This is the time of year I used to describe as the annual U-Haul Rodeo, a time when throughout the Carrboro-Chapel Hill metroplex there is a serious influx of vehicles brimming with stuff driven by individuals unfamiliar with the local terrain.
The recommendation from anyone knowledgeable of this annual occurrence is to avoid certain areas at [...]
By Jordan Timpy
The 2nd Friday Artwalk will be a little longer in August with the addition of a new photography gallery in downtown Carrboro.
The Jesse Kalisher Gallery now occupies the space at 209 E. Main St., between Scooters Inc. and Harper Arts, across the street from Cat’s Cradle.
The gallery showcases the work of photographer Jesse [...]
Carrboro
The ArtsCenter
Center Gallery: “Making the grass greener — 59 days” by Jenifer Padilla. Aug. 3-30, reception Aug. 8 6-9pm
East End Gallery
“from Saratov, with Love” by Oleg Lulin. July 29 - Aug. 30, reception Aug. 8 6-9pm
The Beehive Salon
New and old works by welder Callie Werner
Cybrary
The Contemporary Fiction Book Club will discuss Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Thursday, August 28 at 7pm.
The Carrboreaders Non-Fiction Club will discuss Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert Thursday, August 14 at 7pm.
McIntyre’s
Readings in August include J.A. Jance, Martin Clark, Barbara Oakley, Charles [...]
Deep Dish Theater
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Derrick Ivey. A comedy by one of Italy’s most prolific playwrights about a servant trying to double his wages, but instead landing himself between feuding lovers $12-$16; Aug. 21-Sept. 13
DSI
Mister Diplomat, Aug. 1, 15, 22, 29 at 9:30pm, free;
ComedySportz, Aug. 2, [...]
8/1-9/28
Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Forest Theater
9th Annual summer puppet extravaganza featuring giant eye candy and live music. Every weekend of August and September. Adults $10, kids 12 and under $7, kids 2 and under free.
8/1
Embarrassing Fruits
Local 506
Basement-rock CD release party with Hammer No More The Fingers and Opening Flower Happy Bird, 9:30pm
8/2
Don Dixon [...]
Influential Chapel Hill musician Don Dixon will play two shows this month at Cat’s Cradle. Don Dixon & the Jump Rabbits play this Saturday, Aug. 2, and he will appear again Aug. 23 with Arrogance. Dixon was a founding member of Arrogance, an influential and popular band in Chapel Hill in the 1970s, and produced [...]
The ArtsCenter
Open Jazz Jam (8/11)
Blue Horn Lounge
David Spencer Band (8/1) See No Weevil (8/2) Jule Brown Band (8/8) Blue Diablo (8/9) Erin Brown Band (8/13) Tain Collins (8/14) Dogwood Deddy (8/15) Steve Jack Band (8/16) Pete Waggoner (8/20) Bill West (8/21) Marla Vickers Band (8/22) Good Rocking Sam (8/23) Chackalacky Tabachi Blues Band (8/26) [...]
July starts with a bang and has for a good while now. And around Carrboro on Friday, the town’s annual Fourth of July celebration starts with the most red, white and blue community parade you’ve ever laid eyes on. You might hear the good name of this town disparaged elsewhere as un-American because many folks [...]
ArtsCenter
10 by 10 in the Triangle: an international festival of new, ten-minute plays (7/10-20) The Music Man (7/24)
Cat’s Cradle
Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band (7/4) Dirty South Fest feat. Lower Class Brats, Murphy’s Law, Patriot, Hub City Stompers, Iron Cross, Antagonizers, Wednesday Night Heroes, Vangaurd (7/5) Boris Torche, Clouds (7/6) Funasshit, Diamond Studs (7/8) [...]
7/03
Red Hot Poker Dots
The Cave
They’re from Australia. They have a song about Saxapahaw and they are quite active on stage. 10 p.m.
7/04
Fourth of July
Carrboro, Chapel Hill
Annual event celebrating a stand against tyranny with colorful bunting, summer foods, baby races and rockets emitting red and other colored glare. Carrboro Town Commons and Kenan Stadium. [...]
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