Pepperfest
Get ready for an event that’s way up there on the Scoville scale. The 4th Annual Pittsboro Pepper Festival has moved to Briar Chapel Community Park this year
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CAUGHT ON FILM
CINEMATOGRAPHER SPOTLIGHT: TIM ORR
by Margot C. Lester
Like a lot of folks, Tim Orr bounced around after college, looking for a career that would stick.
Panzanella
Located in Historic Carr Mill, Panzanella offers Italian-inspired dishes with rustic and modern combinations of local and seasonal ingredients in a casual, friendly atmosphere.
ART NOTES: In the Galleries

New multimedia acrylic works by local artist Jacques Menache are featured at Panzanella through Nov. 7 in an exhibit titled “Magnifications.†The exhibit consists of about 20 pieces in mixed-media acrylic, dealing mostly with amoebae, protozoa, paramecium, bacteria and other simple cell forms that inhabit our bodies and environment. A reception will be held Oct. 10 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
by Jason Cole
Beer is beautiful. Beer is plain. Made from grains, plants and water, beer is of the earth, born of human ingenuity and necessity.
ROSS’S ALMANAC
Compiled by Kirk Ross
I watched October / Flare today / The Flames spread across the highway / Across the ridges, along the creek banks / Where sycamores marched naked
– Sam Ragan, “I Watched Octoberâ€
The light and temperature plunge this month, but expect a little reminder from nature that we are still a southerly place. Indian Summer typically takes place in late October here in the Piedmont, after the first frost. For what it’s worth, a study of frost dates from 1951 to 1980 has the Chapel Hill frost date as Oct. 23.
Please note that we don’t drop the daylight savings time thing until the first week in November.
Oct. 1 – Sunrise: 7:11 a.m.; Sunset: 7 p.m.
Oct. 30 – Sunrise: 7:37 a.m.; Sunset: 6:21 p.m.
Moon Phases
First Quarter – Oct. 3 Full Moon – Oct. 11
Last Quarter – Oct. 19 New Moon — Oct. 26
The Full Moon in October is the Hunter’s Moon, Travel Moon and Blood Moon. Some people insist that the Harvest Moon is in October rather than September.
Planets & Stars: Earth passes through the dust of Halley’s Comet late in October and that means the Orionids meteor display. The radiant for meteors is a little left of Orion and runs from roughly Oct. 17 to 25, with peak viewing on Oct. 21.
October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cookie Month, Diabetes Awareness Month and, yeah, Sarcastic Month. The first week is Get Organized Week.
Significant Dates
• Oct. 1 is Homemade Cookies Day and World Vegetarian Day
• Child Health Day is Oct. 3
• National Denim Day is Oct. 7
• Columbus Day is Oct. 10
• University Day and Farmers’ Day are on Oct. 12
• Oct. 17 is Black Poetry Day
• Mother-in-Law Day is Oct. 23
• United Nations Day is Oct. 24
• Halloween is Oct. 31
For more of Ross’s Almanac, please visit rossalmanac.com/journal
SPOTLIGHT: Neon Indian
SPOTLIGHT: After the Revolution
After the Revolution, by Amy Herzog, opens Deep Dish Theater Company’s 11th season, running through Sept. 17 at University Mall.
The Josephs are a family of activists – radical, strong-willed and happier arguing Marxist politics than facing the effects they have on one another.
SPOTLIGHT: JAWSfest IV
Longtime Station bartender Danny Miller is a big-time Jaws buff, an avocation he likes to share with friends, and has so for the past three years. Sunday, Sept. 4, The Station will be host to the fourth annual JAWSfest, featuring local music through the afternoon and early evening, followed by screenings of Jaws 1, 2 and 3. The Swang Brothers get things swangin’ at 3, followed by Phatlynx, The Bad Checks and Blood Red River. Cinema commences at 9. You’ll also be treated to Narragansett Beer (Capt. Quint’s beverage of choice) specials, along with $5 bellinis, Bloody Marys, mimosas and screwdrivers. There’s no cover. Dive on in.
(There’ll also be T-shirts on sale, featuring Miller’s own custom artwork and printing – same as you see on all those JAWSfest posters.)
ART NOTES: In the Galleries
At FRANK this month, the Dining with FRANK exhibit opens, celebrating the dining experience while elevating it to an art form and featuring tableware, furniture and paintings that relate to and explore dining. An opening reception will be held Sept. 9 from 6-9 p.m., and the September and October Thursday Salons will feature cookbook author Diane Daniel and food writer Sheri Castle, as well as director Ray Greenfield, who will discuss how the dining experience has been explored in Hollywood films.