If there’s a Delaware nonprofit you like, your donation to it next week could help the organizations win prize or matching money to stretch their budgets. DoMore24 Delaware returns at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 2, and ends at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 3. In those 24 hours, 500 Delaware nonprofits will welcome contributions and also be entered into a …
A Sussex County community-wide program aimed at feeding the hungry plans to pack and donate as many as 150,000 meals March 4. It already knows it has the money and manpower to pack 100,000 and is hoping for more donations between now and March 2 to help hit their goal. “I am really kind of ecstatic about where we are, …
A new art house movie theater opened Friday, drawing 100 patrons to see Oscar-nominated documentaries, animated and live-action shorts. The Screening Room at 1313 is starting business by showing the documentaries, animated shorts and live action shorts nominated for a 2023 Oscar. Co-owners Beverly Zimmermann and Bob Weir have worked together before and had been searching for a new theater …
Michael Stiglitz is justifiably proud of the chefs behind his six Two Stones Pubs and 2SP Tap House, located in New Castle County and southeastern Pennsylvania. But the culinary wizards and corporate chef Chris Meyer shook in their shoes when faced with the prospect of making one common dish. âThey were all definitely scared of pizza,â Stiglitz recalls. âYou have to deal with …
The Delaware State University Hornets are getting their own officially licensed bobbleheads, part of a limited-edition series for 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The bobbleheads are produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. They were released in celebration of Black History Month, but the Hornet bobbleheads wonât be scheduled to ship until April. Each bobblehead is …
Brandywine Hundred native Dee Durham has a simple but important reason for creating the Brandywine Hundred Historical Society: âAll those stories that we donât want to lose.â âPeople want to learn about the about the history of where they live,â said member Pam Cawood Rizzo. The society, like most modern things, started out about a year ago digitally, with a …
Two more big changes are coming to the downtown Wilmington space formerly known as the Hercules Building. The Chancery Market Food Hall & Bar will open its 10,000-square-foot garden plaza in May. An independent movie theater — The Screening Room at 1313 — will open this month, showing first-run movies, starting with compilations of the short films nominated for Oscars. …
In a move that upset a lot of beach diners, the state has awarded a 10-year restaurant contract at Indian River Marina to Big Fish Restaurant Group, essentially booting Hammerheads Dockside out of a location it’s had for a decade. The contract, open to all bidders, came under scrutiny at the end of January when Hammerheads went public with an …
A bill that would ban restaurant use of foam takeout containers, plastic straws and beverage stirrers, is being shopped around for co-sponsors in Dover. Itâs the second time that Sen. Trey Paradee, D-Dover, has moved to ban the containers and straws. A similar bill introduced in 2021 passed the Senate but didnât make it to the House floor. The bill …
It costs a lot â $7 million for 30 seconds â to air an ad during the 2023 Super Bowl. It also costs a lot to make the ad. âSoon itâs going to cost as much to make the spot as it is to buy the spot,â said Steve Merino, chief creative director at Aloysius Butler & Clark, a Wilmington …
