for this insanity is former owner of the now-closed Lucky’s Pub and current Soapbox sound guy/booking representative Mark Fuller. “Thanks for Nothin’ Fest has been around for about six or seven years now,” Fuller says. “I used to put them on every year at Lucky’s Pub. It’s always been [held] the weekend after Thanksgiving. What else can you do on that weekend other than get a bunch of bands and have a good time?”

To recruit the punks, Fuller employed the help of Monkeyknifefight’s Charlie Smith, who booked the upstairs stage for Day One, and DIY Wilmington’s Chris Marshall, who handled the Laudro Lounge. For Day Two Fuller took on both floors of metalheads himself. The result is a contorted and vast amount of madness! day one: punk Fucking rock

by: Justin Lacy

Thanks for Nothing Soapbox Laundro Lounge 255 N. Front Street Friday and Saturday, November 26th-27th Tickets: $7 www.thesoapboxlive.com (they accept rides from designated-driver-ing serpents). It’s best not to agitate them with “your mamma” jokes of any kind.

Rictus Grim Though it’s hard to guess from Mikey X Mortis’ mellow and fairly melodious vocals, Rictus Grim has an insatiable taste for human blood. Not in a vampire way, because there is nothing less punk rock than a vampire in 2010; more in a zombie sorta way, with the whole “appetite for human brains and flesh” thrown in the mix.

The Cape Fear based group plays metalconscious hardcore punk, with double-pedaled-kick-drum triplets thudding all around their horror story themes. Perhaps the “your mamma” jokes can wait here too.

Monkeyknifefight A Wilmington band, their names are Johnny Bonobo, Dr. Jones, Sci-fi/Just Dave, and Moosecock (a.k.a. the aforementioned Charlie Smith). When they’re not punk-thrashing out their double-guitar textures and layered vocals, they like to rap about smelly breasts.

Enough said.

The Local Systems In their bio, Greenville three-piece The Local Systems claims their songs are about two subjects: life and drinking. Really though, whose songs aren’t about life and drinking?

The three-piece plays straight-ahead oldschool punk that rattles forward under vigorously melodic froggy pirate vocals. Very fun.

Heaps of adrenaline.

Spring Break 1931 Wilmington’s Spring Break 1931 hates us and everyone we know. This is important to note before attending their set of quick and preposterously funny thrash punk songs.

Collectively, they seem to have a sense of humor; however, individually, they are five viciously unpredictable and reckless men

No Tomorrow!

No Tomorrow! was the only Wilmingtonbased band invited to play Raleigh’s Hopscotch Music Festival last September. The four work under the D-beat genre, music that drives at no less than 756 miles per hour, fueled by spaz-fast backbeats and drone phrases barked in gorilla manner.

FuLL sCHeduLe (day one; time reversed) Laundro Lounge 1 - 1:30 a.m.

12:10 - 12:40 a.m.

11:20 - 11:50 p.m.

10:30 -11 p.m.

9:40 - 10:10 p.m.

8:50 - 9:20 p.m.

8 - 8:30 p.m.

Man Will Destroy Himself Overlooked Wall Wasted Effort No Tomorrow Barron Azucares

Upstairs 1:20 - 2 a.m.

12:35 - 1:05 a.m.

11:45 -12:15 a.m.

10:55 -11:25 p.m.

10:05 - 10:35 p.m.

9:15 - 9:45 p.m.

8:25 - 8:55 p.m.

7:35 - 8:05 p.m.

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Destroyed Tradition Monkeyknifefight Spring Break 1931 Southern Hostility Rictus Grim No Brainer Blacks Shr3dcrust

put up your dukes: Monkeyknifefight will scar music lovers with their thrashing riffs and punked-out vibe, playing upstairs at the Soapbox from 12:35-1:05 a.m. on Friday. Courtesy photo.

day two: Heavy Fucking Metal No Mercy A deceptive hyperlink on the Soapbox’s Web page lead me to believe that No Mercy is from California, has a Wikipedia page and is playing at 5:50 p.m. I couldn’t exactly comprehend why a band significant enough to have a Wikipedia page would travel all the way from California to play at 5:50 p.m.; nonetheless, this is what the Soapbox link told me.

The real No Mercy is an all-or-nothing thrash trio from Sanford, North Carolina, and Thanks For Nothing is just as thankful to be hosting their intricate guitar riffs and brusque vocal phrasings as it would have been to have those other guys.

Grounds for Hope Grounds for Hope, which is either a Chris-

(day two; time reversed) Laundro Lounge 12:55 - 1:25 a.m.

12:05 - 12:35 a.m.

11:15 -11:45 p.m.

10:25 -10:55 p.m.

9:35 - 10:05 p.m.

8:45 - 9:15 p.m.

7:55 - 8:25 p.m.

7:05 - 7:35 p.m.

6:15 - 6:45 p.m.

5:25 - 5:55 p.m.

By the Blade Hellrazor Champion of the Sun Hellbroth Thou Shall Burn Dim the Darklit Gross Reality The Devil’s Ransom Skull Storm Wake the Living

tian metalcore band out of Havelock or Maxwell House’s new ad campaign, stands out in the demonic underworld of metal, especially when playing alongside names like Skullstorm, Hellbroth, Hellrazor and Thou Shall Burn. All six members are self-proclaimed “straight edge” high school students, and they shred and scream their theologically positive outlook over hard and heavy rock.

Gollum: Gollum, a 12-year-old progressive metal band that calls Wilmington home, does not take its name from the character from “The Lord of the Rings,” the epic fantasy penned

by J.R.R. Tolkien prior to, during and after World War II. The band’s name is derived from “goylem,” which is Yiddish for either a shapeless mass or an uncultivated imbecile.

Goylem is derived from “golem,” which is an anthropomorphic being that rabbis allegedly conjured to fight off Nazis. Coincidentally, Gollum is officially sponsored by Jägermesiter, a German liquor introduced in 1935, which just means they are official badasses.

A headbanger’s delight.

Upstairs 12:30 - 1:15 a.m.

11:40 - 12:10 a.m.

10:50 - 11:20 p.m.

10 - 10:30 p.m.

9:10 - 9:40 p.m.

8:20 - 8:50 p.m.

7:30 - 8 p.m.

6:40 - 7:10 p.m.

5:50 - 6:20 p.m.

5 - 5:30 p.m.

Predecessor Gollum HOW Salvacion Slaves to Addiction Colossal Abyss Grounds For Hope HOG No Mercy Daimonic

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soundboard

a preview of tunes all over town this week

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24 MARK HERBERT & GABRIELLE —Green Light Lounge; 21 N. Front St., Basement OPEN MIC W/ GARY ALLEN —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 BANGARANG W/ LORD WALRUS & SIR NICK BLAND —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 KARAOKE —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 OPEN MIC W/ SEAN GERARD (9PM) —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 SHOW TUNES W/ DONNA MERRITT —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 KARAOKE —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 DJ P. FUNK —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551

DUALING PIANOS & LEE HAUSER —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 DJ JUICE —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 KARAOKE —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 SAI COLLINS —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115 RON AND ROGER —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 KARAOKE —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 DJ —High Tide Lounge, 1800 Carolina Beach Ave., Carolina Bch; 458-0807 JAMES JARVIS & FRIENDS (7PM-8PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 RON RONNER —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 KARAOKE WITH BOB CLAYTON —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880

NUTT HOUSE IMPROV —Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 OPEN MIC NIGHT —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 OYSTERBOY —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25 LIVE MUSIC —Carolina Ale House; 317-c College Rd., 791-9393 DJ DANE BRITT —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 OPEN MIC NIGHT —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 OPEN MIC W/ GARY ALLEN —Brass Pelican; 2112 N. New River Dr., Surf City, NC 328-4373 KARAOKE —Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269

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KARAOKE KONG —Orton Pool Room, 133 North Front St.; 343-8878 KARAOKE W/ DJ STEVE —The Toolbox, 2325 Burnette Blvd.; 343-6988 DJ —Flat Eddie’s; 5400 Oleander Dr., 799-7000 TOM SHARPE —Village Cafe, 107 Hampstead Village, Hampstead, NC 910-270-3580 LIVE MUSIC —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 RON HASSON —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 DJ S T R E T C H —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 KARAOKE —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC DJ BATTLE —Sputnik 23 N. Front St.; 251-8814

LIVE MUSIC Gabby’s Lounge Friday, November 26

wed 11.24

pre-turkey karaoke bash! thurs 11.25

Paddy’s Hollow is located downtown in historic Wilmington, tucked away in the Cotton Exchange. We are a favorite with locals and tourists. Family steaks owned and operated since 1982.

happy thanksgiving! (closed)

fri 11.26

live music with

wings

16 DRAFT BEERS

OPEN FOR LUNCH & DINNER ribs DRINK SPECIALS

sat 11.27

OVERTYME

salads ,ANDFALL #ENTER s 1331 Military Cutoff Rd ,ANDFALL #ENTER s

910-256-3838 wildwingcafe.com

LIVE MUSIC —Romanelli’s, Leland; 383-1885 DJ “MR LEE” —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 FIREDANCE & DRUMS @ DARK, DJ MIT PSYTRANCE (11PM) —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 TOP 40 DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 MIKE O’DONNELL —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 DJ DON’T STOP —Slick and Reds, 2501 S. College Rd.; 798-5355 JAMES JARVIS & FRIENDS (7PM-8PM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 DJ RICHTERMEISTER —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 KARAOKE WITH BOB CLAYTON —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880

Pub & Grille

Wrightsville’s Pregame Spot Pool, Shuffleboard, Foosball & Darts

Thursdays

7-10PM

Saturday, November 27

DANIEL PARISH 7-10PM

Friday, December 3

ROOT SOUL 7-10PM

Saturday, December 4 GOBBLE! GOBBLE!

In the Cotton Exchange Downtown Wilmington • 762-4354 FREE PARKING www.paddyshollow.com

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DJ GREG —Green Light Lounge; 21 N. Front St., Basement ACOUSTIC DUO (7-10) —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 DJ S T R E T C H —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 OPEN MIC —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 DJ CED —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 KARAOKE —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 DJ SLIM DELUXE —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 FRIED LOT —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115 HIP HOP FEATURE —16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 LIVE ACOUSTIC —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219

RANDY MCQUAY 7-10PM

wrightsville.sunspreeresorts.com 877-330-5050 • 910-256-2231

KARAOKE

10 PM

$2 Red Stripe ∙ $4 Margaritas $4 Jose Cuervo ∙ $4 Captain

Fridays Ladies Nite @ the Beach

$2 Coors Light • $2.50 Shock Top $5 Martinis • $4 Flavored Bombs $5 Bruschettas for the Ladies

Saturdays $2 Miller Lite • $2 Budweiser $4 Rum & Coke • $3 Surfer on Acid

Sundays

$2 Yuenglings • $2 Bud Lights $5 Jager Bomb • $3 Mimosas Free Pool & Shuffleboard after 9 pm 1/2 Off Late Night Menu

530 Causeway Dr. - 910.297.9638

Classy KaraoKe with Mandy Clayton —Remedies, Market Street; 392-8001 nutt street open MiC —Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 FunKy Cabbage —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866

friDAY, november 26 dJ —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 open MiC night —Java Junkies Coffee Bar; 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 399-6977 KaraoKe with bob Clayton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 dJ dane britt —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219 ron etheridge & Jason woolwine —Barbary Coast; 116 S. Front St., 762-8996 dJ —The Toolbox, 2325 Burnette Blvd.; 343-6988 dJ —Black Horn Bar, 15 Carolina Beach Avenue N.; 458-5255 dJ dustin —Sputnik, 23 N. Front St.; 251-8814

5001 Market Street (attached to the Ramada Inn)

910-791-7595

Tuesday - Shag Night Free Shag Lessons w/ Brad White Beginner 7:30 Intermediate 8:00 Dancing till 11:00 $5 cover $2 Domestics $3 Imports Thursday - Line Dance Line Dance Lessons with Barbara Braak @ 7:30 Country Line Dancing 9:30 $2 Coors light Friday - Salsa Night Begins with Argentine Tango Lessons @ 7:30 $5 cover Salsa Lessons @ 9:30 & DJ Lalo Open till 2:30 $2 Tequila Shots $3 Corona saTurday Salsa @ 9:00 with DJ LaLo $2 Coors Light $3 Dos XX PrivaTe ParTy Booking 910 791-7595

live MusiC —Islands Fresh Mex Grill, 260 Racine Dr., Wilmington, 799-2109 dJ —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 dJ sCooter Fresh —Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 dJ eriC (10pM-2aM) —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC Friday night Follies danCe dJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 beaCh & shag w/ dJ roCK —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC dJ —Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 overtyMe —Holiday Inn Resort (Gabby’s Lounge), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 live MusiC —Murphy’s Irish Pub; off I-40 @ exit 385 (at the Mad Boar Restaurant), 285-8888 destroyed tradition, MonKeyKniFeFight, spring breaK 1931, southern hostility, riCtus griM, no brainer, blaCKs and shr3dCrust —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500

visit our website www.ruckerJohns.com for daily specials, music & upcoming events

monday $ 5 pizzas, and half price Nachos and Wings ( in the Bar starting at 6:00) 22oz Domestic Draft all Day

live MusiC —Henry’s, 2806 Independence Blvd.; 793-2929 soul FunCtion —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 live MusiC —Big D’s American Saloon; 6745-B Market St. hooKline and sinKer —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 toM noonan —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 Full dish —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115 neil Cribbs —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 piano show —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 JaMes Jarvis & Friends (7pM-8pM) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 KaraoKe Kong —Slick and Reds, 2501 S. College Rd.; 798-5355 Jazz with benny hill —Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395 dJ Ced —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206

live music Tues. Nov. 23th

the diXieland all stars 5564 CaRolINa BeaCH RD 452-1212

—Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St dJ tiMe —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 dJ s t r e t C h —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 latino night with dJ —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595

FunKy Cabbage —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866

SAturDAY, november 20 Man will destroy hiMselF, the loCal systeMs, wall, wasted eFFort, no toMorrow, barron and azuCares —Soapbox Upstairs, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500

live MusiC —Oceanic, Oceanfront Wrightsville Beach; 256-5551 KaraoKe —Java Junkies Coffee Bar; 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 399-6977 KaraoKe —Griff’s Tavern @ George St.; 6320 Market St., 793-2628 dJ dane britt —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219

100 S. Front St. Downtown 251-1832

Your Downtown Sports Pub!

MONDAY $10 Bud/Light Buckets $4 Jack Daniels • $3 Capt. Morgan TUESDAY $1 Tacos 4-7pm tuesday $3 Dox XX Amber live Jazz in the Bar • Half Price Bottles of Wine $3 Jose Cuervo margaritas absolut Dream $5 • Pacifico $2.50 WEDNESDAY $3 Pints (10 Drafts) wednesday $5 Jager Bombs • $2 wells Corona\Corona light $250 THURSDAY Margarita\Peach Margaritas $4 Mug Night Miller light Bottles $150 $2 Domestic Drafts w/HK MUG $5 Bombers • $4 Jim Beam thursday $3 flavored vodkas Gran Martinis $7 • Red Stripe $250 $3.50 MicroBrews FRIDAY friday $3 Select Draft • $4 Fire Fly Shooters Cosmos $4 • 007 $350 $5 Red Bull Vodka Harps bottles $250 • Island Sunsets $5 SATURDAY $2.50 Miller Lt or Yuengling Draft saturday $3 Kamikaze • $4 Well Drinks Baybreeze\Seabreeze $4 SUNDAY 22oz Blue Moon Draft $3 $2.50 Bud/Light Draft $ 50 Select domestic bottles 1 $4 Crown Royal • $4 Bloody Mary sunday EVERYDAY Domestic Draft Pints $150 $8 Party Pitcher • $3 Select Shot

Bloody Marys $4 • White Russians $4 1:00 - Moo and Brew Special $7

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Beach & Shag w/ DJ Rock —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC kaRaoke with BoB clayton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 DJ S t R e t c h —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 DJ —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 iamhuman —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 DJ —Sputnik, 23 N. Front St.; 251-8814 DJ eRic (10pm-2am) —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC DJ —Ronnie’s Place, 6745-B Market St.; 228-8056 DJ p. money —Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 Daniel paRiSh —Holiday Inn Resort (Gabby’s Lounge), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231 live muSic —Murphy’s Irish Pub; off I-40 @ exit 385 (at the Mad Boar Restaurant), 285-8888

Benny hill —Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115 live muSic —Firebelly Lounge, 265 N. Front St.; 763-0141 the paul gRimShaw BanD —Dead Dog Saloon, 760 Coastal Grand, Myrtle Beach, SC; 843-839-3647 live muSic —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 BenJy templeton —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 SaRgent Rock —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 Beach anD Shag FeSt with DJ Rock —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC piano Show —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 Dance DJ —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 DJ —Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872 DJ ScooteR FReSh —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206

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—Goat and Compass, 710 N 4th St; DJ eRic —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC SalSa w/ DJ lalo —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 the FuSticS —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866;

SUNNday, November 28 l Shape lot (3-7), Steve toDD & Sam melvin (8-12) —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 peRRy Smith (BRunch 12-2) —Aubriana’s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773 DJ p. money —Rox, 208 Market St.; 343-0402 kaRoaoke with DJBe —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 DJ ceD —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 galen on guitaR (BRunch) —Courtyard Marriott, 100 Charlotte Ave., Carolina Beach; (800) 321-2211 kaRaoke w/ DJ Battle —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551

kaRaoke —Green Light Lounge; 21 N. Front St., Basement RogeR DaviS (BRunch) —Caffe Phoenix, 9 S Front St.; 343-1395 Jam with Benny hill —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 Ron etheRiDge & tRaviS Shallow —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866

moNday, November 29 open mic night —Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737 BRett JohnSon’S Jam —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 DJ Dane BRitt —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 open mic night —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 open mic w/ Beau —16 Taps, 127 Princess St.; 251-1616 the Selekt —The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088 live muSic —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 JameS JaRviS & FRienDS (7pm-8pm) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607

DJ RichteRmeiSteR —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 open mic night —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866 DJ time —Trebenzio’s, 141 N. Front St.; 815-3301 Sean geRaRD —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-28666

TUeSday, November 30 Benny hill —Aubriana’s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773 kaRaoke —Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172 open mic night —Mellow Mushroom, 4311 Oleander Drive; 452-3773 open mic night —Surf’s Bar & Grill; 5500 Market St., 791-9021 Johnny acouStic —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 kaRaoke —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204 kaRaoke —Rumors, 5712 East Oak Island Dr., Oak Island, NC kaRaoke w/ DJ Dane BRitt —Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219

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Downtown Business Alliance PRESENTS

Season of Celebration Nov.26th – Dec.25th, 2010 Fri. Nov.26th, 5:45pm

ANNuAl ChristmAs tree lightiNg CeremoNy

DBA and the City of Wilmington’s annual downtown Christmas tree lighting, starts off with entertainment by the New River Harmony Barbershop Chorus. Mayor Pro-tem Dr. Earl Sheridan will join us to help with the tree lighting countdown. A special visit by Mr. & Mrs. Claus will also arrive to meet with all the children!

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Visit several downtown businesses who will be hosting a tree for their local charity of choice and purchase a chance to win one or several.

See all the unique themed trees. All proceeds go to the charity. Winners for each tree will be drawn on Sunday, Dec. 19th. For a complete listing of participating businesses go to www. dbawilmington.org or pick up a map at Crescent Moon at The Cotton Exchange.

Bring the family down for the annual holiday parade, it’s sure to be a fun time for all! The parade starts at N. Front and Walnut Sts., heading south on Front St. to Orange St., then down to Water St., where it heads back north.

For more information about the parade, contact the City of Wilmington at 910-341-4602

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Cape Fear Riverboats presents the 22nd annual cruise to benefit the Wilmington Salvation Army’s Food Pantry. Admission to this event is 6 non-perishable food items that go directly to local families in need during the holidays. For ticket reservation and more information call 910-343-1611 or 800676-0162, or visit www.CFRboats.com.

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DJ “mr lee” —Carolina Lounge, 5001A Market St.; 791-7595 root Soul ProJeCt —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-28666

WEDNESDAy, DEcEmBER 1 mArk HerBert & GABrielle —Green Light Lounge; 21 N. Front St., Basement oPen miC W/ GAry Allen —Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888 oPen miC W/ SeAn GerArD (9Pm) —Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 BAnGArAnG W/ lorD WAlruS & Sir niCk BlAnD —Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776 SHoW tuneS W/ DonnA merritt —Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666 kArAoke —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 DJ P. Funk —Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551 kArAoke —Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204

ron ronner —Reel Cafe, 100 S. Front St.; 251-1832 kArAoke —Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301 DJ JuiCe —The Rhino Club, 125 Market St.; 762-2206 DuAlinG PiAnoS & lee HAuSer —Rum Runners, 21 N. Front St.; 815-3846 kArAoke —Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838 DJ —High Tide Lounge, 1800 Carolina Beach Ave., Carolina Bch; 458-0807 oPen miC niGHt —Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223 JAmeS JArviS & FrienDS (7Pm-8Pm) —The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607 kArAoke WitH BoB ClAyton —Midtown Seafood, 4106 Oleander Dr.; 792-6880 nutt HouSe imProv —Nutt Street Comedy Room, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500 mAC & JuiCe —Duck & Dive, 114 Dock Street, 399-2866 All entertainment must be turned in to encore by noon every Thursday for consideration in the weekly entertainment calendar. Venues are responsible for notifying encore of any changes, removals or additions to their weekly schedules.

Show Stoppers: Concerts around the region

THE ORANGE PEEL 101 Biltmore Avenue ASHeville, nC (828) 225-5851 11/26: Colt Ford with Sunny Ledfurd and Tyler Farr 11/27: Acoustic Syndicate 11/28: Cyndi Lauper and The Ferocious Few (right) 11/29: Minus The Bear and Tim Kasher & Dead Confederate 11/30: The Sword with Karma To Burn & Mount Carmel HOUSE OF BLUES 4640 HWy 17 S., myrtle BeACH, SC (843) 272-3000 11/26: Need to Breathe with the Daylights 11/27: Edwin McCain with Crowfield

ALABAmA THEATRE 4750 HWy 17 SoutH n. myrtle BeACH, SC (843) 272-1111 11/24-12/1: Christmas Show THE FILLmORE cHARLOTTE 820 HAmilton Street CHArlotte, nC (704) 549-5555 11/26: Edwin McCain 11/27: Corey Smith with Rehab THE cAROLINA OPRy 8901-A BuSineSS 17 n., myrtle BeACH, SC (843) 913-1450 11/24-12/1: Carolina Opry Christmas Special AmOS’ SOUTHEND 1423 SoutH tryon St. CHArlotte, nC (704) 377-6874 11/25: Rayen Belchere and friends 11/27: Southern Exposure Burlesque Pageant 11/29: Twiztid with Blaze, MicLordz and Sauce Funky with DJ Clan 12/1: Sick Puppies with Terrible Things and Drop D

LINcOLN THEATRE 126 e. CABArruS St. rAleiGH, nC (919) 821-4111 11/26: Acoustic Syndicate with Acoustic Manner 11/27: Untold, Colourside, 5 Gallon Pale and Katelyn Clampett 11/28: The Stegmonds, Willie Painter Band, Big Mama E and the Cool, Purple School Bus and Allison King Band 11/30: Minus the Bear with Tim Casher 12/1: Dave Barnes and Drew Holcomb

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oad trip! It’s a standard formula in the cinematic playbook—nothing too flashy. Take a couple of mismatched characters, throw them in a car, and give them the seemingly impossible task of getting to a predetermined destination with no time to spare. It’s like one of those wonderful SAT math problems: A car leaves Atlanta going 70mph heading west.

Will Peter (Robert Downey Jr.) be able to witness the birth of his first child with 2,400 miles to traverse, saddled with the jabbering man-child Ethan (Zach Galifianakis)?

Anyone who answers “no” hasn’t watched enough road-trip movies. Those who have know there isn’t a moment of surprise in the movie. This is standard fare—painfully average storytelling made watchable only because of the level of talent involved. It’s such a ridiculously simple statement, but it makes total sense.

Anyone trapped in a movie about people trapped in a car for almost two hours better like the passengers.

Robert Downey Jr. doesn’t deviate too far from the beaten path. He plays the kind of mouthy cynic he has portrayed his entire career. There’s a serious danger of radioactive redundancy in the casting, but Galifianakis plays such an over-the-top fop that it actually ends up working rather well: angry-straight man and ridiculous clown.

Together they make a perfectly adequate comic duo.

After a disastrous encounter outside the airport, Ethan and Peter wind up being thrown off their LAX-bound flight. Peter has the whole “baby being born” scenario playing out; Ethan is heading to Hollywood to pursue his dream of being an actor. This is hampered by an apparent lack of talent, a compulsive marijuana habit and the personality of an infectious disease. Peter has lost his wallet, and the only way home is riding along with Ethan and his French bulldog, Buster.

Most of the comedy is derived from the “odd couple” scenario. Peter is a normal, everyday guy with a short fuse. Ethan has to masturbate every night before he can go to sleep, he’s allergic to waffles, and his inspiration to pursue a career in acting stems from his love for the show “Two and a Half Men.” Annoying? Yes! But annoyances are the least of Peter’s worries. Through the course of their trip, Ethan ends up getting Peter arrested, beaten and nearly killed.

Most of the film comes across like a more cynical version of the John Hughes classic “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”—uptight suburbanite, played by Steve Martin, meets bumbling clod John Candy. What worked so well about “Planes, Trains, and

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Automobiles” was the chemistry between the lead characters. The same can be said of “Due Date,” though to a lesser extent.

Downey Jr. is funny, but hardly likable. Galifianakis is funny, but it feels like he tries too hard. Sure, no one would ever accuse John Candy of subtlety, but Galfianakis really has to turn it up to 11 to make his character work. And the inevitable conclusion is so telegraphed that even the dimmest bulb should exclaim, “Saw that coming!”

Director Todd Phillips (“The Hangover”) knows how to keep his movies moving.

this week in film Make a joke, get the laugh, and move on.

But when he tries to force sentimentality into the thing, it feels phony. I’m of the school that claims “The Hangover” is the most overrated comedy of all time. “Due Date” is a funnier film—a much more enjoyable cinematic experience. Though the

premise is equally strained, it still showcases a more natural chemistry between the actors. The laughs never feel forced; though, there are a couple of bits that feel so cribbed from Hughes’ epic that I wondered if he was spinning in his grave. Some might call it “homage” or simple flattery.

Not me. There’s loving reverence and then there’s cramming someone’s ideas into another’s work.

Yet, I can’t not recommend “Due Date.”

I laughed. I snickered. I rolled my eyes at the heartwarming sitcom-like moments of male bonding. None of it highly original none of it all that bad. It’s tired and roadweary material saved by two talented performers.

Alice’s Restaurant

Subversive Film Series Juggling Gypsy •1612 Castle St. (910) 763-2223 Sundays, 8pm • Free (pictured) It has become an American Thanksgiving tradition—whether watching the movie or listening to the song each and every fourth Thursday of November. Arlo Guthrie’s converted “Alice’s Restaurant” into a motion picture in 1969. Guthrie goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump.

When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine.

When the local sheriff finds out, a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience, but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. The movie follows the song with Arlo’s voiceover as both music and narration. 111 minutes. PG

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

Cinematique Thalian Hall • 310 Chestnut Street November 28 - December 1, 7:30 p.m.

Special matinee on Sunday, 3 p.m., $7 The third and final film adaptation of the bestselling Millennium Trilogy, written by the late Swedish author, Stieg Larsson (“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Girl Who Played With Fire’). Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court. 148 minutes.

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HOLIDAY FLOTILLAS Each year when the vessels align the Intracoastal Waterway during Thanksgiving weekend, it becomes official: The holidays have arrived in the Cape Fear! Wrightsville Beach welcomes families and jolly cheerers to their 27th annual North Carolina Holiday Flotilla.The festivities begin with Santa on the 26th at 5:30 p.m. with a tree-lighting ceremony at Wrightsville Beach Park. Later in the evening at 7 o’clock, “Anchor’s Away” takes place at the Blockade Runner as part of the official Holiday Flotilla kickoff party. Tickets are $35 and include food, cash bar and music with the Four Knights.

On the 27th, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wrightsville Beach Park will flood with people enjoying many arts, crafts and family-friendly activities. It

makes the perfect stop for a few early Christmas presents. The main event gets underway at 6 p.m. with the lighted boat parade, followed by fireworks. For full details, check out www. ncholidayflotilla.org.

And the fun doesn’t stop there, either! The Island of Lights boat parade takes place December 4th at 6 p.m., featuring fishing boats and other water crafts decorated with thousands of lights, cruising along the Intracoastal from Snows Cut to the Carolina Beach Boat

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e’ve barely roasted the first turkey, but lights already sparkle across many front lawns and retail centers across town. Heck, I am pretty sure downtown Wilmington had city workers hanging lit wreaths on Halloween night! For many, the earlier the holidays arrive, the better, as the season of merriment and cheer illuminates a greater reward: compassion, gratitude and reflection. We have a host of holiday events to share with readers who wish to liven up their calendars this week, just as the trimmings and pumpkin pie hit the table. To that, we say: Happy Holidays! by: Shea Carver

VILLAGE OF WONDER: Don’t miss Wilmington’s most spectacular train show, held behind Stein Mart through December 21st. Courtesy photo.

Basin and back.

PARADES and TOURS The Pleasure Island Tour of Homes allows entry into some of the island’s most breathtaking abodes, adorned in twinkling brilliance, garland and more on December 11th. Tickets to the self-guided tour are available at businesses

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on the island. For a full schedule, head over to www.islandoflights.org.

Perhaps one of the most revered home tours comes with the 37th Annual Old Wilmington By Candlelight Tour, sponsored by the Historical Society of the Lower Cape Fear.It showcases Wilmington’s most regal historic homes decorated to the hilt for the holidays, taking place December 4th and 5th. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at www.hslcf.org. Over 19 homes can be seen from the heart of downtown’s historic district, up to Wrightsville Avenue in Carolina Place.

If touring through downtown’s homes isn’t on the agenda, then don’t miss the annual downtown holiday parade on December 5th at 5 p.m. It starts at N. Front and Walnut streets, and heads south on Front to Orange, then along Water Street, before heading north. Local businesses, marching bands, clowns, candy and, yes, Santa himself will make an appearance.

The Island of Lights Christmas Parade takes place on the 3rd at 7:30 p.m., and proceeds from Atlanta Avenue down Lake Park Boulevard to the Federal Point Plaza in Carolina Beach. More floats, bands and Santa Claus to be seen!

SHOWS, CONCERTS and EXPOS Of course, we can always expect Thalian Hall to bring Wilmingtonians nothing shy of engaging entertainment, just in time for the holidays!

Handbells may be the quintessential instrument of the season, too. The Raleigh Ringers Holiday Concert on December 4th, 8 p.m., will engage audiences with its 17 members who churn out popular, sacred and even rock ‘n’ roll music, all with the flip of their wrists. They’ll bring harmonies to holiday songs like never before heard and incorporate a few classic rock tunes as well, from legends like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, Led Zeppelin and Queen. Tickets are $14 to $25 and can be purchased online, www.

thalianhall.org.

Under the direction of Steve Field, “A Classic Christmas” will be performed at the First Presbyterian Church by the Carolina Vocal Arts Ensemble on December 6th at 7:30 p.m. Special performance features include “O Holy Night,” “Still, Still, Still” and “Carol of the Bells,” as well as selections from Handel’s “Messiah,” Bach’s “Magnificat” and Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “Fantasia on Christmas Carols.” The church is located at 125 S. 3rd Street, and while the show is free, donations are greatly appreciated (www.carolinavocalarts.org).

Nothing sings through the Christmas rafters louder than Bing Crosby crooning his baritone, “I’m dreaming...” Thalian Association will be making an iconic debut on Thalian’s Main Stage this holiday season, as “White Christmas” opens December 9th. With a score composed by Irving Berlin, including all the classics so many sing along to each and every year—“Sisters,” “Count Your Blessings” and “White Christmas”—the story follows WWII buddies through combat and after, as they set out as an entertainment duo and become the hottest act around. Love and laughter ensues, as well as many warm-fuzzies upon watching it live.

Tickets are $22 to $25, with shows at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. It runs two weekends only: the 9th through 12th and 16th through 19th.

Kids and adults alike will be awestruck by the 11 scale miles of trains set up behind Stein Mart in Hanover Center during the holidays.

Thanks to the Cape Fear Model Railroad Society, families can see models of trains, neighborhoods, villages, parks and even an airport in a show unlike anything in the state. Tickets are only $2 for ages 3-12 and $3 for ages 13 and up. Families can visit every Friday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., with final performances running December 20th and 21st, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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the season on November 26th, at 5:45 p.m. during the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. Taking place in front of the Federal Courthouse on Front Street, entertainment will be provided by the New River Harmony Barbershop Chorus, as Mayor Bill Saffo chimes in on the countdown. Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be on hand to take all early Christmas lists during the free event.

Pleasure Island’s Celebration of Lights starts this weekend, Friday the 26th at 7 p.m., with the Lighting the Lake opening the beauty of islandiving. Displays will illuminate while music plays, and visits with Santa can be enjoyed over cups of hot cocoa.

A few blocks over, the Lighting of Carolina Beach’s Boardwalk will begin at 7:30 p.m., hosted by the Carolina Beach Boardwalk Makeover

(www.boardwalkmakeover. org). Live music, local dignitaries, the lighting of the boardwalk coves, among other fun activities will take place and continue every Saturday through December 18th, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Through December 19th, downtown businesses will host the 2nd annual Trees For Charities. Uniquely decorated trees of various themes will be dispersed across downtown merchant locations, and raffle tickets are sold at each location (one for $1 or six for $5), with proceeds benefitting the charity of the business’ choice. Raffle winners will be announced on the 20th. A full list of participants can be found at www.dbawilmington. org; or pick up map at Crescent Moon in The Cotton Exchange for a self-guided tour.

It’s probably the most magical display of lights and decorations in Wilmington, and it opens to the public this Friday the 26th. Airlie Gardens allows visitors to step into a world of fantastical imagination at Enchanted Airlie, where tours are offered every Friday and Saturday night through the 21st, with additional showings offered Monday the 20th and Tuesday the 21st, at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Lighted oak trees and sparkling gardens, featuring holiday flowers, elegant displays and even a garden train, will take visitors into another land of holiday cheer. With 30 acres of decor and live music playing, Enchanted Airlie’s self-guided tours should be purchased in advance at www. airliegardens.org or at Airlie’s Garden Service Center (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.). Tickets must be purchased before 4 p.m. for the night of the event, and cost $5 for adults and $4 for children (ages 4-12). Children under age 3 admitted free.

Parking is limited and a $3 pre-purchased parking pass is required for each vehicle with general admission, no exceptions. A “green” ticket option is available, whereby admission and parking is $20 per carload (excludes large multi-passenger vans and buses). The gardens are located at 300 Airlie Road.

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A Season for Food: A host of Thanksgiving feasts at Wilmington eateries

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et’s face it: Thanksgiving is the filet mignon of holiday meals, with tables full of delicious delectables, all waiting to spring off the plate and drop-kick the taste buds into a blissful culinary whirlwind. This holiday provides an entire spectrum of flavors in trademark dishes. Tasteful representatives from the realms of warm and juicy, to cool, sweet and crunchy go hand-in-hand in a yearly feast fit to satisfy armies of foodies.

For those who wish to stay out of the kitchen, there are endless amounts of food available at many local restaurants around the Port City Thursday, November 25th.

Here are but a few great specials we recommend to assure a satisfying holiday meal.

East at Blockade Runner Resort 275 Waynick Blvd • (910) 256-2251 11:30a.m.- 4p.m.

Adults: $40 Child: $16 Host to a huge yearly brunch, East has designed an entirely separate menu for Thanksgiving cravings. “The brunch is fairly traditional in the sense that we will have carving stations set up,” Mark Lawson says.

“There will be a whole roasted turkey, rosemary Dijon roast beef and orange honey glazed Virginia ham.” A traditional breakfast station offering made-to-order omelets, waffles and shrimp ‘n grits will be offered, and pasta lovers can also look forward to a station devoted to various types of noodles, sauces and garnishes.

Chef Mark Lawson invests his creativity into the other main selections, including chicken forestiere with merlot mushroom demi-glace, potato-crusted cod with lemon beurre blanc, or ratatouille-stuffed flounder turnedeaus with saffron rice and creole tomato coulis.

Bridge Tender 1414 Airlie Rd • (910) 256-4519 12-8 p.m. Adult: $21.99 Child: $11.99 Thanksgiving never looked so beautiful as when indulged among the backdrop of a waterfront setting. Located on the Intracoastal Waterway, Bridge Tender has collected a powerhouse of dishes for their entrée selection. Diners formulate their own menu by choosing oven-roasted turkey, honey-glazed ham or certified Angus beef ($5 extra), along with an assortment of

by: Marco Raye vegetables, like candied yams or spicy collard greens. Each dish comes with oyster stuffing, corn pudding, fresh baked rolls, and the customer’s choice of potato and vegetable.

Chef John McLatchy admits that though Thanksgiving is not a holiday of free time for his staff, they still enjoy providing for over 450 guests with their made-from-scratch meals.

“What I do is take a break, if you can call it that, in the middle of the day and go home,” McLatchy explains.

“Last year, I took home Bridge Tender food, and made a point to take some time out to enjoy it with good company.” Reservations can still be made for this Thanksgiving showdown.

Verandah Cafe at the Holiday Inn 1706 North Lumina Ave. • (910) 251-2231 Standard dinner menu plus holiday chef’s choice menu items Although a select menu has not been devised for Thanksgiving specifically, the Holiday Inn’s Verandah Cafe still offers great dishes that will perfectly satisfy a hungry stomach on Turkey Day. The “Chef’s Corner” portion of the menu will be spiced up for the day, featuring handpicked Thanksgiving selections to accompany existing entrées. Celebrating the season of giving beachfront-style without sacrificing delicious food provides a great twist on this joyous gobble day. Now, there’s a new tradition worth checking out!

Milner’s Café 311 Judges Road #1a • (910) 350-8899 11 p.m.- 3p.m. • Turkey: $18.95 Ham: $21.95 Sometimes families want a freshly-cooked meal yet don’t want to dine out. This conflict is no more thanks to Milner’s Thanksgiving day dinner packages. Milner’s Café will provide a very special and personal Thanksgiving experience for customers this year with the option of putting together an entire meal prepared by Chef Mark Milner and staff.

College Diner leaves no stone unturned.

Most categories of dishes can be found on their extensive menu and Thanksgiving is no exception. Aside from the standard menu options available, the restaurant is adding a roasted turkey plate for Thanksgiving. This option comes with dressing and two sides of the customer’s choice. For those on a budget or working with some time constraints, College Diner is great location to slay one’s holiday hunger. Meals are prepared quickly to customer satisfaction every time.

Beginning at 11a.m. customers on-the-go will begin picking up their meals, which the staff ensures will be every bit as delightful as what grandma used to make. “Trust is a huge part of our Thanksgiving routine,” Milner says. “Customers entrust us because they know we can deliver.”

Included in their packages are a variation of creamed corn casserole, succotash, green bean casserole, herb stuffing, cranberry sauce, collard greens and dinner rolls.

Caprice Bistro 311 Judges Road #1a • (910) 815-0810 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. • $40 prix-fixe Downtown’s most delightful French eatery will offer an American classic on Thanksgiving Day: the traditional roast turkey meal, served with mushroom, rice and walnut stuffing and sweet potatoes, with rich Yukon gold mashed potato jus. Choices of an appetizer consist of their famed country pate, escargot, soup, salad, or a goat cheese and asparagus pastry. Dessert finishes it extraordinarily, as a triplet of Caprice’s best sweets will be served.

Folks who wish to steer clear of turkey can enjoy traditional French fare, with waterzooi (seafood stew), lamb, steak or grouper. Reservations are recommended, as Caprice is a famed Thanksgiving hotspot in the Port City.

College Diner 911 S College Rd. • (910) 793-0991 Turkey entree (with two sides): $9.95

Casey’s Buffet, Barbecue and Home Cooking 5559 Oleander Drive • (910) 798-2913 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Wilmington’s favorite spot for home cookin’ will turn their buffet into a feast come Thanksgiving. Not only will they be serving their staples—fried chicken, chitterlings, barbecue, mashed potates, green beans, corn and the like—they’ll have a roasted turkey, roast beef, carved ham and pigs feet! Diners can also expect dressing, mac ‘n’ cheese, sweet potato souffle, cranberry sauce, peach cobbler, banana pudding and so much more!

They’re open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and the line is sure to be a nice once, so arrive early for the freshest of flavors!

Other restaurants open for Thanksgiving include: Carolina BBQ, 703 North College Road, (910) 392-1955, or 1602 South College Road, (910) 799-3464; Two Fat Ladies Over a Simmering Pot, 1601 Dawson Street, 910-341-0032; Hilton Riverside, 301 North Water Street, (910) 763-5900; Pilot House, (910) 3430200, and Elijah’s, (910) 343-1448, 2 Ann Street; K&W Cafeteria, 3501 Oleander Drive, (910) 762-7011; Bluewater Grill, 4 Marina Street, (910) 256-8500.

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e d i u g g n dini american Brixx Wood Fired Pizza A short drive from the beach, Brixx Wood Fired Pizza in Mayfaire Town Center is a fun, friendly neighborhood restaurant. Serving the best brick-oven pizzas around, Brixx also offers a fine selection of signature focaccia sandwiches, pastas, fresh salads and desserts. Stop in for a quick lunch, or kick back on the patio with one of 24 beers on tap or 14 wines by the glass. Brixx is also a late-night destination, serving 2-for-1 pizzas and appetizers after 10pm Open until 1am Monday through Saturday and 11pm on Sunday.6801 Main Street, Wilmington, NC 28405. (910) 256-9677. www.brixxpizza.com.

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 Sunday during the summer months. Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Marina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC . (910) 256.8500.

cHriS’ coSmic KiTcHen cosmicKitchenonline.com Serving breakfast all day as well as lunch and handmade cheesecake, Chef and Owner Chris Lubben loves to make many of his menu items from scratch. Whether you’re in the mood for a fluffy 3-egg Omelet, Shrimp & Grits, Prime Rib Sandwich or Andes Mint Cheesecake, Chris’ Cosmic Kitchen is your “Out of this World” Breakfast/Lunch Destination. Evening restaurant rental is available, as well as a Personal Chef service. Chris’ Cosmic Kitchen is located at 420 Eastwood Rd, Unit 109, on the corner of Racine Dr. and Eastwood Rd. New Winter Hours: 8am-4pm Tues-Sat. Sunday Brunch 9am-2pm. Closed Monday.

Take-out calls welcome, 792-6720. Follow us on Twitter @CosmicKitchen.

fare offered, with a myriad of condiments for all of your mid-day or late night cravings. You may find them daily at their new location on the boardwalk of Market and Water St. from 11am to 5pm. Saturdays at the farmers market. Thursday-Saturday nights they are on Market St. between Front and 2nd St. from 10pm to 3:00am. Then they finish the week off at Fibbers on Sunday nights until 3am. To busy to leave the office? Ask about their lunch time delivery service for downtown!!

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 and offers daily blackboard specials 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.

HoLidaY inn reSorT The Verandah Café 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. Open daily for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner. (910) 256-2231 Wrightsville Beach.

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Kefi, founded in 1981 by a group of friends, has a long-standing tradition as a favorite local watering hole. This Wrightsville-Beach eatery is open at 6am for breakfast, offering everything from omelets and pancakes, to shrimp and grits. Take a break from the beach and visit Kefi’s, where their menu features a variety of salads and sandwiches. There is even a “working man’s lunch,” served Monday through Friday, all for under $6. At night Kefi comes alive by serving dinner with a Southern flare. From the fried pickles appetizer to their the shrimp or oyster Po’boy to their nightly dinner specials, there is somec.G. daWGS thing that will make your taste buds sing.

For great traditional New York style eats Then stick around for live music on Friday, with Southern charm look no further than C.G. Saturday and Sunday; nightly drink specials Dawgs. You will be drawn in by the aroma of are offered. Go online at www.kefilive.com fine beef franks served with witty banter and for more info and full music schedule. Open good natured delivery from the cleanest hot 6am-2am, seven days a week, with full ABC dog carts in Wilmington. Sabrett famous hot permits. Lunch deliveries available in the dogs and Italian sausages are the primary Wrightsville Beach area. Located at 2012 28 encore | november 24-30, 2010 | www.encorepub.com

Eastwood Road, (910) 256-3558.

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Trolly Stop Hot Dogs are family owned with six locations. Since 1976 they specialize in homemade chili, slaw and sauces. Dogs include Smithfield (beef & pork), Southern Dog, Sabrett (all beef), Northern Dog, Carolina Packers Pork Dog (smoked sausage), Oscar Mayer 98% Fat Free Dogs (turkey) and Light Life Veggie Dog (soy). Locations are: 126 N. Front Street Open six days including Thurs., Fri., and Sat. night from 10pm-3am; 343-2999, 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach 11-5pm 7days a week, 6pm-9pm Sun-Wed, and 6pm-3am Th-Sat. 256-1421; 4502 Fountain Dr., 452-3952. Open at 11am on Sat.; South Howe St. in Southport, 457-7017; 103A Cape Fear Blvd in Carolina Beach, 458-5778. Catering cart available all year from $300. (910) 297-8416.

Wilmington’s favorite fondue restaurant! The Little Dipper specializes in unique fondue dishes with a global variety of cheeses, meats, seafood, vegetables, chocolates and fine wines.

The warm and intimate dining room is a great place to enjoy a four-course meal, or indulge in appetizers and desserts outside on the back deck or in the bar while watching luminescent jellyfish. Open Tuesday-Sunday, serving dinner at 5pm. 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

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. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest ingredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger to classic Reuben, Italian sub to a grown-up banana and peanut butter sandwich that will take all diners back to childhood. Served among a soup du jour and salads, there is something for all palates. Take advantage of their take-home frozen meals for nights that are too hectic to cook, and don’t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it. Mon.-Fri. 10am-7pm; Sat. 9am-6pm; closed Sunday.

3520 S. College Road, (910) 350-FOOD.

meLLoW mUSHroom Mellow out and relax in the comfortable atmosphere that Mellow Mushroom offers. From the giant psychadelic ‘shroom located in the bar area to the Cadillac hanging on the wall, this restaurant is far from ordinary. The open kitchen brings live entertainment as pizza dough flies in the air. Their hand-tossed, spring-water dough brings new meaning to pizzas and calzones—healthy!! With 20 drafts and an array of microbrews, domestic and import bottles, Mellow Mushroom has an extensive beer list and full bar. Also, check out their lunch specials and variety of sandwiches. Their menu also caters to everyone and offers many vegetarian dishes.

Live jazz on Wednesdays. Hours: MonSat, 11am-10pm; Sun., 12pm-9pm. 4311 Oleander Drive, (910) 452-3773.

aSian BiG THai and BiG THai TWo Now with two convenient locations to serve you, Big Thai features authentic Thai cuisine in a fun, relaxing atmosphere.

Their delectable menu includes items such as Pineapple Fried Rice with Cashews, Roasted Duck in Red Curry, and several options for vegetarians and vegans. And don’t forget to try their famous Coconut Cake, made fresh in-house. You won’t regret it. Big Thai One (1001 N. 4th St. in the Brooklyn Arts District; 763-3035): Lunch M-F, 11-2. Dinner M-Th 5-9, F-Sa 5-10, Closed Sunday. Big Thai Two (1319 Military Cutoff Rd. inside Landfall Center; 256-6588): Lunch M-F 11-2:30, Dinner MTh 5-9, F-Sa 5-10, Sunday 5-9.

doUBLe HaPPineSS Double Happiness offers the Port City fine Asian dining at reasonable prices. Now under new management, the restaurant will serve flavorful dishes, prepared by the cultural richness of authentic China. Serving items like traditional dim sum and gourmet home-style cooking, Double Happiness is still dedicated to branding the exotic flavors of fresh ingredients and a romantic spice in all of their cooking. Their friendly staff will always go the extra mile to help diners enjoy their experience. Beer and wine is served for lunch and dinner, and Double Happiness is open Monday through Saturday, from 11am to 3pm and 5pm to 10pm; closed Sundays.

4403 Wrighstville Avenue; (910) 313-1088.

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.

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. Open Monday thru Thursday 4pm-10pm; Friday and Saturday 4pm-10:30pm; and Sunday 11am-10pm.

Located at 222 Old Eastwood Road (910) 794-1570. Please visit the Web site at hirojapanesesteakhouse.com.

indocHine restaurant and lounge If you’re ready to experience the wonders of the Orient without having to leave Wilmington, join us at Indochine for a truly unique experience. Indochine brings the flavors of the Far East to the Port City, combining the best of Thai and Vietnamese cuisine in an atmosphere that will transport you and your taste buds. Relax in our elegantly decorated dining room, complete with antique Asian decor as well as contemporary artwork and music. Our diverse, friendly and efficient staff will serve you beautifully presented dishes full of enticing aromas and flavors. Be sure to try such signature items as the spicy and savory Roasted Duck with Red Curry, or the beautifully presented and delicious Shrimp and Scallops in a Nest. Be sure to save room for our world famous desert, the banana egg roll! We take pride in using only the freshest ingredients, and our extensive menu suits any taste. After dinner, enjoy specialty drinks by the koi pond in our Asian garden, or be entertained every Friday night with a Balinese dancer. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (beside the Ivy Cottage), (910) 2519229. Indochinewilmington.com.

euro Fusion press 102 espresso. panini. Martini.

Rome and Paris meet Manhattan and San Francisco in this new Euro-American eatery and martini bar in the heart of historic downtown Wilmington. Nestled inside the Hotel Tarrymore on the corner of Second and Dock streets, Press 102 offers the finest espresso and French press coffee made exclusively

from locally roasted beans and more Panini creations this side of Tuscany. Boasting more than a hundred different wine labels and an endless variety of freshly pressed fruit and herb inspired martini cocktails foodies also enjoy a sophisticated evening menu that includes shrimp and grits made with redeye gravy and a perfectly grilled New York strip bathed in a basil caramel and white balsamic reduction. Glass tile and eclectic mirrors make for a cozy bar and bistro seating at Press 102 and up to 60 guests can also enjoy outdoor patio seating surrounded by flowers and passersby. Large parties of up to 120 are welcome in the Veranda Room overlooking Dock Street. Serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner Tuesday through Saturday 7am – close and Sunday brunch from 10am til 2pm. Takeout calls welcome. 399-4438.

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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” three years in a row! 10 Market Street, downtown Wilmington, (910) 815-0810.

italian eddie roManelli’s Eddie Romanelli’s is a family-friendly, casual Italian American restaurant that’s been a favorite of Wilmington locals for over 16 years. Its 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. RomanellisRestaurant.com. 503 Olde Waterford Way, Leland. (910) 383.1885.

giorgio’s italian restaurant Giorgio’s is a locally owned, one-of-a-

DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING Friday, nov. 26 - Beginning at 5:45 p.m. riverfront park - (on Water St. between Market and Princess St.)

Holiday entertainment will begin at 5:45 p.m. followed by the lighting of the tree at approximately 6:25 p.m. with help from some very special guests.

Santa will arrive Shortly thereafter and will be available for children to viSit at no coSt. The view across the river to Battleship North Carolina will also provide added enjoyment as the Battleship will also coordinate a special lighting at their site in conjunction with this event.

The event is co-sponsored by the City of Wilmington and the Downtown Business Alliance in partnership with the Battleship North Carolina.

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kind restaurant. Offering age-old traditions and timeless recipes, perfection is accomplished by combining the perfect cuisine and atmosphere for a dining experience that is not soon forgotten. With over 50 years of cooking experience under one roof, the smells of old-fashioned home cooking float through the air creating that comforting feeling of home-awayfrom-home! From old world style dishes to modern day creations, the menu showcases multiple flavors that will tempt the palate of the most discriminating connoisseurs. A Monkey Junction landmark for over 12 years! www.giorgios-restaurant. com. 5226 S College Rd.,Wilmington (910) 790-9954.

Local. Seasonal. Rustic.

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. We have the largest tequila selection in Wilmington. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.” Stop by for lunch dinner, or a late-night treat, open from 11:30am until 3am, seven days a week, 365 days a year, all ABC permits. 122 Market Street between Second and Front, downtown Wilmington. 251-9444. Visit our 2nd location at 1437 Military Cutoff Rd., next to PT’s! (910) 256-2229 www.grabslice.com.

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Experience one of downtown Wilmington’s premier dining attractions.

Crow Hill is open Tuesday through Sunday for lunch and dinner, brunch on Saturday and Sunday.

9 South Front Street • Downtown Wilmington 910.228.5332

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Jamaica’s Comfort Zone is Wilmington’s Authentic Caribbean Restaurant conveniently located at 417 S. College Road in University Landing. We offer exquisite Caribbean cuisine to satisfy your taste buds, whether they are for spicy Jamaican jerk chicken, mellow flavors of our curry chicken, curry goat or our ox tail skillfully flavored by our Jamaican chefs. Come in and enjoy our many menu selections, our warm décor, atmosphere, excellent service and our smooth reggae music. Operating hours are: Sunday 3:00pm – 8:00pm; Wednesday – Saturday 11:45am – 9:00pm (Closed Monday and Tuesday). Jamaica’s Comfort Zone is family owned and operated. Check us out at www.jamaicascomfortzone.com or call us at (910) 399-2867.

lATiN AMeRicAN SAN JuAN cAfe San Juan Café offers the most authentic, gourmet Latin American cuisine in Wilmington. With dishes from countries such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba you’ll be able to savor a variety of flavors from all over Latin America. Nightly drink specials! Hours of Operation Mon-Sat

from 11am-2:30pm, and from 5-10pm.

Open Sun from 5-10pm. Located at 3314 Wrightsville Avenue. 910.790.8661 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter for live music updates! www.sanjuancafenc.com

oRgANic loVeY’S MARKeT Lovey’s Market is a true blessing for shoppers looking for natural and organic groceries, or just a great place to meet friends for a quick, delicious, and totally fresh snack. Whether they are in the mood for a veggie burger, a bean burrito or a chicken Caesar wrap, shoppers will find a large selection of nutritious meals on the a la carte café menu at Lovey’s. The food bar—which has cold salads and hot selections that can be eaten in the café seating or boxed for take-out—can be enjoyed all day long, while the juice bar offers a wide variety of juices and smoothies made with organic fruits and vegetables.

Specializing in bulk sales of produce, grains, flours, beans and spices at affordable prices, Lovey‘s also carries grass-fed and free-range meats and poultry. Wheatfree, gluten-free, products are in stock regularly, as are vegan and vegetarian groceries and wholesome pet foods. For anything shoppers want that is not in stock, Lovey‘s will be happy to find it.

Stop by Lovey’s Market Monday through Friday, 9am to 7pm; Saturday, 9am to 6pm; and on Sundays, 10am to 6pm.

Café hours: Monday-Friday, 11am–6pm; Saturday & Sunday, 10am-6pm. Located at 1319 Military Cutoff Road; (910) 5090331; www.loveysmarket.com.

TidAl cReeK co-oP Tidal Creek Deli offers a wide array of exceptional and unusual organic foods, all of which taste as good as they are for you.

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on College Rd. near UNCW, this lively sports-themed restaurant is home to over 40 HD TVs and the biggest HD projector TVs in Wilmington. 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. Carolina Ale House serves its full menu from 11a – 2a daily. CarolinaAleHouse.com. 317 South College Road, Wilmington, NC. (910) 791.9393.

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elcome to the dirty 30s!“ my good friends Stephanie Cerutti and Kelly Joyce quipped last weekend on our way to my birthday dinner. We have been friends since high school, and while I feel I’m breaking some kind of womanly code by revealing my age in the first place, I also have to admit I don’t feel old. I questioned: Am I supposed to feel less fabulous the older I get?

Later in the night over Lemoncello and strawberry cocktails, we discussed the reviews encore book club members delivered for the read “Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self” by Christian Siriano.

Opinions were glamorously unanimous: Being fabulous is rooted not within how one is perceived on the exterior; rather, “fabulocity” grows from the inside out.

Siriano needs no introduction. His attitude, iconic hair and historic win on season four of “Project Runway” speak for him.

Within Siriano‘s debut work, “Fierce Style,” he not only successfully appealed to our hard-core fashionistas dwelling beyond the Port City but also to devoted encore book club members. Inside, fans of Siriano had the exclusive chance to get to know him beyond what they had already witnessed on TV, and ask him questions not asked anywhere else. Frequent club contributor Michelle Wunder was among the first.

“I think Siriano’s tips about feeling good about yourself are among the most important messages of the book,” she wrote.

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Fierce Style: How to Be Your Most Fabulous Self By: Christian Siriano with Rennie Dyball $23 Grand Central Publishing fashion or Gucci and Pucci. It’s about feeling good with who you are and being confident in whatever you wear. At least, this is what I derived from his work, and this is why it’s perfect for any lady’s library.”

Other bookworms, such as Natasha Bomrito and Donna Lacroix, chimed in to ponder Siriano’s true incentives for publishing “Fierce Style.” Was it purely for the material, or was there a deeper motivation?

Despite being insanely busy launching his new business, Send the Trend—which will bring accessories and style to the online consumer—and continuing his ready-towear line at Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus, Siriano put encore fans first.

“I really felt that, at the time the book launched, it was the perfect time to help people and my fans feel better about themselves,” he replied. “It was a book about finding inner confidence. I wanted this to not just be a guide about style and fashion but to make it personal for everyone.”

Within “Fierce Style,” Siriano also followed through with his pledge to be open and honest. He candidly shared the strug-

gles he overcame to get to where he is today, including how the repeated use of the term “fierce” has affected his life.

“I love ‘Fierce Style,’ but the word ‘fierce’ became a bit overkill in my life,” Siriano confessed. “I would love to do another book, maybe about dressing for your body shape.

I also think a book about how to find the perfect wedding dress could be fun to do.”

A second book is something everyone

in the book club will undoubtedly look forward to, especially for repeated club participant, Jessica Staruck. “He did more than provide club members with the typical guidance and inspiration when coordinating cute clothes, sexy shoes and accessories,” she said. “He made his book different and far from usual stock fashion-style guides by being open and honest with his roots. What I find most important: Siriano definitely traveled beyond the exterior. His book wasn’t solely about what to buy to fit in, impress others or what you may find in his purse.

And I find that really fabulous!”

Truly, Siriano made fashion as a whole relatable to even the most economically savvy shopper by reflecting on his own upbringing as a creative, artsy, theater-loving child in affluent, nautical town of Annapolis, Maryland. Perhaps, unknowingly, by doing so he gave reason and importance to rising above the cookie-cutter norm and being true to one’s self. This is a great trend we can utilize outside of our closets.

Cavalli, Versace, Alexander McQueen, Fendi and Gucci—sure these labels are a thrill to own, but as readers discovered, being fierce and fabulous has more to do with who is on the inside. That being said, being with my girls for my birthday made me feel forever young at heart and ready to take on the world. That’s what living a fabulous life is really all about—at any age. That is the true meaning of being “fierce!”

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Juxtaposed Youth: The faces of Wilmington

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ometimes I don’t feel like one person. I’m made up of so many opposing ideas and feelings, it doesn’t seem possible for them to all fit into one cohesive identity. It got me thinking: I can’t be alone. There are others out there like me—they transcend single labels and defy the idea of a singular identity. Their personalities are amalgams of random; a collective pop of color amongst an ordinarily dull background. Yet, while the neon splashes amongst the walking grey may wear many masks, underneath, there is still only one face. Meet three bursts of color on our Wilmington canvas: Steven, Kelly Jo and

The Poet Redefined: Steven Vineis

Envision a poet. The cliché mind conjures a lean fellow adorned with square-rimmed glasses, with a cigarette nonchalantly perched on his lips, and espresso in hand as he ponders life in the corner of a café. Now, erase that image.

Though, the cigarette is still there.

Coming around the corner of the hotel desk he works behind, Steven Vineis’ molded smile drops as his most recent customer falls from sight. He folds back into his natural speech.

“I was hoping you wouldn’t have to hear me be cheesy,” he mocks himself, flicking his name tag that bears the title “Hospitality Service Professional.”

At 6’4” Steven fills out his imported suit with a relaxed confidence, and gives off no hint enshrouded in that fine Italian cloth that a zealously eager artist lay in wait of discovery. Yet, as he see’s it, “It’s not a matter of if, or when.

It’s going to be done.”

It all started here in Wilmington, when Steven was 14 years old and in a punk-rock band.

He was the lyricist, and he found himself writing more lyrics than they had songs. These unused lines began to take a different form: poems.

After that, he just never stopped. At 17 years old, he was published in a student quarterly at Cape Fear Community College, and since he has been published a dozen other times in such

by: Carly Yansak journals as GSU Review, Between the Lines, and Open City. Now, at the age of 22 and enrolled as a creative writing major at UNCW, his early start seems to have paid off.

Besides the countless short stories and poems already published, Steven currently has numerous completed works being considered by publishers. A Slight Kind of Engine and Summer Avenue Down, two short story anthologies, are in the reviewing process as well as a manuscript of his novel, “A Place Past the World.”

As any writer will attest, sometimes getting through even six pages can take days. So, how is it that Steven, at 22, found time to crank out an entire novel already? Missing birthdays, holidays, family functions, social outings—he locks himself away in “the shed,” a.k.a. his office, punching keys until fingertips become callused and the world fades away.

“Your relationships fall apart, your family thinks you’re crazy, and no one understands,” he reflects. “But it doesn’t matter, because you think it’s the most important thing you have.”

Spending 40 to 60 hours at his hotel job, 20 to 30 hours practicing with his band, and 15 to 20 hours a week writing, his biggest task is balance. But going 150 percent all of the time doesn’t mean he’s reclusive, just driven to the brink of insatiability.

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THE POET: Steven Vineis steers away from “mainstream” pigeonholing; his poetry delves into a storytelling journey of nonlinear depth. Photo by Carly Yansak

“The desire to succeed completely envelops me,” he admits. “I just have to prove to myself that I can do anything; I can’t not do it.” Hysteria circles his words as he articulates this passion.

Steven’s obsession with success wasn’t always so deeply instilled. He managed to snort away $10,000 and a scholarship to Georgia State in the span of a few months in the twilight of his teens. Broke to the point of incompetence, he had no choice but to face a hard withdrawal. After being embedded in the bottom rocks of the pool, Steven resurfaced to take a hard look at his reflection, and saw the bigger picture within it.

This isn’t to say that he’s all work and no play these days. Catching any rock shows possible, he can also be found tearing up the microphone

at local poetry slams. He currently headlines a local metal band, BLACKS, who happen to be playing this week’s Thanks for Nothing Fest at the Soapbox (p. 12). While playing and producing music has always been a large part of Steven’s life, BLACKS helps him fill a void he sees in Wilmington.

“There are zero interesting bands here,” he comments. “None. The local scene is manufactured, boring and redundant.” He lights a cigarette and shrugs his heavily tattooed arms, or as he refers to them, his “antithesis.”

“Tattoos present an image directly up front,” he says. “They’re meant to address things right on the surface. But my poetry—shit, is it too much of a cliché to say it’s meant to be deeper than that?”

Clichés are one of the things Steven finds wrong with poetry. He perceives formalism as dry and boring, and wants modern poets to stop emulating the classics, trust their own instincts, and break away from expected themes.

Certainly, his poetry is nothing of the sort. Influenced by nontraditional writers, such as David Berman and Brett Eugene Ralph, Steven’s style is informal to the point of conversation. He brings together raw imagery and juxtapositions in a linear fashion, giving his poetry a story-like feel. Writing to understand, he uses it as a way to break through and find the deeper truth hidden within his thoughts.

No subject is off limits, and Steven himself will go far outside the box to gain new perspectives. He even robbed someone once, all in the name of bringing absolute truth to his art.

Two simple words describe what he believes to set him apart from other aspiring writers: “I’m better.”

But it’s not just what he sees as outstanding talent that gives him an edge; it’s the context of his work.

“My art has value. What I have to say has to be heard. And I refuse not to be,” he demands.

Yet, inside this seemingly impenetrable fortress of self-confidence, praise, and gusto, Steven harbors a paradoxical truth: “For all my arrogance, I maintain a crippling selfdoubt, which terrifies and tempers me. I’m afraid I’ll miss something, and I won’t get there. I can’t fail at this. Despite the screaming possibility of it, I can’t.”

With a passion so fervently alive, Steven will never stop pursing his self-acclaimed destiny. Yet, even when his books hit the shelves, don’t expect him to put down Scotch for a cappuccino.

“I’ll never play to the image of the poet, and to all those who do: Stop.”

The Blue Collar Bach: Karl Metzger

The first time I meet Karl Metzger is downtown at a bar. I attempt to drag him into a heated debate over who is more iconic: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones. He can’t participate because he isn’t really familiar with either band. Next time I run into him, he’s the one in an impenetrable debate. Up at the bar again, he’s casually drinking a beer and discussing Einstein’s theory of relativity. I can’t help but linger and listen. Enthralled by the presence of physics in a bar conversation, it hits me: How is it that someone understands Einstein’s theories enough to analytically pick through-ins and -outs of them, but doesn’t know anything about two of the most recognizable bands in history?

As I would come to find out, the answer to his music ignorance may actually lie within his music knowledge. Karl, ladies and gentlemen, may just be the answer to the popular question: Does classical music make you smarter?

THE PIANIST: Karl Metzger may be a plumber but his passion can be found tickling the ivories. Photo by Carly Yansak

It wasn’t an overzealous education that got him to relativity, that’s for sure. Karl, instead of going to class in high school, would cut almost everyday to go play piano in the church across the street. At first he was punished, but soon his teachers gave up, assumingly touched by the fact that a good Catholic boy was playing hooky for cantatas instead of cocaine. “It was fairly innocent. I mean, I still wasn’t going to class.” Karl laughs at the memory.

His piano career started when a deal was struck between his second grade self and “the dictator figure,” his mother. All he had to do was play until the fifth grade and she would be satisfied. As any fickle child would, Karl did indeed stop when he hit the deadline. Though he continued to dabble, he didn’t pick it back up until tragedy struck: When he was 13, Karl’s mother passed away from a brain tumor.

“I don’t know if it was anything magical, like in remembrance of her,” he says, his voice lowering, “but it was a good love to have.”

After her death, a shift in his perspective took place. He was no longer focused on the wholly scientific as he previously was; rather,

he was attracted to the evocative nature of melodies and the empowering feeling of control the piano brought to his fingertips.

The music was something he could bend and shape as he wanted, yet the control also held a counterbalance for him.

“When you’re a kid and you’re happy or sad, you feel it immediately,” he explains. “As adults we develop a checks-and-balance system, like ‘Is it OK that I’m happy?’ or ‘Is it OK that I’m sad?’ But you don’t get that through piano. Suddenly, you’re just there, and you get this return to being a little kid.”

Ironically enough cutting all those classes served him well for college. After finishing high school in his small, Ohio farm town, he attended Red State University in Dayton where he studied piano. But two years in, tragedy struck again when his older brother committed suicide. Karl was faced with yet another perspective shift, except this time it drew him away from the music instead of toward it. He ended up straying so far, he made it all the way to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he would sink into another hands-on profession.

Plumbing.

The classically trained pianist answered an ad for a local plumbing company. Within a few months, he was crew foreman, and within six years, he was still snaking drains. Apparently, the childhood that surrounded him with Mozart also surrounded him with main-

tenance. Picking up plumbing was so easy for him because all the jobs he had ever had revolved around labor; the strength of his hands didn’t simply come from their flights over the ivory.

“How do you think of plumbers?” he asks. “They’re in the muck. And when you’re in my situation,” he pauses to put on an English accent and turn up his chin, “like, ‘Oh, I play the piano, yes!’ in the back of my mind, it humbles me.”

Unfortunately, it also hindered him. Lucrative in the money aspect, plumbing simply became what he did. No longer would he sit at the piano for hours at a time, letting emotions manifest as they pleased. Even if he did, the new profession took its toll. Flexibility and range are key to the keys, whereas gripping and twisting are pertinent to the pipes. With the movements being complete opposites, even an hour of soft symphonies would stiffen Karl’s hand sores. “To put it bluntly, piano sucks when you have to plumb all the time,” he exclaims. “Your hands are just … tired.”

After awhile, it wasn’t simply his hands.

When the recession hit, things at the plumbing company began to steadily go downhill.

Combine depleting conditions with an inherent dislike, and the result won’t go far. After six years Karl had finally spent enough time in the muck. While he may have been unemployed, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. It became his catalyst back to the cantatas.

Now enrolled in the music department for Piano Performance at UNCW, Karl has found his way back to the bench. No more meager one-hour-a-day sit-downs—he now averages around 4 to 6 hours, tackling his pieces with renewed vigor and regaining the old sense of melodic escapism that sails him so far away. “I get flack from my musician friends who don’t go to school,” he tells me, “because they think that my focus on the technical is drawing away from the emotion of art. But without great skill, how are you able to evoke beauty?”

Back at the bar, I’ve let Karl go unscathed long enough. I interrupt him in the middle of an equation: “Only you, Karl. Only you.”

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The Scientific Circus: Kelly Jo Stull

“Do you consider yourself a freak?” I ask Kelly Jo Stull after she tells me she performed at the “Festival of Freaks” in Chapel Hill. She scoffs and laughs, exclaiming, “I think I’m pretty normal! I just think in brighter, bolder colors, that’s all!”

No, that is not all.

Kelly Jo defies single definition; she is an amalgamation of many labels, beautifully meld ed into their own distinct swirl. Petit and red-headed, she sat in front of me brimming over with positivity and energy, always changing the tone in her voice and speaking so rapidly it was as if her excitement couldn’t catch up with her words. She tells me, “I’ve just never been satisfied with the normal options that were given to me.” Thus, Kelly Jo began weaving the exuberant tapestry of her life.

Allow me to explain.

Growing up in a small farm town outside of Baltimore, her childhood was nothing out of the ordinary. There were more cornstalks then people in her town, and days of kicking balls over roofs, hula-hooping in the front yard, and twirling through ballet classes conspired. At the age of 15, when a Visa ad in Cosmopolitan featuring a circus performer grabbed her attention, she thought, I’ve got to do something like that.

Somewhere inside of her was an internal drive for the creatively offbeat. She speculates.

“There must be some type of gene that makes people want more glitter then anything else in life. I’ve just always loved seeing

things that are outlandish, and I have no idea where it came from.”

No matter where it manifested, her attraction to glitz has always directed her. Starting her college career at Towson University, she finished it in Australia with an undergrad degree in marine science and spent her first post-grad year in Hawaii as a dive instructor. Coming back to the mainland, she stopped to visit friends in San Francisco—the place where a bit of fate found her, circling its way around strangers in a park.

While Kelly Jo had always been a master hula-hooper, winning those little contests on the middle-school playground, in San Francisco they were twirling to a new rhythm, doing tricks she had never seen before. She was captivated. “So I picked up one of their hoops,” she recalls, “and haven’t put it down since. I was already a dancer, so it was really easy to just find myself in the hoop.”

Finding herself in the movement is a principal by which Kelly Jo lives, and this fascination with the human body and it’s ability to creatively contour is what drew her into new fields: trapeze and aerial dance, a.k.a circus arts. “Aerial dance is basically any type of creative movement permanently off the ground,” she explains to my extremely confused face.

“You have aerial silks, these fabrics that hang from the ceiling, and then you manipulate your body between the two silks to create poses, do jumps and falls. Most people can vision it if you say ‘Cirque du Soleil.’”

It takes an enormous amount of upper body strength, which is ironic considering Kelly Jo couldn’t even climb a rope in gym class. None-

THE AERIAL ARTIST: Kelly Jo Stull hoops, twists, turns and wraps up spectators in her amazing morphed body movements. Photo by Carly Yansak

theless, after years of training extensively with professionals and pushing her body beyond limits she didn’t even know existed, she became a samurai of the silks.

But why stop there?

“Ya get it; ya got it; good,” she says of mastering her craft. “Then, it’s like, ‘OK, well, I could do this the same way for the rest of my life or find an extra element to put into it.”

The extra element? Fire. When Kelly Jo saw it was possible to incorporate the brightest and boldest into her hooping, she tackled the art of fire performance head on. It started simple, with only the hoop, and then she took a match

to any other object she could, such as umbrellas and fans.

“The way my brain works is in bright colors and big, extravagant costumes.” Her voice elevates into almost a frenzy. “And tutus just weren’t big and extravagant enough for me.

That led me more into this performing world.”

Aside from her theatrical side, Kelly Jo is a marine science graduate at UNCW, who specialized in the study of invasive species into marine habitats. The ocean and environment always held a place in her heart, and in the interest of separating her love from her work, which she believes is a combination that can turn people’s “love just into a job,” she chose the scientific route for her career.

Though, Kelly Jo still has been able to take her passion and turn it into a profitable machine. She’s an independent performer at festivals and private parties, and a teacher of hula and aerial dance and exercise. She owns her own business, Radiant Hoops, and ships handmade hula-hoops all over the country. But she’s not in it for the money; she does it to share the feeling it creates.

“The mental rewards are amazing because you accomplish something that you look and see someone do and think, I cannot do that.

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Unsure of where she’ll end up next, Kelly Jo knows that where opportunities lie, she will be there, whirling toward the magnificent lights she always sees on the horizon. And she’s constantly looking for ways to make them burn just a little bit brighter.

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hen it comes to architectural and landscape design, Lara Berkley, ASLA/LEED AP, and Scott Ogden, AIA/LEED AP, work literally from the ground up. Partners in B+O Design Studio, located at 205 Princess Street, Berkley and Ogden help homeowners turn green into a lifestyle, not just a practice. The pair began their own firm to bring sustainable building practices to Wilmington with the hopes of adding a more creative edge to eco-design, something Ogden believes people are already searching for. “People come to us, asking for it,” he says.

B+O Design holds a watchful eye on the environmental habitat around building sites. A mission statement for the firm, as Berkley and Ogden explain, would be to remain “lean, small and resource-efficient.”

Having opened B+O Design Studio in 2005 after moving to Wilmington from Seattle, Washington, the team gathered 12 years of experience in architecture and landscape design. “Seattle was an adventure place for us,” Berkley says. They

by: Claire LaSure worked with various design firms on custom homes, commercial sites, and education and park facilities. While looking for a new city to call home, Berkley and Ogden came to Wilmington on vacation and were quickly captured by our coastal town.

“Honestly, it wasn’t on our list to start [looking],” Ogden says. “We were between the Triangle and Charleston, but we came through Wilmington to see the aquarium Lara had worked on in Seattle and stay the weekend.” Reminding them of Monterey Bay and Santa Cruz, both enjoyed Wilmington’s “smaller, laid-back, artsy, surf town”—not to mention, it’s closer to family.

After settling down, B+O Designs began to tackle projects on small and large scales, in towns all across North Carolina.

Coming from a West Coast city, both Berkley and Ogden each have their own interpretations of the quintessential Southern ambiance. Despite being warned against

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B+O has participated and launched many local projects under the “green” business label. The firm puts the environment on the forefront of design, researching and implementing efficient storm water, native vegetation, clearing and erosion practices as much as possible. “Being resource efficient is green,” Berkley claims, “It’s not something we regard as separate.”

Two notable projects that B+O Design Studio has recently completed are the Midori housing on 29th and the Barrier Island Study Center. The Midori home is a NC Healthy Built Homes Certified Development. Working on the project as architects, B+O designed the townhome vertically to exploit spatial benefits. Vertical homes also have a low impact on the surrounding habitat and tree disturbance; the Midori home is privileged to expansive tree canopy, limiting the need for unnecessary cooling in the summer months. Currently, B+O has another Midori home in progress and one under contract.

Partnering with local architect Jay DeChesere, B+O was also the resident landscaping team for the Barrier Island Study Center, a project geared toward education.

Located at the Bald Head Island Conservancy (BHIC), the center boasts research and education laboratories, a library and a conference room. According the BHIC, the barrier islands protect 85 percent of the East and Gulf coasts from wave and wind erosion, but are one of the most rapidly disappearing habitats in the world.

The B+O team works to restore important habitat that has been damaged by building and construction; the Barrier Island Study Center is expected to receive platinum LEED certification through the U.S. Green Building Council.

When Berkley and Ogden approach a prospective project, they ask, “How can we do this better?” The design team spends an ample amount of time on the site to determine its needs and restrictions. “There are a lot of geometry exercises that are performed by developers and their surveyors that are laying out subdivisions here,” Berkley voices. “If you hire a design professional, you’re going to get a more qualitative look at how a sight might be altered.”

B+O Design Studio devotes their site analysis primarily to habitat; not only outdoor and wildlife habitat but indoor habitat as well.

To address their clients’ needs, Berkley and Ogden have designed a particular, in-depth questionnaire that expands beyond the routine quantitative relationship. In this personal homework assignment, Berkley and Ogden request a spatial history of family, taking into account travel, previous living experiences, the unique characteristics of partnerships, and other aspects that may construct a client’s taste. It also helps them gauge their level of creativity. “We hear a lot of their very personal stories, and that really helps us design specifically for them,” Berkley explains.

In the end, the driving force behind B+O continues to be land conservation and aiding in the reduction of numerous carbon footprints. “We need to build more efficiently, conserve energy, and try to cut down the potential climate change,” Ogden urges.

“We are losing land area, period,” Berkley adds.

Betterment for Youth:

The Rainbow Party holds fund-raiser for It Gets Better Project

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eing a teen and young adult is hard.

It comes with growing pangs that sometimes echo heartache years after enduring them. Finding the depth of our beings, the purpose of our lives and our personal beliefs and creeds isn’t easy; no ongoing journey to betterment comes without a few bumps along the way. For LGBT teens, those chances increase, as being bullied are two and three times higher than that of their straight peers.

The latest travesty revolving around the global LGBT community—and humankind in general—has come from the numerous suicides committed over the past six months from gay youth. The deaths of Justin Aaberg, Billy Lucas, Cody Barker, Asher Brown, Seth Walsh, Raymond Chase and Tyler Clementi left an indelible affect on many people—people who in response have begun uplifting struggling teens with a message of optimistic support. Writer Dan Savage can be credited for starting it all.

In September 2010, Savage, known for his syndicated column “Savage Love,” formed It Gets Better Project, an organization devised to help support and encourage young people contending with being gay. Dan and his partner, Terry, posted a YouTube video directly addressing youth and others to inspire hope against solitude and harassment. They wanted gay youth to realize life can and will get better. Since their video went viral, an onslaught of others have uploaded their own messages at itgetsbetter.org—from President Barack Obama to Ellen DeGeneres, the cast of Broadway’s “Wicked” and other celebrities, politicians and everyday people, all of whom want to show support toward greater humanity. To date, this worldwide movement has manifested into 5,000 user-created videos and over 15 million views.

Wilmingtonians are among the ilk taking notice, too.

Local gay rights advocate John Burke happened upon the Web site one day while surfing the net. Being a fan of Dan Savage’s writing, Burke became particularly interested and moved by the stories and support generated from It Gets Better Project.

“I really admired the fact that he took such a positive route,” Burke explains. “Rather than use his celebrity to take to the airwaves and demand that the bullies responsible [for these numerous suicides] be strung up, he

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The Rainbow Party

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Ibiza: 118 Market Street • Karaoke Costello’s Piano Bar: 211 Princess Street Tom Noonan, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m., Caitlin Becka and Tim Black, 10 p.m. - 2 a.m. and Kersten Capra, midnight - 2 a.m.

Toolbox: 2325 Burnett Boulevard • Drag and games with Destiny started an organization to help prevent the next kid from killing himself. I don’t know if I would have had his good sense or self-control.”

Burke, a straight ally of Wilmington’s gay community, decided then that he wanted to be of help to the cause. He had some expendable time to devise a charity event; thus, the Rainbow Party was born—an event to raise money to combat the rise in teen suicide amongst gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders. Burke found some of the statistics just staggering, such as the fact that LGBT youth are six-to-eight times more likely to kill themselves than straight teens.

“I [wanted to get] involved with the It Gets Better Project for one simple reason, and perhaps not the best reason: I was mad as hell,” he candidly reveals. “These kids would rather die than be gay in our culture? We can’t convince pedophiles or guys who beat their wives to kill themselves out of shame, but simply being gay is embarrassing enough to make death preferable? That’s a moral failing of our culture and it has to change.”

Also a board member for Wilmington Pride, Burke wanted to make sure the community understood that The Rainbow Party wouldn’t be for gay people only. He hoped for people to reach across the lines, to set an example for sharing a world where everyone deserves a fair chance at life’s enjoyments. So far, he hasn’t had any negative feedback.

“Coming out isn’t just for gays anymore,” he clarifies. “Part of the reason these gay kids are killing themselves is that they’re terrified of what their straight friends and family members will think. It’s vital that more straight people be openly supportive of their gay friends, that they be visible in that support so these kids know that the 50 or 60 jackasses

who bully them in high school do not represent all 7 billion people on the planet. I think it’s fair to point out that you didn’t have to be white to know that Jim Crow was an abomination, just like you don’t have to be gay to know that gays are not getting a fair deal in our culture.”

Burke’s compassion for the LGBT community was born of a college female and male friend, both closeted and gay. He still questions his own actions—or lack thereof—of encouragement during that time of their lives.

“I’ve always wondered if there’s anything I could have said or done differently that would have made it easier for them to admit who and what they were sooner so they could have enjoyed their college years as the gay students they really were,” Burke notes. “Let’s say that organizing The Rainbow Party is my gift to them. Todd and Amy, if you’re reading this, then please know I’m throwing a party in your honor. Wish you could be there.”

The party will be devised like a pub crawl, comprising three local nightclubs, Toolbox, Ibiza and Costello’s Piano Bar. Admission is free at all locations and entertainment will be

at every venue, along with drink specials, including ones made with Stolichnaya, a sponsor.

“While we’re raising money to help teenagers, you won’t find a lot of them there,” Burke reminds. “Ibiza allows anyone over the age of 18, while Costello’s and the Toolbox are 21 and up. I like to think of it in the same way that some schools raise money with casino nights, where parents are welcome but the kids have to stay home—or an ASPCA fund-raiser held in a restaurant that obviously forbids [food made from] the very animals they’re trying to help.”

The end goal is to bring people together to fight against a very real injustice facing our society. Suicide in itself is a tragedy, and if we can do our part to help circumvent it, then it’s our duty to all mankind. “If everyone supported equal rights for gays,” Burke reminds, “then we wouldn’t need this event in the first place.” Wednesday, December 1st will be the day to show support and ally with the LGBT community and It Gets Better Project.

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Holiday Events DBA HOLIDAY SEASON OF CELEBRATION 11/26 - 12/19: Visit Santa at The Cotton Exchange each Sat., 12-4pm, and ea. Sun., 1-4pm. Santa will have one last visit on Thurs., 12/23, noon-4pm, before heading home to the North Pole to ready his sleigh. • 12/11, 9:30am: Santa Claus Cruise. Cape Fear Riverboats presents the 22nd annual cruise to benefit the Wilmington Salvation Army’s Food Pantry.

Admission to this event is 6 non-perishable food items that go directly to local families in need during the holidays. 910-343-1611 or 800-6760162, www.CFRboats.com. • 12/18-24: 7-10pm.

Christmas Caroling Carriage Rides. Come and sing Christmas carols with Santa and his “Special Reindeer”, while enjoying the decorative lights of downtown area.910-251-8889 or www. horsedrawntours.com.

THALIAN HALL Wed., 12/15: Natalie MacMaster: Christmas in Cape Breton—Canada’s fiddling royalty hosts a holiday concert that will peel the wreaths off the walls with ferocious foot-tapping rave-ups, heartwrenching ballads and world-class step dancing; main stage. • Fri.-Sun., 12/17-19: Barbara Bailey Hutchison: Songs of The Season— Grammy Award-winning artist has performed in almost all 50 states, including three performances at the

White House. A Rainbow Room Attraction, four sets, Friday thru Sunday, table seating, limited capacity. www.thalianhall.org 910-632-2285 or 800-523-2820 310 Chestnut St. TURKEY TROT 2.4 mi. trot benefits Habitat for Humanity Thanksgiving morning, 11/25, 7:30am: $20 adv. reg. or $25 day of; walkers, $15. Children 10 & under walk/run free.

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8:30am. www.WilmingtonTurkeyTrot.com 762-4744, x100 or info@capefearhabitat.org WRIGHTSVILLE SQUARE HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE 11/27: The merchants of Wrightsville Square are presenting a holiday scavenger hunt and open house.

The Jonkheer Jewelry Art Studio is coordinating this event, and will feature a “Meet the Artists” event on Saturday Other merchants are participating in a scavenger hunt for participants with prize drawings.

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It’s the marathon of shopping! Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas ... get those wrapping hands ready, because one visit to Wrightsville Square will equal many a present under the tree. Their open house will allow shoppers to meet the merchants and the artists behind many of the gift items. Also taking place: a scavenger hunt! Get there on the 27th, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Raffle prizes also drawn.

JINGLE BELL BALL 5th annual Jingle Bell Ball benefits The Historical Society of Topsail Island, Sat., 12/4, 6:30pm, Topsail Island Assembly Building—dinner, dancing and cocktails! GA, non-reserved seats, $40/person; 910-358-4143.

Reserved sponsor tables for parties of up to eight, $75/person; 910-547-8312 (includes some special perks.) Make check(s) payable to: HSTI Jingle Bell Ball, PO Box 3707, Topsail Beach, NC 28445. Along with payment please, include each attendee’s name, address, telephone number and email address. Gaylene Branton: 910-3898776 POLAR EXPRESS FAMILY SHOW 12/4-5,11-12,18-19, 4:30 & 6:30pm The Polar Express returns for annual holiday favorite.

With your golden ticket, hear the story and visit with Santa. A special “first gift” for kids and hot

chocolate, too.Space is limited, so shows are by prepaid reservation only—may purchase by credit card over phone. $5, under age 2, free. (910)7632634 HOLIDAY CHEER COMMUNITY AUCTION 12/4: Live and silent bidding on a wonderful selection of items, including beach house weekends, antiques, original art, messages, facials, etc. etc. Auction will reature live music, hors d\’oeuvres and a wine and beer tasting. Join us for an early evening of fun!

(910)232-2238 PRE-KWANZAA CELEBRATION The Upperman African American Cultural Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington will host its fourth annual community Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration, 3pm, 12/4, in the Warwick Center.

Free and open to the public. New: featuring a taste of foods found throughout the African diaspora.

Special guest Molefi K. Asante, professor of African American Studies at Temple University, will preside over this year’s celebration, feat. traditions, rituals and symbolism of Kwanzaa. Participants will learn the Nguzo Saba, the seven principles of Kwanzaa, and how each of these aspects plays a role in the development and sustainability of this cultural celebration. Activities will also include musical, drum and dance performances.

POPLAR GROVE CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE Sun., 12/5, noon-5pm: Plantation is beautifully trimmed in its holiday finest for the annual Christmas Open House; self-guided tour, free of charge. Meet Ivey Hayes, local artist, in Cultural Arts Center, and see/purchase his work, along with Cape Fear Woodcarvers, Cape Fear Rug Hookers and Carolina Blue Bee Quilters. Complimentary hot cocoa and cookies; Santa and Mrs. Claus at the tenant house; hayride through pristine Abbey Nature Preserve, accompanied by Christmas music ($5 per person).

10200 US Highway 17 North www.poplargrove.com; (910) 686-9518 ext.26.

ANGEL TREE 2010 Methodist Home for Children: Christmas Angel Tree Program. Put up an Angel Tree in your church or business, and we will provide the Angel’ with a child’s wishes to be hung on the tree the month of November. Select an angel and help make Christmas morning bright for a child or family. Regina Hawse:910-471-6088 or rhawse@mhfc.org; Brian Wylie: 910-538-2091 or bwylie@mhfc.org A NIGHT WITH SANTA 12/11 & 18: “A Night with Santa’ is a benefit to help raise money for the Rite Care Centers of NC schools that help children with learning disabilites. a show of family fun, singing, laughter, interacting with the audience. Scottish Rite Temple, 17th St. $14, adults, children 12 and under, $8. Marty: 616-3126 or www. anightwithsanta.com GALLOP FOR THE GRAVY 5K Wilmington West Rotary will hold the 4th annual ‘Gallop for the Gravy’ 5K run/1-mile Walk on Thanksgiving Day, 11/25, to benefit local and Rotary charities. Start time: 8am at the Wilmington Family YMCA, with the registration table opening at 6am sharp. The course, which begins and ends at the Y, winds through the Forest Hills neighborhood.

Music, special prizes and fun throughout the morning, race results and a one-of-a-kind awards ceremony will happen at the finish line. A post-gallop assortment of free snacks and beverages available to participants. $25 entry fee includes a long-sleeved T-shirt commemorating the 2010 Gallop. Proceeds benefit organizations such as UNCW, Cape Fear Community College, Communities in Schools of Cape Fear, the Wilmington Family YMCA and End Polio Now, a Rotary International project. 343-9614 WILMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Wilmington Symphony presents Engelbert

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Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel for the holidays, Sat., 12/4, 8pm, w/matinee Sun., 12/5, 4pm, Kenan Auditorium, UNCW. Conducted by Steven Errante, feat. UNCW Opera Outreach Project and Girls Choir of Wilmington. “Hansel and Gretel will be Wilmington’s first locally staged operatic production with full orchestral accompaniment. Dinner before the show offered at Medline Suite, UNCW, 12/4, 6pm, $28/person. RSVP and prepay: 791-9262.

Concert tickets: : 962-3500 or 1-800-732-3643. www. wilmingtonsymphony.org.

FUR BALL 12/4, 6:30-10:30pm. Hilton Wilmington Riverside.

Black tie, red carpet fund raising gala w/proceeds benefitting non-profit organizations: Pender County Humane Society and Adopt-An-A.N.G.E.L. $75, 21 + only. Includes wine, beer, champagne, hors d’oeuvres, live music with 360 Degrees and DJ Shorehound productions, psychic Katherine Turner, auction and more! Men’s Wearhouse will give $20 discount for all tux’s rented for the Wilmington Fur Ball (Independence Mall Location only). www.wilmingtonfurball.com

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BIG DAWG PRODUCTIONS “Holly Follies, A Christmas Comedy Sampler” is comin’ to town, w/six matinee performances beginning 12/3 at the Cape Fear Playhouse.

Playwright Kathryn Martin teams up with Big Dawg Productions to present three one-act, holiday-themed comedies—”No Fly,” “A Little Christmas Magic” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”—complete with holiday goodies! Shows are at 2pm Fri-Sun, Dec. 3-5 and 10-12, at the Playhouse. $12 general admission, with holiday treats included. 910-341-7228 or www. bigdawgproductions.org. Cape Fear Playhouse, downtown Wilmington. 613 Castle St. TREES FOR CHARITY Join the Downtown Business Alliance and Do It Downtown for a cause at the 2nd Annual Trees for Charity Downtown Wilmington. Several local Downtown Businesses have taken the time to create beautiful holiday trees that will be raffled to help raise money for the charity of their choosing. Raffle tickets sold at the location of the participating venue, or at The Cotton Exchange for $1 each or 6/$5 during business hours. The trees will go on display at participating locations and at The Cotton Exchange on Fri, 11/26. Winning drawings take place on Mon., 12/20, by a member of the non-profit organization or a Member of the Trees for Charity committee. DBAWilmington. org or Joan Loch: joan@crescentmoonnc.com or 910-762-4207.

MULLIGANS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS The Mulligan’s family reunions are never a dull event, a mix of Irish Catholic and their Italian Southern in-laws, the Kelly’s. Once a year, the Mulligans and the Kellies try to bury the hatchet in the hopes of gaining a little holiday cheer. But this year, they may want to bury the hatchet in Fiona, the new bride, who wants the perfect holiday dinner. A host of dysfunctional fun, with singing, dancing and mistletoe.

11/26, 12/2, 9 and 16. Adults: $40 and kids,$20. Front St. Brewery, 910-232-6611, porchtheatre.com.

FESTIVE HOLIDAY EVENT Cabineer’s Promotions presents comedians Mario and Tyler Craig, 12/4, at The Wilmington Sportsmen’s Club, 111 Castle St. Doors, 9pm; show, 10pm. Early

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Theatre/Auditions BROWN COAT PUB AND THEATRE “Writing Letters”by local playwright John Grundzien.

Sweet and hilarious romantic comedy set in the 1980s. Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 5pm; $10 ($5 for students). www.browncoattheatre. com. 910-341-0001. • Weekly live sitcom “Sides” presents its final season every Mon., 9pm. Free admission! On 12/13 will be the 50th episode and two-hour series finale with special wrap party with cast after. Special Wrap Party with the Cast to follow performance. • Downtown WilmingtonTues night trivia, 10pm. • Friday and Saturday night karaoke, 10pm. • Sundays: Poetry night at 8pm; karaoke at 10pm. • $5. 111 Grace St., www.guerillatheatre.com.

(910) 341-0001 BIG DAWG PRODUCTIONS 2011 Season: 1/20-23, 27-30, 2/3-6, 10-13—A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” a tragicomic romance between two people whose relationship is depicted in a series of letters spanning multiple decades. The troupe plans to recruit multiple celebrity couples, from TV and film stars to local media personalities (and possibly elected officials). • 3/24-27, Mar. 314/3, 7-10, 14-17—Neil Simon’s “Rumors,” a modern farce about a high-profile New York dinner party that begins with a gunshot and ends in a comedy of errors and miscommunications. • 6/2-5, 9-12, 16-19—“The Hallelujah Girls,” the story of a group

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GLEE PERFORMANCE CLUB GLEE class now offered at The Performance Club Studio Theater! On-going Wednesday’s 6-6:45pm.

Visit PerformanceClubKids.com or call 910-338-3378 for more information on all classes. • Openings for “Holiday Spectacular”! A seasonal performance for young actors.Directed by LJ Woodard. Class rehearsals start in November. • “Free to Be...You and Me” 12/11! 50-seats open! Character-educational piece with music, skits and a media surprise that will include Wilmington’s local celebrities! Cast includes kids and teens from Wilmington. Open for one weekend only! Topics include stereotypes, non judgement, diversity, ignorance and discrimination and a lot of humor (written by Mel Brooks and Rob Reiner)! 6624 Gordon Rd, Studio B. 910338-3378 or performanceclub@me.com. www.

PerformanceClubKids.com DIVIDING THE ESTATE Thalian Association will hold auditions for the Wilmington premiere of the award-winning play ‘Dividing the Estate” by Horton Foote on Mon/ Tues, 12/13-14, 7-9:30pm at the Community Arts Center, 120 S. 2nd St., downtown Wilmington.

Roles available for men and women, AfricanAmerican and Caucasian, 20s-70s. No prepared material required. The production, directed by Laurene Perry, runs 2/3-6 at Thalian Hall.

CREATIVE DRAMA AND PUPPETRY Creative Drama & Puppetry Workshop,Through 12/18, ages 8-12. Sat., 10am-11:30am, $40. Dowtown at the Cape Fear Playhouse. stageworksyouth.org AUDITIONS FOR LOBBY HERO Auditions for “Lobby Hero,” by Kenneth Lonergan. Mon/Tues, 12/29-30, 7pm. Three males, 20’s; one African-American; and one female, 20’s. Show opens 2/2; pay is $250/week for four weeks. Call for appt: 910-431-2277.

of Southern women who decide to open a day spa in an abandoned church and the hilarious complications that ensue. • 7/28-31, 8/4-7, 11-14—“Moonlight and Magnolias,” a comedy about the golden age of Hollywood and the making of the blockbuster film “Gone with the Wind.” • 9/15-18, 22-25, 29-10/2— “Murder by Natural Causes,” a stylish and cleverly plotted mystery by the creators of TV’s “Columbo.”

• 11/3-6, 10-13, 17-20—“The Diary of Anne Frank,” which features newly discovered writings by the

NUTT ST. COMEDY ROOM Every week at Nutt St: Tues. and Wed. Improv with the “Nutt House” troupe ($5 cover and $1 Front St draft beer);Thurs. Open Mic Stand-up; Fri. and Sat.: Nationally Touring Comedians:. Schedule: • 12/3-4: Vic Henley . 8pm doors; 9pm show. Tickets $10/12. 255 N. Front St, basement of Soapbox. www.nuttstreet.com. 910-520-5520

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BRASS BY CANDLELIGHT The Carolina Brass Quintet plays Brass by Candlelight at historic St. Mary Church, 12/5, 6:30-7:30pm.

Chamber Music Wilmington; tickets at Kenan Box Office, 910-962-3500.

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HAIRSPRAY Techmoja Dance Co. presents “Hairspray” 11/2628, 8pm, with Sun. matinees at 3pm. Hannah Block Historic USO 120 S. Second St. Direction and choreography by Kevin Lee-y Green. Tickets: $18 adult or $15 students/seniors, (910) 341-7860.

Those folks at Porch Theatre Company are at it again!

Their bringing the dysfunctional Mulligans back to the forefront of action in their holiday reunion between the Irish Catholics and their Southern in-laws, the Kellys.

It’s sure to be a rip-roaring good time—one to rival the Griswolds any day of the year. Enjoy dinner theatre at its most hilarious, with food, singing, dancing and mistletoe for only $40. RSVP: (910) 232-6611.

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title character as well as recollections of Holocaust survivors. * A holiday-season program, with details to be announced later, is under consideration for early December. Sponsorships available for all 2011 productions. Tickets: $18 general admission ($10 Thurs performances) $15 seniors/students.

Season flex passes, offering six admissions to any show or shows for $75 (a $100 value) on sale now.

The theater also offers a dinner/theater package for groups of 30 or more at $40/ticket. 910-341-7228 or www.bigdawgproductions.org. Cape Fear Playhouse, downtown Wilmington. 613 Castle St.

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NEW HORIZONS BAND CONCERT New Horizons Band Concert at Independence Mall at Time Warner/JCPenney entrances for adults who play music “just for the fun of it”. (910)371-6175 TALLIS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The Tallis Chamber Orchestra will be performing a “Baroque Christmas Concert” to benefit the Good Sheperd Center, Mon, 12/20, 7:30pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 16 North 16th St. Soprano Sara Westermark will sing the Christmas Cantata

by Scarlatti. Other music by Corelli, Torelli and Charpentier. Free, donations accepted for the Good Sheperd Center. 620-7207.

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Rowland,whohas20yearsexperienceasaprofessional recording and performing musician. Private lessons available for guitar, mandolin, banjo, and bass. (910) 508-1111 or rockinrowland@hotmail.com.

Dance WILMINGTON SINGLES CLUB 12/3: DJ Robert Clemmons, American Legion Post 10 • 12/10: DJ Buddy Langley , American Legion Post 10 • 12/17: Classic Collections Band, Am. Legion Post 10 (Members $10; guests $15) 2722 Carolina Beach Rd. Members $8; Guests $10. Kathleen: 232-3315 or www.wilmingtonsingles.blogspot.com CAROLINA LOUNGE DANCE LESSONS Tues.: Free shag lessons with Brad White. Beginner 7:30pm, Intermediate 8pm. Dancing till 11pm. $5 cover. • Line dance lessons w/Barbara Braak, 7:30pm; country line dancing, 9:30. Coming Thurs, 11/4: Band of Oz, 8:30pm. • Fri.: Salsa Night begins with Argentine Tango lessons, 7:30pm. $5 cover.

Salsa Lessons, 9:30pm & DJ Lalo. Open till 2:30am.

• Sat.: Salsa w/DJ LaLo, free, 9pm till close. Carolina Lounge, 910 791-7595.

ART SOUP Art Soup, a local nonprofit arts organization, and Tidal Creek Cooperative presents Transitory, an art exhibition featuring the collected works of Rachel Kastner and Colleen Ringrose, on display through Jan. 2011. 5329 Oleander Dr, Suite 204. 910-799-2667 BELLYDANCE CLASSES Bellydance classes held Thurs. evenings, 6:307:30pm at the Firehouse Pilates Studio. Marie: 910620-3566 or divyawaters@yahoo.com 76’ERS SQUARE DANCE CLUB Modern Western Style Square Dance. Club meets Thurs. nights at 7pm at the Senior Center for a new workshop on square dancing. Info: 270-1639 CAROLINA SHAG CLUB DJs play favorite beach music and shag tunes every Sat, 8pm to close. $4/members; $6/guests. Carolina Shag Club, 103 N. Lake Park Blvd. Carolina Beach, NC 620-4025

Art UNCW ANN FLACK BOSEMAN GALLERY UNC Wilmington’s Ann Flack Boseman Galleryannounces its 2010-11 exhibition calendar, covering a diverse collection of media. • Meredith Connelly’s Ann Flack Boseman Scholarship Show: through 12/12, Boseman Gallery (Fisher University Union, 2nd Floor). Selected annually by the faculty of the Department of Art & Art History, the scholarship is endowed through the generosity of Mark Griffi s and Dave Robertson in honor of Ms. Boseman. The award, which is a merit-based honor, consists of tuition support, as well as a solo exhibition. Shane Fernando, (910) 962-7972 or fernandol@uncw.edu.

GOLDEN GALLERY The Golden Gallery presents Spiritual Awakenings, an exhibit of bright contemporary new artwork by Sis Tyler. 311 N. Front St. (910)762-4651 ART AT MAYFAIRE

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Three days only over Thanksgiving weekend: 11/2627, 10am-9pm, and 11/28, noon-6pm. Jewelry, watercolors, oil paintings, cut paper sculpture, traditional and digital photography, pottery, colored pencil work, and much, much more for your holiday shopping.

HEALTH IS A HUMAN RIGHT World AIDS Day is celebrated nationally on Dec 1st in order to create awareness about the epidemic that continues to affect our world today. This year an art gallery benefit event entitled “Health is a Human Right” will by host at the Soapbox Laundro-Lounge in downtown Wilmington (255 North Front Street). on Saturday December 4th, 2010, from 5-8 pm. There will be light refreshments, art displayed from local arts in the community, entertainment and drawing for prizes.

There is a $5 donation fee at the door which includes one drawing ticket. All proceeds from the evening will go towards the local non-profit organization: A.C.E.S- AIDS Care and Educational Services to aid them in their support of their clients’ needs. Artists interested in submitting a piece for display-please contact Pam or Heather at healthisahumanright.com.

Art work should reflect the evenings theme of “Health is a Human Right” and help to create awareness to the concern of AIDS. Submissions are due no later than Nov 30th, 2010 at the Soapbox and must be ready to hang. All mediums and sizes are welcome!

There will be a fee of $10 for students submissions and $20 for non-students, and it is asked that 30% of profit made be donated to A.C.E.S. Artist will be limited to 5 pieces maximum.

IRREFERENCE Colleen Ringrose, painter and mixed media artist, presents \”Irreference.\”—encaustic and digital copy transfers, focusing on the intersection of pictures of people and text. 621N4TH Gallery. On display thorugh 12/3; 910)520-3325 POTTERY SHOW AND SALE December 4th and 5th, 10am-4pm: Coastal Carolina Clay Guild will have its 4th annual holiday sale with 45 members participating, including Hiroshi Sueyoshi, Dina Wilde-Ramsing, Don Johns, and Brian Evans.

Functional and sculptural pieces will be for sale.

This is a the perfect place to purchase affordable holiday gifts. Proceeds benefit Empty Bowls and other community projects. Community Arts Center, 120 S. Second St. (910)762-4212

of nature. All proceeds from sales at show will be donated to Carolina Health & Humor Association, dedicated to promoting health, healing and well being through humor for 24 years. 6680 Barbeque

Rd NW Ocean Isle Beach, NC. (910) 287-2800. www. silvercoastwinery.com BOTTEGA EVENTS Mon.: Old Skool Video Game Night and Open

FOURTH FRIDAY GALLERY NIGHTS Fourth Friday Gallery Nights 2010, 6-9pm on the fourth Friday of each month: 12/26. No admission. All ages.

Several downtown galleries, studios and art spaces will open their doors to the public in an after-hours celebration of art and culture. The Art Walk is a selfguided tour featuring exhibitions of various artistic genres including oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, photography, metals, ceramics, mixed media and more. Includes opening receptions, artist discussions, live music, wine, food and other traditional artactivities; www.wilmingtonfourthfridays.com.

SILVER COAST WINERY Silver Coast Winery displays the works of Amy Hautman, through 1/15/2011. Hautman shows fine technical mastery of watercolor and oil mediums in precise brushstrokes of large scale flowers, enticing doorways, luscious grapevines and dramatic landscapes. She vividly portrays the emotional power

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Paint and Create (bring art in progress). • Tues: Starving Artist and open-mic night • Wed.Weekly Wine Tastings, 7pm • 11/25: Thanksgiving dinner for regulars at Bottega. • Call to artists: Submissions for our Spring 2011 exhibition—recent or new works created by people with developmental and physical disabilities. All styles, medium and creative processes welcome. 2 jpeg images by 3/1/2011. 208 N. Front St. 910763-3737, www.bottegagallery.com. www. myspace.com/bottegagallery.

is experienced through historical interpretations in kitchen-building and courtyard. 3rd and Market St. Tues-Sat, 10am-4pm. Last tour, 3pm. Admission rqd.

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11/24: ARTFUL THANKSGIvING

Not leaving town for the holidays? Need a little creative pick-me-up to nourish the soul? Regulars of Bottega Art Gallery can head to the space for Thanksgiving dinner.

Folks here are as close-knit as family can be, so feel free to bring a covered dish to add to the spread. Enjoy their large selection of wine and beer, and spend the holiday creatively pandering art.

PROJEKTE “Figure Study,” oil on canvas, Bonnie EnglandOngoing events: Sun., 6-8pm, Figure Drawing, $10. • Mon, Yoga Class ; 6:307:30pm, “pay-what-you-can”; Tues: Yoga Class, 6:30-7:30pm, “pay-what-you-can”; Belly-Dancing Class, 7:30-9pm, $15/class or $50/4 classes. • Wed.: African Drum Class, 6:30-7:30pm, $10; 1st Wed. ea. month: Diva Made—a discussion group for and about creative women ; 7:30-9pm, free event. • Thurs: Wine tasting, 6-8pm, free. Every other Thursday: Thursday Theater, 7-9pm, Projekte Jazz, feat. the CFCC Jazz Ensemble, 9pm-midnight, free. • Fri: Pole Dancing Class, 10:30am, $20/class.

Projekte Rock ; 8:30 - 11pm, a free event. 1st Friday of every month: Drum Circle, 7-9m, free. Jazz in the Projekte, 9pm-midnight, free. 4th Friday of every month: 4th Friday Gallery Walk and Artist reception, 7-9pm, free. • Sat: Projekte Rock, 8:30-11pm, free.

2nd Saturday of every month: Creative Exchange, 2-5pm, $15 for booth rental for artists, free to public.

523 South 3rd St. 910-352-0236 or theprojekte@ gmail.com.

Museums 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

NC AQUARIUM EXHIBIT: Thank the ocean through a breathtaking new exhibit. The Aquarium installed its “Thank You Ocean” exhibit showcasing photography of sting rays, waves, fishermen and such by world-famous photographers Scott Marshall, Logan Mock-Bunting and DJ Struntz. Admission: $8 ages 13-61; $7 ages 62 and up; $6 ages 3-12. Free admission for: children under 2; registered groups of N.C. school children, and NC Aquarium Society members. EVENTS: Aquarist Apprentice: Sat., 11/27, 6pm. Ages 10 and up; 14 and under must be accompanied by an adult. $23-25. Admission included. • Behind the Scenes Tour: 11/28, 2pm. Children under 8 not permitted.

Children 8-14 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Fee: $15/ages 13 and up, $13/ages 8-12.

• Extended Behind the Scenes Tour, 11/26 and 29, 2pm. Children under 8 are not permitted; between 8-14 accompanied byparent or guardian. $18-$20, admission included. Pre-register for all programs!

910-458-7468; 900 Loggerhead Rd. Kure Beach. www.ncaquariums.com CAPE FEAR MUSEUM EXHIBITS: Grooming: Glimpse a selection of personal grooming items, as you explore treasures from Cape Fear Museum’s collection. From wooden hair curlers to strawberry lip gloss, discover objects that help tell the stories of grooming through time. • Going To The Movies: Experience the history of a century of movie-going in the Lower Cape Fear region. Explore where people went to the movies.

Discover how the theater experience has changed over the years. Watch some of the first films local residents may have seen. • Photography in Focus.

Explore the evolution of photography, from the daguerreotype to the digital camera. Discover how picture-taking technologies have changed, bringing cameras and photographs out of the studio and into the mainstream. • 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. • Learning Center: Cape Fear Indians, 11/27, 10am-4pm, ages 5-12.

Examine local Native American pot shards and make your own clay pot to take home. • Museum closed Thanksgiving day. • Hours: 9am-5pm Tues-Sat. and 1-5pm, Sun. Museum closed Mondays until Memorial Day 2011. Winter hrs: Tues-Sat, 9am-5pm; Sun, 15pm. Admission is $6 for adults; $5 for students with valid ID and senior citizens; $5 special military rate with valid military ID; $3 for children 3-17; and free for children under 3. Museum members are always free. 814 Market St. CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF WILMINGTON Activities vary every day of the week: Messy Mondays and Exploration Stations, Kids Cooking Club and Fetch!, Muddy Buddies and Toddler Time, Cardio Chaos, Gross Saturdays and Gardening Club! • 12/5, 1-5pm, Candyland Christmas Event, 12/10 and 17, 4-7pm, Candy Cottage, 12/11-12, 18-19. All Day Candy Cottages. 16 Orange St. (910) 243-3534. www.playwilmington.org WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUM

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

WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore railroad history and heritage, especially of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for more than 130 years. Interests and activities for all ages including historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively children’s area, and spectacular scale models. Housed in an original 1882 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level. Groups receive special guided tours.

Facilities can also be booked for meetings or mixers, accommodating groups of up to 150. Admission only $6 for adults, $5 for seniors/military, $3 for children 2-12, and free under age 2. Located at the north end of downtown at 505 Nutt St. 910-763-2634 or www. wrrm.org.

LATIMER HOUSE Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the restored home features period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am.

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 11am5pm, Sat. from 11am-6pm. 20 Orange Street at Front Street on historic downtown riverwalk. (910) 762-1669 or www.capefearserpentarium.com.

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