Pressure Boys Night 1

A great night. A lot of us old goofs around acting not so old.

Arts Calendar: 05/01/08

Carrboro
The ArtsCenter
Center Gallery: Community Photography Contest
East End Gallery
ELEMENTS, the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28
The Beehive Salon
Sincerely Yours—works depicting life in Chapel Hill by Washington Capps
Caffe Driade
Bridget Walsh—acrylic paintings
Carrboro Century Center
ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28
Carrboro Town Hall
ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28
Clay Centre Gallery
New [...]

Music Spolight: Pressure Boys Reunion

This weekend, if you see a lot of long-lost locals, people who you used to see out and about decades ago but who long since headed for other parts or maybe just don’t get out as much, you can blame these mugs for drawing them out.
The Pressure Boys ruled local music in the late ‘80s [...]

Music Spotlight: Polvo

Welcome to the New Dark Age II.
In another in the recent series of reunion gigs, Polvo is working out some new and old material for a Cradle show on May 10, some Eurofestival action and a mini-tour.
They called it quits 10 years ago. For this tour, veterans Dave Brylawski, Ash Bowie and Steve Popson are [...]

Music Calendar: 05/01/08

The ArtsCenter
The Wilders (5/2) Children’s music by Justin Roberts, Chris Duarte w/ Hooverville (5/3) Red Stick Ramblers (5/17) Holly Near w/ emma’s revolution (5/18) Lise Uyanik & The Mobile City Band w/ The South Wing Band (5/24) The Biscuit Burners (5/30) David Dyer & The Crooked Smile (5/31)

Cat’s Cradle
The Pressure Boys, Sneaker, [...]

Poetry

This year’s Carrboro Day poetry reading includes a new feature — the first annual readings by the winners of the town’s Youth Poetry Contest. Sponsored by Carrboro Recreation & Parks and coordinated by Carrboro’s Poet Laureate Neal McTighe, the contest had more than 50 entries from students in elementary, middle and high school.
The winners will [...]

Theater Calendar: 05/01/08

Deep Dish Theater
The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Tony Lea. A lovely and often riotous comedy about a young Brazilian woman and the people whose house she tends $12-$16; May 1-24

Literary Calendar: 05/01/08

McIntyre’s Fine Books
May 2, 2pm—Writing workshop with Wendy Call, co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide From The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
May 3, 11am—Joe Camp, creator of the canine superstar Benji, discusses the lessons he and his wife learned while reasearching Camp’s book Soul of a Horse.
May 4, 2pm—Diana Kennedy discusses [...]

Nathalie Worthington

This painting is entitled “Cow Now.” It’s by Nathalie Worthington, whose studio is located in the Lost Corner region of Chatham County. Worthington is one of several artists featured as part of the Local Farms/Local Art exhibit at Panzanella in celebration of the Piedmont Farm Tour. The juried show opened on April 1 and runs [...]

Escaping the HighDef Glow

At some point, the frenzy of basketball that engulfs the end of March and early April fades and thousands of residents will venture away from the HighDef glow long enough to find that they are surrounded by the riot of color that is this town in spring.

Theater & Comedy Calendar

The ArtsCenter
Black Poetry: Performance Poetry Meets Theater
April 4-6, 8pm, 3pm Sunday. $10, $8 Friends, $7 students
April in Paris (of the Piedmont) with Transactors Improve Co.
April 11, 8pm. $14, $12 Friends, $8 students