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Arts & Music

August Shows & Happenings

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 AND
The Jump Rabbits
Cat’s Cradle
Scene legends play with Jeffrey Dean Foster and The Birds of Prey. 8:30pm, $10-12

Neil Hamburger
Local 506
America’s $1 funnyman with band Daiquiri and musician Brian Vicini. Treat your funny bone and your music bone. 9:30pm, $8

The Really Really Free Market
Carrboro Town Commons
Free stuff! No, really, this is about finding community solutions to social ills. Also, free stuff! 2:30-5pm

Sunset Hike
Occoneechee Mountain
A short hike ending with sunset at the quarry overlook, now doesn’t that sound nice? 8 p.m. RSVP 383-1686.

8/3
Western Civ
Reservoir
With Combat Zone, Change the Station and The Heron. You know Reservoir shows rock. Hard. 10pm

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti
Nighlight
With Clang Quartet, Unicornucopia, Ami Dang, Boyzone and Chairlift, 8pm
Southern Village Green
Susan Reeves Trio: Bluesy and jazzy with a little bit of swingy. 7pm

APS Benefit
Blue Bayou Club
With performers Blue Diablo, Katharine Whalen, Monika James Band & Lucy Sumner. 4-8 p.m., $15

8/8
2nd Friday Art walk
All over town
Art and ambulation, good for the soul. see page four for listings. 6-9pm

Tinsley Ellis
Blue Bayou Club
Memphis blues & guitar. 9:30
Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion

Cat’s Cradle
Roots-rock duo performs with Jeff Crawford. 8:30pm, $10-12
Near Blind James

Bynum General Store
With Harmonica Bob and Mighty Gospel Inspirations. 7pm

8/9
Open Drawing Session
Ackland Art Museum
Learn how to draw like the pros in an inspiring atmosphere. Bring your own materials. Kids welcome. 10am-noon

Digging History
Orange County Historical Museum
The archaeological history of Hillsborough. Through August

8/10
The Moaners
The Cave
Performing with Sixgun Lullaby. 9pm, $5

Community Hoop Jam
Carrboro Town Commons
Enlightenment through swirling a hoop around your waist. 1-3pm

8/11

Burrito Bash
The General Store Cafe
Eat and support Chatham Animal Rescue and Education & Chatham County Concerned Bikers Association. 6-9 pm $12

8/15
ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment Presents Quantamine
Local 506
The name says it all. 9pm, $12.

8/15
Southern Mystery Author Discussion
McIntyre’s Fine Books
Mark de Castrique, Mary Anna Evans and Vicki Lane will join reviewer Molly Weston in talking about their recently released mysteries. 2 pm

8/16
Melvins
Cat’s Cradle
Cult rockers perform with Big Business, Double Negative. 9:30 p.m. $16-18

Clyde Edgerton
McIntyre’s Fine Books
Reads from and discusses his novel The Bible Salesman. 11 a.m.

8/21
Discussion of immigrant rights
Chapel Hill Public Library
With Rebecca Headen, NC ACLU Racial Justice Project Coordinator. 7 p.m.

8/22
Oneida
Local 506
Plays with Dirty Faces 9 p.m. $8.

Loop Trail & Sunset Hike
Occoneechee Mountain
Try out the new Occoneechee Loop Trail. 7pm RSVP 383-1686.

8/23
Arrogance
Cat’s Cradle
Influential 1970s Chapel Hill Rockers return to the Cradle for some nostalgia and some serious rock and roll. 9 p.m. $16-18

The Never
Pittsboro Carolina Brewery
Awesome indie, go hear them and then get the album. 6-9 p.m.

8/28
Fall 2008 Community Education Series
Extraordinary Ventures
Advocacy for people with disabilities in the workplace. RSVP 933-6918

8/30
Rev Billy C Wirtz
Blue Bayou Club
Swingin’ piano jams and a couple of laughs, this guy is spreading the gospel. Or some version of it, anyway. 9:30pm

Geology Hike
Occoneechee Mountain
See the geological wonders of Occoneechee Mountain, especially the pyrophyllite quarry. 10am. RSVP 383-1686