
{"id":6644,"date":"2009-08-06T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6644"},"modified":"2009-08-06T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:33:18","slug":"big-city-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/08\/06\/big-city-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Big City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A little R&#038;R<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The entry to NCNB Plaza, aka Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bank Plaza, aka Bank of America\/TARP Plaza, used to be a place for interaction between various types of vendors and passersby.<\/p>\n<p>It is, sadly, no longer peopled by the flower ladies and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been quite a while since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the local Hare Krishnas who used to all but live there.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRecently, you may have noticed a few folks hanging around the entrance greeting folks and handing out literature. A little investigating revealed nary a religious or political affiliation. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re employees of R&#038;R Grill, which recently opened in the old Club Havana\/ Papagyos space inside the plaza.<\/p>\n<p>R&#038;R, owned and operated by father-son team Rob and Ross Moll, features \u00e2\u20ac\u0153traditional American flavors,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which means, mainly, burgers and ribs and pizza. The Molls say they put about $1 million into renovating the space. Menu and info at <a href=\"http:\/\/rnrgrill.com\">rnrgrill.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beehive winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Beehive Art Challenge was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mohawks and Mullets,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and next Friday (Aug. 14), during the 2ndFriday Artwalk, you can see what clever bits the winners were able to put together on display.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the winners announced this week by Queen Bee Diane Koistinen<br \/>\n1st place &#8211; Rachel Sorenson; 2nd place &#8211; Sam Causon; 3rd place &#8211; Robert Votta; 4th place &#8211; Herb Bresky; 5th place &#8211; Emily E. Weinstein; 6th place &#8211; Holly C. Wright; 7th place &#8211; Pat Phelps.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nDo you feeeel like we do?<\/strong><br \/>\nGet your TalkBox ready kids, \u00e2\u20ac\u2122cause we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not making this up. This note arrived via email this week:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership and the Chapel Hill Mayor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office have initiated a special six-week pilot program called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Franklin Street Comes Alive!,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in order to encourage more people to come downtown and support local businesses while enjoying a welcoming and musical environment along the way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The partnership is hiring locals to play live music or perform entertainment at three spots along the sidewalk on Franklin Street on Friday and Saturday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m. Performers get $50 plus tips and will be working three locations \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in front of the Bank of America on East Franklin and at The Bicycle Chain and UNC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153440\u00e2\u20ac\u009d building on West Franklin.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Bobby Funk at the Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership at 967-9440 or visit  <a href=\"http:\/\/franklinstreetcomesalive.com\">franklinstreetcomesalive.com<\/a> to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little R&#038;R The entry to NCNB Plaza, aka Nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bank Plaza, aka Bank of America\/TARP Plaza, used to be a place for interaction between various types of vendors and passersby. It is, sadly, no longer peopled by the flower ladies and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been quite a while since we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the local Hare Krishnas who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}