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January brings in a new year’s worth of great performances.
The first weekend will begin with The ArtCenter’s American Roots Series, a series of big performances that will last throughout the month. On Friday, January 4, Club Boheme, The Ramblers and Missy Raines & the New Hip perform. On Saturday Lucy Sumner & The Second Third, [...]
Music Calendar: January 2008
The ArtsCenter
Club Boheme, The Ramblers & Missy Raines, The New Hip (1/4) Lucy Sumner & The Second Third, Django Haskins, The Allen Boys (1/5) The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo (1/10) Greg Hawks (1/11) Nappy Brown Orchestra , Sean Costello and Big Joe Maher (1/1) Leon Russell (1/19)
The Return of the Pressure Boys
Out of action for close to 20 years, a legendary local band reunites for a benefit show at Cats Cradle
By Kirk Ross
The better part of two decades has passed since the last notes of the last Pressure Boys gig faded into the crowd at the April 1989 opening show of the Cats Cradle [...]
Movies: January 2008
Lumina
620 Market St., 932-9000
www.thelumina.com
Regal Timberlyne 6
120 Banks Drive,
Chapel Hill, 933-8600
Theater/Comedy: January 2008
The ArtsCenter
SWEENEY TODD: DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
January 25 — February 3
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm.
January 26 and February 3 at 3pm.
Dining: January 2008
Carrboro
Acme Food & Beverage Co.
110 E. Main St., 929-2268
www.acmecarrboro.com
Akai Hana
206 W Main St., 942-6848
www.akaihana.com
Literary Calendar: January 2008
FINE BOOKS
Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro
542-3030
fearrington.com/village/mcintyres
Jan 4, 2pm
Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes
Daytime soap operas’ first golden couple Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes will be starring in Sanford’s Temple Theatre’s production of Love Letters. The pair will take a break to discuss, Like Sands Through The Hourglass, which chronicles their love story on and off the [...]
Art Calendar: January 2008
Carrboro
The ArtsCenter
300-G East Main Street
929-2787
artscenterlive.org
Call for details.
Archer Graphics
206 E. Main St.
929-7522
archergraphics.net
Call for details.
The Beehive Salon
102 E. Weaver Street
932-4483
thebeehive-salon.com
Paintings by Lynne Clarke, featuring portraits and still lifes. Reception from 6-9 p.m. 2nd Friday, exhibit through Jan 31.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Events
Carrboro/Chapel Hill
The annual community celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. will be held Jan. 21 begining with a rally with speeches and song at 9:30 a.m. at the Peace & Justice Plaza at the Franklin Street Post Office. At 10:30 a.m. particpants will march west on Franklin Street to First Baptist at [...]
Art News: Jewish studies to probe music, the South, more
Jewish music, Zionist ideology and Jewish merchants in the post-Civil War South are among topics to be explored in a spring lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC’s Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will present the free public lectures, all at 7:30 p.m. in the theater of the Sonja Haynes Stone [...]