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O&ACONTENTS October 2010 | Vol. 23, No. 8 | www.outandaboutnow.com

FEATURES Publisher Gerald DuPhily Editor-in-Chief Michael Pollock Director of Publications Jim Hunter Miller Director of Sales Marie Graham

14 BUMP IN THE NIGHT For decades, tales of Satanic cults, strange animals, and car chases have haunted Cossart Road. Is the truth out there? By Michael Pollock

20 BEYOND PUMPKIN PIE Flavorful, colorful, and lots of fun, pumpkin is for more than just dessert.

By Pam George

41 THE DEVIL’S IN THE MOVIES In honor of Halloween, a look at 13 of the most disturbing films we could find.

By Michael Pollock

51 LOOK WHO’S 31!

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The War

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By Bob Yearick

WORD OF THE MONTH A monthly column in which we attempt, however futilely, to correct some of the most common mistakes we Americans make in both the written and spoken word.

PUTATIVE

Pronounced pew-ta-tive, it means commonly accepted or supposed, as in, “America is the putative leader of the free world.”

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Terms clarified here

Here’s a headline from the Cape Gazette blog: “The facts mam, just the facts.” The abbreviation for madam or madame is ma’am, pronounced mam. Unfortunately, that’s exactly how some writers spell it. Go the extra mile, you ink-stained wretches, and look it up. (Also, there should be a comma after “facts.”)

Then we have this group, all of which could come under the heading of So Close: From a letter to The News Journal: “…given the dominate place of the United States in the world…” The word needed here is the adjective, dominant. Dominate is the verb.

A Wall Street Journal story mentioned a “plumb Washington job.” The word is plum, meaning something desirable (like the fruit, for instance, which is spelled the same way). Plumb, as an adjective, refers to something that is level, true.

A reader notes that Delaware Freecycle had an ad for a “chicken coupe.” The word is coop—unless, of course, the item was a car meant for chickens.

A friend recently sent an email that referred to another friend being “a shoe-in” to win a contest.

The term is “shoo-in,” which comes from the verb shoo, meaning to drive a person or an animal in a given direction by making noises or gestures, which in turn comes from the noise people often make when they do it.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Phillies pitcher Ray Halladay had given teammates expensive watches that came with a thick instruction manual. The players, according to the Inky, sat at their lockers “finagling with the watches.” We’re guessing the writer meant “fiddling with.” To finagle is to wangle, wheedle, or obtain by deceit.

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“No hidden surprises,” Benjamin Franklin Plumbing boasts about its estimates. Aren’t all surprises, by their nature, hidden?

“Made mention of.” Why can’t people simply say “mentioned” instead of using this stilted and superfluous phrase?

“Ink pen”—a phrase we hadn’t heard since the 1960s, but it cropped up on an ESPN broadcast last month. Are there any pens that don’t contain ink?

And finally, one of our favorites: “viable options.” Perhaps there are options that aren’t viable, but the adjective is totally unnecessary.

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WORD OF THE MONTH perfidy Pronounced purfa-dee, it means deliberate breach of faith, calculated violation of trust, treachery.

Comprises a mistake “The Great Depression of 1929-41 was comprised of four distinct phases.” That’s how James Butkiewicz, professor of economics at UD, recently began an essay in The News Journal.

“Comprised of ” is generally frowned on by linguistic purists. The whole comprises the parts, so it should be “The Great Depression of 1929-41 comprised four distinct phases.” But why not just say it was “made up of ”?

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“The trees on Cossart Road bend. In their trunks. Away from the house. At almost ninety-degree angles. People have tried to explain it, but none of the solutions make sense. Others have suggested that the house is so evil, the trees grow away from it the best they can. Some say the devil screamed and the trees bent in response.”

For decades, tales of Satanic cults, strange animals, and car chases have haunted Cossart Road. Is the truth out there?

By Michael Pollock

— From the blog Snow and Lights, author unknown

“It’s Halloween. Everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”

— Halloween, 1978

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he story goes that the man who owned the house went insane, killing his family, then himself. Or it has to do with the old asylum, across the field. One night, an inmate escaped, killing the family inside the house before the police found him. Long before that, they say, the devil walked the road, and the trees began growing sideways to avoid his evil. Then the Du Ponts, in an effort to keep their wealth within the family, married cousins and got rid of the particularly offensive offspring, burying them in the base of a large tree— Skull Tree—on the nearby road. Someone said a baby was killed there and buried in the tree, and that if you go there at night you can hear its cries. Now the place is a meeting ground for a Satanic cult. And the Ku Klux Klan. And biker gangs. It’s also a meth lab, an FBI safe house, or an animal-mutation facility.

Depends who you ask.

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cars can be spotted up and down the road, filled with teenagers and thrill-seekers, many of them convinced that evil indeed lurks behind those slanted trees.

I FIRST HEARD STORIES about Cult House Road—also called Devil’s Road, Devil’s Backbone, and Satanville—in high school, about 15 years ago.

It was practically a rite of passage for anyone in North Wilmington or Southeastern Pennsylvania with a driver’s license: you went to either Charcoal Pit or the mall, then Cult House. The stories that circulated all lined up the usual suspects: a windy road in the woods; weird trees that grow away from a house—the Cult House, whose windowpanes were supposedly outfitted with inverted crucifixes—set about a quarter-mile or so off the road; one giant tree, shaped like a skull, that was especially eerie. If you hung around too long back there, you’d get chased out by a black Ford Bronco, or a red one, or a white one. Apparently, these were the Satan worshippers and guardians of the house, and they didn’t want you knowing their secrets. It was taken as a friendly warning, and most kids, scared and satisfied, sped the hell home.

I went there with some friends a couple of times, and while nothing happened—no encounters with cult members, no odd sightings—it was hard to shake the creepy vibe the place gave off. It’s also one of those stories that can never be fully debunked, and the failure to get any real answers always bothered me. Then I realized why: It’s an urban legend, and urban legends don’t go away quietly.

IN WRITING ABOUT URBAN LEGENDS, the author and professor Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand reveals these hallmarks: “…[T]hey contain three essential elements: a strong basic story-appeal, a foundation

in actual belief, and a meaningful message or ‘moral,’” Brunvand writes in The Vanishing Hitchhiker, a collection of popular urban legends. He would later add one more trait to the list: Urban legends always happen to a “friend of a friend.”

We’re familiar with plenty of them—the hitchhiker who mysteriously vanishes midride; the hook on the car-door handle; the killer waiting in his victim’s backseat; the babysitter tormented by phone calls that turn out to be coming from upstairs; the escaped psychopath who murders roommates, dogs, etc. Urban legends have been told in various forms with various details for decades. So, too, has the tale of the Cult House.

In addition to the trees, trucks, and house in question, visitors to Cossart Road—or their friends—have reported seeing cult members dressed in robes (some with white faces or their eyes rolled back in their heads), animals they can’t identify, and power boxes with red lights that resemble “demon eyes.” Cell phones lose service or die; cars inexplicably run out of gas or stall.

One person noted a 16-degree temperature drop every time his car entered the road.

These and other stories can be found under the “House of the Unholy” forum on a website called Unexplained-Mysteries. com. True to the legend’s appeal, the forum collects nearly 700 posts over 46 pages.

The Cult House legend even inspired Lancaster photographer and UD fine-arts grad student Jeffrey Moser to construct a fictional history around it, Exposing Satanville.

Moser, aware of the legend from a former student he taught, came into a cardboard box of negatives, all portraits of rural peoples estimated to be from the early 1900s. According to Moser’s history, a Philadelphia photographer, hoping to

escape the flu outbreak, made his way into the countryside, photographing residents in exchange for money, food, or boarding. When the residents learned he was inadvertently spreading the flu virus, they hanged him, on Halloween, from a nearby tree. Moser says the project, which he turned into book form, is his attempt “to dispel the urban legend. It’s just this ridiculous notion of a haunted road. The best way to destroy an urban legend is to explain it.”

Explanations exist for the trees: They bend because they’re top-heavy; years ago, PECO had to cut them back to avoid interference with the power lines. As for the windowpanes, a previous owner of the house enjoyed plants in the windows, and their growth may have started to resemble inverted crosses. There’s nothing to suggest this is where the devil does his dirty work.

“If you didn’t know the stories, you wouldn’t think twice,” one local says. “You would think it’s a beautiful country road.”

Apparently, that’s not enough to stop the theorizing.

“People want to believe there’s some spooky or horrifying history associated with urban legends,” says Ed Okonowicz, an author and folklore instructor at UD. “Since no one wants to return from a pilgrimage”—a practice known as legend-tripping— “empty-handed, there’s much more creativity than substance in the description of the visit and during each retelling. The people who hear the tale immediately pass the latest version, with more embellishments, onto other eager ears.”

One local resident put it this way, “As time goes on, it changes and gets added to. Someone saw the windows and ran with it. Someone saw a room in the house with pieces of art and ran with that. A deer jumps out in front of your car, and because it’s

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dark, you don’t see it clearly and you think it’s something else.” The resident adds: “It’s a non-story.”

Although most folks agree that the Cult House legend has been around for at least 30 years, pinpointing its exact origins gets murky. One nearby resident claims that the house was, in fact, owned by the Du Ponts back in the 1920s and used as a sort of clubhouse where male family members would drink, play cards, and hunt.

It’s just as tricky to contact the owner of the house. Attempts to interview the current occupant didn’t go far, and trespassing was out of the question.

After all, this is someone’s home. Satanic cult or not, privacy should be respected.

But in speaking with a spokesperson from Pennsbury Township, where the property and road are located, as well as with local residents—all of whom requested anonymity—this much is known: Whoever lives in the house is most likely a harmless, little old woman who just wants to be left alone.

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“They’re private people out there,” the township spokesperson says. “Even if you wanted to paint a positive picture and dispel the rumors, they’re not interested in talking.”

One local says, “The theory on the part of the folks who live there is that if you do nothing, it’ll go away.”

But observers say the lack of response is actually driving the myth. “It’s a legend everybody who goes there wants to believe,” says Nick DeCristo, a 23-yearold Tinicum, Pa. resident who in 2008 made a documentary about the area, The Truth About Cult House, with a group of friends. “But there’s also so much secrecy. Nobody who lives there wants to talk about it.”

Deena Gitaitis Haiber made frequent trips to Cossart Road as a student at St. Mark’s High School. Now 37 and living in Florida, she says the Cult House legend is unlike anything she’s ever experienced.

“It’s a little creepier than most roads.

And if you have a house full of guards and no one’s explaining why, it makes

people wonder. It adds dds to the mystique urio ous.” and makes people curious. nd trucks Haiber The guards and aretak aker ak e s have been mentions are real. Caretakers purp poses, to look hired, for security purposes, after the property and literally drivee ristss. Other times, away late-night tourists. rby farm will have kids from the nearby some fun with them,, cracking branches n the woods. More and making noises in often still, teens chasee other teens. When DeCristo and his crew were making hey made it a point their documentary, they nfront anyone who to jump out and confront chased them on the road. “Ninety-five percent of the time, they drove right by us and we saw they were kids,” he says.

Efforts have been made to dissuade visitors. About 10 years ago, the road was closed to non-residents. (Permits were required for those wishing or needing access.) This past summer, the infamous Skull Tree was removed. The township feels such measures decrease interest.

But it only takes a slight move for things to pick back up.

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In late 2003, M M. Night Shyamalan pi p cked a field off C picked Cossart Road, owned by the Haskell fam family, to shoot The wa enjoying a chapter Village. The road was of peace and quiet. But seeing the set’s p makeshift houses piqued the curiosity of passersby. “Then things spiked again,” DeCristo says.

According to the township spokesperson, activ activity is at its peak during the summer months, when kids are out of school, and again around Halloween. Trooper Corey Monthei, of barra the Avondale barracks, says there have been 18 recorded incidents related to Cossart Road since March, many of them involving cars full of teenagers carrying drugs or alcohol.

“It’s kids who’ve traveled some distance to get here,” Monthei says.

“They’re younger kids, trying to get a feel for what’s there.” He adds that while activity on Cossart Road isn’t a top priority, officers patrol the area “frequently.”

IN A FITTING STAB OF IRONY, urban legends like to avoid the very real stories that are sometimes attached to them. When people speak of Cult House, they love to mention the spooky trees and car chases. But few care to mention, or even know, that on Dec. 30, 1978, Chester County police discovered the buried bodies of three murder victims in a woodpile off Cossart Road. They’d been dumped there by members of the notorious Johnston Gang; a fourth body was never found. When Norman Johnston, one of the gang members, escaped from a maximum-security prison near Pittsburgh in the summer of 1999, he was recaptured not far from the murder scene.

That’s probably not on the minds of kids seeking their own piece of an urban legend. “I think more than anything, people go back there for the feeling,” Haiber says. “I’ve lived all over, and I look for urban legends wherever I go. There’s nothing like Cult House.”

That might be why, as journalists, we don’t look too hard for the truth when we write about the legend of Cult House. It would only get in the way of a good story.

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Orchards, Pumpkins & Family Fun

Oct. 2: Kennett Brew Fest. More than 60 local and regional craft breweries.

2-6pm in downtown Kennett Square. (kennettbrewfest.com)

Oct. 21-23: The Great Pumpkin Carve in Chadds Ford. Food, hayrides, and pumpkin-carvings. (chaddsfordhistory.org)

Oct. 2-3: Brandywine Valley Harvest Festival at Chadds Ford Winery.

Tastings, art exhibits, vineyard tours. (chaddsford.com)

Oct. 29-31: Sea Witch Halloween & Fiddler’s Fest in Rehoboth and Dewey Beach. Featuring 5K, scarecrowmaking, costume parade, treasure hunt, and more. (302/227-2233)

Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31: Spiced Apple Sundays at Chadds Ford Winery.

Picnic event with apple-wine tastings. (chaddsford.com) Oct. 16: Harvest Bazaar in New Castle.

Featuring baked goods, crafts, books, and gently used items. 9am-3pm.

(326-4209) Now thru Oct. 29: Kennett Farmers Market. Fresh fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, and more. (historickennettsquare.com)

Parties & Costume Balls Oct. 13-17: Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival. Includes tributes to Philadelphia jazz and Grover Washington Jr. (rehobothjazz.com) Oct. 23: All Hallows’ Eve Costume Ball at the Brandywine River Museum.

Fundraiser for the Brandywine Conservancy. (brandywinemuseum.org) Oct. 30: 31st Halloween Loop. 20 venues in downtown Wilmington. See pgs. 50 & 51 for details. (655-6483; outandaboutnow.com) www.out-and-about.com

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Oct. 30: OktoberPets with Faithful Friends at Lums Pond. 12-4pm. Food and drinks, root beer for kids, games, and plenty of pets. (faithfulfriends.us) Now thru Oct. 31: Pumpkin-Picking at Ramsey’s Farm. Saturdays & Sundays, 10am-5pm. (ramseysfarm.com)

Haunted Attractions Ongoing: Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Daytime prison tours and nighttime haunted house. (easternstate.org) Ongoing: Frightland in Middletown.

Eight creative attractions. (frightland.com) Ongoing: Jason’s Woods in Lancaster.

Celebrity appearances by Butch “Eddie Munster” Patrick (10/3, 22) and Ken “Jason” Kirzinger (10/8-10). (jasonswoods.com) Oct. 15-30: Hauntings in History. New Castle walking tours on select dates this month. (322-2794)

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Pumpkin is flavorful, colorful, and a lot of fun

A member of the Cucurbitaceae family, the squash encompass a diverse group that goes beyond the usual Halloween variety that we know and love. At Fair Hill Inn, in Fair Hill, Md., owners Phil Pyle Jr. and Brian Shaw this year grew several varieties of heirloom pumpkins in their garden, which they harvested and stored in their cave-line wine cellar to await the fall menu. “The uses for pumpkin are many,” Pyle says.

Soup is among the more common.

Terri Kerner, owner of Via Medical Day Spa in the Trolley Square area, is proud of her “slammin’” coconutBy Pam George pumpkin curry soup. She got the idea for it while staying at the Four Seasons photo by Dennis Dischler on the island of Nevis. Although she primarily makes it in fall, the soup also hen Kristin McGuigan became reminds her of the Caribbean, where executive chef of the Back Burner it’s a colorful mainstay.

Along with the pumpkin-mushroom Restaurant in Hockessin, she was entrusted with a carefully guarded secret: soup, McGuigan this season will the recipe for the restaurant’s legendary incorporate pumpkin into a quiche made with blue cheese and thyme. She pumpkin-mushroom soup. also will turn out plump “I was told not to give pumpkin ravioli, dressed the recipe to anyone,” with cracked sage and a she says. “There is only brown butter sauce. one person other than In September, myself who has the “Pumpkin is an Mickey Donatello, corecipe. I hope we amazing ingredient owner of the Corner never get sick on the because of the Bistro, was waffling same day.” between putting The creamy, rich versatility.” pumpkin ravioli with taste makes a lasting a cream sauce or a impression all year long, roasted pumpkin risotto but it is particularly in on the menu. (Check out the demand when there’s a nip to menu this month to see which the air. “During the fall, we triple our pumpkin-mushroom soup sales, dish won.)

Pumpkin can go casual—consider McGuigan says. “Seems like the colder it a puree served as an entrée side—or gets, the more they want it.”

To be sure, when the holidays hit, the fancy. At the Stone Balloon Wine House restaurant and its companion to-go shop in Newark, Chef Jason is preparing a croquette run through 70 to 90 gallons a week, pumpkin-and-goat-cheese with quail, black pepper-sherry gastrique, mailing soup across the country.

The soup is not the only item this winter greens, and house-made bacon.

Pumpkin can also go savory or fall that will tout the flavor of pumpkin.

Both in restaurants and home kitchens, sweet. Chelsea Tavern features pumpkin pumpkin takes a starring role, even if Belgian waffles on its new brunch menu. it’s just as the traditional pumpkin-pie Becky Wells of Nottingham, Pa., makes dessert. But why stop there? Pumpkin, pumpkin waffles at home. “They are so it seems, is one of nature’s most good!” she says. McGuigan plans to make pumpkin strudel. “I can’t wait to see how inspiring ingredients.

“It’s an amazing ingredient because that sells.”

At this time of year, Harvest Market of the versatility,” McGuigan says. “You can use it to make purees. Or you can Natural Foods in Hockessin features pumpkin butter by Latimore Farms roast or braise them.”

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in York Springs, Pa. “It’s akin to apple butter,” says Laura Kassees, a Harvest Market employee. “It has sugar and spices, but you can get it without sugar.”

Pumpkin sauce, pumpkin butter—is there no end to its uses? Apparently not. Since 1994, Dogfish Head has been turning out its Punkin Ale, a full-bodied brown ale brewed with pumpkin meat, organic brown sugar, and spices. Chelsea Tavern put it on tap as soon as it was available. The Stone Balloon offers a pumpkin-pie martini, a favorite on the menu on Thursdays when ladies can take advantage of it for $5 a drink.

Thrifty chefs like McGuigan love pumpkin for its sustainability as well as its color and flavor. She makes an “elegant oil,” using liquid leftover from roasting pumpkins. Fair Hill Inn sprinkles salted pumpkin seeds on dishes as a garnish, and they’re also good as a snack.

“When you’re finished with all of that, the skin can be used as feed for chickens and other farm-raised animals,” McGuigan says. “A 100-percent utilizable product—zero waste. It’s every chef ’s dream.”

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Since pumpkins hold a lot of water, strain after cooking.

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PUMPKIN BEER O f all the things pumpkins have been used for, beer is surely one of the best, if not most overlooked.

While histories and definitions clash, we can agree that pumpkin beer existed in some form in the colonial times, while the more inventive versions we enjoy today have been brewing around for about 30 years. (It’s now a sub-category at the Great American Beer Festival.)

Here are some of our favorites, local and beyond.

Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale Dogfish Head Punkin Ale Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale Iron Hill Pumpkin Ale (on tap now in Newark; scheduled for Wilmington later this month)

Mavericks Pumpkin Harvest Ale McKenzie’s Pumpkinfest Post Road Pumpkin Ale (on tap at Buckley’s) Sam Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale Saranac Pumpkin Ale Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale Southampton Pumpkin Ale Southern Tier Imperial Pumking Ale

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Vinoteca 902 set to open Chef Julio Lazzarini, owner of Orillas in downtown Wilmington, has been putting the finishing touches on Vinoteca 902, a wine bar expected, as of press time, to open late last month.

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Harry’s Hospitality Group, which owns Harry’s Savoy, Seafood, and Fish Market, can now count Trolley Square staple Kid Shelleen’s among its ventures.

The addition of Kid’s completes a sort of culinary circle for Harry’s owner Xavier Teixido, who was involved with Kid’s’ opening in 1984. The group is in the process of assessing Kid’s to see what changes should be implemented to its menu, décor, or operations.

Moro gets Zagat rating Moro (1307 N. Scott St.), the finedining establishment known for its modern twist on classic Italian fare, was recently honored with a Zagat rating of 26 (“extraordinary”) in the diningreview company’s 2011 Philadelphia restaurants guide. Zagat culls its ratings from nearly 400,000 surveys.

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>>>TASTE Monster meals: When painstakingly prepared dishes go bad

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ave you ever had a meal that was so scary, so bone-chillingly frightening that it still haunts you to this day? You’re likely thinking it’s one you’ve eaten. But what truly haunts a chef is the meal he has served.

Years ago, I had two friends over for a fall evening of mushroom risotto and red wine. I had all my mis en place together (ingredients, tools, etc.); it was going to be a hassle-free meal I could easily cook and also enjoy. As I was leaving work, I spied a package of smoked chiles and thought it would be a nice twist. We had been using anchos, the dried poblano pepper that is the backbone of mole. They are not particularly hot, though the heat on some can vary. It was the smokiness I was going for, certain that along with the six types of fungus freshly culled from the mushroom houses of Kennett Square, it would be an autumnal harmony worthy of my friend’s Chateauneuf du Pape.

As with using dried mushrooms, I soaked my chiles in warm water to both reconstitute them while also producing a flavorful, complementary stock to make my risotto. As my friends arrived, I announced the menu and proudly identified the various funky, exotic mushrooms we’d be feasting on, while explaining I’d be “kicking it up a notch” with some smoky dried peppers. Both my guests (one a vegetarian, the other freshly home from working the eclectic restaurants of the Northwest) slightly raised their eyebrows when they eyed my peppers. “Those are anchos?” asked one while the other looked on skeptically. “Sure,” I answered.

“We use them at the restaurant.”

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with growing, uncertain anticipation. It was time to chop the chiles and add them to the rice. I added the chiles, seeds and all (gasp!), along with ladle after ladle of beautiful, earthy brown stock. By now, you’ve guessed that these were not harmless, mild ancho chiles, but another type of dried pepper—the pasilla. Spicy? Let’s just say if there were a patented technique for coaxing the extreme amount of heat from a dried chile, I’d be the Abe Froman of bottledpepper extract. Things were compounded by the fact that we were starving, and I didn’t bother to check the seasonings until we were each leaning over our bowls of steaming, nostril-tingling risotto.

The heat only exacerbated the pepper qualities of the wine, and when it was all done, we sat laughing, wiping our brows with sourdough bread and fanning ourselves with napkins. It was a complete and total nightmare from beginning to end.

Such is an honest, if boneheaded, mistake.

But, what about a malicious, intentional act of sabotage? Kitchen legend has it that a young, budding American culinary student with signature bright orange hair (and clogs) was working for one extraordinarily demonic, egomaniacal, British chef. The dish: hollandaise. The charge: “You don’t know how to f---ing make hollandaise, you idiot!”

The fallout: one flying pot of hot risotto, narrowly ducked by our young commis, with several more personal insults to follow. Upon deciding he was toast, much the way Dennis Hopper asked for a cigarette from his assassin in True Romance, the cook took off his apron, gathered his knife kit and proceeded for the door. However, on the way out, he grabbed several hands-full of salt and walked down the line, dumping an uncorrectable amount of seasoning into each of the chef ’s painstakingly made sauces. The cook: Mario Batalli. The chef: Gordon Ramsay. The lesson: a little-known Chinese proverb. “Beware chef with egg on face; chef may get salty with you.”

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Pumpkin Cheesecake Courtesy of Roger Andrews of El Diablo Burritos *Makes two nine-inch pies Ingredients 3 lbs cream cheese (room temp) 2 tbsp honey Pinch of salt 1 vanilla bean split and scraped (1 tsp vanilla extract also works) 2 cups sugar 2 tsp cinnamon, ground ½ tsp ground allspice 1 lemon, juiced and zested 1 qt. heavy cream (room temp) 4 c pumpkin puree ¼ cup gelatin (bloomed in 1 ½ cups of cold water)

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Instructions Make sure to remove the cream cheese and cream from the refrigerator at least 4 to 6 hours before making this recipe. The cream cheese and cream need to be room temperature in order for them to blend well.

In a small mixing bowl, add the 1 ½ cups of cold water and sprinkle the ¼ cup of gelatin over the top. Let stand for 5 minutes while mixing the other ingredients.

In a large mixer, add the rest of the ingredients except the gelatin mixture and vanilla-bean pod, mixing on medium speed until well-combined.

Meanwhile, warm the gelatin mixture over a double boiler until smooth and warm. If there are any lumps in the gelatin, strain through a strainer before the next step. Slowly pour the gelatin into the creamcheese mixture while the mixer is running. Pour over the graham cracker crumbs* and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before cutting.

*Graham Cracker Crust Ingredients 3 c graham cracker crumbs 1 ½ c sugar 1 c melted butter Pinch of salt Instructions In a large mixing bowl, add all the dry ingredients and mix until blended. Slowly add the melted butter to the crumb mixture and mix until well-combined.

In either a pie pan or sheet tray, press a quarter-inch of the crumb mixture evenly into the bottom of the pan. Bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes or until crust just begins to color. Cool to room temp before pouring in the cheesecake mixture.

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Root Vegetabes Courtesy of Kristin McGuigan, executive chef at the Back Burner *Serves 6 Ingredients 5 small turnips, peeled & cut into 1-inch dice 5 carrots, peeled & cut into 1-inch dice 2 sweet potatoes, peeled & cut into 1-inch dice 2 tsp white sugar ¼ c balsamic vinegar Salt & pepper to taste

Quinoa Stuffed Delicata Squash Courtesy of Mark Eastman of Chef’s Haven, using ingredients found at Harvest Market Ingredients 3 medium delicata squash, halved & seeded (Lancaster local) 1 c quinoa 2 c vegetable stock ¼ c dried cranberries 3 tbsp grapeseed oil Granny Smith apple or 2 Bosc pears, peeled, cored & diced 1 medium onion, diced (Lancaster local) 1 tbsp fresh ginger, minced 2 medium cloves of garlic, minced (Avondale local) Pinch of nutmeg Pinch of cinnamon Salt & pepper to taste Instructions Start by pre-heating oven to 400°. Coat squash with oil, salt, and pepper, and place on a lined www.out-and-about.com

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baking sheet face down. Bake 30-40 minutes until tender and beginning to brown. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly. Scoop out some of the flesh, leaving enough that the squash holds its shape.

In a medium pot, bring vegetable stock to a boil. Add quinoa and cranberries. Cover and lower heat. Cook about 10 minutes, until water is absorbed.

In a sauté pan over medium-high heat, add 1 ½ tbsp oil until just smoking. Add onions, ginger, garlic, and apples or pears. Season with nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, and pepper. Cook about 5-7 more minutes, until tender and slightly browned. Take off heat and add flesh from squash. Add to quinoa, mix well, and taste for seasoning.

Fill delicata squash halves and return to the oven for another 10 minutes. They should slightly brown.

Instructions Spread your vegetables in a single layer onto the bottom of a skillet. Pour enough water over them to cover but no submerge. Add sugar and balsamic vinegar. Bring to a boil. Continue to cook until liquid is evaporated and vegetables are tender. Season with salt and pepper. (“A very easy recipe that adds a nice touch to chicken and game dishes,” McGuigan says.)

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asked him to bring us an assortment of what’s in season right now, which he did, above. The DCH has its own urban farm, at 12th and Brandywine streets in Wilmington, which recently won $25,000 from the Garden Club of America. To learn more about it, go to dehort.org.

Produce code: 1. Rosemary 2. Scallions 3. Swiss Chard 4. Banana Peppers 5. Jabeñero Chilis

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hen my good friends at the magazine heard I was the new host of the Monday Night Football Trivia Tailgate at Kelly’s Logan House, they asked what made me such an expert. Rather than you bore you with my long sports-TV resume—and by that I mean ESPN restraining order—how about if I just give you the lowdown on this month’s four MNF games? Then, if you have any questions or problems about these predictions, I’ll see you Monday nights at 7 p.m.!

PATRIOTS win 37-14

Oct. 11: Minnesota at NY Jets With his surgically repaired arm, hip, and ankle, Brett Favre has less of his original body than Heidi Montag. On the other side of the ball is the inconsistent Mark Sanchez, who the run-oriented Jets have passing the ball as often as Lindsay Lohan passes a drug test. Look for the Jets to ram the ball down the Vikings’ throat like Favre doing Vicodin in the ’90s.

JETS win 20-13

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Oct. 25: Dallas at New York Sporting News picked the Cowboys to win the NFC East this year, while Sports Illustrated took the Giants. Yet as I write this, sipping on my breakfast scotch, the standings show these teams with only one combined win entering Week 3. But true football fans like you know that doesn’t matter, because in a Week 8 divisional game like this, everything goes out the window faster than a poorly installed air conditioner. Expect a tight, physical game, with more unexpected hits than Justin Bieber. This game ends in a late FG.

COWBOYS win 24-21

Do you have anything in a larger Tom Brady?

— See sports picks from Geno at youtube.com/genospicks.

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For those of us who don’t have season tickets, though, FireStone has thankfully brought the tailgating atmosphere to its spacious riverside patio.

Guests can watch Sunday football on one of the 25 TVs and play standard tailgate games while enjoying delicious servings from FireStone’s large natural outdoor grill and drinks from Wilmington’s biggest Bloody Mary and Crush Bar. Join Out & About on Sunday, Oct. 3, for an added dose of fun and excitement when the Eagles host Donovan McNabb and the Redskins.

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SPORTS

RUNNER’S FEVER Don’t let shorter days grind your outdoor exercise. Pick an event or few from our handy race guide. They’re a great way to stay in shape, and most benefit a good cause.

OCTOBER 10/2: Main Street Mile (Main Street Newark; cash prizes for top finishers) 10/5: Grotto’s Run Eat Run (two-mile run/walk on Main Street in Newark— you’ll run or walk a mile, eat pizza, then run/walk the second mile) 10/9: Supporting Kidds 5K (downtown Wilmington run benefitting grieving children and their families) 10/9: Doggie Doo 5K (beautiful course set on Hagley property and Brandywine River banks; benefits Canine Partners for Life) 10/10: Delaware Distance Classic 15K (Wilmington Riverfront course; for serious runners only)

10/23: The Smith-McMillan Memorial 5K (scenic Alapocas course; benefits financial-aid endowment at Wilmington Friends)

11/7: Veterans Day 5K (starts at Kelly’s Logan House; proceeds go toward soldiers and families of soldiers experiencing hardships)

10/23: Have Joy. Spread Hope. 5K (inaugural run/walk supporting mitochondrial-disease research)

11/13: Girls on the Run Fall 5K (starts and finishes at Dravo Plaza on Riverfront; benefits Girls on the Run NCCo)

10/24: Caffe Gelato 10-Miler (trailheavy run leading into White Clay Creek Park; benefits Friendship House) 10/30: Union City Grille Halloween Treat 5K (starts near restaurant and heads into Rockford Park; benefitting the Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor Foundation)

NOVEMBER

10/16: Hockessin Fall Fest 5K (inaugural event beginning and ending in Lantana Square)

11/6: Delaware Futures 5K (starts and ends at Joe’s Crab Shack on Riverfront with loop around Frawley Stadium; benefits Delaware Futures)

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11/25: PNC Bank Run/Walk for MS (10K run, 5K run, and 5K walk on Thanksgiving Day in downtown Wilmington)

10/31: E-Racing the Blues (choose from 5K run/walk or 10K run on the Riverfront; benefits the Mental Health Association in Delaware)

10/10: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K (Rodney Square; benefits American Cancer Society)

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11/20: Turkey Trot (in Handloff Park in Newark with 10K and 5K runs)

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Large 1-topping pizza $9.99 $3 Big Beers Bud & Bud Light 8 wings for $5.99 • Soft pretzel sticks $1 2 cuts for 3 bucks

Mike Schmidt aka “Schmitty” Bartender at Grotto Pizza, Main Street, Newark

Q: So your real name is Mike Schmidt and you go by Schmitty?

A: Yeah, it works well at a sports bar. Sometimes folks don’t believe me…

Q: How long have you been working here?

A: I’ve been here four years. Started off waiting tables, but now I’m working bar at night: Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays. Tuesday night is a huge night for us.

Q: What’s been the wildest thing you’ve seen here?

A: When UD played the [I-AA] National Championship Game back 2007. It was wall-to-wall people, back to front… It’s funny, but when you are walking through the crowds with pitchers of beer, people make way. They respect the fact that their fellow fans may be in need of a beverage.

Q: You have a lot of space here so it really must have been crowded…

A: Yeah, the only other thing that would compare to that UD game was when the Phillies won the World Series [in 2008]. We didn’t want to jinx it but we had champagne set up and ready in all of the corners of the bar. By the end of the night everyone was soaked head-to-toe with champagne, but no one cared!

Q: So it’s safe to say you enjoy working here?

A: You gotta love coming in to work when you get to serve fans watching the games. It’s one of the best jobs in the world!

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OW!!! What a response to Fall Sports!!! We are practically full of teams in all locations! There are definitely plenty of individual spots available so make sure you go on the website and check that out! Folks, we have talked a lot about the social aspect of the league being our focus in 2011 and we are starting things off this Fall by giving away a Bud Light Port Paradise Party Cruise and a Trip to Atlantic City courtesy of Harrrah’s Resort & Casino.

Prizes are available ONLY to active DSL members! Games After The Games Presented By The Delaware Lottery is stepping it up and after every game you will be able to win Lotto Tickets simply by participating in Trivia with Kalai King as well as Baggo, Indoor Bocce, and Washers and more!

There is still time to get in and check this craziness out for yourself!

Monthly Highlights...

WILMINGTON KICKBALL: Congratulations on another successful season and to the 6 finalist: Slow Rollers, I’d Kick it, Motor Boaters, Shenanigans, DSFG and Business Time.

YMCA SPORTS: YMCA Sports of Basketball and Volleyball are underway for another outstanding season. Thank you and Good luck to the captains and their season. We have a new team in town “We Teach” lead

by Shaun Murphy with teammate Caitlin Dennis! Look out everyone!

DSL COED BOWLING: Thank you Scott Mance for returning to the Bowling scene and getting another awesome season underway. Welcome back Dave Christofferson and your crazy team Beer Frame!

FALL SPORTS – DODGEBALL, COED FLAG FOOTBALL, FALL BALL KICKBALL: This is our biggest fall kickoff season yet. Dodgeball has sold out with 48 teams and should be another fantastic season. Our inaugural seasons of Kickball and Co-ed Flag Football have also sold out and we are looking forward to making these new leagues just as much fun as all of our others. Is it gonna be Lori Marinucci’s “Couples Therapy” that takes the Fall Kickball Title? Will Adam Spain and “Touchdown There” win Coed Flag Football? We’ll see as our biggest Fall Season EVER Kick’s of this month!

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Upcoming Events & Outings: HAPPENING IN OCTOBER: •Voting For The Annual ROXIE Awards Begins!!

•The First EVER Fall Ball Kickball and Co-ed Flag Football Leagues will begin on Oct. 9th.

•Wilmington Dodgeball begins on Oct. 12th •Port Paradise Cruise Giveaway at Rooney’s Oct. 12th •Atlantic City Giveaway at Logan House Oct. 13th •HAC Dodgeball Begins Oct. 17th •Beach Dodgeball Begins Oct. 19th

HAPPENING IN NOVEMBER: •1st Annual DSL/Out & About Pickup Flag FootBOWL

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MOVIES

The Devil’s in the Movies In honor of Halloween, a look at 13 of the most disturbing films we could find

By Michael Pollock

Candyman (1992). A grad student goes in search of an urban legend and gets more than a thesis. Based, with much creative freedom, on Clive Barker’s short story and featuring a haunting score by Philip Glass, Candyman—and whether you had the stones to say his name five times in a mirror—was all the rage at Talley Middle School upon its release.

Gets a bit lost trying to decide whether it’s a slasher flick or psychological thriller. Still creepy: Candyman’s first appearance. Played by the 6’5,” velvetvoiced Tony Todd, Candyman came off as a cross between WWE’s Undertaker and Priest from Super Fly. Carnival of Souls (1962). An early example of how to stretch the limits of low-budget filmmaking—see Night of the Living Dead, Halloween, The Blair Witch Project et al—Carnival of Souls was shot in black-and-white for roughly $30,000 and starred an unknown actress, Candace Hilligoss, in the lead. She plays a young woman, displaced after a car accident, who can’t escape ghoulish images that become increasingly real.

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The Descent (2005). A group of female friends reunites to go spelunking in the Appalachians. One of them has the brilliant idea—unbeknownst to the others—to explore an unknown cave, inhabited by sub-human creatures called crawlers. All sorts of interpersonal issues bubble up. Think of this as Open Water 2: Adrift, but on land. Still creepy: a realization, then a soundless scream. (Make sure to watch the U.K. version.)

Halloween (2007). Say what you will about Rob Zombie—he’s tacky; he’s sick; he committed sacrilege by remaking a masterpiece. Guilty on all counts. But Zombie’s also smart enough, in part because he’s such a dedicated fan, to expose the core of fright. His vision of John Carpenter’s baby spends a lot of time constructing a pathos for Michael Myers, something we’ve long struggled with. Up until the hospital breakout, we were on the young Myers’ side. Things go predictably downhill from there. Still creepy: Michael, in the psych ward, explaining why he makes masks.

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Hitcher (1986). The most graphically convincing PSA ever made about picking up hitchhikers. Relentless, brutal, and unapologetic, The Hitcher got written off by critics upon its release but has grown into a cult classic. (It even inspired a sequel and a remake.) Still creepy: French-fry fingers; the revving of the truck engine when Nash is tied up; Rutger Hauer.

It (1990). If you were 11 when It was broadcast on ABC over two nights in November, you went to school those next days shell-shocked and with a newfound fear of clowns. It’s unbelievable what they got away with on network television. Still creepy: Bev’s return to her childhood home; anytime Pennywise is onscreen.

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(1990). A Vietnam vet is tormented by vivid hallucinations of demons, death, and spinning heads.

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like the worst bad-acid trip imaginable. Still creepy: whatever that thing is that gets caught on the wheel of the gurney.

The Last House on the Left (1972). Horror master Wes Craven’s directorial debut about a pair of young women who leave the safety of the countryside to see a concert in the city, only to fall into the hands of a group of thugs. Every horrible crime you can think of ensues, quite graphically. Several Craven trademarks get their trial run: the brutal robbing of innocence, the concerned parents, the bumbling police, the bloodthirsty revenge. Still creepy: every scene in the woods.

Pet Sematary (1989). Stephen King adaptations don’t always get a piece of the ball, but when they do—Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Christine, Misery—they’re homeruns. Pet Sematary isn’t one of them; the plot, let’s face it, is laughable.

(Burying people in a cemetery for dead pets? And thinking it’s normal?) Worthwhile, though, for one particular ashback scene‌ Still creepy: two words: Zelda’s room. Two more words: clean underwear. You’ll need the second if you watch the ďŹ rst.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). A Harvard anthropologist (Bill Pullman) travels to Haiti to investigate the eects of a drug, winds up exploring a voodoo practice that turns people into zombies. Based on Wade Davis’ controversial book and directed by our go-to fright pal, Wes Craven. Still creepy: Our protagonist, pale and staggering, ďŹ ghting to be buried alive.

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The Strangers (2008). A couple having commitment issues ends up at a secluded house after a wedding. They’re soon joined by a trio of psychotic roamers, whose faces are never revealed. Inspired by the director’s childhood experience and the Keddie murders of 1981. This movie will shake you to your core. Still creepy: every scene. Especially the one with the record skipping.

Twisted (1986). A before-he-was-famous Christian Slater stars in this portrait of a serial killer as a young man. One who kills cats and listens to Nazi marching music. Still creepy: It’s been years since I’ve seen this movie, and even then, it was on Philly 57 on a Saturday afternoon. Still, it was disturbing enough to stay lodged in my memory. (Twisted is out-of-print on video and has yet to get a DVD release.)

Wolf Creek (2005). Friends get stuck in the Australian outback when their car dies. Along comes a helpful gentleman‌ Watch the rest at your own discretion. Still creepy: The fact that this movie is inspired by some very real Australian murder cases. And that director Greg McLean stopped one of the torture scenes because he thought it was going too far.

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A Vote for Original Music Local bands and their fans offer a lesson in democracy

By Jim Miller

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t’s election time.

Will the hopes of the voting public be met, or should we prepare for a cacophony of phony baloney?

If you, too, are already feeling bombarded by the media blitz and searching for shelter, hang in there.

There’s a glimpse of light up ahead.

Recently, two old pals from the past election—hope and change—were seen hanging out in an unlikely place.

If you’re interested, you can find them, too. Just go check out one of the several promising original bands playing around currently.

Or consider Musikarmageddon, a battle-of-the-band-type event series that Out & About holds each year in conjunction with the Grand, Miller Lite, Kelly’s Logan House, and 23rd Century Inc. Sixteen area bands entered the competition this year.

The winners of each of the 12 headto-head challenges were determined by a 50/50 combination of celebrity judging and audience participation: one fan, one vote.

Many aspects of this year’s Musikarmageddon have struck chords that harmonize with our American ideals. The voting, of course, is the most obvious. Another significant similarity— stated in the vernacular of Lennon (not www.out-and-about.com

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Lenin!)—is power of the people.

The public support for this year’s Musikarmageddon has been overwhelming, so much so that Kelly’s Logan House recently announced they will showcase local original music on Thursday nights. Both the bands and their fans have spoken.

As if truly harmonized, the bands have consistently behaved as if this was more of a cooperative effort than a competition. They have been patient, understanding, and gracious. No rockstar attitudes. How refreshing.

Can you imagine for a moment if our elected officials—and the zealots on either side of the party lines—approached the whole democratic experience the same way? Working for a greater good?

Last but not least, let’s not overlook the American virtue of ingenuity.

Certainly we haven’t come as far as a country by imitating the blueprints of industrial advancements as we have by inventing the key components that define the actual industries. Our nation has been home of the pioneers and the trailblazers of the world. As Americans, this defines us. We celebrate ingenuity.

Why should we treat local music any differently?

Reward those who create something new, or rehash the same old song? The

Beatles started off as a hard-working, raucous cover band. But one day, they made the decision to start playing their own songs. And that changed the world.

Music, it seems, may not be so different than politics, after all.

On Saturday, Oct. 9, at the Baby Grand in Wilmington, four local, original bands will battle it out for a hearty Musikarmageddon grand-prize package.

But they’ll also be staking a flag for the original-music scene.

If you’re looking for some hope and change locally, come out and support something unique to our area. You will be surprised. You will be inspired.

That’s a promise you can believe.

Musikarmageddon Finals Saturday, Oct. 9 at the Baby Grand Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

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The Final 4: Brixton Saint Jackets New Sweden Villains Like You

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MUSIC

Just in time for our favorite holiday, we look into the witches’ cauldron to brew up a couple of appropriately themed playlists.

Enjoy, if you dare...

HELLOWEEN The Undead

Halloween isn’t Halloween without hearing these timeless tracks.

Blue Oyster Cult, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”

(Spoo)key lyric: “Baby, take my hand / We’ll be able to fly…”

By Michael Pollock Above: Grinderman, in the pale moonlight.

Geto Boys, “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.” (Spoo)key lyric: “I sit alone in my four-

John Carpenter, Halloween theme.

Carpenter, who also wrote and directed the 1978 classic, borrows a bit of punkrock philosophy in composing the score, making just a few notes go a terrifyingly long way.

(Spoo)key moment: 15 seconds in, the first ominous chord.

The Others

cornered room staring at candles…”

Liven things up with these lesser-known selections.

Marilyn Manson, “Sweet Dreams”

The Knife, “Forest Families.” Something

(Eurythmics cover).

(Spoo)key lyric: “Some of them want to abuse you / Some of them want to be abused.”

about the twitchy synths here call to mind that nightmare where you’re running but not really moving, like the scenery is on some kind of endless treadmill loop. And what kind of family lives in a forest, anyway? A crazy one, that’s what kind.

Marilyn Manson, “Mind of a Lunatic” (Geto Boys cover). Two of our favorite Halloween artists combine for this, Brian Warner’s ethereal, 10-minute spoken-word take on a song that almost got Houston’s finest banned from record stores 20 years ago.

Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

(Spoo)key lyric: “The bats have left the bell tower / The victims have been bled.”

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Evil Nine’s VHS Halloween Party.

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Mojo 13 Oct. 9: The Hold Steady (sold out) Oct. 16: Tric Town (indie-music showcase) Tuesdays @ 9pm: Karaoke Champs Hosted by Gentle Jones & featuring a trophy prize myspace.com/mojothirteen Musikarmageddon Oct. 9: O&A/Miller Litesponsored battle of the bands.

Finals @ the Baby Grand, featuring Jackets, New Sweden, Brixton Saint & Villains Like You outandaboutnow.com New Sweden (roots rock) Oct. 5: Catherine Rooney’s (Newark) myspace.com/newswedenmusic The Sky Drops (shoegaze) Oct. 2: M Room (Philly) theskydrops.com

>>>STAFF PLAYLIST Ariel Pink Before Today Salem King Night Tennis “Marathon” The Weather Girls “It’s Raining Men” Michael Pollock, editor-in-chief Herbie Hancock “Space Captain” Fleetwood Mac “Oh Well” Jim Miller, director of publications Boy George “Bow Down, Mister” Three Dog Night “Never Been to Spain” Yarn “Empty Pockets” Shawna Sneath, senior graphic designer

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horror movies and its format of choice.

You can even hear videotape garble on some parts, which include scores and interludes from movies you’re more likely to catch on a VCR: Halloween III, The Video Dead, Dawn of the Mummy.

Ends with Eagles of Death Metal’s “Kiss the Devil,” which should end every Halloween party.

Danzig, “Thirteen.” Ex-Misfit Glenn Danzig wrote this song, about an unlucky soul, for Johnny Cash, who immortalized it on his 1994 comeback album American Recordings. Danzig later recorded his own crushing version, which became immortalized when it was included, inexplicably, in The Hangover.

Grinderman, “Grinderman.” Nick Cave at his gothic, haunted-chapel best.

Also an excuse to put Nick Cave in the magazine and mention that Grinderman have a great new album out.

Horseback, The Invisible Mountain.

Inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, Chapel Hill dronemetal enthusiast Jenks Miller called upon friends and fellow musicians to create this four-song, 38-minute masterwork of tension and paranoia.

Recently reissued by juggernaut label Relapse. (Hear it and buy it at horseback.bandcamp.com.)

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Gutter Twins, “Seven Stories Underground.” An especially bluesy cut by Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and former Afghan Whig Greg Dulli’s great side project, which is like Morphine with less horns and more bad moods. All of Saturnalia could squeeze in here, really.

The Rapture, “Olio.” The restrained opener off the Brooklyn dance-rock band’s breakthrough album, Echoes, where the black magic lies in the stairstep piano. Plus: notice the Cure weren’t on this list? With Luke Jenner’s Robert Smith-pitched cries—“Over and over again…”—they are now.

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NIGHTLIFE

Look Who’s 31!

The Halloween Loop is all grown up, but the fun remains the same

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he biggest night out in the city of Wilmington is such a perennial favorite that we hardly need to write anything about it. All we need to do is tell you the date (it’s Saturday, Oct. 30) and which bars are participating (see the ad opposite this page).

It’s worth noting, however, that the Halloween Loop is now in its third decade.

(For those keeping score at home, it’s officially the 31st Loop.) And while we’ve seen the Loop grow and change through the years, some things will always be the same.

For one, the costumes get better (sometimes shorter and more revealing) every year. Pop-culture tie-ins are always popular; expect current events and public figures to influence costume decisions. That means we should see more than a few Christine O’Donnells, Lady Gaga meat dresses, Justin Biebers, and Jersey Shore cast members.

No. 2: The Loop is for love. Who says you can’t meet your future mate at a bar? Take Ashley Phillips, who met her husband Mike at Cavanaugh’s on the 1993 Halloween Loop. They went on a few more Loops together, got married in 1999, and had two kids. Family commitments what they are, the Phillips haven’t been on a Loop in nearly 15 years. But Ashley recently wrote to us to say they’re coming back out for this one.

No. 3: The Loop is for questions about the Loop. In the weeks leading up to the big night, our office is inundated with calls pertaining to any or all of the following: “Where can I get a wristband?” (At any of the participating Loop venues the night of. They’re $10 each and can’t be purchased in advance.) “Where do I start?”

(Anywhere you want. Buses start running at 8 p.m. and come by approximately every 15 minutes.) “Do I have to wear a costume?” (No, but everyone else will, so be a good sport and join in.)

And yet, there are still surprises. We’re thrilled to see the return of Market Street this year, as several venues along what was once a key corridor have been added to the mix. That bumps the total number of Loop spots to 20, easily the most we’ve had since the early ’90s. A sign of revitalization amidst the biggest party of the year? Hopefully, we’ll see more of that, too.

For all your Loop questions, go to OutAndAboutNow.com or call 655-6483.

And check our Facebook page throughout the month for a chance to win wristbands! www.out-and-about.com

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Buffalo Wild Wings

Deer Park Tavern

Bear, Dover, Limestone Rd., Middletown, Newark Number of TVs: 33+ w/NFL & NCAA packages Beers on tap: 20-24; bottled beers: 35 NFL specials: $3 Tall Miller Lite during all pro games; $3 appetizer menu on Mondays, 6 p.m. to close; daily bottle and drink specials

108 W. Main St., Newark; 369-9414 Number of TVs: 24 w/NFL package Beers on tap: 12; bottled beers: 39 NFL specials: half-price wings

buffalowildwings.com

WHERE to watch the game

C.R. Hooligans Sports Bar & Restaurant 1616 Delaware Ave., Trolley Square; 654-9700 Number of TVs: 25 plus one 92-inch big screen; NFL, NCAA, & Big Ten packages Beers on tap: 7; bottled beers: 30+ NFL & NCAA specials: 45¢ wings; 28 wings + domestic pitcher for $14.99; $2 domestic drafts; $8 domestic pitchers; Phillies specials: $2.50 Monster 23-oz. domestic drafts; $1 hot dogs

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BBC Tavern & Grill

Dead Presidents

4019 Kennett Pike, Greenville; 655-3785 Number of TVs: 5 flat-screens Beers on tap: 16; bottled beers: 60+ NFL & NCAA specials: 50¢ wings; buckets of Miller Lite (5) for $12; $1 off domestic draft beers; $2 off craft and import drafts; “Burger and a Bloody” for $12.95

618 N. Union St., Wilmington; 652-7737 Number of TVs: 6 w/NFL package Beers on tap: 8; bottled beers: 22 NFL specials: $2 Bud Light drafts; special burger menu; wings special; Phillies specials: $2 Miller Lite drafts; half off any food item w/Phillies ticket before or after game

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deadpresidentspub.com

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FireStone 110 S. West St, Wilm. Riverfront; 658-6626 Number of TVs: 24; w/NFL package Beers on tap: 3; bottled beers: 25 NFL specials: Tailgate Party on Sundays from 11:30am-6pm featuring a special “Tailgate Menu” cooked on an outside grill, ice cold beers, and tailgate games such as Bean Bag Toss and Ladder Toss.

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Grotto Pizza 17 locations in Delaware Number of TVs: 15-25; NFL & MLB packages at many Beers on tap: 6-14; bottled beers: 16-22 NFL, MLB, NCAA Specials: $3 big beers (Bud, Bud Light, Bud Select); $2 Coors Light pints; $9.99 XL pizza w/one topping; $5.99 wings; $1 pretzel sticks

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Love Seed Mama Jump

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Number of TVs: 8 plus one 10-foot big screen; NFL & MLB packages

Beers on tap: 10; bottled beers: 33 NFL specials: $2 Miller Lite and Coors Light draft & bottles; $3 Bloody Marys; Phillies special: $2 Bud products loganhouse.com

Kid Shelleen’s 14th & Scott sts., Wilmington; 658-4600 Number of TVs: 6 w/NFL & MLB packages Beers on tap: 10; bottled beers: 33 NFL specials: Special appetizer menu during all games; drink specials

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McGlynns Pub Polly Drummond, Peoples Plaza Number of TVs: 17 w/NFL package Beers on tap: 12-15; bottled beers: 45-50 NFL specials: half-price pitchers of Miller Lite and Coors Light; half-price wings; half-price nachos

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Timothy’s of Newark 100 Creek View Rd., Newark; 738-9910 Number of TVs: 30 w/NFL package Beers on tap: 36; bottled beers: 40 NFL specials: $2 Bud Light drafts $4 Captain Morgan drinks and $6.99 food specials

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Stanley’s Tavern 2038 Foulk Rd., Wilmington; 475-1887 Number of TVs: 30 w/NFL package Beers on tap: 18; bottled beers: 58 NFL specials: 2-for-1 wings and $2.50 Miller Lite pints on Sundays; half-price burgers for MNF (also prizes and giveaways w/Bill Bergey); plus $2.50 ice-cold pints of Miller Lite, Coors Light, Yuengling, Blue Moon, Yuengling Light Lager, and Leinenkugel

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Washington Street Ale House 1206 Washington St., Wilmington; 658-2537 Number of TVs: 8 plus 10-inch HD big screen upstairs for private parties; NFL, MLB, and NCAA packages Beers on tap: 24; bottled beers: 8 NFL specials: $2 Amstel Light and Yuengling drafts; $2 chili cheese dogs; $3 pretzels sticks; $5 pulled-pork nachos on Sat, Sun, and Mon during games in the bar

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Laura Crozier, Kelly Ellis

Jenna Hall, Kevin Scallin, Beth Oliphant, John Weaver

Augusta Meets Main Street The Delaware Jaycees reintroduce Pub Putt Golf to Newark

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ast month, teams of amateur golfers found themselves trying to get a hole-in-one in places they would typically find themselves trying to secure a spot at the bar.

That was due to the Delaware Jaycees’ Pub Putt Golf, which returned to Newark after a two-year hiatus. Participants thoroughly welcomed its return.

Teams of golfers strolled through downtown Newark playing a course made up of eight holes, one each at Santa Fe, Klondike Kate’s, Caffé Gelato, California Tortilla, Kildare’s, Grotto Pizza, Deer Park, and Pat’s MVP (where participants enjoyed Ursus vodka drinks at the official after party).

The venues designed and created their own golf holes. Inventiveness ran rampant, with results ranging from a scaled model of an Irish Castle to a scaled model of Klondike Kate’s. In the end, Pat’s MVP won the prize for Best Pub Putt hole.

For more on the Jaycees and the work they do, go to delawarejaycees.com.

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Wilmington ML_Logo_4CP

of Happy Hours Every Monday – Friday 4pm–7pm

$1.50 domestic pints $1.50 OFF any drink or draft

Free Happy Hour Buffet 1/2 price appetizers 1616 Delaware Ave, Wilmington • 302.654.9700

Now Open! Catherine Rooney’s on Main Street 102 East Main Street, Newark 302.369.7330 specials are for the Wilmington location only

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STANLEY’S

75TH ANNIVERSARY Celebration Presented by:

MONDAY NIGHT

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Miller Lite, Coors Light & Yuengling Lager Specials 2-FOR-1 WINGS Weekly Door Prizes: Dinners for 2, Coolers, Footballs, Hats, T-Shirts & More!

WEEKLY GRAND PRIZE! BILL BERGEY

2 Eagles Tickets. 35-yard line Lower-level with Limo Transportation

See official rules at stanleys-tavern.com

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STADIUM CLUB ROOM Banquets for 25 to 100 People

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1/2 price appetizers $5 Mojitos 1/2 price Sauza margaritas

Celebrate with a Pink Potion!

$2 Bud Light Drafts for Everyone!

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Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

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Sunday

1/2 price wings

1/2 price burgers ALL DAY!

All you can eat wings $9.99 Oldies DJ Dance Party at Polly Drummond and Peoples Plaza locations

All you can eat shrimp $10.99 Prime Rib $14.99 while supplies last

Beef & Beer $6 Brunch 10am–2pm Dover location only

* Food specials start @ 5:00pm Not available for take out

Friday Night Oldies DJ Dance Party at Polly Drummond and Peoples Plaza Locations

FALL FOOTBALL SPECIALS Sunday and Monday Night Football – 1/2 Price Pitchers – Miller Lite, Coors Light Happy Hour Now 3 -7pm

– 1/2 Price Wings – – 1/2 Price Nachos –

www.mcglynnspub.com 800 N. State St | Dover, DE | 302-674-0144 8 Polly Drummond Shopping Center | Newark, DE | 302-738-7814 108 Peoples Plaza (Corner of Rtes. 40 & 896) | Newark, DE | 302-834-6661

Brewed exclusively for McGlynns Pub & Deer Park Tavern by Twin Lakes Brewery www.out-and-about.com

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Wilmington Jaycees Brew Review

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Wastewater-control system almost complete

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he city is nearing completion of a $27 million underground wastewater-control system designed to decrease the amount of rainwater and sewage polluting the city’s waterways. The latest phase of the system is the $10 million Real Time Control (RTC) program, a state-of-the-art technology that enables the city to manage waterquality issues related to Wilmington’s sewage system. The complete RTC system is expected to be operational by February 2011.

Once operational, the RTC system will help Wilmington meet or possibly exceed the EPA mandate that the city “capture and treat” 85 percent of the flow (which comes by way of annual rainfall) from its combined sewer system; currently, Wilmington is only able to capture and treat approximately 50 percent.

Art Museum appoints first chief curator in 8 years

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he Delaware Art Museum recently appointed Dr. Margaretta Frederick as the institution’s chief curator, a position that has been vacant since 2002.

Dr. Frederick serves as the Curator of the Museum’s Samuel and Mary F. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art. As part of her expanded position, she will lead the curatorial vision for the museum’s upcoming centennial celebration, which includes a major exhibition of the works of Howard Pyle. In addition, Dr. Frederick will continue her role as curator of the Bancroft Collection, the museum’s prized collection of approximately 150 paintings, drawings, prints, and decorative arts. The museum’s Pre-Raphaelite holding is the largest such collection outside of Britain, and is supported by a significant archival collection.

Wilmington Renaissance Corporation

WRC News

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t’s that time of year again—the leaves have turned, temperatures have cooled, and the fall season has set in. Although the sizzle of summer is now a memory, Wilmington is just heating up with its arts and culture scene.

It’s sometimes easy to forget how many cultural gems exist in Wilmington, not to mention in such close proximity to one another. World-renowned art collections and exhibits; international stars and actors performing onstage; quality teachers at the helms of art, dance, and vocal classes; independent films—Wilmington truly has it all.

The individual institutions could shine on their merits alone, but as a whole, the collection is an even greater treasure to our city, area, and region. At a time when people are experiencing hard times because of the economy, we need to be inspired, uplifted, entertained, and moved more than ever. The arts in Wilmington are the way to achieve that.

Find out more about the offerings of the city’s arts and culture community, and show your love for the many institutions that keep our city vibrant.

They include:

Christina Cultural Arts Center • City Theater Company Delaware Art Museum • Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts • Delaware Symphony Orchestra • Delaware Theatre Company • DuPont Theatre • First State Ballet Theatre Grand Opera House • Opera Delaware • Theatre N

WRC’s Favorites

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very month, we’ll feature a few of the staff ’s favorite things happening in the city. Our favorites for September include (in no particular order!):

New addition to Fish & Richardson office

• Primo Hoagies recently opened at 823 Market St.

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• The Riverfront Market is now home to Bella Vista Pizzeria.

ish & Richardson recently announced that W. Chad Shear, a principal in the firm’s Dallas office, has relocated to its Wilmington office, where he will be a member of F&R’s growing Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Litigation Group.

Over the past two years, Fish has handled 18 new patent cases based on Abbreviated New Drug Applications, in which branded pharmaceutical companies who sell patented drugs are pitted against generics seeking to enter the market. In total, Fish has 24 pending ANDA cases.

• Paradise Palms at Ninth and King hosts Jazz on My Mind every Wednesday evening.

• WRC’s golf outing is Oct. 21, the Downtown Fall Fest is Nov. 6 on Market Street, and the CityLife Awards are Nov. 30 at Public House.

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City Notes

Red Light Camera program gets upgrades

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he city’s Red Light Camera Safety Program recently underwent significant changes and upgrades, Mayor Baker and Police Chief Szczerba announced. These include seven new camera locations and a system-wide upgrade to digital technology, which will enable the city to better enforce violations of the “right turn on red” laws, as well as violations of traveling through a red light. Digital technology will produce both still images and video of the violation, thus providing additional information to help determine whether a vehicle was forced into an intersection by an emergency vehicle, for example, and whether a vehicle made a right turn on red after coming to a complete stop, which is required by law.

Installation of the upgraded digital red-light cameras is underway. The seven new locations, which will be activated on Monday, Oct. 4, are: • Pennsylvania Avenue WB at North Lincoln Street • Lancaster Avenue EB at South Cleveland Avenue • Pennsylvania Avenue EB at North Franklin Street • South Heald Street SB at D Street • Fourth Street WB at Adams Street • Fourth Street WB at North Washington Street • Lancaster Avenue WB at South Cleveland Avenue The city’s 27 existing red-light cameras are also being upgraded to digital technology.

Wilmington University scholarship program announced for firefighters and police officers

Market Street welcomes Italian, Irish fare

ayor Baker and Wilmington University president Jack Varsalona recently announced the establishment of a scholarship program benefitting City of Wilmington firefighters and police officers.

The new program, which commences with the 2010-11 school year and ends with the 2013-14 school year, offers 20 tuition-free undergraduate or graduate classes (10 for the fire department and 10 for the police department) at Wilmington University per academic year. The program is open to any uniformed services officer or firefighter who has completed one year of service. The employee must have a satisfactory performance evaluation at the time of the request. Scholarships are limited to tuition only; books, travel, or other associated fees or costs are not covered. Eligible officers/firefighters may apply for more than one course per semester or school year. Scholarship recipients are expected to receive a grade of at least a C or a 2.0 on a 4.0 scale for each course taken.

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fter many years of satisfying the unforgiving and discerning tastes of South Philly’s finest, Primo Hoagies (primohoagies.com) has finally brought its renowned brand of classic Italian hoagies to downtown Wilmington—823 Market St., to be exact.

Known throughout the region for its diverse menu and specialty sandwiches, Primo is what Mayor Baker calls “the perfect ‘street-level’ food for the downtown community— delicious, affordable, and portable.”

Joining Primo down the street is Shenanigans (shenanigansonmarket.com), an Irish-flavored pub at 125 Market St. Boasting standard fare like burgers, wings, and drink specials, Shenanigans lives up to its heritage with homeland-inspired dishes (Guinness Irish stew, corned beef and cabbage).

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Taste over 40 incredible wines from around the world!

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CHRISTINA REGATTA Head to the river for this year’s Christina Regatta s any crew member will tell you, the real fun happens off the water. At this year’s Head of the Christina Regatta on Sunday, Oct. 3, for example, you’ll find live jazz and great food in addition to the 2.75-mile competitive races, which include all levels and categories (novice through topskilled; sculling and sweep; youth through masters; open and club; schools and open youth). Rowing is still a priority: First-place medals will be handed out for each event. (regattacentral.com, wyra.org)

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A Corvette through-the-years exhibit will also be on display, as will Marvel superheroes Iron Man and the Green Goblin (for the kids, of course). Tickets are $10 for adults; kids get in free. (delawareautoshow.com)

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Take home-shopping to new levels at the Delaware Home Show irst-time house-buyers and well-worn homeowners alike will find plenty of ideas at the Fall Delaware Home Show, returning to the Chase Center the weekend of Oct. 16-17. More than 150 exhibits will be featured, covering landscaping, cabinetry and storage, heating and air, cleaning systems, flooring, weatherproofing, decorating, security, kitchens, baths, sunrooms, and more. (hbade.org)

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Christina Cultural Arts Center Conversation & Book Signing with Judge Glenda Hatchett October 6, 3:00-5pm Tickets: www.ccacde.org

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the competition will receive six months of free studio space at the co-op.

“Filmmakers will be able to contact Film Brothers and say, ‘We’re looking to do a casting call for actors and we need the space,’” says Ric Edevane, president of Delaware Independent Filmmakers. “It will be another venue for artists to sharpen their skills and showcase their work. The space is a win-win for both Delaware and the filmmakers who live here.”

A key motivation to begin the coop, DelGiorno adds, was to dovetail the creative aspect of filmmaking with the needs of the business community. “We see the co-op as a place where business meets the arts. When businesses support the arts, it ties them in with their community and creates relationships.

Yes, we will hand the keys to both new and established filmmakers, but we also want the location to be a place where those who aren’t even in the film industry can benefit from it.”

This year, In 200 Words or Less was screened at both national and international film festivals, was the recipient of the coveted Award of Merit from the Festival of Hollywood, and receives its Delaware premiere at Theatre N on Oct. 1-3 as part of Fringe Wilmington, the city’s experimentalarts gathering. When Giuffrida imagines his filmmaking career, he envisions “making the films I want, where I will have the ability to express myself and create my own stories.” No filmmaker does that in the solitude of an editing room, he says. “Wherever you go as a filmmaker, you have to make sure you make the right connections and meet the right people. I’ve seen the generosity of people in Delaware, who have a passion about filmmaking and really want to create art.

“For a filmmaker, it’s important to be part of people who gather in the same room to talk about films,” he says.

“The new location will be a place where all of that passion can be shared under one roof.”

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LoMa welcomes the city’s first filmmaking co-op, where art and business can happily get along n 2009, throughout parts of Wilmington and Philadelphia, Delaware filmmaker Mauro Giuffrida shot In 200 Words or Less, his film about finding love in an age of online-dating technology. Once the shooting ended, Giuffrida retreated to his little studio on Montchanin Road to pare down the film to 84 minutes.

The world of filmmaking is both a splendor of unlimited ideas shot in wideopen spaces and a myopic drudgery of editing, looping, and voiceovers done in near hibernation. For months, Giuffrida pored over every frame of his film, and during the process, longed to be among other filmmakers, sharing ideas and stories. He’s not alone; throughout Delaware’s emerging filmmaking scene, there are many directors, actors, and producers who have wanted a social and work space to talk F-stops and POVs. Soon, they will have one, right here in Wilmington.

In November, Wilmington-based Film Brothers Productions will open the doors to Film Brothers’ Co-Op, a

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2,500-square-foot, multi-purpose space in the heart of the LoMa District in Wilmington. (LoMa is short for Lower Market Street.) The facility, located at 205 N. Market St., will serve as a central meeting place for filmmakers, producers, cinematographers, and others involved in the local movie industry. According to Film Brothers’ co-owner Gordon DelGiorno, the facility will primarily serve as a gathering site for filmmakers: providing a high-speed wireless connection, access to film equipment for shooting and editing, and the opportunity to share ideas with other filmmakers using the space.

In addition, the co-op will play host to film festivals, showcase the work of Delaware filmmakers, provide studio space and editing technology, and provide fundraising, networking, and business-partnership opportunities through events held throughout the year.

As a kick-off to the co-op, Film Brothers is sponsoring a contest for filmmakers to create their own two-minute film about the city of Wilmington. The winner of

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Rothrock’s Twin Obelisks for Brownie, a 14-foot granite piece at 16th Street and Clifford Brown Walk. Phases I and II have been unveiled; plans are soon to be announced for Phase III. In May, a banner depicting musical legends with city ties was installed at the corner of Sixth and Market streets.

The biggest of its kind in the country (based on it rounding a corner), the 2,500-square-foot banner features Clifford Brown, David Bromberg, Bob Marley, Cab Calloway, Susan Stroman, and George Thorogood. “We were asked to come up with something to liven up the building,” says Simon Cranny of Precision Graphics, which helped install the piece. “The frame system gives us the option to change out graphics at some point down the road.”

In other words, don’t be surprised to see other familiar faces, and a new city space, added to the list. in

While the historic mansion remains closed, the Coffin Gardens at Gibraltar are open year-round.

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At left, the Caesar Rodney statue depicts the determined Declaration signer mid-ride. Right: J. Ernest Smith was perhaps equally passionate when he had a fountain installed in Brandywine Park in honor of his wife, Josephine.

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Places in 1998. Still, like many spaces in Wilmington, rediscovery is sometimes in order. Created between 1916 and 1923 by Marian Cruger Coffin, one of the first female landscape architects in the country, the Coffin Gardens at Gibraltar feature marble terraces and a grand staircase, plus plenty of foliage.

(Open year-round, they’re a popular location for weddings.)

Walk just past the former Shipyard Shops on the Riverfront and behold the Russell W. Peterson Wildlife Refuge, more than 200 acres of restored marsh now home to urban wildlife and named after the former governor and activist.

The refuge rests on the DuPont Environmental Education Center, which boasts a laboratory, exhibits, a botanical garden, and a boardwalk.

An office-building plaza might seem an unlikely setting for a modern work of wonder. But that’s where Kenneth Davis’ jaw-dropping Kinetic Sculptures can be found. Watch as three marble spheres—one weighing 1,500 lbs.,

another weighing 3,000 lbs., and a third at 6,000 lbs.—spin on top of the tiniest bit of water at Hercules Plaza (1313 N. Market St.).

Religion We recently devoted a three-part series in our City Sights department to historical Wilmington churches (see the June, July, and August issues of this year). We had to mention, of course, Old Swedes (606 Church St.), consecrated in 1699 for the Dutch settlers. It’s the oldest church, still standing as originally built, not only in Wilmington but in the entire country.

At the corner of Delaware Avenue and North Adams Street is Trinity Episcopal Church (used for the first time in 1891), notable for its stoic Gothic form and beautiful Tiffany windows.

The Trinity Vicinity neighborhood gets its name from the church.

Several blocks away and a few decades earlier, Grace United Methodist Church (Ninth and Washington sts.) broke ground during the Civil War. Its stained-glass windows are a spiritual treasure, and can be viewed from both inside and outside the church.

Arts & Culture Travelers heading in and out of the Wilmington Amtrak Station might be in a rush, but they’ve certainly noticed the mosaic that graces the station entrance. The piece was done by painter and muralist Joyce Kozloff, one tile at a time, over 1980-84. Kozloff, who was commissioned to do similar pieces in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Detroit, and San Francisco, has said of public art, “Decoration humanizes our living and working spaces.”

The Delaware Art Museum hosts some of the most recognized exhibits in the country, but peek around in the Copeland Sculpture Garden and you’ll find Tom Otterness’ Crying Giant, a 13foot bronze sculpture created in 2002 and a favorite of younger visitors, as well as the labyrinth in the Anthony N. Fusco Reservoir. Take your time here.

As the Art Museum website states, “A labyrinth is not a maze; if you follow the single, folded path, you will arrive in the center.”

The DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Fest won’t roll around again until June, but the trumpeter’s legacy lives on yearround with Wilmington sculptor Rick

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Memorials for fallen soldiers—Vietnam at top left, WWI at right—give Brandywine Park a sense of history and humility.

artists, likely because his work can be found in many of the city’s resting areas. American Youth, a statue of a boy and his two dogs commissioned for aesthetic purposes in 1967, sits in the triangle that separates Pennsylvania and Delaware avenues. Father and Son highlights Spencer Plaza (800 N. French St.), named after former slave Peter Spencer, who founded the first independent black Christian church on the premises. Parks also created the Vietnam Memorial in Brandywine Park (dedicated to Delawareans who served in the war), as well as the African American Medal of Honor Recipients Memorial across the lawn, which honors “supreme acts of heroism” during “actual conflict with an enemy.” Across

the street, and not the work of Parks, stands an angel of mercy, an untitled sculpture built in 1925 and dedicated to the Delaware soldiers and sailors who died in WWI. Delaware also has Caesar Rodney to thank for its freedom, as he rode 80 miles, mostly on horseback, in order to sign the Declaration of Independence.

That infamous journey is captured in Rodney Square, with a sculpture of Rodney and his horse, mid-ride, galloping through the city on their way to Philadelphia.

Nature & Outdoors You see it every time you’re in Rockford Park, but when’s the last time you took a trip to the top? Rockford

Tower, a 100-year-old stone structure, boasts a stunning panoramic view of the city and surrounding Brandywine Valley.

Poking through falling petals this time of year, Josephine Fountain, in Brandywine Park, is one man’s love letter to his wife. Local attorney J. Ernest Smith donated 114 Japanese flowering cherry trees to Brandywine Park in 1929. Four years later, as a memorial to his wife, Josephine Tatnall Smith, J. Ernest brought in the fountain.

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Exploring City Spaces Each day, we pass by places full of historic, artistic, and environmental value.

Here, we stop for a closer look.

By Michael Pollock photographs by Joy Smoker Murals & Markings As the city was undergoing its Riverfront-supported renaissance, the artist and marine-life lover Wyland created Whaling Wall (117 N. Market St., on the Trellist building) in August 1993. It was part of Wyland’s goal to paint 100 murals featuring life-size whales around the world. (He reached it in Beijing in 2008.)

Though it’s been converted into high-end living spaces and a hot urban restaurant (Public House Wilmington) on the ground floor, the former Delaware Trust Building (900 N. Market St.) still features remnants of its financial past. You can find the

old bank’s logo and details on the floor, walls, and balconies.

N.C. Wyeth’s Apotheosis of the Family graced the walls of WSFS’s former headquarters (at 838 Market St.) ever since the bank commissioned the piece in 1932.

When the bank moved in 2007, however, the five-panel, 1,000lb. Apotheosis was given to the Historical Society of Delaware, which is keeping the mural in storage until a permanent home can be arranged.

One of the latest additions to the city’s public-art catalog is the Little Italy Mural Project at 1025 N. Union St. The neighborhood association worked with M. Fierro

& Sons and local artists Louis Wilson and Maria Pepe to complete the 30’ x 70’ painting that adorns the M. Fierro building.

Statues Dedications to the city’s historical figures can be found all over. For starters, there’s the Louis L. Redding statue, situated, fittingly, in front of the City/ County Building at 800 N. French St. Redding was the first African American to be admitted to the bar, in 1929, and would go on to be a notable civil-rights lawyer in the ’50s.

Realist sculptor Charles Parks is one of Wilmington’s best-loved

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Friday, October 8 • 2010 Delaware Auto Show Friday, Oct. 8 - Sunday, Oct. 10 Chase Center on the Riverfront 815 Justison Street delawareautoshow.com

Saturday, October 9 • Brandi Carlile The rising folk-rock star has already worked with T-Bone Burnett, Rick Rubin & Elton John The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

Sunday, October 10 • Poetry Readings Sunday, October 10 - Sunday, December 5 Delaware Art Museum, 1:30-2pm delart.org • Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 5K Rodney Square, 8-11am makingstrides.acsevents.org • Capital Steps The Grand, 7-9pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org • Vendemmia Wine Festival Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park, 2-6pm societadavinci.com

• Kidney Walk Dravo Plaza @ Wilmington Riverfront 8:30am-12pm kidneywalk.org

Tuesday, October 26 • Chucho Valdes The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

• Buddy Guy At 74, the blues legend still electrifies The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

Tuesday, October 19

Wednesday, October 27

• ‘An Evening with Natalie Merchant’ and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

• ‘How to Plant Your New Bare Root Tree’ Delaware Center for Horticulture, 5-6:30pm 1810 North Dupont Street delhort.org

Monday, October 18

Friday, October 29 Wednesday, October 20 • “Sylvia” The aftermath of one man’s decision to bring home a stray dog he found in the park Wednesday, Oct. 20 - Sunday, Nov. 7 Delaware Theatre Company, 8-10pm 200 Water Street; 594-1100 delawaretheatre.org • Indigo Girls The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

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Thursday, October 21

• ‘Intelligent Giving’ Seminar Delaware Art Museum, 5-8pm 571-9590; delart.org

• Museum Book Club Thursday, Oct. 21 - Thursday, Nov. 18 Delaware Art Museum, 10am-12pm 571-9590; delart.org • Richard Thompson The guitar master plays in support of his critically acclaimed new album, Dream Attic, which was recorded live The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org • ‘Folk Traditions of the U.S.’ Featuring music & discussion led by David Bromberg The Music School of Delaware, 6:45-8:30pm 4101 Washington Street; 762-1132 musicschoolofdelaware.org

Friday, October 15 • “The Rainbow Fish” Friday, October 15 - Monday, October 25 DuPont Theatre, 9:30am-1:30pm 10th & Market Streets duponttheatre.com • Crystal J. Torres The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org • Coppelia First State Ballet performance Friday, October 15 & Saturday, October 16 The Grand Opera House 818 Market Street; 658-7897 ticketsatthegrand.org

Saturday, October 16 • Autumn with the Animals Brandywine Zoo, 1-3:30pm 1001 N. Park Drive; 571-7747 brandywinezoo.org • Delaware Home Show Saturday, October 16 & Sunday, October 17 Chase Center on the Riverfront, 10am-4pm 815 Justison Street; hbade.org

Sunday, October 17 • NBC's "Last Comic Standing"Live Tour Featuring the winner & finalists from this past summer’s season The Grand, 7-9pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org • Felipe Esparza Grand Opera House, 7-9:30pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 ticketsatthegrand.org

The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

Saturday, October 23 • Mélomanie Concert, wine tasting & party Blue Ball Barn, 6-9pm 1914 W. Park Drive; 764-6338 melomanie.org • Autumn with the Animals Brandywine Zoo, 1-3:30pm 1001 N. Park Drive; 571-7747 brandywinezoo.org • DCCA’S ‘Small Art / Big Auction’ Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, 8-11pm 200 S. Madison Street; thedcca.org • “The Wrong Shade of Black” Saturday, October 23 & Sunday, October 24 DuPont Theatre, 6-8pm 10th & Market Streets; 762-4776 priesttyaire.com, duponttheatre.com • ‘Open Wings, Broken Strings’ Tour Featuring a slate of ‘90s alt.rock stars, including Everclear’s Art Alexakis, Live’s Ed Kowalczyk & Sixpence None the Richer’s Leigh Nash

• Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Night of All Nights’ Gala Chase Center on the Riverfront, 6:30-10pm 815 Justison Street; 656-7442 delawaresymphony.org

Saturday, October 30 •Autumn with the Animals Brandywine Zoo, 1-3:30pm 1001 N. Park Drive; 571-7747 brandywinezoo.org • Festival of Goblins Delaware Art Museum, 4:30-7:30pm delart.org • Faithful Friends Fall Festival Riverfront Wilmington 427-8514; faithfulfriends.us • Cirque Productions DSO maestro David Amado conducts this colorful, costume-filled performance The Grand, 2-4pm 818 N. Market Street; 656-7442 delawaresymphony.org • Riverfront Tree Planting Wilmington Riverfront, 9am-12pm delhort.org • 31st Annual Halloween Loop 20 downtown nightspots outandaboutnow.com; 655-6483

Sunday, October 31 • Mental Health Association in Delaware's 8th annual E-Racing the Blues Dravo Plaza @ Riverfront Wilmington 8am-12pm eracingtheblues.org • 2nd Annual Union City Grille Halloween Treat 5K Union City Grille, 8am-1pm races2run.com

Saturday, November 6 • Downtown Fall Fest Market St, Wilmington Noon–4pm, FREE downtownwilmington.com

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An Evening with Natalie Merchant & the Delaware Symphony Orchestra.

The former Maniac puts a classical twist on her hits, plus performs new songs at the Grand on Oct. 19. photo by Mark Seliger

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• ‘On Assignment: American Illustration 1850-1950’ Thru Feb. 20, 2011 Delaware Art Museum delart.org • John Kimura Parker Friday, October 1 - Saturday, October 2 The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 656-7442 delawaresymphony.org • Fringe Wilmington Second annual experimental-arts festival Friday, October 1 - Sunday, October 3 Various downtown Wilmington locations 576-2100; fringewilmingtonde.com

An Evening with Natalie Merchant & the DSO

Sunday, October 3 • Woofstock: 20th annual Walk for the Animals Banning Park, 10am-2pm dehumane.org • Hispanic Heritage Family Day Delaware Art Museum, 5:30-7pm delart.org • Head of Christina Regatta Riverfront Wilmington, 10am-12pm 777-4533; wyra.org

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• Judge Glenda Hatchett book signing CCAC's Clifford Brown Performance Center, 705 N. Market Street, 3:30-5pm 652-0101; ccacde.org

Thursday, October 7 • Luminaria Labyrinth Walks Thursday, October 7 - Thursday, October 28 Delaware Art Museum, 5:30-7pm delart.org • Rhythm of Dance The Grand, 8-10pm 818 N. Market Street; 652-5577 thegrandwilmington.org

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