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 works by the gallery’s resident potter
DeWitt Law
Call for details
Fleet Feet Gallery
Seascape Poetics—paintings exploring the interactions between light, sky, water and land by Carolyn B. Levy
NC Crafts Gallery
Art Nouveau ceramic tiles by Raleigh artist Marina Bosetti, reception during Artwalk.
Nested
Call for details
Open Eye Café
ELEMENTS—the fifth annual Community Art Project Through May 28
Panzanella
Local Farms/Local Art—an art exhibit celebrating the 13th Annual Piedmont Farm Tour Through Jun 1
Scooters Incorporated
Photographs by Caryl Feldacker Through May
Weaver Street Realty
Call for details
Wootini
Cal for details
Chapel Hill
Ackland Art Museum
New Currents in Contemporary Arts: UNC-Chapel Hill Master of Fine Arts Thesis Through May 11
Contemporary Drawings from the Ackland Collection Through Aug 17
The Art of Love May 9-Sep 7
Animation and Fine Art
OP-TiCaL aRt—lithographs and serigraphs by Victor Vasarely & Yaacov Agam May 9-Jun 12
Community Church of Chapel Hill
The Face of the Earth—watercolor mixed media by Nerys Levy May 4-Jun 29
FedEx Global Education Center
Judith Earnst—Expressions of life, love and faith through paintings and pottery Through May 30
Turning Point Gallery
Mixed media on canvas and bronze sculptures by Maeve Harris and Wayne Salge
Southern Village
Bagwell, Holt, Smith, Tillman & Jones, PA
The Color in No Color—paintings by Amy White Through May
Bloom
Flowers and abstracts by Marcia DiMartino Through May
Hillsborough
Hillsborough Gallery of Arts
A Walk in the Woods—new work by Pat Lloyd and Jude Lobe Through May 24
Pittsboro
Chatham County Arts Council
Call for details
Fusion Art and Fine Craft Gallery
Recycled Art—works by Michele Bonds Through May
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 and early ‘90s with a strong following led by their friends and former classmates at Chapel Hill High.
The band eschewed reunions — until now, coming back together in support of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for two shows at Cat’s Cradle. The first, on Friday, May 2 is sold out. The next night, though, is first-come, first-serve.
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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 joined by former Cherry Valence drummer Brian Quast. Des Ark and Noncanon open.
You may need to retune your ears for this one — there’s not been a lot of bands like ‘em around here for years. Check out the microtones at www.myspace.com/polvotheband
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, Greg Humphreys (5/3) Man Man, Yeasayer (5/4) British Sea Power, Rosebuds, Jeffrey Lewis (5/6) Easy Star All-Stars, Trumystic (5/7) The Casualties, Krum Bums, Antagonizers, No Revolution (5/8) Old Ceremony, Tony Scherr (5/9) Polvo, Des Ark, Noncanon (5/10) Drive By Truckers, Dexateens (5/13, 5/14) Les Dudek (5/16) Southern Culture on the Skids (5/17) Clinic, BBQ (5/26) 13×31 Anniversary Tour w/ X The Band, Detroit Cobras (5/27) North Mississippi All Stars, Amy LeVere (5/28)
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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 be recognized on Carrboro Day at 4 p.m. at the Town Hall board room, where they and others will participate in the annual poetry reading from 4-5:30 p.m.
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 her new cookbook The Art of Mexican Cooking.
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 through the months of April and May, with a public reception set for April 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Between now and April 27, Panzanella guests are invited to vote for their favorite works from the show.
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
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