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July 4th Celebrations Schedule

Live Music

  • 10:30 a.m. — Village Band
  • 11:30 a.m. — Cane Creek Cloggers
  • 12 – 2 p.m. — Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos
  • 2:15 – 3 p.m. — The Obies Gospel Music

Parade at Weaver Street Market

  • 9:30 a.m. — Tim Stambaugh & Friends, Parade designing and decorating booths opens Registration opens for the Patriotic Costume Contest
  • 10:30 a.m. — Registration closes
  • 10:45 a.m. — Contest winners announced
  • 11:00 a.m. — Parade to the town hall
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Community Calendar – 6/28/07

Seniors/Wellness Program
ORANGE COUNTY SENIORSTRIDERS – a University Mall-walking program designed for all levels of walkers. 8:00am exercise warm-up, breakfast at Bear Rock, and health talk by local health experts on a variety of topics. Orange County residents age 55 and older. Free. 3rd Wed of every month. 968-2073.

Groups
MEDITATION – Practices of Tibetan Buddhism: Shinay, Tonglen & Deity Practice. Everyone is welcome. Piedmont KTC Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center. www.piedmontktc.org. 933-2138.

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Arts Calendar: 6/28/07

Art & Museums
POTTERY BY COURTNEY TOMCHIK – Jun 1-30. NC Crafts Gallery. 942-4048, www.nccraftsgallery.com

PAINTINGS BY AMY RICHARDS – Through Jun 30. Carrboro Town Hall. 942-8541, www.nccraftsgallery.com

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC BOGART – Through Jun 30. Open Eye Cafe, 968-9410, www.openeyecafe.com

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Music Calendar: 6/28/07 – 7/05/07


Australian rockers Radio Birdman will play at Cat’s Cradle on Friday, June 29.

Thursday, June 28
The Cave: Alex Bowers, 7:30pm. Eric Sommer, 10pm
Reservoir: Fighting Poseidon, Adam Thorn & The Top Buttons, The Gondoliers. 10pm
Weaver Street Market: The Tim Smith Band. 6-8pm

Friday, June 29
Arts Center: Transzenders. 8:30pm. $10
Cat’s Cradle: Radio Birdman, Awesome Color, The Ettes. 8:30pm. $20
The Cave: Joe Lithgo, 7:30pm. The Breaks, Killer Filler, 10pm.
Local 506: Inner Visions, Reggae Infinity. 10pm. $10

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Theremin version of Crazy

Rock out.
Via Laughing Squid:
Well, there ya go. The theremin version of gnarl barkley’s crazy.
Pretty punk, huh?

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Movies on the Lawn

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Photo of last year’s festival atop the Wallace deck in the big city

The Hi Mom! Film festival folks have announced Hi Mom! 9.5 — a summer screening on the lawn at the Town Commons.

Here’s the particulars via Matt Hedt:

Event Title
Hi Mom! Highlights – Short Films Under the Stars (Hi Mom! #9.5)

Details
Saturday, July 14, 9pm, Carrboro Town Commons, 90 minutes, Free

Short Description:
Hi Mom! Short Film Fest presents a free outdoor show featuring a family friendly collection of some of our favorite short films and videos from the last 9 years of festivals. Saturday, July 14, 9pm at the Carrboro Town Commons (where the Farmer’s Market happens). Bring a blanket or lawn chair or sit on the grass. Bring your own snacks. Parking is somewhat limited so walking and biking are encouraged. Free!!

Longer Description:
Hi Mom! Short Film Fest presents a free outdoor show featuring some of our favorite short films and videos from the last 9 years of festivals. We’ll show an eclectic mix of styles and genres that will have something for everyone. These are really fun films that you probably won’t see anywhere else, unless you’ve been coming to Hi Mom! over the last decade. It will be clean, so bring the kids. Saturday, July 14, 9pm at the Carrboro Town Commons (where the Farmer’s Market happens). Bring a blanket or lawn chair or sit on the grass. Parking is somewhat limited so walking and biking are encouraged. Show lasts about 90 minutes. Free!! Stay tuned for a full Hi Mom! #10 in 2008.

Additional Info:
Hi Mom! is an annual short film festival in Carrboro/Chapel Hill that has run for nine years. It features films, videos, and animations from around the country and world and has always featured an unusual and eclectic mix of styles. We’ve shown everything from lo-fi experimental works to beautifully produced 35mm; from incredible claymation to remixes of footage ripped from TV and movies; from movies by kids and for kids to adults-only raunch and humor. We do tend to shy away from glossy calling card films and instead look for the true works of expression and originality. Hi Mom! is volunteer run and is free-to-enter, an unusual quality in a fest of this caliber. This festival, HM!#9.5, is actually a break from our full-on festival – we’re postponing the big HM!#10 until 2008, mainly as a reprieve for our small group of volunteers who sort through upwards of 500 entries to put on the festival.

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Music Calendar: 6/21/07 – 6/28/07


World-famous dance troupe Galumpha will perform at Fiesta Latina on June 23.

Thursday June 21

The Cave: Pete Waggoner, 7:30pm. Sweater Weather, Gertie Fox, SNMNMNM, 10pm.
Local 506: Haale, The Dogwood Deddy, Mary Johnson. 9pm. $10
Weaver Street Market: Great Big Gone. 6-8pm

Friday June 22

Arts Center: Django Haskins & Mary Johnson. 8:30pm. $12
The Cave: Rebecca Pronsky, 7:30pm. Joe Swank & the Zen Pirates, the Spinns, 10pm
Local 506: Charles Latham, the Bowerbirds, Midtown Dickens, Billy Sugarfix. 9pm. $6
Open Eye Café: Rust Kings. 8pm

Saturday June 23

The Cave: Potato Gun, 8pm. Kenny Roby f. the Houstons, 10pm
Local 506: The Everybodyfields, Sweet By & By, Shannon O’Connor. 9:30pm. $8
Open Eye Café: Stephen Jenkins & Trace of Morrow. 8pm

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Arts Calendar – 6/21/07

Art & Museums
DELIGHTFUL LAWLESSNESS – Gloe Herbert Dyne and niece Anne Randolph Herbert have collaborated to show their respective abstract work with the support of the Town of Carrboro Art Committee. The exhibition, on display through Fri, Jul 27, features paintings by Gloe and Anne.

POTTERY BY COURTNEY TOMCHIK – Jun 1-30. NC Crafts Gallery. 942-4048, www.nccraftsgallery.com

PAINTINGS BY AMY RICHARDS – Through Jun 30. Carrboro Town Hall. 942-8541, www.nccraftsgallery.com

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ERIC BOGART – Through Jun 30. Open Eye Cafe, 968-9410, www.openeyecafe.com

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Community Calendar – 6/21/07


The Carrboro Greenspace will present Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers on June 21 at 8:30 p.m.

Seniors/Wellness Program
ORANGE COUNTY SENIORSTRIDERS – A University Mall-walking program designed for all levels of walkers. 8:00am exercise warm-up, breakfast at Bear Rock, and health talk by local health experts on a variety of topics. Orange County residents age 55 and older. Free. 3rd Wed of every month. 968-2073.

Groups
MEDITATION – Practices of Tibetan Buddhism: Shinay, Tonglen & Deity Practice. Everyone is welcome. Piedmont KTC Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center. www.piedmontktc.org. 933-2138.
YOGA FOR CANCER PATIENTS – Restorative yoga offered every week for cancer patients and their families at Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center, Wed 11am-noon and Thu 6-7:30pm. Free. 401-9333, www.cornucopiahouse.org.

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UNC seeks alternative to Horace Williams, RDU for AHEC

By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

At a legislative hearing on the impact of closing Horace Williams airport, UNC officials confirmed that they would support plans to re-open a search for an alternative site to Horace Williams and Raleigh Durham International.

In his presentation last week at a joint hearing of key House and Senate appropriations subcommittees, Kevin Fitzgerald, UNC’s top lobbyist, told legislators that the school would support another look to see if an alternative exists to Horace Williams.

The university gave up on a previous effort to find a suitable site within a short travel distance after plans developed to move the Area Health Educations Center’s Medical Air operations to a new facility at RDU.

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WSM employees call for moratorium

Just got a fax saying that a group of Weaver Street Market employees will call for a moratorium against the coop’s proposal to move its food prep operations to Hillsborough.

According to the fax, more than 100 employees have signed a petition calling for the moratorium. It will be presented to the coop’s board of directors at a meeting tonight at Carrboro Elementary School at 6:30 p.m.

The meeting is open to the public.

I’ll post the full text ASAP.

UPDATE — Full text follows: