Atlantic Ave Magazine October 2019

dren who suffer from food insecurity. You and 11 of your closest
friends are invited to select an international cuisine and create
a picnic menu, costumes and decorations to demonstrate your
theme. There are prizes for the best menu, best costumes and
best theme, so all hail the winners! You can reserve your 12’ x
12’ grassy picnic spot for $250 total (which is about $20 per
person), and then it’s time to party on like Parisians, or rock on
like a Moroccan. Picnic in the Park is held Sunday, October 20
from 3 to 5:30pm at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave. The
best part is that every picnic spot feeds one child for one school
year. Visit www.downtowndelraybeach.com or call (561) 243-
1077 for more information and to reserve your spot.
When you think you can’t, just think you can and try.
October is Positive Attitude Month and if you need
a little bit of an inspirational push, head to the Delray
Beach Playhouse and enjoy their main stage play, Calendar
Girls. After spending far too much time in an English hospital
waiting room on a couch with exposed springs, Annie Clarke
urges her local Women’s Club to help her raise some money
to buy the hospital a new couch. Her Club traditionally raises
money by selling an annual calendar. Unfortunately, last year’s
calendar featured English Bridges and only made 75 pounds,
and the couch they’d like to purchase will cost 900 pounds. So,
Annie decides to adopt the commonly understood principle
that “Sex Sells!” The Club produces a calendar with pictures
(not of the beefcake or cheesecake variety) but nude portraits
of the Club’s actual members: middle-class British wives and
mothers and even one retired schoolteacher. To everyone’s surprise
(shocker alert), within nine months the Rylstone calendar
raised more than 550,000 pounds for the hospital and for
cutting-edge research into leukemia at the University of Leeds.
You do not want to miss this deeply moving and often hilarious
true story that has been embraced by audiences around
the world. There are multiple showings from Friday, October
4 through Sunday, October 20 and tickets are $35 each. This
play will show you just how far positive attitude (and great
lighting!) can get you. The Delray Beach Playhouse is located at
950 N.W. Ninth St. Visit www.delraybeachplayhouse.com or call
(561) 272-1281 for more information and tickets.
We live on a peninsula so it’s almost a guarantee that
we have the freshest seafood imaginable. October
is National Seafood Month and is a perfect time to
indulge in some of our local favorites. You’d be remiss if you
didn’t start your seafood selection at City Oyster and their fish
tacos ($20 for dinner). You can get them fried or blackened
(blackened all the way), and served with Pico de Gallo, cilantro,
lime crema and flour tortillas, with watermelon slices on the
side. Moving along to the people who know seafood best, take
a seat at J&J Seafood Bar and Grill and order their Pan Seared
Snapper, which is topped with a shrimp and lobster sauce and
served over champagne risotto ($33). If you’re looking for one
of the best seafood happy hours in town, look no further than
Mussel Beach, where you can score any of their mussel bowls
for $10, Monday through Friday from 3:30 to 6:30pm. We’re
talkin’ French Onion, Fra Diavolo, Prosciutto, Provencal, Thai
and more. Their seafood game is strong. Visit www.downtowndelraybeach.com
or call (561) 243-1077 for complete restaurant
information.
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