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The Eater

This month The Eater turns over the reins to Merge Records’ Paul Cardillo, a budding food writer. We asked Paul to offer an insider’s guide for out-of-town peeps in town for XXMerge. Here’s his advice:

Neal’s Deli
You can’t go wrong at Neal’s, and could conceivably eat all your meals here. The breakfast biscuits are amazing, fluffy and light on the inside with an unexpected toothsome crispness on the outside. Try the pastrami, baked egg and swiss biscuit. All the lunchtime sandwiches at Neal’s are great too, but the hot dogs trump pretty much everything. A great veal and pork dog on a brezel sub roll from Durham bakery Guglhupf. One isn’t enough. Two is too many. Get them “all the way” with spicy mustard and sauerkraut.

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Arts & Music

Welcome to Mergeboro

OK, maybe calling our little town Mergeboro is a little over the top. But come the last couple of weeks of July, you may start believing the moniker is appropriate.

And if you were around five years ago for Merge Records’ 15th anniversary celebration, you might remember the packed shows and the odd sight of various stars of the indie rock universe wandering around town looking for coffee or thumbing through the offerings at local record stores and book shops.

Now, with an even bigger milestone approaching, chances are good that if you’re out and about on or around the last weekend of the month, you’ll run into a pacel or two of musicians and music fans roaming the streets of this old mill town.

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July Shows & Happenings

7/3
Elvis Tribute
Southern Village
Keith Henderson lives not far from Southern Village, but once he takes the stage he and you will head straight to Vegas and/or Hawaii.
7pm, $10

7/4
Evil Weiner Roast
The Cave
Do your patriotic duty — have a hot dog and rock out.

7/5
Curtains of Night
Local 506
Nora Lincoln and Lauren Fitzpatrick rock out in the name of heavy metal like only girls can.
9 p.m., $5

7/7
CyTunes Benefit
Reservoir
Blag’ard, Pinche Gringo and Simeon unite on behalf of Cytunes and Tisch Brain Tumor Center. 10 p.m. Free

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Mill Calendar

ART
Carrboro

The ArtsCenter
Center Gallery: Pastel Society of NC. East End Gallery: “Don’t You Hear What I’m Not Telling You,” line paintings by Mandey Brown and Pottery by Jason Abide.

The Beehive
“Miss Bee-havin’” — works by the Beehive employees, Alison Nickles, Emma Cabrera, Kim Martin, Meredith-Gray Lipscomb, and Tonya Sink.

Carrboro Branch Library
“Faces of the Earth” — environmentally themed art from students, faculty & staff of Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment.

Carrboro Century Center
The Artist and the Model – New oil paintings and drawings in mixed media by Steven Silverleaf.

Carrboro Town Hall

“Carrboro Greenways: Today and Tomorrow” — photographs by Dave Otto.

Fleet Feet Gallery
Call for information.

Jesse Kalisher Gallery
“The Smithsonian Collection” — Through July 9. “The Things We Build” — July 10-Aug 6

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Rising water, hurricane parties and a runaway pit bull

By Vicky Dickson

Chapel Hill’s Nic Brown might be the only writer around who sees the sale of his first book, Floodmarkers, as “the second-best thing that happened to me that day.” Given that Brown had also just completed the first draft of his second book (Doubles), he felt like one lucky guy on the day his first child, a daughter, arrived.

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Lit Notes

Good Ol’ Festival
Latest news from the N.C. Literary Festival is that local favorites Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle will be doing readings and discussions about the work that inspired the musical Good Ol’ Girls, at 8 p.m., Sept. 12. Matraca Berg, the Nashville musician who originated the idea for the musicaland her friend, Marshall Chapman, will accompany them, so it should be a most entertaining evening.

Grace AND Kindness
We’re also excited about the Sept. 11 (7:30 p.m.) presentation of Finding Grace and Kindness in a Winner-Take-All Society by Anna Devere Smith, which is part of the Frank Porter Graham Lecture Series. Perhaps best known for her TV and film work (in The West Wing and Rachel Getting Married), Smith also is known for performance pieces dealing with complex issues and multiple points of view. It sounds most intriguing.

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Music Calendar

The ArtsCenter
Lunch Money (7/11) 300 East Main Summer Concert Series (7/23)

Blue Bayou Club
Adrian Duke Projek (7/2) Skeedaddle (7/9) Michale Burks (7/10) Deb Callahan (7/11) David Russell (7/16) Jainva Magness (7/17) Dmitri Resnik Blues and Beyond (7/18)

Cat’s Cradle
Devon Allman’s Honeytribe (7/10) American Aquarium, The Future Kings of Nowhere, Filthybird, Nathan Oliver (7/11) Nice-N-Smooth (7/17) Girls Rock NC Showcase (7/18) Lost In The Trees, Kingsbury Manx, Midtown Dickens (7/19) XX Merge (7/22-7/25) Dredg, Tx Bandits, Zechs Marquid (7/26) Atmosphere, When God Gives You Ugly, Eyedea and Abilities, Attracted to Gods (7/28)

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Music Spotlight: Atmosphere

Slug and Ant, the MC/producer duo from Minneapolis that goes by the name Atmosphere, has performed everywhere from the Twin Cities to Japan, and this month they’ll be bringing their distinctive hip-hop sound back to Cat’s Cradle. Slug is known for his introspective lyrics based on his mostly true-life stories, while Ant provides the beat.

The show is July 28 at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $22 in advance and $25 the day of the show.

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Music Spotlight: The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players sound interesting enough when you learn they’re a real-life family rocking out together with a teenage daughter on the drums. But add in the fact that the domestic trio writes all their songs by creating stories from vintage slide collections they’ve found at garage sales and thrift stores and turning them into pop-punk gems, and the show is worth seeing for spectacle’s sake alone.

The family will be playing July 22 at the Local 506 at 9 p.m.

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Community

The Return of the Magnificent Thousands

This is the time of year I used to describe as the annual U-Haul Rodeo, a time when throughout the Carrboro-Chapel Hill metroplex there is a serious influx of vehicles brimming with stuff driven by individuals unfamiliar with the local terrain.

The recommendation from anyone knowledgeable of this annual occurrence is to avoid certain areas at all costs.

Though the differences between times when UNC is in session and out are not as drastic, this area is still heavily influenced by the cycles of academia. Someone studying the annual migration of the peoples of Carolina might note that in early August the many UNC off-campus residents — mainly those in the upper classes, grad students and post-docs — return from vacations, summers off and internships to reclaim their dwellings. Upon securing their belongings, they head almost immediately to the local watering holes to greet other nomads returning to herd life.
In mid-month, the great dwelling places on campus open up and into them flow thousands of the bright young minds of this generation. Each year, nearly 4,000 students, most of them the youngest of the gathering, are new to this area. Traffic on these weekends is bewildering and unless you’re carting in a young ‘un or delivering food, the dormitory areas are to be avoided at all costs.

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Kalisher Gallery

Photos courtesy Jesse Kalisher.By Jordan Timpy

The 2nd Friday Artwalk will be a little longer in August with the addition of a new photography gallery in downtown Carrboro.

The Jesse Kalisher Gallery now occupies the space at 209 E. Main St., between Scooters Inc. and Harper Arts, across the street from Cat’s Cradle.

The gallery showcases the work of photographer Jesse Kalisher, whose black-and-white, fine-art photography can be found anywhere from big-name hotels to permanent collections in museums including the deYoung Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California and Ackland Art Museum, to name a few.