What is a Junebug?
Ask a resident of Lewes, Del., and they’ll likely describe an iridescent beetle the size of a tootsie roll. Ask a resident of Dewey Beach, nine miles down the road, and they’ll describe one of several species of high school or college students who, flushed with the triumph of another school year [...]

Jared Bowers was arrested after hoisting himself on top of a van in front of the Starboard, dropping his pants and twirling his dick at a bustling Route 1. In the police report, one bystander described the maneuver as a “whirlybird.”
That was last year. In 2009, Bowers has managed three arrests, scoring a felony on [...]

You can tell: Clarence Greenwood is a sloucher.
He lopes, slides, and sways with the ease of a man who has nowhere to go. Greenwood, known to fans as Citizen Cope, projects a half-lidded weariness onto his music, a fusion of blues, reggae and hip-hop made for dorm rooms and coffeehouses. It’s a soundtrack for watching [...]

Dewey Beach gets its share of bathroom-stall graffiti—innuendo, phone numbers, cartoon dicks in various moods—but there isn’t much real defacement to speak of. Certainly nothing so avant garde as “tagging,” where a lone artist leaves his signature as a sign of…many artistically ambitious, high-minded things. Dewey had none of this until Turdle, an enigma armed [...]

Perhaps this is Dewey crime at its most essential: several teenagers mobbing a 40-year-old woman inside a very crowded Mama Celeste’s, slipping on slices of pizza, mashing cheese fries into the floor. The most serious injury? An 18-year-old girl with bite marks in her forehead.

It’s 4:30 a.m., Monday, June 1. You’re on Dagsworthy Street in Dewey Beach, where a welcome early-morning bay breeze mixes the stagnant air. Two men approach, one wearing a black hoodie, the other wearing a beige hoodie with “Concord” embroidered on the front.
You’re about to become one of two armed robberies in Dewey Beach in [...]

There are many ways to get thrown out of a bar in Dewey Beach – I mean thrown out, egress via bouncer. Each bar in Dewey has a different philosophical approach to tossing their drunks. There’s a place where they show you the door, and there’s a place where they put you through it.

Hello. I'm Rob Kunzig. I'm a reporter and editor living in coastal Delaware, and I want to introduce you to Dewey Beach.
A mile south of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Route 1 swerves right and the speed limit drops to 30. A marquee advertises the bands blowing through town that week, mostly burnt-out ’90s legends and cover [...]