Wilmy Weekly: October 22nd

What's Happenin' in Wilmington 👀

Thursday, Oct 22

• 🎷 Wilmington Big Band's October Spook-tacular: The Eagle's Dare, 7–9:30pm, $15 (cash or Venmo). A swing dance party with a free lesson from the Cape Fear Swing Dance Society at the break. Costumes optional.

• 💃 Mística: Ballet Nepantla: Thalian Hall, 7:30pm. A dance work that honors ancestors by celebrating their creative and spiritual energy.

• 🎭 Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play: Thalian Hall's Stein Theatre, Thu–Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3pm. Final weekend for Big Dawg's comic Jekyll and Hyde.

Friday, Oct 23

• 🎬 Movies on the Fantail: Mary Poppins: Battleship North Carolina, doors 6:30pm/movie 7:30pm. The season finale of movies on the ship's deck. Bring a lawn chair, food and drinks.

• 🍷 Lighthouse: The Cellar, Sea & Shore: Live Oak Bank Pavilion, 6–9pm. A Friday evening of fine wines, craft beer, coastal food and live music from the Lighthouse Beer & Wine team.

• 🎃 Halloween Trunk or Treat Monster Mash: Belville Riverwalk Park, 5–7pm, free. Bring the kids in costume for candy by the river.

• 🔪 Films on Tap: Scream: Flytrap Brewing, 7pm. Movie night in the pumpkin patch with free popcorn.

• 🎃 Pumpkin Carving Contest: Four Corners, 6:30–8:30pm. All ages, tools provided and live music from Rob Ronner. Bring a pumpkin or grab one there.

• 🦞 Groove & Grub: DREAMS Center for Arts Education, 6–9pm. A low-country boil and BBQ mash-up from Rude Boys Jerk BBQ's Chef Tito Ortiz, with an open bar and dancing.

• 💋 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Live Shadowcast: Thalian Hall, 7:30pm Friday and Saturday, $30. Pineapple-Shaped Lamps act out the cult classic on the Main Stage. Costumes encouraged.

• Nurse Blake: But Did You Die?: CFCC Wilson Center, 7pm. Healthcare comedy from the viral nurse.

• 🎤 Guy Branum: Dead Crow Comedy, 7pm Friday and Saturday. Stand-up downtown.

• Fele Cett w/ Beats & Coffee: Downtown, doors 9pm/show 10pm, $10 adv/$15 door, 21+. House, UK garage and nu-jazz with live drums and keys.

Saturday, Oct 24

• 🍻 Lighthouse Beer & Wine Festival: Live Oak Bank Pavilion, noon–5pm. The 25th annual festival on the river.

• 🎨 Walkerworld Spookyfest: Walkerworld Organic Artist Retreat, Castle Hayne, doors 1:30pm, music 2–10pm. Six bands, six singer-songwriters and 50+ art vendors.

• 🎤 Departure: The Journey Tribute Band: Bowstring Brewyard, 7–10pm. Every Journey hit you know by heart. Enter to win tickets by 7pm tonight.

• 👻 Ghostbusters in Concert: CFCC Wilson Center, 7:30pm. The original film on the big screen with a live orchestra playing the score.

• Soccer Mommy & Snail Mail: Greenfield Lake Amphitheater, 6pm. Two indie-rock favorites on one bill.

• 🎨 CAM Community Day: Echoes of Us: Cameron Art Museum, 10am–5pm, free. Hands-on art, Cherokee storytelling, a live stone-carving demo and gospel music to open the new exhibition.

• 🎮️ The Pop Culture Expo: UNCW Edition: UNCW campus, 11am–5pm, $8–$10. Tables of comics, toys, vinyl and trading cards.

• 🍂 Fall Fest at Riverlights: Riverlights, 11am–3pm. Thirty local makers, a petting zoo, fall drinks and hot mini donuts.

• ⚓ Battleship 101: Battleship North Carolina, 10am–2pm, free with admission. Volunteers open normally closed spaces and talk gunnery, sick bay and life aboard.

• 🎸 Punk Rock Cares Warming Shelter Benefit: Barzarre, starts 1pm, $10 suggested donation. Eleven local punk acts plus a raffle and silent auction for the Wilmington Warming Shelter.

• 🎃 Spooktoberfest: Jimmy's Inland, noon–5pm. Halloween meets Oktoberfest, with a spooky cauldron cocktail and an event-only beer glass.

• 🍺 Great Notion Super Tap Takeover: Fermental, 11am–11pm. A full day of Great Notion Brewing beers on tap.

• 🦪 Annual Oceanic Oyster Roast: Oceanic, 5–8pm, $50. Oysters, live music and beer, liquor and wine tastings, all included. Space is limited.

• 💄 Drag at the Market: Halloween Edition: Market House Beer & Wine, 7–9pm, $16.77. A spooky drag show.

• 🎭 Muse-querade: After Dark: Downtown, doors 7pm, $10 adv/$15 door, 21+. An '80s dark-glam masquerade (think The Lost Boys and Labyrinth) with a costume contest. Masquerade attire required.

Sunday, Oct 25

• 🦪 Oysterberfest: Wrightsville Beach Brewery, noon–5pm. Half oyster roast, half Oktoberfest: steamed oysters, German-style beers and live music.

• 💄 The Doll House Halloween Drag Brunch: Ponysaurus Brewing, doors 11am/show noon, 18+. A Halloween drag show with a brunch menu, a DJ and spooky cocktails.

• 🎃 Funky Fright Fest: Halloween Makers Festival: The Bend, noon–4pm. Local makers with a Halloween twist.

• 📚️ Hallo-Read: Comics + Crafts Pop-Up: Flytrap Brewing, 2–5pm. Memory Lane Comics, local makers, live music from Elena Woodard and a food truck.

• 🍬 Trunk or Treat at Freya's Haus: Freya's Haus, 2–4pm. Candy for the kids and $5 apple cider mimosas for the grown-ups.

• 🌭 The Great Wilmington Beer & Weenie Race: The Eagle's Dare, 2–5pm. Relay and individual races with teams from Chowtown, The Eagle's Dare and Water Weenies.

• 🤠 Country Night: Waterline Brewing, 4–8pm. Nate Van Winkle & The Cape Fear Riders (5–7pm), country cocktails and food from Smash N Dash.

• 🎃 Blooming Pumpkin Floral Class: End of Days Distillery, 3–5pm, ticketed. Build a pumpkin floral arrangement with Serendipity Flowers.

• 🎨 Tap Yard Crafty Corner: Tap Yard, 2–5pm, free (donations welcome). A monthly craft afternoon with Abby Smiles.

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Featured Deal of the Week: Ida Thai Cuisine 🍜

Monday: $5 glasses of wine, 20% off reserve bottles and 40% off house bottles
Thursday: 10% off your meal (drinks excluded)
Sunday: 10% off all sake, 4 domestic beers for $16 and 4 imported beers for $20

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Live Music 🎸

Thursday

• The Bend | Ginger & Dylan | 6pm–9pm

• Bowstring | TopHouse | 7pm–10pm

• The Blind Elephant | Jibreel McDonald, Riley Ball & Dillon Goodson | 8pm–10pm

Friday

• Bowstring | Same As It Ever Was: Talking Heads Tribute | 7pm

• Dram Tree Tavern | The Instigators | 7pm–10pm

• The Bend | Krispee Biscuits | 7pm–10pm

• Live at Ted's | Brown Dirt Cowboys | 8pm, $22

Saturday

• Bowstring | Departure: The Journey Tribute Band | 7pm–10pm

• Rooster & The Crow | The Hatch Brothers feat. Spencer Carlson | 6pm–9pm

• Waterline Brewing | Justin Cody Fox Band | 7pm–9pm

• Live at Ted's | WHQR STNL w/ Jay Killman & The Constellations | 8pm, $22

Sunday

• Wrightsville Beach Brewery | Oysterberfest live music | noon–5pm

• Live at Ted's | Soul-R Fusion | 4pm, $11

• Waterline Brewing | Nate Van Winkle & The Cape Fear Riders | 5pm–7pm

Food Trucks 🚛

EASTSIDE
October 22 | Biggers Market | 5pm–8pm
October 23 | Mad Mole Brewing | 5pm–8pm

PORT CITY QUE
October 22 | NAPA Auto Parts (Burgaw) | 11am–2pm
October 23 | Hudson Hardware | 11am–2pm

PORT CITY PLATES
October 22 | Grayson Park | 5pm–7pm
October 23 | North Topsail Elementary | 5pm–7pm

WILMYWOODIE
October 22 | LBC Bottle Shop | 4pm–8:30pm
October 23 | LBC Bottle Shop | 4pm–9:30pm

GUSTU PERUANO
October 23 | DrumTrout Brewing Co. | 5pm–8pm

LEO'S PIZZA
October 23 | Scapegoat Taproom | 6pm–9pm

PEPE'S TACO TRUCK
October 23 | Flytrap Brewing | 6pm–10pm

Truck schedules can change, so check their socials before you head out.

Wilmington News and Updates

Early voting is on, but check your ID first: Early voting runs through Saturday, Oct. 31 (ending at 3pm). Students at more than half of NC's 58 community colleges can't use their school IDs at the polls, since only 24 got State Board of Elections approval. A driver's license or passport works, and you can get a free voter photo ID at your county Board of Elections office. See which IDs are approved.

The Smoke on the Water spot has a new owner: Girls With Dough owner Tammy Tilghman bought the Riverlights property for $1,575,000, and Brookfield says it will stay a restaurant after Smoke on the Water closes Oct. 28. Smoke on the Water still plans to reopen downtown.

Wrightsville Beach wants your park ideas: The town is building its 2028–2033 parks and recreation plan. One more input meeting is set for Monday, Oct. 26 at 5:30pm at Town Hall, and the online survey is open through Nov. 30.

The Port of Wilmington lands $6 million: The federal grant will pay for 140 truck parking spaces and 50 container staging spots. No construction dates yet.

Bitty & Beau's is taking its coffee on the road: The Wilmington-born coffee company, which employs more than 500 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, is recruiting franchise owners for its mobile coffee trailers. It has 13 shops and eight trailers, with eight more in production.

Be nice, you might get $100: Wilmington police launched Operation Bright Spot, surprising people caught doing small acts of kindness with $100 debit cards. An anonymous donor and the WPD Recreation Association are funding it.

Looking Ahead

Nov 6–8 | Cape Fear Kite Festival, Fort Fisher State Recreation Area (free)
Nov 6–8 | Port City Blitz punk fest, Waterline Brewing
Friday, Nov 6 | The Electric Light Orchestra Experience
Saturday, Nov 7 | Switchfoot with Anberlin, Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
Nov 7–8 | Monty Python's Spamalot
Sunday, Nov 8 | Two Eagles Oyster Roast, The Eagle's Dare

Weather 🌡️

Friday
44🌡️71 | ☁️0% | 💨NE 9 mph
Saturday
54🌡️72 | ☁️1% | 💨NE 13 mph
Sunday
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Monday
54🌡️75 | ☀️0% | 💨NNE 9 mph

🌊🌡️ Ocean temperature = 71°F