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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 5/9-15

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

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CELEBRATIONS


Spring is fully upon us, and all throughout this little town and its environs are images once evoked by Thomas Wolfe.

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FAUNA – An exciting find

By Mary Parker Sonis
Look who just turned up in my backyard. This is a “species-of-special-concern,” “we-no-longer-have-these-in-Bolin-Forest,” genuine four-toed salamander.

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From true believer to truth-seeker

by Vicky Dickson

As a student at the Moody Bible Institute in the 1970s, Bart Ehrman would surely have found it inconceivable that he would one day write a book called Forged: Writing in the Name of God – Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are.

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A GUIDE TO EATING


by Kirk Ross
Cheese + Grill
The thing about grilled-cheese sandwiches is that just about everyone has their own version – because not only are they simple to concoct, but there is the distinct chance that there will be a nibble of fried cheese in store for the chef at the end of the process.

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Gimme Five! Emily Hilliard of Wildegeeses

Emily Hilliard, Zeke Graves, Will Hackney, and Charlie Hearon kicked off their alliance as a Michael Hurley cover band, but they’ve since grown into a stringband sound all their own that’s full of nods to the old weird south and its odd new derivatives.  So sure they can pick and sing a tune, but can one of their own handle these five head-scratchers?  Find out after the jump.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 5/2-8


The week is full of things to do– just don’t have so much fun you forget Sunday is Mother’s Day.

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Gimme Five! Derek Torres of Towers

Multi-instrumentalist Derek Torres just finished recording his debut record with his new band Towers, but before he can release that to the masses, we make him face down the five.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 4/18-24

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

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 4/11-17

Your weekly guide to finding the good (but don’t forget to check into Full Frame this weekend too).

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Carrboro Gets The HINT

UPDATE: The Love Language will play at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Also, Salt to Bitters will play instead of Twilighter, who had to cancel. Boom Chick, a dynamo duo from Brooklyn, has been added to the lineup and will play at 11:30 p.m. Saturday.

Carrboro Gets The HINT, a two-day music festival to benefit the Future of Music Coalition’s Health Insurance Navigation Tool (HINT), will be held Saturday, April 9 and Sunday April 10 at Jessee’s Coffee & Bar.