News in Raleigh

A final first Friday for 2007 and this months theme is commerce.  But really, is there a better gift than good art?

Shaun Richards and a few more in the FF Agenda for December 7th.

Raleigh city council is holding a public hearing on Tuesday, December 11 at the Pullen Park Arts Center to review the proposed roundabout design for the intersection of Hillsborough and Morgan streets. This will be the fourth hearing on the contested roundabout design.

At the first hearing the engineering firm PBS&J met with a critical review from the individuals in attendance. Among other concerns, the major issue was that the design would ineffectually increase traffic flow rather than calm it—which was the original intent.

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NCSU’s College of Design’s Animation Program will hold its bi-annual show this Friday at 7pm in the new Burns Auditorium.  Last year the program grew to include a new graduate program in animation- this will be the first opportunity to see work from this years new graduate students as well as work from the second year students. 

This show is consistently entertaining and offers a window into a very interesting department at the College of Design.  Animation is an art form all its own and to see the production by these young students is very inspiring, particularly considering the significant production and technical hurdles that they had to overcome.

The Advanced Media Lab’s website can be seen at onebitpixel.com.

Noted Science Fiction author and literary lecturer will be reading from his latest addition to the Ender’s Game saga.

Triangle based company Burt’s Bees might have been my favorite billion-dollar corporation… almost. Granted, the only product I’ve used is the underarm spray. It was one of those products that I actually felt good about purchasing because I knew my money was supporting what was, at one time, a locally established company. Having sold a stake in 2003 for $177 million to AEA Investors, Burt’s Bees maintained their air of locality. It is produced 20 minutes away and they seemed to understand my needs. It’s an underarm deodorant and not an anti-persperant. I knew as a human I was meant to sweat and they knew that too. It also helped me smell like lavender instead of ‘Dioxyuberclogo-Roygbiv-69’.

The buy-out company that bought Burt’s in 2003 just sold it to Clorox for (what!?) $925 million. Clorox has got faith.