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Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Feb. 19, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines JFC asks for return on investment on educational spending Educator pay committee delays salary vote over budget, timeline State Chamber: Proposed family leave rules ‘very unclear’ Culture Screening Room movie theater opens in downtown Wilmington New group wants to preserve Brandywine Hundred history UD …

The Screening Room at 13 13 new Wilmington art house movie theater

Screening Room movie theater opens in downtown Wilmington

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

A new art house movie theater opened Friday, drawing 100 patrons to see Oscar-nominated documentaries, animated and live-action shorts. The Screening Room at 1313 is starting business by showing the documentaries, animated shorts and live action shorts nominated for a 2023 Oscar. Co-owners Beverly Zimmermann and Bob Weir have worked together before and had been searching for a new theater …

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Chancery Market to open courtyard; new movie theater moves in

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Two more big changes are coming to the downtown Wilmington space formerly known as the Hercules Building. The Chancery Market Food Hall & Bar will open its 10,000-square-foot garden plaza in May. An independent movie theater — The Screening Room at 1313 — will open this month, showing first-run movies, starting with compilations of the short films nominated for Oscars. …