This place is the home of the University of Delaware. It’s known for its green spaces, like Rittenhouse Park, with its trout-filled creek. On the outskirts, White Clay Creek State Park has miles of forest trails, plus a late-1700s mansion on the estate of Judge Morris. A path circling Newark Reservoir offers city views. The University Museums at the University of Delaware include collections of art, plus the Mineralogical Museum.
But, the town is very small, and there is not all that much to do in the way of nightlife and entertainment and there are a lot of annoying frat boys who drive around in jeeps and chuck things at people. The drug scene is somewhat unstable here, there is a lot of laced and bad stuff, gotta be careful!
I just got a great laugh reading all the comments! I’m sure I know some of you! Some people obviously did not spend enough time here and some spent too much. I met my husband in Newark (He used to sing for the Nazarites!) we had our first kiss behind the East End on my 20th birthday! Now, 12 years and 1 daughter later, we still live on the outskirts of Newark and love it! Yeah….Wilbur Fest!!!! God…we had many a trip there! Woo Hoo! That was a sad thing to see end.
Hey yall, in case anyone goes onto this site there is a great reggae band playing tonight at the East End. Come and check them out they played shows with the Wailers and the closest thing we have now to National Acts ‘sides Boy sets fire.
i remember you danielle… i was one of eric’s roommate’s before
he joined the Nazarites – tell him Jen said Hello!
Jenobee…I am taking a notice you seem a bit upset regarding my Britney and J-lo comment. Unfortunately you can’t come to grips with the simple fact hippies are a dying breed. Your probably one of those post Delaware hippies that are stuck driving a 1966 VW BUG with a bumper sticker on the back which reads VEGANS RULE. Give me a fu*king break. You were just a scenester during that period at University of Delaware, but the sad part is you maintain that image because it differentiates you from the rest of society. Which leads to my next point….your just as poshy as the chick that works at GAP. See the problem in todays society is…..people are no longer differentiated by the way they dress or perhaps the music they listen to, but they’re differentiated by there personality. With that being said ..I don’t know you, however the verbage and attitude you displayed in your prior comment leads me to suspect your whitetrash. Your probably a whitetrash stoner that still frequents the scene infested bars such as the EAST END, DEERPARK, etc. Reality check…your a fu*cking blip on the tv screen….a movie of the week at best. Your no different because you had Grinch play at your patchouli infested HI I LOVE JACK JOHNSON hippy shed. Your a 1996 bi-product of pop culture, but wait a minute…..it’s 2005.
You know Jeremy, it’s A**holes like you that make me glad
that being Pro-Choice is still legal… I never claimed to be different
because I knew Grinch you idiot – Someone ASKED and I contributed,
that’s usually how forums go… You THINK you know soooo
much but in fact you are so utterly disappointed with your
own life and the fact that the “cool” people never accepted
you as anything more than a tag-along that you feel the need
to bash them to make yourself feel better. Newsbreak for ya,
you’re making yourself look like a bunghole on this forum and your
negativity is not welcome as far as I’m concerned. The Britney and J-Lo
comment did not “upset” me at all sweetheart… it was your blatant
stupidity and ignorance of what the “next” pop culture is that
stunned me – I really thought from the way you were talking that you
had a clue- HA! Funny that you can’t tell when someone is laughing
their ass off at you instead and being disgruntled. DUH…
Read between the lines MORON. Although you couldn’t “give 2 licks”
(betcha never got 2 licks either)- I never drove a VW bus, never had
a vegan sticker, never was a vegan, never maintained the same image
from my college days, never worked at the GAP, nor dressed like I
shopped at the Gap BLAH BLAH BLAH– THEN you say that people being
distinguished by their “personality” is a PROBLEM??? my Gawd are you
braindead? And you say you can insinuate that I’m “white trash”? And I
suspect you probably think that everyone that visits this site and cares
to share things from their PAST- yes Jeremy, the PAST, is White Trash??
Oh, Ok, that makes sense…
You just pretty much insulted everyone that contributes to this forum.
By the way, not only did you get the dates wrong AGAIN, but who
the F*ck is Jack Johnson??? YOU ARE SO STUPIDLY STEREOTYPICAL–
DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT EVERYONE
THAT OBJECTS TO YOUR NEGATIVITY. Sadly enough dumbass, I agree with you that hippies may be a dying breed, by I, unlike you, aren’t hung up on proving that for some unknown reason– nor could I give a shit since I never was one — You are obviously one of those stereotypical guys that wishes his father would’ve pulled out early so you wouldn’t have to deal with your self-depraving lonely-ass life…
too bad, so sad. You’re pathetic. As I said before- find a website where
someone gives a Sh*t about your agro Bull. P.S. Your a jerk and I could
give a piss about who YOU THINK I am – your making a fool out of youself.
forgot to mention to jeremy that when you are writing about people in
the plural, it’s “they’re”, not “there” – also, when you want to say to someone
that they ARE something, it’s “You’re”, not “your” – little lesson from some
white trash, p.s. I’m black
First and foremost I don’t need you to correct my punctuation, secondly last time I checked this is some lame-ass message board that isn’t meant for critique purposes. I need not to explain my grammatical errors to a BLACK (no less) hippy, but I would only explain them to perhaps a professor or a maestro of some sort assuming I was working on a term paper. With that being said, your comments don’t irritate,annoy,or frustrated me, they actually make me laugh. It’s so funny you waste your precious time and energy conveying your point in three long drawn out paragraphs. It just proves to me that you’re a very weak-minded individual that has nothing to do better than rebuttal against a loser like me? Jack Johnson? Who is that? Spare me your clueless bullshit. I hate scenesters like you that act so ignorant when it comes to trendy music, as if you never heard it before. Reality check…as much as you don’t want to listen to a trendy artist, there is no escaping it Jenobee. Unless you live in a hut in the middle of a deserted island. I think you’re a very bitter person that hippy is out and normaility is in style. There is no longer a distinction between a person with dread locks and a person with a mohawk. My point is people put so much effort into looking a certain way so other people can judge them. We no longer live in a free-spirited society where people don’t give a fu*k what other people think about them. We are so fixated on dressing or even acting a certain way to impress individuals in society. It’s called being a sellout, and unfortunately everyone on this website in particular jenobee is a sellout to the masses of society.
W*H*A*T*E*V*E*R jeremy – you’re STILL a loser – go F*ck yourself and
find someone who cares.
sounds to me like jeremy needs a good whack upside his thick head –
get the hell off the site if you have nothing good to say about anyone
dude – looks like you’re the one who has the issue with being a sell-out.
Why is it so hard to believe that some people don’t know who Jack Johnson
is – perhaps there is another world of music some of us are turned onto
out there – being close-minded only makes you look like an idiot.
Newark Delaware taught me a lot of lessons about the quality of people. I watched many bands formulate and play and I give them all credit for making the effort.
I think in order to criticize a band, one should have to be in one first.I’d like to give a shout out to all of Newark, Delawares people, previous and current and as a fellow Newarkian & human being let’s all try to keep in mind we’re all in this together, let’s try to treat each other better…life has given everyone enough challenges to deal with, creating more would be a waste of energy.
Jerimy seams to be the onlee one who makes any sence on this website. I no IM’ better than everyone hear two! It was a rilly mean comment made about Jerimy wishing his dad pulled owt sooner. It’s peeple like us who keep this sosity REEL!!! Il’l lick you Jerimy.
Newark rocks! I will always represent and be proud of where I am from because it has helped make me who I am today…I am a kind person living a good life. I don’t live in Newark anymore, but I will never diss where I come from and my awesome friends I’ve met along the way. Be proud of who you are and where you come from – really! I worry about people who trash their past – were you not in control of your life experience? What kind of person are you now? Are you STILL miserable with yourself and your surroundings Jeramie? That kind of self-worth comes from within – no matter where you live.
Hey Bec, you and Jeremy sound like you’re meant for each other –
you both have bad grammar and talk like stuck up a**holes – why don’t
you exchange emails?
I LOVE Newark, Delaware!!! I met my best friends there, partied like a rockstar, and saw some great music, too. I love the East End and go there every time I visit Newark. I don’t care that it changes–it’d be weird if it didn’t. I have too many great memories from that place to ever diss it now. After graduating from Glasgow in 94, I lived in Newark til 99, and it was the best freakin time of my life. I’ve lived in Cali, Atlanta, and other places and never met the kind of people like my Newark crew. I love them all–they are the best bunch of unique, creative, smart, beautiful, AWESOME people that became my family through those years and still remain my good friends today, and I have the East End to thank for that. And the bartenders, I love them too, Shelby Rocks!! and Dave, Rich, Gary, Chris Shugrue, Kimmie, Zue…Speaking of Chris Shurgrue to whoever asked about him, last I heard he was in VA with the same hippy chick he’s been with for years. I miss him.
Jeremy needs to get on a Jack Johnson forum and stop talkin’ shit about Newark, Grinch, and Jenobee.
Jenobee Rules!!!
Hey Jeremy-if this is such a lame ass message board why are you bothering to read it and post so often? Shouldn’t you be spending quality time doing something you enjoy out there in California?
I’m glad at least ONE person agrees with my views regarding Newark, Delaware. Hence I moved to california to get away from the pretentiousness…eastcoast….fakemeout hippy bullshit that tries to stay constant in the city of Newark. What makes me sick is walking into a bar and everyone knows each other. Hell…if I went to the local grocery store I would bump into someone I know. Newark is an uncool town….a town full of retarded clicky punkrock/emo/post hippy/bicurious losers that spend there time going to the east end to hit on the same people they hit on the previous weekend? What fun is that? To make matters worse…the bands that come in and out of East End Cafe aren’t exactly the most talented group of individuals on the block..they’re not exactly going to make page 95 of Spin magazine to say the least. Look i’m just frustrated with people that are so into music they don’t even recognize bands such as Jack Johnson or perhaps Beck. If your so into music shouldn’t you be educated enough to come to the realization that other artists exists in the music community. Furthermore I bet most bands hippies enjoy listening to in there pimped out 1967 VW BUG colloborated with bands such as Beck and Jack Johnson. It’s just lame….and it needs to stop. Quite frankly I got tired of going into East End cafe…for three reasons. Reason 1. Everyone knew each other and if you weren’t known in there …than you weren’t welcomed. Reason 2. The music was absolutely horrible. It’s so funny that bar even attempted to charge a cover for the opportunity to listen to that hardcore/emo/reggae nonsense. Reason three. The girls weren’t the greatest quality of girls in the town…granted I wasn’t a big fan of The Stone Balloon but the quality was absolutely better than the hippy folky ….fake me out artsy hookers that rolled into the East End. Which leads to my next point…The artsy factor. It seemed to me every person in the east end attempted to be artsy in some way or another….it was such a typical thing to see girls wearing dark eye shadow or dark pieces of clothing….and the dorky guys wearing thick dark glasses or maybe a very tight emo shirt. It was such a bullshit fashion fest there ..but I enjoyed laughing at them. As for California..I do 100 x more things out here than Delaware….so please lets not even do that whole state to state comparison. OK i promise i’m done posting on this board…for the girls who agree with my views or just think i’m cool…don’t hesitate to hit me up. haha…
Dear Jeremy, Basically you’re bitter and hate Newark because you
didn’t have any friends – you didn’t feel welcome. Maybe if you weren’t so
hateful and judgmental towards people you didn’t even know, you might have made a friend or two, but I guess not since you had to move to California to get a life – my poor friend, YOU are the loser, not the rest of us. I guess you think that lumping all these phrases that describe so-called stereotypes of these people you “can’t stand” makes you sound like you know what you’re talking about… frankly, it makes you sound like an idiot – “punkrock/emo/post hippy/bicurious”? Please, who the hell does
that describe? I thought it was hippies you hated but sounds like it’s pretty much
everybody that follows ANY types of music that is a “fakemeout loser”. Why don’t
you get a REAL grip on what you’re problem with people in general is and then we’ll
talk so you can begin the healing process. And you’re frustrated with people who
don’t recognize bands like Jack Johnson??? or Beck??? So because I don’t listen to or
never was exposed to Jack Johnson, NOW I’m a loser?? You talk like people with their OWN way of life and musical interests are the only people that are cool in you’re book, but then weren’t you just berating Jenobee because you thought she was a Jack Johnson FAN?? And a hippy?? I just don’t get your argument I guess – you completely contradict yourself. And nobody at any of the 100’s of places you go out to in Cali wears dark eyeshadow??? You don’t want anyone comparing California with Delaware but I used to live in Southern California and there are PLENTY of people there that fit your description of the people at East End in Newark TO A “T”.
So I feel very sad at this point that you had to go somewhere where NOBODY knew
you at all to get any sort of life… P.S. It was ONE single girl that agreed with your view that you are BETTER than anybody else in Newark Jeremy, not “girls” plural. She said she’d “LICK” you. Guess you gotta get it while you can huh? Just make sure she removes her dark eyeshadow before she does…
Good luck in your life Jeremy – Hope California provides you with the “emo, hippy, pseudo-punkrock, fakemeout artsy, loser free” environment that you sooo richly deserve. After some carefully thought out, deeply enriching discussions with myself, I think I may need to break free of my everyday jazzy neo-soul breakbeat freestyle school of thinking and get me some Jack Johnson MP3s to groove out to so I don’t fall within that “emo fakemeout bullshit artsy ex-hippy loser” category you’ve frightened me into stearing clear of – Thank you for that. You’re a champ of all champs and Bec would certainly have her mouth full of you. LOTS OF LOVE and may some eyeshadowless girl who is a REAL artist with no musical interests or loves whatsoever in her dinky, boring, bland, inexperienced world come into your life so that she may never know who you really are and you’ll finallyl GET SOME, cuz you
need it brother– GOOD LUCK!!!
All of you fakeme out hippies…go drink your little artsy herbal tea….buy panini at Brewed awakenings….read THE REVIEW…..check out the COOL HIP LOCAL bands at the wigger infested main street bars and zip it. Enjoy your miserable small wonder lives.
whoever wrote that last comment- what the f*ck are you talking
about?? it’s obviously none of US who are the miserable ones —
you’re sooooo sad – I feel very bad for you in your life. I’m so
completely happy in my life right now and have NO regrets about
my past or where I come from. I have total pride in the experiences
that I’ve had that made me a well-rounded person. It must be very
depressing to be you and to be angry at everybody all the time for
having a life. PLEASE, forfeit your valuable time on this forum and
SEEK HELP!! The world will brighten up for you, I promise.
please jeremy, you’re not witty, you’re not cooler than anyone else,
and you really need to find some new descriptive adjectives for the
people you are trying to bash… emo, fakemeout, and artsy are
getting a little old… Aside from that, most of the people that tend to
be on this forum are out of the university now, have gone on with their
lives and are just reminiscing about past times. Just so you know,
hippies don’t tend to hang out at “wigger infested” hangouts — you really
need to get your facts straight if you want to sound like you know what
you’re talking about and not just blurting out stupid comments as you’ve
been doing. GET A LIFE.
paul your probably some disgruntled 24 year old new jersey jackoff that hasn’t gotten laid in a very long time. Oh your so hippy..what year did you graduated ? 2000? hahaha..give me a fucking break bro. I’d rip your little dreadlocks out of your hair and hit you over the head with my surfboard..maybe it’ll knock out all that god awful newark marijuana you smoked in the dorm rooms poser.
Geez jeremy, you’re really scaring me here — resorting to violence??
Can’t you come up with anything better to defend yourself?? Are you
that much of an dumbass that you can’t use your wit and brainpower to
dig yourself out of this hole you’ve put yourself in? You were definitely
right in the first place, you should’ve shut your mouth a while ago…
Since you REALLY wanna know (and I’m super happy to tell you) you’re
about 10-15 years off with the age estimation, about 1,500 miles off of the state where I’m from and I pretty much get laid every night 🙂 Never smoked anything in my life, and I’m also a double black belt in Karate so I seriously doubt you would
have much luck hitting me over the head with anything, hahaha… I didn’t even
go to University of Delaware, just landed on this site when I was trying
to look up some friends from DE that own a restaurant when I lived there.
It’s so sad and pathetic how you think you know so much about everybody…
But thanks for providing me with so many good hearty belly laughs – I don’t get
the opportunity to meet many stereotypical, narrow-minded kids that know so
much about how the world is to judge people they don’t even know. So thanks for that. And you SURF??? What a scream? I guess you moved out to Cali for the women and the wild surf, right? You’re the best.
oh yeah, never claimed to be a hippy, just a good person. Maybe you can
learn something from the people on this site. And it’s “What year did you
“graduate”?, not “graduated”.
Since you live in S. Cali Jeremy, then how do you stay away from all those “Emo
Fake Me Out Losers”?? You do know that Emo is a VERY broad title that covers a lot of different styles of emotionally-charged punk rock?? right?? And didn’t you say that
S. Cali is maintained to a rock n roll, punk rock sorta culture? Hmmm… who exactly
are your friends then? No emo people at the 100s of places that you hang out now
truly is surprising… or are you posing as a Surf boy FROM WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
now? I guess you can be whoever you want to be at this point– who are YOU? Please
let us know (if you actually have a clue)