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Arts & Music

New show opens at Wootini

Wootini (Carr Mill Mall) opens an exhibit by Matt Duquette on Friday, Feb. 13 at 7pm. “Transitions”, which runs through March, invites appreciators to wander through Duquette’s mind as he switches paths in life. This grouping contains new and old original work that spans five years and covers feelings of despair, overwhelming joy, music, still life, humorous robots and abstract organic designs.

A transplanted artist with a wide range of styles and skills, Duquette hails from Buffalo, where he spent the last few years dedicated to web design and animation.

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The Eater

Events at 3 CUPS: This Week

Wine & Undercover Southern Fare Social
February 12, 2009 at 6:00 pm

New Uses for Old Southern Condiments

Through her artisan food venture, Farmer’s Daughter, April McGreger reintroduces us to some forgotten culinary treasures of the Southern larder. For this social, the menu is vintage Southern, yet thoroughly chic: pastured pork rillettes with spiced muscadines, bacon-wrapped bourbon’d figs, field pea cakes with tomato jam, and a German-style cheesecake with gingered-pumpkin preserves. This promises to be a memorable food event complete with our own inspired wine pairings. Learn a little something about Southern food tradition, and explore fantastic wine and food pairings that will energize your dinners at home. 6-8pm, $18 in advance, or $20 at the door.
Register here:
http://www.3cups.net/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1882

Barbecue Joint sausage + Farmer’s Daughter sauerkraut = the best Choucroute Garnie you may ever taste. The evening will feature local pork and Alsatian wine pairings. 5pm, $35 in advance or $40 at the door. Seating is limited, so a reservation is highly recommended.

from Jay Murrie of 3CUPS, “Sam Suchoff of the BBQ Joint mentioned he could whip up a mean choucroute, an Alsatian standard featuring sauerkraut and sausage. Done. I immediately started work on the wine pairings. Rigorous, sausage-based scientific research. Sam’s charcouterie event in January was a crazy raucous good time- check out the encore. Otherwise I’ll gloat about the food when we see each other and you will be sad.”

Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: 3CUPS
Street: 227 South Elliot Rd
City/Town: Chapel Hill, NC

Register here:
http://www.3cups.net/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/3902

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Sports

Motorists please note

Highways through Chapel Hill are blocked due to celebrations regarding a recently held sporting contest. Crowds are due to clear within hours. The next such contest is scheduled for early March.

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Food

Iko! Iko! Abita tasting at CBC

Carrboro Beverage Company will host a free Abita tasting from 7 to 9pm on Thurs., Feb. 19, featuring new beers presented by a representative from the brewery. And just in time for your Mardi Gras beverage needs. We’ve sampled the new Abita Mardi Gras Bock and it’s trés bon. Also in stock: Jockamo IPA and Fleur-de-Lis Restoration Ale, proceeds of which go to the rebuilding of the City that Care Forgot.

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Miscellany

UNC plans “mini” medical school

UNC’s popular Mini-Medical School features all the benefit of lectures and discussions hosted by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill without those pesky dissections and labs. The three-part program, designed for non-medical people, includes:

March 3 — Small Wonders: Nanotechnology Medicine
March 10 — Bug Wars: Bacterial Infection Control
March 17 — Personalized Medicine: Treatment Tailored to Your Genome

Classes are from 7-9p.m. at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. Details and registration information is available at www.med.unc.edu/cme.

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Weather

Weather Advisory: Nail it down

Big winds are already buffetting the greater Carrboro metroplex, so it’s no surprise the National Weather Service has issued a high wind advisory from 4p.m. today till 3a.m. tomorrow. Here’s the official text:

“A strong cold front will approach from the west today and cross
the North Carolina Piedmont this evening. The approach and
passage of the cold front will result in sustained south to
southwest winds increasing to between 20 and 25 mph with gusts
around 45 mph late this afternoon and evening. Winds of this strength may knock down a few trees or tree limbs which could lead to power outages. Winds this strong can also make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution.”

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Farms Food

Celebrity Dairy Open Barn

Celebrity Dairy will be open from noon to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday. This is an open event, and free to the public. Celebrity Dairy will offer a light lunch for purchase. “The farm’s award-winning farmstead goat cheese is popular at local farmer’s markets and restaurants. And its owners want the public to know how and where their food actually comes from.” The herd of goats is down to 20 goats this year. Visitors might be able to see baby goats and goat births this weekend.
Celebrity Dairy is 300 acres located at 144 Celebrity Dairy Way, Siler City.
For more information, Contact: www.celebritydairy.com or 742-5176

http://www.newsobserver.com/lifestyles/family_community/story/1395766.html

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Miscellany

Stretching your dining dollar

A few updates to our growing list of dining specials:

Acme: Choice of entree, $12.95. Every Tuesday
Akai Hana: Varying lunch plates, $8.00. M-F/Early Bird Dinner (choice of chicken teriyaki combo or sushi platter), $13.00. 5-6 p.m. daily
Anna Maria’s Pizzeria: Large cheese pizza (add a topping for $1.50) $6.95. Every Monday
Carolina Brewery: Pints, $3.00. Every Tuesday/Kids eat free every Monday
India Palace: Lunch buffet, $7.00. 11:30a.m.-2:30p.m., M-F; 12-2:30p.m. Sat. & Sun.
International Pizzeria III: Large pizza and a pitcher of domestic beer, $10.00. Every Tuesday; 2 large pizzas, $13.95, daily
Milltown: Lunch Special (soup of the day & choice of prime rib, grilled chicken or grilled cheese half-sandwich), $5.00. 11a.m.-2p.m., T-F
Panzanella: 1 cheese pizza, one pizza of your choice, large Weaver Street house salad, $20.00. 5:30-9p.m., Sundays & Wednesdays
Southern Rail : Half-price bottles of wine. Wednesday nights
Wing Man: Wings, 45 cents each. Tuesdays

Miss one? Let us know by commenting here or dropping a line to margot@carrborocitizen.com.

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The Eater

Andrea Reusing at A Southern Season:Tonight

This is the second in a three-part series, called Taste of the Triangle: Lantern. This series is devoted to eating locally in the winter.
You can register here.
https://www.southernseason.com/class/event.asp?id=16244

On the Lantern restaurant website, Andrea gives a recipe for LANTERN WHITE SWEET POTATO AND ARKANSAS BLACK APPLE SOUP. I’ve had this delicious soup, and noticed Whole Foods Chapel Hill has Arkansas Black apples.
http://lanternrestaurant.com/pages/recipe_sweetpotatosoup.htm

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Miscellany

Special Events at Century Center: This Week

Wednesday, February 11 10:30am-11:30am
Two of a Kind is David & Jenny Heitler-Klevans, an award-winning, nationally-touring, husband-wife musical duo based in the Philadelphia area. Two of a Kind will present an interactive children’s concert featuring singing, movement, puppets, sign language and more! Two of a Kind delights audiences of all ages with songs about books and blue crabs, diversity and dinosaurs, peace and pirates. Two of a Kind’s five most recent recordings have won a total of 12 awards, including Parents’ Choice Awards, Children’s Music Web Awards and a Kids Radio Mania Award. Publishers’ Weekly says, “Solid musicianship and decidedly upbeat energy will have listeners proclaiming this husband-and-wife team as a one-of-a-kind find.”
3-5 years old $3 per person

Thursday, February 12 Noon- 1:00pm
Craicdown
Combining a technical mastery of their instruments with a passion for their playing, the music of Craicdown infuses new life into past traditions. The trio’s repertoire draws from many sources, including dance tunes of the Celtic cultures, swing musettes of Paris, Brazilian choros and original compositions. Featuring David DiGiuseppe on accordion, Rob Sharer on guitar and Jim Roberts on percussion.
All ages Free

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Arts & Music

SCREENING: Arusi Persian Wedding

Arusi Persian Wedding, a fillm by Marjan Tehrani, captures the struggle and excitement of Alex and Heather as they plan a Persian Islamic wedding in Iran. But when Alex’s Iranian-born parents and Heather’s conservative American father meet for the first time, cultures clash and test the couple to its limits. Thurs., Feb. 12, 7pm in the Side Room of the Open Eye in Carrboro.