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Miscellany

Happy Earth Day! PDF version of today’s Citizen now up!

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Arts & Music

Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 4/19-25

A few surefire reasons to get out of your house and into the mix.

Mon – 4/19

Wed – 4/21

  • Jay Clifford / Steven Fiore / Jeremy Current @ Cat’s Cradle – $12 adv / $15 day of the show
  • La Strada / North Elementary / Kaiser Cartel @ Local 506 – $5
  • WICKED @ DPAC – This show made my head and heart explode when I saw it on Broadway with the original cast (Idina Menzel AND Christin Chenowith)* back several years ago.  If you love the Wizard of Oz and big voices and don’t mind political-re-imaginings of old favorites then THIS is the show for you. $30-$140  *nerd alert

Thurs – 4/22

  • DURTY Art Collective Benefit: Tree City / Lake Inferior / Casual Curious / Tea and Tempests / Mystic Minstrels / Kellie Ann Grubbs @ The Pinhook – $5 suggested donation

Fri – 4/23

  • Second Annual Intro Summit: Killer Filler / The Guns of El Borracho / The Aqualads / Blood Red River / The Weisstronauts / Eszett @ The Cave – In all the festivities run from this night until the 25th, check The Cave website to see the full lineup.  $TBA
  • Odessa Fest 2010: Transportation / Inspector 22 / Shit Horse / Waumiss / Wes Wolfe @ The Nightlight – $8 each night / $15 weekend pass

Sat – 4/24

  • Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies / The Huguenots / DJ Mixcake @ Local 506 – For whom the discotheque mourns…so ends the sunshine pop reign of Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies.  No doubt there will be more than a few Gray Eyes being Sadly Sad– but only once the concert’s over. $6
  • Odessa Fest 2010: Kingsbury Manx / Americans in France / Wild Wild Geese / Michael Holland @ The Nightlight – $8 each night / $15 weekend pass
  • Whatever Brains / Invisible Hand / The Alphabet / Gross Ghost @ Berkeley Café – $TBA
  • Chestfest2010: Amelia’s Mechanics / MC Ava Johnson / members of the Bellydancing Collective, The Devoted / Burlesque by Miss Mary Wanna @ The ArtsCenter in Carrboro – $10 for entertainment (silent auction before the show is free)

Sun – 4/25

  • Frightened Rabbit / Maps and Atlases / Bad Veins @ Cat’s Cradle – $12 adv / $14 day of the show

Thurs-Sun – 4/22-25

Anywhere else?

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Arts & Music

Gimme Five! Nick Jaeger of The Tomahawks

It’s hard to imagine that while playing as sidemen in both Roman Candle and Max Indian Nick Jaeger and Jeff Crawford would have the creative energy for anything else, much less songwriting.  Nevertheless, the boys found themselves trading melodies and working up a batch of tunes that soon turned into  The Tomahawks.

With retro guitar licks, bouncy keys, hand-claps, and sun-bleached harmonies, The Tomahawks are part classic rock, part beach music soul, part indie.  Throwback hooks and warm riffs muck it up with loose rhythms to create an analog vibe.  It’s a vintage patina produced by a young band, brimming with talent.  The lineup is always stacked with the chops of Jaegar, Crawford, and Charles Cleaver, and is often augmented by other rambling, gifted musicians associated with Chapel Hill’s Drughorse Collective—“The Rons” Matt Damron & Cameron Lee (from Bright Young Things), Django Haskins & Mark Simonsen (from The Old Ceremony), Rob DiMauro and Patrick Phelan (from Luego), James Wallace and Carter Gaj (from Max Indian), and Brett Harris among them.

And you can come face to face with The Tomahawks and their spirited brand of roots soul this Saturday, April 17th at The Pinhook where they’ll be joined by their pals Luego and John Lindsay.

Now just to hit Nick with the five toughest questions in faux business:

1. If your band were a sandwich, what kind would it be?

For Flavor – the Manhattan from Neal’s Deli

For Name – the Big ‘n’ Tasty

For Historical Impact – Peanut Butter and Banana (Elvis’ choice)

2. What can listeners expect to hear on the new record?

Soul music as interpreted by a band of burnout badgers.

3. Describe how your father has affected your love of music.

Directly…I was hooked on his record collection growing up. He taught me how to work the turntable when I was probably 6 and I remember playing The Slider and Rubber Soul on repeat.  Currently, he influences me currently by making crazy good guitars (axes) for me to play (shred).

4. Who/what might be a few inspirations or influences that might really surprise people?

I was pretty into some punk rock in high school and I’ve been re-discovering some of that lately. The Descendents – Milo Goes to College was a pretty amazing record. Also, Dr. Dre’s – The Chronic…The drums and bass on Let Me Ride are absolutely disgusting.

5. What did you dream of being when you were a kid? (How’d that turn out?)

Grades 1-5 – Astronaut/Paleontologist/Fighter Pilot
Grades 6-12 – Winner of le Tour de France
Adulthood – Rock and Roller

Entire Life – Fire Fighter/Pro Basketball Player

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Tune in next week for more furious five interrogations and head out to  The Pinhook this Saturday to catch The Tomahawks in action. And by all means, be sure to give Nick a high five when you see him!

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Miscellany

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Arts & Music

Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 4/12-18

Here because you can’t be trusted to know where to hear the good stuff on every night of the week.

Tues – 4/13

Wed – 4/14

  • The Wailers / Steve Martinez & The Give Thanks Band @ Lincoln Theatre – $17 adv / $20 day of the show

Thurs – 4/15

  • Music on the Porch with Pierce Freelon (The Beast, w/ some stripped down accompaniment), Catherine Edgerton & Kym Register (Midtown Dickens), and Shirle’ Hale (Free Electric State) @ UNC’s Love House  – Spend the afternoon soaking in sun and some tunes by a curated group of local musicians. They’ll play music and take part in a discussion moderated by Glenn Boothe of the Local 506. Fun starts at 5 and is wonderfully $FREE!
  • Gossip Grows on Trees / The Future is Me / The Forever Endeavor @ Local 506 – $6
  • Ashley Raines & The New West Revue (late) / Arlene McCann (early) @ The Cave – $?
  • The Love Language / The Light Pines/ Moneybrother @ The Pour House – $8 adv / $10 at the door

Fri – 4/16

  • Xiu Xiu / Tune Yards @ Local 506 – $10 adv / $12 at the door
  • Free Electric State CD Release Party featuring A Rooster for the Masses and Beloved Binge @ The Pinhook – $5

Sat – 4/17

  • Luego / The Tomahawks / John Lindsay @ The Pinhook – $5
  • Honky Tonk for Haiti: Swinging Johnsons / Johnny Folson 4 / The Pheromones / The Stray Dogs / Multiples @ The Pour House – $8

Sun – 4/18

  • Titus Andronicus / Spider Bags / Dry Heathens @ Local 506 – $8
  • Mastadon / Between the Buried and Me / Valient Thor @ Lincoln Theatre – $SoldOut

Anywhere else?

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Arts & Music

Hank Williams wins a Pulitzer

A little late but certainly a worthy entry. Here’s the citation:

A posthumous special citation to Hank Williams for his craftsmanship as a songwriter who expressed universal feelings with poignant simplicity and played a pivotal role in transforming country music into a major musical and cultural force in American life.

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Community Weather

Thirsty?

As noted in this week’s Citizen, we’ve become a more thirsty community of late. Water use average under 6.8 million gallons per day through March, but is now running about 8 million gallons.
According to today’s Water Watch report (sorry, no permalink) our reservoirs, which have full to overflowing through this very wet winter, are now at 99.9 percent of capacity.

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Farms

Eno River market open longer

The Eno River Farmers Market in downtown Hillsborough is now on summer hours. The market, located on East Margaret Lane, is open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. New vendors on hand this year include Spoon, Sunshine Life, Box Car Farms, Serendip Farm, Lil Country Grower, Carolina Heritage Farm, Winking Moon Studios, John Mathivet and The Accidental Baker.

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Community Farms

Wednesday market starts

The Carrboro Farmers’ Market is starting up its Wednesday afternoon market next week, April 14. The market runs from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Carrboro Town Commons.

Chef Ricky Moore will be opening the mid-week market with the first event in the new Carrboro Market Culinary Series.

The series is a local foods teaching and tasting event designed to highlight uncommon uses of commonly available local seasonal ingredients.

For the opening event, Moore, a former Iron Chef contender, will take on chard. “Chard is an ingredient that many people feel they know how to cook already, but there are many ways to cook and eat this beautiful green,” he said.

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The Eater

Edible plant walk

Herbalist Kim Calhoun will lead a medicinal- and edible-plant walk on Saturday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. along the Lower Haw River State Natural Area Trail.

Participants will walk from the Bynum pedestrian bridge to the trail, learning about some of the edible, drinkable and medicinal plants growing in yards, fields, forest floors and canopies and along the river’s edge.

The fee is on a sliding scale of $10 to $20, with half of the proceeds going to the Haw River Assembly. Participants must register by today (Thursday) by calling or emailing Germane at the Haw River Assembly at 542-5790 or germane (at) hawriver.org

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Weather

Cool weekend

Temps will pop back up to 75 during the day on Sunday, but it will stay plenty cool in the evenings through mid-week.
Via the NWS:

This Afternoon: Sunny, with a high near 69. Light northwest wind.

Tonight: Clear, with a low around 40. Calm wind.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 75. Calm wind becoming southwest around 6 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Light west wind.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 76. Calm wind becoming north around 6 mph.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 47.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 67.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.