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Community Calendar: 01/24/08

Special Events

  • Join members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Iraq Veterans Against the War and VVAW National Coordinator Barry Romo as he talks about the upcoming historic event— Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan. Fri, Jan 25, 6pm. Carrboro Century Center, 100 N Greensboro St. Free. Visit www.vvaw.org/events for more info.
  • Conservation of Freshwater Habitats of the Southeast — Robert Sutter, regional scientist for The Nature Conservancy’s Southern U.S. Conservation Region, will lead a presentation and discussion about threats to aquatic habitats in the Southeast. Sat, Jan 26, 2-4pm. $10. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Call 962-0522 to pre-register.
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Weather

Weekend weather

Via the NWS:

Today: Sunny, with a high near 37. North wind 5 to 9 mph becoming east.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 24. Calm wind.

Saturday: Partly sunny, with a high near 45. Calm wind becoming west around 5 mph.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. Calm wind.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 48. Calm wind becoming north between 8 and 11 mph.

Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 26.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 51.

Next rain possibility looks like Tuesday.

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Miscellany

MLK events today and this week

MONDAY JAN 21
The annual community celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., a rally with speeches and song, will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Peace & Justice Plaza at the Franklin Street Post Office. At 10:30 a.m., participants will march west on Franklin Street to First Baptist Church of Chapel Hill, located at 106 N. Roberson St., for the annual service commemorating King’s life. The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, former president of the Durham Chapter of the NAACP, is the featured speaker at the 11 a.m. service.

Campus events include:

  • He Was a Poem: A Gathering in the Tradition, an event that will explore Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy through music, poetry and spoken word, will being at 7 p.m. Monday The Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Musician Bradley Simmons of the Duke University Djembe Ensemble, poets Michael and Lita Simanga and spoken word artist Kim Arrington will perform.
  • Candlelight Vigil at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday around the Old Well in McCorkle Place.
  • The MLK Keynote Lecture: Ruby Dee and Presentation of 26th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hall. For tickets, call the box office at 843-3333.

For information about more campus events, visit http://www.unc.edu/diversity/mlk/schedule.html.

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Weather

Weather links

Why not weather links?

• Intellicast’s Big Radar
• NWS Carrboro — scroll down for current conditions at Horace Williams
• Wunderground Carrboro — scroll down for local weather reporting sites
• Durham Orange Doppler vial WRAL

Update: Snowing started around 2:10 in the p.m. Too warm to stick, but that might change. There’s a cold nose edging into our area according to the maps.

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Weather

Adams Tract walk

Here on the southside, just a little rain. Things may or may not be something.
Thinking about taking that Adams Tract hike with Ken.
Via The Citizen

I relish the winter woods; there is much to see, many subtleties of interest and beauty that are masked in the summer by dense foliage. The varied terrain of bare trees and the deafening silence of the winter woods are reasons enough to bundle up and become part of that scene. I find it very warming to simply snuggle in at the base of a big tree and linger long enough to hear wind and critter sounds interrupt the silence.

Here’s Ken with the details:

This coming Saturday afternoon, January 19, rain, snow or shine, I’m going to enjoy the winter woods of the Adams Tract. Though this is not an officially sponsored walk, you are welcome to join me at 1 p.m. beginning at the trail head kiosk in the lower part of Carrboro’s Wilson Park. Don’t forget your binoculars. And above all else, if you didn’t get out for a New Year’s Day walk, it’s not too late to treat yourself to a weekly walk in the woods.

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Weather

Winter storm warning

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Thursday Fizzled, but Saturday is looking like the real thing.
Begin panic shopping.
Via NWS:

WIDESPREAD RAIN AND SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY. ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE WILL EXPAND INTO THE REGION FROM THE WEST BY SUNDAY.

Snow, ice and then the temps to keep it all frozen.

Handy list to follow:
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools
(919) 967-8211 www.chccs.k12.nc.us
Orange County Schools – (919) 732-8126
www.orange.k12.nc.us
Chatham County Schools – (919) 542-3626
www.chatham.k12.nc.us
UNC-Chapel Hill
(919) 843-1234 www.unc.edu
Chapel Hill Transit – (919) 969-4933
www.ci.chapel-hill.nc.us/index.asp?NID=72
Triangle Transit Authority – (919) 485-7433
www.gotriangle.org/News/severeWeather.html
Raleigh-Durham International Airport
(919) 840-2123 www.rdu.com
Contact your airline for flight delays and cancellations.

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Sports

Southern Community Park construction

As a visual update, here are a few views of construction at the new park.
Southern Community Park homepage.

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Arts & Music Community

The Tipsheet

January brings in a new year’s worth of great performances.

The first weekend will begin with The ArtCenter’s American Roots Series, a series of big performances that will last throughout the month. On Friday, January 4, Club Boheme, The Ramblers and Missy Raines & the New Hip perform. On Saturday Lucy Sumner & The Second Third, Django Haskins and the Allen Boys perform. Both shows start at 8:30 and cost $15 or $13 for friends of the ArtsCenter. The shows benefit WCOM and on Saturday a CD commemorating the 5th year of the series will be available.

On Sunday, the ChathamArts Gallery will showcase photography by local artists and members of the Chatham Camera Club and host a reception from 12 to 5 p.m. The show will be on display through the month.

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Miscellany

Music Calendar: January 2008

The ArtsCenter

Club Boheme, The Ramblers & Missy Raines, The New Hip (1/4) Lucy Sumner & The Second Third, Django Haskins, The Allen Boys (1/5) The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo (1/10) Greg Hawks (1/11) Nappy Brown Orchestra , Sean Costello and Big Joe Maher (1/1) Leon Russell (1/19)

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Arts & Music

The Return of the Pressure Boys

The Pressure Boys circa mid ’80s (left to right) Jack Campbell, Greg Stafford, John Plymale, Rob Ladd, Jay Widenhouse and Bryon Settle. Photo by Lisa Jo Tuchek.

Out of action for close to 20 years, a legendary local band reunites for a benefit show at Cats Cradle

By Kirk Ross

The better part of two decades has passed since the last notes of the last Pressure Boys gig faded into the crowd at the April 1989 opening show of the Cats Cradle on Franklin Street.

For John Pylmale, it was the end of an era. The band had effectively broken up already, but after playing the closing show at the old Cradle location the year before, they’d agreed to return to open the new location.
In the span since, the idea of a reunion has never been appealing. The feeling, Plymale said, was that the band “had run its course” and to just let it be a memory.

“So much of what gave us our kick was due to the irreverent nature of the band,” he said. “Twenty years later, we’re not quite the same people and it would be hard to be that as adults with children.”

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Miscellany

Movies: January 2008

Lumina
620 Market St., 932-9000
www.thelumina.com
Regal Timberlyne 6
120 Banks Drive,
Chapel Hill, 933-8600