Margot Carmichael Lester It may seem natural for a chef to adore Thanksgiving, but for Bill Smith, chef of Crook’s Corner, his love for the holiday isn’t really about the food. “Thanksgiving’s my favorite holiday because it’s based around a dinner party and you don’t have to worry about gifts,†he laughs. “The pressure of…
Cooking as conversation
MILL 31 Calendar December
11/26-12/14 The Little Prince Paul Green Theatre This encore presentation of last season’s hit by PlayMakers Repertory Company runs through Dec. 14. 11/26 Pre Turkey Day Jam Cat’s Cradle Jon Shain and friends Django Haskins, Mark Simonsen, Greg Humphreys, Valentino and the Piedmont Shieks and others team up for the annual benefit for the Inter-Faith…
MILL Literary Calendar December
Carrboro Branch Library Storytime, Saturdays at 10:30am. Toddler Time, Thursday at 4pm.
MILL Theater Calendar December
The ArtsCenter Tales of Light, a puppetry performance by Hobey Ford. Tales based in Native-American stories to teach about nature and community. Dec. 5. 10am (grades K-3), 11:30am (grades 4-6). Dec. 6, 11am (grades K-6).
Erica’s breakthrough
MILL Music Calendar December
The ArtsCenter The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band, Caitlin Cary (12/6) 2nd Friday Open Jazz Jam (12/12) Blue Bayou Club Open Blues Jamm (12/2) AC Bushnell & HappyJoy Band (12/5) The Fusticks (12/5) Contagious Blues Band (12/6) Open Mic Night (12/9) Too Much Fun (12/13) Open Blues Jam (12/16) Fever & The Falling Raid (12/18) Cyril Lance…
Flora: Why We Garden
School board appoints McElveen
Chapel Hill looks at budget cuts
Kirk Ross Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council received a report from Town Manager Roger Stancil outlining how he plans to achieve $2,482,000 in budget cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year. The plan, reviewed at the council’s meeting Monday night at Town Hall, includes $1.8 million in reductions achieved mainly by not…
CHS cultural arts wing awaits funding
Susan Dickson Staff Writer Carrboro High School could have a cultural arts wing as soon as 2010-11, two years sooner than previously anticipated, but the project remains unfunded.
Housing starts not exactly starting
Margot Carmichael Lester Staff Writer It’s all doom, gloom and pestilence if the latest housing data from the National Association of Homebuilders is to be believed. Overall housing starts for October declined 4.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 791,000 units – and 38 percent less than October 2007’s 1,182,000 units. That’s the…
Recently: A special kind of housewarming on Neville Road
Valarie Schwartz “Don’t my house look NICE?†Louise Hackney asked as she stepped outside her back door into the new garden of the Neville Road cottage where she has lived some 40-plus years, on Orange County property inherited from her father. She looked at the azalea and gardenia bushes (one under every window) that will…
Community Calendar 11/26/08
Special Events Photo Night — Nov. 25, 7:30-9pm. Steve Jessmore of the Sun News in Myrtle Beach talks about photography and shares his work. Carroll Hall Room 33, UNC Campus. Vegetarian Society Thanksgiving — Nov. 27, 12-5pm. Triangle Vegetarian Society holds Thanksgiving dinner at Café Parizäde. All food vegan. Reservation and information www.trianglevegsociety.org/thanksgiving08/
News brief: Kinnaird and Pollitt to marry
Ellie Kinnaird, the seven-term District 23 state senator and a Carrboro resident, and Daniel Pollitt, Kenan professor of law emeritus at the UNC School of Law and lifelong civil rights and civil liberties advocate, have announced their engagement to be married.
