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this week magazine twVolume 38 Issue 31 •m 8|3|17 - 8|9|17 Climb the Cape in the moonlight Aug. 6-8 FEATURED PHOTO Feature of the Week Volume 38 Issue 31 • 8|3|17 - 8|9|17 Two beachgoers enjoy the waters at Shackleford Banks in this photograph by Sarah Smith. To see your photograph in this space, email it and a 3 COVER STORY short caption to megan. soult@thenewstimes. com, share it with us on Cape Lookout National Seashore has announced our This Week Magazine the next Evening at the Cape programs. social media feeds, or mail hard copies with a postage-paid envelope if you would like the 4 MOVIE REVIEW photograph returned to you. Review: In “Atomic Blonde,” Charlize Theron heats up the Cold War On the cover Explore the Cape Lookout Lighthouse under the light of the moon during the Evening at the Cape program. The dates are 5 RECIPES Sunday-Tuesday, Aug. 6-8. (Dylan Ray photo) Nutritious, well-rounded meals are essential for growth and proper brain development. CONTACT INFORMATION twm is published weekly by Carteret Publishing Co. Inc. 4206 Bridges St., Morehead City, N.C. 28557 FAMILY 7 EDITOR: Emerald Isle is hosting a 1980s-themed Glow Megan Soult in the Dark Beach Party from 7-11 p.m. Saturday, [email protected] Aug. 5. PHOTOGRAPHY: Dylan Ray [email protected] 7 FOOD AND DRINK GRAPHICS: Sarah Smith The Core Sound Museum will show its [email protected] appreciation to military members with the ADVERTISING: annual All-American Shrimp and Fish Fry. Kim Moseley [email protected] 8 CALENDARS To submit event information, email Megan Soult or write to: Find out what’s happening this week and , P.O. Box 1679, Morehead City, NC 28557 beyond on the Crystal Coast and in surrounding twm areas. Include the event time, date, location including address, BLACK admission price and contact information. MUSIC Find us online at www.carolinacoastonline. 10 com/entertainment, www.facebook.com/ thisweekmagazine or Alive at Five, the family-friendly concert series www.instagram.com/twm_moreheadcity. continues Friday with a performance by the YELLOW Mikele Buck Band. ADVERTISE WITH US! 10 ART It’s the best deal on the Crystal Coast. Reach out to 6,000 people across Onslow, Craven Living history programs to highlight handi- and Carteret counties. this week is available FREE at MAGENTA MAGENTA work. hundreds of local businesses and hotspots. Call Today | 252-726-7081 CYAN CYAN 3 • Enjoy National Lighthouse Day by moonlight on Evening at the Cape tours this week Cape Lookout National houses that have served mari- that departs shortly after the Seashore has announced the ners worldwide in navigation, program begins. The ferry will next Evening at the Cape pro- than by taking part in a rang- return to Harkers Island about grams, which will take place er-led evening program at our 10 p.m. Sunday-Tuesday, Aug. 6-8. own famous and historic Cape Children joining the climb 8|3|17 - 8|9|17 Participants can bring a flash- Lookout Lighthouse?” said act- must be at least 44-inches tall light and experience South Core ing superintendent Jeff West. and able to climb the steps on Banks and the lighthouse as the Reservations are required for their own. Children 12 years Light Keepers did, in the dark of the Evening at the Cape pro- of age and younger must be night. They will hear stories of grams. They can be made at accompanied by an adult 16 or days gone by, watch the sunset, www.recreation.gov. older. Footwear is required, as and the full-moon rise at the Each of the three tour nights national seashore. well. will be able to accommodate For more information, go to Monday, Aug. 7, is not only a maximum of 40 total partici- http://go.nps.gov/eveningat- the night of the full moon but pants. cape.htm. is also National Lighthouse Day, The cost of the program is which is a day to honor light- $28, which includes the ferry There will be additional houses and the people who kept fee, and is non-refundable and opportunities this summer to them lit through all weathers. weather dependent. participate in this program. On Tuesday, Aug. 8, after The Evening at the Cape pro- These trips are planned for: returning to Harkers Island, par- gram begins on Harkers Island • Friday, Sept. 8. ticipants will have a chance to promptly at 7:15 p.m. sharp, • Saturday, Sept. 9. look through the telescopes of under the ferry dock canopy. (Tickets for September go on the Crystal Coast Stargazers. Participants should arrive sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. They’ll be set up in the park- early ahead of the program 28.) ing lot of the Cape Lookout start time to check their party • Friday, Oct. 6. Visitor Center on Harkers Island in with the ranger. • Saturday, Oct. 7. to allow the public to get a close All participants will trav- (Tickets for October go on up view of the moon’s surface el together on a single ferry sale 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25.) and other celestial phenomena. This event is weather depen- dent. Explore the Cape Lookout Lighthouse under the light of the “What better way to cele- moon during the Evening at the Cape programs. The dates are brate the night sky and light- Sunday-Tuesday, Aug. 6-8. (Cherl Burke photo) NC Seafood Festival named top event It’s Not Just an Escape Southeast Tourism Society United States. The complete list Southeast Tourism Society and has named the N.C. Seafood is published on two websites: Travel Media Press Room. It’s an Experience Festival one of the STS Top 20 Events in the Southeast for October 2017. This year’s N.C. Seafood Festival will be held Friday- Sunday, Oct. 6-8. The 31st annual N.C. Seafood Festival will be held on the Morehead City waterfront. This three-day event celebrates the N.C. seafood industry and brings NOW OPEN Located at an average of 180,000 fans in FOR LUNCH ON the search of fresh seafood SUNDAYS 108 Middle Lane dishes, arts and crafts vendors, Beaufort nationally recognized entertain- Drive Thru • Take Out • Eat In Dining ment and much more. The N.C. Seafood Festival has become a family tradition in Serving Good Food Reservations Required Eastern North Carolina and pro- vides plenty of fun for fans of Book Online all ages. to Good People for The STS Top 20 Festival and BeaufortEscapeRoom.com Event Awards have highlighted over 25 years! programs around the Southeast or call since 1985. 1507 Live Oak Street Travel industry experts select Beaufort, NC 28516 20 events per month, and STS 252•722•9925 (252) 728-1953 • www.rolandsbarbecue.com publicizes them throughout the • 4 this week 8|3|17 - 8|9|17 (AP photo) Review: In ‘Atomic Blonde’ Theron heats up the Cold War BY JAKE COYLE wounds from playing Furiosa flipping the car over. “Atomic Blonde” is largely a hermetic burst of filmmaking ASSOCIATED PRESS in “Mad Max: Fury Road.” If Mr. Leitch is a veteran stunt- a vacant, hyper-stylistic romp finesse, has nothing to do with that film didn’t prove that Ms. man who co-directed the that trades on the thick Cold the rest of film; it’s just a calling People don’t usually move Theron is today’s most badass action hit “John Wick,” in which War atmosphere of far bet- card for a filmmakers’ highlight very fast in Cold War thrillers. action star, “Atomic Blonde” Keanu Reeves wrecks endless ter films (not to mention “The reel. Mostly, the only time anyone – while not anywhere near vengeance on those who killed Americans”). It’s all dagger, But the other asset of “Atomic runs is right before they get the kinetic explosion of “Fury his dog. The backdrop is more no cloak. But it has two things Blonde” is altogether more for- shot in the back. Most of the Road” – will certainly make it lavish in “Atomic Blonde,” but going for it. midable. Ms. Theron doesn’t “action” happens in a film cabi- official. the hand-to-hand combat is no One is Mr. Leitch’s facility so much as dominate “Atomic net, down a back alley or with The bruises turn out to less primary. Whereas another with an action scene. The film, Blonde” as steadily subjugate a silencer. The classic Cold War be from the story she soon spy thriller might gradually go technically speaking, gets off to every other soul in the film – and tale – which is to say a John le relates. Ms. Broughton spends deeper into its complex net- a rough start when a body is those in the audience – into her Carre one – is characterized by the movie in a testy interroga- works of allegiances, “Atomic sent flying by a ramming car in complete command. Like her tion with her MI6 boss (Toby Blonde,” based on Antony the kind of blatantly unrealistic BLACK a deathly stillness: grave faces more timid Mr. le Carre fore- meeting under gray clouds. Jones) and a CIA chief (John Johnston’s graphic novel “The CGI fling that ruins movies. But bearers, there’s no pleasure in This is not quite so in “Atomic Goodman). The mission she Coldest City,” stays on the sur- he later goes for a much more her victories. There’s only ruth- Blonde,” a post-war thriller set recounts is her dispatching to face, keeps the body count bravura scene in a seemingly less survival in a grim game.