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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 5/21-27

 

Here because you cant be trusted to know where to go to hear the good stuff every night of the week.

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Gimme Five! Steve Kruger of The Five Points Rounders

If you’re lucky, you’ll hear of a square dance happening under some musty festival tent once or twice a year. The Five Points Rounders are out to change that. David Bass (fiddle), Colin Booy (banjo), Rob VanVeld (gutbucket), and Steve Kruger (guitar) hooked in with The Pinhook a little over a year ago to present a series of Rowdy Square Dances– gatherings primed for wearing plaid, shooting the moon, and meeting a batch of new friends in the midst of a promenade.

So sure, these guys know how to throw down, but can one of their own handle our five questions? See for yourself after the jump.

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Arts & Music

Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 5/14-20

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Gimme Five! Shayne Miel of The Future Kings of Nowhere

For two years there, the Future Kings of Nowhere were preoccupied with new wives, new businesses, and bad diagnoses, to say the least. Lead singer, Shayne Miel’s return to Durham and recovery from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma would be enough to celebrate, but reforming the band after such a raucous couple of years has its glory too. The Kings are back to bring their acoustic punk to the masses. Miel and a gang of collaborators who have been with him from the beginning have already recorded a new EP, Pirates (out now) and a full length (due later this year) to get the ball rolling again.

So sure, these pop punk royals have their warpath laid out for them, but can their fearless leader handle the hardest questions in faux business? See for yourself after the jump.

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Advance Notice: The Week in Happenings 5/7-13

Here because you can’t be trusted to know where to go hear the good stuff every night of the week. (ppppsssstt. Don’t forget to vote!)

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almanac

ROSS’S ALMANAC For May 2012

Compiled by Kirk Ross

March called. It wants its weather back.

Weather-wise, the third and fourth months of this year were pretty confusing. After a cooler than cool March, we finally had some heat early on in April before things reverted back to another cool spell, leading to the first real blackberry winter (a cold snap after the blackberries have bloomed) in a while. La Ninã was fading but strong enough to cause anomalies all over.

At least the record-setting heat wave out west didn’t float our way. But it’s odd to have the quilt out this late in the year.

The days really stretch out this time of year. By the end of May the days will be almost an hour longer than on May Day.

May 1 – Sunrise: 6:23 a.m.; Sunset: 8:04 p.m.
May 31 – Sunrise: 6:01 a.m.; Sunset: 8:27 p.m.

Full Moon – May 5 Last Quarter – May 12
New Moon – May 20 First Quarter – May 28

The full moon in May is the Milk Moon, Flower Moon, Corn Moon and Hare Moon.

Planets & Stars
At the beginning of May, Venus still shines brilliantly in the western evening sky. But by month’s end, Venus disappears into evening twilight on its way to passing directly in front of (“transiting”) the Sun on June 5 – the last transit of Venus of our lifetime! Reddish Mars appears in the southern to southwestern early-evening sky and Saturn shines farther to the east. This May is not a great time to see Mercury or Jupiter. — Amy Sayle, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center

May is National Barbecue Month, National Bike Month, National Hamburger Month and National Salad Month. The second week of the month is Wildflower Week.

Significant Dates
• May 1 is May Day
• May 2 is Brothers and Sisters Day
• World Press Freedom Day is May 3
• May 4 is International Tuba Day
• Cinco de Mayo is, well, guess
• National Nurses Day is May 6
• May 8 is Iris Day, Red Cross/Red Crescent Day and No Socks Day
• Limerick Day is May 12
• Carolina Graduation is on Sunday, May 13 starting at 9:30 a.m.
• Mother’s Day is May 13
• National Bike to Work Day and International Museum Day are on May 18
• May 21 is National Waiters and Waitresses Day
• International Jazz Day is May 26
• May 27 (and everyday) is National Sunscreen Day
• National Macaroon Day is May 31

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Arts & Music

Gimme Five! Anna Rose Beck

In 2011, Anna Rose Beck released her debut EP, The Weathermaker, a seven song showcase of her fingerpicked acoustic guitar lines and lovely melodies. It’s not a bad start, especially for someone who picked up music late in life (specifically one summer spent not studying for her biomedical engineering degree at Duke) and taught herself to play and sing.

So sure, Beck’s got the chops and the guts to face down Duke professors and audiences alike, but can she handle our five questions? See for yourself after the jump.

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Carrboro Spirit

May is typically a month of flowers, graduations, celebrations, mothers and strawberries – and of North Carolina’s primary elections, which in many years go by without so much as the raise of an eyebrow from a good chunk of our state’s population.

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FAUNA: Owlarazzi

Mary Sonis

by Mary Parker Sonis
It was Feb. 20 of this year when Carrboro received its lone snowfall of the season. I went for an evening walk to my favorite pasture.

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HOP LINE: Cider Rules


By Jason Cole
As summer approaches, warmer weather invites us to drink a refreshing beverage to match the bright sunny days and the vibrant blooms. A beer? Of course! Sparkling wine? That too.

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Tales of a mountain town

by Vicky Dickson

When I was an undergraduate at UNC back in the day, my then-boyfriend (and now-husband) and I used to make regular trips to Person Hall.