DO Delaware: Dragons & YumYums are coming! Flaming Lips-Dogfish beer lands at 1984
DRINK
Dragons & YumYums are coming!
Dogfish Head’s new collaboration beer with The Flaming Lips, which has the spacey Dragons & YumYums name, will be on tap for Saturday’s Record Store Day Pre-fest and Tap Takeover at the 1984 rock club.
The Wilmington original music hub (2511 W. Fourth St, Wilmington) will host the fest from 3 p.m. until last call with seven Dogfish Head beers on tap and five bands.
In addition to Dragons & YumYums, a pink-hued tart pale ale clocking in with a 6.5% ABV, the following beers will be on tap: 60 Minute IPA, Midas Touch, Pennsylvania Tuxedo, 90 Minute IPA, Lupu Luau and SeaQuench Ale.
Music starts from 4 to 6 p.m. with the crew from Jupiter Records working as DJs before the live performances begin. Mighty Joe Castro, Pygmy Hippo, Kodiak Park, Phil Young and Kitty Rotten are all on the marathon bill.
The 21-and-older party costs $7 at the door. And if you get hungry, Newark’s Doggy Style Hot Dogs will be on site.
Record Store Day lands on April 21 this year and among the exclusive releases is a beer-filled piece of vinyl from The Flaming Lips featuring two songs inspired by the beer that frontman Wayne Coyne and Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione worked on together.
ROCK OUT
One-day Delaware Music Festival lands in Dewey Beach
This year’s annual Delaware Music Festival in Dewey Beach will span one night instead of its usual two.
The Rusty Rudder (113 Dickinson St.) will host the slimmed-down fest, which runs Saturday starting at 5 p.m. with Love Seed Mama Jump kicking this off.
Other acts include Newark blues upstarts The Blues Reincarnation Project, featuring guitarist/singer Jeffrey Attakorah, Lewes country singer Sara Ann Garrison, Wilmington rocker Tony Travalini and cover act Kategory 5, which closes the night with a 12:20 p.m. set.
As always, there is no cover for the festival, which will be held on the Rudder’s indoor stages.
WATCH
If we needed proof of how beloved “Dirty Dancing” is more than 30 years after its release, think back to the Super Bowl. No, not the Philadelphia Eagles’ victory, although we’re still not over that. But one of the most popular ads of the night? The New York Giants’ Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr.’s re-creation of the iconic final number from “Dirty Dancing.”
The guys were good -- great, even -- but purists might prefer the football players leave the singing and dancing to trained professionals.
The 1987 movie classic has since moved off VHS and to the stage, and is headed to The Playhouse on Rodney Square (1007 N. Market St., Wilmington) for eight shows. And just like the movie, the stage production transports audiences to a resort in New York’s Catskill Mountains in 1963, where Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, a 17-year-old innocent, and Johnny Castle, the bad-boy dance instructor, fall for each other. The story wouldn’t be half as memorable without the music, like favorites “Hey Baby,” “Do You Love Me?” and “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”
“Dirty Dancing” runs from Tuesday-April 8. Tickets start at $40.
LAUGH
Remember last week when Delaware Joe said he wanted to give The Donald a knuckle sandwich?
We asked readers for possible Delaware fight sites for a match-up between the president and former vice president and here are our lighthearted results!