Delaware City

Delaware City Day parade, fireworks salute small town life

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Jen Haugh fondly remembers the Delaware City Days of her childhood. Family and friends gathered for barbecues, cousins and people who moved away came back for the day, everybody loved the small town parade and the fireworks over the river that ended the day. When Haugh’s hometown decided to revive the annual celebration after canceling it because of the COVID-19 …

Food Bank Board Member Jeff Whitmarsh and guest chef Paul Cullen toast during filming of Cooking for a Cause.

Cooking for a Cause returns March 31 to benefit Food Bank

Pam GeorgeCulture, Headlines

Paul Cullen is on a mission to make risotto more approachable. Too often, home cooks avoid serving the northern Italian dish, said Cullen, who offers in-home parties featuring his Italian cuisine. They picture standing at the stove, tediously stirring broth into arborio rice until it reaches a creamy consistency. But that doesn’t have to be the case. “You don’t have to …

Winterthur Artisan Market

Winterthur’s Artisan Market: Where to find the goods

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

    Two days weren’t enough last summer to make it through all the booths at Winterthur Museum’s inaugural Artisan Market, but guests can try again Saturday and Sunday. They’ll have their jobs cut out for them, though: This year’s event will have more than 100 vendors, up from last year. The second annual version opens Saturday at 9 a.m. …

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Roman Catholics to carry Eucharist through Wilmington Sunday

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Culture

Roman Catholics will hold a Eucharistic procession through Wilmington Sunday, June 19, to mark a solemn church feast and the start of a national revival meant to uphold communion as a pathway to peace in a hurting world. The event will start with a 2 p.m. Mass at Wilmington’s Church of St. Peter. The procession is expected to begin at …

Arts

Serafin Summer Music highlights weekend fun June 11, 12

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  With summer kicking into gear, weekend fun for June 11 and 12 offers the start of Serafin Summer Music 2022, a return of the West Street Art Festival in Wilmington and June Jam in Houston. In addition, the Greek Festival ends Saturday and St. Anthony’s Italian Festival starts Sunday. Here are more details. Serafin Summer Music The Serafin Summer …

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Clifford Brown Jazz Fest returns June 15-18 featuring Stanley Clarke

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  The 35th rendition of the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast returns to Wilmington June 15-18 with the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival featuring Stanley Clark among its line-up. New this year: The festival will be cohosted by Clifford Brown Jr. The festival is named for trumpeter and Wilmington native resident Clifford Brown, known as “Brownie.” He died …

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Delawarean’s spice blend company among vendors at Hagley Craft Fair

Brionna N. StonebrakerCulture, Headlines

  Blair Danovich’s spice blends are meant to help people add authentic flavors to their dishes.   Global traditions and family history inspire the hand-crafted seasoning blends that Delaware’s Blair Danovich will be selling at this weekend’s Hagley Museum and Library Craft Fair. Danovich’s Cook Awesome Food’s seven blends follow “the principle that traditional global flavors should be accessible to …