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Arts & Music

Music Calendar: 02/21/08

Thursday Feb 21

  • Blue Bayou Club: Delta Drift. 8:30pm
  • Blue Horn Lounge: Bill West. 10pm
  • Cat’s Cradle: Melissa Ferrick Trio. 9pm. $16
  • The Cave: Early: 3 Feet Up. Late: Sol Driven Train.
  • General Store Café: Tony Galiani Band. 8pm
  • Local 506: International Pop Overthrow Festival: Down By Avalon; The Love Willows; Love Jones; Airspace; Midnite Sun; We Know, Plato; Brett Harris; SNMNMNM. 7:30pm. $8
  • Nightlight: Love Language (Solo), Heads on Sticks, Monologue Bombs. 9pm. $5
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Arts & Music

Arts Calendar: 02/21/08

Carrboro
Because We’re Still Here (and Moving): Mapping a World of Black History in Our Own Backyard — photography exhibit & interactive installation, Center Gallery. Acrylic paintings by DiGiulio, East Gallery. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org.

Mixed media by Chief — a tribute to the artists’ new daughter. The Beehive Salon, 102 E. Weaver St. 932-4483, thebeehive-salon.com.

Under the Big Blue Sky — works by self-taught artist Valerie Tan. Showing through Feb. Century Center. 100 N Greensboro St. 918-7385, townofcarrboro.com/rp/cc.htm.

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Community

Community Calendar: 02/14/08

Special Events
Lunchbox Concert Series — Thursdays, Feb 14-Mar 6. Bring lunch to the Century Center and hear live music from noon to 1pm. Free coffee provided by Open Eye Café. 100 N Greensboro St. Call 918-7385 or visit townofcarrboro.com/rp/cc.htm for more info.

Old Time Dixieland music by The Decatur Street Band. Sun, Feb 17, 3pm. Seymour Center, 2551 Homestead Rd, Chapel Hill. Call 968-2070 for more info.

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Arts & Music

Music Calendar: 02/14/08

Thursday Feb 14

  • Blue Bayou Club: Lucy Summer & Bo Lankenau. 8:30pm
  • Blue Horn Lounge: Paleface. 10pm
  • Cat’s Cradle: Young Neil and the Damage Done, Heart of Glass. 9pm. $8
  • The Cave: Early: Davis Stillson. Late: Dirty Little Heaters, The Pneurotics, Virgo 9. $5
  • General Store Café: Club Boheme. 8pm
  • Local 506: Tripp, Jason Adamo, Luego, Jeff Crawford. 9:30pm. Price TBA.
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Arts & Music

Arts Calendar: 02/14/08

Carrboro
Because We’re Still Here (and Moving): Mapping a World of Black History in Our Own Backyard — photography exhibit & interactive installation, Center Gallery. Acrylic paintings by DiGiulio, East Gallery. The ArtsCenter, 300-G E Main St. 929-2787, artscenterlive.org.

Mixed media by Chief — a tribute to the artists’ new daughter. The Beehive Salon, 102 E. Weaver St. 932-4483, thebeehive-salon.com.

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Miscellany

Obama, Clinton visit Chapel Hill

update: NBC now saying Obama/Edwards meeting was cancelled. Obama folks referring calls to Edwards folks.
Hillary Clinton paid an unscheduled, unannounced visit to Chapel Hill Thursday and
Barack Obama is reportedly in town today (Monday) for a chat with John Edwards.

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Arts & Music

This Month’s MILL

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The February issue of The Citizen’s MILL, our arts, music and literature, publication is out this week. Featured stories include:

• Finding Pauli Murray;
• Written in Stone — reflections on black history
• Hidden Voices’ Because We’re Still Here — a local black history project;
• Bayard Rustin illustration and narrative by Phil Blank;

Plus arts, music, literary and theater calendars and our MILL29 look at the month’s featured events.

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Arts & Music

TJ and DJ

Composer TJ Anderson and DJ Spooky after a presentation at UNC Friday. That’s Dr. Lyneise Williams in the middle.Sorry bout the shaky camera.

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Weather

Windy midweek

A front is coming through and ahead of it are some serious winds. Via the NWS:

A STRONG COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO CROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. UNSEASONABLY WARM HUMID AIR AND VERY
STRONG SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE LAYER WILL BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT…
SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS ON WEDNESDAY.

And the official outlook:

This Afternoon: Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Southwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Tonight: A slight chance of showers after 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 60. Southwest wind between 9 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Wednesday: A slight chance of showers, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. Breezy, with a southwest wind between 17 and 21 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Wednesday Night: A chance of showers before midnight. Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. West wind between 9 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

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Arts & Music

Bayard Rustin

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As promised in this week’s (print) edition of MILL, the following narrative to accompanies the artwork by Phil Blank featuring Bayard Rustin. Via Phil:

April 13, 1947. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Along with three other members of the Journey of Reconciliation, Bayard Rustin was arrested for refusing to move from the whites-only section of an interstate bus. After their release from the courthouse, two cars followed the men to the home of Rev. Charles Jones. A few minutes after arriving, the phone rang. A voice said, “Get those damn niggers out of town or we’ll burn your house down.” For his “crime,” Rustin spent twenty-two days on a Roxboro chain gang. Writing articles for the New York Post while in prison, Rustin exposed the cruel conditions there. Of an earlier encounter in which he refused to give up his seat on a bus, Bayard Rustin said “I believe all the more strongly in the nonviolent approach.” The respect and seriousness with which his struggle was met, he believed, was “because I had without fear, faced the policeman and said ‘there is no need to beat me, I offer you no resistance.’”

From left: A. J. Muste: revolutionary pacifist, Julia Rustin, his Quaker grandmother who offered her acceptance of Bayard’s sexuality, “I suppose that’s what you need to do” To Rustin, “It was recognition so I never had guilt.” Krishnalal Shridharani, nonviolent theorist and inspiration, A Philip Randolph, tactician for economic justice and believer in the fundamental unity of peoples.

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Community

Written in stone

A few markers were chiseled blocks of granite with names and dates. They were much newer, closer to the road, and seeing them you at least had a name to connect with the depression in the undergrowth. But further into the place, deeper into woods that had grown up since those markers were placed, there were only stones here and there and it took a while before you could see that there were rows of stones. Some were very small, just the size of a hand and barely poking out of the vinca minor that covered the forest floor. Some were several inches tall, prominent compared to the others, and a couple bore marks of human effort to alter their shape. Lichens and moss were on the stones in patches and downed limbs, stumps and the undulations of the land made it difficult to see at first that the lines of stones stretched for a ways and then, looking deeper, it became apparent that there were multiple rows, and then the awful moment came when the thought sinks in that each stone stood for a person and each person brought to this place had lived and died a slave.

One of dozens of stones  in a slave cemetery near Smith Level Road. This stone, one of the larger ones among the dozens visible, was one of the few that had been worked before being placed as a headstone.

There is history that makes its way almost naturally into the public knowledge, history that’s likely lost for good and then there is the history emerging.