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Gimme Five! Wylie of Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores

“I’ve been looking for something real to believe in,” sings Wylie Hunter on “Get On Up!” the opening track on the Wylie Hunter and the Cazadores‘ debut. The sentiment seems fitting, if only because Hunter and his band (William Taylor on guitar, Seth Barden on bass, Paul Fisher on drums, and Charles Cleaver on keys) have spent the little more than a year since that release chasing down the dream. The buys have managed to drum up goodwill and comparisons to The Boss all through and beyond the triangle thus far, but can the lead hunter, answer our fearsome questions? See for yourself.

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Busy Times

Ron Liberti

So September seemed kinda busy, what with school having just started back and all, but summer’d just ended, and really, it’s all relative. October is awfully busy.

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FAUNA: The Undaunted

by Mary Parker Sonis
When I was a little girl growing up in Virginia, my weekdays were filled with school activities. We rarely left the neighborhood, and never even got into the Country Squire station wagon that my parents shared; but when the weekend came, the road adventures began.

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All eyes on Chapel Hill

by Vicky Dickson

It was standing room only for the launch of Eno Publishers’ collection 27 Views of Chapel Hill at Flyleaf Books last Saturday, where attendees who’d braved the afternoon’s heavy rain showers were rewarded with an impressive display of local literary talent.

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THE EATER: Eat Fall

by Kirk Ross

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.

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TASTE OF THE TOWN

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.

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ART NOTES: In the Galleries

“Amoebic Stream,” by Jacques Menache

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.

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HOP LINE: To brew is human, to be craft, divine

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.

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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 October”

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

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 9/26-10/2

Get up. Get out. (Here’s a few ideas on where to.)