News in Raleigh

Downtown Music Hall is featuring a set of Raleigh Hip-Hop artists on saturday night. Dj Gonzo, M1 Platoon, O.N.E. Jones, Tribe of 1100 Hunters, and The Balance are performing.

Public Policy Poll released a new Poll about Transfer Tax support in Wake County. Among likely voters in our rapidly growing county, a Transfer Tax is supported 49% to 40% opposing.  This makes sense with the heightened awareness of growth problems in the area.  As our green space is gobbled by sprawl, our infrastructure needs reinforcement to handle our burgeoning size.  That is not disputed by either side of the debate. 

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At the corner of Dawson and Cabarrus Streets in the Warehouse District is a fantastic building that has been occupied by various tenants over the years.  A restaurant called The Warehouse used to be in the space a couple of years ago and the most recent tenant was Paul’s Catering.  It has large open plan spaces, a dance floor and various other highly sought out amenities.  It reminds one of the spaces that big city mobsters may meet at night for cigars and whiskey.  Paul’s seemed to be having business problems and today’s evidence proves that.  A real estate sign has been placed on the sidewalk adjacent to the front entrance and it simply states:  Available Restaurant, Nightclub, or Church.  Oh, the irony.

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Option Shift Control - the Mac centric title of this weekends design conference at NCSU College of Design. If you have some time this PM or tomorrow- there should be a vibrant energy and a lot of promising work. 

Option Shift Control
Collaboration and Co-creation by Design

November 30 and December 1, 2007
Friday afternoon, all day Saturday

The Master of Graphic Design Candidates at the College of Design, North Carolina State University, request your participation in our third bi-annual graduate symposium. Join us for presentations, activities, artifacts, and discussions that include our current studio projects that investigate and and respond to the topic of collaboration and co-creation in an age of audience empowerment. In the spirit of co-creation, we need your participation. Share your ideas and views in an engaging atmosphere!

See the website for more information.

Fashion shows have become very popular in downtown Raleigh over the past two years.  Sparkcon has hosted two and White Collar Crime has hosted their fare share as well.  This time it’s Vintage 21, a new culture vulture in the Warehouse District, who will host the latest fashion show.  It is entitled Runway Wars and starts Friday night at 9pm.  Various local salons and designers (one of which we recently profiled) will be competing for the grand prize.  Some of the event seems to come off a bit kitschy and the sponsors are almost all energy and alcohol based drinks, but it should be a good evening of stylin’ and profilin’. The Warehouse district and definitely downtown Raleigh needs more of this to prove to Richard Florida that we are more than just a “creative” statistic. No sleep ‘til?

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