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The Comprehensive Plan and a Film on Sprawl
There are two events Wednesday night related to urban revitalization and transportation choices. The first, organized by the Sierra Club, is a showing of the movie Sprawling from Grace: Driven to Madness at Colony Theatre from 7-9pm. The second is the City of Raleigh’s open house for the draft Raleigh 2030 Comprehensive Plan at the new Convention Center also from 7-9pm. (Registration begins at 6:30pm).
Downtown YMCA’s New Building is Open
The Alexander YMCA on Hillsborough Street is nearing the completion of its new incarnation. Most recently the new lobby, an aquatics center, racquetball courts and family locker rooms have opened. A Preview Below The Fold
Love Hangover Coming to The Pour House
It’s not even Christmas yet and we’re already talking Valentine’s Day. Shame on us.
The Official Santa Rampage Saturday on Glenwood
Dress in a Santa suit. Go bar hopping. Spread cheer. BE 21 OR OVER.
Cloud Chamber @ North Carolina Museum of Art NCMA
Tucked back into the woods off the Reedy Creek Greenway is the NCMA’s Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky by Chris Drury, a British artist who has completed commissioned works all over the world. The Cloud Chamber is a camera obscura device that projects the sky and trees onto the interior surface of this small grotto-like structure. The Cloud Chamber on New Raleigh.
Poll: Least Favorite Part of Thanksgiving
We all know that Thanksgiving celebrations come at a cost. In our usual fashion, we want to know, what is your least favorite part of Thanksgiving? Take our Poll.
Annual Designers Downtown Market Saturday
Shop local this Saturday at the parking lots of Ornamatea and Purple Armchair.
Jeff Dunham Coming to RBC Center
America’s favorite ventriloquist will try to fill up the 18,000 seat RBC.
Blankface Reunion Show Interview
The first time I spoke with Blankface guitarist Mitchell Marlow he was shopping for a robe. “I wear my girlfriend’s robe all the time and it’s so soft, it’s like hanging out in a blanket,” he said. “So I thought I’d go out and get myself one.” The next time I spoke with him, later that evening, he was wearing it. “It’s pretty comfortable,” Marlow said. That about sums up Marlow and Blankface, a laid back punk band that made music at an early age and has decided to have a reunion show since all the original members are now in the Chapel Hill area. Mitchell Marlow from Blankface talk about the band’s last hurrah before descending into the punk rock sunset.
Stuff Consignment Website, Sale and Holiday Party
Just in time for the holiday season, Stuff Consignment revamps for another year of retail in downtown Raleigh.
NC State Football’s Spoilers Ruin It For Everyone Else
With their win against UNC on Saturday, NC State football continues its tradition of dishing out season-ruining victories to powerhouse rivals.
Bad Blow Job
Autumn: a season of change; the death of the year; the contemplation of things undone… heralded by the swish of dry leaves, cerulean blue skies, bracing north winds and—from the outermost suburbs to the Capitol grounds, as ubiquitous as the caw of crows—the grating whine of the leaf blower commencing at seven AM, right alongside newschoppers hot on the trail of traffic shots. Petrblt on New Raleigh.
Frank Harmon Unveils Sustainable Addition for Downtown Raleigh Church
For an architect, a historic church renovation might sound like a snooze of a commission amongst the more high-profile ongoing projects in town (like a new building for the country’s largest art museum campus or the library for North Carolina State’s technolopolis, Centennial Campus). But when Frank Harmon’s studio turns to such a project here, the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Raleigh, the results are quite impressive. See Downtown Raleigh’s newest, greenest design by Frank Harmon, Architect.
The 64th Annual Raleigh Christmas Parade
Gusts of arctic wind swept down Fayetteville St. Saturday morning. Despite the bitter cold, a good-sized crowd lined the street with blankets and camp chairs and watched over two and a half hours of parade performers pass beneath our growing downtown skyline.
Doc Watson to Perform at NCMA
The 85-year-old Bluegrass legend is the first performer added to the 2009 NCMA schedule.
