Don’t let frightful weather get you down, here are a few delightful places to find yourself this week when not toasting by the fire with your loved ones. Happy holidays!
Swinging times in Orange County
Here’s a short video of the performance featured on the front of today’s Carrboro Citizen of Jennifer Curtis, Margaret Dyer and Dexter Romweber playing at a house show on Dec. 11.
Small Wonders at FRANK
There’s nothing big featured at FRANK Gallery this month. The gallery drew the line at 20 inches for its featured show, Small Wonders, which runs through Jan. 9.
SPOTLIGHT: A Trekky Christmas
Trekky Records will welcome a very special guest to its Dec. 16 Christmas at the Cradle show – legendary local jangle/power-pop band The dB’s. The lads will join an impressive array of North Carolina performers for this fifth-annual gala to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, an event that’s already well established as a Yuletide classic.
A show dedicated to the importance of trees with a book to match opens during the 2ndFriday Artwalk with an event at The ArtsCenter on Dec. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. The book and show by the Paintbrush Forest collective – a mix of 30 local emerging and established artists – will raise funds for the Haw River Assembly. The project was funded by the Orange County Arts Commission.
Holiday Trolley Tour Friday Dec 10th
Eastgate, Womancraft and FRANK Gallery have teamed up to run a holiday trolley between the Franklin Street gallery and Eastgate Shopping Center, the home of Womancraft, on Dec. 10 during openings and meet-the-artist events at both locations. Four loops this evening, along with refreshments at each stop, are planned, starting at Eastgate at 6 p.m.
Gimme Five! Patrick Phelan of Luego
Patrick Phelan had only met producer Jeff Crawford a few short months before he called him up and told him he wanted to make a Luego record together. They talked it out at OCSC at least once over a round of PBRs and Wilco records. Then, they burst into action. Their introduction had been a sort of blind luck, but the hard work and heart they put into the next few months was pure intention. The resulting record, 2009’s Taped Together Stories, showed the fruits of their labor— a playful barrage of pop rock melodies and warm, folk-minded arrangements and a testament to the well-oiled working relationship between Phelan and Crawford.
Not even close to the record
On this date in 1954, it was 11 degrees.
Two years later, another record was set — this time for the warmest — when temps hit 77.
Still, it’s cold.
SPOTLIGHT: Shipwrecked at Playmakers

PlayMakers Repertory Company will present Shipwrecked! An Entertainment through Dec. 19 in the Paul Green Theatre at UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art.
The real-life-yet-tall tale by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies tells the story of Louis de Rougemont, an explorer who traveled the world and told his tales of adventure to breathless audiences in the music halls and scandal sheets of Victorian England. The swashbuckling storyteller, accompanied by his faithful dog Bruno, quickly garnered fame and fortune, and then fell from grace just as swiftly.
It’ll warm all the way up to 33, but still feel cold thanks to a stiff wind.
Via the NWS:
Partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 33. Northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.
