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FOOD TRUCKS START A ROLLING REVOLUTION IN WILMINGTON
If you’re attending any outdoor festival in Wilmington and the Brandywine Valley, chances are you’ll see members of the Rolling Revolution pull up. This food truck collaborative kicks the flavor up a notch wherever they go.
Try the fish tacos from KOI on the Go, Thai Guy wings from Kapow, a Jolly Mon jerk chicken sandwich from Wildwich Gourmet Sandwiches or any of many creative bites that have become street food favorites in the area. (Want to know more? Check out our Good Taste blog online for the latest food truck updates.)
CHRISTIANA FASHION CENTER
OPENS IN FALL 2015
Christiana Fashion Center, a major, tax-free shopping and entertainment destination, will open its first stores in October 2015, just south of the Christiana Mall. Among the stores making their Delaware debuts:
Nordstrom Rack and Saks OFF FIFTH both offer fashion-forward designer duds at deeply discounted prices.
The Container Store is an organizational nirvana for people seeking sanity in their home lives.
REI will offer gear for camping, climbing, cycling, hiking and paddling — as well as year-round REI Outdoor School classes and a bike shop for expert assembly and repairs.
BROADWAY-BOUND DINER AND EAST-COAST PREMIERE OF AMLETO IN WILMINGTON
It’s a tale of two shows — one on its way to Broadway, the other returning to life after being lost for 143 years. Both debut in Delaware this season before moving on to the national stage:
Delaware Theatre Company presents Diner, a musical adaptation of the iconic film by the movie’s Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy, The Natural) and an original score by nine-time Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow.
(Dec. 2–27, 2015)
OperaDelaware presents the East Coast’s first fully staged production of Amleto (Hamlet). This Franco Faccio opera, with a libretto by
Arrigo Boito, was lost for 143 years before its rediscovery in 2003 and first production last year. The Washington Post’s Anne Midgette calls it “a missing link between Verdi and the verismo composers of the century’s end.” It debuts at OperaDelaware’s Spring Festival in 2016.
OLD SWEDES CHURCH
JOINS NATIONAL PARK
The nation’s oldest continuously operating house of worship is the latest addition to the just-established First State National Historical Park in Delaware.
The property of the Old Swedes Church
in Wilmington, built by Swedish colonists in 1698–99, includes the final resting places of many of the first Swedes who arrived on the Kalmar Nyckel and founded the settlement of New Sweden.
The Park also includes the New Castle Court House Museum Complex, the Woodlawn Tract near Brandywine Creek State Park, as well as three other sites throughout the state.
Courtesy Joe del Tufo
Courtesy Joe del Tufo
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