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BEST SEAFOODCatchMichael’s SeafoodHieronymus

BEST ITALIAN FOODOsteria CicchettiA Taste of ItalyGiorgio’s

BEST MEXICAN FOODEl Cerro GrandeLa CostaK-38 Baja Grill

BEST THAI/ VIETNAMESEIndochineBig Thai IIThai Spice

BEST JAPANESE FOODHiroNikki’s Fresh Gourmet & SushiYoSake

BEST CHINESE FOODSzechuan 132ChopstixDouble Happiness

BEST INDIAN FOODTandoori BitesIndia MahalWhole Foods

BEST FRENCH FOODCaprice BistroBrasserie du SoleilLe Catalan

BEST FAST FOODChick-Fil-ACookoutPT’s Old Fashioned Grille

BEST PIZZASlice of LifeIncredible PizzaPizzetta’s Pizzeria

BEST VEGETARIAN FOODTidal CreekNikki’s Fresh Gourmet & SushiLovey’s Market

BEST SOUL FOOD / COUNTRY COOKINGCasey’s BuffetBasicsSaltworks II

BEST BARBECUEJackson’s Big Oak BBQSmithfield’s Chicken & BBQCasey’s Buffet

BEST SUB / SANDWICH SHOPChop’s DeliJersey MikesSubway

BEST FRIESFive Guys Burgers and FriesMcDonald’sPT’s Old Fashioned Grille

BEST BURGERPT’s Old Fashioned GrilleFive Guys Burgers and FriesWinnie’s Tavern

BEST PANINIWayfarer Deli & BistroPanera BreadChop’s Deli

BEST HOT DOGTrolley StopPaul’s PlacePT’s Old Fashioned Grille

BEST BURRITOK-38 Baja GrillMoe’s Southwest GrillFlaming Amy’s Burrito Barn

BEST OYSTERSDock Street Oyster BarShuckin’ ShakHieronymus Seafood

BEST STEAKRuth’s Chris Steak HousePort City Chop HousePort Land Grille

BEST APPETIZERSCirca 1922Cameo 1900Front Street Brewery

BEST SALADSBrasserie du SoleilElizabeth’s PizzaRuby Tuesday

BEST DESSERTSCirca 1922Apple Annie’s Bake ShopSweet & Savory

BEST WAITSTAFFCopper PennyCirca 1922Nick’s Diner

BEST BREAKFASTDixie GrillGoody Goody Omelet HouseSweet & Savory

BEST ATMOSPHEREIndochineCirca 1922Little Dipper

BEST NEW RESTAURANTRX RestaurantHops Supply Co.Roko Italian Cuisine

BEST CHAIN RESTAURANTBonefish GrillChili’sOutback Steakhouse

BEST RESTAURANT (OVERALL)

IndochineCirca 1922Manna

BEST HOMEMADE BREADSweet & SavoryGreat Harvest Bread CompanyPanera

BEST HOMEMADE SOUPChop’s DeliSweet and SavoryPine Valley Market

BEST FINE DINING RESTAURANTCirca 1922MannaPort Land Grille

BEST DINERNick’s DinerCollege DinerDixie Grill

BEST BAKERYApple Annie’s Bake ShopSweet & SavoryLe Gemma

BEST LUNCHChop’s DeliSweet and SavoryMidtown Deli and Grill

BEST COFFEE SHOPJava DogPort City JavaStarbucks

BEST TAKE-OUTSahara Pita and SubsHibachi BistroChopstix

BEST CHEFKeith Rhodes – CatchJosh Woo – YoSakeJames Doss – RX Restaurant

BEST WINGSBuffalo Wild WingsWild Wing CafeCopper Penny

BEST ICE CREAMKilwinsFuzzy PeachVelvet Freeze

BEST SUSHINikki’s Fresh Gourmet and SushiBento BoxYoSake

BEST BUFFETHibachi Grill & Supreme BuffetGolden CoralCasey’s Buffet

BEST OUTDOOR DININGBluewater GrillDocksideIndochine

BEST LATE-NIGHT EATERYNick’s DinerJimbo’sSlice of Life

BEST DELICATESSANWayfarer Deli and BistroA Taste of ItalyChop’s Deli

BEST MEDITERRANEAN FOODBlack Sea GrillThe GreeksOlympia

BEST WINE / BEER SHOPLighthouse Beer and WineCape Fear Wine & BeerWilmington Wine

BEST GOURMET STOREPine Valley MarketWhole FoodsTemptations Everyday Gourmet

BEST HEALTH FOOD STORELovey’s MarketTidal CreekWhole Foods

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BEST SPORTS BARBuffalo Wild WingsCarolina Ale HouseKick Back Jacks

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD BARWhiskey Creek Sports PubDuck & DiveSatellite Bar and Lounge

BEST BARTENDERBenjamin Boron - Jack Mackerel’s Island GrillMegan Loux - Cape Fear Wine & BeerScott Wagner - Goat & Compass

BEST BAR (OVERALL)Satellite Bar and LoungeBlue Post BilliardsCape Fear Beer and Wine

BEST FOOD TRUCKFlaming Amy’sThe Patty WagonPoor Piggy’s

BEST WINE LISTThe Fortunate GlassCirca 1922Wilmington Wine

BEST PLACE TO BOARD A PETPaw BeachSylvia’sDog Club of Wilmington

BEST CHIROPRACTORSito ChiropracticBack ‘N MotionOleander Chiropractic

BEST PLACE FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINEMcKay Healing ArtsCarolina Beach AcupunctureWellspring Holistic Vet Care

BEST DENTISTBozart Family DentistrySalling and TateSkip Tyson

BEST VETERINARIANDineenWilmington Animal HealthcarePort City Animal Hospital

BEST PLACE TO BUY A NEW CARBob KingToyotaShaeffer BMW

BEST PLACE TO BUY A USED CARStevensonAuto WholesaleBob King

BEST AUTO MECHANICMobile TechBlack’s TireCoastal Carolina Automotive

BEST LOCAL BOOK STOREOld Books on Front StreetPomegranate BooksTwo Sisters Bookery

BEST FLORISTJulia’s FloristMoxieFiore Fine Flowers

BEST HAIR SALONBangzRockin’ Roller SalonSalon Beyond Basics

BEST TATTOO PARLORArt FuelHardwireJade Monkey

BEST PLACE TO BUY GASGo GasHessCostco

BEST PLACE TO BUY MUSICGravity RecordsYellow Dog DiscsBestBuy

BEST JEWELERPerry’s EmporiumReeds JewelersKingoff’s Jewelers, Inc.

BEST SURF SHOPBert’s Surf ShopSweetwater Surf ShopHot Wax Surf Shop

BEST WOMEN’S CLOTHINGHalleluEdge of UrgeIsland Passage

BEST MEN’S CLOTHINGBlokeBelkGentlemen’s Corner

BEST KID’S CLOTHINGGap KidsOld NavyOnce Upon A Child

BEST SHOE STORERack Room ShoesMonkees of WilmingtonBelk

BEST REAL ESTATE AGENCYIntracoastal RealtyColdwell Banker Seacoast AdvantageCentury 21 Sweyer and Associates

BEST LOCAL GARDEN STORETransplanted GardenZone 8The Plant Place

BEST CONSIGNMENT/RESALE-CLOTHESFairy CirclePlato’s ClosetClothes Mentor

BEST CONSIGNMENT/RESALE-DECORThe Ivy CottageHome AgainFlea Body’s

BEST ANTIQUE SHOPIvy CottageMichael Moore AntiquesThe Eclectic

BEST MORTGAGE COMPANYAlpha MortgageWells FargoCunningham and Company

BEST APARTMENT COMPLEXSouth Front ApartmentsReserve at MayfaireAvalon Apartments

BEST CAR WASHMister SudzyBuff MastersCruisers

BEST TANNING SALONTropical TansTimeless TansBronzed Tanning Salon

BEST GIFT SHOPBlue MoonPlanetIt’s Personal

BEST PRINT SHOPDock Street PrintingAll Ways GraphicsSign-A-Rama

BEST HOTELHilton Wilmington RiversideBlockade RunnerHoliday Inn Resort Wrightsville Beach

BEST ADULT STORESpycesAdam & EvePriscilla McColls

BEST MOVING COM-PANY2 Men and a TruckCoastal CarrierMurray Transportation

BEST MOTORCYCLE SHOPBritts MotorsportsHarley Davidson47 Cycles

BEST CATERING SERVICEMiddle of the Island CateringLittle Pond CateringPine Valley Market

BEST DOG GROOMERThe Purple GroomeryPort City Animal HospitalSea Peace Grooming

BEST PERSONAL TRAINERDrew DaltonLamaine WilliamsDee Whittington

BEST GYMGold’s GymPlanet FitnessCrest Fitness

BEST SPAKi SpaHead to Toe Day SpaBangz

BEST PLACE FOR A FIRST DATEIndochineCaprice BistroLittle Dipper

BEST PLACE TO BRING VISITORS OR OUT-OF-TOWNERSBattleship NCRiverwalkFort Fisher Aquarium

BEST PET-FRIENDLY BUSINESS OR RESTAURANTJava DogSatellite Bar and LoungeDuck & Dive Pub

BEST SHOPPING PLAZA:Mayfaire Town CenterLumina StationHanover Center

BEST MASSAGE THERA-PISTMassage Envy – Mike LodatoTanglez – Mary Beth RedmanBangz – Julie Sayre

BEST BOWLING ALLEYTen Pin AlleyCardinal LanesThunder Alley

BEST ARCADE/GAME ROOMBlue Post BilliardsJungle RapidsTen Pin Alley

BEST POOL HALLOrtonBlue Post BilliardsBreaktime

BEST LOCAL ATTRACTIONBattleship NCAirlie GardensFort Fisher Aquarium

BEST TOUR OF WILM-INGTONGhost Walk of WilmingtonHaunted Pub CrawlCarriage Tours

BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUESoapbox Laundro LoungeGreenfield Lake AmphitheatreBrooklyn Arts Center

BEST LOCAL BAND/PERFORMERBest local band will be deter-mined at the Best Of Battle of the Bands, February 2, 2012, at the Encore Best Of Party.The Nominees are:Mike Blair & The StonewallsL Shape LotBibis Ellison

BEST LOCAL DJDJ BattleDJ MilkDJ Ghost Tracks

BEST DANCE CLUBIbizaPrada/SputnikLiquid Room

BEST PLACE FOR KARAOKEBrowncoat Pub and TheatreKaty’s Great EatsFibber’s Public House

BEST PLACE TO BUY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTSFinkelstein’s MusicMusic LoftModern Music

BEST ART GALLERYProjekte GalleryNew ElementsBottega

BEST LOCAL ARTISTGabriel LehmanIvey HayesMichelle Connelly

BEST MUSEUMCameron Art MuseumCape Fear MuseumThe Children’s Museum

BEST THEATRE PRODUCTION OF 2012The Color Purple9 to 5Little Shop of Horrors

BEST THEATRE PRODUCTION CO.City StagePineapple Shaped LampsBig Dawg

BEST THEATRE VENUEThalian HallCity StageBrowncoat Pub and Theatre

BEST THESPIANCullen MossJordan MullaneyAmy Tipton

BEST COMEDY TROUPEPineapple Shaped LampsComically ImpairedNutt Street Improv Comedy Group

BEST LOCAL NEWSCASTWWAYWECTFOX

BEST NEWSCASTERFrances WellerJon EvansAshlea Kosikowski

BEST LOCAL RADIO STATIONPenguin 98.3Z107.5WHQR 91.3

BEST LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITYFozKim CzornijJackie Jordan

BEST MORNING RADIO SHOWFoz and Jocelyn in the Morn-ingThe Morning Disaster with Bryan and JimCraig and Sheila

BEST LOCAL FILMMAKERShannon SilvaDerek Pons and Nate DanielJoe Stauffer

BEST LOCAL INDEPENDENT FILMJack to the FuturePieces of TalentIt’s a Girl Thing

BEST LOCAL WEBSITEPort City DailyEncore MagazineWhat’s On Wilmington

BEST LOCAL WRITERGwenyfar RohlerCelia RivenbarkShea Carver

BEST BLOGGirls Gone Gluten FreeJust Keepin it Real FolksPort City Foodies

BEST THING TO HAPPEN IN WILMINGTON IN 2012Filming of Iron Man 3Defeat of the Baseball StadiumWhole Foods Market Opened

WRITE IN CATEGORYBest Dance Studio – Techniques in MotionBest New Store – Wilmington Homebrew SupplyBest Mustache – William Agustus Edens

BEST NONPROFITLove is BaldFull Belly ProjectHabitat for Humanity

BEST LOCAL HUMANITARIANSister Mary IssacJock BrandisKelli Russell

BEST ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPCape Fear River WatchStop TitanSurfrider Foundation

BEST VOLUNTEERKelli RussellGreg BrinsonAmanda Young


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news & views ..................7-87 live local: Gwenyfar Rohler counts up her

New Year’s Live Local resolutions.

8 news of the weird: Chuck Shepherd shares

the latest odd stories.

artsy smartsy ............... 10-2110-11 theater: Alex Pompliano gets the scoop

on the second annual Wilmington Theater

Awards; Gwenyfar reviews City Stage’s ‘Monty

Python’s Spamalot.’

12 cover story: Sarah Richter has the scoop on

the Zelda Fitzgerald works currently hanging at

Cameron Art Museum.

13 gallery listings: Check out what’s hanging

in area art galleries.

14 music: Bethany Turner finds out how folks

can suggest songs from Grateful Dead and

Phish for Dubtown Cosmonauts’ upcoming

show’s set list.

20-22 soundboard: See what bands

and performers are playing in venues from

Wilmington to Jacksonville.

21 film: Anghus is disappointed with ‘The

Hobbit.’

grub & guzzle ..............28-3328-31 dining guide: Need a few suggestions

on where to eat? Flip through our dining guide!

33 grub: Rosa Bianca checks out the eats at

Towne Tap and Grill.

extra! extra! ............34-47 34 extra: Folks around town share their New

Year’s resolutions.

36 fact or fiction: Gwenyfar reveals the

first installment of her latest creative writing

endeavor, ‘The Contract Killer.’

37 crossword: Brain game by Stanley

Newman.

38-47 calendar/‘toons/horoscopes/

corkboard: Find out what to do in town with

our calendar; check out Tom Tomorrow and the

annual ‘toons winner, Jay Schiller; read your

horoscope; and check out the latest saucy

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FROM FAIRY TAILS TO REALITY

P. 12Zelda Fitzgerald is one of the Roaring Twenties’ most intriguing characters. The wife and muse of American literary genius F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda had plenty to offer the art community in her own right. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, the Southern belle was quite audacious—and that dauntless attitude led to her suc-cess in ballet, writing and art. Cameron Art Museum is currently hanging the exhibit “Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: The Artwork of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.” It is available to view until March 10th, 2013. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (American, 1900-1948), Candler, N.C., ca. 1945, watercolor and graphite on paper, 9 x 12 inches, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Gift of Mrs. Frances Fitzgerald Smith, 1986.4.11

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LATE-NIGHT FUNNIES“According to the latest census poll, a

large number of Californians are moving out of state and going to places like Texas and Nevada. Look, I know a lot of us are disgusted with the Lakers, but that’s no reason . . .” —Jay Leno

“Wal-Mart announced that on apocalypse day they [would] open at midnight. I think the Mayan calendar is becoming too com-mercialized, don’t you?” –David Letterman

“McDonald’s reported that it had better than expected sales in the month of November. Executives credit the success to increased advertising, new menu items, and two states legalizing weed.” —Jimmy Fallon

“The EU was founded in 1993 to ensure that no European nation ever start another war. By European nation, they mean ‘Ger-many.’” —Craig Ferguson

“Because of climate change, “Frosty the Snowman” has a new name. Now he’s called ‘Frosty the Puddle.’” —David Letterman

“New Jersey Governor Chris Christie visited the White House. President Obama told him, ‘I’d invite you to lunch but the deficit is already too high.’” —Conan O’Brien

“According to a new study at UCLA, Lati-nos live longer than non-Latinos. More bad news for Republicans.” —Jay Leno

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on the public’s top-three nominations. Log onto www.encorepub.com for full details—and to make your voice heard. But hurry! Voting closes on January 9th. Then, join us at our Best Of party on Saturday, February 2nd at 7 p.m. at the Brooklyn Arts Center as we announce the winners—live!

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news&views| I guess It’s tIme for some re-evaluatIon

again. Really, that’s what New Year’s resolu-tions are about. I tend to try not to make reso-

lutions that are completely unrealistic or aimed unrealistic time periods like “look good in a bikini by April.” It’s just not going to happen; frankly, it’s not a good use of my time. Maybe the place to start is to look at last year’s resolutions and see how they went.

1) To build a fairly comprehensive local shop-ping resource page for our readers.

2) Pay cash and get out of debt.3) Invest my money in a local company (not just

my own).4) Step up my locavore activities, including for-

aging and gardening.5) Support a barter network, time bank, local

currency or local investing option.Well, as stated last week, number one hap-

pened because encore’s editor lady Shea Carver made it happen. It’s available at www.encorepub.com; please check it out.

Number two is a little sadder: I did a much bet-ter job of paying cash this yea. Besides helping my budgeting, I also really enjoyed the anonym-ity of it. No nice neat paper trail for where I’ve been and what I’ve done. However, I am far from out of debt. I have made some great strides for-ward over where I was at this time last year and I am grateful for each and every dollar paid off. Though, I was hoping not to have to borrow more money to put into the business this year; that has been unavoidable. It will be an ongoing project.

I was unable to invest in a local company that was not my own this year. As stated above, that was just not going to be finicially possible.

Our household did increase our locavore activi-ties. Though not ever garden goal was achieved, we have done fairly well and are starting to plan a little better for next year. We had a massive broc-coli plant that got away from us and is starting to resemble a distant cousin of Audrey II, which has been interesting. I figured out that we eat an aver-age of 208 potatoes a year. Unfortunately, due to heavy rains, our potato crop drowned.

I was really hoping someone would start a time bank, barter network or local currency, and that doesn’t appear to have happened. In better news, Lincoln Morris started a cash mob (check them out on Facebook; Wilmington Cash Mob group)! Wow! Thank you, Lincoln!

So what is up for 2013? Well, I am going to keep trying to pay down the credit card debt. I would really love to see the creation of some sort of local shopping gift registry. I’ve been thinking about this a lot this year. I still don’t know what it would look like, if it could be as simple as some sort of Facebook page that people can add to, or if needs to be a separate dedicated website. But I love the idea that for birthdays, holidays, materni-ty, weddings, etc., people could register for gifts at small, local stores and their friends and family could be assured of not only getting the right gift but of spending money locally.

Also, I plan to continue to work for the preser-vation of our film incentives, which will be “under scrutiny” (translation: facing the ax) with our new state administration. The film industry impacts so many facets of our local economy: port o’ john rentals, tents, food, hotels, second-hand stores, print shops, etc. The long-term tourism is a gift that gives and gives and gives. The short-term

rentals and sales are gifts from heaven. It’s mon-ey from outside flowing into our economy with no hazardous impact on our drinking water or air quality. What’s not to love? I hope you will join me in letting our state legislature know how much we appreciate this injection of money and jobs into our state.

If you are digging on the Live Local idea but not ready to jump into the deep end of the pool and go 100 percent local, try making a decision to buy 10 percent more local this year over last. It’s a lot easier than you think and there are some unexpected upsides. When you find yourself get-ting ready to hit the big-box store, ask yourself: Is there a local place I could get this instead? If you need resources check out the above mentioned Live Local Resource Page. It might surprise you how often small stores can beat chain stores on pricing. Also, if you are trying to find unique and interesting items—be it clothing, household needs or food—the little guys, your friends and neighbors, can provide the answer. Try the small stores and you can score not only a good deal but an incredible show-piece, too!

Personally, I think it is time to start collecting some of this material into a book. I guess a “Live Local Manifesto” of sorts. Surprisingly, one of my resolutions is to have a finished manuscript this year. That also means finding a local printer to print it and possibly, I don’t know where, a local bookstore to carry it. But I don’t want this discus-sion to just evaporate, so it needs some sort of record.

Well, wish us both (you and me) luck this year! If any community can pull it together, it is ours!

by Gwenyfar Rohler

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LEAD STORY PANDA GRADUATION PARTY

Yes, This Is Really How They Do It: The Wolong Panda Training Base in Sichuan, China, released a series of photos to China Daily in October to mark the gradu-ation from captivity, and into the wild, of the 2-year-old Tao Tao. Sure enough, Tao Tao and his mother, Cao Cao, were shown frolicking in the woods, accompanied by trainers each dressed in full-length panda suits, including panda heads, as they ap-peared to demonstrate climbing trees and searching for food.

The Entrepreneurial SpiritThe Lost Art of Cuddling: At the recently

opened Soineya “cuddle cafe” in Tokyo, men buy hugging privileges (but no “sex” allowed!) with young women for from 20 minutes to 10 hours at prices (gratuity op-tional) ranging from the equivalents of $40 to $645, with surcharges for special ser-vices (e.g., foot massages, resting heads in each other’s laps). The Deluxe Comfort Girlfriend Body Pillow, which began as a boutique-only niche product, recently be-came available at Amazon.com and Sears.

com at around $25. The bolster-like, cud-dling-enabled pillow is augmented with two strategically placed mounds and a snuggle-up arm hanging to the side. (There’s also an Original Soft and Comfy Boyfriend Pillow, without the mounds.)

“You have wrinkles,” the inquiring cus-tomer was told, “and your left cheek is larger than your right,” explained “Tata,” the Bangkok-born woman who recently opened a salon in San Francisco to employ the supposedly traditional Thai art of face-slapping. Frown lines and droopy skin are curable with a 10-minute regimen of well- placed whacks across the cheek (and pay-ment of the $350 fee), Tata told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in October. Masochists are warned that Tata deals in therapy, not punishment. “If you want someone to hit you, go on Craigslist.”

Cutting-Edge ScienceAmong the “Ig Nobel” prizes awarded to

earnest academics in September by the Annals of Improbable Research was the one to Patrick Warren and colleagues who delved into excruciatingly detailed predic-tions (at the behest of a cosmetics firm) about how someone might ultimately look with a ponytail, based on hair characteris-tics. The team took into account the stiff-ness of the strands, the effects of gravity and the random curliness or waviness in the hair in a set formula to compute a “Ra-punzel Number” for each head. Explaining his particularized work to reporters, Dr. Warren acknowledged (perhaps with un-derestimation), “I’ve been working on this for a long time.”

A research team at Lund University in Sweden, led by neuroethologist Jochen Smolka, concluded that one reason dung beetles dance in circles on top of dung is to cool off, according to an October re-port on LiveScience.com. To arrive at their conclusion, the team went to the trouble of painting tiny silicone “boots” on some beetles to protect them from the ambient heat experienced by a control group of beetles, and found that the booted bee-tles climbed atop the dung less frequently. Explained Smolka, “Like an air-condition-ing unit, the moist (dung) is cooled by evaporati(on).”

Leading Economic IndicatorsWhile the U.S. recently nearly elected

a multimillionaire as president, Uruguay’s chief executive, Jose Mujica, declared his personal wealth in 2010 as the equivalent of about $1,800 and gives away 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly presidential salary in order to remain true to his political roots with the leftist guerrilla group Tupamaros.

He has rejected the government-provided mansion and instead lives with his wife at her family’s farmhouse, where he helps work the land, according to a November BBC News profile from Montevideo. “I have to do (this),” he told a reporter, “be-cause there are many Uruguayans who live with much less.”

Financial advisers charge the big bucks because of their sophisticated understand-ing of money and markets or maybe be-cause they know how the stars align. A September Marketplace radio program highlighted the newsletters of “financial astrologers” Karen Starich and former Merrill Lynch stock trader Arch Crawford (who left the trading floor because, appar-ently, astrology is more lucrative). About 300 traders pay $237 a year to learn what Starich knows about Neptune and Saturn, and Crawford’s 2,000 subscribers (at least a few of which prefer receiving copies in unmarked wrappers) learned that any new business venture goes south when Mercury is in retrograde.

The Continuing Decline of American Manufacturing: A Drug Enforcement Admin-istration agent told the Associated Press in October that factories in Mexico have re-cently been supplying American markets with especially potent and inexpensive methamphetamine. “These are sophisticat-ed, high-tech (businesses) ... that are op-erating with extreme precision,” said agent Jim Shroba. The 90 percent-pure product offers “a faster, more intense and longer-lasting high.” Many Americans, meanwhile, continue to make small batches of inferior meth in 2-liter soda bottles.

PerspectiveIn 2011 only 75 worldwide shark attacks

on humans were reported, with only 12 fatal, yet researchers writing recently in the journal Conservation Biology found that about 60 percent of all media reporting about sharks emphasized just the serious dangers that hu-man swimmers face. By contrast, only about 7 percent of the reports were focused on shark biology or ecology, though the sorry state of shark survival would seem more important, in that an estimated 26 million to 73 million sharks are killed annually from the harvesting of their fins.

UpdateTaunting of Third-World Laborers: First,

as News of the Weird reported more than 20 years ago, Indonesian coffeemakers made “Kopi Luwak,” using only beans that had passed through the digestive tracts of native civet cats. More recently, Thailand’s upscale Anantara Resorts began offering coffee using beans similarly excreted by elephants. In both cases, these digestive-tract coffee beans, picked and processed by laborers earning as little as $1 day, wind up as a drink sipped by (in the words of an NPR reviewer) “cat poop fetishi(sts)” who may pay upwards of $10 for a single cup.


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tor, John Staton, successfully created—with a little help from actress Linda Lavin and a host of

locals, like Donn Ansell, Lou Criscuolo and others—a ceremony that celebrates the dozens of local theater productions that play throughout the year in Wilming-ton. The Wilmington Theater Awards is now back in its second year, returning to Thalian Hall to honor and award a whole new season’s worth of titles and players.

Staton has reviewed thousands of plays during his time covering the local scene (which started as editor of encore), overseeing the “Play” section of the StarNews’, as well as its WAE (Wilmington Arts and Entertainment) blog. It was really only a matter of time before Staton found a way to a com-memorate Wilmington’s thriving theater scene and everyone involved.

encore spoke to Staton about the program’s line-up, nominees and notable presenters.

encore (e): It feels odd to say, but the inaugural Wilmington Theater Awards show was only just a year ago. Since it was the first-time event, has the program evolved in year two?John Staton (JS): We felt like things went pretty well last year, so we’ve kept the structure mostly the same: presentation of awards with performance numbers from the “Best Musical” nominees and a few other musical and video presentations. That said, we have a new host, Zach Hanner, represent-ing the Theatre Network of Wilmington, and a new music director, Jonathan Barber, representing the Thalian Association. Last year’s host [Justin Smith] and music director [Chiaki Ito, both of City Stage] were truly awesome, but to make these awards a true community event, we wanted to involve other companies this year. We plan on working with new people next year as well. It’s kinda like a jazz song: We’ve got a basic structure, but there’s a lot of room for playing around within it.

e: You have final say over the nominee list, were there any productions this time around you felt compelled to get on the list?JS: I did have final say on nominations, which were based largely on “suggested nominees” from the theater companies and my fellow critics. I’d say that instead of being determined to get any produc-tions on the list, I was more disappointed that some shows had to be left off. There were 10 or 20 shows and performances that probably deserved nomina-tions that didn’t get them, because, obviously, not everyone can be nominated. e: As you mentioned, the Thalian Association’s Jonathan Barber will be providing musical direc-tion for the show. How is that coming along?JS: Still planning the program, but we will have num-bers from “Spring Awakening,” “The Most Happy Fella,” “The Color Purple,” “The Producers” and “9 to 5.” Also, our host, Zach Hanner, has some super-fun songs and videos planned that should probably be left a surprise.

The whole show is being dedicated to Donn An-sell, the longtime local actor and media personality who died earlier this year. Donn was instrumental in getting the first awards show off the ground, and we’ll be talking about Donn a lot as well as presenting his partner [Michael Walton Jones] and family with the Enduring Contribution to Wilming-ton Theater award, which will be honoring Donn posthumously. e: It would be an understatement to say that you see a lot of local shows throughout the year. Off the top of your head, which overall productions re-ally stood out to you?JS: It was often more moments and feelings that stood out than individual productions. The emotion conjured up by “The Color Purple” was incredible.

The weirdness and creativity that permeated the staging of “Margo Veil” at UNCW I still think about. “The Full Monty,” which I had some problems with, probably had the best payoff/ending of any show I saw all year. I could go on, but we’d be here all day. e: Were there any particular acting performances that really awed you this season?JS: Even though she didn’t get a nomination, Erin Sullivan did an amazing job as Elle Woods in “Legally Blonde.” Justin Smith mentioned to me, and I agree, that the way she moves onstage, in some ways, can-not be taught. Ron Hasson had a great year and re-ally blew me away with his acting, in very different roles, in both “God’s Favorite” for Big Dawg and “The Importance of Being Earnest” for Browncoat. Tammy Mercer gave an inspired performance in “The Dixie Swim Club.” She played a 40-year age range over the course of the show and did so believably, and hilariously. e: Last year Linda Lavin presented, as well as May-or Saffo. Are there any notable presenters you’d like to give a shout out to for this year’s event?JS: Yes, two very good and notable actors, Peter Jurasik and Joe Gallison, have agreed to present. Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover Coun-ty director Rhonda Bellamy will present again. Justin Smith, last year’s MC, will present, too. We’re wait-ing to hammer down a couple more. e: As for the running time, I know your goal last year was not to have the ceremony too bloated; is the duration still around two hours?JS: Yes it is. Two hours and we out.

Tickets are available on www.WilmingtonTickets.com, at the StarNews (1003 S. 17th St.) and at the Thalian Hall box office (632-2285 or www.Thalian-Hall.org)

by Alex Pompliano

Wilmington Theatre Awards

January 9th, 8 p.m.

Thalian Hall • 310 Chestnut St.

Tickets: $15 • www.wilmingtontickets.com

or www.thalianhall.org.

all the world’s a stage:StarNews praises and celebrates local scene

Morganna Bridgers, Adam Poole and Rachael Moser performed in last year’s awards show. Photo courtesy of StarNews

for the last few months, I’ve lived in a perpetual state of curious anticipation. It all began with the an-

nouncement of City Stage’s intention to pro-duce “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on the main stage of Thalian Hall. Our household comprises unabashed Python fans. “Spamalot” has been another wonderful installment in the catalog of comedic references that pepper our everyday communication ever since I stood at the box office in New York and cried to get tickets to see the original cast on Broadway.

The beauty of the “Spamalot” script is that it has all the pieces of Monty Python and the Holy Grail” that Pythons hope to see: the knights who say “Ni!”, the French Taunter, and Tim the Enchanter, just to name just a few. Actually, it is a different script intended as a musical with the addition of new characters. So rather than Mel Brooks’ “The Producers”—which becomes some sort of fractal image of itself beginning as a movie becoming a stage show and then a movie of a stage show—“Spamalot” is a stand-alone work.

Of course, it opens with an historian (Robb Mann) introducing the premise, geography and weather conditions. It then cuts to everybody’s favorite tourism commercial for Finland. Mann is an obvious choice for the historian parody-ing the staple from the BBC and managing to make even pestilence sound like an appealing way to spend an afternoon.

The real story begins with the plague and the eternal statement, “I’m not dead yet.” Here we meet the future Sir Robin (Ashley Grantham) and Sir Lancelot (Adam Poole), who set off to join King Arthur and his knights at Camelot. From there we meet King Arthur (Troy Rude-seal) and Patsy (Jason Aycock), Arthur’s coconut-wielding squire. When Aycock walks out onstage, audiences will be stunned. The gentleman behind me remarked, “He looks just like Patsy!” (meaning, of course, Terry Gilliam from the movie). Rudeseal literally must play the straight man to every joke onstage, which, believe it or not, takes a really good sense of comic timing to make work. It also takes a certain amount of stage presence and sheer charisma to pull off a part like that. “Spamalot” might be a comedy, but we still have to believe that Arthur could inspire people to follow him.

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for the last few months, I’ve lived in a perpetual state of curious anticipation. It all began with the an-

nouncement of City Stage’s intention to pro-duce “Monty Python’s Spamalot” on the main stage of Thalian Hall. Our household comprises unabashed Python fans. “Spamalot” has been another wonderful installment in the catalog of comedic references that pepper our everyday communication ever since I stood at the box office in New York and cried to get tickets to see the original cast on Broadway.

The beauty of the “Spamalot” script is that it has all the pieces of Monty Python and the Holy Grail” that Pythons hope to see: the knights who say “Ni!”, the French Taunter, and Tim the Enchanter, just to name just a few. Actually, it is a different script intended as a musical with the addition of new characters. So rather than Mel Brooks’ “The Producers”—which becomes some sort of fractal image of itself beginning as a movie becoming a stage show and then a movie of a stage show—“Spamalot” is a stand-alone work.

Of course, it opens with an historian (Robb Mann) introducing the premise, geography and weather conditions. It then cuts to everybody’s favorite tourism commercial for Finland. Mann is an obvious choice for the historian parody-ing the staple from the BBC and managing to make even pestilence sound like an appealing way to spend an afternoon.

The real story begins with the plague and the eternal statement, “I’m not dead yet.” Here we meet the future Sir Robin (Ashley Grantham) and Sir Lancelot (Adam Poole), who set off to join King Arthur and his knights at Camelot. From there we meet King Arthur (Troy Rude-seal) and Patsy (Jason Aycock), Arthur’s coconut-wielding squire. When Aycock walks out onstage, audiences will be stunned. The gentleman behind me remarked, “He looks just like Patsy!” (meaning, of course, Terry Gilliam from the movie). Rudeseal literally must play the straight man to every joke onstage, which, believe it or not, takes a really good sense of comic timing to make work. It also takes a certain amount of stage presence and sheer charisma to pull off a part like that. “Spamalot” might be a comedy, but we still have to believe that Arthur could inspire people to follow him.

feel happy!‘Spamalot’ scores big as the year-opener from City Stage

Actually, the one who inspires people to fol-low him is God, appropriately played by Tony Rivenbark—a man who for the last 30 years has inspired people to follow his vision of pre-serving Thalian Hall.

The opportunity to see some performers I enjoy on stage but rarely get to see makes “Spamalot” a must-see. Bill Piper and Steve Coley specifically come to mind. Both are tal-ented, hard-working performers that theatre-going audience have loved for many years. Piper brings us Sir Bedevere and Concrode, Lancelot’s squire, both with a dead-pan humor that sells the two roles.

Coley’s “Not Yet Dead Fred” is just too much fun! He almost looks like a marionette off his strings, dancing around to get a laugh during “I Am Not Dead Yet”; it works in spades. But, really, he is the envy of many as the King of the Knights who say “Ni!”

It must be hard to walk into playing roles that have captivated people for so long. The night I was there many members of the audience were reciting lines along with the performers, including during the French Taunter scene with Adam Poole as the lead taunter. From his ri-diculous mustache—which was only outdone by his ri-dic-u-lous accent! To King Arthur and his knights’ curious confusion, at this turn of events, the audience practically rolled around in the aisles.

This must be a wonderful show to be running crew on. One of the conceits of the produc-tion is that they interact with the performers, including following the Lady of the Lake around with a smoke machine at one point—as if at a rock concert rather than the usual constraints and expectations of the technical staff at the theatre.

Speaking of “Strange Women lying in ponds distributing swords,” Caitlin Becka as the Lady of the Lake and her Laker Girls (the female half of the ensemble) are wonderful—and not just for all the skin they showed! It is a demanding score for the Lady of the Lake to sing: She has the hardest songs and the widest rang of mu-sic of any one character. Becka tackles those challenges head-on and brings a tremendous amount of panache to the battle with her. From her duet with Galahad (Max Korn), “The Song That Goes Like This,” a hysterical parody of Andrew Lloyd Weber odes, to her solo in act two, “Diva’s Lament”—an aptly named com-mentary on life with divas, or from her perspec-tive the problem of her disappearance from the show—she does not shrink.

Though obviously partly spoofing Camelot, the Lerner and Lowe musical of the 1960’s this does not adhere strictly to the formula of that show (just as it does not adhere strictly to the movie of Holy Grail). Lancelot, in particular, has

a plot twist and Adam Poole’s take on it is de-lightful. Poole carries a strong voice and is fun to watch dance. It’s always enjoyable to get to see him in a musical, and in this role he get’s to really let loose.

The principal characters will be most remem-bered here, but this is show that rests entirely on the ensemble. They make all the big pro-duction numbers, the songs, the jokes and, ultimately, the plot work. They are a fabulous and incredibly talented group of singers and dancers.

This is a production of sight gags—from the very first moment. If you can’t get the seat (if you’ve seen the show, you know what I mean), then it’s worth while to get balcony seats so you don’t miss any of the jokes including the ones with the orchestra pit. Speaking of the

orchestra: This show easily could have canned the music, but thank the gods Chiaki Ito and her 10-piece fill the rafters. The sound is wonder-ful and the show would not be anywhere near as magical and present were it not for the top notch live musicians that interact with the per-formers and the audience. The audience sing-along at curtain call would not be anywhere near as much fun without Ito leading the way.

This is a wonderful, zany, funny production with a host of talented people. It’s a super way to start 2013; laughter will get us through a lot in life. Thank the Gods for the Pythons and the half a century of humor they’ve brought us.

Do yourself—and your loved ones—a favor: Go see “Spamalot.” Your abs might hurt from laughing, but the rest of you will get better and feel happy!

by Gwenyfar Rohler

Monty Python's Spamalot

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In the tImes of rIsIng femInIsm, It’s no secret that history is told from a male perspective. For centuries women were

sequestered to the home as they fulfilled the societal confines of feminine acceptability.

In the art world, not much is different. Al-though female artists highlight history with their images, the great canvases of every gen-eration were created by the genius of men. Since the intense rise of feminism in the mid-20th century, female artists have begun to be re-evaluated for their significance in our soci-ety. Artists such as Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassatt and the Renaissance’s Artemisia Gentileschi have come to hold places of high esteem. One, who is more widely known as the darling of the Jazz Age, a literary inspiration and “the first American flapper,” is Zelda Fitzgerald.

As the muse for her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless novels (“The Great Gatsby”, “The Beautiful and Damned,” “This Side of Paradise”), for much of her life she sought artistic recognition beyond his shad-ow. Throwing herself into a variety of creative outlets, such as dance, writing and painting, Zelda’s intense personality, perhaps greatly in-fluenced by her mental disease, helped cata-

pult her into Jazz Age infamy. The Cameron Art Museum’s newest exhibition, “Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: The Artwork of Zelda Fitzgerald,” provides viewers with access to the wide artistic oeuvre that she cultivated from 1927 to 1940.

Born in Alabama at the turn of the century, Zelda was a typical Southern Belle. The young-est of six, she defied docile female conven-tionality at an early age, preferring to smoke, drink, dance inappropriately and spend an ample amount of time with boys. A successful ballet dancer, Zelda was not in short supply of suitors. After meeting Fitzgerald, the cou-ple married in 1920 and subsequently had a daughter, Scottie, in 1921.

After moving to Paris, the Fitzgeralds’ im-age as the constant partiers of the Jazz Age

appear more muted, featuring darker, grey tones and no figures, only scenes of their life together. The exhibition also includes paintings of religious scenes, landscapes, sketches and sets of paper dolls made for her daughter and first grandchild.

Although her instability created troubles in her personal life, her perception and art are fueled by her unique experience of reality. Her art work privies us to another understanding of this American icon, who was once viewed only as the troubled wife and muse of a liter-ary giant.

“Sometimes Madness is Wisdom” is one that Zelda herself named as part of an exhibition at Cary Ross Gallery in New York in 1934. A collection of 32 framed works she created from 1927 to 1940 are now viewable locally and on loan from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and the granddaughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ms. Eleanor Lanahan. Repro-ductions of historical photographs from the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers at Princeton Li-brary are also on display.

Held in conjunction with the Big Read in Greater Wilmington, which is featuring “The Great Gatsby,” designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and en-courage reading, “Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: The Artwork of Zelda Fitzgerald” will be on display until March 10th, 2013 at the museum. It provides another perspective of a woman who stands as an icon for one of history’s most luxurious and extravagant decades.

On Friday, February 1st, keynote speaker Eleanor Lanahan, Zelda’s granddaughter, will present a lecture about the collection. Admis-sion to Cameron Art Museum is $8 for the general public, $5 for seniors, students and military and $3 for children ages 2-12.

from fairy tales to reality:Flapper queen’s art work showcases exciting, sordid past

was instated. By the end of the ‘20s, how-ever, their lifestyle, marital discontent and Zelda’s deteriorating mental health had begun to take its toll on the couple. As the ‘30s ap-proached, Zelda began a string of permanent stays in psychiatric hospitals and sanatoriums throughout the U.S. where she would spend the rest of her life.

Yet, inside of her mind was more than distraught emotions. Her art showcases el-ements of whimsy and fantasy, depicting scenes from fairy tales, the Bible and her own personal reality. The disconnect between her artwork and its place in society showcases fig-ures possessing sharp lines and harsh forms of Cubism and expressionism encountered during the 1920s while living in France. Both the human and characters hold their heads up high, chins raised to the sky as if ignoring the circumstances in which they live, searching for another reality above their own.

Likewise, an unavoidable masculinity ex-ists, which Zelda once explained: “That’s how a ballet dancer feels after dancing.” Many of her images are of planes from a skewed perspective, another nod to her exposure to modernist forms and design. She puts forth colorful vividness that evokes a playfulness, a feature of her Roaring Twenties’ life. Still, the contorted figures hark back to her own psy-chological pain.

Another set of images in the exhibition are very much rooted in Zelda’s personal experi-ence. After Scott’s death in 1940, she com-pleted a set of paintings that immortalize and romanticize their life together in Paris. De-pictions of prominent landmarks, the colors

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by Sarah Richter

Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: The

Artwork of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

On display at Cameron Art Museum

through March 10th

www.cameronartmuseum.com

CIRCUS LIFE: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (American, 1900-1948), Circus, ca. 1938, oil on canvas, 36 ¼ x 24 ¼ inches, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Gift of the artist, 1943.5


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Look for the big red barn and visit a unique space in the Hampstead area just 4 miles from beautiful Topsail Island. A large open space hosts 2nd Friday Opening Receptions each month at 6pm.

Our next 2nd Friday Opening will be on Febru-ary 8th and will feature a “Masks Benefit for the Foundation for Hospice.” Almost eighty masks will be on display and will be auctioned off in March to benefit the Hospice, which is located in Jacksonville, NC.

We represent over 40 local and regional fine artists in our member’s gallery and offer local arts and crafts in our gift shop. ArtExposure presently has studio space rented to seven working artists. In addition, there is a frame shop and small art supply store. New classes and regular art classes and studio time on our website. Yoga classes meet Saturday at 9am in the loft. Walk-ins are welcome to this gentle yoga class.

We will close Sunday, December 23rd and open at our regular hours on January 15th, 2013.

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For the month of January, we running a “Yes We Can Can” auction benefiting Mother Hub-bard’s Cupboard. For a canned good or a $1 donation, you will be able to bid on a variety of products, including sail bags, art, photos, pot-tery, jewelry, wood crafts and books. Bidding continues until January 22. Cape Fear Native features the works of local artists and crafts-people inspired by nature. Come by and support your local creative community.

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Figments Gallery represents fantastic local and international artists. We feature an eclectic mix of work in a salon style gallery. From funky outsider art to soothing traditional pieces, it’s truly a feast for your eyes! The second Friday of each month features a new exhibit and open house. We’re having a December Jewelry Trunk Show featuring jewelry by Lynette Ashby, Sa-mantha Evans (Reborn), Cameron Johnson, Michelle Scibetta, and Melissa Tyson Upham. Exhibit hangs through December 22nd, with a Second Friday Reception December 14th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Call to artists for new exhibit, February 8th, 2013, “Go Figure!” We’re looking for 2D or 3D art with the artist’s interpretation of the human figure. Submit images to [email protected] for review.

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ence for those enrolled in our art programs. This show will be up through the end of De-cember.

There will not be a 4th Friday reception in December, but the gallery will resume a normal 4th Friday exhibition schedule in January. For more information, contact [email protected] or 362-7431.

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New Elements Gallery is now exhibiting its 28th Annual Holiday Show. Over 40 gallery artists are featured, including Bruce Bowman, Fritzi Huber, Nancy Tuttle May, Ann Parks Mc-Cray, Hiroshi Sueyoshi and Michael Van Hout. A wide variety of work is available, ranging from paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass, jewelry, fiber, metal and wood.

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

ington through the eyes of a local!

SUNSET RIVERMARKETPLACE10283 Beach Dr., SW (NC 179) (910) 575-5999Tues.- Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. sunsetrivermarketplace.com

This eclectic, spacious gallery, located in the historic fishing village of Calabash, NC, features fine arts and crafts by some of North and South Carolina’s most creative, successful artists. Al-most every genre is represented here—oil, pas-tel and watercolor, clay and glass art, fiber art, turned wood, metal works, artisan-crafted jew-elry and more. Classes, workshops, pottery stu-dio, custom framing, Creative Exchange lecture series and Coffee with the Author series are also offered onsite.

WILMINGTON ART ASSOC.120. S. Second St. Mon.-Sun., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.www.wilmington-art.org

The Wilmington Art Association (W.A.A.) proudly announced the opening of their new per-manent exhibit gallery space at the historic Han-nah Block USO building at 120 S. 2nd Street, downtown Wilmington in August. The art work changes monthly so drop by and see what’s new, the gallery has great north light!

Sign up for three-day workshop in January with Joanne Anderson—a nationally known figu-rative artist. Featured in Watercolor Magazine, a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and still quite proficient in teaching in all media, Joanne has extensive teaching and work-shop experience.

Open to all members is the poster contest for the WAA Annual Spring Show at the Azalea Fes-tival. Again, see website for details.

CF GALLERY: Join their auction benefitting Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard during the whole month of Janu-ary. Donate canned goods or $1 to bid on a variety of items. Courtesy photo


//MUSIC

While phil lesh and jon Fishman will not be making any appearances in Wilmington this

month (Greenfield Lake, get on that for this summer), Deadheads and Phish fans can still check out some of the groups’ most iconic songs live on Saturday, January 5th. The local funkadelic jam band Dubtown Cosmo-nauts will dedicate two sets to the tunes for a special, custom show at The Whiskey.

What’s even more exciting is that the Cos-monauts are actually building each set list from fan submissions. By visiting the Face-book event they’re running (www.Facebook.com/events/176682502472043) and post-ing a Grateful Dead or Phish song, folks are making their mark on the concert.

For those unfamiliar, Dubtown Cosmo-nauts is a musical collaboration between several Southeastern NC-based musi-cians. While the line-up has transformed several times in the past three years, one thing remains the same: The Cosmonauts are here to jam.

“Our first show was in early 2009,” gui-tarist Tom Shaw shares. “We all had differ-ent projects going on at the time, but Wilm-ington has a very tight-knit music scene with a lot of collaboration going on, and we love it for that. Tyler [Simmons, keys] had a date on hold at The Whiskey and asked a few of us if we wanted to come out and play with him—maybe learn a few covers and just improvise for most of the night. We assembled a five- or six-person band of our friends, and it ended up being a lot of fun, so we kept doing it.”

With Shaw and Simmons on board since the beginning, the group currently com-prises Matthew Beaty (guitar, vocals), Nick Gliarmis (guitar), Justin Heter (drums), Alex Voutsinas (bass), and Todd Wade (saxo-phone). Their catalogue includes a lengthy list of original compositions, as well as a plethora of covers from a surprising cast of characters. At regular shows fans can hear anything from The Allman Brothers Band, Soulive, Medeski Martin and Wood, Stevie Wonder, Sound Tribe Sector 9, and more. As long as the music presents an interest-ing element—be it jazz, funk, blues, rock or psychedelic—they’re gratified.

As the Dubtown Cosmonauts become more involved with the charm and intrigue of their music, their goal to cooperate and conspire comes to fuller realization. “Our sound, in terms of style, hasn’t changed that much,” Shaw admits. “However, we’ve become more comfortable playing together, which in turn has allowed for us to take the music places we hadn’t been able to before.”

The improvisation which is such an integral part of the Cosmonauts’ makeup is exactly what brought the fan-suggested set-list idea to mind. During practice one evening, Beaty was flipping through a Grateful Dead song book. Simply playing around, he began singing and strumming the vintage tunes on his guitar.

“One of us asked, ‘What if we played a whole set of Grateful Dead at one of our shows?’” Shaw describes. “And naturally, if you know us, you know that a full set of Dead could only be followed by a full set of Phish!”

Between just three of the Dubtown Cos-monauts band mates, they’ve seen about 100 Phish shows. Though some are more influenced by the Grateful Dead, and vice versa, both acts have greatly impacted each member’s love for music.

“We’re all excited, because when you go see bands like these, the set list changes

name your poison:Dubtown Cosmonauts allows their fans to create their set list

by Bethany TurnerDubtown CosmonautsSat., Jan. 5th • 9 p.m.

The Whiskey1 S. Front St.$5 cover • (910) 763-3088

DUBTOWN GOES DEADHEAD: Local act Dubtown Cosmonauts will play two sets at The Whiskey: one full of Grateful Dead songs and the other full of Phish. Courtesy photo (Not pictured: saxophonist Todd Wade)

every time,” Shaw claims. “You never re-ally know what you’re going to hear. This time, we actually get to write the set list, and the fans get to submit their requests—two things that seldom happen when you see bands [such as] these.”

As of press, over 30 fans have chimed in with their favorite songs, from “West L.A. Fadeaway” to “Run Like an Antelope.” Someone even requested Big Ball Jam, in which each member of Phish would toss a ball out to the crowd, and when their ball was hit by a fan, they’d play a note. Still, Dubtown Cosmonauts wouldn’t give too much away.

“The reception has been great,” Shaw says. “It’s a lot of fun seeing first-hand what everybody wants to hear. We will say that we have been keeping up with the requests on the event page and taking note of which songs are getting the most requests... So whatever you do, take care of your shoes.”

Though keeping up with a collaboration of seven musicians can be difficult, the group expects to have a stronger hold in the ILM music scene in 2013. “With all of our hectic schedules, Dubtown is a nice escape from the daily grind for us,” Shaw shares. “We have a great time playing together, and there is so much talent in the band that it’s always fresh and fun. You can definitely expect more shows around Wilmington throughout the year—and judging by the reception we’ve received from this concept, it is very likely we’ll throw a few more shows like this in the mix, too.”

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shows of the week

Millenia Funk’nWild Wing Cafe1331 Military Cutoff Rd.1/4, 9 p.m. • FREE

Composed of Graham Barnes (bass), Benjamin Baldwin (drums), Jonathan Easterlin (guitar), and Mike Lewis (vocals/keys), Millenia Funk’n rocks out with covers from funk, pop, soul and metal. Audiences can expect to hear such artists as; Journey, James Brown, Adele, Guns ‘n Roses, Outkast, Alice in Chains, Rick James and more.

Tigger Clarkson BandThe Whiskey1 S. Front St.1/4, 9 p.m. • $5

Artist Tigger Clarkson grew up abroad—and in many locations. His songs were crafted in far-off lands like Africa, Haiti and Afghani-stan, lending a sense of wonder to his lyrical endeavors. The band’s gentle alt-rock is due to its amalgamation of parts: Harley Blasingame (keys), Daniel Pesavento (bass), and Dan Thomas (drums). With floating vocals remi-niscent of Adam Levine, the Tigger Clarkson Band is expecting to release an EP in 2013.


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ONLY SOMEWHAT SHALLOW: Travis Shallow, a coveted musician in our local scene, will perform at the Holiday Inn in Wrightsville Beach on Saturday, January 5th. Courtesy photo

a preview of tunes all over town this weeksoundboard

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2OPEN MIC WITH SEAN THOMAS GERARD

—Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500KARAOKE W/ ASHLEY

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

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838BRAXTON’S BAR

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088EDDIE ELLIOT

—The Pub at Sweet and Savory, 2012 East-wood Rd.; 679-8101BENNY HILL

—Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115UPSTARTS & ROGUES

—Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3OPEN MIC

—Bottega Gallery, 208 North Front St.; 763-3737KARAOKE

—Reggie’s, 1415 S. 42nd St.FRIED LOT

—Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115KARAOKE

—Banks Channel Bar & Grille, 530 Causeway Drive; 256-2269ROCKIN’ TRIVIA WITH PARTY GRAS DJ (9 P.M.)

—Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 920 Town Center Dr.; 509-0805DJ

—Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499TOP 40 DJ

—Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301NATE GORDON

—The Pub at Sweet and Savory, 2012 East-wood Rd.; 679-8101KARAOKE WITH DJ DAMON

—Yosake Sushi Lounge, 31 S. Front St.; 763-3172TRIVIA WITH STEVE (8:30PM)

—The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219OPEN MIC NIGHT (8PM)

—Locals Tavern, 6213 -D Market Street; 523-5621COLLEGE NIGHT WITH DJ BATTLE

—Brikhouse, 208 Market St.; 523-5833TRIVIA

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838DJ LORD WALRUS

—Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776DJ SWEAT

—Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677DAYLIGHT CIRCUS

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.

FRIDAY,JANUARY 4DJ MILK

—Pravda; 23 N. Front St., WilmingtonKARAOKE WITH MIKE NORRIS

—Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204LOOSE WHEEL BLUEGRASS JAM

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.SHINE

—The Pub at Sweet and Savory, 2012 East-wood Rd.; 679-8101BLIVET!

—Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888OVERTYME

—Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-2231KIM DISCO

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666TIGGER CLARKSON BAND

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088MELLINIA FUNKIN

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838DJ BATTLE

—Dirty Martini, 1904 Eastwood Rd, Suite 109ACOUSTIC JAZZ PIANO WITH JAMES JARVIS

—Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091DJ DR. JONES

—Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776HOUSE/TECHNO DJ

—Ibiza, 118 Market St.; 251-1301DJ

—Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5DJ TIME

—Hell’s Kitchen, 118 Princess St.; 763-4133SONGWRITER OPEN MIC WITH JEFF ECKER (10PM-2AM)

—Lazy Pirate Sports Bar and Grill, 701 N. Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach; 458-5414PIANO

—Circa 1922, 8 N. Front St.; 762-1922KARAOKE W/ JEREMY NORRIS

—Carolina Ale House; 317-c College Rd., 791-9393DJ DANE BRITT

—Beach House Bar ‘n’ Grill, 7219 Market St.; 689-7219KARAOKE W/ JEREMY NORRIS

—Carolina Ale House; 317-c College Rd., 791-9393PIANO

—Blockade Runner Beach Resort, 275

TUESDAY djBe KARAOKE

8:30 p.m.1/2 off Wine Botles & $4

Magner’s Irish Cider

WEDNESDAY$4 20 oz. Guinness Pints

THURSDAY TRIVIA w/Steve

8:30 p.m. • PRIZES! $2.50 Yuengling Drafts

FRIDAY LIVE IRISH MUSIC

Inquire for details

SATURDAY djBe KARAOKE 9 p.m.

$2 PBR Longnecks

SUNDAY IRISH BRUNCH

10 a.m. - 3 p.m.$4 Bloody Mary’s and

Mimosa’s

1423 S. 3rd St. • 763-1607

New Outdoor Patio Seating!

BLACKBOARD SPECIALS

MONDAY$2.50 Budweiser Draft

$4 Wells65¢ wings, 4-7 p. m.

TUESDAYSweetwater $3.00

$4.50 Absolute lemonade65¢ wings, 4-7 p. m.

WEDNESDAY$2.50 Yuengling Draft

$2.50 Domestic Bottles65¢ wings, 4-7 p. m.

THURSDAY$3.00 Sweet Josie$4.00 Margaritas

FRIDAY$3 Pint of the Day

SATURDAY$5 Sangria & Mimosa’s

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

N. Water Street & Walnut StreetDowntown Wilmington910-762-4354

LIVE MUSIC

JANUARY 23rd

CAPE FEAR RISING feat. KYLE LINDLEY,

SEAN RICHARSON & ANTHONY GARGUILO

JANUARY 24th

END OF THE LINE POSSUM CREEK

BIG AL HALLJANUARY 31st

BOOTLEG DYNASTY POSSUM CREEK

NO DOLLAR SHOESLooking for local bands

to play in Brooklyn

Call 910-538-2939 for dates 516 North 4th Street

910.538.2939brooklynartsnc.com

THURSDAY$300 Bombs

$3 NC Brew Bottles

$4 Select Shooters

$2 PBR Pub Cans

FRIDAY$6 Margarita Pitchers

$350 23oz. Pilsner Drafts

SATURDAY$2 Bud & Bud Lt. Bottles

$3 Wells

265 North Front St.(910) 763-0141


Waynick Blvd., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2251DJ

—Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872GUITARIST MARK LYNCH (10:30AM-1:30PM)

—Saltworks II, 4001 Wrightsville Ave.; 392-1241NO DOLLAR SHOES

—The Pub at Sweet and Savory, 2012 East-wood Rd.; 679-8101DUBTOWN COSMONAUTS

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088ONE PAPER CRANE

—Ted’s Fun on the River, 2 Castle St.TIGGER CLARKSON BAND

—Palm Room, 11 East Salisbury St.; 503-3040DONNA MERRITT

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666TRAVIS SHALLOW

—Holiday Inn Resort (Oceanfront Terrace), 1706 N. Lumina Ave.; 256-223140 EAST

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838

DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE (9PM)

—The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607LOW TECH ARMY

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

SUNDAY, JANUARY 6IMPROV/ TRIVIA

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666BEHIND THE GARAGE MUSIC 10PM

—Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223OPEN ELECTRIC JAM (AMPS AND DRUMS PROVIDED)@4:00PM

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

—Lazy Pirate Sports Bar and Grill, 701 N. Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach; 458-5414BEN MORROW

—Elijah’s, 2 Ann St.; 343-1448MARK LYNCH (ACOUSTIC GUITAR, 11AM-2PM)

—Deluxe, 114 Market St., 251-0333KARAOKE WITH HELLZ BELLE

—Marina Cafe, 110 S. Marine Blvd., Jackson-ville; (910) 938-2002PERRY SMITH (BRUNCH 12-2)

—Aubriana’s; 115 S. Front St., 763-7773TRAVIS SHALLOW

—Calico Room, 107 S. Front St. Wilmington, 762-2091KARAOKE KONG

—Black Sheep Tavern, 21 N. Front St. (base-

ment); 399-3056CHRIS LUTHER (JAZZ)

—Rusty Nail, 1310 S. 5th Ave.; 251-1888SATELLITE BLUEGRASS BAND

—Satellite Bar & Lounge, 120 Greenfield St.; 399-2796DJ BATTLE

—Fibber McGee’s, 1610 Pavilion Pl; 509-1551

MONDAY, JANUARY 7DJ RICHTERMEISTER

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838RAMBLEJACKS

—Tamashii, 4039 Masonboro Loop Rd.; 703-7253JOSH SOLOMON AND FRIENDS

—Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341KARAOKE WITH DJ @-HOLE

—Level 5/City Stage, 21 N. Front St.; 342-0872KARAOKE

—Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8JESSE STOCKTON AND TOM SHAW

—Lagerheads, 35 North Lumina Avenue Wrightsville Bch; 256-0171INDIE MUSIC NIGHT

—Juggling Gypsy Cafe, 1612 Castle St.; 763-2223SUPER JAM

—The Whiskey, 1 S. Front St.; 763-3088OPEN MIC W/ JOHN INGRAM

—Wired on Wrightsville, 3901 B Wrightsville Ave., 399-6977KARAOKE WITH MIKE NORRIS

—Katy’s, 1054 S. College Rd.; 395-6204TRIVIA WITH DUTCH FROM 94.5 THE HAWK

—The Coastal Roaster, 5954 Carolina Beach Rd.; 399-4701LIVE ACOUSTIC

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838COMEDY OPEN MIC

—Browncoat Pub and Theatre, 111 Grace St.; 341-0001KARAOKE WITH DJ PARTY GRAS

—Fox and Hound Pub & Grille, 920 Town Center Dr.; 509-0805DJ KEYBO

—SideBar; 18 S. Front St., 763-1401COLLEGE NIGHT KARAOKE

—Costello’s Piano Bar, 211 Princess Street; 362-9666WORLD TAVERN TRIVIA HOSTED BY MUD

—Buffalo Wild Wings, 5533 Carolina Beach Rd., Monkey Junction; 392-7224DIXIELAND ALLSTARS

—Rucker John’s, 5564 Carolina Beach Rd.; 452-1212

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9OPEN MIC WITH SEAN THOMAS GERARD

—Soapbox Lounge, 255 N. Front St.; 251-8500KARAOKE W/ ASHLEY

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

—Buffalo Wild Wings, 206 Old Eastwood Rd.; 798-9464DJ

—Charley Brownz, 21 S Front St.; 254-9499DJBE EXTREME KARAOKE

—Wild Wing Cafe, 1331 Military Cutoff; 256-3838CHRIS BELLAMY

—The Harp; 1423 South 3rd St.,763-1607DANIEL LEVIN, ROB BROWN, DARKMINIS-TER, BRAD HENKLE, NATHANIEL MORGAN, PETER HANSON

—Squidco, 1003 North 4th St., 910-399-4847KARAOKE WITH DJ BREWTAL

—Liquid Room, 23 Market St.;910-343-3341BENNY HILL

—Sweet & Savory Cafe; 1611 Pavilion Plc.,256-0115DJ SIR NICK BLAND

—Red Dogs, 5 N. Lumina Ave., Wrightsville Beach; 256-2776DJ JAY

—Sharp Shooters, 2109 N. Marine Blvd., Jacksonville; (910) 346-2677KARAOKE WITH HELLZ BELLE

—Marina Cafe, 110 S. Marine Blvd., Jackson-ville; (910) 938-2002COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

—Goat and Compass, 710 N. 4th St.; 772-1400

All entertainment must be sent to [email protected] by Wednesday for consideration in the weekly entertainment

calendar. Venues are respon-sible for notifying encore of any changes, removals or additions

to their weekly schedules.

BLACKBOARD SPECIALS

920 Town Center Dr.

Mayfaire Town Center

(910) 509-0805

5564 Carolina Beach Road, (910) 452-1212

VISIT WWW.RUCKERJOHNS.COM FOR DAILY SPECIALS, MUSIC & EVENTS

MONDAY22oz. Domestic Draft ALL DAY

$5 PizzasTUESDAY

LIVE JAzz IN THE BAR Half Price Bottles of Wine

Absolut Dream $5 • Pacifico $250

WEDNESDAYMiller Light Pints $150 Coronoa/

Corona Lite Bottles $250

Margaritas/Peach Margaritas $4THURSDAY

Appletinis $4, RJ’s Painkiller $5 Red Stripe Bottles $250

Fat Tire Bottles $250

FRIDAYCosmos $4, 007 $350 Guinness Cans $3Island Sunsets $5SATURDAY

Baybreeze/Seabreeze $422oz. Blue Moon Draft $3

Select Domestic Bottles $2SUNDAY

Bloody Marys $4, Domestic Pints $150

Hurricanes $5

Pub & GrillePub & Grille

Thursdays

Fridays

Saturdays

Wrightsville Beach

$2 Coors Light • $2 Mich Ultras$5 Martinis • $4 Flavored Bombs

$2 Miller Lite • $2 Budweiser$4 Rum & Coke • $4 Bellinis

Sundays$2 Yuenglings • $2 Bud Lights

$4 Bloody Marys • $3 MimosasFree Pool & Shuffleboard after 9 pm

1/2 Off Late Night Menu @ 10 pm

$2 Red Stripe ∙ $4 Margaritas$4 Dude Bombs ∙ $4 Captain

Ping Pong TourneyWednesdays

KARAOKE

BanksChannelPub.Com

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

Tuesday

Breakfast 10am-3pm

Breakfast 10am-3pm

FEATUREYOURLIVE

MUSICFOOD &DRINK

SPECIALSCALL

791-0688

OPEN

MONDAY$3 Sweetwater, $10 Domestic Buckets, $4

Captain, Jack, and Evan Williams, Trivia from Hell @ 7:30

TUESDAY$3 Dos XX Amber, $3.50 Mexican Bottles,

$4 Cuervo, 1800, Lunazul, Jim Beam, Jack, and Bacardi $1 Tacos (4pm-close)

WEDNESDAY$3 Drafts, 1/2 Price Wine,

$5 Martinis, $4 Bombs

THURSDAY$2 Bud Lt and Yuengling Draft,

$4 Jim, Jack, Jager, and Jameson $5 Bombs, $3.50 Micro Bottles,

1/2 Price Wings (7pm-close)

FRIDAY & SATURDAYLIVE MUSIC • NO Cover

1/2 Price Wings Midnight-1:30am

1/5 LOWTECH ARMY1/11 WATERSHED

1/12 BEACH BILLY BROTHERS1/19 VISION VINE

SUNDAY$2.50 Bud Lt and Yuengling Drafts, $4 Crown, Jager, Jack, Jameson, Lunazul,

Bloody Mary’s, $5 Mimosas1/2 Price Select Apps M-TH 4pm-7pm & Sun 9pm-close

877-330-5050 • 910-256-2231877-330-5050 • 910-256-22311706 North Lumina Ave.

(910) 256-2231

Oceanfront Terrace 7-10pm

Friday, January 4

OVERTYME

ECLECTIC MIX

Saturday, January 5

TRAVIS

SHALLOW

ACOUSTIC

LIVE MUSIC

Wrightsville Beach, NC

36 TAPS$2.50

DRAFTSEVERY TUESDAY

ALL DAY LONG


AMOS’ SOUTHEND1423 SOUTH TRYON STREET, CHARLOTTE, NC (704) 377-6874 1/4: Bruised but Not Broken, Syopsis1/5: Byzantine, Skin Kage

THE ARTS CENTER300-G E. MAIN ST., CARRBORO, NC(919) 969-85741/4: Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys1/5: The Grass Cats

ZIGGY’S170 W. 9TH ST., WINSTON-SALEM, NC(336) 722-50001/4: Thru World Aggression1/5: Petey and Mushrooms

THE ORANGE PEEL101 BILTMORE AVENUE, ASHEVILLE, NC(828) 225-58511/5: Todd Snider, Bobby Bare Jr.

LINCOLN THEATRE126 E. CABARRUS STREET, RALEIGH, NC(919) 821-41111/4: Leadfoot, Killing the Catalyst, Enemy in Disguise, Hold Back the Day, Skycrest1/5: Chris Hendricks Band, The Kicks, Saints Apollo1/6: Four Nights Gone, A City Apart, And By Love, Light the Atlantic, The Rest is Up to You, For All It’s Worth1/9: Hannibal Buress

MOTORCO MUSIC HALL723 RIGSBEE AVE., DURHAM, NC(919) 901-08751/2: Motrendus1/3: Speedy Ortiz, Roomrunner, The Mercators1/4: Vanguard Party, Sister Soma1/5: Missing Maps, Once & Future Kings

CAT’S CRADLE300 E. MAIN STREET, CARRBORO, NC (919) 967-90531/4: Kieran Sweeney, .Danusha, Will Wofford1/9: The Devil Makes Three, Phillip Roebuck

‘CAN’T COMPLAIN’: Todd Snider will perform at The Orange Peel in Asheville with Bobby Bare Jr. on Saturday, January 5th. Courtesy photo

ShowStoppers: Concerts outside of Southeastern NC

885 Town Center DriveMAYFAIRE TOWN CENTER

(910) 256-1187

Every WednesdayBottomless Cheese and Chocolate

$20 per person

What could be better ?

NFL SUNDAY TICKET$3 Domestic Schooners

$2 Domestic Drafts$9.99 All You Can Eat Wings at the Bar1/2 Priced Select Appetizers at the Bar

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL$3 Domestic Schooners

$3.50 MargaritasTUESDAY-KIDS EAT FREE NIGHT$3.50 LIT’s • $2.00 Domestic Drafts

WEDNESDAY$3 Domestic Schooners

$3.50 MargaritasTHURSDAY

$3.50 LIT’s • $2.00 Domestic DraftsFRIDAY-TGIF

$3.50 Cosmos $2.00 Domestic DraftsSATURDAY-COLLEGE FOOTBALL

$3 Domestic SchoonersMONDAY- FRIDAY

1/2 Priced Appetizers from 4-7 pm & 9 pm -close at the bar

Free Appetizer of the Day with purchase of a non-refillable beverage

from 5-7 at the bar.4126 Oleander Dr. (910) 792-9700

100 S. FRONT ST.DOWNTOWNWILMINGTON

251-1832

Friday and SaturdayLive music in the courtyardRooftop opens at 6 p.m.

Monday$250 Miller Lite • $3 Fat Tire

$3 Harpoon IPA Pints$4 Rum & Coke • Wings on Special

Tuesday$250 Yuengling • $3 Bells Two Hearted

$3 Natty Greene’s Red Nose$5 Jameson • $7 Burgers

Wednesday “South of the Border Hump Day”

$3 Dos Equis • $4 Margaritas$4 shots of Jose • $7 Nachos

$7 Chicken QuesadillaThirsty Thursday

$250 PBR 16oz cans • $350 All Drafts$5 Red Bull & Vodka

50¢ Steamed Oysters & Shrimp

Friday$275 Miller Lite • $325 Stella • $4 Fireball

Saturday$275 Coors Lite • $325 Sierra Nevada

$5 Baby Guinness

Sunday$3 Corona/Corona Light

$10 Domestic Buckets (5 bottles)$4 Mimosas • $4 Bloody Marys

Steamed Platters $18/$35

Monkey Junction910.392.7224

B-Dub’s

BINGOPlay for FREE during

Monday Night Football!

TUESDAYSLIVE

8pmTEAM TRIVIATEAM TRIVIA

MONDAYS

PORT CITY POKERMONDAYS

7pm & 9:30pmPlay for FREE

BLACKBOARD SPECIALS

FEATUREYOURLIVE

MUSICFOOD &DRINK

SPECIALSCALL

791-0688

Visit us on the Riverwalk!212 S. Water Street

910-338-3134

JUST ADD WATER!A Relaxing RecipeFor a complete list of scheduled

Tours, Excursions, and Fees, visit wilmingtonwatertours.net

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there’s a lIne early Into the nearly three-hour, first installment of “The Hobbit” that stuck in my mind

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On a fundamental level, I have to re-spectfully disagree with Gandalf; I could easily use “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” as exhibit A for the prosecution. This movie is long. Painfully long. Abu-sively long. And for no good reason.

The original “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was long—even, still, it felt packed to the brim with happenings. There were mul-tiple narratives, a dozen characters with wildly divergent story arcs and an epic battle of good versus evil. Sometimes it takes three long installments to tell a sto-ry as epic as “The Lord of the Rings,” and I have no qualms admitting I was a fan of the originals. I was fortunate enough to be at the first North American screening of “Return of the King” with Peter Jackson in attendance back in 2003. I balked at all the people who declared that the movies were too long and ridiculously indulgent.

“The Hobbit” is lacking in so many areas when compared to the far-supe-rior storytelling of the original trilogy. The characters are dull; the visuals are drenched in special effects and look implausibly unrealistic. The computer-animated creatures that make up Middle Earth feel far less three-dimensional than the actors in makeup that populated the original films. Nothing about “The Hobbit” feels genuine or necessary. The charac-ters are harmless enough, but we never really learn anything about them. We get some basic backstory on Thorin (Richard Armitage), heir to the dwarf throne and the tragedies that have befallen him. This helps explain why he spends the entire movie acting like he has a piece of oak wedged up his ass.

Martin Freeman is a fantastic perform-er; he does a great job playing Bilbo as the nervous and out-of-his element Hob-

CRITTERS FROM THE MIDDLE EARTH: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ brings the old gang back together again yet doesn’t maintain interest-ing character arcs for any of them. Courtesy photo

bit, tasked with helping the dwarves re-claim their homes. He’s the least problem-atic element of the film and unfortunately spends much of the film as a silent, reac-tionary witness to this unfolding story.

If scene after scene of dwarves run-ning through the woods being chased by wolves seems appealing, “The Hobbit” may be your pornography. The structure of the film is so insanely repetitive. First, Gandalf and the dwarves get chased by something: trolls, goblins or orcs. Then, Gandalf vanishes for awhile. In his ab-sence, the dwarves are captured and put in harm’s way. Then, just a moment before their inevitable doom Gandalf shows up and saves the day. Every. Single. Time. Maybe that criticism should be reserved for J.R.R. Tolkien.

Still, the predictability detracts from the enjoyment of it all. Comparatively speak-ing, by the end of the first “Lord of the Rings” film, we had a great deal of char-acter development, two character deaths and a great degree of uncertainty about what the road ahead held for our heroes. “The Hobbit” lacks character and gravi-tas. For a three-hour movie, that’s a freak-ing tragedy.

Sitting through it all was difficult; the entire film felt like a labor. And I don’t think I have another six hours in me to sit through the rest of Peter Jackson’s ver-sion of “The Hobbit.” This is a filmmaker who is no longer telling a story, but a guy with too many crayons in the box. He’s abandoned the concept of lines and bor-

ders. Instead, he’s pissing paint onto a canvas. The audience almost seems irrel-evant to the process. There’s 90 minutes of forward momentum and 90 minutes of cinematic masturbation: This is the film equivalent of jerking off. I paid $16 to watch Peter Jackson rub one out.

I didn’t hate “The Hobbit: An Unexpect-ed Journey,” but it was a chore watching it. It was nice returning to this world; Mid-dle Earth is still a visually exciting place. Seeing Ian McKellan as Gandalf brought a smile to my face, as did Gollum (Andy Serkis). The truth is “The Hobbit” was like going to a Rolling Stones concert: It was nice seeing the old gang back togeth-er, but the whole affair felt forced. I smiled at the familiarity of it all but I realized it would never be as good as I remembered.

It almost makes me want to go back and re-watch “The Lord of the Rings” mov-ies and remember that stories are better served when audiences are left wanting more instead of drawing something out to painful lengths.

drawn-out screen time:‘The Hobbit’ feels like pointless hyperbole

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

CATCHServing the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina. Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee Chef Keith Rhodes explores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer. We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Seafood. Or-ganic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch. Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010. Dubbed “Modern Seafood Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Sea-food & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Po-tato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, & Seafood Ceviche to name a few. Larger Plates include, Charleston Crab Cakes, Flounder Escovitch & Miso Salmon. Custom Entree request gladly accommodated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Al-

lergies) Hand Crafted seasonal desserts from DeLovely Desserts. Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilm-ington, NC 28405.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Monday-Friday11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and Monday-Saturday 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

BUFFALO WILD WINGSIf you’re looking for good food and an atmosphere that’s fun for the whole family, Buffalo Wild Wings is the place! Award winning wings and 20 signature sauces and seasonings. Plus…salads, wraps, flatbreads, burgers, and more. Tons of Big screen TVs and all your favor-ite sports. We have daily drink specials, a HUGE draft selection, and Free Trivia all day every day. Come in for our Weekday Lunch Specials, only $5.99 from 11am-2pm. Visit us for Wing Tuesdays with 50 cent wings all day long, or Boneless Thursdays with 60 cent boneless wings all day long. Buffalo Wild Wings is a great place to dine in or take out. ■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: Monday-Saturday 11 a.m.-2 a.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: 2 locations-Midtown (910-798-9464) and Monkey Junction (910-392-7224)■ MUSIC: Live music Friday and Saturday in the Summer■ WEBSITE: www.buffalowildwings.com

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

HOLIDAY INN RESORTOceans Restaurant located in this oceanfront resort is a wonderful find. This is the perfect place to enjoy a fresh Seafood & Steak dinner while dinning outside overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Chef Eric invites you

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AmEriCAnBRIXX WOOD FIRED PIZZAA shortdrive from the beach, Brixx Wood Fired Pizza in Mayfaire Town Center is a fun, friendly neighborhood restaurant. Serving the best brick-oven pizzas around, Brixx also offers a fine selection of signature focaccia sandwiches, pastas, fresh salads and desserts. Stop in for a quick lunch, or kick back on the patio with one of 24 beers on tap or 14 wines by the glass. 6801 Main Street, Wilmington, NC 28405. (910) 256-9677.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Sat.

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BLUEWATEREnjoy spectacular panoramic views of sailing ships and the Intracoastal Waterway while dining at this popular casual American restaurant in Wrightsville Beach. Lunch and dinner are served daily. Favorites include jumbo lump crab cakes, succulent seafood lasagna, crispy coconut shrimp and an incredible Ca-ribbean fudge pie. Dine inside or at their award-win-ning outdoor patio and bar, which is the location for their lively Waterfront Music Series every Sun. during the summer months. Large parties welcome. Private event space available. BluewaterDining.com. 4 Ma-rina Street, Wrightsville Beach, NC. (910) 256.8500.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER:

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CATCHServing the Best Seafood in South Eastern North Carolina. Wilmington’s Native Son, 2011 James Beard Award Nominee Chef Keith Rhodes ex-plores the Cape Fear Coast for the best it has to offer. We feature Wild Caught & Sustainably raised Seafood. Organic and locally sourced produce & herbs provide the perfect compliment to our fresh Catch. Consecutively Voted Wilmington’s Best Chef 2008, 09 & 2010. Dubbed “Modern Sea-food Cuisine” we offer an array Fresh Seafood & Steaks, including our Signature NC Sweet Potato Salad. Appetizers include our Mouth watering “Fire Cracker” Shrimp, Crispy Cajun Fried NC Oysters & Blue Crab Claw Scampi, Seafood Ceviche & Conch Fritters to name a few. Larger Plates include Plancha grilled Painted Hills Steaks, Blackend Red Drum Filet, Charleston Crab Cakes, Tempura OBX Scallops, Flounder Escovitch & Pan roasted Queen Trigger fish. Custom Entree request gladly accom-modated for our Guest. (Vegetarian, Vegan & Al-lergies) Hand Crafted seasonal desserts from Alan DeLovely. Full ABC Permits. 6623 Market Street, Wilmington, NC 28405.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon-Fri 11am-2pm and Mon. Sat. 5pm-9pm.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: North Wilmington■ FEATURING: Acclaimed Wine List

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C.G. DAWGSFor great traditional New York style eats with South-ern charm look no further than C.G. Dawgs. You will be drawn in by the aroma of fine beef franks served with witty banter and good natured delivery from the cleanest hot dog carts in Wilmington. Sabrett famous hot dogs and Italian sausages are the primary fare of-fered, with a myriad of condiments for all of your mid-day or late night cravings.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: 11am - 5pm.

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THE GEORGE ON THE RIVERWALKDrop your anchor at The George on the RiverWalk, your destination for complete sense indulgence. Watch the historic Cape Fear River unfold before you while you enjoy the best in Southern Coastal Cuisine. The menu combines elegance, creativity and diverse selection of steak, pasta, salad and fresh seafood, in-cluding the best Shrimp n’ Grits in town. Warm in the sun on the expansive outdoor deck sipping an exotic, colorful martini, or unwind at the spacious bar inside boasting extensive wine and martini lists along with


to experience his daily specials in this magnifi-cent setting. (910) 256-2231. 1706 N Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach.■ BREAKFAST, LUNCH & DINNER: Sun.-Sat..■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach■ FEATURING: Waterfront dining■ WEBSITE: www.holidayinn.com

K’S CAFEVisit us in our new location on the corner of Eastwood and Racine - 420 Eastwood Rd, Unit 109. “Where the people make the place” If you’re looking for a warm and friendly atmo-sphere with awesome home-cooked, freshly prepared meals, you can’t beat K’s Cafe. Serving Breakfast (from $3.50) and Lunch (including daily entree-and-two side specials for $6.95). K’s Cafe is the best deal in Wilm-ington. They offer chargrilled burgers, includ-ing their most popular Hot Hamburger Platter smothered in gravy! They also offer great choices such as fresh chicken salad, crabcake sandwich, soups, and even a delicious Monte Cristo served on French toast bread. K’s also offers soup, sandwich and salad combos and a great variety of homemade desserts. On Sundays they offer a great brunch menu which changes every week. A variety of choices will be on the menu such as Shrimp and Grits and Eggs Benedict. Visa and Mastercard accept-ed. Give K’s Cafe a try...you won’t be sorry. 420 Eastwood Rd., Unit 109, 791-6995. Find us on Facebook.■ SERVING BREAKFAST & LUNCH: 7 DAYS A WEEK. Monday - Friday. 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. And Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: Ever-changing brunch■ WEBSITE: www.ks-cafe.net

THE LITTLE DIPPERWilmington’s favorite fondue restaurant! The Little Dipper specializes in unique fondue dishes with a global variety of cheeses, meats, sea-food, vegetables, chocolates and fine wines. The warm and intimate dining room is a great place to enjoy a four-course meal, or indulge in appetizers and desserts outside on the back deck or in the bar while watching luminescent jellyfish. Reser-vations are appreciated for parties of any size. Located at the corner of Front and Orange in Downtown Wilmington. 138 South Front Street. (910) 251-0433.■ SERVING DINNER: Open every day at 5 p.m. Memorial Day - Labor Day. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown■ FEATURING: 70’s menu every Tues.; Special prix fixe menu on Thurs.; 25% off a’ la cart menu on Fri. from 5-7 p.m. and half price bottles of wine on Sun.■ MUSIC: Fri. & Sat. in summer■ WEBSITE: www.littledipperfondue.com

PINE VALLEY MARKETPine Valley Market has reigned supreme in servic-ing the Wilmington community for years, secur-ing encore’s Best-Of awards in catering, gour-met shop and butcher. Now, Kathy Webb and Christi Ferretti are expanding their talents into serving lunch in-house, so folks can enjoy their hearty, homemade meals in the quaint and cozy ambience of the market. Using the freshest in-gredients of highest quality, diners can enjoy the best Philly Cheesesteak in Wilmington, along with numerous other sandwich varieties, from their Angus burger to classic Reuben, Italian sub to a grown-up banana and peanut butter sand-

wich that will take all diners back to childhood. Served among a soup du jour and salads, there is something for all palates. Take advantage of their take-home frozen meals for nights that are too hectic to cook, and don’t forget to pick up a great bottle of wine to go with it. 3520 S. Col-lege Road, (910) 350-FOOD.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Fri.10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Sun.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South■ FEATURING: Daily specials and take-home frozen meals■ WEBSITE: www.pinevalleymarket.com

TROLLY STOPTrolly Stop Hot Dogs is a family owned fran-chise with six locations. Since 1976 they spe-cialize in storemade chili, slaw and sauces, and as of more recent – a variety of gourmet sausages and burgers (at participating loca-tions). The types of hot dogs include Beef & Pork, All Beef, Smoked Sausage, Fat-free Tur-key (at participating locations), and Soy. Sau-sages include Bratwurst, Mild Italian, Spicy Beef and Polish Kielbasi. Locations are: 121 N. Front Street open Monday thru Saturday 11 a.m. ‘til 4:30 p.m. CLOSED SUNDAYS; (910).251.7799. 94 S. Lumina Ave, Wrights-ville Beach open Wednesday thru Friday 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. CLOSED MON. AND TUES. (910) 256-1421. 4502 Fountain Drive, (910) 452-3952. Open 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Sunday; South Howe St. in Southport, open Tuesday thru Fri. 11 until 3, Sat. 11 until 4 CLOSED SUNDAYS AND MONDAYS (910) 457-7017. Catering cart available all year from $350. Call Steve at (910) 520-5994.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Throughout the Port City■ FEATURING: Dog friendly locations at Wrightsville Beach and DowntownWilmington. Buy a hot dog, we’ll throw in an extra for your pooch. (Without bun.)■ WEBSITE: www.trollystophotdogs.com

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

HIRO JAPANESE STEAKHOUSEWhat better way to celebrate a special occasion or liven up a dinner out than to dine in a place where every meal is an exciting presentation. Knowing that a meal should be more than just great food, Hiro adds a taste of theatre and a amazing atmo-sphere to everyone’s dinning experience. Also serving sushi, Hiro surprises its guests with a new special roll every week and nightly drink specials to complement it. From 4-7 p.m. enjoy half-priced nigiri and half-priced regular makimono. Nigiri makimono combos are only $7.50, while early-bird specials last from 4-6 p.m., where diners can choose two:

shrimp, chicken or steak. Located at 222 Old East-wood Road (910) 794-1570.■ SERVING DINNER: Open Mon. thru Thursday 4 p.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 4 p.m.-10:30 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: Hibachi style dining.■ WEBSITE: hirojapanesesteakhouse.com/hibachi

INDOCHINE RESTAURANT & LOUNGEIf you’re ready to experience the wonders of the Orient without having to leave Wilmington, join us at Indochine for a truly unique experience. Indochine brings the flavors of the Far East to the Port City, combining the best of Thai and Vietnamese cuisine in an atmosphere that will transport you and your taste buds. Relax in our elegantly decorated dining room, complete with antique Asian decor as well as contemporary artwork and music. Our diverse, friendly and ef-ficient staff will serve you beautifully presented dishes full of enticing aromas and flavors. Be sure to try such signature items as the spicy and savory Roasted Duck with Red Curry, or the beautifully presented and delicious Shrimp and Scallops in a Nest. Be sure to save room for our world famous desert, the banana egg roll! We take pride in using only the freshest ingredients, and our extensive menu suits any taste. After dinner, enjoy specialty drinks by the koi pond in our Asian garden. Located at 7 Wayne Drive (be-side the Ivy Cottage), (910) 251-9229.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tues.- Fri. 11 a.m.- 2 p.m.; Sat. 12 p.m. – 3 p.m. for lunch. Mon.- Sun. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. for dinner.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ WEBSITE: www.indochinewilmington.com

TAMASHII SUSHI AND SPOONSThe area’s first sustainably-sourced Sushi and Asian Fusion restaurant features sushi and tasting spoons which offer portions of poke, tartare, and ceviche styles from around the world. Our chef uses locally sourced and line-caught offerings of only the highest quality to create a fresh flavor like no other. Come sample his traditional sushi, as well as signature fusion rolls like the Aloha Roll, made with tempura shrimp, toasted coconut, crispy ba-con, charred pineapple and macadamia nut brittle. Our contemporary atmosphere also showcases dishes from our full kitchen such as Miso-Mustard Sterling Silver Pork and small plate offerings. Try a Wasabi or Thai Basil martini or a wine, craft beer, or sake from our unique full-bar list. Tuesdays you can get a half-carafe for the price of a glass! We are located at 4039 Masonboro Loop Road, suite 1A at the junction of Navajo Road in Masonboro Com-mons. Open from 4:30 to 10:00 Monday through Thursday, and until 11:00 on Friday and Saturday. Just drop in or call 910-703-SAKE for a reservation. Every Tuesday, all night, ladies night. $5 Appetizer Specials, $7 Drink Specials, $2 Spoons.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Lunch is served on Thursday and Friday 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.Dinner is served Mon.-Th.: 4:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat: 4:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South■ FEATURING: Special Lunch Menu featuring $10 combos of sushi roll and choice of soup or salad. “Green Fish” sustainable menu plus a $5 bar menu Monday - Friday 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.■ WEBSITE: www.sushiandspoons.com

THAI SPICE

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

INDIANTANDOORI BITESLocated on College Road, just opposite Hugh MacRae Park, Tandoori Bites offers fine Indian cuisine at affordable prices. Try one of 74 dishes on their lengthy menu, featuring a large range of side dishes and breads. They have specialties, such as lamb korma with nuts, spices and herbs in a mild creamy sauce, as well as seafood, like shrimp biryani with saffron-flavored rice, topped with the shellfish and nuts. They also have many vegetarian dishes, including mutter paneer, with garden peas and homemade paneer, or baingan bharta with baked eggplant, flamed and sau-téed with onions, garlic and ginger. Join their cozy eatery, where a far east escape awaits all diners, among a staff of friendly and helpful servers, as well as chefs who bring full-flavored tastes straight from their homeland. Located at 1620 South College Road, (910) 794-4540.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Fri 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-11 p.m.; Sat 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-11 p.m.; Sun 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., 5 p.m.-9 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown.■ FEATURING: Lunch buffet, which now serves South Indian cuisine.■ WEBSITE: www.tandooribites.net.

IRISHTHE HARPThe Harp offers the finest in traditional Irish fam-ily recipes served in a casual yet elegant tradi-tional pub atmosphere. We are proud to use the freshest, locally sourced ingredients whenever possible to bring you and yours the best of tradi-tional Irish fare! We also offer a fully stocked bar featuring your favorite Irish beer and spirits. Lo-cated just beside Greenfield Lake Park in down-town Wilmington is a lovely Irish pub committed to bringing traditional Irish food and music to the Cape Fear area.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER Monday-Friday 11 a.m. – 10 p.m., Sat 11 a.m. – 11 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ■ NEIGHBORHOOD Greenfield Park■ FEATURING Home-made desserts, ½ priced bottles of wine on Tuesday and the best pint of Guinness in town. ■ MUSIC Live music every Fri.; Live Irish music 1st Fri. of each month. ■ WEBSITE www.harpwilmington.com

ITALIANA TASTE OF ITALY


The authentic Italian cuisine served at Taste of Italy has scored them Best Deli in the Port City for years running now. The Guarino family recipes have been passed down from generation to gen-eration to brothers Tommy and Chris, who serve breakfast, lunch and dinner to hungry diners. They also cater all events, from holiday parties to cor-porate lunches, including hot meals, cold trays, handmade desserts and an array of platters, from antipasto to cold cuts. In addition, Taste of Italy sells Scalfani products, Sabrett hot dogs and Pol-ly-O cheeses in their market, all the while serving top-notch hot and cold items from their delicates-sen. Located at 1101 South College Rd., P. 910-392-7529, F. 910-392-9745 www.ncatasteofitaly.com Open M-F 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Sat. 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER: M-F 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Sat. 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: Ponatone, Pandora, Torrone and gift baskets of all sizes!■ WEBSITE: www.ncatasteofitaly.com

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

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

PIZZETTA’S PIZZERIAFamily-owned and operated by Sicilian cousins Sal and Vito, Pizzetta’s Pizzeria has become Wilming-ton’s favorite place for homey, authentic Italian fare served with precision and flavor like none other. Made daily from family recipes, folks will enjoy hand-tossed pizzas——gourmet to traditional——specialty heroes and pastas, homemade soups and desserts, and even daily blackboard specials. Something remains tempting for every palate, whether craving one of their many pies or a heaping

of eggplant parm, strombolis and calzones, or the famed Casa Mia (penne with sautéed mushrooms, ham, peas in a famous meat sauce with cream). Just save room for their buttery, melt-in-your-mouth garlic knots! Ending the meal with their pastry chef’s carefully crafted cannolis, Tiramisu or gour-met cheesecake, alongside a cup of freshly made espresso or cappuccino, literally makes a perfect end to one unforgett able and desirable meal. Lo-cated in Anderson Square at 4107 Oleander Dr., Unit F, Wilmington (910-799-4300) or coming soon Pizzetta’s II, 1144 Cutler’s Crossing, Leland (in Brunswick Forest next to Lowe’s).■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER: ILM location: Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m., and Sun., noon. • Leland location: Mon.-Wed., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat., 11 a.m. -11 p.m.; Sun., noon - 9:30 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown Wilmington and coming soon, Brunswick Forest in Leland■ FEATURING: Homemade pizzas, pastas, soups and desserts, all made from family recipes!■ WEBSITE: www.pizzettas.net

SLICE OF LIFE“Slice” has become a home away from home for tourists and locals alike. Our menu includes salads, tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, homemade soups, subs and, of course, pizza. We only serve the freshest and highest-quality ingredients in all of our food, and our dough is made daily with pu-rified water. Voted “Best Pizza” and “Best Late Night Eatery.”All ABC permits. Visit us downtown at 122 Market Street, (910) 251-9444, in Wrights-ville Beach at 1437 Military Cutoff Road, Suite 101, (910) 256-2229 and our newest location in Pine Valley on the corner of 17th and College Road, (910) 799-1399.■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & LATE NIGHT: 11:30 a.m.-3 a.m., 7 days a week, 365 days a year.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown,Downtown and Wilmington South.■ FEATURING: The largest tequila selection in Wilmington■ WEBSITE: www.grabslice.com

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

LATIN AMERICANSAN JUAN CAFEOffering the most authentic, gourmet Latin Ameri-can cuisine in Wilmington. With dishes from coun-tries such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Cuba you’ll be able to savor a variety of flavors from all over Latin

America. Located at 3314 Wrightsville Avenue. 910.790.8661 Follow us on Facebook/Twitter for live music updates!■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon Sat. 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and from 5-10 p.m. Closed Sunday.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: Nightly specials■ WEBSITE: www.sanjuancafenc.com

MEXICANLOS PRIMOSConsidered Wilmington’s first Authentic Mexi-can restaurant, Los Primos is quickly gaining a large following among the community. It’s entirely home cooked menu features local fa-vorites such as tacos dorados de pollo, coctel de camarones, pozole and a selection of the best tacos a la parrilla north of Mexico. This restaurant is an absolute must for anyone who wants to taste the true favors of Mexico. Lo-cated at 3530 Carolina Beach Rd., between the two intersections of Independence Blvd. and Shipyard Blvd. (910) 859-8145■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon.-Thurs.: 10:30am-8pm; Fri.-Sat.: 10:30am-9pm; Sun.: 10:30am-6pm■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wilmington South■ FEATURING: Chiles Rellenos, Tamales, Pollo En-chilado, Mole con Pollo, Azado de Res■ WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/Restaurantprimos

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

TIDAL CREEK CO-OP KITCHENCome dine-in or take-out from the newly renovated Co-op Kitchen at Tidal Creek Cooperative Food Market. You can fill your plate or box with hot bar and salad bar items that are prepared fresh daily

in our kitchen. Made-to-order sandwiches, like the Tempeh Reuben, are served hot off the Panini grill. The Co-op Café offers organic smoothies and fresh juices; local wheatgrass shots; fair trade organic coffee, lattes, and chai tea; and our newest addition of Lenny Boy kombucha tea on tap. Don’t forget our baked-from-scratch baked goods! The Co-op Kitchen provides menu items that appeal to every-one, regardless of dietary demands.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Mon. - Fri. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.■ WEEKEND BRUNCH: Sat & Sun, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.■ SALAD BAR: Mon. - Sun, 9 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.■ SANDWICHES: Mon. - Sun, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.■ BAKERY & CAFE: Mon. - Sun, 8 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: indoor/outdoor seating, free Wi-Fi■ WEBSITE: www.tidalcreek.coop

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

EASTThe Blockade Runner offers an array of seasonal seafood specials, certified Angus beef, lobster menu on Fri. evening plus a spectacular Sun. brunch. Romantic al fresco dining is available on our dinner deck located in the center of a lush garden overlooking the ocean far away from the traffic and noise. Our lounge is eco-friendly and offers light fare nightly. 275 Waynick Blvd. Wrightsville Beach. (910) 256-2251.■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER & SUNDAY BRUNCH■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Wrightsville Beach.■ FEATURING: Lobster menu on Fri.■ MUSIC: Live music on Sat. evening and Sun.brunch.■ WEBSITE: www.blockade-runner.com

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

OCEANICVoted best seafood restaurant in Wilmington, Oce-anic provides oceanfront dining at its best. Located


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

SMALL PLATES THE FORTUNATE GLASS The Fortunate Glass Wine Bar is the perfect place to explore the beauty of wine while tast-ing a variety of tapas in an intimate environ-ment. The wine menu focuses on wines from all regions, with 50 wines by the glass and ap-proximately 350 wines available by the bottle, including some of the best boutique and cult wines, to everyday values that work with any budget. There are over 30 beers available fea-turing some of the best craft selections. The serene ambiance of The Fortunate Glass, cre-ated by the beautiful wall murals, the elegant copper and glass tile bar, castle-rocked walls and intimate booths enhances the experience of any selection you choose. The Fortunate Glass Wine Bar also presents a small menu of creative tapas, global cheeses, cured meats and decadent desserts to accompany and compliment any wine selection.■ SERVING EVENINGS: Tues.-Thurs. 4 p.m.-12 a.m. Fri. 4 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat. 2 p.m.-2.a.m.; Sun. 2 p.m.-12 a.m.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Downtown■ FEATURING: Free Wine Tasting: Tues. 6-8pm. Bubble and wine specials: Wed. & Thurs. Monthly food & wine pairing events.■ WEBSITE www.fortunateglasswinebar.com

SOUTHERNCASEY’S BUFFETIn Wilmington, everyone knows where to go for solid country cooking. That place is Casey’s Buffet, winner of encore’s Best Country Cookin’/Soul Food and Buffet categories. “Every day we are open, somebody tells us it tastes just like their grandma’s or mama’s cooking,” co-owner Gena Casey says. Gena and her husband Larry run the show at the Oleander Drive restaurant where people are urged to enjoy all food indigenous to the South: fried chick-en, barbecue, catfish, mac‘n’cheese, mashed po-tatoes, green beans, chicken‘n’dumplings, biscuits and homemade banana puddin’ are among a few of many other delectable items. 5559 Oleander Drive. (910) 798-2913.■ SERVING LUNCH & DINNER: Open Wednes-days through Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesdays.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: Pig’s feet and chitterlings.

SPORTS BARCAROLINA ALE HOUSEVoted best new restaurant AND best sports bar of 2010 in Wilmington, Carolina Ale House is the place

to be for award-winning food, sports and fun. Locat-ed on College Rd. near UNC W, this lively sports-themed restaurant. Covered and open outdoor seating is available. Lunch and dinner specials are offered daily, as well as the coldest $2 and $3 drafts in town. 317 South College Road. (910) 791.9393.■ SERVING LUNCH, DINNER &

LATE NIGHT: 11am-2am daily.■ NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown■ FEATURING: 40 HD TVs and the biggest HD projector TVs in Wilmington.■ WEBSITE: www.CarolinaAleHouse.com

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On my first visit, I sampled a litany of ap-petizers to get a long view of what to ex-pect. My companion and I ordered two dif-ferent types of chicken wings (Guinness barbecue sauce and Thai peanut), a Philly cheesesteak eggroll and zucchini fries.

The Thai peanut wings were far and away the best savory offering of the afternoon. Modestly spicy with a healthy dose of nutty flavor, the sauce brought out the best in the chicken. However, we weren’t nearly as en-amored by the Guinness barbecue wings. Guinness Stout, which I adore as a bever-age, has a coffee flavor and translates well to red meat. Yet, it leaves a lot to be desired when applied to white meat. Normally, I ap-plaud innovation, but this attempt just plain missed the mark.

We ordered the zucchini fries, thinking we’d get an interesting take on the Ameri-can fried-food phenomenon. Haricot verts fries remain one of my favorites and, when done well, they thread the needle between health food and sinful delectation (OK, more of the latter, but whatever). Towne’s zucchini fries did nonesuch. Though well-battered, they came out droopy and overly moist. With no firmness to back them, all we tasted was over-cooked zucchini and limp dough. Somehow the dish carried none of what I love about fries or green vegetables, leaving only the worst parts of both.

But the fries were a masterpiece com-pared to Philly cheesesteak eggroll. I have to assume that some form of magic was used to accomplish this. How beef, cheese, onions and peppers can be fried together and still come out flavorless is a mystery I’ll never solve. Thus, the eggroll isn’t worth the calories.

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serts for $3 apiece. It’s restaurateur Ash Aziz’s signature on dessert, as seen from his downtown eatery, and Towne’s sister restaurant, Circa 1922. Though the tiny crème brûlée could have used a bit more caramelized sugar, the pots du crème and strawberry cheesecake hit the mark beau-tifully. The peanut butter mousse, with a tiny Oreo crust at the bottom, was a sure-fire winner. No one has ever gone wrong blending peanut butter with the rich taste of Oreo. Whatever miscues Towne had on its savory dishes, they got this one right.

I made a return trip a week later intent on trying one of their sandwiches. While I perused the menu, I decided to give one other dish a try. I ordered the soft pret-zel with cheddar ale sauce, which came doused in butter and salted exquisitely (no one ever went wrong with a heavy handed application of butter). More to the point, the restraint on the salt was spot-on in Towne’s favor. I do love indulging in a salty dish which doesn’t dry my tongue; pretzel salt is wonderful but not if it’s all I can taste. The cheddar ale sauce proved another small victory, with smoky beer mixing tangy cheddar and red pepper spic-iness. It gave me some hope that my sec-ond visit would be a triumph over the first.

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Chardon Louisa Murray I’m going to stop procrastinating so much—but I

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dear jude, I know you thought it was a joke. I know you probably never thought about it again after

that night. So, it must shock you to know that over the last two decades the “joke” has haunted and controlled me. So many tiny and insignificant things we fail to notice or pay at-tention to have rippling effects in our lives and the lives of others.

Obviously, if you are reading, you have got-ten it out of the safe-deposit box. Hopefully, I am dead and not in police custody or hospital-ized. Thank you for doing that. I guess I feel a need to write to you as a confessional of sorts—to clear my soul, though I haven’t ac-tually done anything. Except accepted money to knowingly spend time with people. People whom other people wanted dead. Again, I didn’t really do anything.

The reason I wanted to write you is be-cause, really, it was your idea. I was content to go along and continue hiding with my “New Year’s Curse,” as I sometimes call it. But, you, you had a better idea. Human na-ture being what it is, eventually, I acted upon it. So, I want you to know what you have brought about: I can’t live with this secret alone anymore.

You probably don’t remember, but almost 20 years ago, we were having dinner at Caffe Phoenix the day before New Year’s. I was trying desperately to make sure I left before the clock struck midnight; I didn’t want to en-danger you in any way by spending one sec-ond of New Year’s Eve together. It had been an eventful night, and we each had a couple of glasses of wine when someone, I don’t remember if it was you or me, made a joke about hiring me out as a contract killer.

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Sparky? He bled in my arms, heaving, gasp-ing with short howls of pain as his breath gave out, unable to sustain the note before that crazy man who hit him said, “I’m sorry, but we should put him out of his misery. I really am so sorry.”

The world had exploded with dog flesh and noise. Blood and fur flew and retracted; the man pulled out a hand gun, aimed and shot Sparky while I was still holding him.

Jude, that was the worst—the break! That was why I started hiding every New Year’s Eve. The months of agony which followed led me to another option. If I had this curse, then shouldn’t I try to control it? Use it for good, rather than have it control me?

Ahh, but your idea: The Contract Killer. To hire myself out for one night a year—well, theoretically, how would anyone advertise this service? I mean, what would a contract for something like this look like? I wouldn’t promise to kill anyone on New Year’s Eve, but they would die some time within the follow-ing year whether in my presence or not. The statistics were there, proving the likelihood based on my experiences with everyone else who had spent New Year’s Eve with me.

What would the going rate for something like this be? I mean how does one value hu-man life? I assume it would cost more money to be hired for a Supreme Court Justice than Joe Schmuckatelli from down the street, right?

I thought about this for a long time. One

day, while having coffee with an ex-special forces agent,

Frank, at Folks Café, I baited him for insight. “Do you re-member the story in the paper a couple of years ago about the person who was stabbed to death in Bladen County over $9 and some change?”

Frank wiped the whipped cream from his blonde mus-tache with the back of his hand. “Yeah, that was terrible.”

I nodded and pushed hair out of my eyes. “But a big part of why it was so shocking for everyone was that the killing was over such a small sum of money. Obviously, it was about something more than just $9, but…”

“Yeah, you just hope that human life has a higher price tag than $9,” Frank nodded

and sipped his mocha. “So, what sort of price

would you put on it?” I asked as nonchalantly as I could.

“In Somalia or Marin Coun-ty, California?”

“No, this isn’t a political question,” I noted. “I mean if you were going to hire someone to kill a person, how much would you expect to pay?”

Frank’s jaw dropped “Ahhh, is there a rea-son you are asking me this?”

I shrugged my shoulders and stared at my coffee. “Well, I’ve just been thinking about it. I mean if we are so shocked that someone would kill for $9, at what price would we not be shocked?”

“So this is a theoretical discussion?” Frank visibly relaxed when I nodded. He leaned back in his chair, hands on his thighs and flexed his back. “Well, I don’t know. There was that case in Raleigh for $5,000 apiece last year… Maybe $10,000?”

“That still sounds really low to me. Or am I overvaluing this?”

“Do you value human life that much?”“I value guilt and conscience and conse-

quences that much. I mean you have to live with having done this for the rest of your life.”

Frank looked at me with a pitying glance which seemed to express concern over my naïvete. Slowly he said, “Somehow, I don’t think it bothers people who are willing to do it that much.”

“Really, you don’t think they feel guilt?”Frank shook his head. “Not everyone is

like you.”

I do remember saying, “It is the completely un-prosecut-able crime … I mean it’s not il-legal to spend time with some-one, and it’s not like I actually pull the trigger or stab any-one—they just happen to drop dead during the next year.”

We were both laughing and you kept egging me on. “You should totally do it! OH. MY. GOD! What a great idea!”

I left the restaurant at 11:30 p.m. on December 30th with plenty of time to get away from people I knew and loved. I planned to hide over the next 24 hours in a hotel. As you know, a few years before I had started to hide as far from humanity as I could.

But your suggestion got me thinking. I had never thought of myself as a killer in spite of the mounting evidence to the con-trary:

Gareth, dead of a heart at-tack in 1972.

Edith, dead on the operating table in 1975.

Jim, dead in a car accident in 1979.Harry, killed in a plane hi-jacking in 1983.Thelma, killed by robbers in 1985.Barry, dead from a boating accident in 1987. Earl, dead of diabetic complications in 1990.Liz, dead from a medicine mix-up in the

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E-RECYCLING EVENTYour Computer Friends and PODS Moving and Stor-age hold their e-recycling event, accepting printers, phones, cell phones, batteries, desktop and laptop computers, cables, fax machines and copiers, or any other electronic device you need to recycle.TVs and CRT monitors (the big, bulky kind) require a re-cycling charge of $10 each. No appliances. Bring working computers inside.: Mon-Fri. 1/14-18, 9am-

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The UNCW Creative Writing Graduate Student As-sociation is accepting donations via IndieGoGo for their several community outreach programs and trav-el to AWP 2013. The fundraiser, dubbed *Share the

Word, met its original goal of $2,500 well ahead of its 1/1/2013 deadline. As of writing, over 30 gener-ous backers have helped raised $2,890 in just a few weeks. It is the hope of the CRWGSA to exceed this goal in order to strengthen the literary community in Wilmington and abroad. The hope is to reach $3,500 to build on these original goals. Incentives for donors including grab bags of stickers and bookmarks, t-shirts; books by UNCW faculty members and alumni The UNCW CRWGSA is a non-profit student organi-zation at UNCW that provides channels for it.

2013 ENCORE BEST OF PARTY/FUNDRAISEREncore and the Carousel Center for Abused Children (CCAC) announce their partnership in coordinating Encore’s Best of 2013 Awards Party at the Brook-lyn Arts Center, 2/2, 6pm. Crowning winners from the top three nominees in over 120 categories, spanning Arts & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Goods & Services, and Environmental & Humani-tarian; improv and off-the-cuff hilarity hosted by co-median troupes The Comically Impaired and folks from Changing Channels; inaugural Best Of Battle of the Bands, including Mike Blair and the Stonewalls, L-Shaped Lot and Bibis Ellison—who will be vying for the 2013 Best Performer/Band title live. During their sets, the audience will vote by donating dollars to Carousel Center; each vote costs a dollar! Raffles will continue to help raise funds for CCAC. Dozens of the newly nominated business have donated gift certificates, merchandise, free food, service vouch-ers and more. Tickets at encoredeals.com starting 1/9 (the day Best Of voting closes at encorepub.com). Proceeds from ticket sales benefit CCAC. Ad-mission includes a sampling of food from some of the area’s best restaurants and a cash bar.

theatre/auditionsOVER THE RIVER & THROUGH THE WOODS

Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPi-etro, 1/3-4, 7pm. Sneads Ferry Community Center 126 Park Ln. Three women and 3 men needed; cold reading. Performance, 2/22-24 and 3/1-3: Cast of characters: Nick: young man in his late 20’s or 30’s: nice looking boy-next-door type guy; sarcastically funny; Aida: Nick’s grandmother: A very simple, lov-ing woman whose life has been about her family; Frank: Nick’s grandfather: Very proud of where he has come from; a former carpenter; Emma: Nick’s grandmother: She has a sense of herself and is not afraid to share her opinions; Nunzio: Nick’s Grandfa-ther: A loving family man and great story teller; and Caitlin: young lady in her mid-20- 30’s. Irene King: 910-329-0077 or [email protected]

MONTY PYTHONSee review, p. 11.

BROWNCOAT PUB AND THEATRECheating Destiny by Richard Fife (1/4-6 & 11-13) : When Ron and Ivan find a book that teaches them the secret to fixing the past, they begin a time travel-ing tug of war for a beautiful stranger’s affections. • See What Sticks by Ryan PC Trimble & Jordan Mul-laney (1/25 & 26) : A free flowing evening of original comedic sketches, long form improv and even a little stand up comedy from two of the most promising young performers to separate themselves form the herd. 910-233-9914 or [email protected]

WILMINGTON THEATER AWARDS

See p. 10.

THALIAN ASSOCIATION IN REVUE1/20, 6:30pm: The Blockade Runner and Thalian Association Present Thalian Association in Revue.Celebrating 225 Years of Live Theater! Located at the Blockade Runner, Wrightsville Beach . Cocktails at 6:30pm; w/dinner and cabaret show at 7pm. $35 prix-fixe dinner. $20 cover charge to benefit Thalian Assoc. and TACT. Reservations recommended: 910-256-2251

THALIAN ASSOCIATION1/31: Premiere musical Xanadu, four-time Tony nominee, inspired by the cult-classic movie starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. Follows a magi-cal Greek muse who descends from Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach in 1980 on a quest to inspire a strug-gling artist to create the ultimate roller disco is ac-companied by such hits of the period as “Magic.” www.thalian.org.

music/concertsOLLI: THE MET

The Met: Live in HD feat. by The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNCW; all shows Sat., 12;55pm. Schedule: 1/5: Les Troyans (noon). Rare opportunity to witness Berlioz’s vast epic, last per-formed at the house in 2003. Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, and Marcello Giordani; Fabio Luisi marshals the large-scale musical forces. • 1/19: Maria Stu-arda, w/mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, , director David McVicar, Elza van den Heever and Maurizio Benini conducts. Indv. $30/ea; $20 for OLLI mem-bers. www.uncw.edu/metopera or 910-962-3195

WILMINGTON SYMPHONY AUDITIONSWilmington Symphony Orchestra, with Youth Or-chestra and Junior Strings, will hold auditions for new-members in January. Auditions held Mon., 1/14. Youth Orchestra (9th-12th grades) and Junior Strings (6th-8th grades) auditions held Thurs, 1/10 in evening. Applications and required music at www.wilmingtonsymphony.org, or by calling the symphony office at 910-791-9262. Appt. times assigned upon application. Musicians for the Wilmington Sympho-ny Orchestra are local instrumentalists and include UNCW music faculty and students who rehearse and present orchestral repertoire drawn from the eighteenth to twentieth-first centuries. Ten concerts a year conducted by Dr. Stephen Errante; annual free family concert and other special events. In addition to playing orchestra concerts, many of the Wilm-ington Symphony musicians also provide music for special occasions such as weddings and receptions, either in small groups or as soloists. Youth Orchestra participates in appx four concerts/year.

WILMINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY1/22, 7pm: The Wilmington Choral Society is holding open rehearsals for its Spring Concert. We will be performing Mozart’s Requiem. Rehearsals are held

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at Cape Fear Christian Church. Everyone with an interest in singing is welcome; no audition required. Rehearsals held at Cape Fear Christian Church Jenn Beddoe: [email protected]

CHAMBER MUSIC ILMChamber Music Wilmington’s 18th season. Single tickets, $25. Student & Military discounts available. Kenan Box Office: 910-962-3500. • 1/27: Warm up the winter with some French sunshine! Woodwind quintet, Ventus, takes you into the captivating world of French wind music with a concert of light-hearted, humor-filled, full throttle virtuoso antics for flute, clari-net, oboe, horn, and bassoon, w/Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud, Dukas, and Ibert. 7:30pm, Beckwith Recital Hall. etix.com

CAPE FEAR CHORALEThe Cape Fear Chorale is currently auditioning adult singers in all voice parts in preparation for its spring concert. The Chorale will present “Requiem” by Franz Von Suppe with orchestra, 4/21. Previous choral experience and the ability to read music will be helpful. Monday evening rehearsals begin January 7, 2013 at Grace United Methodist Church in down-town Wilmington. To schedule: contact music direc-tor, capefearchorale.org.

dancewB dAnCE LESSOnS

Hip-hop dance classes for kids will be held at the Fran Russ Rec Center on Wed. 4:15-5pm for K-2nd; 5-6pm for 3rd-5th. Reg open for: Session 1, 1/9-2/20; Session 2, 2/27-4/17; and Session 3, 4/24-6/5. Ea. session contains 7 classes. • Line Dancing lessons with Inez Eason, a former NFL-World League Football Professional Cheerleader. Line Dancing les-sons are open to anyone at any age. No partners are needed for this fun dance style, and with 1-hour classes held on Sunday afternoons, you can bring the whole family! 4 lessons per session beginning Sunday, January 6th from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Wrightsville Beach Recreation Center. 910-256-7925. Pre-reg: Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm. 8(910) 256-7925.

OVER 50S dAnCEThe Over 50’s Dance will be held Tues., 1/8, New Hanover Senior Center 7:30-10pm. Music by DJ Buddy Langley. $5 plus inger food or 2-liter drink. Couples, singles, and all ages welcome! 371-5368

AZALEA COAST dAnCE1/12: Social ballroom preceded by a basic dance lesson at the New Hanover County Senior Center, 2222 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC. Group lesson from 6:45 to 7:30PM. No partner necessary for the lesson. Open dancing to our own custom mix of ball-room smooth and latin music from 7:30 to 10:00PM. Admission $8 members, $10 non-members, $5 military with ID, $3 students with ID. 910-799-1694. www.azaleacoastncusadance.org

COnTRA dAnCETues. night dances, 5th Ave United Methodist Church on South 5th Ave at Nun, 7:30-9:30pm.Social dance for all levels; singles and couples, families, college and high school students and folks of all dancing abili-ties are invited to come. $4. (910) 538-9711.

art/exhibitsSILVER COAST wInERY

The Coastal Carolina Camera Club will be exhibiting its member’s photographs in the Art Gallery, open-ing 1/5, with reception from 2-5pm, and running through end of Jan. The Coastal Carolina Camera Club meets monthly, the second Tuesday of the month at 7pm at the Shallotte Presbyterian Church, 5070 Main Street, Shallotte. Membership is open to photographers of all skill levels using both film and

digital cameras. Meetings consist of informative programs on photographic techniques and software usage, member photo presentations and critiques, guest speakers and much more. Guests are always welcome.www.coastalcarolinacameraclub.org or 910-287-6311. Silver Coast Winery: Mon-Tues by appointment, Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Fridays till 6pm. www.silvercoastwinery.com or 910-287-2800.

ARTISTS nEEdEdHarbor Island Arts presents an art exhibition, Arbore-tum atrium space, 1/9-5/22. Ongoing exhibit of 2D art work depictingbutterflies, perennial gardens and herbs to coincide with the opening of these new ar-eas at the Arboretum. Art work will be for sale, sold through the gift shop and displayed throughout the Hutaff Building Atrium Gallery Space. Application for submissions must be in by 1/4. Work must be sub-mitted ready to hang with wire Jan 9th.Art work will be there on a 4-5 month contract sold through the gift shop with Arboretum collecting 30% commis-sion. [email protected].

LIGHT LURE UndERwATER PHOTOSCourtney Johnson: Light Lure Underwater Pinhole Photographs of NC Piers, UNCW Art Gallery at the Cultural Arts Building, 1/17-2/22/13. Opening receptionwith wine and hors d’oeuvres will be held from 5:30-7pm, 1/17. Free and open to the public. Gallery will be open Mon/-Fri., noon-4pm. Light Lure features underwater photographs by Johnson taken with low-tech pinhole cameras constructed out of cookie tins, fishing line and waterproof putty. Pulled down by fishing weights, the pinhole cameras were lowered into the Atlantic Ocean off all 19 fishing piers along the NC coast. Images capture the light, mys-tery and exploration imbedded in the historic North Carolina coastal tradition. Supported by a Charles L. Cahill Research Award. Arts building located on the groundfloor of the Cultural Arts Building, near the building’s mainentrance on the corner of Randall Parkway and Reynolds Drive on theUNCW campus.

CAPE FEAR CAMERA CLUB EXHIBITThe Cape Fear Camera Club will have its annual photo exhibit at the Northeast Branch Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd., through 1/19. Exhibit is free and is available during Library hours. The beautiful photo-graphs on display are works done by Club members. www.capefearcameraclub.org.

wILMInGTOn ART ASSOCIATIOnThe Wilmington Art Association (W.A.A.) proudly announces the opening of their new permanent ex-hibit gallery space at the historic USO building at 120 South Second Street in downtown Wilmington, showcasing WAA artists. The public is invited to come down and check out the new space and join in the celebration. The art will be changed out monthly so there will be new work for view and purchase at the desk in the USO museum on an ongoing basis

A SEnSE OF PLACE WHQR 91.3fm’s MC Erny Gallery at WHQR: “A Sense of Place: Light, Land, Marsh and Sea,” feat. paintings by Virginia Belser and David A. Norris. On display until 1/4/13. A portion of the proceeds from any sale of art benefits WHQR. The exhibit will host an additional reception on 12/28 as part of the Fourth Friday Gallery Nights in downtown Wilmington. Reg-ular gallery hours are Monday – Friday from 10am-4pm. 254 N. Front St. third floor.

ARTFUL LIVInG GROUPArtful Living Group launches online shopping site, ArtfulLivingGroupShopping.com. Since opening early 2011 the shop has amassed a collection of fine art and handcrafted, fun functional gifts from over 200 artists. And has formed a following of loyal cus-tomers from around the world through the summer vacation seasons. Now people can give a coastal gift or purchase a piece of jewelry from one of their favorite local artist anytime of the year. Listing is free to artists that are represented by Artful Living Group,

which is another benefit for our local artists. Artful Living Group, LLC is located on Carolina Beach, NC and includes a retail shop, 4 working artist studios, art classes, and rotating art exhibits in the upstairs gallery. 910-458-7822. [email protected]

PROJEKTEThrough 1/19: Projekte Gallery in Wilmington is pleased to present “Flesh and Bones” by local artists Darren Mulvenna and Shannon Limburger. “Flesh and Bones” introduces new bodies of work that feature what is not about death or gore, but the raw beauty of what is under the skin. • Crissie Mc-Cree’s latest CD, “New Day,” 1/12., 9pm. Crissie has been living in NC for the past four years and moved to Wilmington this summer. The night will include live music, appetizers, a charity raffle, and more. CD will be available for purchase. • Weekly events: 2nd and 4th Wed, open mic; 1st and 3rd Wed, Projektion Theater Film Series, feat. subver-sive and foreign films and documentaries, 8-10pm; Thurs., “Just A Taste,” free weekly wIne tast-ing and live music; 1st & 3rd Fri., Kersten Capra 9:30pm; 4th Fri., Brazilian Bossa Nova with Ra-fael Name & guests, 9pm-12pm.. 523 South 3rd St. 910-508-8982. www.theprojekte.com

museums/programsHIddEn BATTLESHIP

Hidden Battleship: 1/12, 8:30am-12:30pm, 1:30-5:30pm (also offered 10/12/13) $50/person. $45 for friends members or active military.Behind-the-scenes tour of un-restored areas of the Battleship. The four-hour tour consists of small groups with guides. Guests explore the bow (officers’ country and boatswain locker), third deck (Radio II, brig, af-ter gyro, storage rooms, ammunition handling, En-

gineer’s office, torpedo area), Engine room #1, and climb inside the fire control tower to the top of the ship. The Azalea Coast Radio Club will be in Radio II to explain their work on the ship’s radio transmit-ters. It’s the tour that brings out the “Indiana Jones” in all of us, without the snakes! Limited to ages 12 and older and limited to 40 participants per time slot. It is not appropriate for those who have difficulty climbing narrow ladders or over knee-high hatches. Wear warm, comfortable, washable clothing, sturdy, rubber-soled shoes and bring a camera! Reg and payment due by the Thurs before; 910-251-5797.

CAPE FEAR MUSEUMEXHIBITS: Fragments of War , feat. scraps of fabric, torn paper, tattered flags, a uniform patch, which tell us about people’s Civil War experiences. Closes May 5, 2013. • Cape Fear Treasures: Campaign-ing through 1/13/2012: Feart. Rutherford B. Hayes’ 1876 presidential campaign button, 1884 Cleveland campaign ribbon, 1976 Jimmy Carter political but-ton, editorial cartoon on toilet paper commenting on North Carolina’s U.S. Senator Jesse Helms’ tenure and more. Shopping Around Wilmington: In an era before mega-malls, online ordering and big-box stores, shopping in Wilmington centered around downtown. Museum will explore ways in which increasing suburbanization changed people’s retail experiences. EVENTS: Volunteer Open House held first Wed. of mo. Opportunities are available in museum store, working with the historic collection, and as an education docent. • New Hanover County Resident’s Day: Residents admitted free first Sun. ea. mo. Learning Center: Wonders of Light. Sat., 1/5, 12, 19, 1-4pm. All. Free for members or with admission. Why is the sky blue? What makes a rainbow? Discover the colors of light and see what happens when you mix them. Conduct fun mirror experiments and learn how light travels. Explore the mysteries of light and color and even make an object


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CAMERON ART MUSEUMEXHIBITS: Through 3/10: An icon of the 1920s, named “the first American Flapper” by her husband, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) longed to be known as something other than just the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. This exhi-bition explores the artwork of Zelda Fitzgerald with 32 framed artworks created from 1927 through the late 1940s, on loan from the Montgomery Mu-seum of Fine Arts and Ms. Eleanor Lanahan, grand-daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, along with reproductions of historical photographs from the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers of Princeton University Li-brary. • From Gatehouse to Winehouse: Inside the Artist’s Workplace: Minnie Evans, Elisabeth Chant

and Claude Howell,” Pancoe Art Education Center’s Seagrove and Contemporary Pottery in the Exhibi-tion Cases • Jazz at the CAM Series w/Cape Fear Jazz Society through 4/2013, 6:30-8pm, 1st Thurs. ea. mo. in Weyerhaeuser Reception Hall. Individual: CAM/CFJS Members: $7 or nonmembers: $10; students, $5. 1/3: Sir Manuel & The Weather Chan-nel Boyz, fusion jazz. 2/14: Julie Rehder & Jack Kru-picka Quartet. 3/7: Roger Davis, Nina Repeta and Madafo Lloyd Wilson. 4/4: Doug Irving Quartet. • CLASSES: Life Drawing every Tues., 6-9pm, and Wed., 9:30am-12:30pm. Group meets in Reception Hall. Participants provide own dry drawing materi-als and watercolors. $70/7-wks. • Museum School classes, 910-395-5999 (ext. 1008 or 1024). • Tai Chi and Yoga! Beginners are always welcome. Cor-ner of South 17th St. and Independence Blvd. Tues-Sun,11am-5pm; Thurs: 11am-9pm. Museum mem-bers free, $8 non-members, $5 students with valid ID, $3 children age 2 -12. cameronartmuseum.com. 910-395-5999.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUMMon, Little Sprouts Storytime, 10am, and Go Green Engineer Team, 3:30pm. • Tues., Kids Cooking Club, 3:30pm • Wed., Preschool Science, 10am; Discover Science, 3:30pm; and Mini Math, 4pm. • Thurs. Sto-ryCOOKS, 10am; and StART with a Story, 3:30pm • Fri., Toddler Time, 10am; and Adventures in Art, 3:30pm • Sat, Discovery Fitness, 4pm; Sun., Young Writer’s Club 2pm • Drop off gently used books at our Museum to be used for a good cause. Ooksbay Books uses book collection locations to help promote literacy, find a good use for used books, and benefit nonprofits.• Jammie Jam PJ Party, Fri., 1/18, 5-7pm. Come in your PJs and bring a special stuffed friend! Make dreamcatchers, play some board games, and settle in for a cozy storytime. • 1st annual Pizza Putt fundraising night, 2/8, 7:30-9:30pm, kids ages 21 and older. Mini golf throughout museum. 18 holes,

18 pizzas and 18 beers to sample. $18 • Chinese New Year, 2/10, 1-3pm. Celebrate the year of the snake—stories, activities, and food that celebrate the beginning of the Chinese New Year. Create lucky red messages using traditional Chinese characters make paper lanterns, create a snake from the animal Zodiac, and more. Be sure to pick up a lucky red en-velope with a New Year’s challenge inside, too. Free with admission or anytime membership. www.play-wilmington.org

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

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH MUSEUMThe Wrightsville Beach Museum of History, housed in the turn of the century Myers Cottage, exists to preserve and to share the history of Wrightsville Beach. Visitors to the cottage will find a scale model of Wrightsville Beach circa 1910, exhibits featuring the early days of the beach including Lumina Pavil-ion, our hurricane history and information about the interaction between the people and our natural envi-ronment which have shaped the 100 year history of Wrightsville Beach. 256-2569. 303 West Salisbury St. wbmuseum.com.

WILMINGTON RAILROAD MUSEUMExplore railroad history and heritage, especially of the Atlantic Coast Line, headquartered in Wilmington for 125 years. Interests and activities for all ages, in-cluding historical exhibits, full-size steam engine and rolling stock, lively Children’s Hall, and spectacular model layouts. Housed in an authentic 1883 freight warehouse, facilities are fully accessible and on one level. By reservation, discounted group tours, ca-boose birthday parties, and after-hours meetings or mixers. Story Time on 1st/3rd Mondays at 10:30am, only $4/family and includes access to entire Mu-seum. Admission for 2012 only $8.50 adult, $7.50 senior/military, $4.50 child age 2-12, and free under age 2. North end of downtown at 505 Nutt St.910-763-2634, on 10/13-14, 10am: Fun for all ages! Drive trains, learn how to build models, check out merchandise, free whistles for kids, entertainment, refreshments, and more! Great family event benefits the Wilmington Railroad Museum. Only $5 per per-son, kids under age 5 free!

LATIMER HOUSE Victorian Italiante style home built in 1852, the re-stored home features period furnishings, artwork and family portraits. Tours offered Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm, and Sat, 12-5pm. Walking tours are Wed and Sat. at 10am. 126 S. Third St. Adults $8, children $4. 762-0492. www.latimerhouse.org

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

sports/recreationRING IN 2013 WITH FREE YOGA

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yoga class. The resolutions start now. Sweat out all the holiday cheer. Come in 1/2, free class. Class times 9, 4 and 6 (we rent mats/towels). Sign up for the Intro month (starting anytime in January after the 2nd) $40 for 30 days AND get the 2nd month for $100. That’s $140 for 2 months! Plus, a free class. For those folks wanting a real challenge.Try the 60 day challenge, complete 60 classes in 60 days and get the3rd month free. 910-679-8003

HALYBURTON PARKHalyburton Park offers a variety of programs for kids and adults including nature programming and fitness classes. Some programs are also offered during the day to accomodate home-schooled children. Janu-ary-April 2013. Pre-reg: 341-0075. FLAG FOOTBALLGet your pigskins ready! The Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation Department presents 2013 Flag Football. Registration begins Monday, January 7, 2013 at the Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation office located at 1 Bob Sawyer Drive. The office is open M-F, 8 am-5 pm. ww.towb.org

GENTLE YOGAThe Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation Depart-ment is offering Gentle Yoga with Nancy Hayes. Gentle Yoga focuses on gentle movements and relaxation and is suitable for all levels of fitness. Weekly 1-hour classes will begin Tuesday, January 8th at 10:30 a.m. in the Fran Russ Recreation Cen-ter. This class is offered on the token system. Tokens can be purchased at the Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation office. For more information on the class or purchasing tokens, please contact Wrightsville Beach Parks & Recreation at (910) 256-7925 . www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com.

kids’ stuffTHEATRE NOW

Children’s Theater Super Saturday Fun Time. Kid’s live adventure and variety show. Saturdays. Doors open at 11am. $8/$1 off with Kid’s Club Member-ship. Drop off service available.Tickets: www.the-atrewilmington.com or 910-399-3NOW

KIDS COOKING CLASSKids’ Cooking Class at Wrightsville Beach Park and Rec. Session 1:1/7-3/18 ; session 2: 4/8-5/20. Par-ticipants will learn new recipe ea. week. Pre-reg. rqd: 910-256-7925. www.townofwrightsbillebeach.com.

YOUTH TENNIS LESSONSTennis lessons are now being offered for youth ages 6-12 at Wrightsville Beach Park. Lessons start Janu-ary 14, 2013. Tennis is a fun way to get active! Tennis pro Jackie Jenkins, an LTA registered coach since 1977, instructs these classes that meet Mondays and Wednesdays. Ages 6-8 meet from 3-4 p.m., and ages 9-12 meet from 4-5 p.m. Coach Jenkins has turned a vast number of participants into tennis play-ers through her lessons and clinics given at Wrights-ville Beach Park! 256-7925. www.townofwrightsville-beach.com for reg. form.

PERFORMANCE CLUBWB Parks & Rec presents winter/spring sessions of Performance Club for kids ages 5-14, featuring per-formances of “Peter Pan” and “Grease” at the Fran Russ Recreation Center. No auditions necessary, but space is limited to 15 students per age group/per session, so don’t wait to register. Session I – “Peter Pan” Thurs., 1/17-3/14. K-3rd grade 4-5pm (max 15 students) ; 4th-5th 5-6pm (max 15 students). Ses-sion II: “Grease,” Thurs., 4/4/-5/30. K-3rd grade 4-5pm (max 15 students); 4th – 5th , 5-6pm (max 15 students) . Pre-reg rqd. Reg. Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm. (910) 256-7925.

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(from WWII to present)The Navy Seabee Veterans of America have estab-lished a new Seabee Island in Southeastern North Carolina. “Island X5 Cape Fear” If you are an active Navy Seabee or have ever served with a Seabee Battalion and would like to join this new Island, our meetings are held on the third (3rd) Saturday of each month at 10am at the VFW Hall on Village Rd. in Leland (about 2 miles west of US Hwy 17, on the left, just past the post office). (except July,

August and December there are no meetings) For more information you can contact:

William Sraver Jr. at [email protected], or Dennis Ruocco at [email protected]

If you know of a friend or a family member that was in the Seabees...Clip this & give it to them please. “Once a Navy Seabee - Always a Seabee”

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lectures/readingsOLD BOOKS ON FRONT

Green Book Club meeting in January will move one week because Jan. 1st seems an unlikely day for a book club meeting. More info at http://www.going-greenpublications.com • 1/2, 2:30pm: Southern launch for “Dwarf “by former Encore magazine book reviewer Tiffanie DiDonato. Please join us for the courageous fairy tale - you will laugh, cry and every-thing in between. • 1/19, 6pm,: Karen Bender’s book launch for “A Town of Empty Rooms.” Karen’s fans have waited patiently for her follow up book - and now they will be rewarded! 249 N. Front St. oldbook-sonfrontst.com or 76-BOOKS

HOMEGROWN AUTHORS: HENRY TON1/8, 6:30pm: Henry Tonn will speak about Remem-brance of Things Past, his new anthology of short pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about wars from the American Civil War to the present. Henry will be accompanied by Dick Daughtry, a veteran of World War II present at the liberation of Buchenwald. Copies of the book will be sold at the program, and the Friends of the Library will serve refreshments. Free, NE Reg. Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.

classes/workshopsCOMEDY WORKSHOP

A Standup Comedy Workshop with comedian Manny Oliveira begins 1/5 at the Comedy Cabana in Myrtle Beach. Manny has been teaching stand-up comedy for many years and his workshops have been featured in USA Today, CNN, TBS and in ar-ticles and feature stories in many other publications and news services. Details about the workshop are included in the attached folder. Comedy Cabana: (843) 449-4242

JOB SEARCH TOOLKIT1/8, 6pm: Identify the qualifications employers are looking for and demonstrate them on your resumes, cover letters, applications, LinkedIn profile and 30-second elevator pitch. First in a free 3-part Job Search Boot Camp series. • 1/22, 6pm: Identify what may be getting your job applications screened out, and learn how to get through to decision-mak-ers. Second in a free 3-part Job Search Boot Camp series. • 2/5, 6pm: Craft an individualized job search

strategy that demonstrates your qualifications, high-lights your strengths, and minimizes distractions. Learn how to access the 70%+ of job opportuni-ties in the hiddenmarket. Last in a free 3-part Job Search Boot Camp series presented by Elisabeth Sanders-Park at Northeast Library, 1241 Military Cutoff Rd.Ms. Sanders-Park is President of Wor-kNet Solutions, www.worknetsolutions.com, and author of The 6 Reasons You’ll Get theJob. These workshops are free courtesy of the speaker and the Friends ofthe Library. Pre-reg: www.nhclibrary.org.

clubs/noticesSEXUAL ABUSE TRAUMA SUPPORT GROUP

A support group to help survivors of sexual abuse define trauma, make sense of post-trauma reactions (regaining safety, control, trust and personal value), and heal for the long term. Mondays, 1/7-2/18, 5:30-6:30pm. No cost for attendance! Rape Crisis Center of Coastal Horizons Center, 615 Shipyard Blvd. Register by 1/4 contacting Lauren Slusher, LCSW-A, VSPat 910-392-7460. Space is limited!

DIVORCE CAREDivorceCare – SACPC’s next series will begin Tues., 1/8, 6:30pm. Video seminar and support group for those experiencing the grief of separation and di-vorce. Seminar sessions include topics such as: “Facing Your Anger,” “Facing Your Loneliness,” “Depression,” “New Relationships,” and “Forgive-ness.” This program will provide a means of support and recovery for people who are working through the pain that comes with the breakup of a marriage. Divorce Care Ministry: 762-9693

SOUTHEASTERN NC GREEN PARTY MEETING1/10: The Southeastern NC Green Party is having its second meeting. We are alocal chapter of the NC Green Party. Roxanne: 910-515-9697.

VETERAN’S WRITING COLLECTIVEOpen to all active-duty military, veterans, and fam-ily members, the Veterans Writing Collective en-courages the art of writing and conducts monthly workshops offering honest, positive feedback on members’ poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, mem-oir, drama, and journaling. 1/12, 2-4pm, at Methodist University in the Trustees Building, Room 340. Robin Greene: [email protected].

TOPSAIL CHAMBER ANNUAL DINNER

Topsail Chamber Annual Dinner, Sat., 1/26, 6-8pm, the Surf City Welcome Center. Tickets $25/person. 910-524-2679

THOMAS WOLFE FICTION PRIZEThe North Carolina Writers’ Network is still accept-ing submissions for the 2013 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. This annual award is administered by poet Anthony S. Abbott, the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of English at Davidson College in Davidson, NC. The Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize honors interna-tionally celebrated North Carolina novelist Thomas Wolfe. The winner receives $1,000 and possible pub-lication in The Thomas Wolfe Review. The competi-tion is open to all writers regardless of geographical location or prior publication. The postmark deadline is January 30, 2013. Ruth Moose, final judge.

toursWILMINGTON WATER TOURS

2 hour Eco/History Cruise Tues-Sat, 10am. Eagle’s Island Cruises 50 minute narrated cruises on the hour at 12, 1, 2, 3, 4pm, Mon- Sat. • Sunset Cruise on Tues & Wed w/light narration. Departs 6pm for 2 hours. • Acoustic Spotlight on our Sunset Cruise is on Thurs-Sat., 6-8pm, w/different local musician. • Starlight Cruise on Thurs-Sat, 8:30pm for an hour. See the unique lights of Wilmington after dark from the river. Wilmington Water Tours, 212 S. Water St. RSVP: 910-338-3134. wilmingtonwatertours.com

HISTORIC WILMINGTON FOUNDATIONHistoric Wilmington Foundation will feature two new walking tours in spring 2013. The Forest Hills Tour will showcase the architectural, social and cultural history of the community. Streetcar Suburbs Tour will focus on Wilmington’s first two suburbs, Carolina Place and Carolina Heights and the development of these historic neighborhoods, the people who lived here, and the preservation process that has made them an integral part of the city’s history. The tour guide will have the opportunity to include historical facts about Wilmington’s history, as well as connect the city to broader movements in the nation’s history. Both tours will include a strong architectural focus too. Tour guides wanted; training begins in Jan 2013. Megan Nadeau: 910-762-2511.

HISTORICAL DOWNTOWN WILMINGTONTake a “Trip With Triplett” and learn the history of this wonderful city with a retired Cape Fear History teacher. Any time! 910-392-6753 or email [email protected]. $3/children or $8/adults. www.tripwith-triplett.webs.com/

OAKDALE CEMETERY TOURTake a “Trip With Triplett” through tranquil Q\Oak-dale Cemetery chartered in 1852. Walk the peace-ful pathways and learn about the lives of the people that rest there. Any time! 910-392-6753 or [email protected]. $3/children or $8/adults. www.tripwith-triplett.webs.com/

culinaryFEAST DOWN EAST BUYING CLUB

Enjoy the quality, value and convenience of the Feast Down East Buying Club. It costs nothing to join. The benefits are immeasurable. It is a great way to eat healthier, while knowing you support your local farm families and community. Log on at www.Feast-DownEast.org and start buying fresh local food, sourced from Southeastern NC farms. Choose a pick-up spot, and check out at the online cashier and you are done! Orders must be placed by 11am Monday for Thursday delivery. Consumer pickup is Thursday 3:30-6pm at: the Cameron Art Museum, THE POD (located next to Dunkin Donuts on UNCW campus) or the Burgaw Historic Train Depot.

ATTENTION ALL NAVY SEABEESLOOKING FOR SEABEE VETERANS

FROM AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, KUWAIT & GULF WARS

(from WWII to present)The Navy Seabee Veterans of America have estab-lished a new Seabee Island in Southeastern North Carolina. “Island X5 Cape Fear” If you are an active Navy Seabee or have ever served with a Seabee Battalion and would like to join this new Island, our meetings are held on the third (3rd) Saturday of each month at 10am at the VFW Hall on Village Rd. in Leland (about 2 miles west of US Hwy 17, on the left, just past the post office). (except July,

August and December there are no meetings) For more information you can contact:

William Sraver Jr. at [email protected], or Dennis Ruocco at [email protected]

If you know of a friend or a family member that was in the Seabees...Clip this & give it to them please. “Once a Navy Seabee - Always a Seabee”


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ARIES (21 Mar. – 20 April) In 2013 I pledge to conspire with you to increase your mastery of the art of friendship. Together, we will concentrate on making you an even stronger ally than you already are. We will upgrade your skill at expressing your feelings with open-hearted clarity—and in ways that don’t make people defensive. We will also inspire you to help others communicate effectively in your presence. I hope you understand that doing this work will empower you to accomplish feats that were never before possible for you.

TAURUS (21 April – 20 May) Chickens and alligators share a common ancestor; 70 million years ago, they were both archosaurs. That’s why chickens possess a gene that has the ability to grow teeth. A few years ago a biological researcher at the University of Wisconsin managed to activate this capacity, inducing a few mutant chickens to sprout alligator teeth. I predict there will be a meta-phorically comparable event happening for you in 2013, Taurus. The “chicken” part of you will ac-quire some of the gravitas of an alligator.

GEMINI (21 May – 20 June) “People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground,” French novelist Marcel Proust said. An attitude like that is always a barrier to growth, of course, but in 2013 it would be es-pecially ill-advised for you Geminis. In order to win full possession of the many blessings that will be offering themselves, you will have to give up your solid footing and dive into the depths over and over again. That may sometimes be a bit nerve-racking, but it should also generate the most fun you’ve had in years.

CANCER (21 June – 21 July) Here’s the horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: You escaped the chains that kept you enslaved to your primary source of suffering. You broke the trance it kept you in, and you freed your-self from its demoralizing curse. Now, you have forged a resilient new relationship with your primary source of suffering, a relationship that allows you to deal with it only when it’s healthy for you to do so and only when you feel strong enough to do it. Very nicely done! Congratulations! Excellent work!

LEO (22 July – 22 Aug.) “In this world,” Oscar Wilde said, “there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” I’m counting on you to refute the last part of that questionable assertion, Leo. According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, you will definitely be getting what you want in the next six months. You will receive your prize . . . you

will earn your badge . . . you will win a big game or claim your birthright or find your treasure. When that happens, I trust you will make sure it is an en-during blessing. There will be no sadness involved!

VIRGO (23 Aug. – 22 Sept.) English poet Alfred Tennyson wrote so many memorable lines that he is among the top ten most frequently cited authors in “The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.” One of his most famous passages was: “’Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all.” When he was on his death bed at age 83, his enigmatic last words were, “I have opened it.” Let’s make that declaration your mantra for the coming year, Virgo. In your case, it will have noth-ing to do with death, but just the opposite. It will be your way of announcing your entrance into a brighter, lustier, more fertile phase of your life. Try saying it right now: “I have opened it!”

LIBRA (23 Sept. – 23 Oct.) Back in 1830 it was expensive to stay up and do things in your room after dark. To earn enough money to pay for the whale oil that would light your lamp for an hour, you had to work for 5.4 hours. And today? It’s cheaper. You have to put in less than a second of hard labor to afford an hour’s worth of light. I suspect that in 2013 there will be a similar boost in your ease at getting the light you need to illuminate your journey. I’m speaking metaphorically here, as in the insight that arises from your intuition, the emotional energy that comes from those you care about and the grace of the Divine Wow. All that good stuff will be increasing.

SCORPIO (23 Oct. – 21 Nov.) “I’ve been ab-solutely terrified every moment of my life,” Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe said, “and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” I think her declaration is excellent medicine for you. In 2013 you will have great potential for upgrading your relationship with your fears—not necessarily suppressing them or smashing them, but rather us-ing them more consistently as a springboard, capi-talizing on the emotions they unleash and riding the power they motivate you to summon.

SAGITTARIUS (22 Nov. – 21 Dec.) “Ambi-tion can creep as well as soar,” Irish philosopher Edmund Burke said. That will be good for you to remember throughout 2013, Sagittarius. Later this year, the time may come for your ambition to soar—in the month of April, for example, and again in the month of August. But, for the foreseeable future, I think your ambition will operate best if you keep it contained and intense, moving slowly and gradually, attending to the gritty details with su-

preme focus.

CAPRICORN (22 Dec. – 20 Jan.) In Tom Robbins’ book, “Skinny Legs and All,” one of the characters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversation with a voice in her head. The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: Keep your eye on the ball, even when you can’t see the ball.” I think that happens to be excellent counsel for you to heed during the next six months, Capricorn. You may not always be able to figure out what the hell is going on, but that shouldn’t affect your commitment to doing the right thing. Your job is to keep your own karma clean and pure—and not worry about anyone else’s karma.

AQUARIUS (21 Jan. – 19 Feb.) I’ll be bold and predict that 2013 will be a time when you’ll discover more about the art of happiness than you have in years. Here are some clues to get you start-ed: 1. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” (Agnes Repplier) 2. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.” (Epictetus) 3. “For the rational, healthy person, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the de-sire to escape from reality.” (Nathaniel Branden) 4. “Our happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.” (E. Wigglesworth) 5. “Hap-piness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” (William H. Sheldon) 6. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief require-ments of life, when all that we need to make us re-ally happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” (Charles Kingsley)

PISCES (19 Feb. – 20 Mar.) In 2013 I pledge to help you feel at peace and in love with your body; I will do everything in my power to encourage you to triumph over media-induced delusions that tempt you to wish you were different from who you actu-ally are. My goal is to be one of your resourceful supporters in the coming months—to be a mem-ber of your extensive team of allies. And I will be working with you to ensure that this team grows to just the right size and provides you with just the right foundation. If all goes well, your extra help will ensure that you finish almost everything you start in the coming year. You will regularly conquer ev-eryday chaos and be a master of artful resolutions.

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STEP UP FOR SOLDIERS1/26: 30 teams will start with everyone using same meats, at same location, with same time constraints. Thrown into the mix will be individual rubs, sauces or marinades, grill temperatures and methods of cook-ing that will leave someone going home with brag-gin’ rights for the next year. Cook-off will step it up a notch with a pre-contest party on Friday evening featuring two bands, Train Wreck and Beachbilly Brothers, along with food and drink with all open to the public for a nominal admission fee. Carolina Beach Lake at the junction of Lake Park Blvd. and Atlanta Ave. Admission on Saturday is free. Tickets purchased to sample the BBQs after the double-blind judging is completed. Sat. bands, The Cut along with the headliner (to be determined). Raffles, arts and craft vendors plus more food and drink for purchase. Gates at 11am and prizes will be awarded at 2pm. All to benefit Step Up For Soldiers.Rose McConville at [email protected] or call 910-547-0087.

FOOD SAFETY CLASSFood Safety Class for Restaurant Manager offered right techniques for handling, preparing, serving and storing foods safely during the ServSafe Food Safety for Restaurant Managers class offered in three ses-sions on 1/28, 2/4 and 2/11 at the Southport-Oak Island Area Chamber of Commerce at 4433 Long Beach Rd. Sessions will start at 12:30pm and end at 4:30pm. Students who successfully complete the class and the exam receive a certificate from the Na-tional Restaurant Association Education Foundation often seen prominently displayed in restaurants. Fee of $115 is required to cover the cost of the text book, exam and classroom instruction. Books must be picked up in person at the Cooperative Extension office prior to the beginning of the class. 910-253-2610 to register.

WINEDUCATION CLASSJoin staff of The Veggie Wagon and sommelier Shaun Underwood of Juice Wines for a Special Win-education class from 6-7pm, 1/15. During this call we will taste 5 different styles of Cabernet from dif-ferent regions of the world. Shaun will be focusing his discussion on the different effects that terroir (local elements) has on the each wine. You will be amazed how one grape can have some many different flavor profiles, depending on the climate and location of where it was grow. The class is free to attend, RSVP required, and is sure to teach you a few things about some great wines from around the world.Space is limited for this event. theveggiewagon.com or email [email protected] or call 910-805-3014. The Veggie Wagon, 608 South Lake Park Blvd.

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


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Delivery Special Large 2 topping for $12.99 + delivery fee Limited delivery area • Expires Jan. 31, 2013

January 2, 2013

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