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FRI · Local Film History Cruise Aboard Wilmington Water Tours — Wilmington Water Tours ✦FRI · Water St. Market — Water St. Market ✦FRI · Lighthouse Beer and Wine The Cellar, Sea & Shore — Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park ✦FRI · Groove & Grub 2026 — DREAMS Center for Arts Education ✦FRI · Cape Fearful Skies: Halloween Planetarium (Adults 18+) — Cape Fear Museum ✦FRI · Live Jazz with Jay Killman — G Prime Steak & Cellar ✦FRI · Pumpkin Carving Contest — Four Corners ✦FRI · Nurse Blake: But Did You Die? Comedy Tour — Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College ✦FRI · Haunted Car Wash Fundraiser — Mako Express Wash ✦FRI · Regulation Larry Live in Wilmington NC | October 23 — Seven Mile Post ✦FRI · Guy Branum — Dead Crow Comedy ✦FRI · Same As It Ever Was: Tribute to Talking Heads — Bowstring Brewyard ✦FRI · KRISPEE BISCUITS — The Bend ✦FRI · Films on Tap: Scream — Flytrap Brewing ✦FRI · Torment Haunted Laser Tag — Jungle Rapids Water Park ✦FRI · Live Blues with The Instigators — Dram Tree Tavern ✦FRI · The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Live Shadowcast — Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts ✦FRI · Haunted Pub Crawl — Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington ✦FRI · Brown Dirt Cowboys — Live at Ted's ✦FRI · Fele Cett w/ Beats & Coffee — Yacht Club Wilmington ✦FRI · Local Film History Cruise Aboard Wilmington Water Tours — Wilmington Water Tours ✦FRI · Water St. Market — Water St. Market ✦FRI · Lighthouse Beer and Wine The Cellar, Sea & Shore — Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park ✦FRI · Groove & Grub 2026 — DREAMS Center for Arts Education ✦FRI · Cape Fearful Skies: Halloween Planetarium (Adults 18+) — Cape Fear Museum ✦FRI · Live Jazz with Jay Killman — G Prime Steak & Cellar ✦FRI · Pumpkin Carving Contest — Four Corners ✦FRI · Nurse Blake: But Did You Die? Comedy Tour — Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College ✦FRI · Haunted Car Wash Fundraiser — Mako Express Wash ✦FRI · Regulation Larry Live in Wilmington NC | October 23 — Seven Mile Post ✦FRI · Guy Branum — Dead Crow Comedy ✦FRI · Same As It Ever Was: Tribute to Talking Heads — Bowstring Brewyard ✦FRI · KRISPEE BISCUITS — The Bend ✦FRI · Films on Tap: Scream — Flytrap Brewing ✦FRI · Torment Haunted Laser Tag — Jungle Rapids Water Park ✦FRI · Live Blues with The Instigators — Dram Tree Tavern ✦FRI · The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Live Shadowcast — Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts ✦FRI · Haunted Pub Crawl — Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington ✦FRI · Brown Dirt Cowboys — Live at Ted's ✦FRI · Fele Cett w/ Beats & Coffee — Yacht Club Wilmington ✦

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Local Film History Cruise Aboard Wilmington Water Tours at Wilmington Water Tours, Wilmington NC

OCT23

Outdoors

Local Film History Cruise Aboard Wilmington Water Tours

Fri · 10:00 AM

Wilmington Water Tours

OCT23

Market

Water St. Market

Fri · 5:00 PM

Water St. Market

Lighthouse Beer and Wine The Cellar, Sea & Shore at Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park, Wilmington NC

OCT23

Festival

Lighthouse Beer and Wine The Cellar, Sea & Shore

Fri · 6:00 PM

Live Oak Bank Pavilion at Riverfront Park

Groove & Grub 2026 at DREAMS Center for Arts Education, Wilmington NC

OCT23

Food & Drink

Groove & Grub 2026

Fri · 6:00 PM

DREAMS Center for Arts Education

OCT23

Comedy

Nurse Blake: But Did You Die? Comedy Tour

Fri · 7:00 PM

Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College

Haunted Car Wash Fundraiser at Mako Express Wash, Wilmington NC

OCT23

Outdoors

Haunted Car Wash Fundraiser

Fri · 7:00 PM

Mako Express Wash

Regulation Larry Live in Wilmington NC | October 23 at Seven Mile Post, Wilmington NC

OCT23

Music

Regulation Larry Live in Wilmington NC | October 23

Fri · 7:00 PM

Seven Mile Post

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Places we love right now

The teal Lighthouse Beer & Wine shop on Causeway Drive, Wrightsville Beach

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“The beach's bottle shop since 1998.”

Lighthouse Beer & Wine

Wrightsville Beach's original bottle shop on Causeway Drive: a deep wall of beer and wine, dogs welcome, and the crew behind Lighthouse Festival weekend.

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An End of Days rum cocktail with a chili-salt rim beside a bottle of their rum

End of Days Distillery

Gin, rum, whiskey and more, hand-distilled in a WWII-era Quonset hut on Castle Street. Free tours, a tasting lounge, and 2024's USA Distillery of the Year.

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