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TASTE OF THE TOWN

Jessee’s Coffee & Bar
When Chyenna Jessee moved here five years ago, her longtime love of coffee led her to open a coffee shop despite stiff competition in the area.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/27-3/4

 

Here keeping you informed on the places to go and what you’ll hear when you get there.

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Gimme Five! Montgomery Morris of Flesh Wounds

When her punk band Thee Scab Eaters disbanded because its other founding members had children, Laura King decided to recruit a new crew to make loud, rock music that cuts to the quick. Flesh Wounds does just that. King, Montgomery Morris and Dan Kinney have only just begun pounding out brutal sets of tunes. With a release tentatively set for sometime in April and a handful of tour slots lined up, these punks are aiming to annihilate your eardrums in the best possible way.

See how their howling guitarist takes up our five question assault after the jump!

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/20-26

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

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Gimme Five! Boykiller

Somebody alert the authorities! Ginger Wagg, Catherine Steele, and Theresa Stone have joined forces to attack stages and eardrums as Boykiller. They’re a brand new band on a mission to murder songs as well as they already slay the opposite sex.

But can these ladies handle five furious questions? See for yourself after the jump.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/13-19

The week ahead for those with their head in the clouds.

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Gimme Five! Elliott Mills of Magnolia Klezmer

For fourteen years now musicians have come together to share their mastery of Klezmer, Jazz, polka, brass band, and classical music under the banner of Magnolia Klezmer. The group, typically twelve to fifteen members strong, is as apt to play in full force as in quartet. They’ve headlined weddings, benefits, bat mitzvahs and even spent a few afternoons under the trees on Weaver Street’s lawn.

Holding it down on drums, bass, and contra bass balalaika, (Dr. and bona-fide Duke professor) Elliott Mills surely knows his way around a dance beat (and a research lab)…but can he handle our five question assault? See for yourself after the jump!

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 2/6-12

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

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ROSS’S ALMANAC For February 2012

Compiled by Kirk Ross

“After being seated at that counter for about 30 seconds I had the most wonderful feeling. … I felt like I could have walked on a cloud. I felt as if I had died at that moment life wouldn’t have cheated me out of anything. I would have had a full life.”
– Franklin McCain, one of four students at the first sit-in at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, on Feb. 1, 1969

If the recent spell of warm weather has you thumbing through the seed catalogs, you may want to check out the new zone map site at the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, which has a nifty GIS-driven interface. Punch in your zip code and drill down. Both the USDA and NOAA are stepping up their climate-change monitoring, including the effect on plant hardiness.

Around here, the maps say we’re a warm Zone 7, but Zone 8 isn’t far away, pushing up from the coast, with the line through parts of Harnett, Wake and southern Chatham. Regardless of zone, this month will feature its usual wild swings. Last year, the last day of the month was a record-setter, with a high of 81.

Feb. 1 – Sunrise: 7:15 a.m.; Sunset: 5:41 p.m.
Feb. 29 – Sunrise: 6:49 a.m.; Sunset: 6:08 p.m.

Full Moon – Feb. 7 Last Quarter – Feb. 14
New Moon – Feb. 21 First Quarter – Feb. 29

The full moon in February is known as the Snow Moon, Wolf Moon and Hunger Moon

Planets & Stars: Planets are in the night sky in February – Jupiter, Venus and the moon draw closer together throughout the month, crossing paths around the 24th, with Mercury finally visible after sundown.
February is Black History Month and Heart Month.

Significant Dates
• Feb. 1 is National Freedom Day
• Feb. 2 is Groundhog Day and Candlemas
• Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is Feb. 12
• The Feast of Saint Valentine is on Feb. 14
• Feb. 17 is Random Act of Kindness Day
• Presidents’ Day is Feb. 20
• Mardi Gras is on Feb. 21
• Ash Wednesday is Feb. 22
• George Washington’s birthday, and possibly Groundhog Day, is on Feb. 22
• Leap Day is Feb. 29

There are UNC home basketball games on Feb. 8 (Duke!), 11, 18 and 29.

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Relating

Duncan Hoge

According to Merriam-Webster, human relations is “a study of human problems arising from organizational and interpersonal relations (as in industry),”

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FAUNA: The beauties at Bolin Creek

by Mary Parker Sonis

Mary Parker Sonis

Where in nature can we find a creature that lives almost entirely on sweets and its own natural good looks?