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Two new local art exhibits and the opening of the Delaware Hospice's Festival of Trees are a few of this week's highlights.

Guests and artists will celebrate the 14th Annual Smyrna Opera House Art Show with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20.

Community classes, meetings, entertainment events, trips and more for the week of Nov. 18 through Nov. 25.

Dover High School's Visual and Performing Arts Gifted Program welcomes the public to its fall lecture/demonstration at 9:40 and 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in the school's auditorium.

This is the last weekend for the Kent County Theatre Guild's first show of the season, the farce "Rumors." The show runs at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 21.

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With just an acoustic guitar in-hand, the talented duo of A.J. Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle will perform the classic hits of “Simon & Garfunkel” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Smyrna Opera House.

The eighth annual Wine & Music Festival at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino brought out wine lovers and fans of the fabulous '50s. The event featured food and entertainment fashionable at the time, including an Elvis tribute and the Fabulous Greaseband. For photos, click on the headline.

Actress Sandra Bullock portrays Leigh Anne Tuohy, one of the two main characters in the new film “The Blind Side,” the true story of Michael Oher, a poor, homeless, underachieving high school kid she pulls off the street and invites to become part of her family.

It’s worth getting your hands on “The Light in Darkness” for the amazing photos alone. But it’s the stories from fans of Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and its groundbreaking concert tour that make up the heart of the book.

“New Moon” is the forbidden love story of a tormented vampire and a shy, pouty schoolgirl with a thing for the undead. It has nothing much to offer for non-Twilighters - it's made for the legions of females who find the books and movies irresistible.

“The Messenger” is evenhanded to a fault, stressing realism over propaganda while staring at the consequences of combat through the eyes of two soldiers (Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson) assigned to the Army Casualty Notification Service, who have the unenviable task of informing the next of kin when a loved one has paid the ultimate price.

Can mainstream audiences swallow a sports film tackling issues of race, poverty and social injustice? Writer-director John Lee Hancock doesn’t think so, as evidenced by his warm, fuzzy retelling of the life of Michael Oher, the black Baltimore Ravens rookie who was raised by a white Southern family.

Ten years ago this week, “Fight Club” was released to theaters. I was there on that opening weekend, sure I’d see something special, and I wasn’t wrong. Like few movies in my life, “Fight Club” seemed to reach right down into my brain and scratch a nagging itch I didn’t know was there.