The annual Delaware Dance Festival showcases 18 companies and studios from three states, and a number of different styles of dance. The festival kicks off with a cocktail hour leading up to the event at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino.
Killens Pond holds a day camp open house Friday, March 26.
Tenors Tom Andersen, Scott Coulter and Tim DiPasqua focus on country songs that have made an impression, from the 1940s and on, in their show "Southern Comfort," which features a four-piece band backing them on songs from Dolly Parton, Trisha Yearwood, Hank Williams, Tom Jones and others.
Kent County Theatre Guild regulars are enjoying the chance to work together in a show that focuses on relationships. The classic play, helmed by director Necia Beck, opens at 8 p.m. Friday, March 12, at the guild theater, 140 E. Roosevelt Ave., Dover.
Dover is just chock full of ways to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
It's just about time for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade, which means local groups and businesses are gearing up for the big event. It also means that besides serving with the Dover Police Department, Master Cpl. Christopher Hermance and his 11-year-old daughter, Caroline, are tuning up their bagpipes for the event he calls their Superbowl.
Tori Hillers has been tending bar at Irish Mike's Olde Towne Pub in downtown Dover for two years, and said no event is more fun for them than St. Patrick's Day. She answered a few questions for us on Drunken Leprechauns, what makes the upcoming holiday special, and why "Bohemian Rhapsody" holds a special place in her heart.
As a kid, the world can seem like a scary place. Some of us never outgrew the fear that came with supposedly kid-friendly stuff. For example, did anyone else find the Cheshire Cat too disturbing? With the release of the latest “Alice in Wonderland,” we started thinking of things that we should have loved as a child, but still freak us out, even as adults.
Playwright's life makes for an entertaining show by New York writer/actress, and local singers start the three-show sing-off of Smyrna's Got Voice II.
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For the duration of its grim two-hour ride, “Brooklyn’s Finest” is on to something in the vein of “Training Day,” “The Departed” and dash of “Crash.” It is a frenetic and tough police drama that puts the lives of three nearly burnt-out cops on a bloody collision course.
The American Society of Marine Artists exhibit at the Biggs Museum of American Art opens with its First Look Party from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 5, at the museum. A student competition, White Caps, is part of the related programming, as is a dinner in the galleries.
The Friday, April 30, kick-off for Old Dover Days will have one more event this year: The Dover Mile. The annual run/walk that started as a fundraiser on Flag Day will still be on State Street -- just on another date.
Delaware State University is featuring the weaving tapestry works of Dr. Hazel Bradshaw-Beaumont in “Tones & Tapestry,” which will have a reception honoring the artist at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in the Arts Center/Gallery in the William Jason Library.
The temperature in the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 41 degrees Fahrenheit, but that won’t stop 3,000 people from rushing into the water Sunday, March 14, at Rehoboth Beach for the 2010 Lewes Polar Bear Plunge.
Actresses Krysten Ritter and Alice Eve play best friends in the film “She’s Out of My League,” and in real life they definitely evoke that BFF vibe.
Both old- and new-school photographers’ works will hang side-by-side at the Dover Art League’s newest exhibit, “The Silver Image,” which celebrates at its opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5.
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Chris Cooper is happy to be known as a character actor. He lives in Kingston, Mass., well out of the Hollywood loop, and is regularly called upon to play pretty much every kind of personality imaginable.
Oscar parties have been around for years, but for those without invitations — or those of us who’d rather not don tuxes and create themed potluck dishes (steak “Avatar”-tar, anyone?) — missed out on the fun. But this year, people around the world watched the Academy Awards within arms’ reach of a laptop or phone, participating in an ongoing conversation about the telecast on the micro-blogging service Twitter.
