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January brings in a new year’s worth of great performances.

The first weekend will begin with The ArtCenter’s American Roots Series, a series of big performances that will last throughout the month. On Friday, January 4, Club Boheme, The Ramblers and Missy Raines & the New Hip perform. On Saturday Lucy Sumner & The Second Third, Django Haskins and the Allen Boys perform. Both shows start at 8:30 and cost $15 or $13 for friends of the ArtsCenter. The shows benefit WCOM and on Saturday a CD commemorating the 5th year of the series will be available.

On Sunday, the ChathamArts Gallery will showcase photography by local artists and members of the Chatham Camera Club and host a reception from 12 to 5 p.m. The show will be on display through the month.

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Music Calendar: January 2008

The ArtsCenter

Club Boheme, The Ramblers & Missy Raines, The New Hip (1/4) Lucy Sumner & The Second Third, Django Haskins, The Allen Boys (1/5) The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo (1/10) Greg Hawks (1/11) Nappy Brown Orchestra , Sean Costello and Big Joe Maher (1/1) Leon Russell (1/19)

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The Return of the Pressure Boys

The Pressure Boys circa mid ’80s (left to right) Jack Campbell, Greg Stafford, John Plymale, Rob Ladd, Jay Widenhouse and Bryon Settle. Photo by Lisa Jo Tuchek.

Out of action for close to 20 years, a legendary local band reunites for a benefit show at Cats Cradle

By Kirk Ross

The better part of two decades has passed since the last notes of the last Pressure Boys gig faded into the crowd at the April 1989 opening show of the Cats Cradle on Franklin Street.

For John Pylmale, it was the end of an era. The band had effectively broken up already, but after playing the closing show at the old Cradle location the year before, they’d agreed to return to open the new location.
In the span since, the idea of a reunion has never been appealing. The feeling, Plymale said, was that the band “had run its course” and to just let it be a memory.

“So much of what gave us our kick was due to the irreverent nature of the band,” he said. “Twenty years later, we’re not quite the same people and it would be hard to be that as adults with children.”

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Movies: January 2008

Lumina
620 Market St., 932-9000
www.thelumina.com
Regal Timberlyne 6
120 Banks Drive,
Chapel Hill, 933-8600

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Theater/Comedy: January 2008

The ArtsCenter
SWEENEY TODD: DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
January 25 — February 3
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm.
January 26 and February 3 at 3pm.

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Food

Dining: January 2008

Carrboro 
Acme Food  & Beverage Co.
110 E. Main St., 929-2268
www.acmecarrboro.com
Akai Hana
206 W Main St., 942-6848
www.akaihana.com

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Literary Calendar: January 2008

FINE BOOKS
Fearrington Village Center, Pittsboro
542-3030
fearrington.com/village/mcintyres

Jan 4, 2pm
Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes
Daytime soap operas’ first golden couple Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes will be starring in Sanford’s Temple Theatre’s production of Love Letters. The pair will take a break to discuss, Like Sands Through The Hourglass, which chronicles their love story on and off the screen and their rise to stardom as Doug and Julie on Days of Our Lives.

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Art Calendar: January 2008

Carrboro 

The ArtsCenter
300-G East Main Street
929-2787
artscenterlive.org
Call for details.

Archer Graphics
206 E. Main St.
929-7522
archergraphics.net
Call for details.

The Beehive Salon
102 E. Weaver Street
932-4483
thebeehive-salon.com
Paintings by Lynne Clarke, featuring portraits and still lifes. Reception from 6-9 p.m. 2nd Friday, exhibit through Jan 31.

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Community

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Events

Carrboro/Chapel Hill

The annual community celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. will be held Jan. 21 begining with a rally with speeches and song at 9:30 a.m. at the Peace & Justice Plaza at the Franklin Street Post Office. At 10:30 a.m. particpants will march west on Franklin Street to First Baptist at 106 N. Roberson Street for the annual service commenrating King’s life. The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, former president of the Durham Chapter of the NAACP, is the featured speaker at the 11 a.m. service.

Chatham County

The annual Martin Luther King Prayer Breakfast will be held Saturday, Jan. 19 at 8am at the Holy Trinity Church in Siler City. Donation is is $8 For more information, contact Alma Taylor at 774-8492.

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Art News: Jewish studies to probe music, the South, more

Jewish music, Zionist ideology and Jewish merchants in the post-Civil War South are among topics to be explored in a spring lecture series at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

UNC’s Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will present the free public lectures, all at 7:30 p.m. in the theater of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at 150 South Road. Dates, titles and speakers for the four lectures will be:

Jan. 14: “Israel and the Diaspora: Convergence or Rupture?” Derek Penslar, Samuel J. Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. In his talk, UNC’s Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lecture in Jewish Studies, Penslar will examine how Zionist ideology and the Israeli state are not as far removed from Diaspora Jewish norms as is commonly thought.

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Art News: Workshops at Carrboro Branch Library

A free workshop on textile art will be part of an exhibit of textiles curated by local artists Anita Wolfenden, Linda Carmel and Nerys Levy at the Carrboro Branch Library.

The exhibition, which features 21 local textile artists, is designed to present an overview of the range and possibilities within the discipline of fiber art — from wool and felt to silk, paper to soft sculptures.

At the January 20 reception, there will be demonstrations of some of the processes involved in the production of textile art. Also during the life of the exhibition, the library will hold a free art workshop led by one of the show’s participating artists. The exhibit is made possible by the Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library and the Fowler Foundation. For more information, call 969-3006.