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The 27th annual Cucalorus Film Festival runs Nov. 10-14, with dozens of films at Thalian Hall, live music at Hi-Wire brewing and much, much more.

The Wilmington act has an album-release show for its new Fort Lowell Records EP on Saturday, Aug. 28, at Satellite with Durham band Check Minus.

The Justice in My Town project revisits new activists and civil rights leaders one year after George Floyds killing spawned local action for change.

Joel Lamb and Jared Cline are sharing the stage on June 6 as part of a double release of their solo albums at Waterline Brewing.

With downtown Wilmingtons 7,200-seat Riverfront Park Amphitheater set to open in July, Southeastern North Carolina is on the cusp of getting some of the biggest concert acts its ever seen. But, as some concert-goers are finding out, with bigger acts comes something less appealing, if not unexpected: higher ticket prices. Tickets to see Everyman comic Jim Gaffigan on Aug. 14 range from $108 to more than $250 if you want a seated view. Seated tickets for the pop band Glass Animals start at $100 a...

USA TODAY Network reporters, York Daily Record Published 9:12 am UTC May. 24, 2021 No one woke up Memorial Day morning 2020 thinking their world was going to change. No one imagined that one of the most momentous periods in the long quest for racial justice in America was about to begin. And certainly numerous teenagers and young adults across the United States couldnt know that events were about to thrust them into positions of leadership in their town or city. Looking back a full year, to the...

Now, with the pandemic on the wane and concert announcements flying fast and furious — British pop band Glass Animals Sept. 5, beloved comic Jim Gaffigan at a to-be-determined date — that long-awaited future is suddenly at our doorstep. For Amy Beatty, who heads the city of Wilmingtons community services division, the nearing completion of the amphitheater marks the end, or at least another phase, of a journey that started back in 2013 when the city purchased the 6.6 acres of land the amp...

Both venues are managed by Live Nation for the city of Wilmington, which owns the venues. On Tuesday, a Sept. 5 concert by the British pop band Glass Animals was announced for Riverfront Park. Tickets go on sale 3 p.m. May 4. As for Widespread Panic, since forming in the 1980s, the band has gone on to become one of the most popular live acts in the world, typically playing large venues for multiple nights in a row. Many of the bands fans -- sometimes called Spreadheads -- follow the band from d...

Its been well over a year since Thalian Association Community Theatre — Wilmingtons oldest theater company, and the official community theater of the state of North Carolina — performed for a full-sized, in-person audience. On Monday, the Thalian Association announced what amounts to a planned return to normalcy from the pandemic: Its 2021-2022 season of main stage plays and musicals, to be performed for whats anticipated as largely full-capacity audiences at Thalian Hall in downtown Wilm...

Sonya Patrick spent many days last summer protesting George Floyds killing. "I was very much concerned" before the verdict for Derek Chauvin was announced, said the Wilmington chapter of Black Lives Matter leader, that he would not be convicted. "Im glad he was found guilty on all counts. But I still think (the charges should have included) first degree murder." Chauvin leaving the courthouse in handcuffs spread quickly on social media. His bail was revoked and he was immediately remanded into...