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Featured Arts Dining Weekend Spotlight
Arts, culture, and food in Delaware.
Weekend Spotlight: Witches, scrapple, plein air and more
Weekend Spotlight is a round-up of the five best events to check out in Delaware over the coming weekend. This edition covers Oct. 9-11, 2026.
Portal to Italian villa opens on Wilmington’s Market Street
Villa Italiana is a portal to exactly that — an Italian villa. The host stand is made from a 1970s Vespa. Plants, stone fountains and faux balconies are affixed to the walls, which are adorned with murals of the countryside painted by co-owner Karen Orejuela.
Jazz musician explores Black history of Delaware Revolutionary War site
Jazz drummer and composer Jonathan Whitney spent his summer days as a kid playing near a dam of granite boulders stacked on top of one another. It wasn’t until 2022 that he learned the dam was built by enslaved people.
